Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced what I call "The Tug" or something similar.

I have been a lucid dreamer for years and on a couple occassions experienced sleep paralysis full-out in which my eyes were wide open and I was scared to death of a black furry creature running around my bed. In the last few years I have learned to make myself aware that I am experiencing SP and it is not at all scary anymore. Now it seems that I have melded SP into dream control. I laugh at the creature and it seems to annoy him so he comes and scratches my neck; I then wake up.

Now something else is happening that is not really scary but is disturbing my sleep at least once a week and causes me to wake up cranky and groggy and I spend the day in a haze. I think it has something to do with a false awakening or SP but I'm not sure. I will be having a lucid dream and then I dream I'm in bed and some force grabs my foot and yanks me out of bed. I get that roller coaster feeling in my stomach and feel weightless. This force gives me a sense of creepiness and it can happen over and over again. After I will wake up or go back into dreaming. If I wake up I'm toast for the night and I can't get back to sleep and my day is a write-off. I have tried everything to make this stop but it doesn't work.

Does anyone have advice? Has this happened to you?