Last night I dreamed I was levitating off the bed...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I was entirely aware that I was dreaming; but the sensation was so real and so uncomfortable that I screamed to wake myself up.

Weird.

[Hayabusa]

1. I've had that dream before.

That and the sleep paralysis once when I was wide awake but couldn't move. What really doesn't help those waking dreams is that you're scared when it happens and your mind makes up a reason for it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. It's like a subconscious psychosis...

[suninvited]

8. I have the sleep paralysis too

I never know if I am really awake, or if I am dreaming I am awake when it happens.

[LiberalFighter]

3. You thought you were floating but you were actually falling into an endless pit.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. I was falling up?

Maybe aliens were trying to abduct me.
I would have liked to visit with them.

[LiberalFighter]

6. How do you know you haven't visited them?

Maybe they beamed me up when I was younger. And it stopped when I moved out of town because they couldn't find me?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Or maybe they're really tiny

and are inside me now, controlling my thoughts, my movements, my vote...

[av8rdave]

5. Freud had an analysis regarding "floating" or levitating dreams

But it wouldn't apply to you.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Why?

Lack of winky?

[av8rdave]

21. Exactly.

Of course, the accuracy of Freud's dream analyses is unassailable.

:sarcasm:

[HipChick]

7. I have those all the time..try to remember to fly next time..

and report back what happens..:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I used to have flying dreams when I was a kid.

There was something sinister behind this dream.
Before I woke myself, I felt there was a threat of being smothered by whatever was making me float.

Hmm...I wonder if I had a touch of apnea...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. According to a thread in GD, you really were levitating.

We make our own reality, or something.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Interesting...Which thread is that?

I read an article about lying recently that said something similar...that it's wrong to lie because you are creating an alternate reality for people to dwell in, if they are so inclined.

[vixengrl]

13. When I actually fly in my dreams, it's pretty cool--

(albeit possibly Freudian! That plus my occasional dreams about losing teeth and growing facial hair would keep me awake nights if I followed Freud & Jung overmuch!) But "levitating" sounds like losing control, and in a sleep paralysis fugue, that stuff is no fun!

I know about sleep paralysis because I seem to have it particularly if I spend the night on the couch--for example, when my husband snores too much for me to get comfortable, or if I'm sick and decide to self-segregate (usually because I know no one wants to sleep next to a snotty, coughing mess). I always seem to dream of disasters I can't do anything about with it (overflowing plumbing, or "the detour that leads to nowhere" on my way to work, or the dream where I can't even get dressed for work because my closet suddenly has nothing appropriate in it). It's very disturbing. And sometimes, the experience can put you "off" for the next day, wondering what exactly "happened" to you.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I just looked up "sleep paralysis"

on Wiki.

They mention that it can sometimes be a symptom of a migraine. I woke up with a migraine...

[vixengrl]

16. I've sometimes had them-so I find that interesting.

Although I can't correllate times that I've had a migraine with times I've had sleep paralysis--altho' I've always suspected my susceptibility to migraine had to do with my pretty irregular sleep patterns. ( Altho' I have "menstrual migraine"--which always makes me more likely to hit the couch to avoid being "disturbed" with snoring or whatever. A pattern emerges.)

[marzipanni]

17. Once I did levitate off the bed!

I was dreaming that my husband and I were sitting on a parking bumper in a parking lot.
Suddenly a huge truck trailer was being backed toward us so I threw myself at my husband to push him and myself out of harm's way.
I was relieved when I realized that the pain that woke me was not from the truck running into us, but from my head hitting the leg of the bedside table, and my hip hitting the bookshelf next to the bed after I had launched myself over my husband sleeping beside me!
I think the spicy Indian food we had for dinner that night had something to do with it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. OMG!

You are a talented sleeper! :rofl:

[merh]

19. Some would say you had an out of body experience. OBE

Next time, see where you can go. Some claim they are able to visit foreign lands.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. I had an OBE when I had a kidney operation years ago...

I watched part of my operation...

[merh]

24. Cool.

Then you really need to just go with it the next time and see where it takes you.

Edgar Cacey claimed that he used to be able to travel all over the world and into the other realm.

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce01.html


Truth be told, he may well have had sleep apnea.

:hi:

[elshiva]

20. YOU ROCK! A heart for a wonderful woman.

;) Next time sleep with an anteater and a squirrel.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Awww...Thanks Elshiva!

:hug::hug::hug: