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comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
It’s a strange feeling. The definition of sleep paralysis is a slightly casual phenomenon so descriptions alter. I’d describe it as a very vivid nightmare. Happens occasionally, just when I’m about to fall asleep usually. For me it is always a feeling/sense that someone or something threatening is in my room and they’re coming closer. I want to move/say something but can’t. As they get closer I get more agitated/scared that I can’t move but soon wake up at that point
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I’ve had dreams in the past where I feel half asleep half awake. And something bad is happening and I try to run or shout and I can’t. Often I would sub-consciously shut my eyes really tight which helps me to wake up.

Is that the same thing ?

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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
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I once had sleep paralysis. Talk about scary
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I get that all the time.
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What is this ?
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Basically you're caught between being asleep and awake and you can't move. I learnt to cope with it by counting to 10 and forcing myself awake. It's scary stuff when you don't know how to deal with it.
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That sounds really strange. Can it happen at any time, ie even when you’re on the move ?

Or does it happen when you’re in bed
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Just when you go to sleep.
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Or just as you’re waking up.
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Well yes as you wake up when it happens.

comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 2 minutes ago
The threatening things I have in the ‘sleep paralysis’ nightmares have changed, usually a faceless intruder like a burglar but sometimes it’s my flatmates lol
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I remember two bad ones from my childhood.

One I must have been five or six and was sleeping in my grandmother's spare room. A pirate had a hold of me and I couldn't wake up

Then when I watched the first Jurassic Park in the cinema. Guess what was after me? No, not the terrifying dinosaurs but the boy who got electrocuted on the fence with his hair spiked up, looking like a kind of Jack Frost

Don't remember any other dreams at the time of it happening, just being sleeping but awake and having to tell myself to count to ten then wake up. Sometimes it took a few tries.

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comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
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It’s a strange feeling. The definition of sleep paralysis is a slightly casual phenomenon so descriptions alter. I’d describe it as a very vivid nightmare. Happens occasionally, just when I’m about to fall asleep usually. For me it is always a feeling/sense that someone or something threatening is in my room and they’re coming closer. I want to move/say something but can’t. As they get closer I get more agitated/scared that I can’t move but soon wake up at that point
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I’ve had dreams in the past where I feel half asleep half awake. And something bad is happening and I try to run or shout and I can’t. Often I would sub-consciously shut my eyes really tight which helps me to wake up.

Is that the same thing ?
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Possibly although my is often accompanied by not breathing at the time which causes me to take a massive breath when I wake up.

Get this thing regularly though not often. It's a horrible feeling of pure helplessness. Creeps me right out. Depending on your spiritual beliefs, it can also feel as though something not of this world and evil, is on it's way to drag your soul to Hades or something.

I fight to get up or make a noise, come out of it the same way every time, sit straight up with whatever sound my voicebox makes as it starts to work. Scares the living daylights out of anyone in the bed next to you. I always end up scaring a new gf because it happens about once a year so I forget then scare one sh!tless one day at 2am

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comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
It’s a strange feeling. The definition of sleep paralysis is a slightly casual phenomenon so descriptions alter. I’d describe it as a very vivid nightmare. Happens occasionally, just when I’m about to fall asleep usually. For me it is always a feeling/sense that someone or something threatening is in my room and they’re coming closer. I want to move/say something but can’t. As they get closer I get more agitated/scared that I can’t move but soon wake up at that point
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I’ve had dreams in the past where I feel half asleep half awake. And something bad is happening and I try to run or shout and I can’t. Often I would sub-consciously shut my eyes really tight which helps me to wake up.

Is that the same thing ?
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Sort of,

I’m usually very aware when I’m having an episode, although sometimes it is an ultra vivid dream.

It’s awful but I don’t panic because I know I’ll wake up after about ten seconds.

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comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
It’s a strange feeling. The definition of sleep paralysis is a slightly casual phenomenon so descriptions alter. I’d describe it as a very vivid nightmare. Happens occasionally, just when I’m about to fall asleep usually. For me it is always a feeling/sense that someone or something threatening is in my room and they’re coming closer. I want to move/say something but can’t. As they get closer I get more agitated/scared that I can’t move but soon wake up at that point
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I’ve had dreams in the past where I feel half asleep half awake. And something bad is happening and I try to run or shout and I can’t. Often I would sub-consciously shut my eyes really tight which helps me to wake up.

Is that the same thing ?
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Sort of,

I’m usually very aware when I’m having an episode, although sometimes it is an ultra vivid dream.

It’s awful but I don’t panic because I know I’ll wake up after about ten seconds.
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Exactly. When you're used to it you can cope normally, when you're not, it's terrifying.

I've had nights where it keeps happening and I'm so tired I drift back to sleep and it happens again. Repeatedly. That was when drinking heavily on weekends.

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 5 hours, 6 minutes ago
My sleep apnea has nothing to do with weight. It's just the way my jaw is structured. It doesn't prevent my tongue from backsliding, and effectively cutting off my airways.


Had it diagnosed a few years back, and after a few tests - my quality of sleep (or lack of) test results really shocked me - and many consultations, I eventually had a mandible brace thing made to wear at night. It's not great though, as now I wake with a dry mouth and, usually, a headache too.

Meant to be going back again this month for another check up. They've not contacted me yet to cancel it, but there's no way I'm going to hospital at the moment for that.
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The headaches in the morning sick big time , also hate the dry mouth CPAP causes mouth like sandpaper.

First time I had sleep paralysis was the scariest I think. Half woke up but couldn't breathe and couldn't move.

In the end basically forced myself to breathe/move but felt like I nearly/could've died.

Since then if I get it then it's not so bad because I know I can just force myself out of it.