Thread: Frightening. Intense. Most of all exhausting.

It's not so much the images and noises that scare me the most (though they have admittedly become more and more intense)...
but the very real feeling of being heavily sedated and drugged... that's something that for a long time, I had NEVER felt with lucid dreaming (save from a small pressure in my head that would occur when I was being sucked through a mass of images and sounds, just before settling on one and letting a scene dissolve.)

[QUOTE=AnUnremarkableFire;1127001]It's not so much the images and noises that scare me the most...but the very real feeling of being heavily sedated and drugged... QUOTE]

The same exact situation happens to me when I have LDs. I always have 5 or 6 false awakenings where I wake up where ever I'm actually sleeping (bed, couch, whatever) but a new LD continues from that place. When I do finally wake up FOR REAL, I feel like I am HEAVILY sedated. It last a while but ends up wearing off...I'd also like to have an explanation for this, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

This sounds like sleep paralysis to me. . .

I get scared sometimes too, but I MAKE myself get scared. Good news though, it's been a couple of months since I've been scared in a lucid! And I've never become lucid before during an actual nightmare, I always wake up before it gets too bad. In one of my dreams, I was in my kitchen, and I looked at the clock, and knew I was dreaming. Incredibly vivid. It looked practically exactly like it! It was as clear as being there! My sister, from her room, started calling for me, and, as odd as it sounds, it creeped me out. So, I woke up (when I was relatively new to LD). Sometimes, you can get scared at the most unscary things in LDs!

oh wow never heard of this in particular. Ive had similer things happen to me, but it usually intereupts the dream and its still sleepy time, not time to wake up! hmm i dont think thats sleep paralisis i think what i experience is more along the lines of it. But hey im no doctor!