sleep paralysis

R0Z4G · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:11

does anyone suffer from this?
just ive been getting it quite recently if I try to go to sleep when I shouldnt be I feel I get trapped and can only move my legs and the rooms sspinning and feel I am getting crushed lol
its totally weird but I want up in a panic

has anyone had this before ??

Zefan · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:13

I've never experienced it, but I've seen a lot of other people talk about it here! So much so that I'm sure there was already a thread about it... but I can't find it

R0Z4G · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:14

I had a look but could not find anything, its totally weird and its freaking me out

I used to come home after work at 4pm and have a little sleep until I do my night job at 7.30 and now I just cant do it I just get them

spleenharvester · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:14

I've had it once or twice. Things you can do:

-Clench your fist once or twice, if you can do it it can bring you back up to speed
-If you have a clock nearby, its digits should be wrong - again, realising that should bring you back up to speed

So I've been told at least.

Barks · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:15

Yeah I get that after big nights out.

I become conscious but remain partly paralyzed for a few seconds. First few times were horrifying but now it's just annoying.

vicisthebest · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:16

I get it a lot. There was a thread about this recently wasn't there?

Found it:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18275162

TheCenturion · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:17

There's been loads of threads on this

I get it when there's a change in my sleeping pattern, and it does feel awful

Glaucus · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:22

Yep, well hardly ever any more. But use to get it a hell of a lot. I also get it combined with hypnagogic hallucinations.

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I've seen a flaming Satan, doctors injecting me, dark presence in my room, room full of snakes, "heart attack" with bright light and a feeling of floating and separating from the body etc. it's well scary. Until you remember it's just sleep paralysis.

Jon1818 · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:23

Ive suffered from it under bouts of illness before now, haven't in the past couple of years though.

Curio · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:25

Suffered from it a few years ago for about a 12-18 months period. Only happened when I would nap during the day - thought I was having a seizure at first!

It's an interesting thing - many people who suffer from it say they have a feeling of somebody being in the room, talking to them, but not being able to understand them. For me, it was always two people just the other side of the door - I knew they were talking about me, but I couldn't quite hear what they were saying. Weird.

spleenharvester · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:36

In my case, I woke up sometime in the night but I'm not sure if it was sleep paralysis combined with lucid dreaming... I started flickering in and out of the dream, I could hear the dream but my eyesight was rapidy switching between IRL and non-IRL. One side of my body was paralysed, tried calling for help, only weird moans came out.

I knew I was conscious because the poster had come down from my wall after I fell asleep in the night; and was in the "dream" and the morning.

Though it was less scary, more frustrating

Aedus · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:38

That sounds... AWESOME.

Awesomely scary, but damn.

ganesh · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:38

I've had this a fair few times, though not in the past few months. It's really freaky the first time though, you panic and frantically try to move in any way you can, whereas what you should do is to just go back to sleep and wake up again once your body has sorted itself out.

vicisthebest · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:52

It happens to me and it's always the same, I'm awake, as in my eyes are open, but I hear footsteps, and then I picture a man coming into the room, just slowly walking towards the bed, and I can't move or make any noise, I'm begging myself just to move my finger or something because I know I'll wake up then, and eventually I do - it's really scary! It's always in a morning, broad daylight, usually when I'm absolutely knackered and sleep longer than normal.

Nix · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:53

First time I ever had it (around 2005) I saw a hooded figure stood at the foot of my bed.

I find the hallucination side of the paralysis very interesting actually.

spleenharvester · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:57

Nix said:
First time I ever had it (around 2005) I saw a hooded figure stood at the foot of my bed.

I find the hallucination side of the paralysis very interesting actually.

As do I, just seems quite fascinating to me.

Cosimo · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:58

It's something I hope that I will never experience.

Rroff · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:59

Only once (I think it was after a pretty hard night of drinking) I woke up and for about half a minute couldn't move, couldn't read my clock or any text on anything and I could clearly see a huge spider crawling up my wall (there was no actual spider was just a hallucination).

Aedus · 23 Jun 2011 at 19:00

Nix said:
First time I ever had it (around 2005) I saw a hooded figure stood at the foot of my bed.

I find the hallucination side of the paralysis very interesting actually.

I want this to happen to me.
Is there any way to induce it?

(Not trolling)

Nymins · 23 Jun 2011 at 19:01

I had it a number of times. Its freaky, but once you realise whats happening, I just usually try to go back to sleep and force myself awake.

Feels really weird. I "woke" up, but I was breathing automatically, had no control over it at all. I couldn't move and couldn't open my eyes (if you try, for me anyway, it feels like someone is pulling your eyelids shut as you try to open them).

Never had any hallucinations though. My vision was very blurry, not black like closing your eyes, just like white over your eyes.