EPTSleep Paralysis - Page 3
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
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Jalle
Sweden149 Posts
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Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
On November 14 2011 23:59 Waxangel wrote: I guess a lot of people find this scary, but personally it just strikes me as annoying? From what I hear, with some people it's frequently combined with nightmares of someone (ghost, monster, whatever) sitting on them or holding them down, which intensifies the experience... so I could see that being fucking scary. Well it's only scary because every time it happens, I hallucinate -_- so I never knew if I was too scared too move or I couldn't move at all.. fortunately I was able to wake myself up in 2 seconds at one time. It's always something touching me or some black human figure in my room LOL. Anyway @OP It's happened to me about 7 times or so~ | ||
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Ruffian
United States369 Posts
Now it happens on occasion. It's annoying and still scares me a little haha. It happened to me once as I was dreaming about a ghost or something. I literally thought it was the ghost attacking me >.< | ||
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ROOTIllusion
United States1060 Posts
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
There are specialists for this kind of stuff, go seek help if it happens frequently, it might be everything, from just "nothing" to a malicious disfunction in your body. | ||
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Obstikal
616 Posts
On November 15 2011 01:47 VaultDweller wrote: That is indeed the "best" part. I've had this happen to me 3 times, once when I was maybe around 10 or 12, I couldn't move but I was able to open my eyes and I was seeing a freaking snake right next to me so I was thinking "the snake paralyzed me and now I'm going to die". Stupid kid. The other 2 "incidents" happened a few months ago and both times it felt like someone was sitting on me. I do freak out, complete paralysis is one of my worst fears so it kinda sucks having to face it, even if reason tells me what it is and that it will pass in a few seconds, some part always wonders "but what if it doesn't?" Theres actually videos on youtube of people enduring this state for 30minutes or so but they of course have a more severe case with other complications. | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
 thought i was going to die for sure; found out what it was afterwards though so all good^^ can't believe people don't get informed about this though (thinking something extremely serious has happened and that you are going to die is pretty rough) | ||
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
I experienced this a lot in high school. Three times out of a week, usually, especially in senior year due to sleep deprivation and stress. I still get it occasionally now in college, but it's a lot less frequent, though I did have an episode earlier this week. You just learn to relax and wait. Never got the visual hallucinations, but I get the auditory ones. It's usually just a really loud buzzing/ringing. | ||
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GoShox
United States1844 Posts
On November 14 2011 23:59 Waxangel wrote: I guess a lot of people find this scary, but personally it just strikes me as annoying? From what I hear, with some people it's frequently combined with nightmares of someone (ghost, monster, whatever) sitting on them or holding them down, which intensifies the experience... so I could see that being fucking scary. Yeah, I was really into reading about lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and such for a while... and right after I learned about it it happened to me haha. Like I woke up and couldn't move and I heard all these voices and saw weird monsters.. obviously it was kinda scary at the time but it's pretty funny hah. | ||
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
It's happened to me at least a half a dozen times. The last time was about 8 months ago but this time I knew exactly what was going on and didn't freak out like I had in the past. I knew I was in a state of concsiousness and unconcsiousness at the same time and I just tried to calmly get over it. Basically your mind plays tricks on you trying to figure out what is going on. The easiest way to get over it is to sort of accept your fate at the moment. And accept that even though it seems so real that everything is ok and its probably all in your head. And that will calm you down. | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
On November 15 2011 01:22 JieXian wrote: Whoaa can you elaborate more on that please? What do you want me to elaborate more on? Lucid Dreaming? I wrote a blog/guide for it once on here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=137954 If you have any questions I'm always happy to do my best to provide answers. | ||
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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Kojak21
Canada1104 Posts
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
Maybe I am strong in the way of the Jedi. | ||
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rainfable
United States171 Posts
The first time for me was horribly scary. -__- | ||
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pdd
Australia9933 Posts
First time was scary, but you get used to it and learn to relax. However there have been times where it's really uncomfortable and hard to breathe. It's incredibly panic-inducing in those moments. There have also been times when it's accompanied with dreams and weird sensations (ticklish/squeezing/stabbing feelings around my obliques). Actually let me chronicle some of my worst experiences. 1. Dreamt I was being choked by steel bars. Felt suffocated and shit. I actually thought I was going to die and was like, "I guess this is the end." Then I woke up. 2. This one was random but I dreamt I got stabbed in the oblique area and I actually felt stabbing pains. Woke up feeling like crap. 3. This one's more funny, but I went to bed and was falling asleep but I didn't realize my body had actually gone into "sleep paralysis". I felt an itch on my head (mind you I thought I was still awake here), and went to scratch it only to realize I had gone into sleep paralysis. Zzz. 4. I've never had a nightmarish (as in seeing an actual ghost/monster in my dreams) experience during my sleep paralyses, even though a lot of people claim that they see things sitting on them, etc (I can't seem to recall any). | ||
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keiraknightlee
United States301 Posts
i tried lucid dreaming once after my friend told me about it but it felt complicated so i never gave it much thought, but from what i understand sleep paralysis is involuntary so you can't control it but lucid dreaming is voluntary, meaning you actually have to try to make it happen | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
On November 15 2011 09:30 keiraknightlee wrote: interesting based on the replies this seems to have happened to a lot of ppl here. i had heard about it before but especially now after reading all the comments i really hope i never have to experience it i tried lucid dreaming once after my friend told me about it but it felt complicated so i never gave it much thought, but from what i understand sleep paralysis is involuntary so you can't control it but lucid dreaming is voluntary, meaning you actually have to try to make it happenBoth can be voluntary or involuntary. More often than not though lucid dreaming is a voluntary thing and SP is an involuntary thing. However, its by no means uncommon for someone to spontaneously have a lucid dream even if they aren't trying to. Occasionally something just sets you off and you end up realizing you are dreaming. SP can be voluntary because you can induce it yourself; in fact that's a critical component of the standard approach to WILDing (lucid dream induction technique). I had heard about it before but especially now after reading all the comments i really hope i never have to experience it Why? Once you know what it is there is nothing scary or unpleasant at all about it. It's only scary for people who don't know whats happening because they wake up, seemingly paralyzed, and hear weird noises/experience strange sensations/hallucinations, etc. Basically it's scary because you think it is real. Once you know what it is your just like "Oh, looks like my body woke up a little abruptly from REM". On November 15 2011 07:40 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote: That is insane! I can't even imagine what it would be like to just wake up and not be able to move a muscle. Just thinking about it scares the crap out of me. Interestingly enough sleep paralysis (better called REM atonia) is a natural process in the body. During REM sleep, the brain activity correlates with your dream movements. I.E. if your dreaming about jumping off a diving board, your brain is actively trying to make your body dive. Thankfully, we go into REM atonia, which is brought on by the blocking of neurotransmitters, which in turns prevents your body from acting out your dreams. | ||
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