Sleep paralysis

You are being woken up by something in your environment at awkward times and so subtly that you can be conscious before your body can move. You are still dreaming, so your mind fabricates an explanation for not being able to move. Look up, "the hum." It is a significant factor these days.

The dream part works the same way that most common dream phenomena do. We try to do something, our body gives feedback that doesn't make sense for the action and the dream works out a why. So you end up weak, unable to punch or run. If you can't breath, you dream something choking you, if you can't get up, you dream something holding you down. You try to eat something, but your mouth can't find the food, so it decides that your teeth must have broken out. Etc etc etc.

Work in lucid dreaming at least we'll enough to learn to nope out of dreams, and it lends itself well to managing sleep paralysis. I only had it once, but knew enough about it to go meh, and will myself awake. Helps that I'm not afraid of ghosts, demons or monsters, so all I saw choking me was a roommate I was scared was capable of petty and rash murder.

>>19397767
I've had this happen quite a few times. If you surrender to the force pulling and try to push yourself in that direction you should enter a conscious OBE. That is what happens to me.