The Most Terrifying Thing About Dreaming

When I was a child, I had crazy dreams. No, not the ambitious kind--the nightmare kind. One in particular stands out among the rest because it was a repeat nightmare. I recently remembered this dream by having a twitter conversation with Rebecca (from Adventures of Bug and Boo). What surprised me was that my memories of this dream were almost as terrifying as the dream itself.sleep paralysis is a very real and very scary thing!This dream, which I've dubbed "The Centaur Dream" was unlike any other nightmare I had as a child. It was so bizarre that even at a very young age, I knew it was just a dream. Basically, an evil centaur came and kidnapped me from my home. He took me to a house that looked exactly like my home, but the entire bottom floor was a big garage. He would put me in a guillotine and leave me there for what seemed like hours while he and the other strange animals talked about how they would torture me. I would beg them to let me go home, but they never would... Like I said. This was such an unreal dream. However, I couldn't wake myself. I was present enough in my wee little mind during the dream to know it was a dream, but I couldn't stop the "dream movie" from playing.I remember being terrorized by the centaur and thinking, "If I could just move my arm, I could wake up and all of this would be over!". I know now that I was experiencing sleep paralysis. That experience went on for at least a year, nightly, between the ages of 5 and 6.I am extremely happy to say that I haven't experienced another sleep paralysis since those dreams ceased. It still floors me that such a thing can occur inside a sleeping brain and effect the entire body's response. Suddenly, your mind cannot control your body. The experience is nothing short of crippling fear. Will I wake up? Is this permanent? How can I stop this dream? Sleep paralysis is absolutely the most terrifying thing about dreaming.Have you ever had an experience with sleep paralysis?... or maybe just a crazy dream with a centaur? I want to know. Drop me a line below!

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