Dreams

[Arieolguin]

has anyone ever had a dream that your body suddenly starts freezing up, and you can’t even talk to ask for help. Yet after a few moments are able to wake yourself up.

[blackcat64013]

Hi,

I can't say I had such a dream.

When I experienced it in real life, it was the strangest thing. Disassociation is the term used to describe it.

If this is a one off, I would say it just interesting.

I don't know anything about your health situation. Depending on how you feel about things and if you are seeing a therapist, it can be worth discussing.

Regards 🐈‍⬛🦘

[Arieolguin in reply to blackcat64013]

I do disassociate at times. I just started taking new meds for my bipolar and one for sleeping, but I even had a dream like this before. It just startled the heck out of me. I will be seeing a therapist oct 4th and I was going to bring it up

[Isinatra]

In my dreams, I have to ask for help, but I can’t move, talk or write. In others, I’m angry and need to speak up for myself and I manage to barely speak, but so slowly and distorted , no one pays attention to me. I get angrier and more frustrated. I start to wake up and the dream spills over into awakening. I’m yelling like in my dream and awake, but I can’t move. I know if I can move one little piece of me then the rest of me will be able to move. For a few minutes afterwards I feel like I’ve been under general anesthesia, but physically shaken up at the same time. It doesn’t scare me anymore because it’s happened so many times. Im not in danger. I’ve never been diagnosed, but I’d have to say it’s a form of sleep paralysis mixed in with ptsd. It happens when my stress gets out of hand.

[Arieolguin]

normally when something like this happens in a dream I’m normally laying down and calm, and suddenly freeze up. I try talking and I just keep thinking move just move seems like forever, but eventually I make a small movement and am able to wake up

[Hidden]

Sleep paralysis

[Arieolguin in reply to Hidden]

I’ve had sleep paralysis many times. This was difference in the sense when I have sleep paralysis I am normally awake with eyes wide open. This happened in my dream while I was asleep.

[Tcgg]

yes I’ve had this numerous times over the years I thought I was kicking and screaming the first time it happened for help as it was a terrifying experience but then when I woke up my brother who I shared a room with said I wasn’t moving or screaming at all. It can be quite terrifying when it happens.

[Arieolguin in reply to Tcgg]

I completely agree with you there.

[designguy]

Personally I don't worry about dreams anymore and I believe they are just our minds way of processing the events and what we absorbed throughout the day. I think they can be affected by a loss of sleep, over indulgence in alcohol, how we feel physically etc... They can also give us possibly clues of what you might want to process in therapy if there are recurring themes in the dreams. For instance, I occasionally have dreams of trying to kick someone and have had issues with repressed anger which I have done a lot of processing over. For me the dream is a clue that I need to look and see if there is something going on that I am angry about that i'm not aware of.