Sleep Paralysis

[Peacocks-Lucky-Coat]

Anyone ever experienced this before?

Happened to me this morning twice.
Woke up, unable to move, make any noise, had a high pitched buzzing sound in my ear, hallucinated and felt a strong presence in the room. Fucking terrifying.

[thedarkprince]

Did it eventually wear off or did you pass out?

Isn't that the same as locked in syndrome? Albeit on a temporary basis.

[Barry Scott]

I've suffered with it all my life. It's almost a nightly occurance and it's not the paralysis itself that's scary, but the feeling of fear and the rare, for me, hallucinations.

Only happens to me as I'm dosing off though. Starts with a loud sound in my ears, identical to when you close your eyes tight, and I often feel like I'm floating or being flung around.

[Peacocks-Lucky-Coat]

It lasted around 30 seconds and all was fine again, I did some research and it's basically where your mind wakes up, but your body doesn't. It's a lot worse than it sounds

[Peacocks-Lucky-Coat]

I've suffered with it all my life. It's almost a nightly occurance and it's not the paralysis itself that's scary, but the feeling of fear and the rare, for me, halicinations.

Only happens to me as I'm dosing off though. Starts with a loud sound in my ears, identical to when you close your eyes tight, and I often feel like I'm floating or being flung around.

Ever get the feeling of another presence in the room? That was by far the worst bit.
I think sleep paralysis is quite common in people who work shifts and have a varied sleep pattern.

[Barry Scott]

Ever get the feeling of another presence in the room? That was by far the worst bit.
I think sleep paralysis is quite common in people who work shifts and have a varied sleep pattern.

Nearly always. I also very frequently feel hands around my neck and/or a weight on my chest. I've 'seen' a troll type thing sat on my chest and have also seen it beating my chest, which was kind of scary.

Part of me sometimes enjoys it to a degree nowadays. I just don't fight it and go back to sleep, because fighting it often, I think, causes much of the fear. Also, if my eyes are closed I can't see anything!

[Ginginho]

I sometimes wake up and both my arms are dead, that's a weird feeling, especially when the alarm is going off and I can't move.

Not as weird as sleep paralysis though, that sounds mighty scary.

[china red]

Aliens

[Peter Venkman]

I have suffered sleep paralysis often in my life but it usually coincides with very stressful periods of my life, it is not good but as Barry says you can train your brain to tell you its a dream and to go with it, took me about 10 years to get to that point but it does seem to work now.

The other thing I often get are night terrors, the most awful nightmares which I awake from either screaming or crying, my brain has not figured out how to cope with these yet even though I have been getting them for 30+ years.

I had a wierd experience as well on Saturday, which after stupidly eating a late supper I fell asleep and dreamt I was about to be sick, wretching and urging in the pit of my stomach only to wake up and find I had almost choked on my own vomit which had made its way into my throat and nose, now that was fucking frightening.

[Notts red]

Sounds horrendous. Have any of you seen a neurologist about this? Seen these sort of cases on the TV and would be interesting to get yourself wired up for the night to see if anything could be done to stop/ease the episodes.

[Barry Scott]

I sometimes wake up and both my arms are dead, that's a weird feeling, especially when the alarm is going off and I can't move.

Not as weird as sleep paralysis though, that sounds mighty scary.

That sounds a bit more serious to me! Is that a circulation thing? Do you sleep with you arms above your head?

[Ginginho]

Nah, it's nothing serious, have you ever woken up with a dead arm where you've been laying on it? Well I tend to sleep on my front and on occasion wake up with two dead arms. After about 30 seconds they're fine, just very odd to wake up to!

[DMR]

Do you sleep with you arms above your head?

Is this even possible?

[Notts red]

Is this even possible?

If you have an understanding wife/partner they would release you from the handcuffs before you go to sleep.

[jayohaitchenn]

Sounds like you lot need a tall glass of man the fuck up to me.

I know a whole host of people who pay good money to have a decent hallucination, and you lot are moaning about free ones... sheesh.