My sleep paralysis is making me ill

[Jssy]

I want to know if anyone else has had the sleeping disorder SP and how they cured themselves? I have been suffering with SP for 5 years. At first I thought I was just having some weird nightmares. I wake up and can't move my body or scream out. I can only move my eyes. Weird things happen around me, like demons trying to hurt me, it is pretty much feeling like I am going to die.

I went to my doctor about it and he said SP occurs because during deep sleep our body is paralysed so we don't act out our dreams and the waking up but only moving my eyes is to do with REM eye movement in sleep. My body is waking up before my brain realises so I am still paralysed and seeing visions of my dreams with my eyes open. There is no cure for SP. Some people only experience it once, other people experience it regularly. It happens to me anywhere from 2-10 times a month.

My latest experience was today and it gets worse and worse. I could feel my body becoming paralysed again and my eyes were open. In front of me was the outline of a girl with shaggy black hair she was trying to twist her way in to my stomach like a demon, like a demon trying to take over my body. I started panicking and my breathing got slower and my heart started to race. She grabbed hold of my neck and I couldn't breathe. I closed my eyes tight and told myself in a few minutes it would be over and my body would start to move. After a few minutes my body jolted and I could move again. It is seriously affecting me. I have lack of sleep because I am too scared to sleep. I don't smoke anything, I don't do drugs, this is a real life condition and I don't really know what to do since there is no cure. I am looking for some suggestions because SP is starting to take control of my life

[mrwoooooooo]

stay off the drugs

a quick google tells me that lack of sleep causes it to happen more often.

[Stephen]

Sleep paralysis is fun

Just play along and enjoy it

[Jssy]

lol I don't do drugs :( I've tried every way of trying to get more sleep that my doctor told me. Even when I've had enough sleep it happens. I'm too scared to sleep and it's driving me crazy so I'm in a no win situation really :(

[Empired]

I've just googled this and a few different people are suggesting putting a digital alarm clock where you can see it easily and during one of these paralyzed "episodes", keep looking at the clock and watch time moving on. Note how quickly or slowly it changes and try to focus just on the clock, ignoring the nightmare completely.

Even if it doesn't stop the SP, it gives you something other than your nightmare to focus on!

I hope it clears up soon ^_^

[lawrawrrr]

Oh my god, this sounds terrifying!! I've heard someone talk about sp before but i didn't realise it was this bad. I'm just going to contact her to see if there's anything she suggests to see if i can help :)

[dbgtz]

I actually forgot about it until this thread and after having a period of it for a fairly long time, it just stopped. The only thing I can think which would affect this is the amount of sleep I had.

[Jssy]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will see if the alarm clock thing will work, I wish mine would go away but it doesn't seem to :(