What on earth was this!?!?!

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11-10-2005



When I “woke” up this morning, I could not move and was hallunicinating a continuation of my dream about being a defendant in a trial of some sort. I could hear and see the lawyer move at the base of my bed, and deliver his closing argument, but I knew I was probably dreaming/hallunicinating, so I ignored him and focused on trying to rouse myself out what felt like a paralyzed stupor. I do not wear my implant when I sleep, so I am stone deaf while in bed, so the hearing of the argument was doubly odd. My eyes were open; I could see, but I could not focus to move my gaze. I tried to move myself, but I *think* I was able to move my legs a little bit. The effort to do so was tremendous, and very taxing. I barely moved them, if I did at all. It was if my mind were awake but I could not reach the body. I do not recall feeling panic or anxiety in the least bit, just a measure of concern that I would be stuck that way for some time, at least until my alarm would go off. For a while I contemplated either trying to fall asleep or rousing myself further awake; given the hallucinations, I decided it might be better to keep trying to wake up. My breathing was shallow, if I was breathing at all, and I managed to open my mouth so that I could try to breath. I succeeded in doing this, and I attempted to breath more deeply. I also succeeded in doing this, and after a while, I did manage to rouse myself in this fashion. The hallucination dissipeared at this point. While I was waking up, I did experience a funny sensation in my head, and I am not quite sure how to describe it. I had no ill effects for the rest of the day save a light headache.

This sort of thing has happened in the past, but not with hallucinations. In the past, I would simply try to fall back asleep and re-awake, with success. I would enter dreaming immediately on falling asleep again, and they would be lucid dreams. I would wake up by my normal means or when the alarm went off.

It appears to me the common thread in all of these incidents is either “waking” up without the alarm or “waking” up before the alarm goes off. At least 5 incidents of this “waking” up has occurred, starting sometime at the beginning of the second semester in my freshman year. I had not worried much before then because I did not hallucinate until this incident.

What I want to find out is, if this is seizure related. . . .I have a history of nocturnal seizures from age 11-16. If it is, I will almost certainly be dx’ed with a seizure disorder, and that would be quite bad for me, as it would jeopardize my health care, transportation, and chances of getting a job. And I know anti-convulsants can be terrible things for a persons health. Frankly, I would much rather avoid the epilsey dx at all cost. . . . . . .but I really don’t know what else it could be. I was hoping someone here would have a idea.

You had a boring dream.

My eyes were open. . . .when I was "sleeping" and when I was awake. . . .I'm postitive I was concious.

I mean you had a boring dream. It was about lawyers. That sounds boring.

Not quite so boring when you are the defendant. . . ..now that is something to be afraid of.

i had a dream too, a dream within a dream. and i was still in it barely waking up. i dreamed somebody was getting seperated ans my parents were there, and i was a little kid. maybe i was just remembering how much they hated eachother and it was good that they got divorced when i was a toddler.

That's sleep paralysis-- there are a couple recent threads on it here.

Prometheus , En Una is right, it's sleep paralysis. It has happened to me a few times and it is a terrifying experience. I did everything to try to wake up. Then I tried to make myself go back to sleep, nothing worked. I can't remember how I finally came out of it. I do remember the feeling of complete helplessness though.

Prometheus,

I don't consider myself the top expert in dream interpretation but I will mention that History is chock full of great minds who have drawn inspiration, ideas, messages, and even warnings from dreams.

If there is any interpretation for a vision like that, than it would be symbolic to something that could be happening within you present state of affairs in you waking life. In the dream, you were "on trial in court" but I don't know whether you were losing or winning the case. The "court case" is suggestive of an issue (or issues) you may be having in your waking life and the "lawyer" is suggestive of reliance on somebody or something other than yourself for meeting whatever need there may be, but then I don't know the rest of the picture here.

In your post I see things that suggest epilepsy. When I worked in health care as a Personal Support Worker, I had a severely epileptic patient on my list and I familiarized myself with the condition as much as possible. Some of what I've read and some of what I've seen my patient experience include that being stuck in some kind of dreamland during a Petit-Mal or just before falling into a Grand-Mal seizure. There could also be a sleep disorder there.

It is up to you if you want to find out any more about what's going on and your GP (or a referral from the same) would be the one that could give you a straight answer. OTOH you could Google some of the terms you're using here. Chances are there is likely a medical journal somewhere that would answer some Q's. Whatever the case, I hope you find the missing link.

That was a hypnopompic hallucination (linked with sleep paralysis and often narcolepsy), I get them quite a bit. If you dream that you actually get up etc. etc. (rather than still being in bed) it is called a "false awakening" & I get lots of those.

wow that pretty intense. ive never come out of my body before. i dont think i could handle that. everytime ive had the sleep paralysis its always felt like another person was in the room who was evil and choking me or something.

Okay, this may be hard to believe because you were so obviously awake, but i have drempt i was unable to move off where i was sleeping, i figured this out after a while because when i looked at the clock it was the wrong time. You may have been dreaming that you were unable to move and the guy was talking.

I have sworn that before i can wake myself up when going to sleep and i cant move my body for up to several minutes after this. I can do this repeatedly when going to sleep. But sometimes i try really hard and move myself off the bed, and then a moment later i realize im still in the bed.

Yes, Prometheus, from what others have mentioned about Sleep Paralysis and who seem quite experienced in them, I would agree.

But don't fail to check out anything Seizure related, too. It's always good to have all your bases covered. I'd advise to call your doctor and ask him if he recommends anything.