Dreams/Nightmares that feel real and I can't wake myself up

[samantha21]

Okay, So every now and then I will have a dream or dreams that really scare me. Pretty much its a dream I'm having and I'm myself... in my bed. In my dream I will open my eyes and see human figures but usually I can't tell who it is. If I can't its dark like a shadow. Sometimes its one, or sometimes it a few figures. These dreams/visions always happen just as I'm falling asleep (ya know when your mind starts to wonder right before you doze off, eyes are closed and everythign but you are still conscious).... that stage is when I realize that I'm about to have one of these scary dreams. so I'll either opt to stay awake or turn the lights on for a minute then try to sleep again. The most recent one I had, I was asleep in my bed with my boyfriend...in the dream I opened my eyes and I saw out of the corner of my room a strange figure of a man walking towards my bed.... I cant do anything, I cant move and I can't talk... at this point I'm scared and I know I am ony dreaming. Well I try to wake my self up I try so hard to be able to speak and call my boyfriends name... and this is all while i'm asleep... that right as I wake up I blurt out a noise( the kidna noise you would make if you were trying really hard at something but not saying anything and then all of a sudden noise comes out) It's so frustrating. And in the dream I feel paralyzed like I can't even get up and run. All I can do is lay there... and If I don't wake up before the person gets to me... I can feel the "person" on top of me... literally..I feel their breathe... I feel it all... and what gets me is I KNOW I'm dreaming... and i try to wake up but I cant. and even though I'm aware that I'm dreaming I still know that I'm feeling whoever is on my bed or whatever)
The first time I had one of these very realistic dreams was a couple years ago the night after I drank mooshine for the first time.... ha yeah. (Basically I had a really bad case of the spins alll day the next day and I felt completely out of whack) Well that night as I just went to sleep I was dreaming that I was driving a car and the wheel starting to slowly turn to the left and right as I was about to hit a car my body jerked and I woke up. I stayed awake for a min or 2 then went back to sleep... thats when it all went down hill. The next dream I had... I was in my bed (by the way all these dreams are from my point of view...1st person) and I woke up to see a frightening girl with long black stringy hair and a horrible face, on her hands and knees on top of me just looking at me and breathing heavily.... I swear to god it felt so real.... The only thing I could think to do was hide under the blanket... but right before i drew the balnket over my eyes she slowly, very slowy moved her face inwards towards me. I knew I was dreaming but I could not wake up... Well once I did wake up... well I thought I did... I looked to the left of my bed and there was a about 3 people just sitting in my room... it didnt scare me at first cuz I thought I was awake and I figured maybe it is some freiends surprsiing me... but just as I tried to get a closer look a person who was laying on the floor next to my bed sat up right in my face! It scared the livivng **** outta me. that's when I really for real woke up. Anways I couldnt go back to sleep for a few hours I was a little frightened... I felt as though I would get stuck in a dream like that... And I wanted to avoid haveing another one like that again... I did go to sleep that night however all of the lights in my room were on....
I know this is really long. But I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced the same thing or something similar. I'eve had more but I don't want to write a whole novel here but if someone can relate then please let me know!

[commandercody38]

i've been able to do that once I could here my music and the dream and it was rather fascinating than scary but it was still scary.

[commandercody38]

I have the paralysis and when I had a dream I was in my bed turning on my light with my light saber (toy lightsaber    very creative of me) and it woudln't turn on and I heard the closet door creaking open and I fought to woke up. i'm not sure how I mentally do it but sometimes i'm paralysied and it just makes it worse to fight. the thing i'm afraid of is acualy from a movie that well never ever go away. its scary movie and i don't remember which one. anyways its a thing that has a yellow light and it sounds like a machine. it appears from the wall or dark places.  sometimes the scence just goes dark and I get a sick feeling.  one time the light was red and it like made me obey it. strange enough I was like mentally picked up then dropped infront of one with a red light and tehre was no wall which really freaked me out becuase then now in real life I go out where theres no walls and it well come out and red light is harder to see in side vision. also sometimes its a strange scary feeling like someone scared you but like 5 times worse and sometimes its INTENSE tickling. one time it wasn't one of the thigns with a light and was an actual person i'm not sure who it was but I was trying to hide with the adrenaline rushing and the door open with a slight creaking to it and he tickled me and it felt like all my ticklish spots which is just about everywhere so it was more like non pain torture.

[NeonCookie]

Ok. This is going to be wierd and I'm not crazy. Today my bf txted me saying good morning then I sent a txt saying morning. I waited till I got my friends and then I txt baby? And he txt you better give me time to txt back. I threw it of as he was craby. He sent me a message that maid me feel like a terible person saying thing that where just terible. I got to the school and waited for him. I was crying and my friend was there with me waiting for my bf and she was trying to make me feel better. Then I got a sick wierd feel like someone terible evil was comeing and I wanted to run just run for my life. I felt my bf comeing up to me every step closer and closer I felt it. When I looked in his eyes I new it wasint him looking at me.... Ok I'm not saying he is idk taken over by a gost or demon cuz I'm very skeptical about that stuff but this was just not right ok I felt fear takeover me and when I looked into his eyes sickness came over me and I called my nana to get me because I new I could not drive home and be alone. As I got farther and farther away from the school I fet more protected and when I got to my nanas house as soon as she left to go do bills I threw up white clear stuff with bits of blood in it and no one knows about this but my sis I only told her. Then I went to lay down and I had a dream about what happend but I was in third person watching myself an I saw my bf with a dark black I don't even know figer over him and fear came over me I wanted to tell myself to run run but I couldn't see me. If that makes any sence but I had it over and over today every time I went to sleep without skipping a beat I would have the dream.... I'm scared iv never felt like this.... That was not my bf that looked at me today with that stare of hatred and death.... I could feel him stare at me when I wasint looking I'm really scared ******** right now.... It all happened today wed. April 24,2013 I'm really scared to go to school tomorrow I don't know what to do we haven't talked sence that today....plz help

[Kaylarea]

I do the same thing this is called lucid dreaming. Many people just lucid dream while others (like me) also have the ability to have out of body experiences during this time very close to a spirtual travel during meditation. If you feel as if your soul could come out and be separated from your physical body you can probably do this to. If you do find you can break out and travel you do have freedom to go many places, but make sure to wear a watch or know where a clock is where your going it's easy to lose track of time.

[lori198]

I have just woken up out of one of them nightmares were I was choking and couldn't breathe properly and was screaming and shouting and pleading for my daughter in the next room to come and help me (obviously no sound was heard ) but 2 hours before it I was on Facebook playing games and I decided to look in the fridge for something to eat so I took a bunch of black seedless grapes back to bed and before I knew it they were all eaten but I felt alright half an hour later I put the light out and went to sleep and when that happened to me I was terrified in my dream ( think we should call them nightmares or else why are we so frightened) I was screaming and gasping for breath for someone to wake me up which did not happen so obviously I came out of it my self I was shaking and crying and really scared then I felt rather sick so jumped up to toilet were I was violently sick ( grapes and looked a hellava lot more than I had eaten) now the point is I have had dreams like this before but I am sitting here thinking back had I eaten at that time of course I cannot remember so I am now wondering was I choking to death with the grapes????? we all know people who have choked to death well I do but I actually saved myself by screaming my myself wakened before I choked to death???????? I know its a bit far fetched but its all I can come up with as I cant remember if I had eaten at bedtime with all the other horrible dreams I have had but one thing I do remember  I have never been sick after any of them ......just a thought and sorry for going into do much detail but it is something I am reflecting on??? anyone else had this??? one thing I do know id that I will never ever eat anything before I go to sleep geeee nightmares are bad enough without eating so eating before I go to bed will NEVER happen again.

[jordienicole14]

This sounds crazy but I had the same exact dreams. The only difference is I knew who the people were that were coming towards my bed. They were actually family members (in the dream of course) last night I had a dream that my grandpa (I think it was him) came at me and he was really mad for some reason. I felt like he wanted to attack me and when he got close, my rapid breathing woke me up and I couldn't scream or move. I knew I was dreaming the whole time and was still aware of what was going on in real life so to say. And just a pointer, my grandpa wouldn't hurt a fly, he has the biggest heart ever so I don't understand why I would have a dream so real and scary as that. I've had many of these "sleep paralysis" type dreams when I was younger too from ages 3-8 years old. When I was able to move again I woke up my boyfriend in tears because I was so scared, turned on the lights, and then turned on the tv. I can't even explain how freaked out I was. It even started storming after everything happened which made things even worse for me haha