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Rob! 05-01-2018 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 9770104)
So basically I sat on you. OK cool thanks Marc, good morale boost. :sad:

:joker::joker::joker::joker::joker:

Withano 05-01-2018 05:11 PM

Its when your brain wakes up before your body. So youre able to think, you just cant move... it just feels like someones attacked/restrained you.

EspeonBB 05-01-2018 05:13 PM

Luckily I've never had it but it does sound awful

Glenn. 05-01-2018 05:14 PM

I get night terrors. Don’t think I’ve ever had sleep paralysis.

Mine will be like alien spider creature things crawling around my room and me thinking theres something in my room. The last one I had was a giraffes body was in my room and it’s head was in the ceiling and I was lookin at it contemplating how I was going to free it.

Jake. 05-01-2018 05:16 PM

Yep. It’s horrifying. Can’t move/talk/do anything until it wears off, even sleep.

user104658 08-01-2018 09:17 AM

I've had it once or twice. Basically your body always paralyses itself in deep sleep for rest / safety but it wears off in lighter sleep cycles before you wake or, if woken from deep sleep, there's supposed to be a signal that snaps you out of it. If that signal doesnt go hough properly then your brain wakes up before your body = sleep paralysis. Happens mostly to people who have odd sleep patterns. Not so much lack of sleep as lack of routine - e.g. It's very common for people who work a combination of day shifts and nights shifts so are constantly shifting their sleeping hours.


Weirdest sleep thing that has happened to me personally though... Wasn't paralysis. I was just drifting off to sleep one night when there was this sudden, insanely loud, "BZZZZZZTTTTTTT" noise like electricity that shot from one ear to the other as though it had shot across the room. I jumped straight up in bed with my heart absolutely pounding. It was some sort of ****ed up auditory hallucination :umm2:.

montblanc 08-01-2018 03:40 PM

i have it a few times a month sometimes i even have it multiple times a week/night :worry:

Calderyon 08-01-2018 03:43 PM

Yes and it´s horrible.

You try to wake up/open your eyes, but you cannot.

Sticks 08-01-2018 04:50 PM

Similar to what Toy Soldier says.

When you enter REM sleep, where you dream, your body is paralysed so you don't act out your dreams. (Apart from those rare cases where people sleep walk, but that is another issue) When you start waking, something goes wrong and the paralysis continues, and hallucinations occur.

What the hallucinations are depends on the culture. In the medieval period SP gave rise to reports of attacks by Succubus or Succub demons

Post 1950's and sci fi films, the hallucination is of being visited by aliens and having experiments performed by them.

The OP describing something terrifying pressing down on them is a classic SP hallucination, whereby as stated people in earlier times thought they were being attacked by a Succubus (or maybe witches)

Sticks 08-01-2018 04:53 PM

Another sleep problem that can occur is when you are about to drop off, you feel like you have stumbled, possibly due to a stray electrical impulse going up the spine as you were about to go to sleep.

Possibly caused by stress.

Jack_ 10-01-2018 01:41 AM

I've never had the hallucinations but get sleep paralysis a few times a year. The first five or so times it happened when I was younger were genuinely terrifying.

The best and quickest way to snap yourself out of it is to concentrate on wiggling your toes and fingers as much as possible. You'll wake yourself up and feel relieved. I believe it's triggered by a lack of sleep, stress and maybe even dehydration?

Marsh. 10-01-2018 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 9770221)
no wonder you have it awake to all bloody hours :rolleyes:

when will people realise that SLEEP is one of THE most important parts of health

go to bed at a regular time, get up at a regular time and your health will vastly improve

stop lying in at weekends and never stay up past midnight
its not big or clever

Sleep paralysis has nothing to do with someone's health you insufferable little momma's boy.

You stick to your 9pm bedtime and enjoy it nincompoop.

Marsh. 10-01-2018 02:02 AM

I've had that where when I'm drifting off I suddenly jump out of my skin as though I'm dreaming I'm falling off a cliff or something.

That tends to be when I'm really exhausted to the point where I'm drifting off as soon as I lie down.


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