At no time was I unable to move. I was on my stomach and it felt like an adult human dropped on me. Not being able to see who it was was the scary part, not paralysis. The weird thing was that I could feel it like it really happened, not the kinda sorta sensation you normally have in a dream.

The worst part of sharing a room (not a bed) is not being able to sleep on my back and not being able to fart in peace.

Ooh, can I play? Analyzing dreams is a little bit of a hobby for me. Yours is pretty unusual though, so I could be way off.

Being in a bed in both dreams seems significant. Sometimes we're in beds in dreams because we are thinking about the consequences of our actions -- "you made your bed, now you have to lie in it". Other times being in a bed can mean we are ready to finally deal with something hard or painful -- ready to "put it to bed".

Your late husband is probably him, but it could also just be a trait or feeling that you relate to him. You might be coming to terms with your life with him, or the end of your life with him. But you also may be pondering something that just reminds you of him.

I've heard a lot of dreams about falling, but usually it's the dreamer who falls -- not the dreamer who gets fallen upon. When the dreamer falls, it usually has to do with feeling out of control. I suspect that when the body dropped on you, you might have been feeling like something was "dropped on you out of nowhere". Maybe something unplanned or unexpected is happening or has happened that feels like a heavy weight on you.

I have to also mention that sometimes falling in dreams is just a physiological thing. Sometimes it doesn't mean anything other than ... you fell asleep, lol.

Anybody else see/hear about this latest study about why we don't sleep well in new/unfamiliar places?

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30174-9

& this makes me think of a SF short story I read long ago about a man who talks about experiencing the sensation of suddenly falling just before waking (a common experience) & woke up one morning before he fell, floating above his bed. Wish I could recall the title & author.....

ETA, found it:

Belief by Isaac Asimov

Linelle, do you experience that same dream while awake and with the same sensations ?

justerrilynn: do you experience that same dream while awake and with the same sensations ?

No, thank God. This was a one-time only, multi-layered dream, with a very short apparent time span.

Darcy, I know virtually nothing about symbolism in dreams. I confess I tend to be a bit skeptical of dream interpretation in general, not just yours. :) "Made your bed" and "put it to bed" are interesting, but seem to me to rely heavily on use of language and popular expressions. My husband died almost 12 years ago. I miss him and think of him every day. Sometimes I talk to him. He is gone, but he remains with me. I'm a different person now and I wish he could know me now. Anyway, I think I can honestly say that I've dealt with his loss and moved forward and am living my life with hope, joy and extreme gratitude. IOW, grief always remains in some shape/form, but it is no longer the overriding force/emotion in my life.

carolb, the article you linked to, while more scientific than my mind can grasp, seems to be the best lead of all. Oh, those first nights in a strange bed. The thing about vigilance! So true.

The bed squeaked and groaned and I was concerned that it would make a lot of noise and wake up my roommate if I tossed and turned. I have a tendency to snore, esp. on my back (duh), which is my favorite way of sleeping. So I was being vigilant about not being noisy. I was so freaking cold it kept waking me up. As I would try to curl up, my feet would threaten to cramp. If that had happened, I would have had to fly out of bed and do the Cramp Dance of Agony. Wake up, what time is it, check my iPhone, too early, try to go back to sleep. Also, we were in a two bedroom cabin and had two other cabin-mates in the other bedroom. We had one toilet, sink and shower for the four of us. I'm thinking about the inevitable morning queues for our limited facilities. We'd had a full day of listening and talking and not enough breaks for walking and clearing out the head space.

Linelle, have you ever heard about pinching your upper lip to stop leg/foot cramps? It really does work, although I don't understand why. If you feel a cramp coming on, grab your philtrum ( the area between your upper lip and your nose) and pinch as hard as you can. Keep holding on till the cramp starts to dissipate.

ETA This only works just as a cramp is starting, not well at all once you've really got a bad one.

WB, I've never heard of that one before, but will give it a try if I have the presence of mind. I always think I should eat more bananas and drink more water.

I am also very much in to dream interpretation, I have always had extremely vivid dreams and incredible recall of them. Drives my family crazy when I get up and say I had the craziest dream and proceed to tell them about it. It got to the point where I started to write down my dreams and I started to see themes.

In times of greatest stress I had the most vivid dreams. Once I started writing them down and seeing the patterns, certain words would jump out and they started to make sense. Most commonly my dreams involved me being put into a role of leadership, I often was upset about that, I did not want to be the one in charge. Others were that I was always in a setting where I was shopping, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Both translated in to my waking life where I was stressed out, and seeking some relief but not finding it.

When I seperated from my ex, I would have dreams where I was trying to call him but the phone call wouldn't go thru. Simply translated-I couldn't get through to him, which was how I felt when I tried to talk with him about our problems.

Many dreams involve me being in a house and finding rooms I didn't know existed. The house represents the self, and I was running across things about myself i either didn't like or was happy to find, depending on the dream.

Dream interpretation is not hard, just look for the patterns and how your subconcious is relaying messages to you.

Many dreams involve me being in a house and finding rooms I didn't know existed. The house represents the self, and I was running across things about myself i either didn't like or was happy to find, depending on the dream.

I used to have this dream all the time, now less frequently. I've always enjoyed this dream. The house is never outwardly a large house that one would expect to have many rooms, but always a rather ordinary house, like walking through a rental for the first time, and the rooms just go on and on, a bit like a treasure hunt.

I thought this dream meant I was looking for something missing in my life. I've always felt it was a fun dream.

Like most people, I occasionally have dreams about running late, or being unable to execute a simple task (pack for a trip when it's time to leave for the airport), or taking a final exam and I haven't attended any classes or read the textbooks. Those seem easy enough to apply to everyday stress, indecision, conflict.

The overriding thing of this recent dream is that I could literally feel something falling on me. I thought I was awake because I could see myself in the very bed and room where I actually was and it woke me up. I felt I was able to reason as if I'd been awake, that the only person who could have done this was my friend/roommate. My husband was with me in the inner dream, from which I thought I'd "awakened" from. If he had been the "person" falling on me from behind, I would have been thrilled.

It really sounds like your being in a strange place and unexpectedly sharing a room (in an awkward arrangement at that) with a noisy bed, unable to get warm or comfortable and your body wanting both -- that unexpected roommate was a burden of sorts. Sometimes out mind processes things during our sleep in a way that is very clear, but often it is muddled or so figurative, symbolic or weird that we can't quite grasp it in our wakeful minds. If you were really tired, it makes sense that it would be more confused or muddled as you were trying to sleep and getting pulled out by being cold.

Over-thinking or trying to make it fit the way you see things when awake can make it harder to understand. I think simpler explanations are usually more likely -- even if they seem too strange. Remember, it's the sleeping mind processing the day, the unconscious present and anything else that is going on while you are seemingly dead to the world. That in itself is a little weird isn't it?

Lascatx, correct on all counts, except for one detail. I knew I would be sharing a room with my friend. Our registration forms had a place for "preferred roommate" and both of us agreed to put one another's name down. The facility had no single/private rooms available for anyone taking the training. I really like the person I was rooming with, another widow, and she is one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I know.

It had been a long and exhausting day. The small group work could be trying at times and we all learned that the next 3-day weekend in November we will be in the same groupings. We had one guy in our group whose neck I could have wrung within the first 5 minutes. By the end of the three days, I managed to dig deep enough to find some compassion and tolerance for the guy. In fact, when we had a couple of exercises doing appreciative feedback (just kill me now), I made a point of finding something appreciative to say to him.

But yeah, long day, suboptimal overnight situation. Just go ahead and throw a body on top of me when I'm asleep in bed, just for fun. :p

I misunderstood then about the no singles -- but it is still something you have to deal with that interferes with you getting the rest you really want because you were cold and trying to be considerate of the roommate who was sleeping. DH may have been in one layer because he was the one you were used to sharing a room with, then gone because he isn't now, so next layer moves in. I think it was said above, the weight may have even been a figurative you -- wanting to fall asleep. When they are weird, you may never know exactly why it was so weird. At some point whatever doesn't makes sense gets chalked up to the sleeping mind taking a little of this and a little of that in a way that makes the strangest pictures.

I don't remember dreams very often. I used to, but when my neck issues started nearly 20 years ago, I noticed dreams did too. I went years without remembering a single dream. Now they are rare, but not gone altogether. I wish I understood that.

Got a chuckle out of the group work description. Completely understand. You done good, BTW.

I really appreciate everyone engaging with me about this weird dream. It was definitely the first of its kind for me, and I wouldn't mind if it's the last. :)

Over the years I've had two very significant dreams.

1) I learned to drive stick shift in a dream. Awake I had really struggled with getting the clutch/gas thing to work. Just couldn't do it and my dad had about given up on me. Then the dream. The next day I got in the car and it was like I'd been driving stick my whole life.

2) It was about 18 months after my husband died. I had a visitation dream from him, standing in the kitchen, looking fantastic, to surprise me with a visit, a happy look of anticipation on his face. The shock of seeing him made me sit bolt upright in bed. It had only lasted a few seconds, but it was a significant turning point in my grief process. I knew he was okay and I would be okay and we were just separated for a time.

Both levels of the dream were of me in the bed at the retreat. In the inner dream I was with my late husband. Then I emerged from that dream and thought I was awake and conscious.

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I've experience these (what I call) false awakenings a lot. Not recently, thank goodness.

It's happened enough that I've taught myself to "lucid dream" and realize that it's a dream within a dream, and I'm not really awake, but dreaming I awoke. I can "test the waters" by manipulating my dreams which tells me that indeed, I'm dreaming.

For example, I'll have myself float down stairs, or something like that, in my dream. If I'm floating down the stairs, I know I'm dreaming, and I relax.

I used to get very upset and try and try to awaken, only to experience that I wasn't truly awake. But, since taking hold of my experience, I don't wake up in a sweaty panic.

Physically feeling things while dreaming can be very disturbing, or it can be amazing. Recently, I dreamed I saw my dear bichon frise again. He was in his crate and I opened it and had him put his front paws up so I could give him a hug.

I literally felt his chest against mine. It was nice.

Mimi, yes, it was a dream within a dream, with a false wakening. Except, unlike you, I didn't know it. It would seem you could have some amazing experiences if you can semi-control things and have the awareness that it's a dream.

How sweet that you were able to experience your dog in your dream that way.

Lavender, exactly how I felt when my husband "visited" me in the kitchen. It was about 10 years ago and I even remember what he was wearing. It was a game-changer for me.

Can't prove it, don't care. :)

Since my friend was safely asleep and tucked in her bed, and I was not actually fully awake, it might have been DH after all, giving me a playful smack in the back before heading off to where he resides now.

Linelle

Lavender, exactly how I felt when my husband "visited" me in the kitchen. It was about 10 years ago and I even remember what he was wearing. It was a game-changer for me.

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Did you see him while you were fully awake?

That would be amazing.

Mimi, no, I know it was a dream. But.

When he died I was sure I'd figure out a way to find him, a secret portal, that death could not separate us. Not us. I begged for him to visit me in dreams. Would that happen? No way. [Back in my 20s when a friend died, I had some extremely vivid visitation dreams of her.] I had to admit to myself that he was truly gone. I also realized that living for a dream encounter with a ghost was not a healthy prospect for my future. It was a real dose of reality for me.

Whenever I did dream about him, it was weird. Weird setting, he was weird, something was always off, the tipoff that it wasn't real.

Then the kitchen visitation dream. He was about 10 years younger, healthy, happy. It lasted a second or two, no more. But it was him, he was there. It was all I needed. Life wouldn't be the same as it was, but it was going to be okay. Although it was a dream, it was real to me, as real as I'm typing this right now.

Linelle, I really like both of your past dream stories, especially the one about learning to drive stick shift. I'm happy for you on the visit from your DH, but you hear of those things with some frequency. The stick shift is a new one.

Have you ever had a dream you felt was really important to you and then you couldn't remember it? I had one not that long ago and I barely woke enough to remember the dream -- had a slight "ah-hah" moment and then the memory was gone. I really wish I could remember it.

Lascatx, thanks. The stick shift dream was totally real and gave me the confidence I needed.

I read somewhere that you're not supposed to remember your dreams for too long. I guess two sets of memories would drive one crazy.

Dreams, it's hard to know if they play on fears or hopes or memories. I remember when I was pregnant, I dreamed that the baby had been born and was a sea urchin. That's understandable, I had a hard time imagining that an actual little person was growing in there. Happily, he's not a sea urchin, he's fine strapping young man now.

Leg cramps plagued me in that pregnancy, and I learned this instant cure: stand up on a cold hard floor. Ceramic tile is best. Stand flat-footed, most of your weight on that foot, and it will pass quickly. Eventually I got to where I could feel it coming on in my sleep, would wake up and stand on the floor, and before it became a full-fledged cramp it was gone, and I could go right back to sleep.

When I was pregnant I kept dreaming I delivered a calico cat. My daughter has always loved cats.

next time I get a leg cramp I'll stand on the tile bathroom floor and pinch my upper lip.

Low magnesium also contributes to leg cramps. If you're not a bath hater, you might try a good long soak in an epsom salt bath a couple of times a week.

Linelle- I think it may have been your husband, too. And seeing him in the kitchen was exactly what you needed. So enjoy the memory!

One of my grandmothers was psychic and convinced she was reincarnated. My other grandmother went to church every Sunday. I grew up believing almost anything was possible : )

I have anxiety dreams in which I realize that I have forgotten to do something critical. It's usually some routine but critically important daily action that I somehow forgot to do for some period of time (along the lines of realizing you have forgotten to take your birth control pills for 5 days running). These dreams always make me wake up in a panic as if it were a real thing that I had just remembered, but then it just fades and I can't remember what it was that I "remembered" in the dream. These dreams happen fairly regularly when I'm stressed, and as a result I've gotten much better at recognizing them as false epiphanies and being able to dismiss the feeling of panic.

I've also had a lot of house dreams. I've read that houses represent the self in dreams, and if so, my self esteem is a shambles. The houses are often perched on cliffs, often precariously so, often dilapidated or in poor repair. One had a tree growing so close that I immediately thought of what the tree roots were doing to the foundation. Next thing you know I was in the basement to see the damage from the tree roots. I once dreamt of a house, or maybe a hotel, with the (in real life) undesirable feature that the walls between the rooms and the hallway (not open floor plan; it was pretty clear that there should have been walls there, but they had been removed in a dollhouse-like way). I dreamed of a city that was carved out of the side of a cliff. It was shaped like an lantern tile, pointy at the top and bottom ends. I was in an apartment at the very bottom point, and there was a 5 foot hole in the floor of the living room that opened straight down so you could see all the very long way down to the bottom of the cliff (no railing, natch).

a couple nights ago i dreamt that something was laying on part of me ( my lower leg ) i remember saying get off me then it happened again weighing more on me i yelled jake! which is a old dog i had 30 yrs ago again a 3rd time i recalled saying jake get off me but i woke up and thought Jake ? i hadnt thought of him in yrs .. I do not have any pets .. i dream crazy things often and some times i am scared to fall asleep

How strange to see this 3-year-old thread resurrected, particularly as I was recently thinking about something very much along these lines.

Years ago my ex-husband told me in all seriousness that when he was a teen, something entered the basement bedroom he shared with his brother while they were both sleeping, and physically held him down on the bed, restraining his ability to move. He swore that this was a malevolent presence that told him it was "in the house" and that under no circumstances was he to tell anyone about the encounter, or this "presence" would return to harm all involved. Always a thoughtful soul (insert eye roll here), he told me this shortly after we were married and had gone to visit his parents, where we stayed -- yep, in that childhood bedroom of his. To say I felt unsettled in that basement, which already had a dank and gloomy feel, is an understatement.

After 14 years of marriage, as we were in the throes of life-altering events that had me moving forward to end the relationship, one evening we had gone to dinner to discuss our situation over a meal, as our time together was made more "civilized" by being together in public. After all this time, he once again brought up the malevolent "presence" that had haunted him in his youth, claiming it had revisted him and was now in the house that he and I shared, and would wreak havoc if I left. That evening, I returned to that house, packed a bag, and got the hell out. I never knew exactly what he was playing at, but of course felt that he was desperately trying to manipulate me into staying -- and I wasn't going to play that game. I think he truly believed (maybe even still believes, who knows) that there was something evil that visited him and instructed him on how to behave. I don't believe such a thing, but I do know that he had a strange and twisted streak in him, and think this "manifestation" was of his own making. Anyway ... hasn't been my problem for close to 20 years now, thankfully.

Maybe he had a dream when he was a teen in which he felt he was being held down. Maybe a form of "sleep paralysis" or something. I dunno, but the whole thing was just WEIRD.

It is indeed strange to see this thread return. Most vivid dreams blessedly fade within a day or two. I remember this one. It was a very weird and unpleasant experience, perhaps made even more so by the inner dream where I seemed to wake into my very real situation. Fortunately there have been no recurrences that can't be attributed to a cat lobbying for an early breakfast.

Dreams can feel so real!

I haven’t felt anything fall on me, but I have felt a body and arm around me. A few years ago I had a recurring, kind of progressive dream. Though I felt like I was awake. I was sleeping in the guest room ( my habit when I had to go into work early) and I saw a man standing at the foot of my bed. I tried to scream, but nothing came out. So I kept trying, harder and harder. I was awakened by my husband who came barreling through my door, ready to fight. I told him there was a man in my room and I tried screaming, but nothing would come out. He said, oh, you were screaming. You scared the h_ll out of me. I thought you were being attacked.

The next month, I awoke to see the man at the foot of my bed again. This time, for some reason, I didn’t feel he was there to hurt me. I just laid there, frozen. He walked to the side of my bed and I felt the bed depressing as he sat down. Then he just laid next to me. I didn’t move. After a few seconds, he left.

A month or two later, he appeared at the foot of my bed again. He came and sat down on my bed, again I felt the depression of the bed. He laid next to me and then he put his arm around me. I laid there frozen until he left a few minutes later. That was his last visit. So weird!

I've had horrific dreams that have actually left physical results (bruises) on my body, No one can convince me it wasn't something other than a bad dream. My Dr said they were night terrors ... indeed they were all of that. It took place during a very difficult time in my life and lasted for several years. For a time I dreaded going to sleep and self medicated so as not to experience some of the scary things that happened. It finally stopped after a couple years & even now sends a shiver up my back to recall some of the events.

Two dreams I have had for years, but maybe only once a year. One I am in old houses I lived in and I open a closet and there is a whole other big wing to the house I had never discovered. The other dream is of me falling down a long big staircase. I awake with a big jerk on that one as I start to fall. Lots of symbolism there, I bet.

whole other big wing to the house I had never discovered

Ladypat, this is one of my favorite recurring dreams, and I don't think it's uncommon. It's not necessarily through a closet, but it's the discovery of more rooms than I realized were there, and they never reach an end. It feels a bit like a treasure hunt.

lascatx, it is funny to read our earlier conversation.

The thing about the inner dream being about my husband, and then "waking" into the outer dream. Although I miss my husband every day, I'm at peace with his being gone. I have faith I will see him again one day, and that sustains me. The weight that dropped on me registered as an assault, really terrifying because, if real, it could have only been my trusted friend. So awful. The impact was like an "oooph" in a cartoon, where it should have knocked the breath out of me.

If it truly symbolized the impact of the loss of my husband, jeez, no more, please.

I haven't read the replies yet but I know the exact type of dream you had and they are freaky! You know you're sleeping and having a bad dream at the same time and no matter how much you try to wake up you're helpless. It happened to me every time I took a nap when the boys were in school. Now I only take a nap when someone is home with me.

This is also weird so I can relate. It was last week when I dreamed that a heavy pile of blankets were thrown down on me while I was sleeping, hitting me hard. I thought someone was getting ready to stab me and the blankets were to keep me quiet. I woke up immediately and felt out of sorts all day.

Maybe we should become roommates and rescue each other from our dreams? :)

I just read your reply above mine, how you felt it was an assault. Strange that it happened to the both of us.

I have a recurring dream that I’m walking towards my summer cottage only it is very different than the one I actually own. the one in my dreams is on the banks of a banjo- playing, deliverance kind of river. It’s boxy with boxy additions. I’ve never seen it IRL, but I feel like I would recognize it in a heartbeat. It looks nothing like my actual cottage. Last time I had this dream, a couple of months ago, someone else was living there and said it was theirs. I have a vague recollection of a change in ownership.

“Miracle on 34th Street” anyone?

I keep having the same dream and it's pretty regular. I keep dreaming that something really heavy is falling on me and im trying to hold it up. And everytime i dream it i wake my family up by screaming and shouting in my sleep. Idk why i keep having it, weather it means something or because my bed is close to the ceiling but either way it's getting quite annoying cause its waking everyone up. I'm worried someone else may hear and call the police.

I am Not a psychologist , but here’s my armchair diagnosis, fwiw: zero. :>). It’s this awful time of the virus. Like this gloomy time in the world, heavy weight is oppressive , you have no control over it, cannot lift it off . My prescription is to stay away from the news, wake up every morning with a project that , when done, will give you happiness, concentrate on all you are grateful for and the little things that lift your spirits. Try to keep the outside world away as best you can. I took on a few new decor projects that did much to bring back my natural optimism.

I used to have occasional dreams of driving and not being able to reach the brakes; something formidable would be in the way. I read that this came from my feelings at the time of having lost control over a situation , being held back from something I wanted or needed. It fit. Calming music / sounds as you fall asleep might help. Lots of apps for that. Best of luck.

I experienced the same thing today, though I could not explain y it happened . it was also a dream within a dream. First I saw a dream where my friends where there and it was about Christmas, in the dream I fell asleep. Suddenly I could see a pretty girl's face and it was coming towards me. Its expression changed and it was like a evil expression,like it was gonna come inside me and I felt like a weight on my body. I wanted to speak but I could not do that...it was really terrifying. I was not on my back ..I was lying up straight.

Hi everyone. I came accros your conversation as I am searching for an explanation of what just happened to me. Bunny this exact sensation that you described, that one of feeling one falling on you while you’re asleep / dreaming I just felt it. As I am writing it is 7:20 am and I am so glad that it is time to leave the bed as I am afraid to fall asleep again after that. I was having a very anxious dream like often about my parents. They‘re still alive. I would say I had à stressful and sometimes very sad childhood and as far as I can remember I have always been an anxious person. So I was having one of my usual anxious weird dream about my mother then all of her sudden I felt like someone fell on me straight. I can still feel the weight of that person / thing, the impact on my body, somehow recall the noise. This actually woke me up from my dream instantly. But somehow I am sure it happened both in my dream and when i was awake or emerging from sleep. I felt something was coming in my dream like something was thrown at me then I woke up in my bedroom and i can remember almost seeing a piece of ceiling and one person falling on me like my neighbor’s floor above has actually collapsed on me. That is what I believed at first and I thought that person was my neighbor. (I always sleep entirely under the sheets and I can remember that I was In the exact position as the one I felt asleep in when this happened. So I did not mean to say I actually really saw the ceiling). Shortly after I quickly realized that what i felt was not real. I don’t know if I actually arose from a second dream after that but since then I have just been in my bed motionless. I was raised in christian faith and spiritual things are part of the folklore of where I come from. So instinctively I thought of something bad maybe evil or malicious such the sensation felt was real and truly scary. But as I no longer believe in those things at least not in the same way i am sure (I hope) there is a rational explanation behind this sensation. I apologize for the length of my message.

ps : I am also sure this is just the second time this has happeed to me. I have tried to remember when and what was I dreaming the last time but I could not.

Jesus I just read the comment right before mine. I no longer believe in Jesus but man you may actually need to see a priest lmao what you described is very scary.

I guess you are in UK, based on the time that you say it is where you are.

If you are having a dream in which you feel a strong weight on top of you, you might be experiencing sleep paralysis. I've not really had this experience, I have frequently had dreams within dreams, and those can get really disturbing, since it is difficult to tell whether I am asleep or not.

Having a heavy weight fall on you in bed is what happens sometimes in real life during earthquakes. Perhaps you were in a major earthquake in a previous life. I had a lot of dreams as a child that seemed like experiences of previous deaths, but I am skeptical about reincarnation, although I have not ruled it out completely.

Hello I am in France. I am also skeptical about reincarnation but it felt so real. I was convinced the ceiling had collapsed on me. But at the same time the weight felt more like a person than a piece of ceiling. I thought of many things but my death in a previous life was not on of them. I will look more into it.

I'm the OP. This wasn't sleep paralysis. I could move. In fact, when I felt the "weight" drop on me, I moved really fast. To this day I remember how it felt and how much like a large human body dropping on me, and not in a good way.

It still may have been sleep paralysis. Don't let the name fool you. Time, when one is dreaming, is not connected to real time. A seemingly long dream can actually take just a few seconds and vice versa, as I understand it.

What's being described has also been experienced by many people throughout the ages. In fact there's a famous painting called 'The Nightmare' that expresses the phenomenon:

I have already experienced sleep paralysis before in my teenage years. it would come after I woke up. My eyes were always open and I was truly awake, just could not move for less than a minute or so could have been longer. however I never experienced any hallucination during SP. I did not feel that scared actually. But what happened to me this morning omg, I have goosebumps all over my body thinking about it. This has happened to me twice. Today it happened at the time I naturally wakes up everyday, that’s another argument for SP. I don’t remember when it happened the time before tha.

i am just thinking now that I was involved in a car accident back in September 2020. I was pedestrian and the car hit me on the side from the back. I did not see anything coming and it was traumatic. Fortunately I got off with minor injuries. Could what I experienced this morning be related to this traumatic shock ?

Bunny and HU-783818800, I’m SOOOOO glad you both posted about your experiences. I just had the same type of dream of someone falling on me and it feeling real.

Today is May 15, 2021 about 10:30p. The dream incident happened about an hour ago. In the dream, one of my sons was standing next to me while I was sitting on the couch. I was talking to my boss (not anyone I know and not a job that I really have) on the phone and he asked, if I had any concerns or feedback about our process. I said that the client was upset because it was a quick turnaround to be asked to pay for the service. Then, 2-4 seconds later, I felt a human drop on me. I thought my son rushed and pushed me like a football player tackling and falling on a person. It was so forceful and jolting, but it was not painful. It felt completely real. I felt the real weight of the thing drop on me even after I woke up. I immediately woke up and looked up. After I woke up, I looked around thinking a part of the ceiling must have fallen on me. There was no one and nothing around.

This dream was one of many that I had while sleeping from 3p-9:30p today. My alarm was set to wake me up at 7:30p so that I would not sleep the whole night away. I kept hitting the snooze button multiple times on my cell phone and telling google home to snooze. This went on in intervals between 7:30p-9:10p. About 9p or 9:10p was the last snooze before I went back to sleep and had the weird dream that woke me up for good. After 7 minutes of trying to figure out what happened and why, I jumped online to search for dream interpretations for when someone falls on you. I searched and searched and found Bunny’s post from 4 years ago. I’ve read EVERYONE’S responses on this page. I was happy to see the resurgence of responses from last year into this year. I was even happier to see that Bunny still responds.

Bunny, you and I are both widows. I was wondering about that connection.

Sidebar:

Some people have mentioned having dreams when the bed feels like someone is depressing it by sitting on it or something. It did not happen in this dream. I’ve had that happen several times before in my adult life. It’s scary as all get out. I’ve never seen anyone or anything (nor do I want to). I think I’d have a heart attack.

I still want to know and understand, WHAT ALL OF THIS MEANS???

This dream is still very vivid to me. Not the dream within the dream involving my husband, but the weight falling on me part. I don't recall anything to suggest sleep paralysis. It didn't involve movement or trying to move on my part. In the dream (and real life) I was lying on my stomach in the very bed I was in. The instant I felt the weight I cried out and turned to assess the situation. Now that it is several years past and the momentary anguish long gone, it was the most incredibly tangible physical sensation I can ever recall having in a dream.

I had a dream just like this! An invisible person falling on me.

It was before Covid-19 hit. I was awoke and then felt someone fell on me.

I was on Instagram looking up for some dumb reason my old classmate/prom date?who ghosted me/ then dissed me on Facebook. It was years ago. Since then anger/depression/anxiety terrifying me. Back into the feeling the way I felt years ago trying to find closure through this person and past feeling.

Then this thing happened. Ack!

This dream could mean the dreamer is falling back into some kind of negative energy, habits or mindset from the past or in the present.

If the dream is about a specific person it negativity towards that person.

This negativity is weighing the dreamer down.