I Hate When This Occurs

[RAT900]

Happens a couple of times a year and it knocks you frikkin sideways mentally when you get out of it

Physiologically, sleep paralysis is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "after which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false".[5] As the correlation with REM sleep suggests, the paralysis is not entirely complete; use of EOG traces shows that eye movement can be instigated during such episodes.[6] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[7]

[zarn02]

I get that every now and again. It's never awesome.

[He Man]

i got that pretty much every night from age 16-19. im 22 now, and it happens once in a blue moon.

how old are you? Generally speaking people grow out of it.

[RAT900]

i got that pretty much every night from age 16-19. im 22 now, and it happens once in a blue moon.

how old are you? Generally speaking people grow out of it.

I am cracking 59 this August

It started when I was a teenager about 15..lasted for about 10 years....didn't have it for about 25 years...


Started getting it again in my 50's...maybe 2 or 4 times a year and it just pisses me off....

[badgalbetty]

I get this..........It usually haunts me when fear enters a dream and I am completely paralysed with fear. I have PTSD from the war. I wonder if this is part of it? It seems like I am looking at myself and saying its ok to scream and cry and all these people are there but no once can hear me I cannot scream or cry out .The vocal chords will not work......The nights sleep is over. Sometimes I am shaking when I wake up .........complete fear.I am usually sweating profusly when I wake up.
I love feeling this way-not!
BGB

[DucHead]

I've never had sleep paralysis, but every once in a while just before falling asleep, my entire body jerks like a large current was passed from head to foot!  What the make the beast with two backs is that?!   

[RAT900]

I get this..........It usually haunts me when fear enters a dream and I am completely paralysed with fear. I have PTSD from the war. I wonder if this is part of it? It seems like I am looking at myself and saying its ok to scream and cry and all these people are there but no once can hear me I cannot scream or cry out .The vocal chords will not work......The nights sleep is over. Sometimes I am shaking when I wake up .........complete fear.I am usually sweating profusly when I wake up.
I love feeling this way-not!
BGB

You know it is funny(well not actually) that you brought up PTSD as a possible link.  My childhood was a carnival/shit circus of crap and violence not worth going into here but I always thought extended hyper-vigiliance played into it.

Now that you mentioned PTSD I just realized this shit actually started again after 9/11...I was working downtown at the time the planes came in and from there it got pretty up-close and personal first hand.

The only way I can describe it is that I believe I understand what an awake but comatose person feels like......it sucks ape balls

[NAKID]

That has only happened to me once that I can remember. It was very much like I was still in the dream, but I knew I wasn't.

It was pretty damn freaky and I didn't like it one bit...

[cyrus buelton]

I have never had this.


Can one of you guys briefly describe what exactly happens?



Do you have some horrible dream and wake up thinking it is a reality and go into a panic attack?

[Vindingo]

I get this every once in a while and it freaks me out quite a bit.  I wake up, usually from a bad dream, and can't move.  Every time it happens I try really hard to lift my arms and legs but they won't budge and it usually ends with a whole body jerk.  It is freaky to look down at your body and not be able to move at all.  For some reason it is also accompanied by a really loud high pitched ringing in my ears.  It is similar to a really loud tinnitus sound. 

The next morning I usually have a bad headache for an hour after I wake up. 

[He Man]

I usually get it when im waking up from sleeping slowly or im about to fall asleep.

basically, your aware that your about to drift off, or your drifting back into real world. and all of a sudden you feel like something is sitting on you and you cant move your chest. at the same time you feel like your being pulled up by god or aliens or something of that nature. Then you try to move your body but nothing works, and for me, i can only move my head eyes and mouth. Which is pretty freaky for anyone sleeping around me.

When you try to scream but your vocal cords dont work, but you can make little whispering sounds.

And you can fully hear and see whatevers going on. but eveything is horrifying. Sounds sound extremely different,  anything you see is instnatly turned demonic by thought and hallucinations.

There was one time i was moving out of an apt and i had a black garbage bag on the floor and i had an episode. being used to this, i knew the procedure, just forget about it, dont open your eyes and your all good and it will pas in 10-15minutes (or whateer feels like eternity to you). But i opened my eyes and i see the black garbage bag sitting on the floor of my room. The street lights were hitting it so you could see parts of it and since i knew it was a garbage bag, all i could think about was what was in it. and of course all i saw were dead body parts crawling around.

shit like that.

but most people grow out of it. It did for me. I started having them periodically around 14 as well, but it was until i was 17 that i came litterally everyday. and it was until about a year ago that it started to stop.

[Porsche Monkey]

Y'all seen that movie "Fourth Kind" about the abductions in Alaska?  I think that's what's happening to ya.

[badgalbetty]

These are descriptions of what I experience. The not being able to move and the screaming but the vocal cords not working is huge. I am screaming as hard as I can and no sound.........while all around me in coming and shit breaking loose. I am glad you have put a finger on this, I ask my shrink if this is part of the PTSD.
Thanks!

[Vindingo]

at the same time you feel like your being pulled up by god or aliens or something of that nature.

That is pretty spot on... I didn't want to post it because I thought I was crazy for thinking it...  well at least I know I am not the only crazy person. 

[RAT900]

That is pretty spot on... I didn't want to post it because I thought I was crazy for thinking it...  well at least I know I am not the only crazy person. 

Hey I have more loose nuts and bolts than a 1984 Yugo doing 90 down a hill on a washboard road....but this is one thing that really rattles me when it happens

figured I'd throw it out there and see if I was alone

thanks for all the replies