{"id":35626,"date":"2025-07-30T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-cant-wake-up\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:57:03","slug":"i-cant-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-cant-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"i can&#8217;t wake up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">I occasionally lucid dream, but what happened a few years ago &#8211; about 3 times in a 10 month span &#8211; was really disturbing. I consider it a lucid dream because I was asleep (dreaming) but I thought I was awake. My eyes were open and I was up walking around my bedroom seeing everything as it is, but at some point I realized I was dreaming and tried to talk myself into waking up, but couldn\u2019t override this dream that was playing out in my mind! I was helpless to watch through my eyes, my hands flailing about and knowing the thoughts going through my mind weren\u2019t real. After a few moments, it felt longer, I felt myself raise up a level of consciousness (best I can describe it) and was able to talk myself back to bed, like coaxing a child after a nightmare. I don\u2019t think I was fully awake even then since I had no problem falling back to sleep, and I remember everything the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I looked up some articles in sleep disorder books; confusional arousals, sleep walking, panic disorders (I was panicked in one way or another in these dreams) but their descriptions never fully described what I experienced. Instead of being asleep in my bed having a lucid dream and not being able to wake up, (that\u2019s happened before), I was up acting it out and couldn\u2019t wake up. Unlike a sleepwalker who doesn\u2019t remember, I remembered everything. Once I spoke out loud, I am told, though I don\u2019t remember that. Heard anything like this before? I know I\u2019ve been brief but I don\u2019t want the men in white to take me away. Any insight you have would be appreciated. I dread having one of these \u201cthings\u201d again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u2014Sandra, Age 32, Dundas<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the interpretation of the dream, click<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-cant-wake-up-2\/\" id=\"607\" option=\"com_content\">here<\/a><br \/><span style=\"color: red;\">Back to \u00a0list of <\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/lucid-dreams\/\" id=\"28\" option=\"com_content\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">lucid dreams<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3038,3046],"class_list":["post-35626","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-lucid-dreams-question","category-lucid-rbd"],"acf":{"article_id":"604"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/35626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}