Dream Zombies

[toria]

does anyone else find that when you are dreaming of runing away from somethinge.g the boogie man or say the debt collectors, that when you try and run your legs are like lead and you run in slow mo????

[John S]

That is a common feeling during dreams, I used to know the reason behind it but I've forgotten at the moment No doubt someone on here can enlighten us....

 

I used to have a recurring dream when I was about 8 or 9 of being chased by a load of alarm clocks and having the feeling that I'm running through syrup. Okay, dreams might not always be logical, but at least mine were on time

[toria]

mmmm sounds very er yummie?? lol i used to have recuring dreams of the room getting nearer then further away but it did it realy quickly actualy come to think of it not sure if i was actual asleep??? do you have a phobia about alarm clocks????

[Guest Jan V]

dreams might not always be logical, but at least mine were on time

 

G-R-O-A-N!!!!!!!!

 

My dream was urgently needing help and trying to use the old-style rotary phone. The number kept changing positions on the dial....

[toria]

that sounds familiar !!! or like picking up something realy small and it gets huge and you cant grab it !!! i have just set myself up there havent i ?

[Dan]

I think I read once its because when you are a sleep the connection between the motor section in your brain and your legs / arms etc doesnt work (so you dont actually run in your sleep)

 

Dan

Edited November 19, 2005 by Dan

[Ken L]

I once had a variation of the classic chase dream. I recall being chased down a dark ally by someone or something really nasty and discovering that it was a dead end. I put my back to the wall at the end so that I could dodge left or right as the bad thing came and discovered that I was stuck to it and that no matter how much I pulled or thrashed I couldn't get off it. At that moment, the bad thing caught up with me and was rearing up for the final strike when I woke up still strugging to get off the wall.

The transition from dream to waking was seamless and the panic was there because gravity was of couse holding me stuck to the wall/bed and I couldn't get off.

I would have been about 12 at the time and it's still fresh in my mind.

[DavyR]

That is a common feeling during dreams, I used to know the reason behind it but I've forgotten at the moment No doubt someone on here can enlighten us....

 

At your service! It's due to sleep paralysis:

 

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

[Guest Finepix]

At your service! It's due to sleep paralysis:

 

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

 

 

I went out with a guy once who had a 'condition' where he would wake up before his body. So for a few minutes (sometimes even seconds) he would be awake but completely paralysed.

Very odd ......

 

[Andy Macfarlane]

I have quite a lot of really graphic and disturbing nightmares and/or I often have a 'limbo' period between sleep and consciousness where everything seems really surreal, nonsensical or positively terrifying. When the 'limbo' thing happens, I may become semi-aware of my surroundings, which complicates matters because I still appear to be dreaming deeply except I now have a semi-aware outsider's perspective of what's happening in my dream. Occasionally, I've been 'conscious' enough to alter the path of the dream, usually to it's detriment. I think my brain comes up with far more unusual scenarios than I could.

My dreams don't bother me one bit. I might on occasion wake up and think,

"Thank feck that's over" but I don't get nippy or analytical about it.

 

Anyone know the kind of state I mean?.....