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Sleep paralysis

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  1. 1. Has this ever happened to you?

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Have you woke in the middle of the night, just to find your self unable to move your body? When this happens do you sense a freaking "presence" applying Pressure/scratching your body (especially,chest, abdominal,genital areas).

 

Do you think that the "presence" is an __________ (alien/demon/the neighbors dog) <--pick what ever you like.

 

Are those events accompanied by and impeding sense of doom or fear?

Do you describe those events to other ppl only to tell you that it was a dream when you smeging know you were wide-awake and alert but just could not move.

Are there times when you wake up unable to move and unable to breathe thinking you are going to suffocate?

 

Well this has been happening to me on and off for 4 years and it has been driving me crazy. But as i talked about it to my friends and relatives, a significant portion of them had simmilar events to report.

 

Anyhow, as It turns out this is a "fairly" common "dissorder" and as much as 25% of the general population is suffering from one form of it or an other. Its scientific name is awareness during sleep paralysis (yeah i know not every original).

 

and although the causes are not yet fully understood scientists are speculating that sometimes when we wake up our brain "forghets to "tell" the body to stop being paralyzed ( The brain induces a paralysis of the body so that we won't reenact our dreams while sleeping) and that causes the phenomenon.

(Although a somewhat imperfect explaination, it sure is better than thinking you are having a bunch of little green men performing weird experiments on you while you sleep :P .)

 

Ok this is for those that had a simmilar incident in their lives, if you are not one of them then there is no way on earth you can relate to anything i just said.

 

However if you are one of the 25% "chosen ones" that suffer during their sleep then you can find more info about it here. And it would be nice if you could help the current research on the subject by completing the questioner.

 

 

P.S. An interesting fact/piece of trivia: A mara or mare was a kind of wraith in Scandinavian mythology. The mara was supposed to seat herself at the chest of a sleeping person and thus causing nightmares (yep thats where the word nightmare comes from,and yes the actions of the mara are similar to the experiences of people with sleep paralysis). Also very similar to the mare/mara is the incubi/saccubi of the Roman/Latin cultures. Just to pinpoint another contibution of us "victims" of sleep paralysis to western civilization.

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i get this....also occasional night terrors (rarely)...guess i wasnt meant to be just on one end of the sleep spectrum.

 

and just for fun someone threw in sleep apnia (sp?) and slow sleep and occasional insomnia!

 

hmmmm, throw in a nightmare every now and then and im all set!!!

 

hmmm, now that i think of it, i dont think i ever had a nightmare and woken in the night terror stage....

 

im not sure which is worse the terror or the awareness but cant move thing.

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I just watched an episode of "Second Sight" yesterday on BBC America that dealt with this-I've never had it happen to me nor heard of it. Pretty interesting and weeeeird :ph34r:

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hm that is interesting. This never happened to me, but I have had dreams before where I could not move or open my eyes IN the dream..and that always bothered me, it was as if I was pinned down TRYING to move but couldn't. Or like my eye lids were too heavy to open them :ph34r:

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hm that is interesting. This never happened to me, but I have had dreams before where I could not move or open my eyes IN the dream..and that always bothered me, it was as if I was pinned down TRYING to move but couldn't. Or like my eye lids were too heavy to open them :ph34r:

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Maybe it wasn't a dream?

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Every now and then I wake up and can't move. The only word to describe it is "vile" it's such a horrifying thing to wake up to.

 

The first time it happened I thought i'd maybe boken my neck or something while I was asleep. After what seemed like hours (but was probably only seconds) I could move my fingers, then my brain realised what was going on and let me move. It's happened about four or five times just this year. I hate it.

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yay for alien abductions and conspiracy theorists everywhere!

 

Keep watching the skies :o

 

Now, who didn't clean the probe again?

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hm that is interesting. This never happened to me, but I have had dreams before where I could not move or open my eyes IN the dream..and that always bothered me, it was as if I was pinned down TRYING to move but couldn't. Or like my eye lids were too heavy to open them :o

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I don't know if what you had was awareness during sleep paralysis or just a dream. You see I am not an expert on the subject. However there are many levels of sleep paralysis, me and Khorhil seem to be at one end, you might be on the other side of the spectrum (or not on the spectrum at all).You might actualy had milder symptoms of the condition like a "dream" in which you fall and immediatly after you are waken up by the inertia of your body as it hits the bed (it never actualy hits the bed since you never actualy levitated, but it feels like it,) that is also a case of sleep paralysis or one of the symptoms assosiated with it.

 

 

Every now and then I wake up and can't move. The only word to describe it is "vile" it's such a horrifying thing to wake up to.

 

The first time it happened I thought i'd maybe boken my neck or something while I was asleep. After what seemed like hours (but was probably only seconds) I could move my fingers, then my brain realised what was going on and let me move. It's happened about four or five times just this year. I hate it.

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Dude I know what you are going through... don't worry you will eventualy grow out of it (or that's what experts say). Anyhow next time you are sleeping and this starts try to move your eyes left and right, it supposedly helps you regain control of your body, haven't tried it my self since i have been sleeping normaly for six months (I only found out about this trick 2 weeks ago) ...

 

yay for alien abductions and conspiracy theorists everywhere!

 

Keep watching the skies :)

 

Now, who didn't clean the probe again?

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A lot of alien abduction phenomena can be explained in light of awerness during sleep paralysis. I am pretty sure Mulder was devastated when he found out.

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you might be on the other side of the spectrum (or not on the spectrum at all).You might actualy had milder symptoms of the condition like a "dream" in which you fall and immediatly after you are waken up by the inertia of your body as it hits the bed (it never actualy hits the bed since you never actualy levitated, but it feels like it,) that is also a case of sleep paralysis or one of the symptoms assosiated with it.

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I *hate* that feeling-it happens to me occasionally, and scares the bloody crap out of me. Especially happens if I'm having trouble sleeping and am in that "half-asleep" state where you start dreaming and are aware of it.

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I have the falling one. I've got the tripping, banging into cupboards, and stabbing myself onto barbed wire ones too. I always wake up with a jerk.

 

Heh... I even get them occasionally when I daydream. I can suddenly jerk my leg due to an imaginary toe-stubbing.

 

-Lyn-

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Can't say I've had sleep paralysis, but I do have sleep apnea. Been pretty scary with that. I've woken up sometimes where I can't breathe, not because of anything other than my throat closed.

 

Then I've had another time I woke up, and my right leg was leapfrogging my left, and I couldn't stop it... When I finally tried to, it hurt like hell trying to mentally restrain it, but I did.

 

One other thing I've had, is "wierd dreams" in which, nothing truly wierd happens, but the wierd part is when they come true, exactly as I dreamed...

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That has to be the absolute worst feeling in the world. You wake up, and you realize you can't move. You try to talk... you can't. You try to scream for someone to help... you can't. You try to lift your body up... you can't. After a minute or two, you can finally move. I've also experienced dreams where I realize that I'm dreaming, but I can't wake up. I try to open my eyes, but they won't open. Usually when I finally do get them open, I find that I can't move. It feels so helpless to be lying there, awake, unable to move. Both of these things have happened to me ever since I can remember, and they happen a few times a year.

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I get a thing where I fall asleep with my arms under me, they go completely numb apart from at the shoulders, I wake up and try to scratch my nose or something and my arms just flail around wildly, since I can't control anything below my shoulders. That's scary to wake up to.

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woah that never happened to me the worst that i get is my arm goes numb or usaly i wake up at least 1 time durning the night every night :)

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Whats bad is they have discovered a rare syndrome where anesthesia has been known to cause something like this and it looks to the doctors as if you are out, but in reality you are conscious and can feel the pain of the procedure!

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Whats bad is they have discovered a rare syndrome where anesthesia has been known to cause something like this and it looks to the doctors as if you are out, but in reality you are conscious and can feel the pain of the procedure!

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Well what you discribed above is called intra-operative awareness.

 

more info.

 

It is not a syndrome per se, but rather a product of human error (the anesthesiologist's).

 

Basicly this happenes when a patient is paralyzed with muscle relaxants but not enough general anesthetic or analgetic (pain killers) are administered to prevent consciousness and the sensation of pain (this can happen if some of the equipment is malfunctioning, if the Anesthesiologist did not calculate the dossages correctly, if you are and alchoholic, or even if there is too much vitamin C in your body). In addition, there is a small amount of cases where ppl show tollerance to a particular analgetic and, if the anesthesiologists does not notice that and change it to somethig else that you show no tollerance then your screwed again.

 

Anyhow, the good thing is that doctors can now monitor your brain and see if you are unconsious or not. If they happen to see a tremendous amount of brain activiy when you are supposed to be unconsious they will put one and one together and figure out that something is wrong with the anesthesia.

 

 

EDIT: Typos, and added some more useless and boring stuff.

Edited by giannis

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Well what you discribed above is called intra-operative awareness.

 

more info.

 

It is not a syndrome per se, but rather a product of human error (the anesthesiologist's).

 

Basicly this happenes when a patient is paralyzed with muscle relaxants but not enough general anesthetic or analgetic (pain killers) are administered  to prevent consciousness and  the sensation of pain (this can happen if some of the equipment is malfunctioning, if the Anesthesiologist did not calculate the dossages correctly, if you are and alchoholic, or even if there is too much vitamin C in your body). In addition, there is a small amount of cases where ppl show tollerance to a particular analgetic and, if the anesthesiologists does not notice that and change it to somethig else that you show no tollerance then your screwed again.

 

Anyhow, the good thing is that doctors can now monitor your brain and see if you are unconsious or not. If they happen to see a tremendous amount of brain activiy when you are supposed to be unconsious they will put one and one together and figure out that something is wrong with the anesthesia.

EDIT: Typos, and added some more useless and boring stuff.

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If they notice.

 

It's also interesting that it was on the news here in Minnesota several months ago and they didn't attribute it to any of those things or noticed it was happening in a local case.

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I always sleep on my legs and arms, so They become tingalie and frozen, then they hurt and tikckle at the same time.. O_o

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If they notice.

It's also interesting that it was on the news here in Minnesota several months ago and they didn't attribute it to any of those things or noticed it was happening in a local case.

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Was it in Mayo-clinic?

Well i can understand why the news did not attribute it in human error but rather a "dissorder". I guess the reporters knew nothing about it and they consulted a specialist (an anesthesiologist) and I guess out of comradship to his colleques, he preffered to atribute it to the indiviadual (rare syndrome, unique case) insted of the true cause which was human error (you can immagine the lawsuit/negative publicity for the hospital and the profession)

I mean, the patient had every right to sue the hopital, people who experience this usualy develope post-taumatic stress dissorder, and some of them die from shock in the O.R., and by not revealing the true causes they spared them selves a heck of a lawsuit.

 

Anyhow that's what i think, I might be wrong.

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Ok, this might of been said, but sleep paralisis can happen and occures naturaly when your brain doesen't reconnect your muscles and other non-vital sences while you are waking up. This can cause you to feel,hear, and see things that do not exist. I've experienced this one time. I just woke up, 1 of my eyes was seeing, my other eye open but, everything was swirling in different colors. 1 side of my body was completely imobile, i could not move it, nor feel it. it lasted 2 minutes, after that, i was facinated by and wanted to find what caused it. I learned, why it happened, and what other cultures thought. (it pays off to watch the science channel :P )

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"Some times".

 

Aliens ?

 

Yes! or.. maybe no :)

 

I do not remember :D

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Ive felt something like sleep paralysis before, but not sure if it was. ive had dreams where i got hirt really bad somewhere, then when i wake up, i feel really sore where i was hurt.

Another thng was that an alien like thing came in my room when i was little, and i found a footprint on the shirt it stepped on in the morning. wierd...

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