Do I have sleep paralysis?

[NorthernGirl77]

Hello. For a few years now there have been times when as I'm falling asleep, it feels like someone grabs gives my leg a hard pull (it happened last night, actually). And there are other times when if I'm having a dream, and something in my dream makes me anxious, I can feel myself start to wake up,or I'm aware that it's a dream (or both), and I fully wake up to my heart racing. Some things about sleep paralysis sound like what I'm experiencing, but almost everything I've read about it involves a hallucination of some kind, and I don't remember that ever happening to me. It also seems to be hereditary, and as far as I know neither of my parents have had sleep paralysis, although my dad has had sleep apnea. Do I have sleep paralysis? If not, then what is it?

[eascusa]

All I can say is that I do have sleep paralysis and many of the times that it was happening I was being pulled off my bed. So, it was common for me to have that happen. But there is a lot more than that that is trademarks for sleep paralysis. Although I dont necessarily have all the symptoms in every episode I have. But being pushed and pulled from my bed and even flying around the room or being pulled toward the closet was very common for me. Do you have any other symptoms?

[Jerry_NJ]

Sorry you haven't gotten an input from a fellow suffer.  That said, you may find some helpful tools in the methodology used to deal with Lucid Dreaming.  Read book by Stephen LaBarge (not sure on the last name, google Lucid Dreaming, you'll get a lot of on line stuff and into to the PhD at Standford who leads that subject there.

[NorthernGirl77]

Never mind. Apparently there was someone outside yelling.

[NorthernGirl77]

I take that back; I think I had an auditory hallucination last night. The same one twice. I didn't check to see if I could move or not until a few seconds later, though.