I Hate When This Occurs

[Speedbag]

Like we always used to say, it's just part of the show, man.

[Porsche Monkey]

I find this really strange too.  Whoda thunk this many dmf'rs get abducted by aliens. 

[ducpainter]

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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   

Dood...

whatever works.

[the_Journeyman]

Mine is usually related to taking a narcotic medication.  Certain cough syrups cause this in me ~

JM

[badgalbetty]

Its caused by 2 things..........internal stressors and also sleep depravation. Its quite common in people who have PTSD such as myself . I cannot turn my brain off sometimes and the result is one maybe two hours sleep a night. This happens for several days and then finally one simply has to crash. The sub conscious is processing all of the information that you see hear smell see feel etc and the brain is just overloaded. Finally in sleep the brain has trouble processing what is real and what are your dreams because of all of the information being processed.
I am falling which indicates life is out of control(combat is usally an out of control situation despite John Wayne making it look so good.........its not its a shit storm and scarrier than hell) and during the dream of falling I scream.......the paralysis makes sure that no sound is heard or no words muttered.Yes, very scary stuff indeed.
The way to stop this happening is to get plenty of good restfull sleep everyday. Drink plenty of liquids, eat a balanced diet and try to reduce stress.
Unfortunately for me I cannot sleep more than 3-4 hours a day.I can make do on 2 hours sleep a day.4 is a luxury.

[RAT900]

Its caused by 2 things..........internal stressors and also sleep depravation. Its quite common in people who have PTSD such as myself . I cannot turn my brain off sometimes and the result is one maybe two hours sleep a night. This happens for several days and then finally one simply has to crash. The sub conscious is processing all of the information that you see hear smell see feel etc and the brain is just overloaded. Finally in sleep the brain has trouble processing what is real and what are your dreams because of all of the information being processed.
I am falling which indicates life is out of control(combat is usally an out of control situation despite John Wayne making it look so good.........its not its a shit storm and scarrier than hell) and during the dream of falling I scream.......the paralysis makes sure that no sound is heard or no words muttered.Yes, very scary stuff indeed.
The way to stop this happening is to get plenty of good restfull sleep everyday. Drink plenty of liquids, eat a balanced diet and try to reduce stress.
Unfortunately for me I cannot sleep more than 3-4 hours a day.I can make do on 2 hours sleep a day.4 is a luxury.

If I get 7 hours straight I am ready to celebrate...4-5 is usually the max I get.  

One of the things that I discovered early on was that when riding a motorcycle I could artificially speed up events to a level that sync'd with my processing speed while giving it something to train-in on. Riding channeled the thinking into a singular loop that required unilateral focus and a defined priority triage...

the now-disciplined brain cycling through external threat checks (for instance Cyrus blasting through a light on Ambien, child's ball in the street ablah ablah), and the contained threats,,ones like what the machine under me was doing/sounding like/feeling like....

all the other noise and data stops flying at you.....

you are now sorting out the important from the unimportant effectively..... the task becomes immediate and simple....

unfortunately every little thing is critical to the hyper-vigilant mind...it cannot effectively sort and assign and/or discard data....

so the stream of consciousness is bombarded with data that is sounding like an orchestra warming up...nothing is in unison...anarchy....but each item or piece of data is in fact legitimate or deemed to be so...it is just that simultaneously occurring, they become so much contending noise

on the bike,,,,the concerto has begun...your mind must create an enforced data filter on the bike...priorities are indisputable and each one is in fact critical

the only other time I actually felt effectively quieted,,, was when I went to an acupuncturist who came highly recommended...went there with a lot of skepticism....this woman took one look at me and shook her head and then confirmed all she saw in our conversation...

She pinned me up and actually got me to the point where there was just one slow relaxed thread of consciousness drifting though my head like a ribbon riding a breeze or a single violin doing a slow gentle interlude

amazing accomplishment on her part...to me at least...


anyway please don't report me <laughing>

[77south]

I have never experienced the sleep paralysis but I sometimes do get the whole body jolt before I fall asleep.  It always happens when I am lying down, usually when I am flat on my back and suddenly I feel like I have lost my balance and am falling.  It is a damn weird feeling to lose my balance lying down.  Of course when I get that feeling my whole body jerks to catch myself.

[He Man]

thats why we have the official i cant sleep thread.

i cant sleep 8 hours without waking up and doing stuff every 3 hours. but i usually get a solid 3-5 hours of sleep a night. usually i can operate fine on 2 hours, but thats just because im used to it. no way do i enjoy it, want it or what not. i dont have PTSD, but after talking to chris once about ADD, yea i'm pretty sure i have it.

[ducpainter]

I have never experienced the sleep paralysis but I sometimes do get the whole body jolt before I fall asleep.  It always happens when I am lying down, usually when I am flat on my back and suddenly I feel like I have lost my balance and am falling.  It is a damn weird feeling to lose my balance lying down.  Of course when I get that feeling my whole body jerks to catch myself.

+1

That's an excellent description.

[Jobu]

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?!   

Come on, you should have researched this by now, Mr. Scientist.

It is called a hypnic jerk. Very common. I rarely get them, but it happens more when I'm really tired and fall asleep in an uncomfortable position. And it is often accompanied by the sensation of falling.

Some people get them nightly. When falling asleep, the body relaxes, obviously, but the brain recognizes this relaxation as a fall or situation that needs remedied to keep the body functioning, hence the jerk to stimulate the muscles.

[RAT900]

I thought he was just having nocturnal emissions and was skipping over the graphic details 

[Jobu]

I thought he was just having nocturnal emissions and was skipping over the graphic details 

He's an organic chemist.  He doesn't have a sense of humor. 

[DarkStaR]

This would happen to my ex all the time.  At first I felt sorry for her, but then it just got annoying because she'd freak out and wake me up.

I hope she still get them, because I still miss my dog!!!  

[Speedbag]

Come on, you should have researched this by now, Mr. Scientist.

It is called a hypnic jerk. Very common. I rarely get them, but it happens more when I'm really tired and fall asleep in an uncomfortable position. And it is often accompanied by the sensation of falling.

Some people get them nightly. When falling asleep, the body relaxes, obviously, but the brain recognizes this relaxation as a fall or situation that needs remedied to keep the body functioning, hence the jerk to stimulate the muscles.

I get these as well.

They're almost like a brief, very severe electric shock. And not very fun either. they leave me with a fast-fading, brutal headache.

[badgalbetty]

I experience that as well .........I have also known another type of jerk.....the soon to be ex