Something weird happened to me before i fell asleep last night...?!

Something weird happened to me before i fell asleep last night...?

last night i was lying in bed with my lights on reading. i started to get really tired and as i was putting away my book i just started zoning out, staring at a wall for no reason. then all of a sudden i couldnt move. at all. i started breathing EXTREMELY heavily, and i tried to move my right arm but it felt like it was moving really slowly.. like crazy slowly... i could move to look at it so idk if it actually moved at all.... i went on brathing like this unable to move for about 5-6 ish minutes but it felt like way longer. (i have a clock by my bed) just after the episode, i was really extremely sleepy but i managed to stay awake. i have been looking into it on google and on other peoples questions but none of them seem the same.. so far ive come up with 3 possibilities:
1 sleep paralysis
2 night terrors
3 i dreamed it... @_@
sorry its kinda long.. i just like to go into lots of detail and i would appreciate it if you would go into just as much detail with your answer

1 month ago
P.S. i just realized watever it was it was probably stress induced... my father died recently and my sister was diagnosed with some things im not going to give away on here for her privacy @_@ ..... P.S.S. im 13 -.-

It wasn't night terrors, that's something completely different. It sounds more like some type of sleep paralysis. I doubt that you dreamed it.

It also could have been a panic attack brought on by grief from the stress in your life but I doubt that also. Panic attacks don't usually have the symptoms you describe.

I strongly suspect that you had some type of sleep paralysis experience. When I've had sleep paralysis experiences they are usually accompanied by extreme anxiety. With me, I was unable to move my body at all but was completely awake.

As far as I know, this experience is not harmful although it is extremely unpleasant. I don't believe that they are the symptom of any underlying psychological problem. I had my first experience of this type when I was in my early 30's and my last one was about 7 years ago when I was 57 y/o. I've had, maybe, 5 experiences.

I looked it up a year ago on Google and there was a site where some psychologist was doing a survey and you could read other people's experiences of this. The experiences seemed to vary but no one experienced any negative consequences from them.

I don't think that doctors really know "why" this happens and are trying to make the best "gueses" that they can make. That is why if you read all the websites you will get many different "opinions" of why people sometimes experience this.

If this happens again (it may not) and you can't move at all, I find that trying to move one of my big toes and then after I can do that, my leg, and then more of my body; I will come out of it.