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Havn't had it to that extent, as said in previous dream threads. I have had dreams where in the dream i wouldn't be able to move out of bed no matter how hard i tried. And when i woke up i'd find that i couldn't freely get up or move out of bed as i had the doona rolled around myself rather tightly :eek:.
 
Had it a few times last year.. Whenever i was in sleep paralysis I would think of myself as a computer turning on which may take about 10 to 20 seconds then I'd just snap out of it... But there was one experience where it felt like there was a ghost in my blanket and on my back. The ghost was whispering something in my ear and as he was whispering, It seemed like the blanket was rising over my whole body. After a minute or two, I woke up and my heart was going nuts :thumbsd:

I was certainly freaked out for a moment after that experience
 
I got it a lot when I was 21 and got it again recently along with lucid dreaming. It was terrifying. I tried to control dreams by making my sleeping body get up inside the dream and move around the house but the monsters kept arriving. They crushed me in bed or flung me around the room.

Apparently, it may have caused by my drug use. If you take a lot of MDMA or similar substances it cepletes your serotinin, causing this reaction. Certainly, since I stopped taking the substance in question the problem has disappeared.
 

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Rohan25 said:
When it happens, I always try my hardest to fight it. It takes so much energy to even move my little finger, let alone grab the sheets, or roll over. It really does feel like something is holding you down fast, that's when the mind begins to panic.
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See, I know that I'm in a dream when it's happening to me, and try and tell my body that and just relax. But the terror overpowers me. I think it's the loss of control that is so frightening. Sometimes it feels like ages that I'm telling myself to wake up but it's probably seconds.

Other times I make my dreamself get up out of bed and switch on the light, and then it's really surprising to wake up and find myself in darkness.

Once I made my dreamself get up and fold all the washing, then take it outside and hang it on the line. It was all very restful until this nameless dread overtook me and this monster turned up in the garden - it was invisible, like The Predator. At least it woke me up.
 
The key is to relax and calm yourself down. I've found that it's easier to control it if you tell yourself that it's a just dream and that you'll be able to move. If you are good enough at lucid dreaming you'll be able to just climb out of your body and have an Out of Body Experience.
 
Team Mo' said:
I woke up on my front lawn the other night but I think that was just because I passed out....
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I have a similar problem, but it runs deeper. I have an identical twin who runs around doing bad things, then somehow I get magicked into his body when he passes out and I get blamed for everything he did. Didn't do any of it though, I swear.
 
I get this at least once a month and if i'm really stressed/ not sleeping as often as 2-3 times a week

The first time this happened to me was as a kid. I was laying in bed, all of a sudden I heard this loud noise like big flapping wings, it came closer and closer until it felt like some huge angel/ devil was flying right over me - then it went away. I was so petrified, especially since I couldn't move a muscle. I later learnt that during sleep paralysis since you're awake you can hear all your body noises, it must have just been my heart beating or blood rushing through my body - but the noise was so loud.


After happening a few more times to me, and me being so scared - I researched it and found out it was harmless. So the next time it happened, I welcomed it. And I found myself being able to control the hallucinations, I was able to create objects/ people around me, move around, see things, go places. I used to love every moment of it.

The last one happened to me a few days ago. And it was by far the worst. I had just come off not sleeping for 2 days.. so when I finally put my head to the pillow i felt it coming on (usually starts with a pulling sensation like your body is getting sucked into something really powerful). But where it usually lasts like 10 minutes with me, this lasted for what felt like hours. The crazy thing is, I would wake up from it, get up, get dressed, go downstairs, have breakfast, i.e. do normal things.. then something weird would happen and I'd find out I'm still dreaming. This kept happening over and over. I distinctly remember pinching and punching myself really hard to see if I was awake or dreaming and it didn't work. After a while I was trying desperately to get out of this endless loop and couldn't. Everytime I would think I'm finally awake I'd find out I'm still dreaming.

By the time I eventually woke up I was tripping. I didn't know what to do. I went down and found the first person I could to speak to, making sure I'm awake. I'm still here so I guess I'm no longer dreaming... or am I lol
 

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Here's another thing has always interested me about dreams - sorry to diverge from the proper topic. When for whatever reason my alarm isn't working, I try and wake myself up without one. Sleep is always light when I'm trying to do this, and they say that this is when you dream the most. This happens to me very often, and it blows me out every time.

I'll wake myself up about an hour before I want to get up, then try and go to sleep for another hour or so. This is when the dreams always kick in. I'll go back to sleep and have a dream that seems to last for hours, but I'll wake myself up and only five minutes or so will have passed. I keep repeating and have dreams that seem to go for hours and hours, but every time I wake up, it's only five or so minutes after I actually drifted off. Does anyone else ever experience this? Amazing feeling.
 
coldpieswarmbeer said:
The last one happened to me a few days ago. And it was by far the worst. I had just come off not sleeping for 2 days.. so when I finally put my head to the pillow i felt it coming on (usually starts with a pulling sensation like your body is getting sucked into something really powerful). But where it usually lasts like 10 minutes with me, this lasted for what felt like hours. The crazy thing is, I would wake up from it, get up, get dressed, go downstairs, have breakfast, i.e. do normal things.. then something weird would happen and I'd find out I'm still dreaming. This kept happening over and over. I distinctly remember pinching and punching myself really hard to see if I was awake or dreaming and it didn't work. After a while I was trying desperately to get out of this endless loop and couldn't. Everytime I would think I'm finally awake I'd find out I'm still dreaming.

By the time I eventually woke up I was tripping. I didn't know what to do. I went down and found the first person I could to speak to, making sure I'm awake. I'm still here so I guess I'm no longer dreaming... or am I lol
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Yep, this.

I know the feeling too well. One time I dreamt as far as work, and then I realised I'd forgotten to put my trousers on. I felt so ashamed, but then I 'woke up' only to get to the door and realise I was dreaming again. Makes you wonder what people in a comatose state are actually thinking, and whether they're dreaming?
 
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Yeah that happens to me also.

Something that happens to me often, I will be just going about my life when suddenly I remember having a dream about the exact thing I'm doing. It's weird becuase sometimes I will wake up in the morning thinking wtf was that dream about and then forget about it minutes later ( you forget most of your dreams as soon as you wake up) then a few months later I will get a sense of DeJa Vu and realise I had a dream about this. I'm not sure if it is my mind playing tricks on me but it happens alot and it is very accurate.
 
BUMP !

So I had it for the first time last night, it is kind of hard to explain but as others have mentioned it felt like I had a huge weight on my chest and I could not move or talk. I 'saw' a demon or something try to bite my finger, that part was the most real and scariest. I eventually called out my brother's name (He is in the room closest to me) and he came in and then it kind of just all stopped and I went back to a normal sleep.

I know Wikipedia isn't the most credible of all sources but in the "Sleep Paralysis" article under "Possible Causes" it says...

Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
Irregular sleeping schedules; naps, sleeping in, sleep deprivation
Increased stress
Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
A lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode

and I would say that 4 of the 5 apply to me.. Hope it doesn't happen again!
 
oh god that picture freaked me out...had to turn on my light and go talk to people/... =)

To some people the kind of the opposite thing happens... REM sleep where your brain's activity is similar to that of an awake state is the part of your sleep stage where you mostly dream... and a part of our brain paralyses our body to prevent us from acting out our dreams. sometimes this mechanism malfunctions and is active even when you're awake thus you experience sleep paralysis but for some people this part of the brain is somehow damaged and they uncontrollably go nuts and act exactly the same as they are in a dream.

even though the person experiences external stimuli that would normally wake them up such as noise, pain etc they continue to act out there dreams and it is quite fascinating the things they do. climbing up high places even though it would have been impossible for the person if he/she were awake. When they were asked what they dreamed about, it was exactly the behavior that they exhibited.
They actually removed that part of the brain in cats/dogs and they found that even though those animals were completely asleep they behaved like a normal cat or dog. such as prying on prey, licking one's self and any behaviour that was completely normal for such an animal to do... thus it was inferred that this is what animals dream about...quite simple things really :P
 

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andrew23 said:
Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
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Definitely the most notable aspect of when it occurs to me.

I had a really bad run late last year, basically once a week over about a month. I had it for four nights in a row at one stage. One of them involved me thinking I woke myself up from it, only to find that I was having sleep paralysis with the dream being that I was having sleep paralysis. :confused:

Another was the night I went to sleep having just watched Paranormal Activity. I had SP with the dream being scene of the footsteps/powder, only in my room. A fair mindf*ck, and pretty scary. The worst part was that once I awoke, I couldn't get back to sleep because I would just fall back into it again.

I haven't had it lately at all, mainly due to the fact that I now go to sleep with full seasons of The Simpsons on my computer. I find that (with me anyway) silence provokes the thought that I can lapse into SP, and something like The Simpsons takes my mind off such thoughts.

It can even evoke lucid dreams involving episodes haha. :)
 
jinny1 said:
bahahah thats random..
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Yeah, but not as random as my dad finding me behind a tree in a wood near our house when I was about ten. Or one night when he woke up to me trying to find my way out of a corner when I was asleep and running into a wall all the time.:D:o
 
Maybe i get something different to you lot. I don't have any of the dreams at all as far as i can remember. But a lot of the time i wake up through the night, but i can't move at all. Like my brain is awake, but my body isn't.

I try to call out for help and it feels as if my lips are moving but i don't think anything comes out. :D

Certainly freaky, but i manage to burst out of it some how and wake up with a violent sort of shake in a way. Weird.
 
Noddy Holder said:
Yeah, but not as random as my dad finding me behind a tree in a wood near our house when I was about ten. Or one night when he woke up to me trying to find my way out of a corner when I was asleep and running into a wall all the time.:D:o
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:D

I remember once falling asleep watching Lord of the Rings with my dad, and when he woke me up, I kept insisting on finding my sheath (holds your sword). I was taking the couch apart, throwing cushions everywhere trying to find it, except I didn't know the word "sheath" and I found the fact that he wasn't helping me find it extremely irritating. :o
Took a good few minutes for me to realise that I was the one making no sense.
 
nicky said:
You're paralysed during REM sleep, which is when you dream and is also the lightest stage of sleep. Hence, you can quite easily be aware that you're paralysed.

Happens to me frequently. Happens to anyone who often remembers their dreams.
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Stage 1 of NREM sleep is the lightest stage of sleep..it is quite hard to be woken up from REM sleep.
 
Ed_Gein said:
Maybe i get something different to you lot. I don't have any of the dreams at all as far as i can remember. But a lot of the time i wake up through the night, but i can't move at all. Like my brain is awake, but my body isn't.

I try to call out for help and it feels as if my lips are moving but i don't think anything comes out. :D

Certainly freaky, but i manage to burst out of it some how and wake up with a violent sort of shake in a way. Weird.
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That is what I get the paralysis without the hallucinations. Not everyone gets the hallucinations.
 

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