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Post by Alex94TAGT on Sept 22, 2005 7:24:34 GMT -5
This is somewhat of a strange question -- I was doing some reading and it occurred to me that I've experienced "cognizant" sleep paralysis.
Have you ever half-woken from sleeping, but you can't physically move? You're not fully awake -- just somewhat half-awake, very relaxed, and cant manage to move? It just now occurred me that I've experienced this a few times. I didn't know there was a name for such a thing, but I never really gave it a second thought after I finally did snap out of it. Sometimes it only lasts a few seconds, other times it might last a minute..
From my psychology classes at college, I remember that a certain portion of our brain prevents brain signals from being sent out to our muscles while we sleep -- thus preventing us from moving our body when we dream in our sleep, even when we are dreaming about walking. This is normal, and it's called sleep paralysis -- it prevents us from sleep-walking and physically hurting ourselves (or others).
Sometimes it doesn't completely stop signals being sent to the muscles, which is why you see dogs kicking their feet in their sleep sometimes, or perhaps why our eyes move during REM sleep. However, the problem is when this paralysis continues after you wake up.
Kinda creepy. Anyone else experience this?
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Post by metalbeast on Sept 22, 2005 8:33:41 GMT -5
I'm glad you posted this Alex. I have experienced this quite a few times. I'll suddenly be aware that I am awake, but I can't make my eye lids open, I can't really move. It makes me panic. I try and try to move and open my eyes and move around and nothing happens. There was one time I got my eyes open partially but could not move. What's really scary is I saw a dark figure looming over my bed. I have read that sleep paralysis is the true basis behind what people "think" is an alien abduction that is in fact nothing more than a sleep disorder. I'll tell you this. It happens to me at least once a year and it is freakin scary
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Post by AAron on Sept 22, 2005 9:26:20 GMT -5
i sleep walk and well wake up in some odd places. im still hoping that i wake up in the girls dorm for once, but it hasnt happened, YET.
now if you wake me up during my deep sleep man you will get some crazy stuff happening kinda like i cant move, but more like my muscles just dont wanna do what i say and they do something different.
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Post by 93yellowfbody on Sept 22, 2005 12:47:01 GMT -5
i'v heard you can get a heart attack when you someone wakes you up while you are sleep walking,i think it's bull$hit.
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Post by AAron on Sept 22, 2005 14:46:25 GMT -5
i dont know about that.
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Post by Alex94TAGT on Sept 22, 2005 16:09:58 GMT -5
Good -- I'm glad I'm not the only one with sleep disorders. We're all defective!  Jeff-- were you sleeping on your stomach or your back? Just curious. They say that it's nothing to worry about, that this 'sleep paralysis' will always wear off after a minute or two, and it's not dangerous. It feels like your stuck for a long time, but in actuality, it's just a matter of seconds. Something as simple as a noise or touch will wake a person from this paralysis. I would imagine that, if you always wake up to an alarm clock, this shouldn't ever occur. Also, it's VERY normal to have halucinations -- especially seeing malevolent entities, feeling like someone is pressing down on you, etc. I guess our brain is still somewhat in 'dream mode' when this happens. Regardless, if you're seeing dark figures looming over you, that makes it 10 times as creepy! I'd be sleeping with a gun under my pillow, not that I'd be able to use it. ------------------- Aaron -- I used to be a somnambulist as well, when I was a little kid. It's weird having other people tell you you did something, when you have absolutely no recollection of it. I used to 'sleep talk' as well -- my brother would get me to say some weird/funny things while I was asleep. It's almost like hypnosis. Do you think the school would believe you if you told them you were in the women's dorm due to sleep walking? I'm sure they've heard that one before.  |
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Post by AAron on Sept 22, 2005 18:35:31 GMT -5
no but ahh hell that would be one bad walk of shame
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Post by jaberwaki on Sept 23, 2005 0:50:58 GMT -5
i think i am totally defective... the fact that i am asleep does not imobilise me in the slightest...
i have sleep walked, sleep sexed(GF at the time said it wasn't half bad lol) and more often then either of those, sleep fight...
the last of those has been a real problem from time to time... to date i have blacked 1 GF's eye, broke a friends nose, and knocked my wife cold out...(please understand i would never contously hit a women)
all of them had the same story to tell... for what ever reason they came into my room while i was dreaming (appearantly yelling at someone and moving around alot) then they reach over to shake my arm or shoulder and BAM! the lights go out all over the world....
now my wife says if she wakes up hearing me argueing in my sleep she gets out of the bed goes to the other side of the room and throws things at me to wake me LOL....
I guess now its not a problem because she knows how to deal, but in the past it really sucked...
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 23, 2005 12:54:32 GMT -5
I have had Sleep Paralysis once but it was really bad. I could barely manage to crack my eye lid open to see the clock and tried to get out of bed without and luck. I was able to move in short bursts, meaning I could sit up but couldn't open my eyes, then I would go numb again a fall back down in bed. To make a long story short, it took me 30 minutes to finally get up out of bed. STRANGE EXPERIENCE
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Post by AAron on Sept 23, 2005 13:43:16 GMT -5
i think i am totally defective... the fact that i am asleep does not imobilise me in the slightest... i have sleep walked, sleep sexed(GF at the time said it wasn't half bad lol) and more often then either of those, sleep fight... the last of those has been a real problem from time to time... to date i have blacked 1 GF's eye, broke a friends nose, and knocked my wife cold out...(please understand i would never contously hit a women) all of them had the same story to tell... for what ever reason they came into my room while i was dreaming (appearantly yelling at someone and moving around alot) then they reach over to shake my arm or shoulder and BAM! the lights go out all over the world.... now my wife says if she wakes up hearing me argueing in my sleep she gets out of the bed goes to the other side of the room and throws things at me to wake me LOL.... I guess now its not a problem because she knows how to deal, but in the past it really sucked... i played pool in my sleep. and walked around like cornholio. |
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Post by JoeCool on Sept 24, 2005 21:42:43 GMT -5
the last of those has been a real problem from time to time... to date i have blacked 1 GF's eye, broke a friends nose, and knocked my wife cold out...(please understand i would never contously hit a women) all of them had the same story to tell... for what ever reason they came into my room while i was dreaming (appearantly yelling at someone and moving around alot) then they reach over to shake my arm or shoulder and BAM! the lights go out all over the world.... now my wife says if she wakes up hearing me argueing in my sleep she gets out of the bed goes to the other side of the room and throws things at me to wake me LOL.... I guess now its not a problem because she knows how to deal, but in the past it really sucked... I did that before myself. I guess I had a fight with someone in my dream and my wife put her arm around me in my sleep. I must have thought my opponent had me in the headlock and elbowed her on top of her head several times! She work me up yelling at me. [glow=red,2,300]I had no idea what I had done or why![/glow] |
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Post by jaberwaki on Sept 25, 2005 1:14:48 GMT -5
hahahahaaaaaaa.....
she still gives me crap about it to this day.....
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Post by wulfen33 on Sept 25, 2005 3:48:52 GMT -5
I have had the paralysis thing a few times, and have thrown my share of punches too; but I am paying for it now. My wife is pretty jealous and occasionally dreams that I am cheating on her. I get woke up with a few punches and kicks along with a lot af cussing.
BTW Alex, the sleep talking thing reminds me of my buddy and I tormenting his little brother doing this and recording the things we would get him to say.
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Post by Scooter on Oct 2, 2005 22:31:57 GMT -5
Alex -- that happens to me every once in a while. Usually when I am exrtemely tired. I'll sleep I will try to wake up but cant. Its like your brain is saying wake up & you are aware of it but your body cannot do it.
Is this what you are talking about?
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