Paralysis

Date: February 4, 2013 ||| Time Block: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM ||| Length: 5 minutes. ||| Lucidity: level 3. ||| Entry Type: DILD ||| Major Methods: WBTB, SSILD Methods: lay in bed to take a nap; performed around 7 SSILD cycles. Account: I am really not sure how to categorize this last experience. It was just now, about five minutes ago. I had performed around 7 SSILD repetitions, and had been trying to let myself fall asleep. Remembering what I had done before, I turned over onto another position, this time onto my back. And I could tell I would asleep soon. Five minutes ago, my eyes were closed, and I figured I would do a reality check. I reached my hand up to my nose, plugged it, and yet felt myself breath through it anyway. Of course, I instantly opened my eyes. But I could not move. My hands were up against the blanket, and the most I could do was nudge the blanket a quarter inch or so. But I could see, and I looked all around me, and the room was accurately detailed to the very dot. I figured it was just a realistic false awakening. So I continued to try to break the sleep paralysis. Giving up on the direct approach with my hands, I started on my legs, knowing these could usually be moved earlier. Pushing up against the bed with them, I could feel the movement unlocking the control of my arms and head. I started moving my arms in a pawing motion to get them out of the blanket. And this is where the strange stuff happened. I could feel my arms having gotten the blanket off of them, and yet I could see very plainly that they had not. Figuring my feeling and sight were just out of synch, I tried to focus my brain on the tactile portion and think I really had. But I still had my eyes open, and the room was exactly the same, at exactly the same angle. The final part of the breaking out involved my bringing my head up, to then get up into the dream world. But the moment I brought my head off of the pillow, with my eyes still open from before, I felt different and I knew that I was awake. And I did a reality check, of plugging my nose, (which has only failed once, by the way, because I did it wrong), and it also reported I was awake. And it left me wondering... what just happened? The only explanations I can think of are that I was in a false awakening, and my dreaming was so accurate that when my real vision kicked in with my eyes still open not a single visual dot had changed, or more oddly, that my tactile perception was from within a dream, and my visual perception was from the real world. I very much think it was the latter, since I had my eyes open the entire time. But either way, it was certainly an odd experience.