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Sleep Paralysis

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  • #62
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    A condition in which, upon waking, a person is aware of the surroundings but is unable to move

    This happened to me on a regular basis for a while in my late teens, typically I'd wake with a start in the small hours and end up upright staring into darkness fixing on a small red light on a heater (it was winter) after 10 or so mins I'd realise I could move fine and would just lay back and return to sleep.

    Twas strange and it did'nt last.

    Mike.


  • #63
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    mike65 wrote:
    This happened to me on a regular basis for a while in my late teens, typically I'd wake with a start in the small hours and end up upright staring into darkness fixing on a small red light on a heater (it was winter) after 10 or so mins I'd realise I could move fine and would just lay back and return to sleep.

    Twas strange and it did'nt last.

    Mike.

    Twas the night before christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse, because they all had slepp paralysis!.

    Sorry :o


  • #64
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    This happened to me last week, I was convinced my room was haunted or somthing because the light from the moon or else the hallway was all I could see, as I couldn't move my head....I actually couldn't move myself but I felt myself sort of jerk twice without actually doing it myself, it was really freaky...I tried to scream when I heard my brother come home but I couldn't so I just forced myself to stay calm and go back asleep. Glad to see its common enough :p


  • #65
    bubblicious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭bubblicious


    This happened to me an awful lot when I was younger - and it scared the s**t outta me!! Hadn't happened to me in ages until the night before last. My alarm clock went off and I tried to turn it off but I just couldn't physically move!! Just glad to know I'm not the only one it happens to!! :D


  • #66
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭nobodythere


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    I'd never touch such things, didn't you mommy tell you they induce Sleep Paralysis, when you were young? :d

    Video evidence suggests otherwise.

    I have a friend who gets it. There seems to be a vague connection with the ol' drugaroonies...


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  • #67
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    You have no such evidence.
    >_>
    Nah, no drugs taken the one time I had one, or for a long time beforehand.


  • #68
    Mr. Flibble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭Mr. Flibble


    I only read the first 20 post or so so this may have been mentioned before. If not, I hope it helps.

    Sleep paralysis and not being to awaken from a nightmare when you know you are dreaming happens to me the odd time. I have found that the only sure fire way to wake up from it is to not try to force myself awake or to try to make myself move but to try to relax and fall into a deeper sleep.

    This is obviously psychologically a difficult thing to do if you are having a nightmare as the last thing you want to do is stay asleep, but I've found that it next to always gets me awake. Its probably just a mater of relaxing and I start to relax if I tell myself to submit to the dream/sleep (face your fears and all that crap).

    Sweet dreams!


  • #69
    Fandyfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Fandyfan


    ive only read a few threads at the start and at the end...yeah its happened to me a few times too. i was scared at the start, call me wierd but i thought it was pretty cool! lol after that i tried to purposely get myself into that state by just completely relaxing. it worked a few times but now i cant do it anymore...when i try now i just fall asleep! lol.


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