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Mind awake, body asleep?
For the past few months, since Nov, I've been having this problem with waking up. It just started suddenly and happens a few night a moths, once to three times in the same night.
Usually its morning, after a full nights sleep, when it happens. My mind will wake up. I'll be compleatly conciouse. I can think, remember, everything as when I'm fully awake, but my body stays asleep. I feel literaly paralyzed, in a coma. Everything is dark. It's just like I'm laying there with my eyes closed but I can't move or screem now matter how hard I try. Usually I freak out and lay there for a while trying to wake my body up somehow till my husband hears me wimpering, cause I'm trying to screem for him, and he wakes me up. I know it's not just a bad dream and I'm scared my body might never wake up one day. Can anyone help on what this is or advice or something?
Usually its morning, after a full nights sleep, when it happens. My mind will wake up. I'll be compleatly conciouse. I can think, remember, everything as when I'm fully awake, but my body stays asleep. I feel literaly paralyzed, in a coma. Everything is dark. It's just like I'm laying there with my eyes closed but I can't move or screem now matter how hard I try. Usually I freak out and lay there for a while trying to wake my body up somehow till my husband hears me wimpering, cause I'm trying to screem for him, and he wakes me up. I know it's not just a bad dream and I'm scared my body might never wake up one day. Can anyone help on what this is or advice or something?
I am suffering with this since i was 13 year old and now i am 31.
I got this situation with a very realistic dream. Last night i saw a man hanged near to my bed but i was not able to leave from the room.
The most wired thing here if I told the situation to any one in my bed and I sleep again the situation transfer to her and she stuck in different kind of dream but with Sleep Paralysis.
I got this situation with a very realistic dream. Last night i saw a man hanged near to my bed but i was not able to leave from the room.
The most wired thing here if I told the situation to any one in my bed and I sleep again the situation transfer to her and she stuck in different kind of dream but with Sleep Paralysis.
Wow that is sooo creepy because what you describe is exactly what happened to me last night right down to the cat and someone beside my bed it went on all night....felt like something pushing down hard on me and then like I was being electrocuted...then kept waking up hallucinating and not being able to move or talk....seeing cat on my bed, things floating above me, someone beside my bed etc this happened different times throughout the night. Wow very strange
Wow that is sooo creepy because what you describe is exactly what happened to me last night right down to the cat and someone beside my bed it went on all night....felt like something pushing down hard on me and then like I was being electrocuted...then kept waking up hallucinating and not being able to move or talk....seeing cat on my bed, things floating above me, someone beside my bed etc this happened different times throughout the night. Wow very strange
I have been going through sleep paralysis since I was a young child. I'm 32 now and it always happens when I lay down to nap. Once when I was 7, I was stuck in a "nightmare" while being awake at the same time. There was a demon chasing me through a dark old house, I was screaming for help. While this was going on I suddenly felt my body on my bed, the warmth of the sun on my face, I was awake, yet the demon was still chasing me. I screamed for someone to wake me and tried to move but I was paralyzed. Somehow, I awoke before it got to me. I used to live next to a cemetery so I have always wondered if that had anything to do with it. I hate to call it a nightmare because it was so vivid and real. We moved not long after that, and it stopped for many years
I was 29 when I became pregnant with my son and moved in with my boyfriend, it was then it started occurring again. It was a tough pregnancy and I was placed on bed rest 3 months in. It occurred when I would nap during the day. Most of the episodes that have occurred as an adult have been without the "nightmares". I wake up while my body is still sleeping, I always fight to move and scream out, then I will wake up so groggy that I end up slipping back into the paralysis. This generally happens 3 to 4 times before I am able physically get my body up. If my eyes are slightly open I am able to see but I am not able to move my eyes. I did encounter a dark figure in my room once staring at me while I was trying to wake myself up (which scared the sh!# out of me). The house that we live in now had a previous long-term tenant who was biker with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and died as a result of it. Although he did not die in the house I wonder if he is still with us. I will hear footsteps in the attic (not on a regular basis thank goodness). Once, while I was on the desktop I had a glass move right before my eyes across my desk (and it wasn't for a second or two, I'm talking 4 or 5 seconds, enough time for it to catch your eye, question if your seeing things, confirm that yes you are indeed seeing it, and then think wholly sh!# it's still moving). Also there was once a crash that came from the attic that was so loud it literally shook the entire house. I thought one of the old trees on the property landed on the house but when I went outside everything was normal. I can't say whether or not sleep paralysis and supernatural phenomenon are connected, (it's hard enough dealing sleep paralysis by itself) I am hoping it's not the case because it really scares me.
There have been other supernatural events that have occurred to me (fortunately few and far between) but since they technically do not involve sleep paralysis, I will not go into further detail. I am just relieved that I am not alone in this.
I was 29 when I became pregnant with my son and moved in with my boyfriend, it was then it started occurring again. It was a tough pregnancy and I was placed on bed rest 3 months in. It occurred when I would nap during the day. Most of the episodes that have occurred as an adult have been without the "nightmares". I wake up while my body is still sleeping, I always fight to move and scream out, then I will wake up so groggy that I end up slipping back into the paralysis. This generally happens 3 to 4 times before I am able physically get my body up. If my eyes are slightly open I am able to see but I am not able to move my eyes. I did encounter a dark figure in my room once staring at me while I was trying to wake myself up (which scared the sh!# out of me). The house that we live in now had a previous long-term tenant who was biker with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and died as a result of it. Although he did not die in the house I wonder if he is still with us. I will hear footsteps in the attic (not on a regular basis thank goodness). Once, while I was on the desktop I had a glass move right before my eyes across my desk (and it wasn't for a second or two, I'm talking 4 or 5 seconds, enough time for it to catch your eye, question if your seeing things, confirm that yes you are indeed seeing it, and then think wholly sh!# it's still moving). Also there was once a crash that came from the attic that was so loud it literally shook the entire house. I thought one of the old trees on the property landed on the house but when I went outside everything was normal. I can't say whether or not sleep paralysis and supernatural phenomenon are connected, (it's hard enough dealing sleep paralysis by itself) I am hoping it's not the case because it really scares me.
There have been other supernatural events that have occurred to me (fortunately few and far between) but since they technically do not involve sleep paralysis, I will not go into further detail. I am just relieved that I am not alone in this.
This has happened to me over the years but only when I sleep on my stomach. It's so scary I worry that I want wake up one day. I thought I was the only one going through this. I have tried to explain it to my family and friends but no one understands. I am not stressed out or anything. It happened to me last night I fell in a deep sleep. I was driving my car and all of a sudden everything got blurry and my car went off a bridge I started screaming and said God I'm going to die. It took a while but finally I woke up. I didn't go back to sleep because I was so scared I managed to take a nap. I always wondered if maybe something was low in my body. My brain is alert and its like I know what's going on but unable to move. I'm glad I found this site and know that I'm not alone.
I have these experiences.
Happened today.
Put my head down on the setee for a quick napp.
Next thing you know I`m looking at my fireplace in the living room.
I know I`m asleep but can see everything clearly as if i was fully awake.
I try to move but I can`t.
I`ve tried to shout but I don`t think it works.
I can hear everything around me.
I`m used to it now.
All i do is try to relax and hold my breath and this seems to wake me up.
I always feel a bit groggy when I awake.
I sometimes wonder if this what its like if you were buried alive... Hope not.
Happened today.
Put my head down on the setee for a quick napp.
Next thing you know I`m looking at my fireplace in the living room.
I know I`m asleep but can see everything clearly as if i was fully awake.
I try to move but I can`t.
I`ve tried to shout but I don`t think it works.
I can hear everything around me.
I`m used to it now.
All i do is try to relax and hold my breath and this seems to wake me up.
I always feel a bit groggy when I awake.
I sometimes wonder if this what its like if you were buried alive... Hope not.
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