Sleep Paralysis?

[TheGreatSatan]

Has anyone ever experienced sleep paralysis? I had it a couple of days ago, but it wasn't the first time. It's really funny and annoying when it happens too. You wake up in your head and your eyes open and you cannot move. I could look around the room by moving my eyes, but that's it. I spent a good ten minutes negotiating with my limbs begging them to wake up too.

For those few minutes you realize how horrible it would be if you were actually paralized:eek:

[dr.walrus]

Oh god, thankfully I don't get this often. I've had it and been scared to death by it.

Worse, I've had multiple layers of false awakening... you dream about waking up in your bed and go about your daily business, which is super disorienting. Then you do that a few more times, Inception style...

The worst of any of my semi-sleepfulness experiences was a false awakening where I dreamed that I woke up, but couldn't see. Thinking I'd gone blind, I desperately was trying to call for help, get dressed so I could go to hospital. After a few minutes of screaming for help (in the dream), I realised it was a dream - but I couldn't wake up. That was when the real panic set in, and I started slapping myself in the face (I can't describe what was going through my mind!).

I woke up all of a sudden, drenched with sweat, one side of my face red raw and swollen from where I'd been slapping it :/

[Munty]

Whoa mental :s I don't get very vivid dreams but I do have a tendency to speak out loud so my partner can share what I'm dreaming when I'm in a very deep sleep :D Certainly never had anything like sleep paralysis TGS! Though I do have my own issues, ever heard of sexomnia? No I haven't made it up, yes I really do have it and seriously nothing about it is fun or funny :s

[crenn]

Munty, that's fairly serious... can't you take meds to 'cancel' it out?

And for others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_sex

[Munty]

To my knowledge I don't think there's anything for it but I'm not likely to take anything for it anyway as I hate meds of any kind. The way I see it, unless it's going to kill me, my body will fight it off without drugs! This is sadly not one of those occasions lol

For a little more info on my case personally, it could be a lot worse. There are a number of cases which cause the sufferer to be very forceful and even violent with the condition, thankfully I'm not one of them. Another plus for me is that I'm in a stable relationship with a family so it's not as big of a deal as it used to be when I was, well, courting shall we say :p Essentially it used to be a case of sending the girl home before I turned in unless I was absolutely 100% certain we would seal the deal just in case.

I think it can be treated kind of like a wet dream funnily enough. The more sexual activity the sufferer has, the less likely the condition is to manifest itself. So if I go to sleep having already got lucky it's probably not going to happen (never has in that situation)

Like I said, it's different now as my current partner has been with me for years so is well aware of it but strangely it's fairly dormant these days so not sure why that is. Still have it occasionally but really it's almost like a dream, usually I don't even know about it till the morning and that's kind of the whole point.

One guy at a party (probably US IIRC) got taken to court for rape because he got busy with a female coworker while both were sleeping! That was a big case and it helped get the condition some more serious attention. Very odd though as the guy even used protection, its a strange strange thing...

[AmEv]

My experiences of bad sleeping:

The "paralysis" where I was trying to get up but couldn't move.

Thinking I woke up, when my dad is shouting at me in real life 15 minutes later.
(I am! Why do you think I've been talking to you for the last minute or so..... Wait, why am I still in bed?)

While waking up, I have a sudden lurch to the side.

[dr.walrus]

ever heard of sexomnia?

I wasn't going to bring it up, but yes, I've had this more than once. If you share a bed with a partner, it's normally fine if they understand, though waking up without knowing you've got some is... annoying?

However, it means that camping with female friends or anything like that is off the cards. I've almost had a black eye off an ex before!

I grind my teeth in my sleep a lot too, and I have night terrors sometimes - not nightmares, just waking up screaming...

[dr.walrus]

There are a number of cases which cause the sufferer to be very forceful and even violent with the condition, thankfully I'm not one of them.
Yeah, I've heard of that... that said, some people have committed murder when sleepwalking though, most people with some sleep disorder have other ones as well, I have quite a good spectrum of them, but no sleep-rape or sleep-murder!

[AmEv]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!


Thankfully, I haven't had those.



Oh yeah. I've had dreams where you get rammed hard, shot, etc, and you start shaking.... IRL.