Sleep Paralysis....scary stuff! - Page 5

redjako · 05-30-2008, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by rotten apple

yes but for me the other effects are unbearable.

In reference to lucid dreams, yes, but, I feel very "lucidly" like I'm fighting a demon to get back to my body...thats what it feels like at least

IrishBeatDown · 05-30-2008, 10:12 PM

whats worse is when your whole fucking body just spasms once randomly as your about to drift to sleep... i fucking hate that.

DJMicroNaught · 05-30-2008, 11:42 PM

I remember we had a thread about this a few months ago.

I had this happen to me the other night, I woke up and felt like I was being pulled out of my body so I tried to move but couldn't then I "saw" (but thinking back feels more like I felt that there was somebody there so I naturally "saw" it) a shadow standing beside my bed. I started to freak out and tried to call out for help but nothing came out.

As stupid as it sounds I remembered the thread from a few months ago and calmed down when I realized I was having sleep paralysis. So thanks Mayberry for helping me not flip out!

machine29 · 05-30-2008, 11:56 PM

awesome thread

this happens to me every so often and it scares the shit out of me.

Its like sometimes I cant open my eyes or anything and i get really freaked out.

Glad to know I am not the only one.

Enzuguri · 05-31-2008, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by NHB7

Also I haven't found much research on this but I would be curious to read more, but most people are different types of sleepers. Some sleep on their sides more, some sleep on their backs more, some curl up in a ball, some sleep on their stomach. I'm curious what percent of sleepers get sleep paralysis the most. The only thing I ever read was from a woman who was reporting she had sleep paralysis, but only ever had it when she went to sleep on her back.

From what i've read, most people get SP when sleeping on their back where as I'm different, i usually sleep on my side and i get it all the time. The thing that sucks, is before i started reading about it on the net, i had no idea that sleeping position played a part in getting get and after i read that most people get it sleeping on their back, i'm very hesitant to sleep in that position.

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Originally Posted by NHB7

By the way, recognize that most alien abduction stories start with "I awoke in the middle of the night and I couldn't move and I sensed a presence around me."

It hasn't been proven but a lot of people believe that Alien abduction stories are linked to SP.

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Originally Posted by Ajax3006

Now what freaks me out is tripping during a dream then your leg kicks (same thing happens when I fall in a dream)

That's some weird shit, always wakes me up

And BTW, will people stop saying stuff like "i woke up with a dead arm once, i couldn't move it"...You slept on your arm and restricted blood flow to it, making it numb, big fuckn deal...This has NOTHING to do with sleep paralysis.

samurai4287 · 05-31-2008, 02:35 AM

Damn, that makes sense...I was having to sleep on my back because of the surgery, and I normally sleep on my side...hmm

AznTrojan · 06-03-2008, 02:52 PM

sleep paralyisis is normal.. i had it once when i was kid.. usually occurs right when you are about to go to sleep or right when you wake up..

however.. if you have stroke risk factors (e.g. high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, smoker, family history, etc).. you should consider getting checked out for possibly a transient ischemic attack

AznTrojan · 06-03-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tropics1020

That's nothing man...One morning I woke up and the whole left side of my face was in paralysis. I couldn't smile or talk or eat correctly or anything , people told me it looked like I had had a stroke. The doctor said that it might have come from leaving the window open at night?? Any way she said sometimes it lasts for a week..and sometimes it never goes away.
Mine went away after a month...Scary shit.

sounds like a bell's palsy... i hope you had a normal MRI of the brain with contrast

AznTrojan · 03:12 PM

depending on a patient's culture.. this phenomenon can be attributed to many things.. look up "widow ghosts".. i wrote a paper for a psych class way back when.. interesting stuff

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Originally Posted by NHB7

I'm a graduate student in psychology and I actually have done a lot of research on sleep paralysis. Basically, when you are in REM sleep your body becomes paralyzed temporarily so you don't swing and hit shit or hurt yourself. You are not suppose to wake up during this time, but some people do by accident and are still paralyzed. The paralysis usually goes away in a few seconds or minutes. They may have hypnopompic hallucinations especially since they are still kind of in a dream state. This can include auditory and visual hallucinations and occisionally tactile and olfactory hallucinations.

People often describe feeling a presesne around them which is what they find most terrifying. I haven't found any literature on why they feel a presence other than they are hallucinating, but I have my own hypothesis on it and I wouldn't be suprised to see it confirmed in research somewhere.

In the same way that we evolved to be paralyzed during REM we probably evolved that sense of something around us should we wake up. See fear is an evolved emotion that helps to protect us and most people feel fear when they wake up in sleep paralysis. Now imagine you are a cave man in a cave a sleep with other cavemen. You wake up from the deepest sleep, REM sleep because a sabertooth just roared outside. But you woke up and don't realize what woke you up. Nonetheless, you feel a presense and as soon as you are out of your paralysis you get up and hide because you are scared. Your cave buddies though were awoken by the sabertooth roar and they to didn't know what awoke them, but just assumed it had been a dream that stirred them awake and so they went back to sleep. They get eaten and you are the only one left with a couple of cave babes that awoke and hid as well becaue they felt fear when they awoke as well. So the gene that codes for "Feel fear and a sense of presence when you awake from REM sleep" is passed on from generation to generation.

Also I haven't found much research on this but I would be curious to read more, but most people are different types of sleepers. Some sleep on their sides more, some sleep on their backs more, some curl up in a ball, some sleep on their stomach. I'm curious what percent of sleepers get sleep paralysis the most. The only thing I ever read was from a woman who was reporting she had sleep paralysis, but only ever had it when she went to sleep on her back.

jlagman · 06-03-2008, 02:59 PM

The first time this happened to me was in the Fall of 2004, my first year in university.

I was in my English class, which was held in a theatre. The prof was so damned boring and the seats were so comfortable that many people took naps during that class.

I dozed off during her lecture about The Odyssey. The strange thing was I was completely aware of what she was saying, my mind was processing all the information and I still remember much of it today. However, my limbs were completely numb and paralysed, I tried with all my might to move; I could feel my mind straining and faltering as I tried in vain to wake myself or at least move a limb, but I just couldn't do it.

Oddly enough, the very second she dismissed us, I regained control of my body and was able to wake.