Hi,

Yesterday and today I experienced some lucid dreams with the associated sleep paralysis. One lucid dream was directly from the waking state, and the other was from the regular dream state.

The one from the waking state startled me because of this void I heard when it began. The sleep paralysis occured and I did my best to prolong it to enter a lucid dream. For a fraction of a second I saw a flash of imagery, but then it all went away and I saw only blackness. A second later I heard a man's voice, perfectly clear as if heard with my real ears, speak into my left ear,

"Hi marc, how is it?"

The voice really really startled me and so I broke the sleep paralysis and lucid dream state, which took a few seconds to accomplish.

Now, the voice didn't sound threatening, it was said rather matter of factly but as if the person knew me, but I didn't recognize the voice at all. It also seemed very personal too. I suppose I was just scared because I didn't expect it and no friendly voice has ever spoken to me with these experiences, they've always been on the dark side when heard. I'm hoping that I'll begin to hear kind voices now, but it was just so shocking.

Again, it was perfectly audible as if spoken into my real left ear, although I know that I was deep in the sleep paralysis and lucid dream state.

The experiences I have directly from the waking state are always the more real, compared to when recognizing I am dreaming in a dream.

I'd like to know if anyone has had similar experiences, and if so, just what you have done, has happened with them after?

Thanks!