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• sleep paralysis

  The weight and the doorwayI woke at about four and could not move anything except my eyes. There was pressure across my chest like someone kneeling on it, and a shape in the doorway that I could not turn into a coat or a lamp however hard I tried. Forty seconds, maybe. I have had this since I was nineteen and it still frightens me every time.

  • Being unable to speak or move
  • The Bedroom Presence
  • 4am

  Shared by

  Priya

  Dreamed

  Wed 5 Aug 2026

  Responses

  3

  Wants: Sleep-science information

• Hands, then the gardenChecked my hands out of habit and there were six fingers on the left one, which is when I knew. I went outside rather than trying anything clever, and stood in a garden that was not mine while the light kept changing. Then up over the fence, badly, the way I always go up. Four minutes maybe. Longest I have held one this year.

  • Flying
  • Door
  • MILD

  Shared by

  Callum

  Dreamed

  Mon 3 Aug 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• Chased across the estate I grew up onThrough the garages and round the back of the flats, the exact route I would actually take. Whatever it was stayed precisely the same distance behind me the whole time, which was worse than it gaining on me.

  • Being chased
  • The Faceless Pursuer
  • Childhood home

  Shared by

  Rafiq

  Dreamed

  Thu 23 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: A symbolic interpretation

• bereavement

  The phone call I did not get to haveHe rang and I could hear him perfectly and I could not make any sound come out at all. I kept trying until I woke up. I am not asking what it means. I know what it means.

  • Dead relative
  • Being unable to speak or move

  Shared by

  Nell

  Dreamed

  Sun 19 Jul 2026

  Responses

  0

  Asked for no interpretation. Reading only.

• The building I designed, with all the joints openA real project, finished four years ago, except in the dream every connection was wrong and I could watch them opening while people walked around underneath. I shouted and not one person looked up. Woke at two and checked the drawings on my phone like an idiot.

  • Abandoned building
  • Being unable to speak or move
  • work

  Shared by

  Bea

  Dreamed

  Wed 15 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• sleep paralysis

  Awake, unable to move, and then someone lifting it off meThe usual weight, and then a very clear sense of somebody else in the room taking it off my chest, the way you would lift a bag off someone. I could move straight afterwards. I do not think anything was actually there. I would still like to know why my brain built that.

  • Being unable to speak or move
  • The Old Hag
  • The One Who Intervenes

  Shared by

  Priya

  Dreamed

  Tue 14 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Sleep-science information

• A dog stood between me and itSame estate, same thing behind me, and then a black dog came out from between two cars and stopped, facing past me. I did not see what happened after that. I woke up calm, which has never once happened with this dream.

  • The Black Dog
  • The Guardian Animal
  • Being chased

  Shared by

  Rafiq

  Dreamed

  Sun 12 Jul 2026

  Responses

  2

  Wants: A cultural reference

• Letting myself fall on purposeWent off the edge of a multi-storey deliberately, to find out whether the jolt would wake me. It did not. I landed, nothing happened, and the dream carried on in a car park. I have wanted to try that for about two years.

  • Falling
  • WBTB

  Shared by

  Callum

  Dreamed

  Sat 11 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Sleep-science information

• Just the front twoNot the whole mouth this time, only the two front ones, and I was trying to hold them back in with my tongue while somebody talked to me about work. Woke up with my jaw aching, which is apparently the actual explanation.

  • Teeth

  Shared by

  Ade

  Dreamed

  Wed 8 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Sleep-science information

• Flying badly over the Sainsbury’s car parkAbout twelve feet up, no higher, doing a sort of breaststroke. I could not get over the trolley bay. A man loading his boot looked up and then went back to what he was doing, which felt about right.

  • Flying

  Shared by

  Jo

  Dreamed

  Sun 5 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: A similar experience

• The bridge stopped halfwayWalking out over water on something that simply ended, no barrier, no sign, the far side visible but not connected to anything. I did not fall. I stood at the end for what felt like ten minutes, deciding.

  • Bridge
  • Falling

  Shared by

  Bea

  Dreamed

  Fri 3 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: A symbolic interpretation