can't I move when I wake up
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i've had sleep paralysis for quite a few years, and it still makes me panic, i'll wake up cant move, but something im my room will look like a dark shadow of someone in my room.
Happened a few weeks ago a few times in the same night, woke up couldnt move and saw a dark figure at the other side of my room.
It was my chair next to my desk, but jebus i cacked my self.
Whats sleep apane that someone mentioned.
Happened a few weeks ago a few times in the same night, woke up couldnt move and saw a dark figure at the other side of my room.
It was my chair next to my desk, but jebus i cacked my self.
Whats sleep apane that someone mentioned.
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^ correct. On the One Show tonight there was something about a lady that got night terrors. She was asleep but she would lash out and flail around in the bed.
The explanation given was that normally when asleep the brain shuts down the outer cortex (controlling consciousness) and then deeper inner areas (motor cortex controlling movement). In her, unusually, the deeper inner areas could become activated, making her move around, whilst the outer cortex remained dorment and so she was unconscious, but her movement control centres were activated so she flailed around and had the so called night terrors.
Sleep paralysis is the reverse. The outer cortex is "waking up" before deeper areas, thus you are conscious, but you can't activate the deeper areas that control your motor function.
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The explanation given was that normally when asleep the brain shuts down the outer cortex (controlling consciousness) and then deeper inner areas (motor cortex controlling movement). In her, unusually, the deeper inner areas could become activated, making her move around, whilst the outer cortex remained dorment and so she was unconscious, but her movement control centres were activated so she flailed around and had the so called night terrors.
Sleep paralysis is the reverse. The outer cortex is "waking up" before deeper areas, thus you are conscious, but you can't activate the deeper areas that control your motor function.
Rgds
has happened to me a couple of times mate, not fun in the least! last time i genuinely thought i had broken my arm! was completely numb, couldn't move it and it was totally twisted round :S Not something i wish to experience again anytime soon lol
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Can only say I recall having sleep paralysis once, it was the day after I'd flown back from the US. Being unable to sleep on the plane, I'd forced myself to stay awake until around 11pm, setting my alarm for 7:30am in order to get myself back into a normal sleep cycle, however, I wound up sleeping for just over 13 hours, waking up at around 12:10 the next day.
I can actually recall waking, lay on my stomach with my head facing the alarm clock on my bedside table. I could see fine and was aware of the time on the clock, I could hear the radio playing away to itself and I knew I'd overslept and needed to get up. I was also aware of desperately needing to take a leak, so I thought "Right, up we get" And started trying to get up. Nothing. My arms or legs wouldn't respond, but I could still feel the sheets and duvet against my skin. It only lasted a minute or two, and I think I was more confused than anything, but it was weird. However, I can see how waking up like that in the dead of night could scare the bejesus out of you.
I can actually recall waking, lay on my stomach with my head facing the alarm clock on my bedside table. I could see fine and was aware of the time on the clock, I could hear the radio playing away to itself and I knew I'd overslept and needed to get up. I was also aware of desperately needing to take a leak, so I thought "Right, up we get" And started trying to get up. Nothing. My arms or legs wouldn't respond, but I could still feel the sheets and duvet against my skin. It only lasted a minute or two, and I think I was more confused than anything, but it was weird. However, I can see how waking up like that in the dead of night could scare the bejesus out of you.
Happened to me the other morning...Again!
Woke up, then my arm was just flapping around like a dead weight...annoying more than anything, especially if you push yourself up with that arm and just fall down again!
Can't remember if I said it earlier or not, but I had it in both arms once when I woke up...
hmm i had something like this today
i woke up and i was watching something on tv and was falling asleep on the bed, then i think i went to sleep and within a few minutes of falling asleep the door bell rung
i was awake eyes opened and all but could not move, i was thinking the damn postman is gonna go away with my parcel lol, i was trying to move and get out of it but nothing was working, it felt like i was trying to rock myself left and right then eventually i came out of it (lasted like 5 seconds tbh - as the postman doesn't usually wait any longer lol)
anyways i tend to notice this happens when i wake up and go to sleep again,
and also mainly when i sleep face up.
sometimes it can be a bit scary, as you can hear all sorts of unusual sounds and get hallucinations, like flashing lights / screaming, or like someones sitting on your chest, its kinda scary but i know myself its not real and its just this sleep paralysis thing tbh, its like your brain is awake but everything else is gone on standby, my eyes are open and i can see around but can not move. On one or 2 occasions everything just fades kinda like your gonna die or something which is ultra spooky
I thought it was something wrong with me but i asked a mate and he said its quite common and told me to google sleep paralysis, hes had it before too.
i woke up and i was watching something on tv and was falling asleep on the bed, then i think i went to sleep and within a few minutes of falling asleep the door bell rung
i was awake eyes opened and all but could not move, i was thinking the damn postman is gonna go away with my parcel lol, i was trying to move and get out of it but nothing was working, it felt like i was trying to rock myself left and right then eventually i came out of it (lasted like 5 seconds tbh - as the postman doesn't usually wait any longer lol)
anyways i tend to notice this happens when i wake up and go to sleep again,
and also mainly when i sleep face up.
sometimes it can be a bit scary, as you can hear all sorts of unusual sounds and get hallucinations, like flashing lights / screaming, or like someones sitting on your chest, its kinda scary but i know myself its not real and its just this sleep paralysis thing tbh, its like your brain is awake but everything else is gone on standby, my eyes are open and i can see around but can not move. On one or 2 occasions everything just fades kinda like your gonna die or something which is ultra spooky
I thought it was something wrong with me but i asked a mate and he said its quite common and told me to google sleep paralysis, hes had it before too.
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Thats just sleep paralysis. Its a bit shocking the first few times it happens.
I had it on and off for a couple of months a few years back, then it just stopped.
I had it on and off for a couple of months a few years back, then it just stopped.
You can relax and enter a Lucid Dream while in SP, now THAT is amazing
lol im sure ive done some of that too, sometimes i am dreaming and know im dreaming but it seems real but i still know its a dream, like something happens in a dream and i think wait let me do that again differently, i know i can because im dreaming it.
is that some of it?
I've not bothered to read through all the pages so this may have already been said but to the original poster:
When you sleep your body basically paralyses itself so when you sleep and have vivid dreams (normally unpleasant ones) you aren't able to act on them which could result in you hurting yourself. This doesn't always work - some people wave their arms and legs around etc as if they are trying to fight someone when they are fast asleep and unfortunately in your case and mine, you can wake up and still be paralysed until your body plays catch up and 'wakes' up.
Your effectively in a dream state for a few seconds when you wake or before falling into a deep sleep which is why you can sometimes 'see' things in the room.
I thought I was alone when I first experienced it but I spoke to my family and my mum suffered with it a lot and was shocked when I explained what had happened. I looked into it and it can be hereditary so some other people in your family could well have it.
When you sleep your body basically paralyses itself so when you sleep and have vivid dreams (normally unpleasant ones) you aren't able to act on them which could result in you hurting yourself. This doesn't always work - some people wave their arms and legs around etc as if they are trying to fight someone when they are fast asleep and unfortunately in your case and mine, you can wake up and still be paralysed until your body plays catch up and 'wakes' up.
Your effectively in a dream state for a few seconds when you wake or before falling into a deep sleep which is why you can sometimes 'see' things in the room.
I thought I was alone when I first experienced it but I spoke to my family and my mum suffered with it a lot and was shocked when I explained what had happened. I looked into it and it can be hereditary so some other people in your family could well have it.
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