Dreams where you cant move or speak?

Question

what does it mean when you have a dream that you cant move or speak

Answer 1

check out 'sleep paralysis" at

Answer 2

Could be that you are actually in a lucent dream, and as your brain does often freeze your body to ensure you do not injure yourself, and that may carry over as a stimulus into the dream. Dreams, at least in theory,process the huge quantities of information gathered by your senses on a subconscious level. You are not even aware you gathered it, but it still must be processed, and presumably as the information is sorted it can change hemispheres and while passing the left (for most)side of brain makes it's own 'sense' of the data which in effect is a dream.

Answer 3

Do you actually mean you dreamed you couldn't move or speak or you woke up and, for a moment, you couldn't move or speak:?

If it was a dream, it means you are hesitant to take action. Get over the hesitation and act.

If it was right after you woke up, it means your astral body is leaving your physical body when you sleep and has not yet aligned quite properly. Give it a minute and it will.

Answer 4

Hi el D

It means that you dreamed that you couldn't move or speak.
But you know that already.

There are 6,000,000,000 people in the world, and almost all of them go through an average of 3-4 periods of REM sleep per night (that's when we usually do our dreaming).
And we may have more than one storyline during each period of REM sleep.

That's AT LEAST 20,000,000,000 (20 billion) dreams per night, all around the world.

Wouldn't it be pretty amazing if dying, or anything else, had exactly the same meaning in every single dream it appeared in, regardless of the dreamer's:

- age
- sex
- country/culture
- personal circumstances
- etc?

In other words, the things in YOUR dreams have meanings that make sense in YOUR dreams. And they don't even necessarily have the same meaning for you EVERY time they appear.

Anyone with a reasonable imagination could invent a detailed interpretation for your dream, (see the variety of DIFFERENT interpretations already offered in reply to other questions about the meanings of dreams on this forum) but however interesting their interpretation might be, it is VERY unlikely to be true.
Because:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of our dreams is simply that we are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for us, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into our mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given this purpose, there will always be something in each dream, though we may not remember it, which ties the dream to recent "real life" events. However most of the things which appear in our dreams may have nothing to do with what has been happening in our life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in a dream that have been part of the dreamer's memories as far back as they first started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird. Like dreaming that you cannot move or speak.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the many jobs it was designed to do

Answer 5

When I was working a very stressful job, I used to dream that I would fall and could not get up because my legs would turn to jello.
I determined that since I could not get anywhere with my work, I was transferring those feelings to my dreams, and my dreams were telling me to get the heck out of that job!

Answer 6

Something in your life may have you feeling like you can't speak your mind or your stuck in a place that binds you.

What else is going on in the dream? Looking at that may help you see what it is that you feel bound by.

Hope it helps

Answer 7

This dream gives a glimpse of the times to come. In the coming years... the values world over would reach their lowest ebb. So low would be the profile of humanity that awestruck... most human beings world over would simply wait and watch... unable to speak or do anything! More on Kali Yuga - http://www.godrealized.com/kaliyuga.html

Answer 8

It may be a dream advising you to take action and to speak-up, or you may be experiencing a sleep disorder, or both. It might help to consult your doctor.

Answer 9

I believe it is called Sleep Paralysis.

It is a very common thing, i had it a few times,
the most memorable time was when I was being attacked by a demon.
Man that scared me! :)

Answer 10

It is called dream paralysis and it is very common.

Answer 11

it isnt a dream at all it is a boderline state. it your consciousness about to leave your body