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Anonymous
This has happened to me on a few occasions, mostly at the end of a weird/bad dream. Basically, it happens when only certain parts of your brain wake up. Like, your frontal lobe might be entirely alert, but the rest of your brain still thinks you're sleeping. A lot of times, it seems to happen when my dreams take on that ultra realistic feeling and it's like my brain can't tell which world is actually reality...the dream or what I perceive to be reality every day when I wake up.
A few examples of dreams that have caused this for me:
I was being murdered and in the dream I was decapitated, yet could see my own head laying on a table. Someone was removing my brain and cutting it into quarters, and in the dream I felt a distinct throbbing in the back of my neck. I "woke up", but couldn't move and I could still feel the throbbing in my neck from my heart racing, so I was just stuck there staring into my pillow with an annoying throb in my neck, then all of a sudden my entire body sprang to life and I immediately got up on my knees and couldn't stop touching my upper body to make sure I was still in tact.
Another time, I got into a "wreck" by running a shopping cart into another cart at a super market, and there was a cop there saying I was going to jail for life because of it, and I couldn't exit the dream world efficiently, so I again experience the paralysis while still being halfway in the dream and halfway into the real world.
Weird shit.
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