Sleep Paralysis

[LordRaiden]

Was taking a short "pick me up" nap this after (about 15 minutes) and I had a slight experience with sleep paralysis that brought this item to mind. It's actually a sleeping disorder that everyone encounters at some point in their life. Some more than others. What happens basically is when you go to sleep, your brain shuts down data flow to your body except for the nessisary bodily functions such as breathing, heart beat, and other interal operations. As far as mobility goes, that's totally gone. The idea is if you go for a run in your sleep, you won't go for a run for real. By shutting down the connections to the motor nerves while you sleep, it prevents you from hurting yourself by moving in your sleep.

Sleep Paralysis is a sleep condition where you wake up, but your brain forgets to turn back on those connections to your muscles, therefor no matter how hard you try, you can't move. You're totally awake, but you're completely unable to move or have very limited movement. Kind of like being paralyzed. Very interesting experience. Hopefully not one I'll ever have to deal with in an emergency, but it's kind of interesting overall. WebMD or some other online medical sites should have some info on it. It's kind of interesting and I am sure everyone has experienced it at some point in their life.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Never happened.

 

[her209]

Scary...

 

[Jhill]

I used to do it all the time. It SUCKS!.
I still do it on occasion. I get all paranoid and I worry that someone will rob my house when it happens. If I try real hard I can wake up from it totally.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I sleep with my TV on, and when I wake up, I realize that I incorporated stuff from TV into my dreams.

Say the news is on and they're talking about Saddam.. I'll start dreaming about him and a sniper rifle.

 

[Buttzilla]

this happened to me 4 times already. once when i was a kid, this as a teen, and twice before i finished college. i panicked the first two times and the last two times i told my body to move. kind of funny cause you just lie there mentally giving orders to your body. after a minute or two, which seems longer, your body will regain its motor functions.

 

[LordRaiden]

Yes, it is a weird feeling. Nobody knows why it happens. It's just like your body forgets to flip a switch or something. Kinda like someone upstairs forgot to follow the "wake up" check list.

 

[BatmanNate]

That happened to me frequently as a child. Now it only happens when I've had too much bloody brandy.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Sometimes a part of it is imagery from your dreams being incorporated into your waking vision for a while. I get that sometimes. One time I saw these funny patterns moving around on the ceiling. Another time I saw my cat floating around above the bed. Those two were just weird and not particularly disturbing, but the last time I remember having it was scary. It looked like the room was on fire. I could see red light coming from behind the dresser in the corner. I jumped up and turned the light on, and of course the room wasn't really on fire, but it gave a me a shock. I had to stop sleeping in that room because it was happening so much. I've only ever had it in that room. Weird.

 

[Spac3d]

I had a similar experience where I drank almost half a bottle of 151. I woke up 20 hours later and couldn't move

 

[JC]

That's caused by the aliens when they're in your room, didn't you know that?

 

[The Sauce]

Going along with that is the disorder known as Ondine's Curse where some wires get crossed and you also stop breathing when you fall asleep. People with that can't sleep naturally and have to use an iron-lung to sleep. Pretty crappy thing to have right there.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: lirion
Sometimes a part of it is imagery from your dreams being incorporated into your waking vision for a while. I get that sometimes. One time I saw these funny patterns moving around on the ceiling. Another time I saw my cat floating around above the bed. Those two were just weird and not particularly disturbing, but the last time I remember having it was scary. It looked like the room was on fire. I could see red light coming from behind the dresser in the corner. I jumped up and turned the light on, and of course the room wasn't really on fire, but it gave a me a shock. I had to stop sleeping in that room because it was happening so much. I've only ever had it in that room. Weird.

Did you see the words "REDRUM" written in blood?

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: lirion
Sometimes a part of it is imagery from your dreams being incorporated into your waking vision for a while. I get that sometimes. One time I saw these funny patterns moving around on the ceiling. Another time I saw my cat floating around above the bed. Those two were just weird and not particularly disturbing, but the last time I remember having it was scary. It looked like the room was on fire. I could see red light coming from behind the dresser in the corner. I jumped up and turned the light on, and of course the room wasn't really on fire, but it gave a me a shock. I had to stop sleeping in that room because it was happening so much. I've only ever had it in that room. Weird.

Did you see the words "REDRUM" written in blood?

No. Well, yeah, but only once, and it washed right off.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

i think my paralysis is broken. from what i've been told i talk, kick, and roll aroun in my sleep.

 

[Tret]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Was taking a short "pick me up" nap this after (about 15 minutes) and I had a slight experience with sleep paralysis that brought this item to mind. It's actually a sleeping disorder that everyone encounters at some point in their life. Some more than others. What happens basically is when you go to sleep, your brain shuts down data flow to your body except for the nessisary bodily functions such as breathing, heart beat, and other interal operations. As far as mobility goes, that's totally gone. The idea is if you go for a run in your sleep, you won't go for a run for real. By shutting down the connections to the motor nerves while you sleep, it prevents you from hurting yourself by moving in your sleep.

Sleep Paralysis is a sleep condition where you wake up, but your brain forgets to turn back on those connections to your muscles, therefor no matter how hard you try, you can't move. You're totally awake, but you're completely unable to move or have very limited movement. Kind of like being paralyzed. Very interesting experience. Hopefully not one I'll ever have to deal with in an emergency, but it's kind of interesting overall. WebMD or some other online medical sites should have some info on it. It's kind of interesting and I am sure everyone has experienced it at some point in their life.

I've gotten that a few times its the scariest f**king Feeling

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Never had this happen. Worst I've ever had was the hand of death grabbing my face. (When you fall asleep lying on your arm, and your arm goes numb. Then you roll over and your hand hits/touches your face. Scares the brown logs right outta ya.)

 

[Qacer]

This happens to me quite often. Most of the times this happens when I forget to drink water. My body is thirsty, but I don't feel it kinda thing. This is actually interesting because there are times when this happens and my dreams seem like a reality. For instance, I was awake, but couldn't move my body. I knew I was awake and started hearing all sorts of voices. I even felt someone sitting on the edge of my bed. But then when I finally regain movement, I get up and it's quite as hell.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Qacer
This happens to me quite often. Most of the times this happens when I forget to drink water. My body is thirsty, but I don't feel it kinda thing. This is actually interesting because there are times when this happens and my dreams seem like a reality. For instance, I was awake, but couldn't move my body. I knew I was awake and started hearing all sorts of voices. I even felt someone sitting on the edge of my bed. But then when I finally regain movement, I get up and it's quite as hell.

You're going to hell for sure.

 

[CFster]

I heard that if you try to wiggle your eyes back and forth quickly it can snap you out of it.

 

[Pr0Hawk]

It happened to me once. I was like WTF, WAKE UP! WHY CANT I MOVE. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Freaked the crap out of me.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I sleep with my TV on, and when I wake up, I realize that I incorporated stuff from TV into my dreams.

Say the news is on and they're talking about Saddam.. I'll start dreaming about him and a sniper rifle.

So if you were sleeping while a porno was playing ...

 

[oniq]

I've had it happen to me a handful of times.. Everytime I get real paranoid and think that something is wrong with me and I try to yell but I can't. I try to move but I can't. I keep trying to yell and eventually I can somewhat yell but more of a groan comes out .

 

[Ime]

I've had it happen twice.

Once when I was a child. I pissed myself I was so scared. (I was 5)

The second time about a year ago. All I was able to do was let out a moan. My wife heard it and woke me up fully.

 

[Ryan]

I had it happen once - in the middle of a high school economics class. The teacher tried waking me up, and I could hear him talking to me. It freaked everyone out in my class - I didn't "wake up" until 5 minutes later. They were getting ready to call an ambulance :Q