Kayla and I just watched a movie on Netflix called Exam. When you get to the end of the movie, you realize it's just a retelling of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with grown ups. I mean, geez. I sat through an hour and a half to see something I've already seen but without a chocolate waterfall? If any of you out there saw this and have any thoughts, please share them.
I wanted to talk to you about a phenomenon that I occasionally experience. I don't really know what to call it so I'll just describe it to you. I'll be asleep and dreaming but I'll be able to see the room I'm sleeping in because my eyes will be open. I can move in my dream, but I can't see myself moving. I can put my hand in front of my face, but not see it. I can't change the direction that my eyes are facing.
Usually I'll try to wake myself up by moving around a lot. I'll be moving in my dream, but my body will remain motionless. This is called sleep paralysis. It's a safety mechanism so that you don't act out your dreams. Only, in this case, I want to act out so that I can wake myself up!
The coolest time that this happened was only about a month ago. I was successful in waking myself up, but I was in a different position in my dream than my body actually was. In my dream I had dragged myself off the bed and I was lying on the carpet on my stomach. My hand was underneath me with the palm down. I could wiggle my fingers in my dream and feel the fibers of the carpet. When I woke up, I could feel the transition between dream and reality. There was an instantaneous change from carpet to bed sheet because I really was still in bed. Also, in reality, my hand was under me, but with the palm facing up. That was the weirdest sensation ever feeling my hand go from palm down to palm up within the span of a second. Please, if any of you out there have gone through this phenomenon before, let me know. I'd like to believe I'm not alone on this.
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