I wish I could do that. I remember babysitting my little sister, and we were watching Blues Clues, and that Steve guy said that if you thought hard enough, you could control your dream. I thought he was high.

SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote:

Not entirely true, either... The body does manufacture muscle paralyzing chemicals during sleep (particularly REM sleep)... Presumably as a way to keep us from harming ourselves by acting out our dreams...

The effectiveness of this varies from person to person, of course... Some are locked down into seemingly no movement at all (from what I can deduce, I'm of this type, judging by body position, blanket and pillow locations, etc. before and after sleeping; nothing changes), while some can still move pretty freely, and still others can end up as sleepwalkers, with apparently no effect from this at all...

And its timing is also not always perfect... It doesn't always completely sync with the brain's current level of awareness... Sometimes, it fails to kick in soon enough, and people will find themselves awakened by some movement they're acting out from their dream... Sometimes, it doesn't wear off fast enough, and people will find themselves mentally alert, yet unable to move...

But in any case, muscle paralysis does indeed occur during sleep (again, especially REM sleep)

would that have anything to do with my problem of being paralyzed in dreams. well nightmares.

Justin B wrote:

A couple years ago I had around a 103 degree fever, I just finished watching a superhero movie and thought to myself I could move a bandana that I saw. I started focussing on it really hard and then I fainted, I woke up and it was moved. Dun dun dun.

Maybe you're a superhero whose powers only emerge when you're running a high fever. Look! Over there on the bed! It's a rock! It's a giant potato! It's Death's Door Man!

Lummox JR

Xooxer showed me this website a long time ago: http://www.dreamviews.com/. It is crazy. It talks about Lucid Dreaming (when you dream and you know you are dreaming inside of it). If you practice it (which it tells you how to and many more) you can master it and do it whenever you want. Goto the Message Boards. People talking about their Lucid Dreams. It is almost insane what they talk about. It will make you want to practice it. It is like a whole other world out there.

I usually don't remember my dreams, let alone dreams that happened 15 years ago... but this dream is about all that comes to mind for me. I had this a couple of times while growing up, usually at a different location each time.

I would be sitting at home, and all of a sudden I would get the feeling that something was there, so I would start to run and look for somewhere to hide. As if my dream were a movie the "camera" would watch me run past and turn off in some direction, and then Death would appear somewhere on screen and go looking for me. I always managed to hide from him and never got caught. Even while in the middle of a class I would manage to hide and not have Death find me, and the teachers never noticed me getting up rushed and leaving the room...

I always liked those dreams, they were very entertaining and provided a good laugh so long as I remembered them when I woke up...

Something else I just thought of that happened often when I was growing up as well... This always happened when I was trying to sleep but wasn't quite asleep. My room never had a door on it for whatever reason, so I could see the wall on the other side of the hallway. Occasionally while trying to fall asleep it would look like the wall was moving. Not left and right or up and down, but as if it were coming to crush me against the other wall, and then moving away from me once again... that was one of the creepiest and scariest feelings I have probably ever had... I was like... 7 at most at the time too though...

I think that is all I can think of right now for this kind of stuff.

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