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!

[naz170]

i know that feeling..i been having those recently..its like you want to do something but you cant move..dark eerie creatures..or just close encounters to some strange figure..yeah scary

[naz170]

i have been having these similar dreams too..the ones where you try to talk but you cant..or where you try to wake up but you cant until it ends..well i had one of this yellow orb shining in my face but it burst..a dark eerie creature appeared and clawed at my face but it couldn't hurt me..it was scary..it felt so real..i couldn't sleep for hours..these dreams occur randomly..it takes time to get use to.. its a drag to deal with...i have so many of them to share

[claire211207]

Hi I'm Claire n I'm 24......I've now had 2 dreams that felt like I was awake n could swear I was awake yesterday when it happend.....the 1st time was about a week ago where I'm lying in my bed n I hear a noise n try to look but I'm stuck n can't move feeling like I'm pinned to the bed then I feel something next to me n at this point I'm a little scared so I try to wake up n I can't then I feel it climb over me I try to get up but can't then I actually wake up pretty scared because I'm in the same position that I was in in my dream.......the 2nd 1 was yesterday a dossed off on the settee then herd my door handle moving constantly I try to get up n again am stuck feeling like Someone s holding me down I'm lookin round the room realy scared I c the  clock n its 10:10am then look at the tv and homes under the hammer is on weird yes lol.....but the door Handel keeps going n then I feel someone standing over me from the back ov the settee n I'm tryin so hard to get up shouting Claire get up get up n I can't then I scream it to myself n then I jump up I look straight at the door nothin was happenin then look at the clock n it was 10:25am look at the tv and Holmes under the hammer was on I freaked out abit n just broke down in tears thinkin was it a dream? Or did this just happen to me for real? I got to sleep lastnight about half 12 then got up when my boyfriend got up for work at half 4 .....I'm realy scared to sleep when I'm on my own........

[Jerry_NJ]

First I suggest you make a new post under your own "subject" perhaps just cut and past the replay above in that post.

Samantah hasn't made a post or reply since October 2008, then only two of them.  While it is possible she is checking in to see if anyone has replied to her post, I think is so unlikely I'll guess less than one in a million.

I haven't read you reply carefully, but I and other may give it more attention if it is a new post, not a connection to history.

Reading just your first paragraph the thought that comes to my mind is a breathing problem, do you suffer from nasal congestion?  I'll try to look back later, and maybe someone will pick up on this thread and give helpful input, but I bet it will not be samantha.

[msstorti]

I am up right now because I had one of these. I have been having them for a while now. I remember when I was little I had the same feeling of something or someone on me and its a crushing feeling on my chest I was maybe only 12 at the time and I just tried and tried to wake up but there I was just being crushed. I finally woke up and was terriffied for my life. I didn't fall asleep. I had to get in my parents bed lol sounds funny but as a person, a 12 year old little girl, it is definalty the complete opposite. Tonight, I had the worst one in my entire life. I had a normal dream, or what started off as normal. I am 23 years old now, just so you know :) anyway... I was with my mom and we were going to a doctor's appt....I actually have one coming up 2/26/2013 ...and we were walking to the dc office and everything was so real. The halls were real the chairs the people the rooms after the appt my mom suggested we go get my eyes checked out too while we were their...gosh everything was so real ... I say this only because I know the optical section in the hospital and it was exactly the same, this is when everything started to get bad, but just like a normal nightmare, I guess you could say. My mom was sitting in a chair and started signing "America America ...' And then she started slurring and just started signing louder and louder and I got so embarrassed, I stormed out of the waiting room and she followed and she said, I know I am high!( my mom is addicted to pain meds and will act crazy sometimes so it felt REAL) and she walked away and started pacing back and forth like an animal and jerking her head and began singing again. I only got mad and ran away and ran up stairs. There was no one in the hospital upstairs so I started running back and forth like a child who will run around and just play. And then I was in a room a doctor's office and was sitting in a chair, I then began to have a seizure in the chair ans that is when I 'woke up' I was laying in my Ned next to my boyfriend and I knew I was still asleep...gosh..I get emotional thinking about it...I began screaming but nothing was happening, no sound coming from my mouth, no movment, then I started to dream that I could move my arms and I was flailing my arms and still trying to scream with no sound, and nothing...I was not able to wake up. I then woke up with a gasp and a nose like I was startled. I sat up and was drenched in my own sweat. I began to cry hysterically and that when my boyfriend woke up and asked what happened I was so traumatized I couldn't say a word wiothout my voice shaking. I am still awake right now and I am terriflied to go back asleep. The only other person Ihave seen with this same "experience" is my dad. It's scarey watching him, because you can tell when it all starts. He will move his fingures or move his lips or make a faint sound "Nancy!" He will say, but only as soft as a mouse. You can barely hear him when its happening. Once he wakes, he screams so loud and then is completely fine, he lights his cigarette and slowly falls back asleep. I am wondering, is this "night terror" experience hereditary....

[Jerry_NJ]

I haven't read this thread, not even your two recent posts beyond noting you address them to the originator of this thread.

I suggest it is possible, but unlikely, that a person who posted several years ago comes back to see if people are still responding.

My suggestion is to make a new post stating your subject/reason.  You could even just cut and paste from your inputs to this thread.  You could also send Samantha and others inviting them read your post.

Good luck,