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Sleep Paralysis
#21
RE: Sleep Paralysis
(February 18, 2011 at 3:10 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:
(February 18, 2011 at 12:46 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: see, that's what I don't get...mine were always while I was on my stomach

Sleeping on your stomach is rare. Most people sleep in the fetal position or on their backs. In your case it would not matter as you would still have the hallucination.

Sleeping on your stomach is also bad for your spine according to my GP.

"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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#22
RE: Sleep Paralysis
During my childhood and teen years I experienced sleep paralysis very often. It would be rare if I went a week without it. Same with horrible nightmares, almost every single night. When I was a kid I use to think there were monsters because of my hallucinations but then I heard about what it actually was.

Strange, I'm now a lucid dreamer. Being an insomniac may contribute to that as I'm also a very LIGHT sleeper when I do get sleep.

I think it occurs like once every 2 months in my adult age.
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#23
RE: Sleep Paralysis
(February 22, 2011 at 2:23 am)8BitAtheist Wrote: During my childhood and teen years I experienced sleep paralysis very often. It would be rare if I went a week without it. Same with horrible nightmares, almost every single night. When I was a kid I use to think there were monsters because of my hallucinations but then I heard about what it actually was.

Strange, I'm now a lucid dreamer. Being an insomniac may contribute to that as I'm also a very LIGHT sleeper when I do get sleep.

I think it occurs like once every 2 months in my adult age.

Sounds like you went through the same exact thing I went through TIMES TEN. I think most who find out what they are suffering from become lucid dreamers. That was the only way the paralysis problems slowed down for me, and became more manageable. I learned how to lucid dream from a book suggesting it was the best way to handle sleep paralysis. Now I spend my nights flying through the sky, tossing fire balls at dragons, walking through walls, and freefalling through the Earth. And yes, the occasional insomnia (just 2 days ago I went 48 hours without any sleep) and every single little noise wakes me up as well...I feel your pain brother, but you definitely suffered more paralysis episodes than I did. Mine were usually once every two or three weeks.
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#24
RE: Sleep Paralysis
(February 23, 2011 at 1:53 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote:
(February 22, 2011 at 2:23 am)8BitAtheist Wrote: During my childhood and teen years I experienced sleep paralysis very often. It would be rare if I went a week without it. Same with horrible nightmares, almost every single night. When I was a kid I use to think there were monsters because of my hallucinations but then I heard about what it actually was.

Strange, I'm now a lucid dreamer. Being an insomniac may contribute to that as I'm also a very LIGHT sleeper when I do get sleep.

I think it occurs like once every 2 months in my adult age.

Sounds like you went through the same exact thing I went through TIMES TEN. I think most who find out what they are suffering from become lucid dreamers. That was the only way the paralysis problems slowed down for me, and became more manageable. I learned how to lucid dream from a book suggesting it was the best way to handle sleep paralysis. Now I spend my nights flying through the sky, tossing fire balls at dragons, walking through walls, and freefalling through the Earth. And yes, the occasional insomnia (just 2 days ago I went 48 hours without any sleep) and every single little noise wakes me up as well...I feel your pain brother, but you definitely suffered more paralysis episodes than I did. Mine were usually once every two or three weeks.

Yea. They seriously scared the shit out of me. My mom was/still is somewhat very superstitious and would complain about my siblings and I walking around polls and saying bloody marry and things like that and it got to a point to where I thought that I was being haunted for being bad. Luckily, I came to learn that it was sleep paralysis in my teens and became a lucid dreamer since. Still, I had nightmares but if I couldn't control what was happening I could easily wake myself up.

Now most nights i can hardly sleep but when I can it's very lucid.

Thanks for your sympathies also. Smile
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#25
RE: Sleep Paralysis
I'm taking a tolerance break from weed and finding it very hard to sleep, so I'm with ya, 8bit.
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#26
RE: Sleep Paralysis
About a month ago I woke up in the middle of the night (after sleeping for 3 or 4 hours).

I woke up startled, because I heard a woman yell my name. It was a short, loud scream, and it was my name. It was coming from my kitchen. There was no followup noise, like neighbours yelling at each other or whatever. It was vivid and real. I laid awake for another 20 minutes because I was so shaken by it.

Even though I know it was obviously some sort of auditory hallucination or distortion and not a woman or ghost or whatever, it's freaky shit. I'd never experienced anything like it until then.
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#27
RE: Sleep Paralysis
I hate that when it happens!! Undecided

Mine is usually just before sleep or just waking up...you know that (in between) moment when you are JUST realising that you are not quite asleep but not quite awake?? Dodgy

The whole 'people talking to you' 'funny noises' and such...very disconcerting. Sad
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#28
RE: Sleep Paralysis
(February 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm)Meatball Wrote: About a month ago I woke up in the middle of the night (after sleeping for 3 or 4 hours).

I woke up startled, because I heard a woman yell my name. It was a short, loud scream, and it was my name. It was coming from my kitchen. There was no followup noise, like neighbours yelling at each other or whatever. It was vivid and real. I laid awake for another 20 minutes because I was so shaken by it.

Even though I know it was obviously some sort of auditory hallucination or distortion and not a woman or ghost or whatever, it's freaky shit. I'd never experienced anything like it until then.

I woke up this morning clearly hearing the words "Boogers are better". Yup. Have no idea what it means, but I clearly heard it. Things like that are normal with dreaming... and yes, they are freaky...I get them nutty audio dream halucinations about every 2 or 3 weeks.

I told my wife and she broke out laughing saying she wished she could see tapes of my dreams..I told her she probably wouldnt like them for being so freaking weird sometimes.
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#29
RE: Sleep Paralysis
Mix the hallucinations up with the sounds of the squirrel skittering across the roof - then you'll understand why I don't watch horror movies.
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#30
RE: Sleep Paralysis
I suffered a few episodes of sleep paralysis in my early childhood, but it stopped after about the age of 6. As for lucid dreaming, I've had a few, but I find it's just difficult. Any tips?
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