what happened to me? something strange just happened help!?

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ok i was lying in my bed just this morning and i was just daydreaming about things and i think i may of drifted off to sleep and i had a dream and things, then suddenly it felt like someone was squeezing me head and i felt my eyes roll back into my head and i could see the veins in my eyes, i couldn't move my eyes back down, and they where going mad, flickering and everything, also what was strange was when my head felt like it was getting squeeze or like pushed on, the more it pushed the darker it got, in the end i think i just blacked out, when i woke up i felt very strange, moments later when i was aware that i was awake i felt as if someone was pushing my head and my face again, squeezing it, pushing it down into my bed, my whole body infact, then the darkness started to come back, but this time my eye's didn't roll back, i think they tried to but i made them look forward, i then saw scary things i didn't want to see, like people floating around my room and voices and things,

i tried to scream out for my mother but nothing would come out, i couldn't get my breathe to come out, i couldn't move properly at all i was almost paralysed, i was trying to scream but just raspy sounds where coming out like i was whispering, i tryed to sit up and scream but i couldn't, i could hear myself slightly forming the words and murmering them but they where mostly grunts and mumbles, i was trying hard to scream i started to panick my body felt so weird the darkness was becoming more then suddenly i closed my eyes and they wouldn't open i had to pull hard with my eyelids to get them open and when they opened it was like a weight was lifted off me, as if something heavy had just been lifted off my head and body, i yelled out for my mother i was so hapyp to hear my voice and hear it loudly again, i just lied there for a while thinking about what had just happened, it was really weird, and now and again like now i get slight heaviness again does anyone know might of happened?

i'm also getting pains in my head now as well, just on my left side towards the front of my head, also a little on my right same place just otherside

also i haven't been diagnosed with epilepsy which was one of the answers below :s should i be worried? :S

ok the first time it i think i was asleep but when it started to happen again i WAS awake i remembe rlooking at the cieling before and things i know i was awake,

Answer 1

I think one of two things is going on. It's either a warning sign for something medical, or a weird type of what they call a hypnogogic state, where you are not quite awake, but feel you are and you feel paralyzed and can't move, speak or scream. I've had that several times and it is soooo scary.

BUT that said, I've never had the head pain etc with it. So I would without question go to an MD ASAP and be checked out for anything medical. The stakes are too high to risk it. Be safe, go have it checked out. There are a huge range of medical things it could be, some serious some not at all. But make sure.

THEN if they say it's nothing medical, I'd go with it being a weird hypnogognic state. I can explain this more later if you want. Some folks feel you are out of body, or it's a type of dream state. But make sure!!!!

Best of luck and seriously don't risk it...GO, don't wait for an answer that sounds close enough so you won't worry. Find out for sure what exactly is going on! Let us know--will be sending good thoughts!

ETA: Wanted to clarify 2 things. I very purposefully didn't go into great details with a hypnogogic state as I feel that FIRST you should go to an MD, make certain all is fine, THEN you can learn more about it. It's easy to read details and say "yup that's it." But here, where there is a chance (although a small one) that it is something physical, please don't risk doing that. Your health isn't worth taking a chance with.

Second point is there are many schools of thought of what that state is. Some feel it is is a natural sleep pattern, many feel it is part of an out of body experience. It's something that really takes some reading and thought to understand. I think it's unfair to state it's one thing or another, as a person needs to be aware of the different theories, and make their own choice of what makes sense to them. But first please just go to an MD, then on to the rest!

Answer 2

Seriously...go to see you're GP like now! To me it sounds like you possibly had some sort of seizure...and you said as you woke up you started to feel this again. I'm no medical professional, but my step sister is an epileptic and it does sound like a seizure so get it checked out NOW!
Or in another way...it could have been sleep paralysis. That is wear you are in the stage of just falling asleep and you have a dream and you can't move, or talk, or anything. And since you were still semi-concious for a while then when you are like that...the dreams seem sooo real that you actually feel and experience things in real life while you are dreaming.
As for the voices and people floating around you're room...Could have been part of the dream. Or it could have been a part of the possible seizure...as it's normal to perceive things with all of that brain activity.
Just get it checked out...there is no point in risking it.
Good Luck

Answer 3

It is possible that it could be sleep paralysis and it is actually very common but you definitely need to see a Dr. right away so he/she can diagnose you to make sure what is going on. It could be many things though, this is just a possibility. Here is a bit of info on it:
What is sleep paralysis?

Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form).

Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis, predormital or postdormital paralysis

What are the symptoms?


A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon awakening
Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
Episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation (act or use of the brain)
Polysomnography (a sleep recording) shows at least one of the following:


suppression of skeletal muscle tone
a sleep onset REM period
dissociated REM sleep
Is it harmful?

Sleep paralysis is most often associated with narcolepsy, a neurological condition in which the person has uncontrollable naps. However, there are many people who experience sleep paralysis without having signs of narcolepsy. Sometimes it runs in families. There is no known explanation why some people experience this paralysis. It is not harmful, although most people report feeling very afraid because they do not know what is happening, and within minutes they gradually or abruptly are able to move again; the episode is often terminated by a sound or a touch on the body.

In some cases, when hypnogogic hallucinations are present, people feel that someone is in the room with them, some experience the feeling that someone or something is sitting on their chest and they feel impending death and suffocation. That has been called the “Hag Phenomena” and has been happening to people over the centuries. These things cause people much anxiety and terror, but there is no physical harm.

What else can you tell me about sleep paralysis?


Some people with disrupted sleep schedules or circadian rhythm disturbances experience sleep paralysis
A study found that 35% of subjects with isolated sleep paralysis also reported a history of wake panic attacks unrelated to the experience of paralysis
Sixteen percent of these persons with isolated sleep paralysis met the criteria for panic disorder
How can I stop the sleep paralysis?

In severe cases, where episodes take place at least once a week for 6 months, medication may be used.

I wish you the best~

Answer 4

This happened to me one time - I think it was most like the description of the Hag Phenomenon - I was waking up but I couldn't - I felt paralyzed like I was trying so hard to wake up and move but I couldn't - I felt like someone was sitting on me - I felt like it was the devil- because I had that sense of doom and evil and that someone else was there - I kept saying in my mind "get the f--- off me" but I couldn't make any noise and finnally slowly I came too. This has never happened to me again. When it did happen t me was duiring a time of rel turmoil in my life - depression and drinking alot - not sure if that has anything to do with it but I've never been as depressed as I was when it happened again and i don't drink anymore.

Answer 5

It sounds like maybe you could have a seizure disorder. You need to make an appt with your family doctor and have him order some test or go to your nearest ER.

Answer 6

I hope you didn't have some kind of seizure or something but it really sounds like a good old fashioned nitemare...watch what you eat, and don't drink or combine drugs that might have caused this horrible experience...

Answer 7

Maybe you're having a lucid or vivid dream but, if you think it's real then, yeah it is epilepsy.

Answer 8

SEEK HELP!

MAYBE YOU GOT DEMONS IN YOUR HOUSE!

Answer 9

epilepsy?