I Hate When This Occurs

[cyrus buelton]

jesus christ guys.


that is some freaky shit.



Is this something you can address with your doctor and get treatment for? Or is it one of those things that just happens?

[Speedbag]

Happens to me a few times a year also. It's pretty freaky. 

[RAT900]

jesus christ guys.


that is some freaky shit.



Is this something you can address with your doctor and get treatment for? Or is it one of those things that just happens?

Doc's will throw meds at it...hell they'll throw meds at anything these days to get the spifs and perks from the pharmaceutical companies

For most I think it is an occasional thing like a false neutral between 5th and 6th gears

the brain just hiccups between the dream state and the conscious state...gets hung-up in the transition

I think they are studying links to migraine neurological syndrome..though I rarely get a headache ever in life

some get it more often than others and get the hallucinations thrown in....fortunately I don't get them ...boy I'm so lucky that way

I am just aware of my surroundings and aware that I am completely paralyzed, can't see or open my eyes can't scream though I'm trying and I can't figure my way out of it


oh and I should add that drinking yourself unconscious nightly usually will eclipse the more delicate, nuanced transitional machinations of the mind...but that has its own long term consequences   

[Duck-Stew]

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?!   

Me too.  WTF? 

Haven't had what RAT900's posting about though...

[Popeye the Sailor]

All I have to say if any of you end up paralyzed but conscious around me, I'm going to pee on you.

[Betty Rage]

I have the same experience from time to time. Usually after nightmares. I wake up and can't move anything but my eyes. I have to talk myself out of it. It usually only lasts about a minute or two, and I don't have hallucinations. I do have really vivid nightmares though and often wake up screaming or crying and sometimes it takes 10 or so minutes for me to calm down and realize I'm back in realilty.

[cyrus buelton]

Doc's will throw meds at it...

Just curious as to what form of medication they would use to treat this as it seems like it isn't an everyday occurrence.

[RAT900]

Just curious as to what form of medication they would use to treat this as it seems like it isn't an everyday occurrence.

probably Lunesta, Ambien or one of those sorts of things that have people "coming-to" behind the wheel of their car steaming down the highway, confused because the last thing they remember was being under the covers <laughing>

[Speedbag]

I have to talk myself out of it.

It's happened to me enough that I realize what's up to some degree and tell myself that I'm not awake.

It's bizarre. And scary.

[He Man]

The doc i spoke to says its common for young people and you shouldnt need med for it also dont do things that cause it (see below). Why it happens is anybodys guess.

The problem arises mostly from the way you sleep. It used to happen every time i slept laying flat on my back.

The sitting on the chest thing only happens when i have a hand on my chest. otherwise its mostly me feeling like im being lifted to get a probe stuck in my butt.

I dont get werided out by it anymore. Its kind of a fun trip feeling like your floating. I say enjoy it while it lasts and dont open your eyes cause youll start seeing shit.

Its that or we've all been abducted every night.


like neenjamasta said, just talking to yourself really helps. You can tell yourself "ok, im just in sleep paralysis and im floating or someones grabbing me into the depts of hell, but its okay cause the floor is in the way!. Dont open my eyes and enjoy the feeling and eventually if you fight it, you'll etiehr wake up or your in a scaryily blissful feeling and you fall back asleep"

[RAT900]

It's happened to me enough that I realize what's up to some degree and tell myself that I'm not awake.

It's bizarre. And scary.

+1  ...at some weird level of awareness I am able to think "Shit!! this again" then I begin struggling against it

[cyrus buelton]

probably Lunesta, Ambien or one of those sorts of things that have people "coming-to" behind the wheel of their car steaming down the highway, confused because the last thing they remember was being under the covers <laughing>

I took Ambien CR for a while when I was trying out some new anxiety/ADD medication as I couldn't sleep.

I always loved reading the warning about the medication.


You think you have a sleeping med but then wake up steaming down the street on your Ducati.........I know it is probably an awful thing.........but make the beast with two backs.....still makes me giggle.

However.....that stuff is the shit, though. I'd take it and in 15 minutes I'd be out and wake up in pretty much exactly 8hrs like they say.

It is freaky shit.

The problem is if you have bad sleeping issues like insomnia and take this........and dont fall asleep.......I hear you start tripping balls.

Might be fun for some......but with my anxiety, I'd probably have a heart attack.

[DesmoDiva]

Me too.  WTF? 

Me three. 

I often wake/kick B when it happens.  Seems to occur more often when I'm really tired. 

[ZLTFUL]

Some of the questions I was asked prior to my test for sleep apnea were very frightening not only in the questions themselves but also in how relevant they were to the symptoms I was experiencing.

Sleep paralysis, hallucinations, panic, etc. The "sudden jolt" thing came up to as I experience that quite often. Fact is, my sleep is shit. So much so that I verge on insomnia.
Sleeping with the machine has helped a lot but it has not rid me of a couple of the things I experience. The sleep paralysis and the hallucinations are still there but far less frequently.

Last night for instance, I woke up saying over and over again "Let me go back to sleep.". I really felt like someone was there with me trying to wake me up. My mind kept telling me over and over again that noone was there and I could go back to sleep.

I have yet to try sleeping aids but am not sure I want to. My roommate is on Ambien and I see how loopy he gets and frankly, it scares me worse than the potential of waking up in the mddle of the night.

[lethe]

Weird that you post this today as I get this on occasion too and had a variation of it last night.
I do recall pushing (pushing just seems like the right word for some reason) myself out of a pretty bad one one time in which I was totally aware of what it was.