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Thanks to this thread I had one of the worst dream experiences I've ever had. In my dream I was telling myself I had sleep paralysis and I was trying to wake myself up in the dream. So I was hitting myself on my head and even dropped myself off the bed but still wouldn't wake up. And there were like dream people buggering around with me and I couldn't fight them off. Then I actually woke up in a cold sweat and found it was all a dream! But it was very vivid and I felt concious in the dream even though the surroundings were totally different to my actual.
 

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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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Haha.

I used to walk and talk in my sleep when I was younger but only badly when I was ill.

One time, I would of been about 14, I woke my Grandma up (lived over the road from us) at around 4am. I had my toothbrush, comb and face washer (???) and started rambling to her about a jigsaw with pieces made of water. I got really grumpy and agitated and then just woke myself up. Very confused.

A few weeks later I woke mum up screaming about an electric doorway from outside (my room was a granny flat). She came outside and was trying to get me to come inside but I was conviced the door was electrified. My sister woke up, got a drink of juice and I burst through the 'electrified' door and knocked the drink out of my hand. Then woke up.

Both times I was pretty crook at the time and I'm pretty sure it was a combination of a raised temperature and going to bed with my blanket on 3...
 
nicky said:
does anyone have the iphone app which measures your sleep patterns? It's fascinating.
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Care to explain?

On another note, I've always found the dreaming process very interesting. Have seen lucid dreaming mentioned a fair bit in this thread, to those who do lucid dream - is it something you learn to do (as seems to be the general explanation of it) or can it just 'happen' as well?

I'm pretty sure I've never had a lucid dream, I just dream about the stupidest shit ever. It makes no sense at all, just lurches from one bizarre situation to the next! Which I assume is the extent of most peoples dreams, but I'd wager that mine are among the most strange due to the sheer irrelevance of the stuff happening!
 
Wow. The 500-0 idea in the OP works a charm, unfortunately.

I read most of this thread last night... anyway, I woke up this morning, must have been around 8 (I've got nothing on today and was planning on sleeping till 10), probably 10-30 seconds after waking up, I lay on my back, and started counting. I got halfway through "four hundred and ninety nine", when it happened. No demons or freaky sh**, but I completely understand the 'wriggle your toes' 'massive weight on your chest' comments. It did feel as though something wasn't right (the feeling of dread, I guess), and it took me almost 10 seconds to snap out of it. During that time I put an incredible amount of effort into moving, but I could only very, very slightly, rock side to side, and I could feel my fingers moving.

I think I may have experienced this before, and while I read about Sleep Paralysis quite a long time ago, I've never been as sure about experiencing it as I was this morning.
 
I was discussing this with some people last night in the random chat thread in the Melbourne board, doesn't seem it has happened to anyone else over on our board though despite it apparently happening to 1 out of 10 people.

I've been having sleep paralysis now for the past 10 or so years.. sometimes it happens multiple times in the same week, some times it won't happen for months on end

My experience with it:

I'm not sure if this how it feels for anyone else, but I can't move my limbs because it feels that something or things are holding me by my wrists and ankles almost every time I do have it. In my mind I'm almost convinced there are evil spirits holding me down, what I've found the more I've had it is that despite not being able to move my limbs is that I'm able to wake myself out of it by telling whatever it is that is holding me down to "**** off" in a somewhat loud voice. (at which point I generally wake up the Mrs also but whatevs 😂)

There were some times earlier when I had it that I would really struggle with it coz I genuinely didn't know what to do or what as happening til doing some research on it, it can be quite scary and hard to get back to sleep, made me think about afterlife and if there was actually something or things out to get me.

Done a bit of research on it, apparently the longer you allow yourself to stay in sleep paralysis the more you will hallucinate and see evil/scary/bad things happening which I completely agree with. I'm not going to go into specifics but if someone wants to know I'm more than happy to talk about it.

Anyway, yea, I find the "**** off" method a great way to break it personally. Instead of spending 10-15 minutes in it shit scared I'm able to break it in 10-15 seconds now.

The main reason I searched for this thread was to ask if anyone else gets that "held down by something" feeling from it , rather the usual feeling of just being paralyzed?
 
Yes I used to, absolutely. It was awful.

I know why it used to happen to me - I used to cane amphetimines & MDMA , my serotonin levels were so depleted I couldn’t fall into a deep sleep. I’ve been fine since I stopped.
 
I haven't used any speed or coke for a good 10 years now. Never really got it while using drugs at all.

Only thing I can link it to is that my sleep patterns have become complete shit due of shift work, since starting that it's happened quite regularly.
 
i've had sleep paralysis maybe 3-4 times, mostly when younger. waking up, can't move, sense something malevolent.
one time i felt and looked like i was on fire, i screamed or so i thought.

BigBadCam said:
The worst sleep experiences you can have IMO are wher you dream that you have woken up, and you do everything that you would normally do when you wake up, then when you get to work or whatever, you wake up again, and it keeps happening over and over until by the time you actually do wake up, you're not really sure if you're awake or whether you're still dreaming. When this mixes with lucid dreaming and you start waking yourself up deliberately trying to pull yourself from this dream state, it can get really terrifying.
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had this once as well, must have 'woken up' half a dozen times. laughed to myself in my dream about the crazy dream i'd had about being awake. it started out as a lucid dream, knew i was dreaming. knew i had some control, so got a lady to call me and leave a dirty message on my answering machine. after that i kept waking up, getting up and looking out the window, kept being relieved at waking up each time.
 

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I used to have a weird sleepwalking thing where I'd wake up standing in my bedroom, but I wouldn't be able to move. I'd get a rising sense of dread and frustration as I'm literally standing in a completely dark room, unable to move and unsure of where I am in the room. After several minutes I'd somehow touch a wall or something, and slowly wake up and work out where I was in the room. Still have no idea how this transition occurs, given I was trying to do it the whole time.

I have no idea if this is sleep paralysis. It doesn't feel like I'm being prevented from moving, it just feels like my brain isn't connected to whatever the **** my body is doing. Maybe I'm describing semi-conscious sleep walking.

Anyway, I can't remember the last time it happened. I used to be pretty terrible with sleep deprivation and my schedule so that's probably why.

Only ever had one lucid dream, when I was like 10. Spent the whole time running around primary school telling people that they were part of my dream. Probably should have tried to find the meaning of the universe or something, bit of a waste.
 
Had a fair few moments in recent years where I'd wake up - conscious but completely paralyzed and unable to breath. Terrifying. Turns out I've got pretty severe sleep apnea and can't sleep on my back. Learnt to put all my mental energy into trying to move my finger tips to get me out of it.
 

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