Any one here suffer from sleep paralysis?!
Question: i used to get it a lot it freaked me out lol
what were your experiences?
do you know what causes it?
Answers: i used to get it a lot it freaked me out lol
what were your experiences?
do you know what causes it?
I've had this a few times. I read that, contrary to other belief that you wake up during REM sleep, it actually occurs during stage 1 sleep which is when you are just falling asleep or just waking up. The body releases chemicals to paralyse the body so you do not harm yourself - or others - during REM/dreaming, but sometimes it released too much too soon and you enter paralysis before you are fully sleeping, or else you waken while the paralysis is still "active".
I remember on one particular occasion that I heard someone outside and I "dreamt" that I was going to the window to check outside, except I was still in bed and I knew this, but it happened over and over again, with me dreaming I was at the window, realising I was still in bed and trying to move to get to the window but being unable to move. Then I panicked and tried to move anything, but all i could do was wiggle my foot a little. Very scary at the time. It has happened, I reckon, about 20 - 30 times to me over my lifetime.
I have explained this to others but no-one understands and tell me I was having a nightmare. I think that, until you have experienced it, you can't possibly understand what it is and how it feels.
Yes. It's a terrifying experience. Try sleeping with a night light on. Go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paral...
my little sister have she freaked me out really .but now i feel normal with him i take care of him at night.my parents did not take it serious topic so we don't know what causes it
its only happened twice to me but it was terrifying
yeah, i know what you mean, they used to freak me out until I found out why they occured. They occur when you wake up in the middle of a REM cycle.
I have it.
Your mind disconnects from your body at night. It does this so that you don't run when you dream about running, or swim when dreaming about swimming.
When a person's mind wakes up their body hasn't reconnected to their body yet. It takes a few moments for this to happen.
It always freaks me out, even though I know what it is. It seems to happen more if I fall asleep in a public place. A couple years ago, I fell asleep in the school cafeteria (they had couches) and I was trying so hard to get up and go to class. I kept convincing myself I'd managed to move, but I hadn't, and then I was hallucinating that that creepy girl from The Ring was looming over me. (Sometimes I drift half back into dreams and hallucinate all kinds of weird stuff going on in the room where I actually am.) Hehe...this one time I saw my ex-boyfriend cut a hole in the ceiling over my bed and wave, like this was a perfectly normal way to drop in for a visit.
It's just a disconnect - normally you're paralyzed in dreams so you don't sleepwalk, but sometimes you end up somewhere between asleep and awake and that safeguard isn't off yet.
I am not sure what causes it. It has freaked me out too so I know what you mean. You are awake. You KNOW you are awake, but you can not move. I would try to "will" something to move to "break the spell" as it were, and after a few moments that seemed like forever I would be successful. Very scary. It happened a lot when I was a kid. I told my Mother once about it. She thought that I was either crazy or just "dreaming" about being awake.
Until it happens to you personally..an easy mistake to make I reckon.
I was so glad when I found out it happens to other people too.
it use to happen to me when i was around 12 years old only about 10 times though. The first time it happened to me i thought i was dying unitil 2 mins later my body was functioning again. Maybe its was somthing to do with me waking up during growth. When ever felt like that i grew a bit more taller after i sleept after that scary feeling.
I don't. But.. my cousin does. He explained to me how it feels: he 'wakes up' but doesn't have control of his body. He said it's really uncomfortable. One day he tried really hard to 'think' about rolling himself off the bed to wake himself up! Nothing worked until naturally he fully awoke. Strange!
I looked it up.
Many people attribute this strange phenomena to demons or aliens, but it's really a natural condition.
"The brain shuts off the nerve relays to the skeletal muscles so that when we are dreaming we do not act out the movements with our real body, only our dream one...Occasionally the natural REM cycle is interrupted or out of sync and you can wake up during the sleep paralysis stage."
I have the same experience, and i used my hands to move my leg, meanwhile i wanted to go to toilet, luckily, after a momment, my leg can move again.
Yes.
Mine is usually in a car - with my foot firmly pressed on the accelerator - whilst reversing.
For whatever reason I'm going backwards at 60 mph - bound to hit something or someone - but my feet are jammed - or as you say, paralysed.
Scary - I wet my bed occasionally - but usually wake up to find no harm has been done. (Except to the linen).
It's something to do with broken dreams - if I understand it correctly, dreams are some sort of safety-valve release mechanism - operating at the sub-conscious level - that part of us which automatically makes us walk, talk and even breath without even having to think about it.
We do a lot on this auto-pilot system but from time to time its very own release mechanism goes down - and we are bounced back to full consciousness - which gives the brain a jolt - or a shock.
Nothing to worry about - I'm sure a few '000 bright-eyed students are working on it and will analyse a good reason for the split-second 'sense' of paralysis.
Nuff said - the nurse says it's time to take my tablets.
(If only she would.)
I used to hide them in my pyjamas - but got caught out when I had one of those broken dreams - and she found 24 on the floor.
Embarrassing to say the least.