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Hello there, guvna.

   For about a month I've been practicing lucid dreaming and I've noticed a strange pattern. There have been a few nights (at least once a week in the past month) where I have difficulty sleeping. I usually give up trying to sleep after an hour or so and do some work around the apartment or hang out on the balcony to see if any creatures are wandering around below. When I finally crawl back into bed around 3, 4, or even 5 am I start to have freaky dreams. The thing that is really freaky about these dreams is that they're all in the apartment, they seem very real, and I usually experience sleep paralysis upon waking.

   Last night I couldn't sleep so I cleaned the entire apartment and did my laundry that I had put off for about a week. I crawled back into bed around 3am and must have fallen asleep immediately because things started to get weird. I didn't think I was asleep. I had woken up (in a dream) and my head was covered with the blanket, like I had been scared by something. Then I felt something trying to smother me. I woke up again in a dream, blanket over my head. I took the blanket off. There was a pretty woman wearing all black with black hair on the ground sneaking out of my bedroom and I slid off the ground and uh...tried to have sex with her. The dream ended before anything good happened (boo) and I woke up in real life. The blanket was over my head.  I was freaked out, but I just went back to sleep. I felt that pressure again, like something was trying to smother me. This happened a few times. Once in the dream my bf got up and went to the bathroom. After that, he woke me up for real because I had been scooting over and slowly pushing him off the bed.  He actually got up and went to the bathroom and I thought I saw a figure in the doorway next to my closet. I ran into the living room to get my warmer, fuzzy blanket because I was freezing. I looked at the clock and it was 3:30 AM.  Then I slept, dreamless, until about noon.

Sweet Dreams.