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My recurring stress dream is someone chasing me and it’s like I’m running into a gale force wind, try as hard as I might I can barely move. I’ll be tipped forward struggling to put force into my legs and just, no result. Each foot goes down right where I picked it up from, or maybe a few inches forward.

Then of course they catch me, and my ability to fight back is equally shit, like full force punch barely grazes them sort of stuff.

I’m fairly certain it’s all due to the lack of actual bodily response in my sleeping self, because I’m pretty aware of that sort of thing (I’ve used my pulse to determine lucid dreaming status for decades, as it doesn’t exist in dreams, and on the occasions I’ve tried to wake myself from them I can feel the sleep paralysis preventing willful movement)