Sleep Paralysis

Glaucus said:
No, this is totally different from lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming, your still dreaming, you just realise your dreaming. Sleep paralysis is when your body is paralysed(natural part of rem sleep), but your mind wakes up,
It's scary as you are awake, but unable to move. Can't scream can't do anything.
After the first time or two you realise what it is and it's not that scary. Apart from last night where I couldn't breath as head down on the pillow, bad timing.

You can also experience hallucinations. Which can very from benign to terrifying.
Had massive flaming Satan in the room, alien doctors injecting my stomach, room full of snakes amongst others.

The most common feeling with sleep paralysis is just a weight on your chest and a feeling of an evil presence. Making it feel like you're being pinned down by a witch, evil spirit etc.

You can't scream. Which is one of many reasons it's scary the first few times, until you are able to remember what is happening.
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Well thoughts are very powerful, so those with negative ones will be forming such hallucinations that you mention. Fear is very powerful and runs most people's lives but they don't realise it. Maybe the whole paralysis thing is linked with it in some way I don't know.

Anyway going a bit off-topic here but more and more people are reporting OBE experiences which is in itself a good sign of the increasing levels of spirituality among us. I think it's going to be a big topic in the future with lots more research being carried out and facts coming to light. Also more people experimenting themselves of course.
 
Loo increasing spirituality. More people are having OBE, as mire people are surving near death experiences, rather than just dying.

As for sleep paralysis, disruptive sleep patterns plays a huge part in it, and as we become more and more 24/7 society, more of us are having disruptive sleep.

Sleep paralysis is also linked to a whole host of neurological issues and autoimmune destruction.
 
Used to get this occasionally, 2-3 times per month. But oddly enough it stopped about a year ago. Scary the first few times, especially when you're face down in a pillow, but you just have to learn to relax and not to fight it, quickest way to stop it for me was to fall asleep again.
 
NDE isn't the only reason for increased OBEs lol, that would be ridiculous. It's not the type of OBE I was talking about anyway.

Yeah seems related to sleep patterns and drinking/drug abuse as well. It's not just that though as other people have experienced it as well. Also there's more to it than just neurology, plenty more sciences to discover.
 
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Had it once really bad. Kept waking up only to find I was still dreaming and this 'character' in the dream was cutting on me. Quite horrific, ended up in tears when I woke! Luckily never had it that bad since.

My dad gets it often with his narcolepsy, must be horrid.
 
A couple of times it was such a massive effort to get out of the paralysis that when I finally did I could hardly walk. I stumbled around for a few mins feeling like I had just run a marathon. Absolutely horrible.
 
Glaucus said:
The most common feeling with sleep paralysis is just a weight on your chest and a feeling of an evil presence.
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That's the strangest part about it for me. It's not a feeling of being scared because you can't move or because you are paralyzed. It feels much worse and scarier than that.
 
Sounds like a very odd experience.

I've never had it, but on the other end I get jolts quite regularly. Where your body is relaxing, but your brain thinks you're falling so you jump to grab something.

Wakes me right up again. :(
 
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Sleeve said:
Who else regularly has this?

I probably have it every other month or so.

I usually end up shouting almost to try and wake myself up/get my partner to wake me up.

Horrible experience.
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This is GD, so 90% will claim to have it all the time, or experienced it, or know everything there is to know about it.
 
2Thumbs said:
Sounds like a very odd experience.

I've never had it, but on the other end I get jolts quite regularly. Where your body is relaxing, but your brain thinks you're falling so you jump to grab something.

Wakes me right up again. :(
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I had that last night never had it before :S
 
Do most of you who suffer from it sleep on your back? Been speaking to a friend about it and he says he only ever gets it when lying flat on his back.
 
Nope, side.

Position doesn't have anything to do with it.

Edit - I take that back, it does seem sleeping on your back increases risk.

Several circumstances have been identified that are associated with an increased risk of sleep paralysis. These include insomnia and sleep deprivation, an erratic sleep schedule, stress, overuse of stimulants, physical fatigue, as well as certain medications that are used to treat ADHD.[2] It is also believed that there may be a genetic component in the development of RISP due to a high concurrent incidence of sleep paralysis in monozygotic twins.[15] Sleeping in the supine position has been found an especially prominent instigator of sleep paralysis.[1
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It's very likely there would be some genetic component as sleep paralysis is to do with brain function and performance, which obviously has some genetic component.

Rgds
 
Had it quite a few times, doesn't bother me anymore really. Seem to get it as a rebound effect of GABA-B medications like baclofen though.
 
Have it maybe once/twice a year. Always cack my pants at the time but the day after I think to myself 'how cool was that!'

My usual dream/obscurity is waking up thinking that all of my teeth have fallen out. I have a full set!
 
2Thumbs said:
Sounds like a very odd experience.

I've never had it, but on the other end I get jolts quite regularly. Where your body is relaxing, but your brain thinks you're falling so you jump to grab something.

Wakes me right up again. :(
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I get this sometimes, not too often though. Usually when I'm very tired and falling to sleep which is when I think you're most likely to have it happen actually. It's actually quite sublime in a weird way lol
 
I've never experienced anything like this, and never want to. I hadn't even heard of it until now, and it sounds absolutely awful. Feel sorry for you guys :(
 
Quite regularly, I'm used to it. It's not particularly worrying because of how often it happens, I know I'll be fine eventually.

I would go to the doctors about it but it's gone on for years so I figure why waste a day on a sleep study or whatever they do.
 
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