Hello Board!

I've not spoken to anyone else about this, in fact I've only just discovered what I'm experiencing. My apologies if this is a long posting...hope you don't mind.

I thought we had a ghost in our spare bedroom. Often if I sleep in there, it feels as if I'm drugged. I can't wake up, although I think I AM awake several times during the same night. I'm terrified and can hear a voice saying 'Get out, GET OUT!!'. I think I'm shuffling out the room on my bottom....but I'm still in bed asleep. I can't say how terrifying this is, my heart's racing and I'm sweating with fear. I discovered this week that is sleep paralysis. At least there's not a ghost in my spare bedroom!

The reason I'm writing is this: I read an online article today about morning naps being the ideal time to lucid dream. I've often been able to tell that I'm dreaming, and if I have a morning nap, it gets completely out of control.

For instance, today I had a nap, after being up for about 1.5hours. I felt the tell-tale 'sucking' at my conciousness, and thought 'Heck, I'm going to have a weird sleep paralysis dream'. But...on this occasion, I decided (whilst asleep) to go with it instead of being frightened.

It felt like I was being sucked through the bed, and then on a kind of roller coaster, quite dizzying! I thought to myself 'Ok, I'm dreaming, let's see what I can do'. So I thought I'd stick myself to the ceiling. Hell...I don't know why!

So. I manage to put my back flat against the ceiling (whilst dreaming), but I couldn't see anything. It was all grey. I KNEW that I was aloft though, as I could definitely feel my arms and legs dangling down.

At this point I think I got scared and woke up to myself taking a very difficult and loud indrawn breath, almost as if I'd stopped breathing for a while.

Phew. Felt good to say all that. I hope someone understands! Anyone got any feedback? Should I 'go with it' again and see what happens?

Thanks for reading this looong post. I just haven't spoken about it ever before.

xxxxxx