Not quite. My experience was that I was laying in bed, on my back, looking up at a white face, hovering over the end of the bed, and I was paralysed. I was very scared because of this, and started trying to scream, and lash out at this stranger/alien. Eventually, I managed to sit up, scream, and put my arms up in a defensive position, ready to punch the invader.
My girlfriend reported that my experience started when I was face down, that's when I started thrashing. I was dreaming I was on my back, but actually on my front. I managed to spin over when the paralysis stopped, but the transistion was blurred, and I didn't know I'd done that. The experience was very real, had I been alone, I might have gone looking for whatever it was I thought I'd seen, and I'd have certainly checked the doors and windows were shut!
I've had a few other experiences similar to this, two others at least involving another person. One was a dark haired female, who was strangling me with one hand, and smiling at the same time. In that dream, I was sat up in bed, and I awoke, to see her walk up to me, put her hand out, and start to cruch my windpipe. everything in the room in the dream was exactly as it was in reality (bed side light on, book I'd fallen asleep reading on my lap, the works). I managed to scream, and lash out, and when I finished lashing out, she was gone (ie, I'd awoken) and I then ran around the house checking doors and windows (I was alone at the time this one occurred)
Sorry, is it unique or similar? What are you trying to say?
D_____that, ok, THAt is YOUR experience. others' experiences are notably different. Not that. Not sleep paralysis. mine wasn't sleep paralysis, i was freely moving about?..clearer?
One single experience cannot be the same as a range of diverse experiences, what are you trying to say here? That some people have different experiences, so mine is invalid?
d___no. i would never say anothers' experience is inavalid. i will leave that for you (s m i l e)
Well plenty of people have very similar experiences to mine and call them 'abduction', that is my point.
d__But i beg to differ, in comparison with yours, the abduction experiences i have heard of are very detailed and invlove a lot of different things. like that one i told you of, where there were other witnesses. Have you read 'communion' by whitley Strieber?...his is more than just waking up and screaming. etc. what about people who are DRIVING and have one?
That's just a vivid dream, not even hypnogogic or night terrors.
i take it you are meaning mine? you see how you just patronize. like YOU are TELLING me. this think i have struggled to understand all these years and still am. you come along, dr phlologician and tell me what my 'condition' is.......? NOT dude
It wasn't like mine, no. I have a direct witness for my experience, and it actually happened. I'd love to see a reputable source for your story, but it sounds like an urban myth. Maybe the guy just fell asleep in the back of his limo, dreamt the whole thing, and the peon driving daren't contradict him?
d___SEe what you do! you dont know anything about this story i have ever so brifly mentioned...YET you have nearly CONCLUDEd what it means. That is NOT scientific
Yours sounds a lot like my first experience where I was strangled, except you had more dream before the hypnogogic part.
d___ no, i wasn't strangled. like i told you, i simply 'got up' to go to the loo and couldn't pee.` What my experience Is differnt from, is where the 'OBEer' sometimes report FLOATING out of the body. i got up....! you are too quich to conclude about all this
Let's see, you went to bed, fell asleep, and had a wierd experience. Hmmm, could it have been a vivid dream?
i have had vivid dreams before, but NEVEr had an experience like this. previous to it, i had found my self 'out of the body' and was dancing with a woman
Nope, they're just dreams. Nothing mystic, just random neurons firing.
