how to stop sleep paralysis?!


Question: How to stop sleep paralysis?
i get sleep paralysis, and i know that its happening. im completley conscious, but i just cant move! help?

Answers:

well the causes are
# Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
# Increased stress
# Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
# A lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode.
# Excessive consumption of alcohol coupled with lack of adequate sleep.
so if you do the opposite of these it should stop it, e.g sleep face down/on your side. Try relaxing/calming before bed...etc

i just read some more on it and having a disrupted sleeping pattern can trigger it, so get enough sleep and regularly. Also exercise (but not close to bedtime)



During sleep paralysis, you experience hallucinations and sometimes, delusions. It's nothing to do with psychosis. It's caused by a stage of sleep which makes the person able to see (they can open their eyes and look round the room and KNOW where they are) but they are completely paralysed and unable to move. It doesn't mean the person is mentally ill or becoming so. It can happen to absolutely anybody at any time and the cause is unknown although it is understood that stress and anxiety are big triggers.

Despite being able to see, they are still asleep and cannot choose to wake up to snap out of the episode - nor can they choose to go into a deeper stage of sleep to overcome it that way.

I suffer from sleep paralysis and see flashing lights, hear voices and noises and experience sensations like spinning, rolling, falling, pressure on my body like somebody is touching me or moving round the bed. All these hallucinations look, feel and sound completely real and at the time, I am unable to tell that I am hallucinating.
Don't try to wake yourself up during an episode of sleep paralysis. You are more likely to get frustrated which may make it worse. Just try and relax into it and you are more likely to go into a deeper more peaceful stage of sleep. If you can, tell yourself soothing thoughts, like 'its just a stage of sleep - I'm safe in bed and this will pass. When I wake up everything will be ok.'

When you dream normally, at the time you might not know you're dreaming but when you wake up, you know that everything that's just happened in your dream wasn't real and during a dream, if you HAVE to wake up you can and will. During sleep paralysis, you can't.

The mind works in some amazing - and some very frightening ways, at times.



I get those alot, I know what causes them. You just need to exercise more. This way you have a nice deep sleep. When u get them tho, don't panic, just relax and it will be over very soon. It's actually a pretty natural process so don't get too anxious about it.



Belle is right Also when one is having a nightmare another cause of this problem......is that the body does go into a temorary paralysis so that one can not act out during a dream



It seems that it's all in your head. You must truly believe in yourself to stop the 'paralysis.'




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