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So i'm not sure if this has been discussed here before, but has anyone experienced sleep paralysis? Goddammit i hate it when it happens. It always feels like there's 1000 pounds of weight sitting on my body. Experiencing it is pretty freaky.. sometimes it will happen 3-4 times in a night...
Some people say it has to do with demons but i don't believe any of that bs.
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how longs it last for you?
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Hmm its tough to say, im not sure if my perception of time is really correct, but i would say like 20-30 seconds max. It dosent happen too often (maybe like once a month). But sometimes it will happen multiple times in one sleep session.Originally Posted by PistolStarta
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sleep patterns really interest me, but you may need script for some meds to get you sleeping longer. If its happening many times your never leaving REM sleep because you wake up often, you need some stage 4 bruh.
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man my sleep is fuked up!!......ive had sleep paralysis quite a few times over the years...i allways wake up with my head in the pillow but i can not fuken move...at one stage i had it pretty bad...id sleep with my hand next to my side board so i could give my hair a pull so i could snap out of it LOL.......i have insomniaish.....i say this because some nights i can sleep and others i cant drop off for shit! haha.....
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That wasn't sleep paralysis that was just me holding you down
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the weirdest part is when you instantly snap out of it... sometimes ill just snap out of it... then start to fall back asleep... and go back into sleep paralysis.
Sometimes i hear noises like a constant buzzing or humming sound
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same...weird thing...i can sense it starting to happen..like seing shadows...almost like in the fvking movie ghost
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lol......im the same itl happen ill come out of it and then itll happen again and again.......i also try and shout when im next to someone...trying to tell them hahaha....it makes me laugh when i think about it.......when i do it my face is in the pillow so i cant breathe properly....i really panic then..think im going to sufficate!
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I have had it happen to me a few times. It sucks ass big time and pretty much is the scariest thing ever at the time.
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it happened fairly often when I was a kid, has only happened a few times as an adult.
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I dont get it too often, but when i do... its sooo messed up. I can hear everything, yet i cant move or make any noise whatsoever... or even open my eyes. But it feels like something is holding me down. Maybe thats what it feels like when someone is in a coma? I know some people can actually hear eveything when their in a coma.... maybe it feels the same lol... i dont know...
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Yeah when it happens to me I can hear everything, I'm completely aware, but I can't move whatsoever, can't make a sound, blink my eyes, nothing. When I was a kid I would try to scream to get someone's attention, but nothing. I would try to focus all my energy, then jerk my body and I would literally jerk myself out of it. It's weird, when there is a tv or radio playing, when I manage to come out of it the sound is seemless, so it's not like I was dreaming it.
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i try to scream too, but i guess i'm not cuz my fiance never says anything and i havent even told her about it...weird i just forget about it until i read this post
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That is so crazy you guys trying to scream. I try to do the same thing, especially if I know someone is around. All my energy and might is to try and muster up a scream so someone will come and wake me up. I know I am asleep at the time, but I just want to be waken up so that the feeling of powerlessness goes away. Man I hate when this happens.
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Yup, same thing for me as a kid. I remember it clear as day except sometimes I had the out of body experience also where you can see yourself and I remember being able to float into other rooms of the house.
I remember trying to scream and I could do NOTHING... After a while I could whisper then all of the sudden everything worked again.
Ive never had it as an adult.
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I had this happen to me a few months ago. Scared the crap out of me and I just tried to forget about it cause I thought I was crazy. I felt like a giant was pushing me down onto the bed and then after about 30 seconds I snapped out of it.
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Common man... im at work and i dont want to get a woody at the moment
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what does this have to do with any thing?
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I fell asleep with my arm above my head one time. I've had it happen plenty of times, but this time my arm felt completely dead. It seemed like it took forever to get feeling back in it. I was freaking out like I was going to have to have my arm amputated. That was pretty scary.
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This has happened to me aswell but it was from laying on my arm. It felt completely dead. I couldn't even move my fingers and I kept twisting my torso to get my arm to swing so the blood would circulate lol. I'm sure it would have looked pretty funny if someone saw me.
Does anyone twitch while sleeping. I'll twitch sometimes so hard my whole body comes off the bed. Normally happens right as I fall asleep. Just last night I punched the girl laying next to me in the nose. I had my arm on her chest and it twitched lol.
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yup...instead of the jimmy legs ..the jimmy arms
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Yeah it's pretty crazy feeling. I looked it up after it happened and there have been cases where arms had to be amputated because of it.
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That's actually a totally different thing than we are talking about. That is nothing more than you have cut off the circulation to that particular body part. We are talking about whole body. You are paralized, can not move at all, can not scream, yell or talk but you are aware of your surroundings.
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I know. That post that I made was about jdawgs post about his arm feeling dead. I kind of got off topic. I've only experienced sleep paralysis once and that was just a few months ago.
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When i looked it up on wikipedia i noticed it has lots of folklore revolved around it.Yeh the whole thing is called "old hags syndrome", the name came from the feeling of an old hag sitting on your chest. Its pretty common , i've had it happen to me quite a few times but i think i was still asleep because when im really awake i can move prefectly, even though it seems i am lying in my bed.
Possible Causes.
* Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
* Irregular sleeping schedules; naps, sleeping in, sleep deprivation
* Increased stress
* Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
* A lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode.
OLD HAG SYNDROME
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yes, i'm always laying on back when the spooky shiat happens....
DO have the irregular sleep patterns...
guess the other shiat could be true also
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i remember a girl telling me about astral projection and i think i tried that shiat and had the same type thing happen
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i use to get it alot,, usually right before my usual wake up time,, its suks cus it feels so freaky. I use to get panicky and my heart would feel like it was about to explode. I would try wiggling my toes or hands and take big breath and eventually i would pop outo of it.
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I had no idea that this happened to anyone else. I've never mentioned it to anyone either.
Exactly as you have described: Frozen stiff and feels like someone has rolled a 55 gallon drum of water on top of you; can't move, can't yell no matter how hard you try and then it just goes away.
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yea its just part of sleep patterns. I thnk most of the population has it at one point in time in there lifes.
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I noticed that it happens most to me when I am really stressed about something in my life.
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i didn't know so many of you guys have experienced this.
I always feel like maybe its aliens doing experiments on us humans.. lol... but ya probubly not..
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But for the most part, i read somewhere that your brain releases the hormones that keep you from acting out your dreams before you actually fall into a sleep. Its crazy how the body has the ability to paralyze itself
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Its so you don't hurt yourself during dream sequences in stage 1 sleep, which is truly half awake/half asleep because the brain is so active and has similar wave lengths to being awake.
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I am glad you do not!
Anyway, I never experienced anything like that but once I had the feeling I was dyeing since my chest was paralized and I could not breathe.
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Yah I had it happen where I was asleep and half woke up (which is why it happens) and I was trying to make sense of it in my semi conscious brain so I thought it was a ghost holding me down and I was trying to scream but nothing came out and then finally my roomies said i let out a loud scream/moan. In the end I think I was just having that dream about dsm again :P
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