Sleep paralysis

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:52 pm

Wondering how many people exactly have experienced this and how many times. Just happened to me again last night. This crap sucks because like it says your fully aware and everything but no ability at all to move. All you fucking see is black. Anyway my gf came into the room used my computer and started playing some music. I could hear everything she was doing and the exact music that was playing and everything. I finally snapped out of it after being in it for like 15 mins. This has happened to me like 10 times or so that I can remember once for about a week straight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Another thing that I also experience probably 30% of the time is lucid dreaming which is dreaming but knowning that you are dreaming and have control of the content of your dream. Lucid dreaming is very......different feeling though then any other kind of dreaming. Like times that I was talking to my grandpa and grandma on my moms side that died. I would have never normally remembered those times but it feels like I knew every single detail that I said to them while dreaming.

Anyway just wondering how many people go through this.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:17 pm

I've had this happen to me a couple of times too

it's kind of scarier than shit

Post by **Tossica** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:05 pm

I had it happen fairly often when I was younger. I have not experienced it several years but from what I recall, it was pretty terrifying.

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:40 pm

Tossica wrote:I had it happen fairly often when I was younger. I have not experienced it several years but from what I recall, it was pretty terrifying.

Yes it varies from person. My brother also had it a few years back. He actually used to moan in his sleep. He told me that when he did this and if I heard to go to his room and shake him until he woke up. Before when this happened to me I also used to hear unbelivably loud screaming for some reason.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:20 am

Hasn't happened to me yet.

Post by **Lueyen** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:16 am

I have never expierenced sleep paralysis. I have expierenced lucid dreaming on a number of occasions, I have never tried to self induce lucid dreaming however. The first time was a bit frightening because while being aware I was dreaming, I was not aware I was in control at first.. and it turned sort of nighmarish before I realized my thoughts were controling it.

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:49 am

bah..it is just the remains of a dream as you drift into reality..this happens to me all the time

My Opinion:

It isn't fricking paralysis unless you don't wake up from it, if you ask me...it is just part of nightmares, I figure...perhaps I don't understand what exactly they are saying, so I will give you an example.

Example:

I am dreaming that someone is on top of me and won't get off. So I cry and struggle and it feels very real, but of course I then wake up to reality and realize it isn't real. I cry for about five or ten minutes until I am finally in reality...then I realize that I can move again. I then lay awake for another half an hour in hopes the dream won't come back. Perhaos this is just nightmare, but perhaps that is all sleep paralysis is in the end.

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:53 am

oh..and btw des, they say that, when you dream of a loved one who has died, it means your mind has completely wrapped itself around and accepted their death...I dreampt of my grandma too..and I remembered the dream so vividly, but I can barely remember much now...I remember her saying,"Don't let them piss you off."

I said,"Don't worry, Grandma." And that was it. Up until I realized I was talking to my dead grandma, the dream was flying by like any other dream. I was so sad when I woke up. I must have cried for hours.

ok that should do it for ammo for you trolls:) oh look, I still don't give a fuck

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:10 am

I have woken up before and not being able to move anything. Its a little freaky, but everytime I do it for some reason I think someone is breaking in and it seems like I just lie there and listen to noises of the house creaking for hours.

Post by **Tossica** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:13 am

People used to think that sleep paralysis was caused by a Succubus or Incubus.

leah · Post by **leah** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:51 am

i've never had the paralysis thing, but i've definitely had lucid dreaming.

sometimes i'll be dreaming and i'll know that i'm dreaming and i'll wake up and i'll make myself go back to sleep so i can finish the dream where i left off. ^^

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:39 pm

When I know that I'm dreaming within a dream I go and jablown my enemies and bang supermodels and hot celebrities.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:50 pm

Gargamellow wrote:My Opinion:

It isn't fricking paralysis unless you don't wake up from it, if you ask me...it is just part of nightmares, I figure...perhaps I don't understand what exactly they are saying, so I will give you an example.

no, you're missing it

you'll be awake

your eyes are generally open (mine are anyways)

maybe can move your head a bit, but you can't move your arms, legs, etc

you definately can't move your mouth or tongue, but can maybe moan/groan/squeel a bit

and for, i dunno about others, there's always this sense of impending doom or despair when it happens

it hasn't happened in years, and I never really tied any kind of event to it

Tuggan · Post by **Tuggan** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:02 pm

oh man, that would freak me the fuck out. luckily i've never experienced anything like that.

only kinda shit i deal with when i manage to fall asleep is waking up real quick like cause i feel like i'm about to take a dive. i don't even remember dreams 99% of the time. sleep sucks.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:06 pm

Sleep
A little slice of death
How I loathe the night

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:40 pm

I've experienced this as well. Not a particularily fun occurance I must say. I usually feel really panicky when it does happen and struggle until I finally gain control of my body.

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:42 pm

Heh the time I went through it for a whole week, yeah the first and like second time freaked me out. But then after that I was just like...."fucking shit not again".

araby · Post by **araby** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:53 pm

I woke up once and I was sitting at the computer. No shit.

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:23 pm

araby wrote:I woke up once and I was sitting at the computer. No shit.

Quit falling asleep at the computer.