what does it mean if u wake up feeling like there's a weight on top of you, and you can't move?

Question

i sleep on my own, so there was definitely no-one on top of me. serious answersonly please

Answer 1

This is perfectly normal, don't worry. It's to do with the REM stage of sleeping. The REM state (in which dreaming occurs) is a stage of sleep that occurs throughout the night, about occurs about every 90 minutes for longer and longer periods throughout the night. It's common to find, and is part of the sleep cycle, that just before you wake up you'll be in a period of REM sleep.

Physical changes during the REM state (rapid eye movements, rapid breathing, heart rate and blood pressure increasing) include very temporary and necessary paralysis, because otherwise your body might act out the scenarios of the dreams the brain is dreaming!

All that you have experienced, by waking up with a feeling of a dead weight on you, is that you have entered out of the REM state quite quickly and this state of paralysis is still lingering in your body. It will quickly lift, and is perfectly normal!

Answer 2

Sounds to me like the roof may have fallen in.
But if I must be serious, the probability is that you weren't fully awake. I have sometimes experienced the sensation of being awake, but being immobilized, and have then had to (apparently) struggle to become fully awake.

Answer 3

have you ever watched sylvia browne? :p i don't know if you believe in physcics. shes a famous one. a lot of people go to her complaining about this, she said its your spirit outside your body, and when you wake up it suddenly tries to enter your body again really fast. cuz sometimes your spirit exits your body when you sleep.thats why you can't move. i don't know though?

Answer 4

How much do you weigh?
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