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 Sleep Paralysis 
#11388750 - 11/05/09 12:10 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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In the past I have suffered from sever moments of sleep paralysis. If you are unfamiliar with the effects of sleep paralysis, here is a list for you: (via http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html)
*A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or
upon awakening
*Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
*Episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation (act or use of the brain)
In my own experience I always felt like I was immediately leaving a dream. Within seconds I would realize that I was unable to move, or open my eyes. The most frightening aspect of these episodes was the inability to feel myself breathing. After some particularly horrifying experiences, I developed an almost fear of sleep. This plagued me for well over two years. I finally looked up information on this condition and realized that it was likely due to the combination of poor sleep scheduling and a natural body roll to sleep on my back.
Alright, before you get bored I'm going to get to the point. After these episodes, and subsequently "solving" the problem and not having a serious episode for about 6 months (6 years after my first experience), I have a hard time with severe paranoia at night. Turning my back to the dark or sitting with headphones on and not being able to see behind me can cause me to jump and get chills. Not to mention that I still have trouble falling asleep at night, it seems like it's hard to decide which direction to turn my back to. Silly, but quite the problem. I'm very rationale, and it is annoying to be bothered by something seemingly trivial.
Now, I am curious as to whether or not anyone else here has or has had a hard time with sleep paralysis.
If so, have you solved it?
If yes, any remaining problems with sleep?
If no, any day to day problems as a result?
Have you ever experienced hypnagogic (closed eye) visual hallucinations?
If yes, what were/was they/it?
I'd greatly appreciate any information that anyone can provide. I'm very curious about the phenomenon. Thanks. 
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11388918 - 11/05/09 01:29 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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i cant answer your questions but do u smoke weed? when i went through periods of smoking copious amounts of weed i would get afraid of the dark.
for sleeping i suggest u get some melatonin, GABA and l-tryptophan.
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I hate sleep paralysis. IT usually comes after lucid dreaming.
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I rarely smoke weed, and taking supplements rarely work well for me when it comes to sleep. :P
Hakim, that's what happened most recently. Went straight from lucid dream TO SP though. Haha, would have been better if it was the other way around like some people have written about.
I'm not seeking help from the community though, I'm trying to get the community's experience with the condition. Anyone out there?
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11392021 - 11/05/09 03:14 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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This topic came up in a psychology class I took a few semesters back.
If I remember right everyone has some level of paralysis during sleep, some people more than others and is completely normal, and it usually effects your lower extremities more than others. This is why you dont move (too much) when youre dreaming, but its usually not a complete paralysis thus why you still might twitch or mumble during dreams.
Usually this paralysis should end just before you wake up, but in some people it lags and continues for a few seconds (or even a few minutes?) after you wake up. Its nothing to really be worried about and your body will not suffocate itself so you dont need to fear that you will stop breathing during your sleep (usually during sleep you dont breath as deeply as you would when awake and combined with sleep paralysis it probably might feel like youre not breathing at all).
But its been quite a while since I took that class and we didnt spend much time on it.
And to answer your questions:
An old friend of mine had sleep paralysis quite often.
It didnt effect his sleep and he didnt have any real problems with it other (than making him scared that he was paralyzed...).
And he never mentioned closed eye visual hallucinations...
Would also like to throw in that he was extremely healthy, exercised a lot, tennis player, didnt smoke weed or cigarettes, but did have the occasional beer.
(Sadly he did pass away about a year ago because he supposedly suffocated in his sleep, nobody is sure how it happened.)
ps: the link you put up doesnt work.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: eligal]
#11394328 - 11/05/09 08:33 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks very much for your input eligal, and very sorry about your friend.
I find the lack of feeling myself breathing interesting due to the many times I've woke up from an SP episode gasping for air. Another friend I'm gathering information from has very intense episodes to the point that the gasping feels necessary to live. She has told her daughter to be sure and listen if she is mumbling in her sleep or struggling to come in and wake her up.
What you tell me about your friend (all respect intended) is essential to my information gathering. The mind is an extremely powerful organ, as we all know. Is there a possibility than during an episode of Sleep Paralysis the conscious mind may have partial access to the back door of the psyche. Stories of people using SP to project, experience out of body experiences, or lucid dream give evidence to this possibility.
I'm looking to find more people that have had SP experiences but don't know what to call it. How many are out there? What have they experienced?
Again, thank you eligal!
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11394811 - 11/05/09 09:48 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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i've experienced an out of body experience and sleep paralysis, very similar in feeling, with my sleep paralysis i was in a dream and felt like i had a finger up my arse, very discomforting to say the least and that feeling continued for a a minute or 2, i wasnt terrified because it felt like the out of body experience i had earlier, so i knew it was on the same par if ya know what i mean and i thought i was ready to take off. i was mighty pissed off when i couldnt move a muscle.
i suggest you see a sleep doctor about the gasping for air, i have experienced the same thing and i have a feeling it might be sleep apnea. funny i've experienced this but i've breathed underwater in a dream.
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I experienced sleep paralysis probably about 4-5 times over the last 2 years. The first time I was completely scared, and all I could do was moan until about 20 seconds later when I snapped out of it. Since then, if it occurs, I understand it and try to enjoy it, since I know that it will not harm me and will go away shortly. It also probably occured 75% of the time while napping. It seems to me that sleep paralysis works in conjunction with lucid dreams. Whenever I realize my dream state while dreaming, either I continue in the dream or freeze up, and suddenly find myself to be a limp hunk of meat lying in bed, but this is usually ended after 5-20 seconds.
I'm really glad you've brought up the pre-sleep visuals. I get these very often, and have actually gotten to the point where I can bring them to my vision whenever I'm sitting or laying down. First they are basic, which I'm sure everyone has experienced... shapes, lines, that weird donut-ring thing (maybe thats just me). But then you begin to lose hearing--but its not that you lose it, you just stop paying attention. Everything becomes fuzzy feeling, you stop feeling bed and begin feeling nothing all around. My breathing begins to feel heavy, although I know I am breathing normally. My test to see if I've reached this point is to pretend I'm spinning in random directions, like a line spinning in all direction from one point in space. If I know not which way is up or down or "bed" I know something has been reached. From this, true 3D visuals will begin. They aren't just geometry, but room-scapes, usually a slow panning survey of my drum machines and mixers near my desk. From here, either these fade out, or I slowly and unknowingly drift into a lucid dream, or just fall asleep.
I understand your concern for feeling kinda duped my something so trivial as sleep. So many people eat their dinner and lay down and fall asleep instantly. But there is something special and personal about lying in bed and wondering what the hell is going on, and actually experimenting with such an overlooked phenomenon. Thanks for posting about this, and hopefully my account has been helpful!
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Thank you both, you've added a lot here!
It's nice having the lucid dream aspect better brought to my attention. I feel like I can possibly remember to try and regain some semblance of conscious willpower while remaining calm during the next episode. davegrant73, you mention the moaning for 20 seconds before snapping out of it. I've experienced two forms of this panic. The first is "waking up" in a SP state and realizing that I'm moaning, trying to shake myself out of it before I am making purposeful thoughts towards that action. The second is realizing I can't move, the consciously choosing to moan and shake myself awake.
To me, this is giving evidence towards something happening that neither the body or mind is expecting. If we look at a more mystical theory about what's going on, another friend of mine suggests that it's our consciousness escaping our body, but with "strings attached." Just enough connection remains to confuse the senses. He said it's at that point you can choose whether you want to cut the strings and dream or reattach the strings and anchor, waking up.
I also agree there is something special about the experience, and possibly I could find a way to utilize it the way the some have. Could be the key for me to stop fearing it. Also, davegrant73, I find your description of the achieved dream state interesting. The fact you are seeing room-scapes. Full on visual perception from your mind's eye. I've experienced similar things, but never like that. I'll see the rings of color, the clouds that I slowly gain control over, and neat bursting on what looks like nebulae. But this always fades directly into sleep for me. Lucky! Haha
Thank you both again!
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11396209 - 11/06/09 06:23 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have this happen a lot of times. It does not really bother me, I just lay there till I can move.
I take a lot of different meds, and I believe they sometimes trigger my happenings.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: rod]
#11401158 - 11/06/09 08:49 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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so non-one else can relate to the sodomy?
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Quote:
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so non-one else can relate to the sodomy?
Haha, sorry to leave you out. I can't say I've experienced the "sodomy." However it makes sense when dealing with loss of muscle control or being dissociated from your body.
For instance, when smoking DMT, the most uncomfortable feeling for me is the feeling of saliva in my throat or mucus drainage on my throat. I can feel its presence in a quite overwhelming way. There's a lot of nerves in that area, as well as a lot of muscles. Perhaps the disconnection caused a very noticeable sensation for you. I think that would be a quite apparent sensation given the location. 
It does provide evidence for a link that many have made in the past. That a powerful SP experience can lead to a full blown alien abduction scenario. If it caused looseness or even constriction of the rectum, the imagination could make the easy leap to insertion of a foreign object, i.e. alien probing.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11401723 - 11/06/09 10:31 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I suffer from sleep paralysis about 2-3 times a month. I always see very disturbing images. Basically I awake in a semi-conscious state, where my body is still completely in REM sleep but I can see my surrounding and feel my body but have no control. Most often I am in a state of constant shaking (almost feels like a seizure) and my eyelids are blinking very fast and my tongue is flicking around in my mouth but I can't stop it or control any of it. It's kind of creepy, usually takes about 15 seconds though and it passes. During that 15 seconds I see anything from demon figures to just strange morphing of my surroundings (almost like a trip). One time I saw myself, peeking from behind my door and laughing at me in this demonic high pitched laugh.
I'm not sure where it comes from or why I suffer from it so much. It's been happening to me ever since I was little, it's only become so prevalent in the last few years though. I suppose there's not much I can do about it, I just kind of accept it.
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Wow, now that is very interesting.
In a way, that sounds more like a temporal lobe disorder. It is possible the two are related, but wow. I've never heard of such an extreme case. You're asking why, and I'm honestly having a very difficult time reasoning a proper answer to that.
On one hand, if it's SP, it's happening for an unknown reason, but is generally "cured" by taking care of yourself mentally and physically. Better sleep schedule, take care of unresolved issues of stress, and ensure you're sleeping comfortably. If you sleep on your back, try and get used to sleeping on your side or on your belly.
On the other hand, there is the idea that something much deeper is happening here. In many cultures SP has been related with demons. Mostly the feeling that a demon is sitting on your chest and preventing you from moving. But there have been reports of cases in Japan where the "victim" actually sees a demon, a presence, or sometimes a person.
Sensation plays directly on our subconscious. You're mind is actually trying to help you by showing you what it thinks needs to be seen to cope with the sensation prevailing. This could very well be what's happening to you. Plus, once you see something like that, it's very easy for it to be burned in on your brain as the expected truth of the situation. Your mind isn't one to experiment and compare results on its own.
I'm not sure what to tell you, but I suppose it depends on what sort of difference it makes in your day to day life. If you're experiencing psychological disturbance as a result, by all means seek help. When anything damages your natural sleep cycle you're edging closer to sleep deprivation, and trust me, that's a fast downward spiral that's hard to climb out of.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11402224 - 11/07/09 12:30 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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man, I love hearing about peoples weird sleep issues. its interesting!
I forgot to add to my post above, when going into that pre-sleep visual stage, my eyes start twitching like nuts! I also close my eyes and attempt to focus on something 3-4 feet in front of me in the blackness. its hard to explain, but try it. pretend the black is a dark room, and try to focus in on different depths from your point of view.
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dave, I did that one night while I was having trouble sleeping. Heh, it worked well after a while. My eyes never twitched but at some point I could feel my eyes were slightly crossed. That reminded me of how I see OEV's on shrooms and DMT. Freaked out my friend when I was staring at the sky, cross-eyed. He didn't see what I saw.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11403703 - 11/07/09 09:31 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow, now that is very interesting.
In a way, that sounds more like a temporal lobe disorder. It is possible the two are related, but wow. I've never heard of such an extreme case. You're asking why, and I'm honestly having a very difficult time reasoning a proper answer to that.
On one hand, if it's SP, it's happening for an unknown reason, but is generally "cured" by taking care of yourself mentally and physically. Better sleep schedule, take care of unresolved issues of stress, and ensure you're sleeping comfortably. If you sleep on your back, try and get used to sleeping on your side or on your belly.
On the other hand, there is the idea that something much deeper is happening here. In many cultures SP has been related with demons. Mostly the feeling that a demon is sitting on your chest and preventing you from moving. But there have been reports of cases in Japan where the "victim" actually sees a demon, a presence, or sometimes a person.
Sensation plays directly on our subconscious. You're mind is actually trying to help you by showing you what it thinks needs to be seen to cope with the sensation prevailing. This could very well be what's happening to you. Plus, once you see something like that, it's very easy for it to be burned in on your brain as the expected truth of the situation. Your mind isn't one to experiment and compare results on its own.
I'm not sure what to tell you, but I suppose it depends on what sort of difference it makes in your day to day life. If you're experiencing psychological disturbance as a result, by all means seek help. When anything damages your natural sleep cycle you're edging closer to sleep deprivation, and trust me, that's a fast downward spiral that's hard to climb out of.
Hmm that's interesting..
It really doesn't make a difference in my day to day life. The morning after a sleep paralysis episode I feel a little shaken up, but it doesn't last long. I'd hate to think this is all due to something that's inherently wrong with my brain 
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No, I wouldn't read into that much. If your day to day life isn't disturbed, there's no reason to worry. And hey, maybe you're just the next step in human evolution.
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 Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11404408 - 11/07/09 11:00 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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ive had this happen maybe five or ten times in my life. its kind of scary while its happening but at the same time i kind of enjoy it.
a few times ive had demon like figures on my chest or at the end of my bed pulling on my leg. and several years ago i saw something on tv that said the demon thing was quite common and alot of people experienced being raped by the demon. luckily, the demon has not raped me yet.
. he or she just gets in my face and screams.
but ive noticed someone else mentioned the sodomy thing
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: dogwood]
#11405261 - 11/07/09 01:17 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks for your input! Yeah, scary how common the demon occurrence is through history.
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so non-one else can relate to the sodomy?
Popobawa got you.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: norml840]
#11409158 - 11/08/09 12:58 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eek! I wouldn't want that buggering around while I'm asleep.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
#11415688 - 11/08/09 11:08 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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you can try to "astral project" during your sleep parylsis, alot of people use sleep p. or even try to achieve it themselfs through deep meditation for astral projection.
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If so, have you solved it? No. I had your problems (fear I wasn't breathing), but now I'm used to it.
If yes, any remaining problems with sleep? Out of body experiences
If no, any day to day problems as a result? No.
Have you ever experienced hypnagogic (closed eye) visual hallucinations? Yes.
If yes, what were/was they/it? Translucent amorphous blob or like an undefined aura that sometimes attacks me and sometimes "heals" me.
I genuinely believe out of body experiences are the soul leaving the body, and sleep paralysis is the beginning of an OBE. Try imagining yourself floating upwards next time it happens. It's quite fun... if eerie. ie. What the hell? I have a soul? etc.
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Holy crap I think I got raped by Popabawa a few times.
His cock is like a dogs. Feels like my ass is made of shit and he's penetrating it.
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I have had this twice so far, both within the last few months.
I remember both very clearly. The first, I was in a VERY lucid dream, that me and a friend were stealing LSD from our bosses house(which is weird, i've never done LSD). Can't remember if we dosed in the dream or not. All of a sudden, I wake up, paralyzed, and a large dark portal opens up on my ceiling, with a sense that it was pulling me in.
I was basically caught in between dreaming, and reality. A weird void to be in. I remember closing my eyes, thinking to myself "It's just a drug... calm down... it will be alright", which leads me to believe that I still thought I was dreaming... but somehow I knew I wasn't. I opened my eyes, and screamed very loud. But weirdly enough, I could NOT hear myself yelling at all, but do remember feeling my vocal chords vibrate, so I know for a fact that I was yelling. Very loud ringing in my ears.
Second incident, I was dreaming again. It started off as a very nice and pleasant dream, again very lucid. In the beginning of this dream, I was a kid, completely innocent, with no worries at all in the world. I started to age in this dream... once I hit my 30's and 40's, I began to scam people for money, lots of money. I had millions of it. In the dream, I remember saying to myself "Damn, i've got more money then I could ever spend". This is when it happened again. Instead of loud ear-ringing, this time it was an alarm. Only way to explain what this sounded like, is a house alarm, mixed in with the sound of a beating heart.
I woke up, paralyzed again. Stuck in this void of reality and dreamstate, I still thought I was this middle aged man, with lots of money. But again, I knew it was a dream. I experienced the most HORRIBLE feeling I could ever imagine once I woke up- it was an absence of love. I had all the money in the world, but had zero love left in my heart. It really was scary. And I have been through alot of these feelings, but till this day I still cannot get over how scary this feeling felt.
This time, instead of a dark portal opening onto my wall, this time it was a line-graph. A line graph of love, if you will. The line was a blood-red color. It was a time lapse of my percentage of love throughout my life in this dream. Started off at 100%, and gradually ended up at 0%, which is when I experienced the worst feelings of fear and guilt that I could ever imagine possible.
Mild hallucinations, paralysis, helpless feelings, and a bunch of other things all seem prevalent in these occurrences. I told my mother about these, and she claims to have had them when she was my age as well. She also claimed that she often saw spirits walking through her old home which was haunted, and she was paralyzed everytime one passed through the house. She also claimed that she had one a year ago, and instead of a dark portal like myself, she saw a pulsating, red orb filled with blood. She had a sense of needing to be warned of something, as opposed to my feelings of fear, and helplessness. 3 months later, we found out that my grandma had an aneurysm.
I have had a few foreshadow dreams, and I definitely think there is a bigger picture behind all of this...
But meh, don't think of it much these days, I can't really control it, and alot will be left unanswered for now. I think if I had a woman at night, I wouldn't have these anymore I bet 
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: foliocb]
#11421808 - 11/09/09 07:11 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sleep paralysis can be very scary but it can also be pretty fucking awesome.
I've had it happen ~10 or so times. The first few times, it was really scary, I thought I was being attacked by hostile entities, but I got over the fear quickly.
However, the last time it happened to me the experience was overwhelmingly positive. I woke up, and automatically realized I could not move. I then proceeded to trip balls. With eyes open, there was a leather clad fairy leaping through the air with a miniature leopard at her side. I also saw a few other things with eyes open, but this happened some time ago - I cannot remember the other OEV's. At this point I was filled with awe and wonder. None of it made sense. So I closed my eyes and saw all sorts of strange shapes. A face appeared, which began to morph, and change color and shape constantly. Kind of like the faces I see on a low dose DMT trip, but far more active and defined.
At this point I broke the paralysis, and was filled with a very powerful feeling of joy and happiness.
That shit was awesome. I want it to happen again.
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StonedImmaculate
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I know exactly what you are talking about. Your sleep patterns do not start when you fall asleep anymore. The reason for this is you are stoned or whatever before you go to bed. The mind as well as the body needs rests. Your body is still asleep when you wake up(explaining why you have a limp body when you wake up). The feeling of not being able to breath is real common also. I used to have that from time to time. You need to quit eating before you go to bed. Also losing weight will take away your lack of breathe when you sleep. Quite ironically speaking the reason why you wake up sometimes may be the shortness of breathe you are having. let me ask you this, When you wake up do you feel drowl in the back of your throat?
I've seen plenty of sleep therapists.
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StonedImmaculate
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I cannot help you on yoru paranoia feeling. That is all in your head and you need to change something.
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StonedImmaculate
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Remember when you are under the influence of anything when you go to sleep the mind does not rest. You will wear yourself out if you keep doing this.
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Sorry, I've been away for a little while.
Thanks everyone for more great input!
StonedImmaculate, I rarely ever eat before bed. Also, I have average body fat percentage for my height and age. And no, nothing in the back of my throat.
Just wanted to clarify.
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Re: Sleep Paralysis [Re: Leap]
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Interesting thread. I don't have much of a contribution but, for the record, a friend of mine experienced SP before. He only mentioned it briefly to me though. He said it lasted a few minutes and it kind of scared him.
I've taken mushrooms with him twice before and he said the experience of SP reminded him of mushrooms. It must have been the dreamlike state of consciousness he was slowly emerging from, coined with confusion and disorientation that was similar to mushrooms. Fascinating thread, I'll have ask him about it again.
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Yeah OI usually get it maybe three times a week? I find it's because I roll onto my back, like you mentioned. It doesn't really bother me much, I don't that fear and hallucination part that everyone always talks about (which I kind of in a weird way wish I did). I'm just unable to move for about 5-10 minutes, and slowly regain movement in my legs and fingers and work it from there. My neck is the last part to regain movement.
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