[Tom]

Originally Posted by Jack_

It's **** scary, but Stu's reasoning is right.

Sleep paralysis is even worse though, anyone had that? Where you wake up and you can't move a muscle and you feel like someones putting a pillow over your face? You have to eventually snap yourself out of it, but it's extremely scary.

Yep, and it actually only lasts about 1-3 seconds but it feels like hours

Its when your brain wakes up before your body. When you fall into a certain stage of sleep your body goes into temporary paralysis so you don't hurt yourself whilst you're asleep. When sleep paralysis occurs its when your brain hasn't told your body to wake up.