False awakening loop? Lucid dreaming a nightmare?

[Faplord2023]

Not really something this site knows much about but I'm wondering if anyone can share their experiences with a Lucid Dream where you keep trying to escape but finding yourself in another dream over and over again, failing to wake up to our reality. False awakening it is called apparently.

 

[trojbi]

Have you been experiencing that? I believe I have but this is the first time I’ve had that specific experience explained to me to idk if it exactly the same. I’ve experienced it through my sleep paralysis.

I’ve suffered from sleep paralysis since I was a preteen with it happening very frequently in my 20s but strangely after I turned 30 I haven’t had it anymore. Basically it presents as a me being unable to get out of the dream cycle and actually wake up.

It’s funny cause people describe their “sleep paralysis demons” but I’ve never had one. Idk why maybe cause I don’t believe in ghosts, like I’m so agnostic about them that they can’t even appear in my dreams lol.

But I do have vivid hallucinations mine are super mundane though and that’s how I get stuck. I’ll be convinced that my roommate came in my room and we chatted for 10 mins but in reality he’s not even home and he’s never opened my door and in 10 years lol.

Most frustratingly I have a recurring “dream” where I wake up, brush my teeth, take a shower, get dressed and then wake up back in bed. I’ve gotten stuck in that loop once 5 times

Whats frustrating I’m very aware that I’m having a sleep paralysis attack and I desperately want to get it out. But I will think I wake up only to fall asleep over and over.

 

[Faplord2023]

Have you been experiencing that? I believe I have but this is the first time I’ve had that specific experience explained to me to idk if it exactly the same. I’ve experienced it through my sleep paralysis.

I’ve suffered from sleep paralysis since I was a preteen with it happening very frequently in my 20s but strangely after I turned 30 I haven’t had it anymore. Basically it presents as a me being unable to get out of the dream cycle and actually wake up.

It’s funny cause people describe their “sleep paralysis demons” but I’ve never had one. Idk why maybe cause I don’t believe in ghosts, like I’m so agnostic about them that they can’t even appear in my dreams lol.

But I do have vivid hallucinations mine are super mundane though and that’s how I get stuck. I’ll be convinced that my roommate came in my room and we chatted for 10 mins but in reality he’s not even home and he’s never opened my door and in 10 years lol.

Most frustratingly I have a recurring “dream” where I wake up, brush my teeth, take a shower, get dressed and then wake up back in bed. I’ve gotten stuck in that loop once 5 times

Whats frustrating I’m very aware that I’m having a sleep paralysis attack and I desperately want to get it out. But I will think I wake up only to fall asleep over and over.

I think sleep paralysis is different from a false awakening but there may be overlap. I thought sleep paralysis was when you are between awake and asleep, but a false awakening is when you are asleep but can't escape a dream. I had one last night and hour or two before I made this thread. I've had a hard time sleeping since.

 

[trojbi]

I think sleep paralysis is different from a false awakening but there may be overlap. I thought sleep paralysis was when you are between awake and asleep, but a false awakening is when you are asleep but can't escape a dream. I had one last night and hour or two before I made this thread. I've had a hard time sleeping since.

Man I used so many words but explained poorly somehow. I blew past that every one of these events begins with me “waking up” fully aware but unable to open my eyes or move a muscle. And it feels like I’m suffocating, like if I don’t gain control of my body soon I will stop breathing. It’s like being a prisoner in your own body I would not recommend it to my worst enemy.

That’s why I mentioned getting “stuck” my only goal when I’m having an episode is to wake up, to roll over to snap out of it. But instead of actually waking up I have very vivid dreams of me waking up only to snap back to bed frozen again.

Your mentioning of lucid dreams is why I connected the events. People who suffer from sleep paralysis universally report hallucinations but what is happening is the same concept as a lucid dream. You’ve awoken enough to become aware but your brain is still dreaming.