Sleep Paralysis

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:26 pm

Does anybody suffer from this? It is when you wake up but your brain is still sleeping. You can open your eyes and hear things but you cannot talk or move. It feels like you have something holding you down. Sometimes you will see your dream appear right before your very eyes making you think you are seeing a ghost. It can also cause out of body experiences. You think you are getting out of bed and walking around then you realize you are still in bed. I suffer from this and usually I am not bothered by it but 2 times I have woken up and almost suffocated because I was face down in my pillow and I could not move. I tried screaming but all I could do was moan a little. I tried to move but couldn't. Finally after a few minutes my brain woke up and I was able to turn over. I thought for sure I was going to die. One time when I was about 12 I woke up and saw what looked like a ghost of my Dad in front of my bed. Eventually he slowly but surely vanished. I wasn't scared tho cause my Dad is not dead. I later found out it was caused by sleep paralysis and I was actually seeing my dream with my eyes open. Weird huh?

mav · Post by **mav** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:21 pm

uh...hmm...mind-boggling. I had sleep apnea once...and it was scary. But no open-eyed dreams/suffocation.

Alyonushka · Post by **Alyonushka** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:36 pm

You know, when I was little I had te same problems. I woke up at night, my consiousness was on, but I couldn't nor moving neither crying. I remember that I opened my mouth to cry but there was no sound. I thought I was dying. And I often dreamed thinking I had already awoken up. I saw myself going to the bathroom, going to school.. but suddenly I realized that I was in my bed.
Or that crazy feeling that your night mare is over and that you realize tat you're in your bed but suddenly you nightmare penetrates your bedroom and you understand that you're still sleeping!

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:50 pm

Yep that sounds like sleep paralysis. I often wake up and feel the bed spinning. That too is sleep paralysis. But I think that is fun when that happens.

jimliker · Post by **jimliker** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:44 pm

cotton i had exactly same experiences like u had except ur dad's spirit one. But i do c some reflections..only the outline. One of them touched me. But i wasnt scared coz it just patted my head as if it liked me. I have sometimes felt i am about to fly & i float in the air..once i was pulled by something like a magnet..but only was pulled a bit further then i came back to my body. Sometimes i hear wispers in my ears.

But i feel scared only when i c some small dream & it comes true!!..for example once i saw in my dreams that when i woke up early morning i was late for the office as the clock showed 8 AM & i reached the office & my colleague said "hey priya u r late but u r lucky boss isnt here".....When i actually woke up it was 8 AM & when i reached office my colleague said the same thing. He was wearing the same clothes as i saw in my dreams..

xmassmurdere · Post by **xmassmurdere** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:41 pm

something like that happened to me too before
sometimes i wake up and i open my eyes and i want them open but somehow they disobey me and then they close again and i wake up like an hour or so later.

JT Carrey · Post by **JT Carrey** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:32 pm

I've had sleep paralysis since I was a teenager, it's a form of stress I believe and it is a scary experience, I always tried to move my toes or my fingers or scream and nothing would move and only moaning would come out, it's weird that so many people have it, I guess the world is full of stress lol I've tried to be a little less stressful and I don't get it as much, if at all, I'm wondering if I can maybe teleport my soul to Jim's house next time it happens hmmmmmm

thecablegal · Post by **thecablegal** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:57 pm

I dream about the waking up thing a lot. I'm convincedI'm awake, but I'm still asleep. I wake up thinking I've been busy all day, and I feel exhausted. All I've been doing is sleeping!

Filomena · Post by **Filomena** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:54 am

I had that happen to me when I was in my 20's. I wanted to wake up but I couldn't. My mind was totally alert, but my body would just not cooperate. So I tried to focus on wiggling my toes or moving my arms, and finally, I would snap out of it.

My mother also suffers from it. She says that she snores really loud when she can't wake up so that my father can hear her and wake her up. And it works!

lammy · Post by **lammy** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:50 am

I suffer from something else..I keep having the same dreams I had when I was a child.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:33 am

stop eating cheese at bedtime then!!!!..............lol

fluffy

thecablegal · Post by **thecablegal** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:55 am

I think that eating cheese at bedtime actually does make you have strange dreams. I used to eat cheese every night before bed, and I DID have weirder dreams!!!

I have recurring nightmares that I had when I was a child. Are your dreams nightmares or not Lammy?

comicpisces11 · Post by **comicpisces11** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:15 pm

I didn't know there was a name for this...sleep paralyis. I've had it 2 or three times in my life. When I was in college, living with room-mates, my room mate and I decided to take naps on the couches in the living room in the middle of the day. I woke up and at first attempted to sit up...ain't happenin. Then I tried to scream and nothing would come out. I couldn't stretch or move my arms....so weird. I thought I had died and thought, "This death thing is frustrating...I'm right here and can't say goodbye or call my mom." After I was able to wake up, I thought it was hilarious.