Sleep paralysis and false awakening loop

I woke up in my bed and instantly got this super weird feeling and started hearing things that weren’t there. Then I leave my room and I see my friend henry from New York standing there. Our interaction is very weird and I start questioning if it’s real. I then ask him to pinch me and when he does, I barely feel it. That’s when I say “You’re not real. This is a dream.” He charges at me and then I get sent back to my bed with the super weird feeling again. I then try to scream my mom’s name but then nothing comes out. Then I start calling her but she sort of ignores me so I go upstairs. When I go upstairs everything is weird. I see like 4 duplicates of Ollie and 2 Ruffles (My dogs names) standing around each other. I keep telling my mom I need help and something is wrong and I feel like I’m going crazy, not realizing that this was a dream. She then takes the dogs to the front yard and starts taking them for a walk. She is completing ignoring me. When she is about 50 feet down the road I begin sprinting after her trying to catch up. I remember during this it was dark out unlike earlier when she took them out is the middle of the day. I never noticed this shift but I thought I should point that out. As I was sprinting after her I was making no progress and it was like she was out pacing me, getting further away even. At this point I am able to escape these segments of dreams and send myself back to my bed, but I knew that I wouldn’t be awake. I then successful called my mom into my room and was able to have a brief conversation with her. However, as the conversation went on, I noticed that she looked nothing like my mom and I knew it was fake. I slapped her across the face and was sent back to my bed again. I then find myself in this small gym type of place with Mat’s on the floor. I begin trying to do all sorts of flips and there are about a dozen other kids my age in the room who follow. I then notice my friend Calvin in the corner of the room doing static stretches. I go up to him and try to tell him about the situation and he begins play fighting with me. At first this frustrated me but then I just gave up and then he started singing some melody. During this segment the whole nature of the dream was becoming less intense and I woke up for real during my interaction with Calvin. Upon waking up I felt exhausted and I had the spins as if I was very drunk. The whole dream really was freaky and felt somewhat reminiscent of sleep paralysis when I would get sent back to my bed. During those times I was conscious that I was dreaming usually, but during those other segments I would get often get tricked, thinking I was really awake and going crazy or something. I would say that this awful loop repeated itself at least 6 times. I’d also like to note that I had barely slept the night before and I was taking a nap at 10 am when this happened.

Posted Jul 8, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

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