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What do you know about sleep paralysis? Can you help?
Lately i have been having some very very extreme episodes of sleep paralysis. It started a little over two weeks ago and its getting worse. I will lay in bed and fall into this really relaxed position (I have a sleeping disorder, so its hard to be relaxed in bed) and I have been having theses dreams that im laying in my bed kicking and screaming at the top of my lungs because im trying to move but i just can't. i fight to open my eyes and i scream hoping that something will come out. in my head its loud and i can hear it but no one comes in my room to wake me up. when i can finally force my eyes open i fall right back to sleep and am stuck yet again! I have severe anxiety and this is starting to become too much to handle, my meds are even starting to give in to break throughs and its becoming increasingly hard to act normal please help!
They say sleep paralysis mainly happens:
- if you sleep on your back.
-if you're very tired
So avoid those...
another thing is to know exactly how it happens...Sleep paralysis happens when your body falls asleep before your brain (that's why your body wouldn't move yet your brain was fully aware) so if possible try to move your body every now and then when falling asleep.. the longer your body stays still and your brains still on, the higher chance you'll fall into sleep paralysis. So every now and then move your hand or foot until you actually fall asleep. You don't want your body falling asleep before your brain.
- if you sleep on your back.
-if you're very tired
So avoid those...
another thing is to know exactly how it happens...Sleep paralysis happens when your body falls asleep before your brain (that's why your body wouldn't move yet your brain was fully aware) so if possible try to move your body every now and then when falling asleep.. the longer your body stays still and your brains still on, the higher chance you'll fall into sleep paralysis. So every now and then move your hand or foot until you actually fall asleep. You don't want your body falling asleep before your brain.
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You can't fall asleep if your brain isn't asleep. Body parts "falling asleep" is caused by pressure on nerves. When the body is asleep, so is the brain. This person is having anxiety dreams, meaning taking anxiety to bed with her. I would ask the poster, what meds are you on? It could be related to your medication.
I should add, the fact your body and brain is asleep doesn't mean it's dead. Everything is still working, it's just at rest. Sleep isn't death. If your body or brain truly stopped working altogether, you wouldn't be dreaming -- you'd either be dead or in a coma, in which case you wouldn't be aware of anything the poster is bothered by.
I think its anxiety too.
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