why do i dream i can't turn the light on dreams nightmares dark switch

I've had the dream, and i don't know what it means. It always happens the same way; I wake up in my room and try to turn on the light, but it doesn't turn on. Getting out of bed and walking to the other light switch, i make a second attempt, but it fails. I realize it's a dream, but i can't wait up. I can relate it to something else, however--when i'm awake and while i'm in bed, i hear the walls crack, and jolts of fear go through me. My mind goes wild, and i think it's something more than it is. I've always had issues of fear, so that might be why i have these dreams. Since i've been studying my own mind for the past few years, i've got an idea that i'm going to try: when i hear a crack in the house, i'll imagine it to be jesus or some equally friendly character. Also, I'll imagine the dream i had and insert the evil presense to be jesus or thee buddha. I hope it works, and good luck with your own dream.

I too have had this dream since an early age. I don't usually realise it is a dream until I start to walk out of the room - I then realise and get a sudden sense of fear. The dream usually fades out at this point and I wake up

i am nika, i am 20 years old.

i've had dreams like this before many times -- i'm in a dark room -- then i flip the light switch on & nothing happens -- then i go to another dark room & try the switch but still no light -- then i start to freak out -- then i can't remember what happens after that. i had a dream the other night that i was in a nice apartment -- it was dark, so i went to a bank of switches. one of the switches was for a fireplace which actually came on, but i shut it off because i didn't want the fireplace on. the other switches were for the kitchen & living room & when i switched them, the lights did not come on. so, i laid my hands on one of the light bulbs & said "this light bulb will light now in the name of jesus, by the power of the blood of jesus. the devil has no power over this light bulb." the light came on! then i went to each bulb, one by one & did the same thing & they all lit up -- some instantly & some slowly, like they were on a dimmer. then i started saying "the blood of jesus" over & over & all these cats started appearing & were driven out the front door. then i was standing at the front door watching the cats leave down the stairwell & i just kept saying "the blood of jesus, the blood, the blood, the blood" & i woke up & i was still saying it & my cat was standing on my chest. i felt short of breath & my heart was beating really fast. perhaps this was demonic retaliation for some spiritual warfare praying i had been doing earlier? thank you for the blood of your son, father!

i have had many of these, i can not explain it cause i really do not fully know. i am of the belief that it has something to do with lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis with hallucinations
there is a great book out called wrestiling with ghosts: a detailed scientific account on sleep paralysis, look it up...

wow, those dreams sound horrible.

in the film, waking life, it suggests that it is near impossible to turn a light switch on or off in a lucid dream. adjusting light level in a dream is a fairly uncommon task. in fact, it is a good way to test if you are dreaming or not.

if you know you are dreaming it is a lot easier to control them.

i have been having dreams similar for over twenty yrs , i get out of bed and try and switch bedroom light on , it doesn,t work , i then proceed to try other light switches in house of which none work , when i look out the window i can see other lights on in houses on street . then i start too panic . i have learnt over yrs too tell myself that i am dreaming and try and wake myself up , sometimes i can other times i can,t . it is a very frightening experience , but once i realise i am dreaming , i can control my emotions a bit . when i was younger , i used to sleep walk and when we got up in the morning , quite often all the lights in the house where switched on .

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i just woke up ffrom a dream like this. i fell asleep cryin because i miss a dear friend who passed away. the last thing i muttered was :god i you can hear me patrick give me a sign: i dell asleep. in my dreams i would be lyin in my bed as if i fell asleep or hours. theree is still te dim glow rom my tv being on standby. i can feel patrik aroun me. many times holdin my hand, touching my hair, tickling me. i would sit up to turn the light on but it wont work. i try all the others in the house. this happened over and over. not everytime did i get out of the bed. it seemed so real however that everytime i sat up i thought i was really awake. finnally when i did wake up the room looked exsactly how it did in dreams but this time the light worked. i look at the time and only 2 hours went by. it felt like atleast 4. i think he was trying to connect with me. or maybe something did not like the fact i was trying to connect with him. i do not feel like it was because i was distressed and crying when i fell asleep.

yes! i have had this exact same dream. in fact, i have been getting them regularly over the past 3 years or so. i am always in apartment that looks similar but not exactly the same as my own. even though it

might be a few years late for posting but i recently started having it too. usually it's when i pull all nighters. sometimes i think it's because i sleep too much. i've had it three days in a row now.

te amo britney

i have had similar also to you guys. i was in my living room trying to turn the lights on and my mum was there.. i told her i couldnt turn the lights on and she said don't worry about it. after that i was seeing alot of orbs and a triangle flashing near the ceiling. i saw my ex sitting on the couch and he got up and started floating towards me... though he didnt have any legs they were all bloody like they had been blown off from an explosion. another friend of his entered too and had a no face (like it had been burnt off or something like that) i was really scared and was screaming help help help help! then they came closer and put out there hands trying to grab me and i then started to say hello hello hello to them cause i knew who they were. after i did that they came even closer and the friend of my ex started noring at my ex's arm and my ex was in a state of orgasmic laughter. i cryed out for help again! then i was awoken from my mum at my door. i had been sleep talking

i have had this exact dream, twice now that i can remember, once last night. i am a christian as well. but have never called out to god in this dream.
with me i'm in my room in the dark and i either see a shadow, or feel a dark presence, i start to panic and i know i have to reach my light switch, but as i get closer i stumble and fall, the rooms starts spinning, i fight to get to it but i can't, and it feels as if the darkness is suffocating me. then i realize it's a dream, i know i have to escape but i don't know how, i try to and scream, but i have no voice and my cries are muffled, eventually i awake.

i have the same reacurring dream and it freaks the hell out of me i dream that i am being dragged around the room and i try to wake up but it takes me so many tries before i do by then i am freaked out and my heart is beating and i am dizzy how do i stop this or do i have some type of problem

i have been having the same dreams. you just described the exact same dream i had last night. i don't know what it means at all, but it is wierd and frightfull. last night i just tried as hard as i could to wake up and finally i did. i will try the jesus thing next time it happens. good to know i am not the only one out there who experiences this. the pressence in the room feels so evil. i have had dreams where it actually as talked to me. it said " you know what i want to ask you" i have had dreams of this evil my whole life and they are so real. if you read this, get back to me and tell me more. robert_birdwell at myemail

i have this same dream every now and then as well. i wake up in my room and go to turn on the light. i flip the switch but the light doesn't turn on. sometimes i try to open the door as well but i'm not able to get out. i then feel a presense in my room. the first time this happened i prayed and woke up. but recently i've just been able jolt myself awake.

i have had the exact same dream many times. i have chills right now because i too have felt that same presence of evil. also, i do the same thing by saying jesus' name. what is strange also is that i'm absolutely convinced that i'm not dreaming until the light does not come on. in my most recent dream i turned around and told my wife that if i was dreaming right now, i would be very scarred.

i thought that i was the only one that had this strange dream .its sligtley diferent but on the whole same .i start to go for the light switch and it fails {the ligh that is} or if i have a torch .that too fails or lights up but dose not give out only light!.also if i go for the door i carnt open it .very scary .i am male and happiley married and in my 40s live in the uk

i am so glad i have found this thread. i suffer from this dream to where i am in my bed, can sense something is wrong and every time i try and switch the light on it won't work. this panics me and eventually i will wake up. recently it has changed slightly to where i first try the light (not working) and then check my mobile which also fails to work.

i have the same dream a lot. often times, i start saying the lords prayer to fend of the spirits. i can never get past the second line and saying the lords name does not wake me from the dream.

wow ...all this is very interesting. i have battled evil spirits, demons and even the devil in my dreams most of my life. these dreams are so real its almost impossible to figure out if they are really dreams or an alternate reality. i had been fighting the devil in a dream and then woke up into reality and found him sitting on my chest beating my face in and then seconds later turning into my 6yr old daughter crying and then disappering yelling "remember, i will tear your sole apart". this is something the devil said to me at a church alter when i was 17yr old while praying alone with my pastor. i would write more stories but i think we all get the point. i want to close by saying i am not sure what the need for light or light switch means. i could never control the darkness...it only tries to control me. i am not afraid of the dark by any means but there are many times where i sense pure evil. i love jesus and by his blood and in his name is the only cure to pull me out.

i had a dream like this about a week ago.
i was in an unfamiliar house and my family was there with me. it was dark and i too could feel evil lurking in the shadows and when i tried to turn the lights on only certain lights would come on but not those of which the evil was in. people showed up in a car outside and i scared them off. i suddenly awoke from this dream at 1am for no appearant reason which i never do ...and saw the shadow of the grim reaper with what looked like a broom stick in his hand only to realize it was the shadow of my pointed lamp shade made by my night light shining on the wall. and the broom stick shape came from the tip of my sons sippy cup hahaha.... it was frightening to say the least and i did sleep on the couch after that. lol. havent had any scary dreams since then. but i believe this dream means i was misleading god and my believes some how.

there are many things you can do in a dream... one thing you canot do is alter light. you should train yourself during the day. everytime you turn on/off a switch hold for a minute and ask yourself... "is this a dream?"
train your mind to ask yourself those questions during the day. at night when you dream your mind will question that reality. thats when you should confront your fears and make them into beautiful dreams.

keep dreaming

I have had this dream countless, in fact, I just searched it in google and this came up. My only nightmares consist of demonic entities that have manifested themselves in my home and haunt me, these hauntings are brief but scare the f*ck out of me. My cabinets will smash open my lights wont turn on and only twice, when I wake up I am paralyzed and I see this dark figure sit on my bed and grab my arm in the middle of the night. One other time when i woke up paralyzed it was morning but i saw a little girl to my left then my head shot to the direction of my ceiling and there was this thing i cant make out the detail and it was screaming at me, so i screamed my Hail Mary then blacked out and i awoke a minute later with my mom next to me cleaning up my bloody nose. im only 16 so I know absolutely nothing about anything. So I'm not sure this will help you. But learn your Hail Mary. say it five times if you get awoken, you feel safer and its suppose to keep evil away. at least its what my dad tells me. Anyone who can help me deal of figure out if something is happening to me or some s**t email me. MISFITxZOMBIEx - at - google mail

im 11 years old my mom had a dream about her trying to sleep but thair's light's flashing and she walks in to a room and thairs like pepole danceing in masks that r like dogs cats birds bugs and she would try to talk to them but thay aced like thay cant see her or hear her and she says its like in the 1910's not sure :P

This also happens with me, but I always realize its a dream.Anytime I wake i turn on the TV to check the time,if it don't turn on I realize it's a dream and usually awake.But my last two dreams have been odd,in one when i sensed i was dreaming i looked around and saw a shadow flying around the room and entered a state of sleep paralysis and woke up.In my last dream i sensed i was dreaming and just looked around but i seen nothing strange,then i heard my moms voice but could not make out what she was saying.I started to focus on the voice and i was able to hear the last part,and she was saying(you need to stretch downstairs because God is trying to tell you something)After hearing this i got freaked out and tried to get under the cover until I awoke but as i pulled the cover it would not move then i finally woke up.

I've had the same dream last night. In my dream I was able to turn the lights on, but as I reached to turn on the last light in the room, it wouldnt turn on. The whole house was dark except for the TV.And it only had the poltergeist-like static on.A friend of mine said people who have these dreams may be feeling overwhelmed by emotional issues and are feeling that they have lost their ability to find their own way or not being able to see things clearly hence the feeling of fear.

I have the same energy dream too. Cant turn on lights...move or wake up...but I hold my breath and pull out ALL my energy and cry out for the blood of JESUS to cover me.......and say JESUS ,HOLY SPIRIT with all my might till I can come out of this paralyzing sleep. it takes a few minutes but it works!