Like every post on this thread is wrong here you go. Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. What you nubs are describing could be sleep paralysis paired with another sleeping disorder or maybe a few but its not sleep paralysis on its own.
I used to get it often when I was an athlete. It was especially common after long periods of lost sleep and excessive exercise. I've never seen the dark figures that others have, fortunately. I wrote about it in my diary as a kid and said that I felt like I was glued to my bed ? I guess it happens when your body is a lot more tired than your mind.
I can usually force my way out of it by wiggling my little toe at first. Then I can move my foot and then my leg and eventually I can flip myself to the ground which usually wakes my body up. Sometimes I'm able to make grunting/moaning noises, but I can't actually produce any words. When it happened to me as a kid, I could feel myself trying to say "heeeeelllppp!" But it just came out as mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! It's hands down one of the most terrifying things I've ever experienced
Yes. I never knew it existed and it first happened to me last summer. Couldn't breathe couldn't move and felt like I was being pinned down lol. It's happened 5 or 6 times since but not for a while thankfully. Basically it's your mind wakes up but your body is still asleep and won't follow command to move. Scary experience I too instantly searched wtf it was on line. Some discount the medical reasoning and believe it's caused by evil spirits pinning whoever it is to the bed lol
Also believe it or not some people try to induce sleep paralysis on themselves as they believe its easy to achieve an outer body experience during an episode of sleep paralysis if you try while one is taking place. Astral projection. I never tried that I just wanted to wake tf up lol
I don't know if anyone has elaborated this much...but anyway. Your fine, no worries. There are 2 important cycles of sleep that you alternate between. There are more than 2...but these are the main ones. REM sleep "rapid eye movement" and deep sleep. Now here's where your experience has occurred: during rem sleep is when a person dreams, you always dream whether you remember them or no, so your brain pulls this neat little trick and shuts down muscle movement control to keep you from acting out your dreams. This only occurs during rem sleep. So you simply partially woke up from a rem cycle, still unable to move because you weren't fully awake. When this happens, dreams and reality get a little confusing, while your somewhat concious of your surroundings your brain is still doing its dream thing. Which explains the black mass you saw, likely you were still slipping in and out of being asleep and dreaming of your actual surroundings making it hard to dicrimate dream from reality. Yes it is a little scary when this occurs, but now that you know it's just a natural part of sleep you can be more calm if it happens. Simply let yourself fall back asleep, or focus very hard in moving if you must get up. Deep sleep is where real problems may come in. Your brain turns back on muscle control, this is where people toss and turn in their sleep. Sleep walking is a condition that happens during deep sleep, and so are night terrors. Night terrors are not nightmares mind you, more common in children, sit up or stand...ect, and be screaming or be frantic. They are still sleeping though, and when they awaken they have no knowledge of what happened. Anyway...there's a general psychology sleep pattern crash course for you. So just relax my friend, nothing is wrong with you when this happens, your not dying, all is well so let you mind be at ease.
This. I've only experienced this once, and hope to never go through it again, I've never been that scared before.
I like sleep paralysis because it means I'm close to coming go a lucid dreaming state. Its a cool feeling tbh when you know what it is.
It's not sleep paralysis... It's called rem sleep our brain shuts off our bodily functions so that we don't hurt ourselves acting out our dreams. There are only a few ways to wake a person in rem sleep stage such as you describe. The easiest and most common is if our body senses a change in barometric pressure or balance. To define those in a way people will understand, pressure differentials can occur commonly when forced air (ac) suddenly starts or when there is a storm and your windows are open, the reason we wake for pressure changes is so that we can save ourselves from being injured. The same holds true with balance if we are suddenly thrust off balance (falling) we awaken as a reflex to save our lives or prevent injury. Long story short something woke you during rem sleep. When that happens our brain can sometimes fill in the unknown with fear, if we feel trapped and unable to move then fear sets in and paranoia occurs. This phenomenon was first written about in the Middle Ages here they described it as "the devil sitting on my chest" since the people described being able to see and hear but unable to move their bodies and their subconscious came up with the rest. Hope this helps and you should know this phenomenon is common should not occur often. You should not worry about it and seek out a cure. The best thing is just plain to get a good nights rest.
Rem sleep is an acronym yes, but it is also a term for a stage of sleep within deep sleep. Sleep paralysis is an effect caused by waking during deep sleep. (99.9%) sleep paralysis occurs when you are in a state of deep sleep. Furthermore rem is used as a guide to know when someone is deep asleep. The only other "tell" to know if someone is deep sleep is to hook up a machine that measures electrical signals to the brain. This is known as an ekg
http://www.thesleepparalysisproject.org ... paralysis/ http://dreamstudies.org/2010/04/29/9-wa ... paralysis/ (Mods please don't ban me for this I'm just providing scholarly articles with information about the subject at hand) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 131030.htm https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-disor ... r-disorder
I'm sorry...I just have to correct pestilence...good links though, not terribly informative on the cycles of sleep though. 1.rem sleep and deep sleep are completely different cycles, one does not occur "within" another. 2. "Sleep" paralysis only occurs in rem, not in deep at all. 3. REM sleep is a tell tell sign of rem sleep, your eyes actually rapidly move from side to side, and your vital signs are up, as if you are awake. So it's ironic that this is when your body can't move....you can also tell whether a person is in rem or deep just by observation. 4. In deep sleep it's very uncommon to dream period. Also your vitals slow down, yet your body is free to move around "toss and turn" also ironic. 5. Any out of the Normal disturbance can wake a person, usually the presence or absence of sensory stimulate. For example, if you live alone and happen to have people staying over the added noise might wake you, or if you live with others and they are gone for a night the absence of noise may wake you. Extra info: you have sleep memory, if you go through a night constantly awaken during rem sleep, nit being allowed to complete the cycle then the following night your brain will compensate by lengthening the rem sleep cycles. It is also still unknown why rem sleep is needed, and as strange as it sounds it's still unknown why sleep is needed. There are only theories for the need for these things. Current best hypothesis is that sleep let's your brain process and organise information gathered during the day and helps significant information be stored to memory. That is all
I get it .......but there's no cur. I happen to find I so a specific routine of things which involves me going downstairs I wash my hands with cold water and splash my face 3 times then sit for 5 minutes n go back to sleep
Uhm not entirely true, sleep is strongly implicated in science journals to be the time when we filter out and solidify our memories.