Has this ever happened to you??!
Question:
Has this ever happened to you??
You wake up, and you can't move a mucsle. They just wont move, your jaw wont open, and its the creepiest feeling ever, Its like you are teperalary paralized, and you have to push and push your whole body to get it moving again. This ussually happens to me when I nap in the day time, and now its starting to happen when I wwake up in the morning, it doesnt happen often but I am afraid to go to bed!!! Is this normal, does it happen to you, should I see a doctor?!?!? AND SO WHAT IF I SPELLED STUFF WRONG!!!!!!
Answers:
This is NOT TMJ--it's sleep paralysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sleep_paral...
What is happening is that you are waking up in the middle of REM sleep, in the middle of a dream. When we dream, our bodies go into a state of paralysis to keep us from physically acting out what we are dreaming.
There's nothing wrong with you except that you are waking up in the middle of your dreams. If your body didn't go into paralysis mode while dreaming, you would be sleepwalking and talking, which is a lot more of a concern.
Try getting more hours of sleep at a time. Then your body will be able to complete its cycles of sleep, and you will wake up at a more appropriate sleep stage. Good luck!