Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 1/2/2017
By khayos
After twisting my ankle the previous night, and being hungover, I took some strong prescription pain medication, which I believe was part of the cause for my following sleep paralysis. I fell asleep "by accident" during the day and drifted in shallow naps for a good few hours. At one point, I started doing 'The Thing' where I'd wake up and look at my room, but actually I was asleep, and I'd get caught in a loop of dreaming I was waking in a very mundane way. After a few times of this happening, I "woke" and was looking at my wall, when I felt a pressure behind my body, as if someone were spooning me. Suddenly very aware of this I began to panic. Usually sleep paralysis happens on my chest when I'm on my back, with an immediate visual hallucination, probably at night. So I didn't immediately jump to "sleep paralysis" as my go to. Instead I panicked and my first rational thought was that someone had broken in whilst I'd been asleep. I "felt" them snake their arm around me, and I tried to move and scream but got caught in the paralysis loop of thinking I was doing things I was not. I genuinely woke up, the "person" vanished and I rolled over, but due to the medication I pretty much passed out again immediately. This time I had paralysis again, but was aware of what it was. The hallucination took place first in the form of a man on top of me, but they morphed into a werewolf like, grotesque canid monster, who writhed on top of me. I tried to do the "puppy" or "hot boy" technique (a method I use to make sleep paralysis more pleasant lol) but neither worked, so I just tried to stay as rational and awake as possible and waited it out. I texted my friend George when I actually woke up as a real world trigger,switched on my light even though it was daytime and then he called me to assure me I was awake haha. I haven't had that bad anxiety over sleep paralysis since I first had it and didn't know what it was. Must have been the alcohol and pain killers still in my blood. (An older dream now, but updating publicly as I felt it was interesting.)