Ever heard of lucid dreaming?
I had read up on it and was trying to do it, when I finally succeeded. Only, after I gained control of my dream, I got scared about screwing it up. That instantaneous thought caused me to fall in the middle of a spiral of staircases until I hit the floor. When I woke up, I couldn't move my body; I was paralyzed. I sat there for what seemed like hours, flipping out because I couldn't move. I finally fell back asleep and tried regaining control of my dream, and when I did, I dreamed that I could move again, and then I forced myself to wake up.
I don't know if that paralyzing thing really happened in real life, or if it was just a nightmare inside a dream gone bad, but it scared me into never trying lucid dreaming out again.
i realized that i could control my dreams at a young age...i used to love sleeping, but now i cant remember any of my dreams =[