i do wake up, but due to the sleep paralysis, i can't move and in the midst of panicking since its some ungodly hour of the morning i fall back into the nightmare.

and yea something like that about the gamer theory. it's because gamers are so used to being able to control their own movements in these fabricated realms that dreams are like another game. i think i read somewhere that a lot of gamers don't have as scary nightmares as other people because it's just like another game to them. it's easier for them to take control of their dreams and just play it out like all those things they play. I've grown up a gamer so that might be why i've never had a hard time lucid dreaming. and i'm forever getting lost in my daydreams, haha.

the false awakenings are sometime annoying and sometimes kind of cool. like if it's just one or two layers than i'm fine, but when it gets passed those numbers, it just gets a bit worrisome. like...going back to the nightmare thing. nightmare, i force myself to wake up, gasp and then suddenly i'm waking up again, and then i'm back in the nightmare, than awake, and this is all happening in rapid succession over and over again, and then at some point, everything just gets jumbled up.

haha, i've had some bad experiences with some of my dreams to the point where that disney song uhm... "a dream is a wish your heart makes" terrifies me.