Awake During Sleep Paralysis???

[Gawain 0]

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I like the falling asleep point when you feel like you're floating or falling and your legs twitch.

That happens to me all the time and you're the first person I've seen that's noted it. I always thought my nervous system was short-circuiting.

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[Snowflake 0]

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Sorry to hear about the problem, it would drive me crazy if it started going on that long after I woke up.

[Zeemax 0]

i always get that!!!

i normally jolt so hard just as i'm dozing off that i wake myself up..

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[skysquiffy 0]

I do both. Apparently, I also chatter a lot. I don't ever remember walking or talking, but I VIVIDLY remember the hallucinations. I have phases of both, although the waking nightmares tend to be a lot less frequent.

Actually, I think it's why I'm not a "morning person". I'm exhausted when I wake up.

Emma.

[pop 0]

I've experienced that before. There is actually nothing dangerous about it. It's perfectly normal for your body to do that. In fact many times you can catch yourself hallucianting pretty vivdly during this occurence. Again there is nothing harmful about it. Have some fun with it.

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[bch7773 0]

that sounds really bad. Luckily, I've never had any kind of problem like that (cross fingers). Sometimes I sleepwalk, but its always the same: I "wake up" at around 1 am, go take a shower, get dressed, and sometime around this point I finally look at my watch and yell "shit!". then I have to change and go back to sleep. but none of that scary shadow hallucination stuff... that would scare the shit outta me.

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[leroydb 0]

I had this in a mild case as a child. I would be dreaming and wake up, but not beable to move for up to 5 minutes. I hear its your bodys defense so that you dont act out your dreams.

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[kmcguffee 0]

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Just curious if anyone else has trouble with this, or even knows what I'm talking about???

I get it every now and then. Usually in the morning just as I'm waking up. It is a feeling like I need to wake up now but I can't seem to move. I can hear things going on around me but I can't control my body. It is usually associated with some weird noise that I think I should go investigate. No aliens yet.
I didn't know it was a problem. Sometimes I think it is pretty cool. It usually happens to me when I am extremely tired.

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[SBS 0]

Sleep walking actually isn't really scary unless you wake up in a really weird place...most of the time, I have just gone back to bed. The scary thing about the paralysis is that you are conscious and can't move...sleep walking, I would equate to being really drunk without the puking.

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[andy2 0]

sometimes when I go through a bout of sleep disorder, which happens occasionally to me (sitting up in bed, talking, getting out of bed, sleep paralysis, sleeping light, you name it) I'll take a supplement called 5-htp, which is the direct precursor to 5-ht, or serotonin. Serotonin regulates sleep, and with this supplement, taken a half hour before sleep, it works wonders. If you take this supplement make sure to take a good strong multivitamen during the afternoon or so, because without it the 5-htp, turns into not serotonin, but tryptophan (the same chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy). Some of the chemical will turn into tryptophan but to maximize the effect take it with vitamen E. Its kind of strange actually, because tryptophan and serotonin both have kinda the same effect, both make you comfortably sleepy, but serotonin as you know if you have studied the most basic neurology is much much MUCH better!!!!

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[QuickDraw 0]

I have no sleep disorder that i'm aware of other than that i can sleep 12hrs a day pretty much straight through,
and the fact that i become nocturnal if i am off work for any length of time.

I don't dream much, but when i do its normally from short amounts of sleep in the 1 - 2hrs bracket.

Sounds to me like your crazy though.

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Bump. This has been driving me crazy lately.

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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Bump. This has been driving me crazy lately.

Yeah I hate it when that happens.

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I've experienced that before. There is actually nothing dangerous about it. It's perfectly normal for your body to do that. In fact many times you can catch yourself hallucianting pretty vivdly during this occurence. Again there is nothing harmful about it. Have some fun with it.

Bad advice. I meant to tell you shotgun you really need to get scheduled for a sleep study. Those are symptoms of sleep apnea.

'nothing harmful about it' is hardly the right phrase for a possible airway obstruction. It can screw up your organs for lack of oxygen (hence the vivid hallucinations, etc).

I know because I just went through the testing...

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[ACMESkydiver 0]

Let me know if you find a pic with a bunch of figures in black robes standing around your bed holding your chest down.

That's what I used to see or feel when I'd start hallucinating during sleep paralysis.

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[ACMESkydiver 0]

Here's another pic.

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Let me know if you find a pic with a bunch of figures in black robes standing around your bed holding your chest down.

That's what I used to see or feel when I'd start hallucinating during sleep paralysis.

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion.

My recent one was a black box that was sitting on my chest, vibrating while it was crushing my lungs.

[MikeJD 0]

I think this has happened to me maybe once, that I can remember. Glad it's not a regular occurence.

I think it's fascinating how so many sufferers share a similar hallucination (a shadowy figure in the room, or crouched on their chest). Putting aside any occult explanation, I wonder what the origin of that is.

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I think it's fascinating how so many sufferers share a similar hallucination (a shadowy figure in the room, or crouched on their chest). Putting aside any occult explanation, I wonder what the origin of that is.

Yeah, I find that to be interesting too. Also, apparently the alien abduction thing is common for people to experience while in sleep paralysis. I only had the alien thing happen one time, but it was so realistic that I can understand how some people might believe they were really abducted by aliens. (Though in mine, I wasn't actually abducted. They were in my bedroom, doing something to my head.... and they looked like ants. But they were aliens, I swear! )

[Remster 30]

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I wonder what the origin of that is.

I remember hearing that there are several nightmares that are commun accross cultures: having your teeth loosen up and fall for example.

Remster

[millertime24 8]

You know Ive been in the medical field going on 7 years now and Ive never heard of this. Thanks for giving me something new to research. BTW, if its as bad as you say I do feel sorry for you and hope you can get it worked out some way or another.

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[guppie01 0]

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I wonder what the origin of that is.

I remember hearing that there are several nightmares that are commun accross cultures: having your teeth loosen up and fall for example.

I used to have that dream very often with my ex. husband... hmmmmm

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You know Ive been in the medical field going on 7 years now and Ive never heard of this. Thanks for giving me something new to research. BTW, if its as bad as you say I do feel sorry for you and hope you can get it worked out some way or another.

Thanks. I've been having this off and on for about 25 years now. It seems to come in phases, and I start getting it a lot when I'm really stressed out (like right now). And, as much as I hate the nightmare/paralysis thing, the phases usually seem to be followed by a period of really cool lucid dreaming, which I wouldn't want to give up. And sometimes, when I am having one of the nightmares, if I realize that I am dreaming and can stop myself from panicking about the paralysis, I can turn it into a lucid dream and have some control over what's happening. (But it's pretty hard for me to stop myself from panicking, even if I do realize it's just a dream.)