Every once in a while I'll have this nightmare where I'm semi-paralysed (I can move very very slowly if I put a lot of effort into it). It used to appear randomly, but now it seems to have started recurring almost every night. I don't think that this is "sleep paralysis", because as soon as I wake up, I can move again. Every time I find myself in this predicament, I try to perform a reality test. The strange thing is that last night when I performed a reality test by trying to look at my bedside clock, it was unplugged in the dream! I didn't remember unplugging it, so that caused me to become lucid, although I was in too much of a panic to calm down and control the dream, so I freaked out until I woke up. When I wake up, my head seems to be very hot.
Has anybody had this before? Was my brain actually trying to prevent me from performing a reality check by not letting me see a clock?
