Anyone else sometimes get paralysed when sleeping.

Jynmagic · 12 Dec 2009 at 02:20

It's happened to me a few times. Pretty odd experience.

int · 12 Dec 2009 at 07:55

Had it last night for the first time in quite a while, it's a very odd sensation, like being the tiredest you could ever be

NerveAgent · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:22

I've not had it for quite a few years. I used to get it quite a lot though...when I was at uni, my theory is that it happens more when you have loooots of sleep and lots of time in bed in half sleep/awake states.

So those who get it regularly, do you have a regular sleep pattern?

B&W · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:36

yes happens to me rarely, just cant move and feel scared. but i usually snap out of it in a few minutes.

djohn · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:39

Yep. I get it quite a lot, at least twice a week, sometimes more often and usually the same dream of something coming through the window, [Never see it] but feel the weight of it crawl up the bed, feel the depresions it makes in the bed and I can't do a thing about it.

I call out to my wife but no sound comes from me even though I can see my wife and hear her breathing. I seem to wake up and think, thank ****** that is over but it isn't, I'm thrown back into the dream and this can repeat for 4 to 6 times. :confused:

I am on a lot of medication though including morphine and doc says it is down to this. :eek:

Gerard · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:49

Can't say ive ever had the paralysis, if anything i move about too much in bed, usually turn around several times a night and every so often crack my head off the wall. :mad:

Dogoid · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:03

sleep paralysis is the body's way of telling you, your gay.

i have never had it

Nymins · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:20

Happened to me a few times. Scary, but I just force myself back to sleep and then wake myself up again.

Carl · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:34

I get sleep paralysis, it frightened me when it first happened but now i enjoy it

Radiation · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:35

So who's gone and floated out of their body while paralysed?

You'd think that part happens more often, those of you who get it next time, calm down and try not to think about moving physically then try to shift your point of awareness away from your physical body, before you know it you will be flying around your room and can pass through walls and explore the world or enter the astral plane and stuff, DO IT!

Dogoid · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:43

not all sleep paralysis moments are the first steps to an out of body. this might have been mentioned but the body is paralysed during sleep to prevent you physically acting out your dreams.

Energize · 12 Dec 2009 at 16:24

A few times a year I wake up paralysed, doesn't scare me any more though. Can happen when I'm going to sleep sometimes as well with strange paraesthesias.

Radiation · 12 Dec 2009 at 21:32

Dogoid said:
not all sleep paralysis moments are the first steps to an out of body. this might have been mentioned but the body is paralysed during sleep to prevent you physically acting out your dreams.

Yeah no doubt but you got to admit its the perfect state to relax and help induce one, i kind of wish i had these occasionally so i could more easily try astral projection, not had much luck with it, i only seem to get the energy vibrations, though i have had the odd lucid dream and stuff.