| Hello, everyone !
I know this is kind of an old thread but I just woke up from this very same experience. Yes, it is very related to sleep paralisys or lucid dream, but still I felt it was something else at the same time.
Most of your answers refere to the state in which you feel a heavy object/presence on your chest/legs which wont let you breath or move. As OP described, the feeling was not like that. Well, maybe in his case it was, but let me add at least my own experience as well. Ok, here it goes!
To begin with, I've had tons of sleep paralisys in my life, so I can instantly recognize the episode as soon as it starts. Also, althou I have little control over my dreams, in most cases I'm aware of dreams being dreams, I just flow with them and let events unfold as I enjoy or suffer (nightmares) them. So, in this case it had a little of lucid dream to begin with, I was at an elevator and I felt like touching this buttons to move it, and a moment later I noticed these other buttons, which I knew I should not press, and the feeling of lucid dream started right there.
I pressed the new buttons on the elevator, and a few moments laters, a feeling of extreme joy filled my legs, and went up through my body! Up to my stomach, and completely filled me. This was joy, or bliss. It was very spiritual energy! I kind of regain conciuosness completly by this moment, and got into sleep paralisys by then, and what had began as bliss, rapidly turned into a wind like force which was pulling me out of my body, kindly first, energecticly later, until it was even violent. The force would pull from my stomach (sacral chackra) and from my hands.
I never had this experience before, my sleep paralisys were always very dull, sad and opressing. To feel this force trying to take me out of my body, and the extreme joy. It was not the same as always! Ofc, I got scared and used my own method for waking up (which consist in simply strengthen the flow of air in my breathing), and after a little battle with this force, I regained control and everything finished. It felt like if I allowed this force to take me, I would have ended up being unable to return ! Well, I would have like to allow it but I'm too much of a coward xD.
Well, just wanted to share! Althou it has elements of lucid dream and sleep paralisys, I feel this situation envolves something else which must have another chapter for it self..
thank you for reading |