Sleep paralysis, anyone else experience it?

[Zetsubou]

It's happened to me a couple of times a few years back. I would wake up, usually drenched in sweat (that's actually quite normal lol, I like things hot when I sleep), and be unable to move. My mind was moving very fast, I was panicking and feeling general anxiety and dread. I kept seeing giant black figures with red eyes in the closet and outside my door. Spooky shit.

I've also gone through a half-sleepwalk. I was semi consious, but it was 2 oclock at night. I got out of bed, took a shower, and was halfway down the stairs before my mom woke up and got me back to bed. I remember doing all the stuff, but not really being able to control anything.

 

[ElephantGuts]

I don't have sleep paralysis, but I do laugh at people who do.

Just kidding, I don't. I do think it's interesting though.

 

[dududf]

meh that's every morning for me.

It wasn't till about a month or so ago that I learned to sleep with one eye open (actually really cool!) and stared at the clock and passed out did I decide if it was a dream or not. when I saw 6:29...6:30...6:31..6:32...:6:33...and finally 6:34 and hearing the rampant beeping of my alarm to cut it short did I realise that i'm not bug nots crazy.. or atleast not THAT bug nuts crazy "-_-"

 

[Jark212]

I was 10 years old when that happened to me and it was the only time it ever happened to me (Thank God), like 5 in the morning I was stuck in bed for the longest 20 minuets of my life, once I regained mobility I couldn't stop crying...

I'm not sure if it's related but in ALL of my dreams that I remember I have a really hard time moving, it's like trying to walk underwater.

 

[Olikunmissile]

Once, when I was 11, scary shit man!

 

[Lonan]

I've woken up and been unable to feel my arm before because I slept with my head on an artery. It weird to see your arm, know it's yours, but for the first time in your life, not feel it. The solution? Exercise! Get a strong heart!

 

[SmoothGlover]

Really strangely that actually happened to me a couple of days ago (or atleast, thats what I assume it was). What I remember is laying there and seeing my housemates proper dragging stuff out of my wardrobe, I remember being relatively aware that It couldn't be happening but was still a bizarre experience.

Could well be something to do with sleeping patterns as its currently Freshers week and thus sleeping patterns are completely out the window.

As I said, im pretty sure this is what it was, had at first just assumed that I was hallucinating thanks to overzealous consumption of alcohol, but this seems much more likely.

 

[Rawker]

I do some wierd things when I sleep. when I dream, I feel. I can actually feel textures in my dreams. people usually tell me when they try to feel something they realize they are dreaming.Not me. That and i used to sleep walk REALLY bad. I woke up one morning half standing, half sleeping on the hood of my mom's van in our garage. And night terrors, I had those to. My parents told me I used to wake up and my eyes would be open and I'd be screaming bloody murder.

 

[infested]

It happened a few times to me. I woke up, and my bed was shaking, I know that I wasn't shaking, because it was obviously the whole entire bed. But I was also paralyzed like that. So yeah wierd stuff.

 

[Deleric]

Sometimes I wake up and I get a sudden shock followed by mental images (the most memorable some sort of boulder) and really itchy pins and needles in my feet and arms. This goes away after like 10 seconds, but damn.

 

[Shoes]

I've never been paralyzed as some of you describe the closest thing will be dreaming that Im falling only to awake halfway over the bed/falling.
Sometimes I'll enter an odd state of lucid dreaming where I'll see myself wake up and go about my morning tasks (take a shower, get clothes) only to awaken In my bed and have to re-do the entire processes...totally pisses me off during school days.

More recently the weather had been getting a bit unbearable where I live, (I prefer cold weather)the heat and humidity really started to bother me about three days ago. Then for those 3 nights I had a series of random dreams in which it was raining I remember one in particular where I was walking against the rain...pretty hard stuff anyways point being after having 3 dreams with rain in them, it finally rained today after like months of dryness. Weird stuff!

 

[latenightapplepie]

It doesn't happen to me very often. But I've still experienced it enough times to know the feeling well, unfortunately.

Also: It could be that fact that I have asthma, but I remember always feeling short of breath, as though I'm drowning (not that I have actually experienced this), during sleep paralysis. This makes the whole experience extra fun for me, because not only can I not move, but I also feel like I can't breathe.

 

[radarbsm]

It happened to me alot before I turned ten years old. Now it does not happen anymore. Also would have seizures too. For some reason I had neither of them since. Had to see Psychiatrist and they diagnoist me with so much crap.

 

[wadark]

I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but a similar thing happened sometimes when I would fall asleep on my desk in high school.

I would get this thing where I would fall asleep for a bit. Then, the best way I would know to describe it is I would wake up "halfway". My mind would wake up, I'd be fully conscious, I could think and stuff, but I couldn't move my body or even open my eyes.

If this is the same thing, then I know first hand how horrible it is. On top of the anxiety of not being able to move, it usually took an extreme force of will to bring myself out of it, which usually caused me to jerk out of sleep and bang into something, drawing everyone's attention.

 

[crudus]

I was just wondering, has anyone else experienced this, and if yes, what did you see?

Well, it just sounds like your body isn't entirely leaving REM since your body is supposed to be paralyzed. REMing when you are awake is typically correlated with you not getting REM sleep for a few days (like when you pull all nighters and you start hallucinating, that is your brain saying "fuck you, I am REMing anyway". Stress/anxiety would also affect sleep negatively). Most probably it is a sleep disorder that you should have diagnosed.

 

[mageyolook]

i had that repeatedly today. woke up thinking it was 11, but my phone said just after 9, thinking this was wrong i proceded to repeatedly turn off my phone, turn it on again, then took the battery out several times ect ext. oddly the time changed each time, a few minutes in the future. i then woke up confused and dazed, realizing i did not touch my phone at all. it was on the floor, the time; 9 30. then i fell asleep again, and had a VERY realistic dream of zombies. my best friend was a zombie, it was very vivid, and played out like a movie with me even narrating some of the parts. again i woke up scared and confused flinging myself up to guard against zombies. there was also another incident with it today, but i cannt recall it. this shit is scary, not knowing what the fuck is happening/real is just plain awful.

 

[Ghengis_tron]

I think I have experienced this before, it was about 4-5 years ago when I was going through a rough time. I woke up one day and could not move for some time, i thought it was 30min or so but my perception of time was probably off. I remember being very disoriented, but no hallucinations. It felt as though i were spinning on all axis' in space or something, vertigo possibly?

First post. yay!

 

[Skeleon]

Wow, no, luckily not.
The worst thing similar to this that has happened to me was this:
Apparantly I had cut off my arm's circulation during the night and the next morning it was completely limp and without any feeling. No criblling sensation, no dumbness, nothing. It took more than half an hour until it was completely back to normal, I was freaking out with my arm hanging uselessly by my side.
Still, that pales in comparison to what you experienced.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

So that's what it's called...
Still, being paralysed while awake seems much worse to me. kinda like this, but while you're awake, it just happens, and you can't move.
Although I hate white outs even more... all you can hear are the damn voices... it's like being in the middle of a crowd... but there aren't that many people... and I'm going to stop there.
too many bad memories.

 

[badgersprite]

It happened to me once. I wasn't well so I'd gone to bed early, and I woke up in the middle of the night. I had this really vivid dream where I saw a lot of people die, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I felt sick. And, for a while, I genuinely believed that something horrible had happened until I realised I was in my house and my parents were still there.