Anyone ever have Sleep Paralysis??? Lucid Dreams

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
KB: I think I am always on my back when I experience sleep paralysis. I think I'm also always sitting up partly (like with pillows behind my back/head. Happens typically when I'm napping, rarely at night. It's a terrifying thing, I panic when it happens.

EAXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENS TO ME

i think sleep paralysis happens when you dont breathe properly ? most of the time when i get it i am usually having a difficult time breathing...

 

[FFactory0x]

yea see i go into it by accident. Sometimes but most times right before im asleep whacky stuff goes through my mind but i wake up. Lets get a sure fire way down here guys. Tip and tricks. ATOT effect

 

[azazyel]

So Lucid dreaming is just taking control of your dreams? I have been doing that since I was a kid. It is harder though to control in deeper dreams, most of the time I just play along and try to figure stuff out. Light dreams are easy to control though.

 

[bandana163]

Bump for the morning crowd.
Did you sleep well? 🙂

 

[BatmanNate]

That used to happen to me as a kid (sleep paralysis) and once or twice I experience the demon too, but I was floating captive a few feet above the bed and the demon creature was poised nearby, not on me. Then I felt as though I couldn't breathe, and woke up gasping. It was certainly some kind of F'ed up mess of illusions, but pretty creepy for a kid. I'd also have dreams where Satan and Jesus were in my sandbox pleading their cases to me, or sometimes condemning my future by fortelling my fate. I had all sorts of messed up dreams as a kid, my parents must have fed me something strange before bed.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: ragazzo
one time i fell asleep on my right arm. when i woke up, it was numb and i couldn't feel a thing. i started using my other arm to shove my right around around for fun.

Same here. I tried lifting my numb arm too. Amazing how much heavier it seems. 😛

 

[mobobuff]

Never had sleep paralysis, and I've had A LOT of mid-day naps. I'm guessing it just means that the motor functions of the brain haven't kicked back on, while conciousness preceeded it.

I've read up on it and it a type of lucid dreaming. You cannot move your body because your body sent a signal to the brain "are you still awake" got no answer back. So your body said "ok i'm going to sleep now" meanwhile you were not asleep, just in a lucid and or meditative state and all kinds of stuff starts coming to you over the celestial wireless. You know you are not asleep and you know you cannot move your body but yet you cannot do anything about it so you kind of just space out on whatever is flying through your mind. I would take this as a good thing as I dont know to many ppl that are capable of this on a regular basis. My next expirement is going to be not to get freaked out that i cant move my body and start to really see what type of things can manifest in my mind and if I may be able to actually leave my body completely....i'm sur ethis will take practice but its worth the shot.

That seems wildly inaccurate. The body doesn't govern itself when sleeping, the brain does. The body doesn't ping the brain, the brain pings the body.

Also it sounds like some of you are confusing a pinched nerve or a lack of blood flow to a limb for sleep paralysis. If you sit with a leg resting on another (forming a triangle) and lean slightly forward for a while, you will feel the lower part of your leg losing contact with your brain, in that position an important nerve is being pinched, or kinked. No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to move your foot, and almost all feeling from your ankle down will be lost. I first discovered this when constantly doing homework in this position.

 

[0roo0roo]

when really sleep deprived i've had cataplexy before. for a minute or two its like your walking through quicksand😛

 

[mcveigh]

I'm suprised at how many here have these symptoms.
fiirst off i am a sleep tech (polysomnagraphic technician) I work in a sleep disorders center at night running tests on people with all kinds of sleeping problems. (sleep apnea is like 90% of what we do)

cataplexy/Sleep Paralysis can be syptoms of many things including narcolepsy. I reccomend going to a sleep specialist, most GP doctors no nothing of sleeping problems and will blow you off/ give you sleeping pills/ misdiagnose it.


http://www.sleepfoundation.org...olepsyandcataplexy.cfm
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/default.cfm

good links ^

ask me questions if you want, feel free to email or PM me.

Seth

 

[faZZter]

Originally posted by: CPA
I experience sleep paralysis about once every 3 to 4 weeks. I hate it because breathing gets very heavy and you can't move. I feel like I'm dying.

Yeah same here. I feel like Im suffocating sometimes if the blankets are over my head.

I have been able to control what goes on in some of my dreams occasionally, and boy do I take advantage of that fact when it happens! 🙂

 

[TTM77]

Asian believe ghost/spirit/etc they pins you down when U can't move like in lucid dream.

Azazyel is right that it is hard to control in deep sleep. And I have first hand experience in it. There were a couple of times that I accually hear what is going on around me but I know I was sleep. It got a little freaky when I tried to wake up but couldn't. I tried to scream and stuff but nothing. This happen when I fall asleep on the living room leather sofa. First I wasn't sure, but the second time the same happen so no more sleeping on sofa for me.

Another dream/nightmare I had when I was a kid. It happen the same thing over and over often enough that I remember it even when I am dreaming it. I was scared at the chinese pottery that has human figure and this white face with two pink dimple on it's cheek. I know it's not suppose to be scarry, but I was scared of it. Especially when they moves. But since they have no legs, they can't climb up stairs. So I would hide in the artic. Anyway, when I starts to remember my dream.. I know I was dreaming. So I went down stair, scared but I did it because I know I was dreaming and I kicked the sh*t out of those pots with white smiley face. It's funny to see them hopping as they try to run from me. But in the dream, I know that they has killed everyone else.

Another dream I had is a really dream come true. I always love to fly even thought I afraid of height. But this time, I know I was dreaming.. so I willed myself to fly. Wow, it was amazing. I flew over houses. I saw my feet flew over the tree's most highest tip. Once I even flew over a canion with the birds. I felt the wind in my hair. But then it become harder and harder to fly because I was falling deeper into sleep.

One of those flying dream, I certainly realize that I was in the water. But I didn't need any oxigent or anything. Like I was walking at the bottom of the clearest ocean. I jumped off a cliff so high that I got tired of falling so I swam. Then I saw the water thirl like an under water tonato and I swam into it.. wow the spin was awsome. And in this dream I also swam long an under water canion.

The awsome thing about these dreams are they felt very real and I can not get hurt. U might think I had the discovery channel turn on or something, but I was asleep in my room with everything off. No sound no nothing but silence.

 

never had sleep paralysis before...but have had 10 or solucid dreams

i must say, i wish i could have more lucid dreams

my first few were about 5 years ago, and i woke up stuck to the sheets 😱
the ability to change the dream environment and the people in your dreams is crazy

if there was a drug that could keep someone in that state of mind, this world would go away for many

 

[azazyel]

Originally posted by: troytime
never had sleep paralysis before...but have had 10 or solucid dreams

i must say, i wish i could have more lucid dreams

my first few were about 5 years ago, and i woke up stuck to the sheets 😱
the ability to change the dream environment and the people in your dreams is crazy

if there was a drug that could keep someone in that state of mind, this world would go away for many

That's pretty true because waking up would really suck. Sometimes I wake up kinda confused as to where reality is supposed to be. When I am really under and exert some influence over my dream it can tend to come too close to my actual life. I wake up wondering if I really told my mother to shove it, if I hit one of my friends, or that when I open my closet the cookie monster will be waiting for me with a jar of peanut butter and a tire iron.