Sleep Paralysis

Not paralysed as such, but still "out-of-it" in some shape or form. Am constantly waking up with the feeling that I'm about to fall!! Like I'm just about to fall off the edge of a Cliff and then I wake up to the immense relief that .... I'm not falling at all it's all in my head! But I can kind-of recognize it now, I know I'm not gonna fall but it's sheer terror when it's happening and I'm just willing myself to wake up!! It could be Sleep Paralysis in some variation perhaps I don't know.

I have mad mad dreams/visions envisions? anyway. Have big post somewhere here about them! Don't know if dreams have anything to do with the falling thing.

The more I think about it it is a form of Paralysis. I'm falling until such a time as I can wake up. Sooooo I am paralysed in a way until my body wakes up. Hhmmm I must read up about Sleep Paralysis.

PARlance wrote:

Don't know if it falls under sleep paralysis but I nodded off on the couch once. I awoke but couldn't move a muscle for what seemed like ages. I could see my bother and mother watching tv and was trying to tell them something was up but I couldn't speak.

This is my experience too. I can see things around me but can't move or speak and I know if I could just move one finger or joint it would be enough to wake me. Normally happens if I've had a few drinks the day before, or (strangely) if I'm taking a nap and know I need to be awake very soon. For example a lunch break dose, or a pre-night out power nap. I'm used to it now - so is the Mrs, she laughs when I finally jump out of it!

Foe those who feel like they're gasping for air I'd worry that it's sleep apoea. This needs to be ruled out as it can be a very serious condition.

Olishi4 wrote: »

I've had it a only a few times and in the dream, it was always that I was being lifted to the ceiling by a paranormal force.

Did anyone ever wake themself up laughing? I've done that a few times. You're mid laugh, then you wake up and it takes a few seconds to figure out why you were laughing.

I woke up the other night and my husband was out cold, then he laughed but it sounded more like an evil chuckle

Lol. Funnily enough when I wake, I do feel like am being lifted to the Ceiling alright! But it's due to waking with a startled jump with the shock of having nearly but not really, fallen off a Cliff-edge! . I don't be screaming or crying or anything though, just gasping in shock, it happens real fast and it's over real fast.

That would be entertaining footage, the 2 of us waking up in the same room me in a state of shock and you laughing! . Very interesting, the exact same thing but for different reasons! And so you're still paralysed when yer being dragged up by the force? Well I don't know where mine comes out of.... It's in the blink of an eye, there's no lead-up to it, there's no falling falling falling and a big thud at the bottom. I think it's at the top, I just fall off the edge and then I wake up immediately! Thank God it doesn't go on with me falling all the way down and only wake up after the final thud at the bottom! That would be horrible!

Ye should try this falling thing sometime peeps! It's great fun! . Next time ye're on hols, go up to the top of a Cliff. Then close yer eyes and head for the edge!

I did encounter the total-body paralysis thing 1 night a while back, it was over after a few minutes. I do remember though that I was having a bad dream at the time. It must be hell to experience that regularly. Think would pick my falling sensation though over feeling paralysis.

Hey All

Of course you are free to discount the below information, but I hope some will still hear me out and help themselves.

Sleep paralysis is often times a form of demonic oppression. It is accompanied by intense fear, nightmares and sometimes even visions of these malignant spirits.

I'll cut to the chase: How do you stop this from happening? Get right with God. Get back under the protective umbrella of His friendship.

Go to Confession and read God's word. Get a priest to say some prayers over you. The sleep paralysis will vanish entirely.

Lamentabli sane wrote:

I'll cut to the chase: How do you stop this from happening? Get right with God. Get back under the protective umbrella of His friendship.

Lamentabli sane wrote:

Go to Confession and read God's word. Get a priest to say some prayers over you. The sleep paralysis will vanish entirely.

That sounds worse than the sleep paralysis.

Lamentabli sane wrote: »

Hey All

Of course you are free to discount the below information, but I hope some will still hear me out and help themselves.

Sleep paralysis is often times a form of demonic oppression. It is accompanied by intense fear, nightmares and sometimes even visions of these malignant spirits.

I'll cut to the chase: How do you stop this from happening? Get right with God. Get back under the protective umbrella of His friendship.

Go to Confession and read God's word. Get a priest to say some prayers over you. The sleep paralysis will vanish entirely.

Well, that must be the answer. My Assemblies-of-God Bible-believing anointed-by-the-Holy Spirit snake-handling Pentecostal fundamentalist narcoleptic mother didn't seem to get any relief from being prayed over by those heretics.

Wake me when going to confession and getting a priest to mumble over you restores lost limbs.

In the meantime, look up hypnagogic hallucinations, and welcome to the twenty-first century A.D.

Speedwell wrote: »

Well, that must be the answer. My Assemblies-of-God Bible-believing anointed-by-the-Holy Spirit snake-handling Pentecostal fundamentalist narcoleptic mother didn't seem to get any relief from being prayed over by those heretics.

Wake me when going to confession and getting a priest to mumble over you restores lost limbs.

In the meantime, look up hypnagogic hallucinations, and welcome to the twenty-first century A.D.

God! I've had that happen twice. Not fun. Once, half awake, while coming out of a slumber I saw the shadow of a coat hanger on a wall transform into a shadow of an enormous tarantula, that scurried up to the ceiling above me. That was ten times more terrifying then any sleep paralysis I've experienced! F!%$ you subconscious mind, you enormous prick, for taking a shadow and trying to make sense of it by by transforming it into something horrific!

Have had it a several times. Usally accompanied by a dream, with it ending in my own bed. ie. The dream is me in my own bed, usally with someone or something standing over me, and I am unable to move.

Scariest I could see an image floating across my room, from the direction of a dressing gown hanging of the back of my door. When I did eventually wake, anything hanging up, was put in the wardrobe, but still took ages to get back to sleep.

On one ocassion, where I could feel my self unable to move, but found I was able to call out. Had a then girlfriend in bed with me, calling for her to shake me awake, thimk she was more scared than I was.

As a few others have said, once you are aware of it, you can come out of it easily. But bloody scary the first few times.

I get this at least 2 times per week every week. Been happening for about 7 years now. Even though I know exactly what's going on when it's happening it still scares the sh1t out of me. Try to roar or move my hands to wake up but that always fails me.

I notice that the next day I am exhausted and drained from the whole thing.