“Imagine what would happen if you acted out your dreams while you slept. It wouldn’t take you very long to fall out of bed, and nobody would want to sleep with you. The body solves this by paralyzing your muscles while you dream. When you are awake but can’t move it’s only because your body has fallen asleep and the mind remained conscious. So there’s no reason to be afraid. In fact it’s a good idea to stay completely relaxed. I’m not going to go into much detail in this book, only to say you can let yourself fully relax and slowly try to roll your dream body outside of the physical one.”