re-occurring loss of ALL body control

A few months ago I kept having a dream where I was driving and while driving I had no control over my body, and could not keep my eyes opened. It was like I was so tired I literally lost ALL my strength. I kept driving off the road, and then I would get enough strength back to swerve back before I crashed. For some reason I would continue to drive, but this would keep happening, my mind was working, and I was getting really scared, but for some reason I did not pull over, and I just kept driving, loosing control of all the muscles in my body then almost crashing then getting back on the road. I had that one quite a few times, at least 4, then it just stopped.

Then last night the feeling happened again in a different situation.
In this one, I was in my new apartment (I have been in the process of moving, but do not have furniture over there yet, in the dream it was very cluttered), it was night and almost too dark to see, I was going down a very long hallway (the apartment has a long hallway, but in the dream it was much longer) to lock the door before I was going to sleep. I was scared walking down the hallway, so as soon as I locked the door I ran as fast as I could, becoming more and more scared, back down the hallway to try to get to my bed where my boyfriend was sleeping. When I finally got to the foot of the bed I collapsed, and had the same feeling of no strength, not even enough to keep my eye lids open. I kept trying to get up and get into bed, but I could not and just kept collapsing on the floor every time I tried. It feels like I can literally not move anything in my body, and when I finally do its like 10,000 lbs. Then it starts getting hazy, and I cant remember much more. At one point my boyfriend got out of bed, and not really helping me, but just asking why I was not getting in bed, but I could not explain to him what was going on because I could hardly speak.

I forgot to mention that in a couple of the first dreams in the car, my boyfriend was there in the passengers seat, getting mad at me for almost crashing, but he was not there in every dream, sometimes I was alone.

 

I think this is normal, have you ever been in a car crash or almost in a car crash? I find that life experiences reflect on dreams. I get dreams of getting into fights with people from elementary school and my high school that I don't like. In every dream I'm trying to throw punches but cannot because I feel weak and I keep missing every punch. One day at school I turned around and punched someone in the face because he was picking on me, that night when I went to bed I had one of my fighting dreams but in this one I acctully punched the guy out n I didn't feel weak.

 

Hi misskristyjean, here is another thought for you (and please keep in mind it's just that) - hope it makes sense.

Sometimes strength is about to surrender one self and be beyond control. Maybe this is what you exercise in your dreams (and also your waking reality).

It's like your dreams ask you to deal with the fear of death (which we have no control of) - thus change your perspective - in a moment when all of the situation you are involved in seems open and fragile, to see all ends are indeed open, and open to be healed never-the-less.

Imagine that the power that pulls away your strength is life - not death - and go back into the helpless feeling of the dream. In the end, life and death is the same. The dreams ask you to relax into the chaos of what is, rather than into the fixed reality that we think is in control of our lifes.

And you can go as deep as you want ... like, the long hallway is the connecting link of past (and future) lifes where you experience death and birth and getting lost in between. The appartment is your current life. Just watch the clutter. The side of the road is the unknown out there which holds our tracks of life, like a field holds flowers and the sky holds the moon and the stars.

Ah ... who is in control ?

Much love