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Vivid Dreams And Asking My Wife To Wake Me While Sleeping

by Isaiah Brown
(Clarksville, TN, USA)

On several occasions I have been conscious enough while sleeping to ask my wife to wake me up and she does. This occurs during sleep paralysis episodes.


I will struggle to wake myself up but see her in the room and verbally ask her to wake me while I'm asleep. This happened most recently last night. I can remember calling her name and saying, "Wake me up." I have done this with other family members in the past as well.

I have always had very vivid dreams and can remember multiple dreams nightly. In most dreams I become aware I'm dreaming and begin to control the dreams. When the dream becomes too much to handle I squeeze my eyes and the dream ends. I have a couple of dreams with the same scenarios, just slightly different.

All of this has been the case for me since I can remember. I am 36 now and since I can remember my dreams seemed so real, almost movie like. As I continue to age my dreams seem to be more and more detailed. I don't speak to many people about this because it sounds strange to me when I try to explain it. Is any of this common?

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Nov 15, 2015
 luciddreamer4life NEW
by: Anonymous

you are noy alone. what you wrote perfectly describes me and my dreams, the kind of dreams, lucid dreaming, paralysis....everything! i just have to ask..... are you an empath, clairvoiant,psychic, been through a near death experience or have been dead for a short period of time ?
Jan 25, 2016
 sleep paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

My husband and I both experience sleep paralysis. Both of us have tried to get the other to wake us from it, but never managed. Sometimes I even think I'm yelling for him to wake me up, but it isn't actually happening.

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