Mmm....sleep paralysis, always entertaining. My favorite edition had me lying in bed, then waking to the realization that someone else was there (pretty normal for hypnagogic states). I couldn't see the person, but as she lay on the bed next to me, I could feel the sensation of fabric, and from the corner of my eye I saw a bridal dress. Evidently I'd gotten married!

Only...then I could feel my bride sidling up against me...or at least her bones. I'd married a skeletal corpse -- par for the course, really -- and she was ready to consummate our relationship. I decided to pull myself out of it at that point. I like a slender gal, but that was taking things a bit too far.

-TTm

Ha! Lucid dreams are the coolest. I have them from time to time--I always try to go flying, but it's not always easy...

Years ago I read about a study done in which they had participants ask themselves at least twenty times a day, "Am I awake or am I dreaming?" They found that after only a few weeks most of the participants were reporting having lucid dreams on a regular basis. I tried it myself for a while, but I just couldn't keep up the regimen. Too bad...

oh that happens to me all the time, and i too can't really move more than a couple of inches and usually just end up shaking myself awake after it gets to be too much. this happens to me a few times a week at least. they used to be more fun when i was much younger, i remember actually leaving my body and doing way more things back then. now it's usually just like how you explained it.

oh and i'm also able to suggest to myself what i want to dream about before i go to bed, and more often than not it works out to some degree. and a lot of time while i'm in a dream i'm able to recognize that i'm dreaming and do what i want in the dream (this is different than the paralysis dreaming).

I've only woken during REM sleep once (although given what you're describing my episode sounds different). Of course it was right smack in the middle of a nightmare I was having about being possessed and losing control of my faculties, so that was less than cool.

That's awesome! I wish I had episodes like that. I've just finally gotten to a point where I can remember dreams, so I've got a hella long way to go before I can get into lucid dreaming or anything involving sleep paralysis or out of body experience.

i dont have sleep paralysis anymore, and i'm glad to be rid of it. it was real freaky.

my ex g/f used to get something like that, she said it was very scary.

Wow... that's far out!
So it's a kind of paralysis? Interesting.

Sounds strange but cool..

wow, that's wild...
i've had a few experiences like that. one time i fell into such a state while under full moon light. i had the shutters open so i could lay there and actually stare at the moon as i dozed off. i remember two floating white orbs descending from the moon and coming through my window. i was coherent enough to be afraid and knew to hide under the covers...and then these orbs somehow spoke through me. these things somehow soothed me enough to sit up in bed in some kind of trancelike state. i was asleep soundly after that and i knew that i had never sat up or had ever been awake for that matter...very unsettling yet fascinating stuff...