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Sleep Paralysis
Ive been recently diagnosed with suffereing from sleep paralysis. Thankfully im not a narcoleptic that has been associatied with it but its been happeneing for about a year now but i was too scared to tell anyone for fear of getting laughed at because of the feelings i was having and the hallucinations of people next to me, dangling over me or in the room in general...But after my tutor of all people told u he had it ive opened up about it 
**not as scary** I'd love to talk to someone else who may or has the same complaint because it can make me feel a little...isolated if you get what i mean 
thankoo xx
**not as scary** I'd love to talk to someone else who may or has the same complaint because it can make me feel a little...isolated if you get what i mean thankoo xx
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Reply 1
13
you mean you talk while your sleep or do you mean you walk and act??
Reply 2
habosh
you mean you talk while your sleep or do you mean you walk and act??
no its a moment where the body going into a paralysed state from either just the trunk muscles, down, or all over except your eyes. With it comes hallucination for example:
1.I was nodding off for the night in my boyfriends room, and he wasnt in there, then i woke up feeling someone there, couldnt move a muscle and the room was like...a hazy red.
2. Same idea, dozing off, then i open my eyes after feeling someone there, and see this torso shadow of my boyfriend looking over my tummy. the odd thing was he had no legs, so my eyes shut and i woke up normally shouting him.
It's not dreaming its called called the “Hag Phenomena” aspect of the problem causing weird feelings and appearances for a moment.
Reply 3
*searching google on sleep paralysis*
Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).
Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis
my gawd that is so scary =( dont wurry hun just try and do these things below and it should or might help
# getting enough sleep
# reduce stress
# exercise regularly (but not too close to bedtime)
# keep a regular sleep schedule
Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).
Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis
my gawd that is so scary =( dont wurry hun just try and do these things below and it should or might help
# getting enough sleep
# reduce stress
# exercise regularly (but not too close to bedtime)
# keep a regular sleep schedule
Reply 4
nasht
*searching google on sleep paralysis*
Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).
Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis
my gawd that is so scary =( dont wurry hun just try and do these things below and it should or might help
# getting enough sleep
# reduce stress
# exercise regularly (but not too close to bedtime)
# keep a regular sleep schedule
Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).
Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis
my gawd that is so scary =( dont wurry hun just try and do these things below and it should or might help
# getting enough sleep
# reduce stress
# exercise regularly (but not too close to bedtime)
# keep a regular sleep schedule
fankoo for that nasht
ive been told about a couple of those but they prescribed meditation. They say that helps a lot. I didnt actually have any signs of it al all last night but i did get a bit anxious, i went to bed pretty late and tried to exhaust myself lol, but its okay just wondered if i wasnt the only silly billy 
Reply 5
I have something called restless leg syndrome. Basically my legs hurt like hell if i keep them still for extended periods of time. So as you can imagine sleeping is rather tough. I have to move parts of my legs. Usually I just vibrate my feet from the ankles down and that stops the pain while i can get to sleep. But ive been told by a mate that i sometimes shake my feet while im sleeping.
Reply 6
Tomski
I have something called restless leg syndrome. Basically my legs hurt like hell if i keep them still for extended periods of time. So as you can imagine sleeping is rather tough. I have to move parts of my legs. Usually I just vibrate my feet from the ankles down and that stops the pain while i can get to sleep. But ive been told by a mate that i sometimes shake my feet while im sleeping.
oh right...good luck with that
Reply 7
I dont know whats worse, moving around too much or not being able to move at all.
Reply 8
15
Only once ever have I had something like that... Make of it what you will!
Was tired, had stayed up all night typing away on a report for IT class, went to bed at 10am...
I opened my eyes and tried to sit up, but couldnt... like something was pinning me down to the bed. I started trying harder to situp, but couldnt... So I let out a scream, which was all muffled, like I was actually screaming underwater almost.. how weird. I started rolling from side to side, as it was the only movement I could make, and I continued to scream, and it sounded all strange still.. really freaky! On the third sideward roll, I shunted to a halt. My whole body was turned so my head faced the wall (I turned 90 degrees clockwise), and then I hallucinated that I was carried into the ceiling. I was then back in my bed, flung myself up and leapt out... When I looked at the clock it was 10.11, so i couldnt have been dreaming, it was a hallucination of some kind...
Is that sleep paralysis??
Was tired, had stayed up all night typing away on a report for IT class, went to bed at 10am...
I opened my eyes and tried to sit up, but couldnt... like something was pinning me down to the bed. I started trying harder to situp, but couldnt... So I let out a scream, which was all muffled, like I was actually screaming underwater almost.. how weird. I started rolling from side to side, as it was the only movement I could make, and I continued to scream, and it sounded all strange still.. really freaky! On the third sideward roll, I shunted to a halt. My whole body was turned so my head faced the wall (I turned 90 degrees clockwise), and then I hallucinated that I was carried into the ceiling. I was then back in my bed, flung myself up and leapt out... When I looked at the clock it was 10.11, so i couldnt have been dreaming, it was a hallucination of some kind...
Is that sleep paralysis??
Reply 9
RobbieC
Only once ever have I had something like that... Make of it what you will!
Was tired, had stayed up all night typing away on a report for IT class, went to bed at 10am...
I opened my eyes and tried to sit up, but couldnt... like something was pinning me down to the bed. I started trying harder to situp, but couldnt... So I let out a scream, which was all muffled, like I was actually screaming underwater almost.. how weird. I started rolling from side to side, as it was the only movement I could make, and I continued to scream, and it sounded all strange still.. really freaky! On the third sideward roll, I shunted to a halt. My whole body was turned so my head faced the wall (I turned 90 degrees clockwise), and then I hallucinated that I was carried into the ceiling. I was then back in my bed, flung myself up and leapt out... When I looked at the clock it was 10.11, so i couldnt have been dreaming, it was a hallucination of some kind...
Is that sleep paralysis??
Was tired, had stayed up all night typing away on a report for IT class, went to bed at 10am...
I opened my eyes and tried to sit up, but couldnt... like something was pinning me down to the bed. I started trying harder to situp, but couldnt... So I let out a scream, which was all muffled, like I was actually screaming underwater almost.. how weird. I started rolling from side to side, as it was the only movement I could make, and I continued to scream, and it sounded all strange still.. really freaky! On the third sideward roll, I shunted to a halt. My whole body was turned so my head faced the wall (I turned 90 degrees clockwise), and then I hallucinated that I was carried into the ceiling. I was then back in my bed, flung myself up and leapt out... When I looked at the clock it was 10.11, so i couldnt have been dreaming, it was a hallucination of some kind...
Is that sleep paralysis??
You can't actually roll in sleep pralysis....sounds like youve got a shost...also you could have been dreaming because dreams last seconds...the only thing i can relate to is the "pinned down" feeling because thats what it is. As for the rolling, ANY movement you are able to make when encountering paralysis is a GODSEND, it snaps you right out of it.
Reply 10
15
It did eventually, but I assume the whole thing was hallucinatory, just beforehand (about 10 minutes before I resigned to going to bed) my light bulb for the first time ever, not only blew, but it SHATTERED... It was SO weird.
shost??:s
Couldnt have been a dream, Id only been in bed 11 minutes.. no time to start dreaming.
shost??:s
Couldnt have been a dream, Id only been in bed 11 minutes.. no time to start dreaming.
Reply 11
RobbieC
It did eventually, but I assume the whole thing was hallucinatory, just beforehand (about 10 minutes before I resigned to going to bed) my light bulb for the first time ever, not only blew, but it SHATTERED... It was SO weird.
shost??:s
Couldnt have been a dream, Id only been in bed 11 minutes.. no time to start dreaming.
shost??:s
Couldnt have been a dream, Id only been in bed 11 minutes.. no time to start dreaming.
Well i believe in spirits if nobody else does...but i dont link it in ANYWAY to my SP. If you're light bulb shattered for no reason...and you felt like you were getting flung around...id erm...well if it was me id get all excited and hope casper was in the room ^-^ But if your really worried about it tell whoever your living with or someone to see if they feel it too...
Reply 12
18
I've had sleep paralysis for a few years now, but i think it was related to medication which i've recently stopped taking. Its very disconcerting to feel like you are awake and can't move. I've often felt like i'm stuck and like i'm trying to call out to someone to help me move but they can't hear me, or the words can't form. It used to get worse when i slept too much, which was also a problem because whilst i was on my tablets i had quite severe narcoleptic like symptoms which made it difficult to live a normal life. In the summer when i had bad dreams or i could feel sleep paralysis was affecting me, my boyfriend would notice because my breathing would change and he was able to wake me up. Hopefully when i go back to uni i won't need that.
Pm me if you want to talk about it more.
Reply 13
Sarky
I've had sleep paralysis for a few years now, but i think it was related to medication which i've recently stopped taking. Its very disconcerting to feel like you are awake and can't move. I've often felt like i'm stuck and like i'm trying to call out to someone to help me move but they can't hear me, or the words can't form. It used to get worse when i slept too much, which was also a problem because whilst i was on my tablets i had quite severe narcoleptic like symptoms which made it difficult to live a normal life. In the summer when i had bad dreams or i could feel sleep paralysis was affecting me, my boyfriend would notice because my breathing would change and he was able to wake me up. Hopefully when i go back to uni i won't need that.
Pm me if you want to talk about it more.
I've had sleep paralysis for a few years now, but i think it was related to medication which i've recently stopped taking. Its very disconcerting to feel like you are awake and can't move. I've often felt like i'm stuck and like i'm trying to call out to someone to help me move but they can't hear me, or the words can't form. It used to get worse when i slept too much, which was also a problem because whilst i was on my tablets i had quite severe narcoleptic like symptoms which made it difficult to live a normal life. In the summer when i had bad dreams or i could feel sleep paralysis was affecting me, my boyfriend would notice because my breathing would change and he was able to wake me up. Hopefully when i go back to uni i won't need that.
Pm me if you want to talk about it more.
oh my goodness thank you so much! Best of luck and ill be in touch! Take care! x
Reply 14
i have the exact same thing. I havent been to the doctors or anything about it though, i never really thought it was an issue.
I get nightmares alot and i tend to think there is someone in the room (i have had this since i was little) and once i woke up and honestly thought someone was there and had laughed and ran behind my wardrobe. I shouted rather embrarassingly Help there is someone in my room! On the top of my voice to find there is no one there. I alos tend to walk in my sleep (or rather run!) lol as i think there is something in my room and wake uo somewhere else.
Another time i thought someone was running around my ceiling with a quilt over his head which was pretty scary! I'm quite worried about this when i get to uni though, as i'm sure to get nightmares and start screaming in the middle of the night
I get nightmares alot and i tend to think there is someone in the room (i have had this since i was little) and once i woke up and honestly thought someone was there and had laughed and ran behind my wardrobe. I shouted rather embrarassingly
Help there is someone in my room! On the top of my voice to find there is no one there. I alos tend to walk in my sleep (or rather run!) lol as i think there is something in my room and wake uo somewhere else. Another time i thought someone was running around my ceiling with a quilt over his head which was pretty scary! I'm quite worried about this when i get to uni though, as i'm sure to get nightmares and start screaming in the middle of the night
Reply 15
That is so weird... When I was younger (like, much, much younger - maybe 6 or 7?), something a bit like that happened to me a couple of times - when I was in bed at night, I would suddenly feel an absolute need to shout out for my Mum, for no reason, but I found myself not being able to speak and it really scared me. I'd forgotten all about it until I read this thread... I wonder if that was what it was? It was always one of my really vivid memories from early childhood, but I gave up on trying to understand it a while ago 
Reply 16
oh yeh, another time i had a similar nightmare, woke uo and tried to get up but as soon as i got out of bed i fell to the floor. My legs just gave in and i couldnt get up from the floor, which was really scary. I'm not sure if my mind thought i was still in a dream or what, but it was very scary.
Reply 17
research says that events like that happen to a 1/5 of the population or something at least once in their lifetime...its scary but not too much to worry about. If it keeps re-occurring though, people should see someone.
Reply 18
Cellardore
oh yeh, another time i had a similar nightmare, woke uo and tried to get up but as soon as i got out of bed i fell to the floor. My legs just gave in and i couldnt get up from the floor, which was really scary. I'm not sure if my mind thought i was still in a dream or what, but it was very scary.
Yeah, yours sounds lik your mind is overacting in sleep mode..like sleep walkers, you body may think its still awake when its sleeping..like falling over when you get up, might be due to you dreaming of exhaustion or something, take care!
Reply 19
x_Usagi-chan_x
research says that events like that happen to a 1/5 of the population or something at least once in their lifetime...its scary but not too much to worry about. If it keeps re-occurring though, people should see someone.
i tend to have nightmares alot, talk in my sleep and sleep walk. Alot of the time i feel there is someone in my room, but i usually put it down to either stress or not feeling very well.
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