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Post by BlackJack on Jul 8, 2007 20:17:26 GMT -5
I've been having some pretty bad episodes of sleep paralysis lately. Maybe because I've been changing sleeping patterns. I would wake up in the middle of the night, be able to move my eyes and look around the room but not be able to move the rest of my body or call out. Also I would hear loud humming noises. Horrible experience.
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Post by 0 on Jul 8, 2007 20:20:24 GMT -5
I've been having some pretty bad episodes of sleep paralysis lately. Maybe because I've been changing sleeping patterns. I would wake up in the middle of the night, be able to move my eyes and look around the room but not be able to move the rest of my body or call out. Also I would hear loud humming noises. Horrible experience. www.sleepeducation.com/Disorder.aspx?id=34
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Post by BlackJack on Jul 8, 2007 20:27:42 GMT -5
^ thanks for the link. Hopefully I won't need medication for it.
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Post by 0 on Jul 8, 2007 20:31:36 GMT -5
I'll be honest - I find sleep paralysis very disturbing though I've never experienced it and have a gut feeling it isn't always completely biological in nature. Call me a flake but I can't see how evolution didn't weed out such a life threatening trait if it's a natural occurence. I'd check your diet, lifestyle and perhaps any spiritual factors that could be contributing.
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Post by viruslabrat on Jul 10, 2007 10:38:32 GMT -5
I've had sleep paralysis/night terror before. I drifted off to sleep thinking that I'd left my window slightly open and that I should check whether it was closed but fell asleep before I could. I woke up sometime in the night being unable to move or call out and was certain there was a guy in my room. It felt like I was being pinned down. Later when I could move I realised there was no one there so I checked the window and it was closed all along.
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Post by halfbreed on Jul 10, 2007 10:45:30 GMT -5
^ That sounds scary.
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Post by dapper on Jul 10, 2007 11:23:09 GMT -5
They call it, Night Terror! Seriously, I never heard of Night Terror until Wedding Crashers, and since that movie I've heard people utter that term tens of times. How can we be sure that this isn't a new age term assigned to glorify a bad dream, or a nightmare? To make it sound clinical. To make it treatable. To peddle some new drug for it? lol...night terrors...I've had dreams before where I've been scared and unable to spring into proper action, but then I wake up and go to the bathroom or get a glass of water or something, perfectly able to move
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Post by viruslabrat on Jul 10, 2007 12:13:57 GMT -5
A night terror/sleep paralysis is different to a dream or a nightmare because in the former you're fully conscious but unable to move, in the latter you're actually asleep. I think the scientific explanation has something to do with some parts of your brain waking up before other parts. I wasn't dreaming there was a person in my room or that I was unable to move, I just felt that there was someone else in the room and and though my eyes were open I couldn't turn to see them in the dark. I tried my best but I was paralysed and my heart was beating a thousand times a minute. After a few minutes (it felt like an eternity) I could move and turn around but all my limbs felt really heavy like I had to use all my energy just to sit up. That's the only instance of this happening to me that I can recall. I can tell the difference between a dream and reality and sleep paralysis is totally different to a dream (and yes I've had those nightmares where you feel powerless but then you wake up and realise you were just dreaming). On a slightly different type of dream, do you ever get the sensation that you're falling? I get this once in a blue moon and I wake up as my feet hit the bed (I think my I kick my feet up in my sleep and they crash on the bed waking me up). It's a weird sensation
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Post by viruslabrat on Jul 10, 2007 12:17:18 GMT -5
Oh, and I think the term "night terror" has been around for ages but I doubt there's any treatment for it since it doesn't tend to be a common long-term condition and it's not exactly harmful (apart from being in a stressful situation briefly).
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Post by dapper on Jul 10, 2007 12:34:01 GMT -5
that's strange! I don't think I know anyone who has had that temporary paralysis outside of actual dreamstate.
But yeah, falling...had that one a few times, only my feet don't plop down, they more like slip or kick forward, instead of vertical action.
My dreams the past few years have all been a huge bore b/c most of the time, within the dream, I figure out that it's all just a dream and whatever it is I happen to be dreaming, good or bad, goes away and I either wake up or just fade back into non-dream sleep. I think it sucks.
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Post by BlackJack on Jul 10, 2007 18:02:57 GMT -5
One possible explanation for sleep paralysis that I've heard, which seems to make sense, is that the body naturally shuts off motor function when we are in the dream state to prevent us from actually acting out our dreams. Sleep paralysis occurs when something goes wrong and you wake up and motor-function hasn't been restored yet, thus the paralysis.
The opposite side of the spectrum would be the case of sleep walking. In this situation something goes wrong and the body does not shut off motor-function when you sleep and therefore not stopping your from acting out your dreams. There have been cases of people doing really bizarre in there sleep like walking to the fridge and eating raw meat.
These sleep disorders are pretty scary stuff.
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Post by 0 on Jul 10, 2007 18:07:30 GMT -5
^ One would think these sleep disorders must be relatively new, evolutionarily speaking, as they would be disastrous in a hostile, natural setting with nocturnal animals. The inability to respond quickly when awoken would be certain death as would be sleepwalking or sleeping loudly, which could attract predators.
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Post by attilathehun513 on Dec 25, 2007 23:53:45 GMT -5
^ One would think these sleep disorders must be relatively new, evolutionarily speaking, as they would be disastrous in a hostile, natural setting with nocturnal animals. The inability to respond quickly when awoken would be certain death as would be sleepwalking or sleeping loudly, which could attract predators. Good point. Thinking outside the box yet making perfect sense. However, I don't understand why most ppl I've talked with can't remember the majority of their dreams?
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Post by saeka on Mar 15, 2008 10:29:07 GMT -5
This dream wasn't from last night (it was around 3 or 4 nights ago) In my dream my father died at age 80 0.o It would be weird if he did
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Post by Ganbare! on May 28, 2010 20:12:59 GMT -5
Sleep paralysis sounds even more terrifying than sleepwalking but I never experienced it, hope I'll never will. God, some of you have really frightening or violent nightmares, mine are rarely violent but the atmosphere tends to be tensed. The funny thing is that no matter how odd dreams are, everything seems perfectly normal to you when you're asleep and that includes me surfing on a piano for some reason!
Lately because of a big learning workload, I dream a lot, last night I was in a suburban area in the late evening, the sun was setting and suddenly a schoolmate I haven't seen for years gives me a bike, we pedal on desert roads until he heads back to his house. I have no clue what I'm doing at night, in an unknown place so I continue toward what seems to be the center of town and once again I spot an old friend with a terrified look on his face climbing a fence upon my arrival. I call him repeatedly as he struggles in his ascent, he finally abandons recognizing me, I ask him what is going on, he replies he is trying to escape from people looking for him and once again he leaves without further notice. Later as I enter a convenience store everything turns white ending my dream.. I know our subconscious evacuates daily life stress during our sleep however I fail to interpret what fears and desires my subconscious is hinting through this nonsense.
Anyone ever dreamt of a place so often you are unsure if it's somewhere you've already been or not? I have a photographic memory and since I've been to many places only once or twice as I moved around a lot I can't tell if they are fictional, not being able to sometimes distinguish reality from vivid imagination is kind of troubling.
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