Sleep Paralysis

My Brother was over the last day and alerted me to this condition, I hadn't heard of it, and just thought I was a weirdo.

Anyhow anyone ever get this?! I get it when I oversleep on a saturday or sunday morning not that often but too often all the same, one time my brother came up and opened the door when i was at home and just kept staring at me and talking, I couldn't move but I could see exactly what he was doing and hear what he was saying. When he was over I felt someone ( this is how we got talking about it )was in the room and opened the door and was talking to me and eventually woke up and said something and he thought I was talking in my sleep ( ive never done that ) but I could remember it all the next day.

The worst experience I had of it, was one night I was asleep in the bed with the girlfriend and I saw the door opening, and this guy coming in, I couldn't move or anything but in my head I really started to panic, and I was trying to tell my girlfriend to get up and get out, but I couldn't tell her ( as mouth and whole body was "paralysed" ) and the guy was coming in her side. I woke up about 2 mins or so later but it was damn scary. Whats worrying is its so real, that makes me wonder what if someone was actually coming in ( to the room ) would I actually wake up?! :eek:

Yeah I get this a lot.. Usually just after going asleep if I have a dream that involves my house I'd wake up thinking that what I'm dreaming about is actually real and I have to do something about it. It's happened when I've thought someone was in the house downstairs and one time when for some reason I was thinking the house was on fire!!

You wake up though fear I'd imagine but you can see things and know your awake yet your body doesn't move. I've learned now to start talking/roaring :) and that seems to kick the body into action.

Was very scary the first few times it happened to me but used to it now. I usually listen to Last Word podcasts or some other radio show while falling asleep and I guess the news stories are going into my brain while I'm going alseep and I think of these bad news stories and therefore start to dream about that issue.

Really is weird when your trying to shake like mad and nothing is moving :)

I've had similar experiences for a good few years now. not so much the paralysis(although I don't recall trying to move so maybe I do be paralysed) what I tend to get are what feel like waking dreams, were in the Dream I feel as though I'm awake and sometimes actually realise that I'm dreaming and can actually control the Dreams to go in what ever direction I chose them to, I usually wake up during these dreams feeling really uneasy and sometime physically sick for the rest of the day, as- while not quite being nightmares- they usually concern my insecurities ie. dreaming of my partner with someone else etc.

the more worrying thing for you in your lucid dreams Block is that you can control what happens, realise that, and yet still your worst fears happen

Used to happen to me all the time but thankfully not in the past 4 years or so.
Im my case I'd be paralysed but still feel like I was moving/being dragged off
the bed.

Frightened the bejaysus out of me for years.

Well it certainly does seem to be something connected with fear that wakes you up before your body is ready. It can happen to me sometimes if theres a noise such as a car alarm shortly after I go alseep and I'll start to dream about my car alarm going off and see it going off in my head in my dream, i'll get worried of course and try wake up to go down and be a hero :) but i'll wake and my body won't move for 30secs or so and eventually it'll start to move. I then hear the alarm but it's not mine of course and it could even be a house alarm in the distance or something.

In my case it's always linked with worry or fear in that dream ?

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I've had similar experiences for a good few years now. not so much the paralysis(although I don't recall trying to move so maybe I do be paralysed) what I tend to get are what feel like waking dreams, were in the Dream I feel as though I'm awake and sometimes actually realise that I'm dreaming and can actually control the Dreams to go in what ever direction I chose them to, I usually wake up during these

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Block, i get this too, where i can realise its a dream and take it somewhere else, especially if its scary, i say, ah this is only a dream and either a) wake up or b) move it to another place....but the sick part doesnt happen, thats weird, though this is DEFINITELY NOT sleep paralysis....

I have tried talking, but it hasn't worked for me higgins, thank god ive never felt being dragged off ( yet ). The worst ones ive heard is where people see someone stabbing them and they cant do anything and actually feel like they are :8

I once woke up as well and saw someone sitting on the bed staring at me. IT was weird, thank god it wasnt this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0mSWZ_PMAI

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Well it certainly does seem to be something connected with fear that wakes you up before your body is ready. It can happen to me sometimes if theres a noise such as a car alarm shortly after I go alseep and I'll start to dream about my car alarm going off and see it going off in my head in my dream, i'll get worried of course and try wake up to go down and be a hero but i'll wake and my body won't move for 30secs or so and eventually it'll start to move. I then hear the alarm but it's not mine of course and it could even be a house alarm in the distance or something.

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thats very similar reasoning to mine.

Btw, we must all have originated from africa, as its far more common there :D

Weird thing is, I just thought like that this was some unknown thing that no one else had so never mentioned it, good to know other ppl actually get it. :)

so long as the case never happens where there is actually someone in the room and i try and tell myself its the same :8 imagine that...bejaysus.

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Originally Posted by jebus

the more worrying thing for you in your lucid dreams Block is that you can control what happens, realise that, and yet still your worst fears happen

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It's not so much that I can control what happens all through the dream it's more towards the end i suppose it's the realisation that it's a dream is what eventually wakes me. It's the feeling that it was so real that leaves me feeling uneasy or sick . for instance I awoke last week and started to prepare for my fathers funeral it was thirty seconds or so before I realised that it had been a dream and he wasn't actually dead. stuff like that tends to play on my mind for the whole day or even day's sometimes

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

what I tend to get are what feel like waking dreams, were in the Dream I feel as though I'm awake and sometimes actually realise that I'm dreaming and can actually control the Dreams to go in what ever direction I chose them to, I usually wake up during these dreams

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I used to have exactly the same dreams, just before I woke up, where for a very short time I could control what happened in the dream.

In every instance, without fail, I tried to steer the dream in the direction of me shagging some hot girl.

I usually woke up too quickly though.

How's that for honesty!

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Originally Posted by osarusan

I used to have exactly the same dreams, just before I woke up, where for a very short time I could control what happened in the dream.

In every instance, without fail, I tried to steer the dream in the direction of me shagging some hot girl.

I usually woke up too quickly though.

How's that for honesty!

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not quick enough though ;) :D

Have a child lads. That will sort out the oul sleep paralysis because you just won't sleep.

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

Have a child lads.

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Literally day's away from doing Just that (or at last miss Raptor is but you get my meaning)

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Literally day's away from doing Just that (or at last miss Raptor is but you get my meaning)

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All the best, Block. May the force be with you.

For all the Juno fans out there...Thundercats are go

Good look to you and Mrs Raptor!

Thanks Guy's, hope he(yes it will be a boy I just know it) arrives in time for the Boh's Blitz on Saturday:):):)

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Literally day's away from doing Just that

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Bit much isn't it??

Just to cure your sleep paralysis like?? :)

Just make sure it's a Boh's child rather than a Man U, Chelsea, etc, etc :ball:

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

yes it will be a boy I just know it

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Well console yourself that it'll be a Boh anyway! :D

As for the main topic, I don't know if it's the same experience, but I often get the feeling in my sleep that my legs can't move. I've only noticed it recently enough so figured it was arising out of me neglecting to fully build my muscles back up after surgery on my cruciate. Maybe there's some deeper resonance to it, I dunno.

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Well console yourself that it'll be a Boh anyway! :D

As for the main topic, I don't know if it's the same experience, but I often get the feeling in my sleep that my legs can't move. I've only noticed it recently enough so figured it was arising out of me neglecting to fully build my muscles back up after surgery on my cruciate. Maybe there's some deeper resonance to it, I dunno.

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Probably hitting the ketamine too hard :D

I still suffer frequently with troubled sleep. For me its basically a nightmare where your awake (but not quite fully enough to know its not real).
They feel so real its petrifying - People in my room / Rats on my bed - I eventually come round terrified, having reacted as if there was someone on my room etc and confused as to whether it was real or not. When I get them bad its 4 or 5 a night. The closest thing to describe it that Ive seen is sleep/night terrors. I know its caused by stress with me, and thankfully they happen less since lately so not too bad at all.

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

Bit much isn't it??

Just to cure your sleep paralysis like?? :)

Just make sure it's a Boh's child rather than a Man U, Chelsea, etc, etc :ball:

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You don't need to tell me, I've a 5 year old daughter who's Boh's mad and miss Raptor has a 6 yearold son and an 8 year old daughter also Boh's mad, they've never even heard of the premiership and I plan to keep it that way