Hi all,
It's 1:30am and I just had the scariest experience! I was asleep with a pillow under my arm for some reason. I woke up and wanted to move that arm, but all I could do was move the hand just the slightest bit. I began to panic, kept trying and it was as if my brain just couldn't get the arm to move! The rest of me was fine, and I used my right arm (the one I had been lying on) to pull the pillow out. Slowly, I was able to move the arm again. I pulled it back behind me to try to shake it up, and got a sudden burst of tingling in the tricep, which passed quickly. Then, all was normal, and I was left to wonder if this had really happened.
I was worried it was a stroke and am afraid to go back to sleep !! I have had a kink in that side of my neck all day, and have had other issues with this left shoulder, but this wasn't a pain problem, it was as if my arm just wouldn't work. Now that it works, it's like it never happened. Of course, I still have the kink in my neck. I'm 44 and this has never happened to me before although I have had the sensation of being lifted up really quickly during sleep a couple of times, which has also scared me awake and left me feeling very disoriented and afraid to go back to sleep.
Has anyone experienced a paralysis of just one limb upon waking? I had been asleep for a couple of hours before this happened.