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Sleep Paralysis

DEFTLEFTHAND

Does anybody here suffer from this? My doctor tells me it's common enough. I developed it in my late teens, it happens on average once a week.

In my case I become aware that I'm dreaming while still in the dream. It feels like my mouth is sewn shut and my nasal passages are obstructed. It's a struggle to wake up and regain normal breathing ability.

It's a scary experience tbh.

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andekwarhola

Rarely get it - and not for a few years now - but it's horrible alright.

Mine are that I'm just terrified and paralysed and trying to call for help or wake my partner but can't.

ChikiChiki

Used to happen regularly when I did shift work. First time it happened I thought I had died. Its amazing how you have full awareness but are completely helpless to move/talk. Scary experience. Got used of it over time.

Pretzill

Have gotten it since childhood - most of my family get it too so I was aware what it was from early on. That doesn't make some of the episodes any less scary though.

There's nearly always a presence in mine - a force attacking me. I can't breathe and I can hear and feel a rushing sound. They can be disturbing nightmares - sometimes I can convince myself I'm in a dream and I will wake up soon - but that doesn't always work - the struggle to wake up is immense and the relief of being able to breathe - sometimes it's like when you awake you're almost scared to go back asleep ... Like "Freddie will get ye"

The trigger for me is being over tired - which can be a bit of a catch 22 when you don't get proper sleep.

misstearheus

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.

Grayditch

The first time it ever happened was horrific. Second time was bad but it's just a case of remembering what's going on. Hasn't happened in years.

TerrorFirmer

Happened me once or twice but no associated waking dreams. Just woke up and couldn't move!

AllGunsBlazing

I usually get it if I unintentionally nod off again after waking in the morning. Horrible.

Olishi4

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

JustTheOne

Anyone get it then wake up, then try to go back asleep and it keeps happening? Like still in half sleep mode and it keeps coming back.

Sometimes I have to get up and wake myself up properly to stop it happening.

Mostly get it after long sessions.

CPTM

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!

JustTheOne

CPTM wrote: »

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!

Scary to think it's what locked in syndrome could be like and people all over the world are in that state constantly.

Crea

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.

qxtasybe1nwfh2

It hasn't happened to me for a few years. I would wake up and be convinced there was someone at my bedroom door but I couldn't turn my head to look. Also couldn't scream for help like I felt I needed to do at the time. It was absolutely terrifying.

misstearheus

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.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I got it a few times, right after a really really stressful/traumatic time of my life and it literally left me too afraid to go to sleep. It's horrible. Mine went away with time.

Lamentabli sane

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.

Olishi4

misstearheus wrote: »

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?

Ye I've had the falling thing a few times too.

With the ceiling thing, it felt like i was paralyzed. I do remember the paranormal force in one of my dreams was an evil child something like from Children of the Dammed who was telepatically making me fly up to the ceiling ha

For a few days I was creeped out thinking my house might be haunted but of course I don't believe in any of that stuff

Edit; oh great, I just read the post before mine! I'm going to have nightmares tonight!

CPTM

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.

ChikiChiki

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.

At yeah that's probably it. Must start going to half 9 mass on a Sunday again.

Speedwell

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.

Olishi4

Speedwell wrote: »

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

phew!

Thinking back, I was working in a particularly stressful job at the time I had it so I guess I'd attribute it to that. Did freak me out though!

conorhal

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!

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I used have it a lot. Noticed it only ever happened if I fell asleep on my back. So now I just never fall asleep on my back and it never happens. Shame because I find sleeping on my back most comfortable!

Mint Sauce

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.

ScrubsfanChris

Happened to me 5/6 times I would say, only in the last 2 years though.
It's pretty dam scary. There was actually one time where I was on the edge of falling asleep and could feel the paralysis about to kick in.
Had to get up and walk around a bit, to afraid to fall asleep

LaVail

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.

Dr Crayfish

I used to get this a lot, haven't had it in a while thankfully. There'd usually be some horrible creature in front of me and I'd be aware I was in a dream and would start convulsing around the bed and trying to scream to wake myself up. I hurt myself a couple of times while limbs were flailing around, and scared the bejesus out of a few bedfellows over the years.

4068ac1elhodqr

Hopefully you's don't see Owls just before or around 3:33 in the am.

Polo_Mint

I have suffered from sleep apnea for the past 22 years. Started from the age of 15 and happens 3 or 4 times a week.

Dr Crayfish

Aminah Scruffy Narc wrote: »

Hopefully you's don't see Owls just before or around 3:33 in the am.

Why what's up with that? I love owls.