Sleep Paralysis

Started by 蜃気楼 September 27th, 2009 12:40 PM
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One day morning, My brain experienced a sudden flash, then I feel like I was falling down. I see some images of buildings falling down, and I hear the sound of screaming and earthquake. It lasted for 3 seconds. After it was over, I became afraid of dark and immediately turned on the light.
It is sleep paralysis. You get paralyzed while being awake and eyes closed. You can't move, you can't even open your eyes. In some cases, you see monsters and scary stuff.

Have sleep paralysis even happened to you? Talk about sleep paralysis here.

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Yeah, that's happened to me before. It's just when your body wakes up in the middle of REM sleep. During REM sleep, your brain paralyzes your body so your limbs don't flail around during you dreams and hurt you. Sometimes you wake up and your body doesn't know you awake. Thus, sleep paralysis occurs.

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i have sleep paralysis all the time.
except when it happens to me, i can open my eyes - but i can't move any part of my body, nor can i open my mouth; no hallucinations.
for the most part, it only lasts for a few seconds before i'm able to get my body to move again.
it used to terrify me at first and i'd panic and stop breathing, but now everytime i wake up and it happens i know to keep calm until it passes.
it's still scary as hell, though. :|
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I hate when that happens, I try to open my mouth and yell help but nothing comes out and my mind is flipping out. What I do now, is try to stay calm until I am able to move. Usually, I shoot up and have all this sudden energy from it and it takes a while to calm down. It is the worst feeling.

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Oh, that explains it.

I had the once, It was pretty much likeI was having a dream, but I was awake trying to get awake. I feel back asleep, and was able to get up afterwards.
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My mom told me I was screaming a few years back while having this but I doubt I had this before that I can actually remember in my life before


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Its happened to me as well, but not in a nightmarish fashion.

I thought I was talking to someone (where in reality I wasn't), and at one point made the decision to get out of bed, but couldn't, I couldn't even open my eyes, and I felt tired too. Really weird sensation.

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uhmm well I'm not sure of what you mean...but when I have nightmares or a really bad dream, I wake up and my mind starts working and thinking, but I can't move my body and it takes like 2 or 3 seconds...I hate that so much!
I believe you're referring to just those few moments from waking up, like a sort of disorientation.

While sleep paralysis would last a little bit longer, and you would actually try to move to no avail. :)
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One day morning, My brain experienced a sudden flash, then I feel like I was falling down. I see some images of buildings falling down, and I hear the sound of screaming and earthquake. It lasted for 3 seconds. After it was over, I became afraid of dark and immediately turned on the light.
It is sleep paralysis. You get paralyzed while being awake and eyes closed. You can't move, you can't even open your eyes. In some cases, you see monsters and scary stuff.

Have sleep paralysis even happened to you? Talk about sleep paralysis here.
WOW!
Tell ya what, if that happened to me I would HAVE to smash some beers and have a ciggie afterwards just to calm down.

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Yeah. Ive had it so many times. Especially when I was 17 and 18... Every other day practically. My heart used to race as well. It's not uncommon for your heart to race during REM stage. In fact when people die in their sleep, it is most likely in REM sleep;) Another useless disturbing fact haha.

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I remember when I was 5 I had one freaking screwed up dream about the Simpsons, and I KNEW I was awake but I couldn't move a muscle until like a few seconds later.

...Thinking back about it that was... wow...

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OMG i thought i was the only one with this it happens to me like once a week but some how i know when its gonna happen so I shut my eyes. The weird part about all of this i never sleep face up its always on my sides and I would feel this odd feeling and i open my eyes and something horrifying happens and I get freaked out I really hate when it happens it hasn't been happing alot now a days but it still is scary.

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i have sleep paralysis all the time.
except when it happens to me, i can open my eyes - but i can't move any part of my body, nor can i open my mouth; no hallucinations.
for the most part, it only lasts for a few seconds before i'm able to get my body to move again.
it used to terrify me at first and i'd panic and stop breathing, but now everytime i wake up and it happens i know to keep calm until it passes.
it's still scary as hell, though. :|
Yeah, quite frequent for me too. My eyes are actually open. As for hallucinations I can imagine walking to other places in my house, and it feels like I'm moving towards there but I'm still lying down on the bed unable to move. First time it happened to me I thought it was just a dream but later I saw my family going about their business at home, plus I could still hear them.
I agree it never stop being scary. I don't know why though, I always end up being able to move again.
Hahaha, I do the heavy breathing technique everytime it happens too, it never works.

It happens when you don't get enough sleep.
Also, it happens if you sleep face upward.

Watch this video, it explains sleep paralysis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCSqT5nZ9n4
HAHAHAHA, I never get enough sleep
HAHAHAHA, I sleep face upward

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Has anybody out there gone through this phenomenon?

It's quite scary when your body is still sleeping and your mind is awake

Here some information on it ( from http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html): What is sleep paralysis?

Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).

Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis

What are the symptoms?

A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon awakening
Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
Episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation (act or use of the brain)
Polysomnography (a sleep recording) shows at least one of the following:

suppression of skeletal muscle tone
a sleep onset REM period
dissociated REM sleep
Is it harmful?

Sleep paralysis is most often associated with narcolepsy, a neurological condition in which the person has uncontrollable naps. However, there are many people who experience sleep paralysis without having signs of narcolepsy. Sometimes it runs in families. There is no known explanation why some people experience this paralysis. It is not harmful, although most people report feeling very afraid because they do not know what is happening, and within minutes they gradually or abruptly are able to move again; the episode is often terminated by a sound or a touch on the body.

In some cases, when hypnogogic hallucinations are present, people feel that someone is in the room with them, some experience the feeling that someone or something is sitting on their chest and they feel impending death and suffocation. That has been called the “Hag Phenomena” and has been happening to people over the centuries. These things cause people much anxiety and terror, but there is no physical harm.

What else can you tell me about sleep paralysis?

Some people with disrupted sleep schedules or circadian rhythm disturbances experience sleep paralysis
A study found that 35% of subjects with isolated sleep paralysis also reported a history of wake panic attacks unrelated to the experience of paralysis
Sixteen percent of these persons with isolated sleep paralysis met the criteria for panic disorder
How can I stop the sleep paralysis?

In severe cases, where episodes take place at least once a week for 6 months, medication may be used.

You may be able to minimize the episodes by following good sleep hygiene:

getting enough sleep
reduce stress
exercise regularly (but not too close to bedtime)
keep a regular sleep schedule









BUT there is also away to obtain it!



check out this video for further information:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9hETPjJlo


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This happened to me once at my mom's house. There's only three bedroom's in the house, so I usually sleep on the couch when my sister is over as well as me. Anyway, I woke up one morning and couldn't move. Like, I could think perfectly fine, I just couldn't move at all. I couldn't even open my mouth to scream for help. It only lasted for like, 10 seconds but it was honestly one of the scariest things I've ever experienced.

To make things worse, I told my mom about it a few hours later and she immediately grabbed a flash light and checked to see how dilated my pupils were. >_>