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Posts: 4130 · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:33 am

Yes you are absolutely correct when you say that on the surface this appears to be something quite different from the excellent explanations of SLEEP PARALYSIS which have already been given above (a simple misunderstanding). The important point I am trying to make is that it is often difficult to know whether you are dreaming (in Rapid Eye Movement sleep), or whether instead you are currently in one of the many altered states of consciousness between dreaming and being wide awake.

Your feelings of dream paralysis, or of being unable to move freely within the dream environment could still mean that you are actually no longer dreaming, but your mind is creating an hallucination which leads you to believe that you still are. The paralysis could also be merely a symbol of your feelings of powerlessness or lack of control over factors affecting your waking life.

Another distinct possibility is that these are due to a well documented phenomenon called LUCID DREAMING, where suddenly within a dream the dreamer becomes to a certain degree consciously aware that this is so. Such dreams frequently seem more vivid than when we are fully awake and it is believed that these come from much deeper levels of our unconscious minds than are normally accessed during the average nightly variety of dream.

Some teachers claim that this type of dream comes largely from our spiritual or core selves, and unlike most dreams where it soon becomes very difficult to remember what happened only minutes after waking up, many lucid dreams are remembered in minute detail for the rest of our lives.

The intensity of the feelings associated with such dreams are also unusually strong (although not necessarily of a negative nature). They can sometimes for example leave us with feelings of intense joy, with a greater sense of the purpose behind our lives.

Hoping this helps,

EOT