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Maybe someone can help me with what I am experiencing

Hi everyone. I just want to share my scary experience and I hope someone knows why I am experiencing it.

So here it is. I've been experiencing something like being trapped inside my own dream. It was like you thought you woken up already but when you realize that you are still inside your dream you come back to bed. The first experience is that I thought I woken up already and what I was doing that time,I was with my family in our living room and I was playing with my nephew and then suddenly I pinched my hand and I felt nothing only then I realized that I was still dreaming. The moment I realized it, I will find myself back in bed thinking that I woke up from that nightmare but I keep coming back to bed every time I noticed that I was still dreaming. I could not quickly recognize that I am still dreaming because it felt so real. And I tried for like 3-4 times and I successfully woken up and I know it was not a dream anymore.

I thought it will not happened again but a few weeks after. I've experienced it again and honestly I felt scared because that time I almost lost hope to wake up. That time I could really hear my family talking from our living room. It feels like I am already conscious on my surroundings in the living world but I just can't wake up. Few of my attempts to wake up is that I was already at our stairs going down to have bond with my family but then I realized that I was still dreaming and I will found myself back to my bed and that moment I came up with an idea and started to move my body to help wake myself up and I can't move.it keeps happening and continued to feel like I was already waking up and then back to bed. I've been trying it for like more than ten times and I was starting to feel nervous and somehow scared. I could not move even with just one of my fingers thinking that if I can move one of it I will successfully wake up. And with few more attempts, I did it. But that feeling like being trapped inside was still there and I kind of feel scared that if this will happen again, I don't know if I can manage to successfully wake up.

That feeling keeps going and I could not calm myself so I tried to find answers to google but I just could not find one.Since then, I am thankful that it didn't happen again until now but I could not let my guard down about it. However, after that incident, I feel like I am not experiencing ordinary anymore. My dreams were like the one I posted the last time about me being very fixated with the man who don't exist, aside from it was about snakes,spiders, dead babies, and others that I don't consider normal. During my waking hours, I sometimes feel a sudden frequency on my ears and thought it maybe related from a medical conditio, there was also a time where I was about wake up and open my eyes and I saw aw a human figure shadow standing beside me and then with my next blink it disappears and I also thought that I was having hallucinations. Lastly is that, I always found myself space out/staring into nothing and sometimes I can't control it.

Please respect my post, I am just really curious and hope maybe someone have an idea about my experience since I did not told anyone about this. I could only feel comfortable telling it with strangers.
Tuscan · 70-79, M
I had a similar experience, many years ago when I was 12 or 13. I woke up, got washed and dressed, then made my way downstairs for breakfast. On reaching the bottom of the stairs I awoke back in bed. I realised that I must have dreamt getting up and dressed. Feeling a bit confused I repeated my actions. This recurring dream repeated at least 6 times (possibly more) .Sometimes it was shorter sometimes longer before I awoke back in bed. Nothing was in anyway dream like or abnormal, but it was quite frightening at the time. I have never experienced this since that time, but for many weeks afterwards I half expected to suddenly awake back in bed .
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
As it was mentioned already, it's sleep paralysis. Maybe try to take some magnesium supplements to prevent it. This usually happens when you have too much stress in your life. If it happens again, don't try to wake up by force. Let it run its own course. Whenever I try to speed up waking up it's really bad. I feel as if my head was about to explode afterwards. I guess it's that sudden frequency you describe, I'd describe it as electric buzzing for me.
Yes, those were hallucinations, they are common with sleep paralysis. I only ever had them twice though.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
Also known as sleep paralysis. They're wack as hell.
You shouldn't feel shy or embarrassed about talking about it. It's an experience that happens to a lot of people, I've had it too. It is frightening because first you feel like your real body will never wake up and you'll be perpetually trapped in the dream state. And then you get the feeling of falling back into your body, waking up, but you aren't able to make your body work.
First time I experienced it I'd compare it to a wild amusement park ride: while on it it's scary but afterwards I wanted to do it again.
Lostpoet · M
Are you taking any over the counter sleeping pills? I've had this experience happen to me too, but it was a long time ago and it hasn't happened since. It might just be something going on in your environment and it will pass soon.
Happilymelancholic27 · 22-25, M
Sounds similar to dream within a dream also called "False awakening." I had them a few times when I was younger. I wanted to wake up but had no idea how to.
Confined · 56-60, M
Sounds like an out of body experience.
caccoon · 36-40
Sleep paralysis

 
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