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Place withheld · 2010-07-23 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

Paralysis

dream was on my bed, having woken up. still at night, around 12am by my estimation (slept early at 10 that day in real life). got up, opened my closet and wanted to change my sporty black shorts to the surfing-kind shorts, because it would be more cooling and comfy i guess? woke up was still in my blacks, and pretty sure it was a dream, not sleep walking with remembering. yeah, actually i think i woke up for real around 12am, and was really tired (was feeling really tired and sleepy), and i think i shifted between states of sleep and states of consciousness (even though not fully conscious, since willpower was weak). probably had that dream during that time. i guess if i had told myself to lucid dream during the moments i was genuinely awake, i might have been able to be lucid in the dream...is that what we call WILD? though perhaps i could bypass (or not) the sleep paralysis state?

What stood out: paralysis

 

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2010-07-17

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2010-07-06

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2010-06-16

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2010-08-10

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2010-09-09

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2012-04-14

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2013-02-15

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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details

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