I've had this happen a few times to me lately & don't understand what is happening? I have very vivid, disturbing dreams. I often wake up in the morning with one of the first words to my husband is I've got to tell you about these dreams i had last night. Anyhow, something odd has started occuring lately. It's happened a few times. In the morning when i'm alseep & dreaming, i start to wake up but I seem to be paralysed. I can't get myself to fully wake up & get out of bed. It's like i'm stuck in the dream. I'll try to wake myself up but i can't. I then just give up trying & fall back to sleep. It's like my body has no strength to get out of bed. I've never had this happen before in my past. This has now happened a hand full of times in the past few months. It's really scary because i wonder if there was an emergency going on in the house would i be able to respond? Has anyone else had this happen to them? Is there a syndrome or name to this?