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Anyone else experience this? As you fall asleep or wake up in the middle of the night, you can't move or make a sound yet you feel absolutely terrified. You try to scream and it sounds like you are in your head, but nothing is coming out.
This happens to me multiple times a week and it's freaking exhausting. Up right now because of it. If I try to go back to sleep too soon, I fall right back into it. Ugh. I want some decent sleep
Happens to me occasionally. It is definitely terrifying. Your brain is awake but every other part of your body is asleep, and mine tend to occur a the tail end of a nightmare which makes i even worse.
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I'm seriously getting sick of it. Went to a sleep clinic and am waiting for them to get the ok with my insurance for a study. Don't know if it'll do much good, but maybe they can find a pill that will help me rest better. It seems no matter how much sleep I get, be it 3 hours, 12, or anywhere in between, I get crappy, scary sleep.
Last night was the roughest. Just kept happening every time I closed my eyes. I fought myself awake so many times I only got an hour of sleep and even that was wrought with fighting myself awake and startling my dog.
Yes this happens to me once in awhile...usually along with a nightmare. Usually wake up screaming in my head. I've been told that I'm whimpering even though in my dream I'm screaming my head off. Sorry that is happening to you. I can't imagine it happening more than once in awhile. I would be exhausted too
Post by itrainmonkeys on Sept 5, 2013 15:57:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I don't experience this.
So like....you're going to sleep and then all of a sudden you feel paralyzed and are afraid and can't move/yell? That's sounds scary as hell.
One of the scariest episodes of Tales from the Crypt that I can remember involved a guy who they thought was dead but really just had some kind of drug that made him wide awake/aware of everything going on around him but he couldn't move or do anything. And then they proceed to give him an autopsy while he's still alive and can feel it. Always afraid of some weird thing like that happening.
Every time it happens though, when my eyes first open and my body is still paralyzed at the corner of my eye I see a dark figure that scares the sh*t out of me. After a couple of seconds I can move my body and I almost always jump straight out of bed. Any one else experience hallucinations like me?
Edit: This short video describes exactly what happens to me. Skip to 1:40
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no none of this, but major sleepwalking and talking for me. like moving things on the wall and putting on/removing of clothes. always thought i'd grow out of it.
So like....you're going to sleep and then all of a sudden you feel paralyzed and are afraid and can't move/yell? That's sounds scary as hell.
One of the scariest episodes of Tales from the Crypt that I can remember involved a guy who they thought was dead but really just had some kind of d that made him wide awake/aware of everything going on around him but he couldn't move or do anything. And then they proceed to give him an autopsy while he's still alive and can feel it. Always afraid of some weird thing like that happening.
It's EXACTLY like that episode. Last night I imagined knives started slowly coming through my mattress and into my body and I couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Every time it happens though, when my eyes first open and my body is still paralyzed at the corner of my eye I see a dark figure that scares the sh*t out of me. After a couple of seconds I can move my body and I almost always jump straight out of bed. Any one else experience hallucinations like me?
Edit: This short video describes exactly what happens to me. Skip to 1:40
Yes yes yes. What I hate is that it's "completely normal" ... It SUCKS to be normal.
Post by theshining on Sept 5, 2013 17:18:33 GMT -5
Same thing used to happen to me when I was a kid when I would first start falling asleep. Sometimes I would just want to roll to one side and I couldn't do that or yell for help which I also couldn't do. Totally terrifying for a little kid
Yeah it happens to me about once a week. For me, it is typically when I have the opportunity to snooze more than usual. It comes in two forms for me:
1. It is like a state of being half awake, where you are no longer dreaming and realize that you are in your bed. The problem is that you can't move.
2. I'm having a nightmare, and since I'm a fairly skilled lucid dreamer, I decide "Fuck this" and I start making myself wake up.
What then happens is that I very slowly start trying to wake myself up. I do this by ever so subtly rock from side to side. I get more and more frantic as I try harder and harder to shake myself awake. The real trouble is that when you are in that state, you are still breathing slowly as though you are asleep. If you start to freak out because you can't move, you tend to want to breath harder because you are stressing out, but you are still breathing slowly. Now, you are afraid that you can't breath. You get more and more frantic and start trying to make noise. You hope your partner wakes up and shakes you awake. Eventually, you abruptly wake yourself up in a violent shake. Your heart is racing and you are anxious.
And the next time you go back to sleep after this happens, the whole process will probably happen again for some reason. So, you make yourself wake up. Final problem is that when you force yourself awake, you are barely even awake. You are still confused and disoriented and tired as hell. It is not easy just move on after it happens.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Sept 5, 2013 19:53:09 GMT -5
I researched this a number of years ago when I was having multiple episodes. I think I read that they once called it "Old Hag Syndrome" or something like that, because people usually report sensing or seeing an "entity". I sleep with my eyes open a little, so I think that contributes to mine. Scary as fuvk. I remember being 4 years old when I had my first episode, trying to scream for my mom because I thought that the Joker was in my room trying to get me, but couldn't move or scream. Weird. I also have sleep eating problems, waking panic attacks, I scream in my sleep, jump up out of my bed in my sleep, hit people, cast out demons, (Whoreshack just had his inaugural experience with this, a recurrent dream I have about demons and me having to cast them out of the house). So bizarro. Sleep disorders seem to run in pack.
Anti-depressants can be of help, as they help to inhibit REM sleep. Maybe worth a try if it is becoming distressing enough.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Though it's a terrible thing to share, I'm happy to find others who know what I'm talking about. All too often, when I describe an episode to someone, they think I'm on no no words lol
