THE DREAM The following are short summaries of dream which all contain paralysed. I have tried best to isolate the symbolic meaning of paralysed in each dream.

A dream where the dreamer felt crushed by someone lying on top of her linked to her suffering sleep paralysis. The dream captured her fears as she partially woke up during a dream.A dream where the dreamer felt like she was being crushed by someone lying on top of her was caused by sleep paralysis. She felt paralysed during the dream but she was aware that this was sleep paralysis and knew that the sensation would leave after a few seconds and that it was not harmful.A dream where the dreamer had a feeling of total paralysis followed by flying through the air linked to the him having sleep paralysis at a time when he was on a spiritual high.A feeling of paralysis linked to the dreamer watching news reports of Hurricane Katrina and seeing all the devastation and feeling that nothing could be done because things happened so quickly. A feeling of total paralysis as the dreamer drags himself to a bridge famous for suicides linked to the dreamer feeling totally depressed and on the verge of suicide. The paralysis symbolised his depressed state.A dream where the dreamers legs felt like lead linked to suffering from manic depression and being unable to act rationally. One dreamer had a recurring dream of a paralysed mansion but they stopped when she ended all contact with her mother. The paralysed mansion symbolised her inability to act in the way she wanted and her mothers tendency to dominate her.