[hlth]Is this common?

[CanadaSue]

Scared me silly ythe first time it happened to me too. I've had this phenomenum for years but mine happens at all hours of the night. I've had it explained this way. As LP stated, in REM sleep, (the stage where you dream, you're in 'unplugged mode' for exactly the reasons stated... so you don't physically do anything dangerous.

Mind you, I remember one night dreaming I was on a runaway horse. By the next afternoon, my muscles felt as though I HAD been. I suppose I should be grateful I didn't have the blisters & chafing...lol.

Here's a twist... sometimes I have this experience, but "float" out of my body. I hover around ceiling level & can floa around the housse... kinda neat.

 

[Swampthing]

Maybe you are not really waking up but dreaming that you are waking up and can't move.

Or,

It could be lingering after effects from alien abduction.

 

[Darth Michael]

Okay, but does anyone know if this can be treated?

And if it's the lingering effects from being abducted....NEAT !!! I just wish I could remember the actual event. I LOVE anything pertaining to UFO's...and all things paranormal, for that matter.

 

[window2watcher]

Sometimes you are in a state that I think is called hypnogogic. You are in that inbetween sleep and wake,frozen state referred to above and are dreaming and you go in and out of the dream state, thinking you are awake. Can be VERY confusing and scarry too sometimes. (I fell out of my tree a long time ago so I guess it does't apply to me!)

 

[Swampthing]

Actually it sounds remarkibly similar to an expierience I have while trippin on Acid about 15 yrs. ago.

 

[AbbyLane2001]

Okay I had this some years back.

Are you under alot of stress, its due to stress and the brain overloading or something, my doctor said not to worry about it unless it became a regular thing.

I can remember being scared when it happened are you. Well with a name like Darth you're probably a guy therefore will not admit so lets me were you unsettled, yea unsetled?

Abby

 

[night driver]

Darth,

This is one of the symptoms of someone who is in the right blood group for narcolepsy.

If you haven't, and this is a VERY sneaky to do this, PLUS you mifght do some good, register for the bone marrow registry. You get your HLA type(s) and you cn then check them for the narcolepsy type. I know. I own the trait. If I get to the slightly sleep deprived state, my body decides to "unplug" as LP said.....embarrassiing some times.


And yes I am VERY familiar with the sleep paralysis, as well as going STRAIGHT into REM sleep. "Normal" is 20 to 80 minutes after falling asleep...


Chuck. (and yes, this is why Mrs D has been so adamant that I needed to change jobs and is so happy)

 

[Darth Michael]

Hello, everyone. I occasionally have this wierd and disturbingly frightening experience in my sleep:

Toward the last two hours or so of sleep, I will sometimes "wake up", yet I cannot move ANY of my body. What I mean is, I am conscience enough to know that I am no longer sleeping, but I can't get the rest of my body to "wake up". I can't open my eyes, move my arms, legs, wiggle my toes...NOTHING. This lasts for about twenty minutes or so (maybe less).

I was just wondering if this happens to anyone else.


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[ 05-31-2001: Message edited by: Vipper ]

 

[The Mountain]

Yeh, it's normal. When you sleep, your brain unplugs the rest of your body from the motor control center of your brain (for all intents and purposes). This way if you dream of running, you are less likely to sprint across the room and into the wall (left over from caveman days, so you didn't take off into the wild at night while still asleep, good way to get dead). If you wake up abruptly, sometimes the brain hasn't "plugged" you back in, so the sleep paralysis is still present. It happened to me once.

 

[Jesse]

Yep! I get the "unplugged" thing in the daytime too though, but I'm conscious when that happens. Not much fun if you're driving or need to use the luxury box and can't get up to go...

At night/early morning I regularly hold entire conversations in my sleep and can remember only vaguely the subject matter when I finally *do* awaken fully.

The time when I'm being talked to and I don't know it, is when our daughter *swears* I've given her permission to do all manner of things I just know my psyche wouldn't agree to even unconsciously! But I can't PROVE it! (Husband has pulled this one too!).

I have rememdied the situation by declaring that unless I am in an upright position and have CLEARLY demonstrated that I am awake by already having consumed my morning Barleygreen juice drink, - nothing I've said prior to that moment will be considered valid!

"Cuz I'm the mom, that's why!" - Jesse.