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I sometimes experience something different.

Basically, while in REM sleep, my mind will try to move my body (in real life), and it will not work. I experience the same sort of panic, but it is in the context of a dream. (Usually happens when some impending danger is about to happen to me in a dream.) My dream usually "pauses" while I try to figure out why my body isn't working, and I realize I am dreaming and wake up instantly. Then I sit bolt upright in bed.

Had a dream about a week ago that I was sleeping and heard a noise downstairs. In my dream, I woke up and went downstairs only to confront an intruder (all this talk of the incident in Wilmington must be getting to me). When I wanted to run back upstairs in my dream, my body froze. I then realized I was dreaming and woke up--wondering if I had heard any noise downstairs...