How I escape bad dreams

As an Owl House fan, I appreciate all the references, from Luz and King being in the background and the more subtle light glyph in the background

"sometimes your brain is bad at remembering what hands look like"
As an artist that struggles as much with drawing hands as everyone else, YES

When I was younger, I was always scared to sleep near a mirror, because I watched a show where someone looked into a mirror and there was an evil version of them, and I was scared it would happen in a nightmare (still kind of scared).
Also top tip for me, when I have a bad dream, I like to turn a light on, because having light stops my brain thinking nightmarish thoughts.

The most terrifying experience with sleep paralysis I've ever had: i had my arm over my face, so I couldn't see what was around me, I could only listen to the horrors beyond my compression that surrounded me... and I haven't slept since

Illy wearing glasses on her glasses at that therapist scene, its like the glasses are just a special feature of her body

There is something just so euphoric about seeing King from the Owl House in the background throughout the video as well as other references such as Dana’s social media and Luz sitting next to other cartoon characters it’s just so AHHHH IM SO HAPPY

Okay so... my worst nightmares are often about having arguments with my toxic mother. And the worst thing about these nightmares is that they're not exagerations. They were exactly like real arguments with my mother. That shows how nightmarish she is.
I've had a few lucid dreams before but there's always a problem. Each time I try doing something that clashes with what the dream was originally about, I start waking up. I try to stay in the dream but I'm always unsuccessful and I wake up.
I had sleep paralysis a few months ago too. When I woke up, my body felt super heavy and I couldn't move, and I felt like something bad could happen if I tried to force it. So I just let my imagination wander like I often do as my body slowly felt lighter and lighter as time passed until I could move.

I've unconsiously been doing lucid dreaming for almost my whole life. I didn't know it was something other people did. I learn so much from illymations!!!

"How do you know you're awake right now, and not dreaming?"
"I can tell because everything’s normal, I can't fly, and I have zero control and the future terrifies me"
So now how do you know that we aren't just in a nightmare?

“Luz id dreaming” could be a cool owl house episode

I still remember my one and only sleep paralysis, I somehow managed to close my eyes so I didn't see anything but I could feel something was in the room with me.
As far as bad dreams go, as a kid I had a lot of them. enough that there was legit lore within them, spanning for years. characters that began haunting me as a 3 year old would do so up until my early teenage years, evolving along the way. I actually finally defeated my dream arch nemesis as a teenager by making lewd remarks at it... weird way to deal with it but it worked, lol.
later in life my dreams have become more of psychological torture than scary monsters.
classics like
-waking up to look at the clock and "realizing" I have "overslept" (not really a proper nightmare but I stress about alarms way too much, to a point where I often hallucinate stuff like this in my dreams)
-the one where right as you fall asleep you fall and rapidly hit the ground (bed), waking up (not really a nightmare, but an annoying quirk non the less, one of the things I'd remove from the human experience, along with that "throwing up a little bit in your mouth every now and then" -feature.)
-teeth falling out in front of the mirror from the lightest touch
- being bitten by dozens of snakes on the ground (I like snakes but I guess there's still the primal fear)
-room/area being very dim or low contrast and turning on the lights don't work or only cause a dim, hollow glow, as you anticipate some unknown force coming to get you
-some artsy horror stuff like a dark figure standing over a frozen lake, under a freezing winter moon and dark sky with a very unsettling "camera angle" (think once used in Ari Aster movies)
among others.
every time I wake up from a nightmare, I curse the fact my mind is so creative at abusing itself while sleeping but during day time, when I could turn that kind of stuff into, I don't know, horror bestsellers, the only thing up there is permanent brain fog, lol.
I have used lucid dreaming to escape nightmares a few times but I've also ruined many cool flying dreams by realizing that I'm dreaming and then loosing the power to do so. must be some kind of an insecurity thing.
Dreams, they are funky.

As a Steven Universe fan, i love the cat hands reference. I suffer from chronic nightmares, thank you for this video.

When I found out what lucid dreaming was, I was like “wait, doesn’t everyone do that?” It was quite the revelation to realize I had been lucid dreaming for my ENTIRE life.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with mirrors in dreams. (At least the ones I can remember.) They’ve always been good dreams, not scary.
For example, I remember a dream where I saw Garfield in the mirror instead of myself. And I was just like “Oh okay, I’m Garfield now. Awesome!” :)

I have very frequent lucid dreams, but they’re often sporadic “one and done” scenes or just images. Often after they happen, I wake up and scramble whatever it was into my notes so I don’t forget, because they’re usually somewhat funny. Nightmares on the other hand are another thing, because I rarely remember them. I get flashes of stuff and wake up with this horrible dread and anxiety. It sucks balls tbh

I heard this fact from a friend, and it made me think. You always wake up after you die in a nightmare because your brain doesn’t know what happens after you die!😮😮

My friend sometimes has the sickest dreams ever, here’s the weirdest one yet:
She said she was going to celebrate christmas in mexico at her worst enemy’s house (we live in europe and her worst enemy is literally her neighbor) and when they arrived they ate burritos with live snails in them. She later saw her enemy had a collection of overweight otters as pets...
*wtf did she smoke*

“Bad girl coven” I love that illy is an toh fan and she sneaks it into her videos

Love the relatable references all on 1:07. You got a switch, a Wii, TOW, amphibia, shulks sword, stitch, OK.KO, Finn. The list is endless.

My "worst" dreams are honestly just the ones where I dream I wake up but it's really difficult to open my eyes and then when I finally do I try to wave my hand in front of my face to check if I'm really awake, but I don't see anything. So then I try to wake up for real and once again I realise I'm still dreaming, etc. I always wake up super exhausted after those.
As a kid I used to dream about being naked at school or my teeth falling out very often. Those suck

I had a disturbingly similar dream as a kid, my reflection came out of the mirror and crawled exorcist style towards me (I’ve never seen the exorcist at that point). Needless to say, mirrors and I don’t get along.

I love how Illy has little references to the owl house, my little poney, pokemon, inside out, and all the little other details I'm her background art. ❤

Ive had so many nightmares where i woke up in my dream then went through a totally normal, if not boring day, then suddenly actually woke up. It created a serious issue with panicking if i start to question whether I'm actually even awake, when i absolutely am.

For some reason in my dreams, I always have horrible vision. My vision in real life isn’t too bad, but in dreams, amplified by a billion percent. And what makes it even scarier is that I can realize I’m dreaming, try to wake up, feel myself trying to wake up, but not being able to wake up and just being trapped in a blurry unfocusy world 😰

I either think what I dream is real or I realize "hey I'm lucid dreaming let's do something fun-" and I wake up. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Things I’m just now realizing:
-I’ve had sleep paralysis before
-in my dreams, mirrors don’t hold reflections, and for some reason my brain thought this was normal
-the reason I can’t lucid dream usually is because during the day I look around and go “..how do I know this is real?”

I've had lucid dreams, nightmares, and sleep paralysis before. The lucid dreams are stuck in my head and they were both on very sensitive topics. One of human-ya know and the other about war. In the first one, I was lucid at first until I saw a tiger and then I lost control. In the second I wasn't lucid until I saw the same tiger and I realized that I was in a dream.
I've had multiple sleep paralysis moments. One was when I couldn't move and heard someone banging on my door. In another there were white spiders all over my room, and the next was when someone tried to kill me. The latest one was pretty chill man's black silhouette watching me sleep snd then just walking away. He seemed nice.
The way I find to help me escape sleep paralysis is wiggling my toes. It helps my body wake up and seems to be the only psrt of my body that I can freely move.
My first nightmare the night my grandmother died and I didn't mourn at her funeral, and I was around 9. We were in the house my father grew up in and I went to her room, while my father, mother and aunts were in their room. In that house, which is in village, the two rooms are straight across from each other with just the living room in-between. I went to my grandmother's room and I saw her looking into that old mirror. I tried calling her but she didn't listen. I tried calling my father but he didn't come, even when I told him what I saw. I went back to that room and looked at my grandmother's reflection only to see now facial features on her face. She then turned around, knife in hand, and killed me.
I had others but jeez grandma you don't gotta do me like that.

tip for stopping nightmares (or dreams i guess): close your eyes. it usually works for me, though i will occasionally only half stop it, making me mostly aware of the real world but unable to interact, while still somewhat aware of and able to interact with the dream world. at this point if it happens, try to move your real body, because the more i think about the real world while dreaming the closer i get to waking up.

I've only ever had sleep paralysis once, and I do not wish that crap on my worst enemy. It started with a nightmare where I was shot with a shotgun, point blank, in my chest. I woke up crying in a cold sweat, and realized in that instant that I couldn't move my body. My room was hella dark and almost distorted looking, like it stretched on to eternity in the darkness. Thankfully, I'd read up on how to get yourself out of that state (start at your fingers/toes and concentrate on slowly moving them, work your way up your arms/legs until you regain control), and I got back to normal before I saw anything too traumatizing.

This made me remember the tine i had a pretty weird dream, like, it was pretty... Existencial i guess?
And at some point i looked at a mirror, and the reflexion looked like a weird version of me that made me feel super uneasy and unconfortable. And the character next to me told me that it reflected how my interior was or something, like how my personality was idk, and after he told me i started crying cause the reflection was terrifying lol

5:56 - You are not scary. It’s not scary, it’s beautiful!!

Big props to Illy and her team for the amount of effort put into this, it’s insane… honestly blows my mind! Also love all the cheeky references hehe

The problem with dreams that make it hard to lucid dream that nobody seems to talk about, is memory alteration. Remembering things that never happened. So, anything that would otherwise not be normal would be excused by “oh but I remember this happening so that’s why it exists”
Edit: a lot of people seem to be misinterpreting this for some reason, so what I mean is, the dream will make up memories that never actually happened, and you only know they never actually happened when you wake up because… they never happened!

I love Lucid dreaming! Basically what I do is while I’m about to fall asleep I start to map out what I want my dream to be and start detailing it. After, I start telling myself I will control my dream over and over again. Then while I am dreaming I ask someone for the time and they usually go “I don’t know your dreaming” and that’s when it starts. Unfortunately once I did this and while I was flying in my dream I dived into the floor for fun and instead I got sleep paralysis. Basically everything turned dark and I got scared so I woke up but then my whole body felt tingly and I couldn’t move. Then I noticed this black figure on my ceiling with red eyes staring at me and I couldn’t move to save my butt. It was not fun.

In my opinion I think in specific people it can happen.
I kept having dream’s about about my house catching on fire one time at 10:30pm I could smell smoke there was smoke downstairs, and we all got out of the house safely this was recent to. I was horrified i still sleep with my door open to my brothers room. My friends mom told me my gramma could have been warning me and I like that idea. Thanks Nanay❤❤❤❤

That sleep paralysis dream thing was legitimately terrifying, props to you. I’m scared right now and I’m not even dreaming

No one:
Me: Freaks out every time I see an Owl House reference.

Omg illy, I just woke up from an upsetting dream and immediately remembered your video. I looked in a mirror and my face opened up into a trypophobia nightmare 😭 I won't go into more detail but the way i snatched my phone and looked up this video

Sometimes I am aware of my dreams but my mind is just so tired that it just goes "Eh, oh well" and I'm just that tired that I dont even care if I get scared.

5:07 *THE BUS ACTUALLY SCARED ME SOMEHOW*

I love how you were able to perfectly capture the creepiness and surrealness of a nightmare

I've never thought of dreams being the brain's hard drive defragging process, but I like that analogy XD

My reacuring nightmare is a bunch of straws all in purfect lines standing straight up then something happens to one and then the others and now there’s a monster. And I wake up crying over freaking straws even thou I love drinking out of straws irl.

You know that terrifying noise your phone makes whenever there’s an emergency alert, imagine that, but with sleep paralysis. That’s been my experience whenever I have a really bad nightmare or sleep paralysis.

My dreams tend to have a third person perspective and an unclear character design of me (over the last few years i lost weight, gained weight, got darker hair, and changed my glassess frames, so with all the changes i tend to not be a physically existing thing in dreams

I used to have lots of nightmares back then around when I was 5 or 6 about being in a speeding car and crashing. But I would also have short bursts in my dreams about veeeeery slight visions on what would happen or an alternate thing at any random time in the future! No joke, I still get those… People say it’s probably just déjà vu, but I doubt that personally… Idk though, hindsight is 20/20

Thank you so much for making this video I have always had sleep issues and I am just recently realizing that there might be more to them for example I might “wake up” from a nightmare and see something but not be able to move and when I tell a family member they say “you should of come and got me next time” the thing is I have never been able to put the not moving part into words

I think once I was entering a sleep paralysis but pulled myself out of it.
What happened was I fell asleep and woke up, my eyes were closed but I tried turning and couldn’t move. I heard a man’s voice though and he kept telling me “close your eyes” “don’t let them know you’re awake” “pretend to be asleep”
I slept in my parents room that night

I have the oposite of lucid dreaming. When I'm on the toilet I often think: "Soooo, how do you know for sure that you are actually awake. Are you really sure that you're not actually still asleep and peeing your bed right now?"

WOW the background work is incredibel
notes
1. a lucid dream is a dream in which you know that you're dreaming and it is separate from dream control
2. your brain can perfectly render your hands and has no problem remembering what they look like but because people associate their hands in dreams with some sort of visual issue, you can think of it as there are hands sin the dream but there's dream "code" referencing blurry dream hands and as a total the "value" of this hand is that it appears blurry purely because of this association in this case.
3. same for clocks as #2
4. same for mirrors as #2
5. sleep paralysis is a side effect of certain sleep disorders or conditions and most people will either not experience it in their lives or experience it only a few times. if someone struggles with postdormital sleep paralysis then them lucid dreaming or not lucid dreaming does not affect their chances of getting sleep paralysis. what can happen because of an association or a mental link of sorts is that someone can be having a lucid dream and because they believe it can turn into sleep paralysis, they will then have a false awakening and think that they're awake and experiencing sleep paralysis. regular lucid dreams don't really have a risk of turning into sleep paralysis. another thing is, the only constant when it comes to sleep paralysis is not being able to move but you could see nothing, good things, bad things, you could hear stuff, see stuff, feel stuff etc.

My dad used to do upsies with me when I was a kid. He always held me, never let go.
Years after I was too big for them, I had a dream where my dad tossed into the air for real and I went really far away from him. I woke up in a cold sweat and my heart was pounding in my chest. 😅

Great video!!! Too scared to try lucid dreaming but it sounds really interesting 🧐

I've had dreams, but I couldn't really "see anything" I just knew deep down what it looked like. I never saw myself in a dream, I was just pretty much blind, and everything was fuzzy, as I relied on my mind to know what it looked like.

I've had sleep paralysis about twice. If you ever get stuck in the dream for a little while... stay calm. It may be difficult to stay zen, but you need to realize that it's just a dream. Try "taking deep breaths" in your dream or maybe even try closing your eyes in the dream lol

I get the weirdest dreams sometimes and don’t remember well. I know I’m dreaming, just not able to wake up.

I sometimes practice lucid dreaming too! There’s a whole bunch of other tricks for practicing lucid dreaming, including trying to read, trying to speak another language, asking someone if you’re dreaming to see their reaction, or trying the nearest light switch while expecting it to not work properly (try that last one at your own risk, it can go VERY wrong if you’re unlucky). But my FAVOURITE is to summon someone by thinking of them or calling them, particularly a fictional character.
I had plenty of nightmares as a kid, and these days while I’m not as prone to them, they can be BAD when I get them. So over time especially after getting really into old iconic horror movies, I found a really fun trick for starting to cope with nightmares. I would call for Freddy Krueger. No, really. Imagining a version that was a bit nicer and meant to protect me rather than murder, it was super useful to bring in this perfectly suited dream demon to chase away whatever scary thing was the problem, to the point where he’s gone on to appear during far less lucid dreams. One time I’d been getting chased by an angry mod of some sort only to be picked up by him out of nowhere and carried because I’m terrible at running in dreams. Another time all that was happening was me in some sort of prison school getting bullied by my old teacher, when Freddy shows up behind me, tilts my chair back and immediately tells the teacher to fuck off.
Basically when it comes to the dream demon himself, if you can’t beat them, befriend them. It pays to have something scary on your side.

I found a way to stop sleep paralysis for me, (it's happened to me a few times) is to really focus on my toes and try to wiggle them. It's the only part of my body I can get unlocked while frozen like that. As soon as I wiggle my toes, I can feel the rest of my body unlock. It is the most bizarre feeling, honestly haha
As far as nightmares, I had one where a monster not unlike your sink one came out of my laptop, and once had a dream where I thought the dog was running by my feet, but when I looked down it was someone/thing trying to snatch me from the shadows. I'm sure there's others, but those are the ones I'm remembering right now.

I’ve had so many lucid dreams and nightmares, that now I just immediately give myself superpowers to beat the scary thing into submission when it’s a nightmare. I’ve even train myself to punch in my sleep, no one can sneak up on me

My scariest and most detailed nightmare in a while was basically where me and a bunch of other teens were kidnapped by a monster that looked a lot like Kissy Missy. The conditions were if we did her chores and did them well, we could leave. However, she was really strict and the slightest mistake could provoke her into attacking (I remember being yeeted at her closet for checking my phone.) I was worried about my friends and family, so I tried to escape through a window that turned into a tunnel, but the monster noticed I was gone and dragged me back, and that's when I woke up.
My S/O says that my nightmare probably stems from my perfectionism and fear of getting in trouble, and they have a pretty good point about that, as I've had a borderline phobia of authority figures being disappointed/mad at me for years due to trauma.

Illy: "I don't think you can go to different dimensions with dreaming"
SEE JAMES??? WAS IT THAT HARD??

I’ve been having lucid dreams lately, but never EVER try the mirror thing. Mirrors terrify me because I feel like something terrifying will look back at me.

The most fun dream I ever had was about me and a buddy baking gingerbread men, one suddenly coming alive, and we had to chase it down riding broomsticks through a forest. I only woke up because I hit a tree, and in real life fell outta the bed.

i remember having sleep paralysis once some time ago, all i remember is being stuck in place and hearing something coming up to my bedroom door, at that point i knew what was going on and started straining to move, then my legs snapped up and i woke up before whatever was approaching actually got in

My freakiest dream I ever had was me realizing I was dreaming and trying to wake up. I felt like something was going to get me when I realized I was dreaming. Whenever I tried to wake up I woke up in another dream. Some of those other dreams I couldn’t see well and I could barely move.

I tried the mirror thing in a dream once, and my reflection had no eyes or mouth. Literally just skin. The most terrifying thing ever ngl…

Y’know, I have a dream that has been going on for 3-5 years.. it was me that got trapped in a computer and my sister. Every show or vid that I liked, i would teleport to the universe that they were. I had so much, that 1 day I said “dang, I need to get rid of someone.” So I kept the people that I liked, and I still have dream.

When I was a lot younger and i started to get constant nightmares(still do), one person in my nightmare told me to keep saying "wake up" did that and woke up.
Was normal after some point for me to have control over my dreams. I thought it was normal to be honest, until someone in my class said he is trying to learn how to have lucid dreams.
I was pretty much always able to tell when I was dreaming and like I said, at like the age of 6 having lucid dreams.
Also the tips you said, with like looking at your hands/clock/mirror actually don't work for me.
Hands, clocks and mirrors just don't exist in my dreams(but so does water usually).

I have gotten sleep paralysis before. it was really scary because it felt like if I moved, something would kill me. and if I even LOOKED to the left, my body would tense up. I saw this shadowy figure, maybe a bit taller than me, and just kept trying to move until I broke out of it. when i looked at the time, it was 3:53-3:57 in the morning. it is literally so scary 😭

Me: “Woah cool! I think I’ll use this to try to lucid dream!”
Illymation: *talks about sleep paralysis*
Me: “…I think I’m good, thanks!”

Beware the lucid dream. After years of trying and getting close I finally had one. Once I realized it was a dream the entire landscape vanished into complete darkness leaving me in a dark empty void. It was cool and scary, but when I wanted to imagine doing something I had to REALLY concentrate. It took so much effort to imagine one tree filling the dark. So I gave up and waited in my empty head for me to wake up. Time is not a concept in a dream so it could have been minutes or even hours.

5:07
THE SCHOOL BUS JUST RANDOMLY SHOWING UP I DIDNT EXPECT THAT IM LAUGHING RN-

Everytime i try that hand thing with lucid dreaming, everything around me turns pitch black for a second and a demonic little figure shows up in front of me and the dream goes back to normal and I'm like, "well I won't do that again" 😃👍🏼

I learned to lucid dream as a kid. I wet the bed until 12. Eventually I learned to wake up anytime I saw liquid in my dreams. This eventually turned to intentional flying. And of course sleep paralysis. But I also created an escape room because I also have really bad nightmares. If I'm being chased by zombies, or whatever, I imagine a door that opens into a beautiful meadow. Nothing bad EVER happens in this meadow. I spend time building this meadow irl, and try to think about it when I'm going to sleep. There's a tree, golden dust motes, a gentle stream, flowers. Never any scary bugs. Butterflies and fireflies only.

I watched this right before bed thanks 🙏 ❤

the answer to number two at 0:19 is 9.
6/2 (1+2)
groupings first, 1+2=3
division second, 6/2=3 (instead of typing the division symbol you can use /)
The blank spot inbetween 6/2 and (1+2) is multipication
so 3x3 is 9.
(sorry for teaching you math while you try to read comments)

Sometimes sleep paralysis is cool. Like sometimes it’s my husband cuddling me too hard or I’m getting buried by puppies. But I think that’s because I’ve worked so hard to identify sleep paralysis and lucid sleep paralysis .
But that makes the demons even scarier. So it’s either puppies or evil nurses.

Everytime I see owl house things I smile so big that my face doesn't exist anymore it's just a smile!!!! I LOVE THE OWL HOUSE!!!!!

I once had a dream where all I can still remember is one single quote, with no context whatsoever.
“Well, you gotta respect the wizard”

I had quite a few cases of sleep paralysis. They don't happen when you're sleeping, it's in between. It's when your mind has woken up and you realise you're awake, but your body didn't yet. You can see the real world and open your eyes a bit, but it's like you don't quite proccess it, like you're not completly awake yet.
So you basically can't move besides a few twitches if you reaaaally try, and you can't breed properly, just small exhales (dunno why). You're basically in panic, but can't do anything for a few seconds. That's why they say there's a demon siting on top of you

I once had sleep paralysis where I was in my bed and it felt like there was a force pressing me down. I have a very squishy pillow top mattress and a bunch of pillows, so it felt like I was sinking down down down, like there were hands on my shoulder and chest physically pushing me. I couldn't breathe like there was a weight on my chest and felt like I was about to be smothered. I eventually woke up but that's the one time I remember having sleep paralysis. It freaked me out so much that I thought I might be sick or something lmao.
I've also had weirdly 'narrative' dreams if that makes sense? I remember a particularly vivid one about going to the land of the dead and speaking to my mother (who is not dead), asking her to come back with me to the living world and her refusing. It helped me realize that my relationship with my mom was never really ever going to improve because she wasn't willing to put in the work, and therefore our relationship was 'dead', and I had to accept that. I also once had a weird dream where my brother (who is dead) was in my apartment rearranging my things. I got angry and told him off, but when he turned to me we both went quiet and one of us said, "We should probably talk." Then I woke up. I didn't get along with my brother and we had a very bad relationship growing up, and we'd barely started repairing it when he died. we never really got to have a serious talk about what happened between us.
Dreams are weird.

Has anyone in their dreams never get the chance to say:
"Is this a dream?"
Or
"I know this is a dream!"

I love how she animated herself putting glasses on her character which ALREADY has glasses on during the part where she was giving herself therapy 😂

I had a lucid dream once when I was taking a nap and I was really scared because I was trying to tell my family that I was dreaming but they didn’t believe me.

OK LADIES GENTS AND NON BINARY FOLKS HERE IS ALL THE CARTOON REFERENCES I COULD FIND (if I missed any lmk)
0:01 Bad Girl Coven poster
0:49 lots of characters on the little island in the back. There's also the calamity box and Journal 3 on the left, along with Stan's mug
1:10 King plush above the bed
3:30 Stan Bobble-Heads, top left
3:43 Dana Terrace's Twitter
5:12 Calamity box again

I always tend to have an easy time identifying when I'm in a dream. Because while I can feel things like I was in reality, there's this distinct floaty feeling I have. I feel like I'm floating and while I can experience pain in my dreams it always feels strangely numbed.
My issue is that after recognizing the floaty feeling and realizing I'm dreaming, my body automatically attempts to wake up fully or I end up feeling uncomfortable and want to roll over so I'll be more comfortable. Rolling over typically wakes me up further.

1:03
We got a, number one victory royale!

I don’t do it as much now, but I used to lucid dream a LOT when I was younger. I remember a dream where I was lost in an arcade and I asked some people for directions, but mid way through talking to them I kind of just realised that I was dreaming, and I told them “oh wait, sorry I’m dreaming” and they just said “we know” it was kind of creepy. I also had my own little magical spin thing to get me out of bad dreams :l

4:14 What you experienced was a False Awakening. Where you think it's real life and you continue your life as usual. So it is recommended to do a Reality Check (look at your hand, count your fingers, try to push your finger through your palm, etc.) when waking up, even when you are sure you're not dreaming. It is a Lucid Dream, but you think it's your daily life.
Also, it is recommended to not look in mirrors during dreams, because you don't know what's in there. Mirrors are strange in dreams, but it is possible to just see your reflection, because whatever is in the mirror it's what you expect there to be. In your case, your mind expected there to be something creepy so unfortunately it became a lucid nightmare, but happily you woke up. :)
Anyways, lucid dreaming is amazing, there are a lot of ups and some downs. But I recommend everyone to try it, because it is more amazing than you think it is.
Thank you for reading this, have an amazing day.

I've tried lucid dreaming, but when I realize I'm dreaming I just immediately wake up.

If the sleep paralysis happened when the whole toxic boyfriend thing was happening/ had recently passed you could’ve had a stress kind of paralysis. I’ve gotten this before when my parents were going through a divorce and it reminded me a lot of what your animated representation looked like. Anyways, stress is actually one of the hugest factors of paralysis and sometimes it represents something. The demon might’ve been your ex boyfriend trying to take control of you and you not being able to do anything about it could’ve represented how you felt during that. I hope this helps or brought you new information and someone found any flaws with this please let me know!

The scariest dream I ever had was that I woke up, I went to school everything was normal but I kept seeing posters around saying wake up and I didn’t know what it meant and then I woke up, went to school and people in lessons started whispering to me to wake up, I woke up and the cycle continued three more times until when I woke up again a shadowy figure was stood over me telling me to wake up and that I needed to “ask Lacey” at th time I didn’t know anyone called lacey but when I actually woke up there was a new girl at school called Lacey and now we’re best friends. Dreams scare me.

I become lucid whenever I have a reoccurring dream. For example:
The starts out in the hallway of a hotel. I see a janitor coming out of a hotel room, which I assume was mine. Once I saw the janitor, I knew he’d chase me.
A gut feeling mixed with the countless dreams I’ve had about similar situations, I suppose.
Even thought I was aware he’d chase me, I still didn’t know it was a dream.
Anyway, the man walked right past me. *This is your chance to run,* I thought.
I ran down the hallway, and found myself at a fork in the road.
I always choose to run to the right, don’t know why.
In front of me is the exit of the hotel, and on the left side of the hallway is an… adoption center?
A second janitor waits at the door, and when I try to run outside, he grabs me.
This part is a bit weird, but every time I have this dream, I kick him in the balls. Then, he drops me.
Anyway, I run out and into my mothers empty car. I get into the backseat.
The first janitor gets into the front seat, and I crawl into the trunk.
A woman comes out of nowhere, and looks at me through the glass of the trunk window.
This is the part of the dream where I became lucid.
I forced myself to wake up.
Every time I have this dream, I just follow the same pattern: Wait, run, right, kick, car, trunk, wake.

I remember looking down at my hands in a dream and they were all splotchy, and I was like: “Ehhh, close enough.” and continued fearing for my life from this giant wall chasing me. I somehow accepted that was reality.

Dreams are so weird. About 80% of my dreams are apocalypses. The other 20% are future predicting. Some predictions more general, some very specific. In one, I dreamed about swinging across a lake with 2 unfamiliar people. Well, about a year down the line, I freaking met them. I mean exact faces, personality, everything. Another time, I dreamed I was sitting on the 3rd floor of an ikea looking out the window on my right and seeing a tiny historical bronze figure encased in glass through my peripheral vision and the massive ikea sign out the window. Well, a year and a half later, that exact situation happened. The amount of creepily specific moments of nostalgia that I have been through is scary.

I once had a sleep paralysis dream where I was at a friend’s house and I wanted to leave so I made an excuse to go wash my hands in their restroom and I felt like they somehow knew and then I was teleported to this completely white void laying face down, unable to move, I kept hearing incomprehensible feminine voices singing a song that felt like some divine punishment to me, in that moment I became lucid and thought I had slept with my earbuds on, so I tried to wake up but it became super difficult and I was unable to move my body in the dream, and the more I tried the more the voices got louder till they felt like they were close up in my ear, then after being terrified I woke up and I couldn’t move my limbs for a couple seconds and kept seeing glimpses of shadowy things in the back of my mind, I got so afraid I just immediately pulled out my phone and started spam texting my boyfriend who had to calm me down 😅

The worst nightmare I've ever had went like this: So, I was at my grandma's house, and everything in the room I was in was fine, the carpet, the desk, the couch- everything, but through the window what should have been a driveway was instead a lawn with a sidewalk curving through it, going back and forth so it covered ~1/2 of the lawn, and here's the scary part; There were these 2 old ladies(?) who wore a ton of shawls and cloaks and scarves so you couldn't see most of their body, and a few times throughout the dream I could see their faces, and I only remember being scared by them, and then at the end of the dream I font remember what happened but I remember screaming with fear from presumably seeing the ladies' faces. Also while I was screaming I remember being embarrassed because I thought the other people in the room would be angry at me for screaming, the people were normal and doing what they would normally do in the real world, but they didn't notice the ladies at all.
Edit: The ladies' clothes were brown and black and maroon and I don't know what could have caused it but I think it was when I was 2-3 so I was pretty young, there wasn't any trauma that I had that could have contributed, at least none that I remember. The room I was in, again, was almost perfect so I was probably at my grandma's house when I had the dream.

I've lucid dreamed only once, and it was AWESOME! So for a week or few days, I wrote down all the dreams I could remember. And when I was going to bed, I repeated in my head either "I am dreaming" or "this is a dream" and when I was taking a snooze, I realized my cat Lily was weird, she was censored. Like in the Sims when they shower. And I was all like, wait a minute, I'm DREAMING and I tried to fly but I stayed still, so I went into detail in my brain but the walls started turning purple and my legs were tingling and it felt like half my face was melting and a bunch of question marks were plieimg on top of my cat. So I was like "naw screw this I'll try another time" and I forced my real self to slam my hands on my face and open one eye. Isn't that cool!? :D

I actually believe that dreams can tell the future because once I was on holiday and put me chin on the balcony edge and I swear I saw that exact image in my head before and I remember that dream

Ty for this vid I am now a lucid dreamer and I know how to fly in my dreams and how to wake up during my dream if needed and I love all you vids :))))

I believe I’ve had sleep paralysis twice. Once it was just straight up I woke up and couldn’t move at all, I could still talk a little bit though. My mom came into my room to wake me up and I managed to say “Mommy, I can’t move” I was like 10. Second time it happened it was much like yours, desaturated room but I managed to look to my left and see a figure made up of dust particles floating around in the beam of light that comes from my closet (I can’t sleep in complete darkness) I sugar honey iced tea you not I heard a voice say “You’re okay, close your eyes and fall asleep” and I managed to do so. I explained to my family what happened the next day, from then on I kept seeing more and more weird things and I just came to the conclusion of “I have a ghost buddy who’s taking care of me”