Why can i not wake up sometimes and feel like im trapped in my sleep! I hear things but cant move my body!?

Answer 1

This could be a couple of things:

(1) When asleep and particularly, dreaming, the brain cuts off control to the muscles so you don't act out everything in your dreams and accidentally clobber someone.
If you experience feelings of helplessness and paralysis in your sleep you may be entering a "lucid dream," in which you are "awake" or conscious but still asleep.
The paralysis comes from the fact that you can't actually move or speak yet because of this protective mechanism.
The helplessness is a cue that you may be able to start directing the action if you are indeed dreaming.

(2) Have you ever been hypnotized? Outside of a neurological problem like "catalepsy" (which I would rule out because it sounds like you are conscious), the hypnotic state would freeze someone until the hypnotist gives the cue to awake, which usually requires hearing. However, hypnosis also produces amnesia, which you don't appear to have.

Get a trusted family member or friend to test you by speaking before you "awake" for real, perhaps recording what they say. See if what you remember when you get up is the same, or is altered in some way. Lucid dreamers are able to incorporate some external stimuli into the dream state, so alteration would be a clue.

Answer 2

Oh my gosh I do that all the time! Its just that your mind wakes up before your body. Its really scary, but after a little bit, I'm always able to move again. I don't have any advice for ya, but I don't think its anything to worry about.

Answer 3

feels like your paralized, sleep paralysis" is when your brain is waking up but your body is late in catching up in waking up and you may see things or hear things that are not really there because is part of your dream state and lasts couple of seconds and you can't speak out or move.

Answer 4

Sleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).

wikipedia.


I get this when i'm really really tired and haven't slept well for a few days. its not spirits or anything. look up sleep paralysis!

(ej's spot on!!)

Answer 5

ok u r having an outer body expierence(sp?) your spirit is temporarly(sp?) out of yur body, its called astral projection. read into it, its very interesting, i have been tryin 2 do this 4 a while, but its nothing to b worried about. the feeling like u can move is your sprit going back into your body, i hope i helped some

Answer 6

i done like that last Thursday morning i could hear my son knocking at the dor and calling mama,mama,mama? but i couldn't move or say anything i don't know if it was a outer body experience or just having a slight stroke.