Dreams/Nightmares that feel real and I can't wake myself up

[samantha21]

Okay, So every now and then I will have a dream or dreams that really scare me. Pretty much its a dream I'm having and I'm myself... in my bed. In my dream I will open my eyes and see human figures but usually I can't tell who it is. If I can't its dark like a shadow. Sometimes its one, or sometimes it a few figures. These dreams/visions always happen just as I'm falling asleep (ya know when your mind starts to wonder right before you doze off, eyes are closed and everythign but you are still conscious).... that stage is when I realize that I'm about to have one of these scary dreams. so I'll either opt to stay awake or turn the lights on for a minute then try to sleep again. The most recent one I had, I was asleep in my bed with my boyfriend...in the dream I opened my eyes and I saw out of the corner of my room a strange figure of a man walking towards my bed.... I cant do anything, I cant move and I can't talk... at this point I'm scared and I know I am ony dreaming. Well I try to wake my self up I try so hard to be able to speak and call my boyfriends name... and this is all while i'm asleep... that right as I wake up I blurt out a noise( the kidna noise you would make if you were trying really hard at something but not saying anything and then all of a sudden noise comes out) It's so frustrating. And in the dream I feel paralyzed like I can't even get up and run. All I can do is lay there... and If I don't wake up before the person gets to me... I can feel the "person" on top of me... literally..I feel their breathe... I feel it all... and what gets me is I KNOW I'm dreaming... and i try to wake up but I cant. and even though I'm aware that I'm dreaming I still know that I'm feeling whoever is on my bed or whatever)
The first time I had one of these very realistic dreams was a couple years ago the night after I drank mooshine for the first time.... ha yeah. (Basically I had a really bad case of the spins alll day the next day and I felt completely out of whack) Well that night as I just went to sleep I was dreaming that I was driving a car and the wheel starting to slowly turn to the left and right as I was about to hit a car my body jerked and I woke up. I stayed awake for a min or 2 then went back to sleep... thats when it all went down hill. The next dream I had... I was in my bed (by the way all these dreams are from my point of view...1st person) and I woke up to see a frightening girl with long black stringy hair and a horrible face, on her hands and knees on top of me just looking at me and breathing heavily.... I swear to god it felt so real.... The only thing I could think to do was hide under the blanket... but right before i drew the balnket over my eyes she slowly, very slowy moved her face inwards towards me. I knew I was dreaming but I could not wake up... Well once I did wake up... well I thought I did... I looked to the left of my bed and there was a about 3 people just sitting in my room... it didnt scare me at first cuz I thought I was awake and I figured maybe it is some freiends surprsiing me... but just as I tried to get a closer look a person who was laying on the floor next to my bed sat up right in my face! It scared the livivng **** outta me. that's when I really for real woke up. Anways I couldnt go back to sleep for a few hours I was a little frightened... I felt as though I would get stuck in a dream like that... And I wanted to avoid haveing another one like that again... I did go to sleep that night however all of the lights in my room were on....
I know this is really long. But I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced the same thing or something similar. I'eve had more but I don't want to write a whole novel here but if someone can relate then please let me know!

[Spot_1]

I have a similar experience:  so I was sleeping and I had this really weird dream and it felt so real that when I woke up I still felt like I was dreaming but  I was actually awake and I would just wouldn't stop crying and I just couldn't get myself to snap out of it but I eventually did and it's happened more than once

[Tayialynn2396]

I had this kinda dreams alot as a child. One dream whn i was about 6 years old. I shared a room with my sister. I slept the whole night until i had to get up and us the bathroom. I was wake but it felt as if my eyes were sown shut.. even thought i culdnt see i guided my way to the bathroom. In the bathroom i heard these faibt whispers and ran bck to my bed to hid under the blankets.. til tis day i culdnt tell you if what i experienced was real. But recently (last night) i was feeling asleep next to my boyfriend when i began to feel myself feel asleep into a lucid dream. Idk how i can tell but my mind and the feeling i get is odd.. i tryed to froce myself awake but i was glued to the bed. I tryed to scream and open my eyes but its impossible.. but thn i can feel my body slowly sliding down the bed. Wanting to cry but couldnt i try to scream for my bf and grab him. Eventually i woke up.. and guess what?. I was half way hanging off my bed. I take explain it but i dont know anymore if what im experiencing is my lucid dreaming or something much darker.. i want it to stop. How do i get rid of it?

[AnneliR]

I still have this one dream that repeats since I was a kid. It's a terrible nightmare. And my girlfriend while falling asleep is shaking. Then very often she is rapidly waking up - scared and confused, she thinks that someone was in the room. She also had insomnia.

The best solution for us is meditation and music. Something that calms and us before sleep. However we would love to try something else just to feel better.

[Ihearallevil]

I had a dream similar to it, I woke up and in my room it was pitch black from corner to corner, I had the window open when I fell asleep so I could cool down, after a few minutes I hear a scratch coming up along the wall but as it got louder I got scared it popped up threw the window, it was a long talk dark figures I could only see that the palms were long and looked like the fingers had claws, then it stood in from on my bed, I seen it just staring at me for hours then , I finally see. It move towards my door and I tryed to get up and yell for help I couldn't but as I tryed struggling to get it away from the door I thought to myself what if it goes for my family lil sisters and brothers so within that moment I become infuriated with rage that when I looked up it was standing up over me that I reach out and grabbed it's leg and told it to leave my family alone and to get the **** outta here, it rushed me and grabbed my head. I instantly fell asleep and woke up the next morning with a handprint of a claw or palm on my face for 3 days and since then I haven't seen it but I've been so quick to get mad even with the littlest thing suck as tripping or stubbing my toe I no longer feel pain but anger.

[Lindsaysaysuck]

I used to also have repeating dreams when I was a kid. I don't know if that has to with it?   I have always had vivid dreams.  If I finished the repeating dreams in my mind they would finally end. This was a very young girl. Now I get dreams where I go to sleep and I'm in same room but things are in room and I see them and they touch me and I can feel it.

[Lindsaysaysuck]

Thank you, I actually googled this because I'm having same problem. What you explain so vividly is what I go through sometimes. I don't know what it is but I appreciate your honesty!

[Lindsaysaysuck]

*I'm, *don't. That was weird I typed in comment and that's what happened

[Kaylasueeee]

To me this just sounds like Sleep paralysis. I have it pretty often, sometimes one after another. This can pretty much happen to anyone so dont worry. I just woke up from one to be completely honest. I was looking across my room and there was a person.. I couldnt see their face it was just a shadow sort of and it slowly started walking towards me and it was limping... And it was muttering something along the lines of Im so lonely here and I tried so hard to wake myself up I was breathing heavily and my sister ran over to my bed and had to wake me up. That was honestly the scariest one Ive had, other than when a scary looking boy was crawling towards me.

[Rico55diego]

I just experienced one tonight very scary.

[baddreams]

OK so this dream of mine is a little different but i knew i was dreaming and couldnt get up in any dream i have ever had in my life when i realized it was a dream i wake up rather its a good dream or bad one it has actualy made me mad before because having such a good dream an then just a light little thought of this must be a dream and bam im awake an usually it happens when i catch a glimpse of somthing that i know just isnt real OK OK, So im looking up what this could mean because it really isnt setting with me right an i know its something. this happened to me today after having a very long sleep the night before for 1 am to 3 pm the next day i had a normal day an having argued with my wife i decided to go to sleep at about 9 pm. i woke once and saw that my wife had put the baby between us an him and her was sleeping very good i turned the other way an went back to sleep. then the dream started it was all to real i left my house drove to work and there was nothing missing every detail between here and there was there the road the houses the store the stop lights and when i got there i decided to turn around and go back home the last red light before the turn onto my road i live on was the same then there is a big hill and on the bottom of the other side is the road i live on it is dirt when you turn onto it well when i started to top the hill i realised there is a grave yard on the left but there wasnt this time then topping the hill i started looking for things that should be there but they werent coming down the other side it turned from paved to ashphalt and the houses were not there my turn wasnt so after the next couple hills im thinking how did i go the wrong way i know i didnt but then i think of turning around to head back to town watching for a driveway or turn off to turn around i space out a little like staring at the road in front of me an start to slowly fall asleep an leaning forward like i was nodding out or somthing an when i caught my self i looked over to see the driver seat empty and realizing i was in the passenger seat i looked at the road look at the verry vivid tree line passing an thought the car was gonna run off but it stayed straight in the right lane looked back to the driver seat an it still being empty i realized it was a dream an still didnt wake up this is weird anytime before in a dream if i tell my self its a dream i always wake up ALWAYS so the first and only house i saw come up on the left an wondering why i couldnt wake up an starting to worry i grab the shifter and throw it into reverse thinking that if any way possible it was real maybe it would atleast do somthing to atract attention but when the shifter hit reverse it did nothing car just kept cruising moved it from park to low an then back then looked at the road still not being able to figure out whats going on i know im dreaming so i looked to my right an through the rolled up window see the passing tree line why am i not waking up an where am i an where is this car going i get smart ill pinch myself that didnt work slap myself a little an felt both in anger and fear i ball my fist and hard as i can hit the window an it hurt so bad an i start hitting it over and over and it hurts werse and werse then it hit me im laying in bed with my baby next to me if im swinging this hard in my dream i really dont want to be doing it for real i get mad an scared i scream at myself to wake up wake up now wake up now i yell my wifes name hoping she would hear me and wake me up i strain every muscle i have trying to wake up finaly my eyes open an i say my wifes name mouth dry as can be lips stuck to gether body sore from laying the same way for awhile i look over at my wife and son still seeping i tell her to wake up and put him in his bed omg i thought i would never wake up i feel blessed to have woke up.

[Fishizzle]

I just had a very similar experience.  Extremely vivid dream.  Every detail in what seemed like "real time" and became aware that i was dreaming but was unable to wake up.  I have had this happen 3 times in the same week. Connected dreams and so very vivid.  Im almost freaked out to go to sleep tonight afraid that its gonna happen again.