This seemed like the correct forum to place this in... About 6 years ago I started having this problem where upon 'waking' I would get out of bed and go about my business but somewhere along the line I would notice something odd like that I couldn't turn off/on a light switch or physically alter my surroundings at all. Every single time this would happen no matter how many times it's happened in the past I could never recognize what was going on at first and would go into a complete panic. I felt like I was a ghost or something and that I was dead and was stuck. I would regain composure and start to remember what was happening. At this point I would be able to notice that I could feel my body still laying in bed. I could hear everything going on around me like I was completely awake but stuck in this 'dream'. Before I figured out how to wake myself up I would try concentrating on moving my arm or leg or anything and I never could accomplish anything which usually made me panic more and I would just sob and try inflicting pain to myself in my 'dream' thinking it would somehow make me wake up. The only thing that ever worked was laying back in bed and 'going to sleep'. I would then wake but the terror took a while to go away even after I mastered being able to wake myself up. If I was alone I would have to call someone just to assure myself that I was actually awake. It is very disturbing and has had me too afraid to go back to sleep on many nights. Anyone else had episodes like this or knows what this could possibly be?
I believe this is called a "false awakening". It happens when you dream of waking up in bed, and feel as though you have actually woken up but obviously haven't. Use it to your advantage to have a lucid dream. Once you realise your still asleep, try flying or something! Or, if you want to end it, a good technique I use is to close my eyes, and think "I AM going to wake up" and then open them forcefully. I have sleep paralysis many times a night in which I am still lying in bed, and still awake/conscious, but I am compeltely paralyzed and it can be very scary. I'm not sure if this is what you're describing, but to get out of it i try as hard as I can to wriggle all my toes and fingers at once, and eventually they start to move and I come out of it.
I have sleep paralysis sometimes. I've figured out the best thing to do if you find it frightening is to just close your eyes and go back to sleep.
Lately, my SP episodes have involved what seems to be heavy doses of DMT, with visuals of washers and dryers circling in a neon tube that stretches out into infinity, or at least as far as my eyes can see. Last time it happened I thought I had gotten up and turned my stove on, and fell back asleep, and when I woke up to my house on fire it took a few good shakes to wake up a 3rd time and realize it wasnt happening. Odd stuff!
every time sleep paralysis occurs I hear explosions so loud I want scream ! but I can't... no more body just the consciousness it jumps... I've been inside my vein I've been inside a bug I think we can ride galactic wind . .
Sleep paralysis means that you have been abducted by aliens using some sort of weird narcotic drug... or that is what national geographics told me... but they seem to tell alot of bogus x).
Well, even if it's just faulty wiring, it takes correcting a problem in order to forget about it. Im prone to think it is DMT release, but there is always a cause for such a thing and to limit the experience to a bunch of chemical reactions is, well, expected to be honest. The visuals I had every time I lost concentration during my ajna chakra meditation last night were very similar. Somehow, I always feel like Im being pushed through a tunnel, always with neon lights along the way, at a very high speed, and I watch as the tunnel walls show me different things, like the growth of fungi underground, the wiring of the brain, the people of Earth flying past, and when I get to the end where the light is, I regain my focus on the ajna and bliss out in a harmonic trance, with Om steadying from a repetitive beat to a single sound that encompasses life and love. Quite the similar experience if I do say so
I am really glad I read this. I've heard of this Sleep Paralysis, when the body for some reason shuts down and the brain remains awake to some extent. I've also heard it is related to diet, stress, and sleeping habits. I've been having bouts of it since I was thirteen. Enough to have me off to the doctors thinking I was having siezures or something. I've had the sensation of having a weight on my chest, not being able to breathe or move and oddly combined with the occasional wet dream resulting ...:blush5: I've controlled all that now. Have a wank before sleep. Anycase.. I've read up on it. The monks in Medieval times would experience sleep paralysis and equated it to thinking it to be demons trying to take their celebacy as they slept..so they'd place crucifixes on their dicks to prevent this. So I had found some books on all of this: Hypnagogic States, Sleep Paralysis, "The Hag" and Succubi/Incubi and R.E.M sleep. Two years ago, I had dream of having a really long pee, and woke up in a wet bed. Brutal.
