I woke up in bed in the middle of the night around 3am I was 100% awake but I could not move at all, I could not open my eyes or even my mouth to speak.
This lasted for about 3 minutes I was totally paralised and in that 3 minutes I managed to think about so much shit like ‘maybe I am dead’ ‘am I permanatly paralised’ and basically ‘how the fuck can I snap out of this’
I was putting all my energy and concentration into moving my hand, when my wife rolled over in bed and hugged me, this somehow brought me right out of the paralised state, I felt a funny kind of pins and needles almost all over afterwards.
I did not dream it becuase I got up for a while after.
I did not drink or take any drugs the day/night before
There are hormones released when you go to sleep that relax muscles etc. and if these hormones are released too quickly you can be awake and yet not able to move.
The same can happen when you wake up - if the hormones haven’t been used up and are still flooding your body then exactly what you have described can happen.
It’s not actually anything to worry about but I believe it can be very scary indeed.
If it starts happening regularly then there are drugs that can be used to relieve symptoms but if you’ve never experienced it before then the chances are that you were woken up by some external influence (maybe a noise or whatever) at the time when these hormones were at a maximum in your body.
I woke up and couldnt move, all I could do is look around, for like 5 minutes I couldnt move at all, I finaly got my self to get up by thinking it through. But no one was in my house, my family was gone in the middle or the night and I felt someone was watching me.
I then realized I was still in bed and still couldnt move, I thought it through again and finaly got up.
Undeadlift - does it go away if you don’t do the holding your breath thing? I’m just wondering if you are simply giving your body enough time to dump the hormones that cause the paralysis.
Happened to me when I slept through Humanities class all the time. I thought maybe it was some kind of hidden messgae from the gods to get an education. Very scary though.
[quote]hoosegow wrote:
They are all wrong. It was alien abduction. [/quote]
LOL.
I went through a period in my teens and twenties when this occurred quite often. The first time it happened in my early teens it was quite terrifying. I felt like I was awake but paralyzed and I felt like something, I don’t know what, was right next to my bed. I wanted to call out for help, but couldn’t and could even see the light of the hallway coming under my door.
As I got older and they would occur I knew they were a dream or night terror and would have to talk myself through them. They always happened during times of extreme fatigue for me. They very rarely happen any more and I attribute that to my life being quite a bit more regimented in terms of adequate sleep and less stress then when I was younger.
Last night I woke up at like 1:30 and my mind instantly began racing. All I could think about was politics. I considered going to the world issues forum and starting some shit but I fell back asleep.
Anywho…sleep paralysis is a bitch. I rarely get it every once and again. Usually just my arm or something. I’ll grab it and start shaking it and it’s like my wrist is broke. Probably not so good for my wrist.