Given your description it sounds to me like you have achieved lucid dreaming, that is you know you are asleep. See Lucid Dreaming I recommend the book by Stephen DeBerges (I think that is the name) he's with Stanford University.
The options you seem to have it to engage the dreams with you conscious mind, first make sure you are dreaming - DeBerges gives some ideas on how to test without taking unnecessary risks. The other option, I have taken, is wake myself up.
I'm not sure we have the same understanding of vivid dreams, but I suggest you take a look at Lucid Dreaming which is about taking control of vivid dreams. There is a lot on the web on this subject.
I think it is next to impossible for one to bite him/herself while sleeping, that is contrary to the accepted "fact" that we all go into a physical paralysis when asleep, to prevent that sort of thing - so we don't turn crazy dreaming into self violence.
s like a force is pulling my covers from me and pulling me from my bed and pulls me all over the walls and ceiling. I am aware that i am dreaming but i cant seem to wake myself up and sometimes if i do manage to wake, i fall straight back into the nightmare. These dreams or whatever they are are not something that's forgotten the next morning, making it quite frightning to fall asleep.
Just wanted to know if anyone else experienced similar things or if im just going a bit mad.
In a dream, and I think this is an extension of a dream, one can try to resolve mental conflicts/concerns by first recognizing they are dreaming, then engaging the dream. Here you know you are awake, check on that - see Lucid Dreaming on the web (I like a book by Stephan DeBerges - think that the name, Stanford U) to see how to determine if you are dreaming or awake. Be sure you are dreaming before you take any physical risks.
they are the type that seem so real, that when we wake up, it takes a few minutes for us to cop onto the fact that it was just a dream. If you were dreaming dogs were attacking you in a lucid dream or anything with pain, you would really think you are feeling that pain. But lucid dreams occur either just as we go to sleep or when we are about to awake. Thus we are between both states. Not 100% asleep, but not awake either. Hence they appear more real.
I have become a troublemare person in my senior years, and would like to stop that too. I have read a little on LUCID DREAMING, see on the web. I read a short book/aucioCD by Stephen LaBerges of Stanford U. It encourages getting involved in ones dreams by recognizing one is dreaming and thus at no risk and thus able to face the problem right in the "eye".
, you were dreaming you were awake, or your conscious mind became active in parallel with dreaming - you were Lucid Dreaming. If that is the case you are just one step away from taking conscious control of you dream - look up Lucid Dreaming on the web, in particular I like the work by Stephen LaBarge (not sure of the last name) of Stanford U.
You mention Lucid Dreaming, and I read you to say your are accomplished in the art.
You may find something useful, perhaps you already have, in a brief study of the subject Lucid Dreaming. I like the book, which has an audio CD which I have listened to many times is by Stephen Laberge of Stanford University USA. This book may give you even more control of dreaming, thus sleeping.
I can only immagine the confusion you describe - I think it woud drive me "crazy".
I think "yellowbirdhead" has hit the "nail on the head".
I read a book by Stephen LaBerges (may have the name a bit off) from Stanford, the book included an audio DVD which I listened to a number of times. The subject "Lucid Dreaming" has a number of followers and the above mentioned work my help you learn how to implement it to address your problem.
I have not accomplished Lucid Dreaming, but I characterize myself a a troble mare not night mare person.
First let me correct, I meant to say Lucid Dreaming. I worked for Lucent Technologies Bell Labs and so Lucent just "flows" out of my touch-typing hands.
I read a book: Lucid Dreaming Stephen Laberge whio is PhD, not an MD, at Stanford University. The book, I picked it up at my local library, has a DVD audio which I found particularly restful and mind provoking to listen to. I listened to it several times and seemed to pick up some new information almost each time.
You may find some help looking int Lucid Dreaming, I read a book by a PhD at Stanford that has me working on it. Lucid Dreaming means being asleep, dreaming, and knowing in your conscious mind you are dreaming. It sounds like you are almost there already. The book by Stephen Laberges ( or something like that) provides a methodology for achieving Lucidity. There's a lot on the web about it too, don't have to read that specific book.
I feel an invisible line of fabric begin to form over my body and it starts spreading and it covers my body like a dress. it's making layers but it feels wrong because I am wearing an invisible dress. the invisible dress clings to me I am panicking because I think I'm going crazy. The dress flows over my body like some kind of tidal wave and I can feel the layers and it feels so wrong. my neck hurts. This sensation continues for like 5 mins then goes away.
This is called a Lucid Night terror. Lucid night terrors are merely hallucinations that happen when you wake up from a deep sleep, but you have not regained full consciousness. More people than you'd think suffer from lucid dreaming, and though it can be quite frightening it seems very real. Some people even claim things actually happened when it was merely a lucid dream. Do not worry... Everything is okay! However if they get too bad, I'd talk with a doctor.
Sorry you haven't gotten an input from a fellow suffer. That said, you may find some helpful tools in the methodology used to deal with Lucid Dreaming. Read book by Stephen LaBarge (not sure on the last name, google Lucid Dreaming, you'll get a lot of on line stuff and into to the PhD at Standford who leads that subject there.
For the past year I have been experiencing sleep paralysis on a daily basis. Every time this happens I feel my whole brain buzzing like there is electricity flowing through it and it pulses slowly as more and more pain starts to accumulate. It gets to be so painful it feels like my brain is about to implode and no matter what I do I always feel extreme pain. I hear myself telling myself to wake up before the pain gets unbearable but it doesn't work most of the time.
that said you may want to look into Lucid Dreaming, a strategy to deal with dreaming and it sounds like you are already in a near lucid state. Dr. Stephen Laberge (not sure on the spelling of the last name) of Stanford University in the USA wrote a book on Lucid Dreaming I found very interesting. I have not been able to accomplish a lucid dream yet, but then I haven't tried real hard.
It also sounds like you're lucid dreaming. This is very hard to do and nothing to be afraid of.
Actually, some use it as a form of meditation. It's very hard to accomplish and I'm very jealous.
Do you have "nightmares" when you sleep from 3AM to Noon?
Sleeping pills and aids will not help with nightmares in my experience.
Nightmares may just be a passing thing, but if they continue I'd recommend considering the methodologies advocated in the "Lucid Dreaming" approach to managing dreams, including nightmares. I have has some success and rarely have a nightmare, but in recent years I have regular trouble mares..
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