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I have these reoccurring dreams in which I move in slow motion, different settings (I believe?) but all realistic. It feels like forever to wake up, when I do I feel very exhausted (not tired, just exhausted). This has been the case for me since I was about 9 or 10, 20 right now.

>>295 I know that feeling. I'd imagine it feels like what you would after traveling through time, if such a thing existed. During these dreams i usually feel some sort of "gravitational pull" like gravity is enhanced. Sometimes the direction of gravity is altered too, as if i am being pulled up, down, backwards or forwards while trying to walk through it.

>>299 Yes! As if some pressure is preventing you from pushing through, giving the feeling as if you need to keep pushing to get out of the pressure/"slow motion". Do you get them often?

It's as if you're trying to run in water.

these dreams are connected to a form of insecurity in your life. i used to have dreams about fighting people but i was moving like I was punching through water. very stressful. that was during a more stressed time in my life.

I get that all the time. For me, it's very specifically that moving my legs in a walking motion becomes very difficult. It's like I'm pushing through sand. I finally got over it by deciding I don't need to walk to move forward. Like, if I just decide I want to move forward and don't worry about what my body physically needs to do, it works itself out.

I have dreams were my actions are lightning quick but when I observe them my motion slows down to a crawl. I get these in my day dreams now.

I had a dream that I fell into the wet sand in the beach and it started sucking me in, binding my limbs, eventually suffocating me. Woke up wrapped up in my blankets like a mummy and hardly able to move even while conscious. So that probably explains that particular incident. But aside from that, this is probably somewhat related to sleep paralysis. Your body basically generates a nerve impulse blocker to keep you from thrashing around in your sleep while trying to enact the motions you're acting out in your dream. Sometimes it's weaker or wears off, and you get those twitchy dreams you sometimes see dogs having or talking in your sleep. It might possibly have something to do with somnambulism, but there's other stuff going on there too. On the other hand, sometimes it kicks in when you're more conscious, or even almost fully conscious like in sleep paralysis—causing you to be frozen, horrified, until some hallucination from the verge of sleep creeps into your real consciousness and presents as something monstrous. You strain as hard as you can to move until it finally wears off amid a flood of adrenaline. I think a little below that threshold you are dreaming almost normally, but somehow you become slightly aware that your real body is paralyzed, as it should be. It makes you feel weak, trapped, slow, or ineffectual in the dream world. Just a little bit of sense trickling in from your sleeping physical body. I dunno how to fix it. Maybe get better sleep in general, improve your diet, and exercise more so that whole chemical reaction gets more balanced out? Total speculation on my part there. But those things never hurt.