Oh, and speaking of dreams

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Speaking of dreams, the other morning I had the strongest, clearest sleep paralysis / hypnopompic illusion I’ve had in a long time. This is the sensation of waking up yet being paralyzed, accompanied by various dreamed sensations. People who don’t understand that this is just a weird dream state can be terrified by it (and think that they are being abducted by aliens/molested by demons), but I’ve had some lucid dreams and welcome weird dream phenomena as a gateway to lucid dreams. It was definitely a more intense experience than usual, and there was a moment of confusion and concern before I realized what it was, at which point I started hoping I could get some fun out of it, but as so often happens with these moments of lucidity, I woke up for real very soon.

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I didn't have a real sensation of anyone else being present, but that's very common and adds to the, um, effect. The good news is that the state is so very weird, weird even compared to how weird normal dreams usually are, that it's relativly easy to recognise it for what it is while it is still happening. That's what happened to me. I had a moment of panic, then I realized exactly what was happening.