[bean]

Tuxy said it first: sleep paralysis is freaky stuff.

It used to happen to me every morning in the summer time about 8 years ago. For those who have not had the pleasure; after a long nights sleep you start to wake up. However there can be a point where you are awake an conscious able to remember and think etc.

Heres the thing......

your body is paralysed, for all intense purposes its still asleep. To make matters worse you panic a bit and naturally your heart beats faster but cause your body is asleep you are tidal beathing...fells like suffocation. You try to move an arm/leg or even say something cause if you do it generally snaps you out of it and wakes up your body. You get this feeling that when you are lying there and you feel you cannot breath that if you fall asleep again that you could die....its freaky.

Scientists have discoved that there are hormones that are responsible for awaking the body and another for the mind. Sometimes one starts before the other explaing sleep walking and alternatively sleep paralysis

Anyone else inflicted?

[Dr. Loon]

Yeah.....

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[ballooba]

Night terrors thread, love when this comes up here.

Only happened me once ever.

[Johnnycabs]

I get pretty much the same thing every now and again during the night - its not much craic

[Tazzle]

I usually get them a few minutes/hours into my sleep cycle, only happens if I'm lying on my back I think. I quite enjoy them now The feeling and exhilaration, mmm.

Sometimes I can use them to lucid dream, I'll wake up with sleep paralysis, realise it and when I fall asleep the dream changes to my room and I know I'm asleep, I don't have enough control to leave my house or change scene, but I can wander around my house, there's no sound though and it's night of course, quite weird, and mirrors never show my reflection, that's definitely the freakiest bit.

[penguinbloke]

My cousin gets them.

One Summer while out camping she had one and pegged it out of a tent and sleep ran towards a rocky fall.

She would have gone over if my brother hadn't puked up all over me and my sleeping bag in the middle of the night. I got out of the tent as one tends to do in such a situation and tried to keep warm (while smelling strongly of vomit) for the rest of the night when I heard the uncle's tent open. The cousin came out, the way she was acting really scared the crap out of me more than anything else.

She didn't remember a thing the next morning.

[clearz]

Originally posted by Tazzle
I usually get them a few minutes/hours into my sleep cycle, only happens if I'm lying on my back I think. I quite enjoy them now The feeling and exhilaration, mmm.

Sometimes I can use them to lucid dream, I'll wake up with sleep paralysis, realise it and when I fall asleep the dream changes to my room and I know I'm asleep, I don't have enough control to leave my house or change scene, but I can wander around my house, there's no sound though and it's night of course, quite weird, and mirrors never show my reflection, that's definitely the freakiest bit.

Yea they used to freak me out but I think they are cool now. Got to lucid a few times from it. I get them when I drink way to much at the weekend usually about monday night or tuesday night.

[aidanpower]

I knew about the phenomenon the first time it happened to me, so for the first minute I was quite enjoying it. But a friend of mine woke up a few years ago and was actually paralysed (for over a year) so the panic crept in... Since then it's happened maybe a dozen times, and it's more of an inconvenience than anything else. It's effected my breathing on occasion, which really is ****ing scary.

[clearz]

Did anyone ever see The serpent and the rainbow. I bet you that is what that voodoo stuff does.

Lodgepole what aload of crap. Your mate was parylised for a year. Yea right.

[CuLT]

*shudders*

That's dead weird.
Hope it never happens to me.

[Kastro]

gen happens to one my arms in the morning.. its mad.. when it wakes up its a horribal feeling for a few mins.. like you can feel the nerves waking one by one... its also abastard when your woken to your fone ringing and you can move yer arms.. lol

[Tazzle]

Ah, the 'dead arm syndrome'

[aidanpower]

Originally posted by clearz
Lodgepole what aload of crap. Your mate was parylised for a year. Yea right.

Not as result of sleep paralysis, as a result of a damaged disc in his back. The paralysis just occured while he was sleeping and hence when he woke, he was paralysed. Believe me when I saw I really wouldn't be arsed making up something for the purposes of a web forum.

[CuLT]

Originally posted by Tazzle
Ah, the 'dead arm syndrome'

Now that I get very frequently, but that's just so much damn fun to play with. Now I just life the arm up and toss it around the place, weird feeling when your own arm hits you in the face and it's like somebody else did.

[Dr. Loon]

Originally posted by Tazzle
Ah, the 'dead arm syndrome'

Aye, that's not sleep paralysis, it's just a dead arm. Happens everyone, unless they don't sleep on their own arm.