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This isn't Paranoia. This has happend to me on a number of occasions, it runs in my family apparently. It always starts the same way, I'll be laying in my bed falling asleep... that period where you are JUST falling asleep, yet are sort of aware of your surroundings. Suddenly I get the feeling of being hit square on the top of the head with a pillow (where you feel it all the way down your spine).
That's where it gets freaky, because I'm awake but I can't move. The first time I didn't know what was going on, I was young so my first instinct was to say something to my brother like "you're going to get it," but I couldn't move. I immediately freaked out, because I realized I couldnt talk, move, or even control my breathing. I couldn't open my eyes, but I realized I could somehow see everything in the room. My breathing was steady as someone completely alseep, but my mind was fully awake. Suddenly I felt a hand on my chest, it clamp down, and pull. I was being pulled out of my own body, I could see myself (my soul?) being pulled up out of my chest, then suddenly I realized I was looking down at myself still slowly breathing. I heard a bell ring and suddenly I was back in my body and I could move.
After talking to my father about my experience I learned of our family history with it. He explained his theory that our upper mind wakes up just as our lower brain falls asleep. He also taught me how to control it instead of fearing it. Now I can use it to fly around in my dreams, and turn the most frightening night of my life into some of the most enjoyable.
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"Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas
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