Have you ever been asleep and felt as if you couldn't wake up?!
Question: Well this happens to me all the time. I'll be asleep and when I think I'm trying to get up I can't. I can't get up, talk, or even move. It feels as if I'm trapped inside of my own body. I have often heard that the devil is riding your back when this happens, but I want to know more about this. Please help!!
Answers: Well this happens to me all the time. I'll be asleep and when I think I'm trying to get up I can't. I can't get up, talk, or even move. It feels as if I'm trapped inside of my own body. I have often heard that the devil is riding your back when this happens, but I want to know more about this. Please help!!
it is called sleep paralysis, the mind is telliong the body you are awake and you actually think you are awake try and move but cannot. You become very frustrated and aggitated. However you are actually still sleeping. The mind is a magnificant tool which can really mislead us into believing things are real.
For Example - We lost one of our dogs Marc and my dream was so very real. that i lay there with my eyes wide open. the dream was so disturbing my partner had to shake me to wake me up. In my mind and dream though i was wide awake and could not get up move or do anything. Some people refer to it as sleep coma but i prefer sleep paralysis.
NO but when Im fallin to sleep sometimes I scare my self away because I stopped breathing. I think you have a sleep prob and you should prob do a sleep study.
I've had that happen many times. It's usually when I'm very tired or sick and didn't drink enough fluids.
I don't know of anything that stops it. Sorry.
Are you taking any kind of medications? Alcohol? There is no devil on your back. You are probably a really deep sleeper and having a hard time coming out of it. Also, look into your blood sugar. People with diabetes can fall into deep, hard sleep and have a hard time waking.
I believe this is called a parasomnia (a class of sleep disorders having to do with not being completely asleep when you sleep, e.g., sleepwalking). I'm not sure whether it would go under sleep paralysis, but it sounds like it.
Not sure what causes it but I have had it happen. I wake up, can see around the room, but cannot move for atleast a good minute, but eventually the paralysis wears off. Probably annoying to you but it shouldnt hurt you in any way.