INTERESTING FACT
Dream is a semi-conscious state where we have absolutely no control over our thoughts and expressions (unless we master lucid dreaming). Did you know that most of us spend six years or more of our lifetime dreaming? Research proves that all of us dream at least twice or more in our sleep though we may not remember when we get up. In 5 minutes of waking, half of our dream is forgotten and within 10 minutes, almost all dreams are forgotten. People who are blind from birth too dream. It is just that the dreams of these individuals are formed by other sense such as the touch, smell, sound and taste. During roman era some dreams were even discussed and interpreted in the senate as the dream was considered to be a God sent message for the mankind. Lucid dreams are considered those dreams where person can take full or partial control of their dreams. Most important fact in order to be aware that we are dreaming is practice. Writing down and keeping track of your dreams is very important. Second thing is noticing signs or triggers that can help us stay aware that we are in dreaming state. Once we start dreaming lucidly we could control the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. This is extremely important for people that have nightmares. Interesting facts is that our body is paralyzed during our sleep probably to prevent the body from acting out dreams.
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At first, this yielded little or no results. But I started to do this every night, and then during the night if I woke up at all, I would immediately reach for my dream journal to record what happened.
As I've looked back over the course of these journal entries, I see that I have actually been controlling my dreams. It is not 100% yet, and it also depends on how stressful my day has been, but it is working.
Hope this helps.
With this, how do you explain sleepwalking? Myself sleepwalk almost every night. I can walk around, speak, open close doors, basically everything achievable.
There have been several stories reporting people sleep walking and getting themselves killed. So, with this, ARE peoples bodies paralyzed at sleep?
well sleep walking is caused when the paralysis of the person in question is incomplete hence the fact that they are able to move about. without the paralysis you would act out your dreams which means that walking talking and everything you mentioned is entirely plausible. only a few people are not paralyzed whilst sleeping and it can be very mild or in your case pretty severe.
you might have experienced the sensation, immediately after waking, of not being able to move. this often quickly disappears however this is proof that paralysis happens whilst you are asleep.
personally i have achieved lucid dreaming and as a matter of fact cannot remember ever NOT having control over what i am dreaming. i am always aware of the fact i am dreaming and this has only, once, not occurred in a particular nightmare. and i happily don't suffer from sleep walking!
i too keep a dream diary and find my dreams are often very interesting and reflect my daily life and worries.
Contrary to common belief, sleep-walking does not occur during REM sleep (the stage of sleep in which one dreams and is paralyzed); it occurs during "deep sleep", which is part of non-REM (or NREM) sleep.
There are in fact individuals who have an uncommon condition where their bodies are not paralyzed during REM sleep, and they act out their dreams, often (though not always) in a violent manner. This condition is known as REM behavior disorder (RBD).
when ever i have a dream were im about to fall of a cliff or some sort
it ends up that i wake up in bed checking if I broke my arm or something
the same thing happened to me about 3 times.
the first time was the scarriest because it felt like, as you said, i was unable to move and a light from my window started to get bigger and bigger and was somehow taking a human shape. on the other hand, it felt like the door of my room kept opening and closing. i've tried to scream but all i could produce was a very weak voice. i couldn't even move properly as every move i tried to do ended somehow in "slowmotion"... i eventually woke up... The second and the third time were a lot better as i, being in that state inoculated myself that everything will be ok and that i have to step out of that dream which eventually happened.
now i pray before every night and convince myself that my nights will be "nightmares free" and i can say that i didn't have a nighmare for a lot of months.
Another thing wat about Deja Vu?Now thats strange your practically telling yourself the future.I had Deja Vu all last week now tell me that's not weird.....