Anyone else sometimes get paralysed when sleeping.

Yeah i get it sometimes. It's a horrible feeling. It feels as though my heart has stopped beating. It only lasts for a few seconds but it's pretty freaky feeling when it does. It mostly happens to me when i'm really tired and i'm dropping off to sleep. Within 2 or so minutes of dropping off, i'll just open my eyes and it's there. (hypnogogic or predormital form)
 
yep had it many times and many with dreams at the same time. Things like seeing a giant flaming Satan or doctors injecting you, to the very common dark unsettling presence sat on you.
 
Only had it once, I was quite young at the time, probably less than 10 years old. I had fallen out of bed and couldn't move; completely awake and paralysed on the floor. Never experienced it since.

I often end up with completely paralysed arms; sometimes one, sometimes both. But this is because I've slept on them and cut off my circulation. It makes trying to silence the alarm on my phone a bit funny, to pick up the phone is a bit like using one of those fun-fair games with the slack mechanical claw, then pressing the button you want is more like dropping your finger, hand and arm on the phone and hoping you hit the right key.
 
RobRX-7 said:
Yeah i get it sometimes. It's a horrible feeling. It feels as though my heart has stopped beating. It only lasts for a few seconds but it's pretty freaky feeling when it does. It mostly happens to me when i'm really tired and i'm dropping off to sleep. Within 2 or so minutes of dropping off, i'll just open my eyes and it's there. (hypnogogic or predormital form)
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Same for me also, it really is a terrible feeling, sometimes getting out of it is a real struggle, I have to use all my might to concentrate to trying to move one of my body parts, an arm, leg, even fingers, once I can get something moving I'm usually ok.
 
i get it usually when im overtired because i tried to stay asleep to long.

sometimes it is a dream others i know 100% its real, try to notice any slight changes around the room when it happens.
 
Does anybody else get this along with the addition of not being able to breath at all? Sometimes I wake up unable to move/breath or do anything and it feels like forever before I draw my first breath.
 
I had this once when i was a teen. I can remember just lying there not being able to move a single muscle and trying to shout my mum but it just ended up being a little whimper. At the time i have to admit i was a little scared :(
 
i get it if,,,,,,,,,

i sleep on my back and my head fulls back off the pillow, i almost pass out but my mind is still going if that makes sense, i can't move my body at all, and then i can snap myself out of it, doc said its to do with restricting the blood flow that travels up the back of your neck, if you crimp it the brain goes funny.... apparently the rabbit punch or kunfu chop to the back of the neck is targets the same blood flow
 
Frequently. I actually wrote an article about it recently. Waiting to see if it gets published somewhere.

The most common "visitor" I get is a coalescence of darkness near my bedside table that creeps up and settles on my solar plexus. It isn't as scary as it was, but it's still disruptive to my sleep.
 
naknakkus said:
Frequently. I actually wrote an article about it recently. Waiting to see if it gets published somewhere.

The most common "visitor" I get is a coalescence of darkness near my bedside table that creeps up and settles on my solar plexus. It isn't as scary as it was, but it's still disruptive to my sleep.
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i seriously know someone who went to church and was prayed for and 'set free' from that
 
naknakkus said:
Was his priest a neurologist?
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no, i think he believed that it was demonic and prayed for this dude, it never happened again... make what you want of it, im not swinging on any side, but that's what happened, i knew him with the issue and now without...
 
I've only had it twice but do you lot who get it occasionally know how lucky you are?

In that state you're on the verge of an out of body experience, not only could you fly around your house or go outside and warp to anywhere on the planet with just a thought but you can enter another dimension like a lucid dream world except not everything you see is under your control, apparently other beings are out there in the astral realm.
 
jonislost said:
Does anybody else get this along with the addition of not being able to breath at all? Sometimes I wake up unable to move/breath or do anything and it feels like forever before I draw my first breath.
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That's common with sleep paralysis. Scared the hell out of me, back when I didn't know what it was. You have two quite seperate ways of breathing - one voluntary and one autonomic. In other words, you can normally breathe when you want to, but you will breathe when you need to without having to choose to do so.

Sleep paralysis can block the voluntary breathing as well as other voluntary movement. It doesn't block the autonomic breathing (or else everyone would die the first time they slept). You will breathe when you need to, but you can't breathe when you want to. The few seconds in between seems like an awfully long time.
 
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