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Sleep paralysis...
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02-07-2009 9:54pm#1
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seanybiker wrote: »never happened to me. Me sister gets it sometimes. Sounds really scary.
it is i miss sleeping on my back too
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I hate when it happens! Aaah! I dont really know what causes it in me, but my brother gets it from drinking, and so have a few of my friends. So... If thats any help to anyone out there, give up the oul drink!
From what I've read it's not actually caused by the alcohol itself - it's the lack of R.E.M. sleep you get whilst under the influence. Basically, drunk sleep is no sleep. From my experience, drinking excessively leads to sleep paralysis, whereas drinking moderately doesn't as it doesn't affect your sleep in the same way. Drinking a FEW beers before going to sleep will help, if you've had a lot to drink in the previous nights.
The worst part for me is the feeling that your heart is racing (and I mean RACING), you actually think it's going to stop, but when you wake up it's beating normally. The say fighting it is the worst thing you can do, never TRY to move or open your eyes, it just prolongs it. I've had some really long experiences of it (at least they felt long - like a minute or more).
Anyway, sorry for the long post - glad I'm not the only one.0 -
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It is so good to see that what happened to me was actually normal. Because it only happened once with me (20 years ago) and I never heard of any one talking about it before, I actually thought it was something else. I am not talking about demons and stuff. But I thought that I was suffering from something like (low) blood pressure.
In my case it was a mess. I was sleeping when these baby birds started making noise in the middle of the night. In my dream I imagined that someone was playing with a pencil hitting the hard floor. So I decided to wake up. That is when everything went wrong. I could not wake up, I was trying very hard to call for my brothers, and of course I could not move. I wanted to get up, move anything but I couldn't. I felt like there was this river of energy going from my head to my toes. Not like if I was being drained but more like I was in the middle of it.
When I finally woke up, my body was calm and that just made me even more scared. I ran out of the room crying looking for my brothers. It took me a while to feel ok about sleeping again. It helped when I found out that it was the birds that were making the noise.0 -
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Sleep paralysis is AWFUL. It happens to me a couple of times a year, usually when I'm stressed out (exam time/ assignment deadlines etc.) and especially when I go to bed exhausted - I guess that would explain how lack of REM sleep can lead to terrible bouts of it. I don't have visual hallucinations but auditory hallucinations like a ringing in my ears that increases in volume and an overhwelming sense of impending doom. Awful! Best tip is to avoid going to bed too tired, avoid sleeping on your back if possible and try falling asleep with your hand positioned beside your leg or on your arm so you can pinch yourself awake- that's helped me!
The worst of it is when you are trying to scream out for help - it happened me once when I fell asleep and my boyfriend was beside me and I could see him sleeping but couldn't get his attention. Worst ever!0 -
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This isn't a new phenomenon. Here's a famous painting depicting sleep paralysis from the 18th Century
When you are sleeping, the brain paralyses the body so that you don't act out your dreams. It is possible that you can become conscious/aware of your surroundings even though the brain hasn't yet un-paralysed your body...
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On a side note how many in this forum have gotten the Falling down dream? You know when it feels as if you are fallin only to wake up form a sleep. I think its something to do with overtiredness and that all your muscles are relaxing at the same time? Correct me if I am worng
Yup, I've had it happen on occasion. Or other times waking up with a gasp. I've all the luck! 0 -
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I'm pretty sure i got sleep paralysis this morning... it was so weird
It was quite strange because i was able to move for a while then i wasnt like it kept switching on and off...
At first i thought i was only dreaming and waking up because when i couldn't move i saw really weird hallucinations and heard buzzing and shuffling sounds although i was pretty sure it wasnt a dream...
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I feel like I'm in a room with fellow sufferers...
"Hi I'm Soupy and I suffer from night terrors"
I'll never for as long as I live forget my first experience of paralysis. I was 10 and I woke in the wee hours, the landing light was always left on when we were kids and the doors had glass panels at the top. Anyway, as I lay there helpless trying to call out for my mam I realized that a dark figure was slowly starting to appear in the glass panel, followed by an arm stretching in through the door, not nice for a ten year old. Further Incidents were quite sporadic until a few years ago when I started having night terrors.
These are guaranteed to happen if I sleep on my back, funny thing is that no matter how tired I am I cannot fall asleep on my back, but should I roll over on my back then Im in for some sort on nastiness. I also wail and moan when the terrors get violent and graphic, I frighted the life out of my poor GF the first time she experienced it. When it happens noe she just turns me over and rubs my back
The terrors themselves always follow the same format, they take place in the room I'm asleep in, I'm asleep and dreaming, I'm telling myself to wake up (which sometimes works)The nastiness is usually a cloaked or witch like figure gliding softly at the end of the bed, I feel totally calm and serine but with no warning I suddenly feel very very threatened, panic starts rising and the figure starts to move to me painfully slowly (queue my whelps and wails) If the GF isnt beside me then I have to ride it out till I wake otherwise she'll sort me out.
As to what causes or triggers it, the only solid answer I can give is that it happens when Im on my back. As regards all other theories put forward, It happens when Im both drunk and sober, I work nights now but it started way back when I was in college...As horrific as it can be I dont think about it much!0 -
RTE Radio 1 did an interview with a man that suffered from Catoplexy (also.. Narcolepsy)
It didn't sound half as nice as the above posts, basically a horned demon climbs in through a window and starts jumping around on top of him, beating him up.. Lucid, but paralysed.
Anyone have the feeling they're sleeping with eyes open dream? Or rather, the frame of mind for your dream is more or less the room you're in.
Yes, I have thought I was awake in a dream in the room I was in and woken to realise I was asleep and dreaming... not quite the same but still!
Just remembered I have had several experiences where I have also felt myself leave my physical body, too. Again, not the same but not a level of consciousness which is over-familiar. Zombified, yes: from sleep-deprevation. So, I have just written down what I think has been a denied or a blocked memory and I am hoping very much that recalling it will help me overcome insomnia ...would be excellent. Progress.
I have had a fear of falling asleep (which sounds so, so silly) ten years, maybe more. Not really sure at all. Time, I'm not keen on time. Watching the minutes pass unless there is an appointment to keep, that's courtesy towards the others at the same meeting so I do it, as one does. That's as far as I take its sigificance, really, so it could be much longer. Not that it matters. I'd like to be able to settle down for a good sleep. I am not afraid of being asleep, only of falling asleep. Maybe all I need is to acknowledge this as a problem and get on with getting over it. I hope so.
Any one else have this phobia? I wonder about my sanity and/or lack of on a regular basis (not only when trying to sleep!) It did worry me but I still pass as sane (eccentric, sometimes, but hey!) Provided no-one can lock me away for reasons of insanity, it doesn't bother me. Anymore. I do feel I have to watch over myself to stop clues reaching the men-in-white coming to lock me up but then really, am I less sane than others whilst I can see and make a judgement call on my reasoning and behaviour which is not under major question by anyone but myself. For all I know, it is relatively okay to have the falling-asleep fear and there may be sociopaths and worse lurking at every corner who appear sensible and sane to me but may be so far out of their minds that they walk beside themselves. I'm not going to ask, though... and I do know that it is impossible or close. Not on every corner! Statistics, as I understand them, have calmed my worries there. I'm not totally insane. Insomnia, it could all be down to that. It does have far worse effects on me than I'd care to admit, I suspect.0 -
SoupyNorman wrote: »I feel like I'm in a room with fellow sufferers...
"Hi I'm Soupy and I suffer from night terrors"
I'll never for as long as I live forget my first experience of paralysis. I was 10 and I woke in the wee hours, the landing light was always left on when we were kids and the doors had glass panels at the top. Anyway, as I lay there helpless trying to call out for my mam I realized that a dark figure was slowly starting to appear in the glass panel, followed by an arm stretching in through the door, not nice for a ten year old. Further Incidents were quite sporadic until a few years ago when I started having night terrors.
These are guaranteed to happen if I sleep on my back, funny thing is that no matter how tired I am I cannot fall asleep on my back, but should I roll over on my back then Im in for some sort on nastiness. I also wail and moan when the terrors get violent and graphic, I frighted the life out of my poor GF the first time she experienced it. When it happens noe she just turns me over and rubs my back
The terrors themselves always follow the same format, they take place in the room I'm asleep in, I'm asleep and dreaming, I'm telling myself to wake up (which sometimes works)The nastiness is usually a cloaked or witch like figure gliding softly at the end of the bed, I feel totally calm and serine but with no warning I suddenly feel very very threatened, panic starts rising and the figure starts to move to me painfully slowly (queue my whelps and wails) If the GF isnt beside me then I have to ride it out till I wake otherwise she'll sort me out.
As to what causes or triggers it, the only solid answer I can give is that it happens when Im on my back. As regards all other theories put forward, It happens when Im both drunk and sober, I work nights now but it started way back when I was in college...As horrific as it can be I dont think about it much!
silly as it might sound, next time you have a lucid dream, just ask the cloaked/witch person why they are there. If you can tell yourself to wake up in a dream you can control your dream to an extent. Ask what they want and if you can't help them ask them to go somewhere else as they are frightening you.
And no, I don't need the men in white coats to call around, thanks.
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Yes, I have thought I was awake in a drem in the room I was in and woken to realise I was asleep and dreaming... not quite the same but still!
same thing happened to me yesterday (technically)
thought I was awake but couldn't move. Tried to wake up. Could hear everything around me and finally woke up to find I was still asleep:eek:
Maybe I do need those men in white coats afterall...
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Blame it on the wrote: »I doubt it's pre-programmed Soupy as you'd have to know that you were sleeping/dreaming to want to wake up. Different dream state and active brain for those things. Use it as a last resort.
If you can do as I suggested, you have the possible benefit of finding out what's going on in your "subconscious" and perhaps the nicer possibility of it going away.....for good.
It may sound weird but I would never try to get rid of it. I find it totally fascinating tbh, it's just so real and vivid...Closet thing to something paranormal happening to me. Maybe thats crazy talk 0 -
SoupyNorman wrote: »It may sound weird but I would never try to get rid of it. I find it totally fascinating tbh, it's just so real and vivid...Closet thing to something paranormal happening to me. Maybe thats crazy talk
down with the men in little white coats for this one so...
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