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!

[pauleg14]

all u gotta know is that u can control ur own dreams, so stop being afraid and fight the nightmare. Ur mind may be on auto drive when ur asleep but ur still awake. This nightmare is probably not a nightmare but a memory.

[sheymoore]

i had this dream. im only 15 years old. and i was running away at first i didnt know who they we're, i seen classrooms and all my friends. i had daralynn there with me and two other friends but i couldnt make out there names, i just knew daralynn was there. i barely could explain the way theses places looked but  they we're running away with me we were trying to escape from people, at first they were wearing masks, i remember losing all my friends while trying to run away from thoses ppl they were not after them they were after me i had that feeling. i kept running and i found this tunnel under the school, it was small enough for me to crawl and thenat the end of every tunnnel was someone crawling towards me to get me but i went left and there was a guy that way but i crawled over hm=im and got away then i went straight and i hit another guy and passed him. then i punched me way through the ground from above me, and i got out but i was still in the school i was at least a couple doors away from escaping the school, then i was up in the sealing crawling around like there was no way out, then i fell through and i stoon up and a girl with blond hair jumped on my back and i flipped here and twisted her arm and she looked in pain and said oh! you know how to fight,  i dropped her arm and ran but while i was running i looked in this classroom, nd i seen all the kids just sitting there watching me run. and i was two doors away form escaping then this random guy came out of no where and tried grabbing me. i dont know  how i got away but i kept running i looked at my feet and tried to run faster and faster but i couldn't.. i jumped this big fence and hid in a tree to catch my breath, then when i caught my breath i started running and jumping one fence to another,then i crawled under some random porch i remember hiding under the steps crying for awhile wondering while people are trying to take me, then i  started crawiling up a building and when i go to the top i jumped... and i jumped buildings from the top i new where to go but i couldnt find it i was still running tho and i found daralynn running the next block up i called her name and she came running towards me, and she was scared i was then i told her to come fallow me, we went runnign down this block and i seen this house it looked familiar but didnt at the same time i said lets hide here for awhile. so we did, then we climbed the roof and went in the house upstairs,  then all a sudden a boy came in the room and he looked at us in suprize then her grabbed me on the arm, and he said to me why did you com here, and i said i dont even know you, but i did or so i thought he  had dark brown hair he was tall and he had flippy long hair, he had a sister at the table eating she didnt even glance at me, thoses people were on the way to that house, i ran away from that boy i told darlynn to get out met me somewhere go! and she left and i remember trying o get out of that window and i seen her look a me and run away, i smiled cause she was okay. then i tried getting out but that boy has my foot. i told him to let go  i have to go those people are trying to kill me. so i thought  he let go and i looked at him and ran away i jumped off the roof and started flying. i was lookign for daralynn. i was looking for her but i couldn't find her. then i woke up but everytime i went back to sleep the dream would start again, is that suppose to happen?

[emmagail0110]

I go through the same thing I have a notebook of dreams I have had there are quite a few and when I wake up I physically go through the pain I go through a lot at home so my friends think its stress (I did also) but I believe in jesus and demons and God and my grandmother (she led me to God) says I have a demon im currently doing research because my lack of sleep has caused me to stop eating as much because eating makes me sick ill let you know what I learn I now the pain is a lot to bear ive been going through this a year maybe

[JoJo1345]

I'm 12 and I stared having these dreams when I turned 3 about this little girl that exactly like me but she was a pale blue ,back hair, and she looked dead. but  what is weird is that I'm blonde but she looked exactly like me .in my dreams she is a physco she kills people ,her head can do a 360 and her eyes are really red and she cant talk all she does is scream and her teeth are rotting and her gums are black and she swings from trees and I had these dreams a whole week and they would suddenly stop but start again until I turned 4 I only had these dreams twice a year and every year she gets crazier and more psychotic and she ages just like me every year. what could this mean the girl looks just like me and ages just like me could this mean something ? am I crazy?      

[J_J_Xeth]

I sort of just had dreams like this too. It's creepy..

I was sleeping and I could tell I was having one of those dreams because it happened before, but thankfully mines doesn't come frequently.

I was able to move but some what like a floaty movement I guess.

I couldn't see very well because it was dark. I think the dreams are telling us about something with our fears because I am afraid of the dark and afraid of becoming blind.

I tried waking up my mom in her sleep telling her to turn on the t.v so the room would be lighted but she wouldn't wake up. I was afraid to go any where else or afraid I might see things so I curled up in a corner and looked towards the wall. I tried screaming again to hear my voice but nothing came out and as I did so I saw a women with glowing eyes opening her mouth as if she was mocking me. I finally closed my nose to suffocate my self to snap back in reality and it worked. Woke up and told myself I cant sleep.  That was some creepy ****. I hate those weird dreams.

[grantmaccaUK]

Iv been having the same 3 nightmares sinch i was around 10 years old.

Nightmare 1: im in my bedroom and as usual i have my television on but there is no sound, im pinned to my bed unable to move,shout,roll and im extremely cold so i try to force myself to move and i get to a certain point and im flung back to my original position so i keep trying to make noise and the most i can do is mumble.  but no-mattaer how hard i try i cannot do anything but await my fate until i awake

Nightmare 2: again im in my bedroom pinned down and there is 3 shadows around me they do not make sound and i cannot see them but they quickly fly in closely to me and rip me open which is when i awake screaming.

Nightmare 3: im just falling asleep when i hear "its playtime" in a deep voice i go from being able to do everything to being able to do nothing and i begin o hear creepy music at this point i know im in a nightmare but i cant control it and i cannot wake up and it feels like im having a sharp object scratched down my back. which is when i wake up.

any pain i feel in these nightmares im feeling when i wake up and sometimes im so scared i wont even bother sleeping for days on end. iv woken with a feeling in my back so paintfull i havnt been able to do daily activities without feeling it.