[quote=mbl]
I've had one dream that may or may not have been SP. At the start of the dream I woke up in my bed and looked around the room I lived in at the time. Everything around me was pitch black; I couldn't make out any of the windows or junk I had in the room, all I could make out was my bed and a mirror on the wall across from the foot of my bed (Yep, I slept with a mirror constantly facing me back then, which is apparently a dumb thing to do as far as superstitious lore goes). I checked out the bed and mirror and everything seemed fine, the mirror seemed to show a vague reflection of the bed and me (But I couldn't make out any details). I continued to look around, then suddenly had the realization that the figure in the reflection wasn't me (I don't remember how or why I came to this conclusion), then the bed gave out from beneath me and I began falling into a dark abyss.I woke up in the same position I had ended the dream falling in, though I couldn't really tell the dream was over. I still felt like I was falling and was unable to move or open my eyes. It lasted about half a minute and then the falling feeling faded and I was able to move again (heavily disoriented). I'd rank that dream in my top 3 worst nightmares, simply because of the overwhelming panic I felt when I realized I was awake and still felt like I was falling.
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That sounds like a particularly realistic nightmare, but not SP. The difference between a dream/nightmare and an SP episode is that while you're SP'd, for all intents and purposes, you are "awake"...just paralyzed and seeing hallucinations.

The fact that you "woke up" after the nightmare was over makes me think it wasn't Sleep Paralysis, since with SP, you'd already be awake. The only thing from which to wake up during SP is the actual paralysis, not sleep. And once you shake out of the paralysis, the hallucinations dissipate. Also you know how MOST of the time, you end up forgetting your dreams within an hour of waking up? I've never once forgotten an SP episode, it seems like a genuine memory rather than a dream.

[quote=Blitzkrieg]
SP is also where most alien abduction stories come from.Everyone's mind is different, and people translate their fear differently.
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Supposedly, yeah. I've heard of the abduction-SP connection, but I've never had the feeling that these entities were going to take me anywhere. They seemed rather content with leaving me in my bed to scare me. 

Have you seen a documentary called [i]'DMT: The Spirit Molecule'[/i] ? That offers the best explanation to Alien Abductions I've ever heard.