From: twp@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Tony Payne CSD)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Lucidity and me.
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:16:38 GMT
Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz

In article <7OCT199219590670@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu> 0695cs14@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Silicon Vulture) writes:
>In article <8eoddbe00WB0M4HFZH@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jack Liu
><jl9d+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes...
>
>>not happen").  The creepy part comes after I wake.  I find that I can't
>>move any part of my body on awakening but my eyes.  No matter how hard I
>>try, I can't even get my fingers to wiggle.  I eventually break out of
>>this in about ten seconds, but when it happens, even though I know that
>>I'll break out, it freaks me out.  Maybe if someone would tell me that
>>this is natural or explain the "physics" of it to me, I can rest more
>>assuredly that my eyes aren't looking out from a lifeless body.  
>

I too suffer this "paralysis" problem, but to a _much_ greater extent. It
often happens as I'm drifting off to sleep. I get a warning though. I hear
a strange buzzy noise, and my body starts to tingle, much like the sensation
when your foot goes to sleep. At this point I can usually shake (literally)
myself out of it within 10 or 20 seconds (well, time perception is probably
altered whilst in this state but it seems that long).

If I'm unlucky, I then fall into a dream (usually an unpleasant one), and
hover between getting my body to work, and the dream(s). At this point, the
buzzing is very loud, and the tingling almost painful. What I do to try and
wake up is to open my eyes up as wide as I can, and try to shout and wriggle
about. I warned my RO about this and on several occasions, she has woken me up
when it happens (phew!). This can go on for what seems like hours or even days.
Depending on the severity, when I get out of it, I turn on the light and walk
around till fully awake, watch telly for a while, or stay up for the rest of
the night.

It also sometimes happens from a dream. This is harder to cope with, as there
is no warning, and it's harder to tell where the boundary of conciousness is.
Sometimes, I think I'm out of it, I'm walking around or watching telly, and
all of a sudden, I realise I've only dreamt I'm awake, and it starts over.
The worst episode was the first. I was 15 or 16 at the time (28 now) and I
must have gone through 8 to 10 layers of waking up into a new dream. I was
*terrified* at the time. This was the one that seemed to go on for days.

It's now more of a sleep disrupting annoyance these days. I guess over the
years, I've just got used to dealing with it. I've often thought about seeing
a doc about it, but never got around to it. Anyone out there got any ideas??

I've also had a handful of prophetic dreams, one of which saved me several
months of work while at computer school!. Also as a child, I used to see
strange lights and patterns at night.

My mothers psycic (sp?) friend has told me that I'm a "brother of light", sent
from a race of aliens on an exchange program to study you earthlings, and that
I suffer from this condition because when I astral travel, I REALLY ASTRAL
TRAVEL, and that I have trouble getting back into my strange alien body. I
don't really believe this, but I thought it would make interesting reading.

Personally, I don't think it is a dangerous thing (I'm here aren't I!), so
if it happens to you, just fight for conciousness, and you'll get there.
And maybe thinking of me will help.

By the way, our newsfeed sucks, so some E-mail would be nice,

Pleasant dreams,

Tony Payne

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