Sleep Paralysis

[Drew]

I've never experienced anything like that before, but it sounds really scary

[Reality]

I found this so common when I was younger and I still get it frequently.
The inability to actually move kills (not physically) because it feels like you should be able to do it. Speech also scares me because I previoulsy lost my voice the next day after experiancing it and thought that was the problem, but it wasnt *few*.

[_HeyyItsHannah_]

Never experienced this.... Wow... Sounds scary.. Hope it goes away!! God bless you guys for coping with it, I don't think I could ever cope with it.. Sounds scary

[Empired]

I get it and have been hooked onto machines at a sleep specialist because of it. I get it a few times a week pretty bad. A doctor told me when I first started getting it at 13 that its not common but its not rare either. You can take sleeping tablets for it, but the issue is sleeping tablets can make the sleep paralysis worse :/ But doctors keep trying to drill in to me that its only hallucinations connected to your REM sleep count and to wriggle your toes and fingers to make your brain realise that you are actually awake. It happens because of hormones in your brain. Our bodies automatically paralyze when we are asleep so we don't act out our dreams. The worst I got I saw an old hag on top of me and she was twisting her way into my stomach and I've also had sexual ones where I've been raped.

I remember you making a thread about this a while ago. Must have been a good year ago now.

I don't get it frequently but I've had it a couple of times. Oddly, it's always the same for me: a horrible monkey (red eyes, flesh ripped away around its ribcage, etc) is sat on the chair at the end of my bed looking away from me. i always lie there praying it won't notice me but at some point it turns its head towards me and we look at each other for a few seconds before he jumps with he teeth and claws out
i always always always snap properly awake at that point

Even though i know I'm gonna wake up at the same point i always hope it won't notice me

You're all talking about hearing sounds but I definitely don't. Like I know when i'm paralysed because, even though it's on, I won't be able to hear my fan which is right next to my head.

What would happen if someone (e.g my mum) really did come in the room? would she be able to wake me up? would i look awake? would i be able to hear her?
idk if anyone knows the answers to those questions but i'm interested

[Jssy]

I remember you making a thread about this a while ago. Must have been a good year ago now.

I don't get it frequently but I've had it a couple of times. Oddly, it's always the same for me: a horrible monkey (red eyes, flesh ripped away around its ribcage, etc) is sat on the chair at the end of my bed looking away from me. i always lie there praying it won't notice me but at some point it turns its head towards me and we look at each other for a few seconds before he jumps with he teeth and claws out
i always always always snap properly awake at that point

Even though i know I'm gonna wake up at the same point i always hope it won't notice me

You're all talking about hearing sounds but I definitely don't. Like I know when i'm paralysed because, even though it's on, I won't be able to hear my fan which is right next to my head.

What would happen if someone (e.g my mum) really did come in the room? would she be able to wake me up? would i look awake? would i be able to hear her?
idk if anyone knows the answers to those questions but i'm interested

oo i dont remember that but it freaked me out cos the sleep specialist I saw said that there have been a few people that have died during it, like theyve had heart attacks because theyve been so scared. average for sleep paralysis though is 3 mins and when i used to scream out nothing would come out . to answer your question you would hear your mum my mum has heard me like breathing weirdly during sleep paralysis and has come in whilst i was still paralyzed and then a few seconds later ive snapped out of it

[james,]

never had it thank god, wouldn't want it either.

[karter]

wow a lott of people seem to have experienced this, i should say i'm lucky that i haven't? nor do i know someone irl who's had this. i didn't know it was so common

[Jssy]

wow a lott of people seem to have experienced this, i should say i'm lucky that i haven't? nor do i know someone irl who's had this. i didn't know it was so common

its common in younger people as during the stages you grow up e.g puberty there's a lot of uneven chemicals in the brain such as hormones, uneven isnt really the right word to use but you get the idea

[BlueEyedSarah]

I've had it a few times, very strange feeling!