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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

• drowning

  The water coming over the sea wallI was on the front at Weston and the sea came over the wall in one piece, like a lid closing. I got as far as the car park. I have never been in a flood and I do not know why this is the one that keeps coming back.

  • Natural disaster
  • Water
  • Drowning

  Shared by

  Rafiq

  Dreamed

  Sun 2 Aug 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• A wedding where nobody could find the bride, including the brideEveryone was very calm about it. There was a seating plan and a marquee and a woman going round with a clipboard asking people if they had seen her. At some point I understood that I was the one getting married and that this was fine, and then the cake situation became the main problem.

  • Wedding
  • Searching

  Shared by

  Jo

  Dreamed

  Thu 30 Jul 2026

  Responses

  2

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• The corridor that came back to the same doorA hotel with a plan that does not close. I kept walking and arriving back at 412 from the other direction, and in the dream I could see exactly why it happened and it made complete sense. I have tried to draw it twice since and it does not work.

  • Hotel
  • Endless corridor

  Shared by

  Bea

  Dreamed

  Tue 28 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• Someone at the foot of the bed, and I was not frightenedSame as always: awake, pinned, figure at the end of the bed. This time I remember thinking, fine, do what you like. It went when the heating came on. First time in years I have not spent the next hour with the light on.

  • The Shadow Person
  • Being watched

  Shared by

  Priya

  Dreamed

  Mon 27 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: A similar experience

• A lucid dream I wasted arguing with a strangerKnew I was dreaming within about ten seconds and then spent the whole thing trying to convince a man at a bus stop that he was not real. He was extremely patient about it. Woke up annoyed with myself.

  • Stranger

  Shared by

  Callum

  Dreamed

  Sat 25 Jul 2026

  Responses

  2

  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

• A platform, and the train has already goneRunning the wrong way down a corridor at a station that keeps adding corridors, holding a ticket for something that left twenty minutes ago. I have had a version of this every few weeks since I changed jobs.

  • Clock
  • Endless corridor

  Shared by

  Ade

  Dreamed

  Wed 22 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• A room I had never seenThere was a door in the hallway of my parents’ house that has never been there. Behind it was a whole room with a window looking out at nothing I recognised. I was delighted rather than frightened.

  • Childhood home
  • Door

  Shared by

  Maya

  Dreamed

  Mon 20 Jul 2026

  Responses

  0

  Asked for no interpretation. Reading only.

• 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.

• 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

• Our old road, except the trees had grown up properlyThe street I lived on until I was fourteen, exactly right, apart from the trees being the size they would actually be now rather than the size they were then. Nobody was about. I walked to the end and back twice and that was the whole dream.

  • Childhood home
  • Nostalgia

  Shared by

  Jo

  Dreamed

  Fri 10 Jul 2026

  Responses

  1

  Wants: Personal thoughts

• 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