i suffer from what they call 'sleep paralysis'. any info on this one?

Question

there was once i time i tried to shake myself to wakefulness, fearing that i thought that i was dying. but along came this boy who shook me awake. the boy was me at age five (as i look in the family album). is sleep paralysis this wierd? am having this for at least 15 years

Answer 1

I experience sleep paralysis now and then. But I can usually wake up from it, but I dont find its that scarey, its just your mind has woken up before your body has.

Many people actually speak of having hallucinations or seeing images when they experience this, the old hag syndrome is common, thats when people see this witch like hag screaming in their face when they are frozen, but it doesnt happen to me.

I think what you are seeing is a projection of your own consiousness trying to get you awake.

Answer 2

I have had it since I was born. Then around the age of 19 it started to disappear. Now I never get it anymore. I kinda grew out of it. I always hated getting it and was always afraid. Kinda feels like an out of body experience where you are walking around and thinking you are awake but you are still sleeping. You realize you are not awake when everything around you starts to look weird. The hallways were longer. Couldn't see the pictures on the wall. Open a door to find a galaxy waiting. Peoples faces would become distorted and I would stiffen and couldn't move. That was the scariest part for me. I had so many that towards the end, I learned how to fly. I would fly around the room at high speeds and low speeds. Now I was no longer afraid since this was fun. As I started to get to like it, they stopped. So I think it has a lot to do with the way you feel about it. Fear seems to make it happen more and if you are brave, they weaken. It may just be something you grow out of too. But yea, sleep paralysis is definitely weird. My mom called this a mootsec (spelling?) in Polish.

Answer 3

I AM AN OFFICIAL EDWARD CULLEN JUNKIE!!!!! Have been since I first picked up Twilight in 2005. How do I know? Simple. At least ten times, evryr day from day one, I see something that reminds me of the seris. It's an addiction that I never want to quit. Between books, I am at a low equivelent with the low Bella felt in New Moon. It helps to reread the books (I've read each book in the seris ten times), but it still doesn't compensate for the thrill of a new, Edward and Bella book. I am suffering from TSS. I guess that makes me a masochist. Karis F.

Answer 4

I have it too. It can be terrifying, and sometimes just downright bizarre. I actually ended up going to a sleep clinic to no avail.
Basically I was told it's a mild form of narcolepsy, where your brain puts your body to sleep before it shuts down. So you are basically in a strange, semi-sleep state where you can't move but your brain is still awake.
When it happens to me now I just try to remind myself that I'm safe and let it pass.

Answer 5

I've had sleep paralysis. I think it is a form of panic attack caused by nightmares. It is really scary..

Answer 6

http://spirita.blogspot.com/2006/11/sleep-paralysis.html

Answer 7

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html