Sleep Paralysis Is Killing Me

Whenever I have felt lonely and afraid,full of fear I usually visit a marketplace or a place of natural scenic beauty or a loved relative or familyfriend, stay for a day or two have a decent sleep at thier home and then come back.

This brings me back to normal and also boosts my confidence level up.
I have tried to improve my life overall by thinking positive:

When I suffered terrible sleep apnia I had consulted a neuro-physician who had prescribed me MIRTAZ(Indian drug name) and NITREST which I took at an hour's gap of each other and 2 hours before going to bed.
I took this for about 10 days and then slowly got off it by taking it alternate days until completely I was off medicine and sleeping well.

I also exercised during day to have by body physically tired.

I have now changed my outlook to life completely by not taking any adverse situation to heart but keeping off it. So that I am neither depressed,nor anxious but happy and joyous whatever the situation in life is.

Hope this helps,
sanjay

I had my first ever Sleep Paralysis experience this morning and, quite honestly, I can't get it out of my freaking head. Hopefully my retelling of the incident will help.

I crashed at my parent's house last night on the couch; was woken up at about 8:00am by my dad, who encouraged me to go lie on my brother's bed (he hadn't come home from the night before). I went into my brother's room, lied down, and drifted back to sleep. Some time later I hear a loud sound which wakes me up (eventually I came to learn it was the door, which had been blown shut by the wind). I was now awake, but with my eyes closed. My guess was that my brother had returned home from his night out (this was before I knew that the wind had closed the door--I just figured he had slammed it in an effort to wake me). I hear my "brother" start to creep his way around the room. I don't want to have him make me move back to the couch, so I decide to just lie there with my eyes closed so that he'd take sympathy and just let me continue crashing on his bed. The footsteps get closer and closer to the bed, until finally I feel him hovering over me, and eventually he's touching my back(I was lying on my right side, with my back to the door). I figured the jig was up, and he was trying to get me to return to the couch. This is when it all went down. I tried to open my eyes, but couldn't do it. I tried to tell my brother that I would go back to the couch, but my mouth wouldn't move. I started freaking at this point. My body was completely motionless, and I could still feel something like a pair of hands touching my back. I couldn't even move my fingers. There was about a five second period where I thought that I was dead. I remember thinking, "Holy crap. This is it. I died in my sleep and this is the afterlife. It's just blackness and motionlessness."

Eventually I managed to jerk myself up, only to be standing in my brother's empty bedroom. I immediately told my dad what had happened, and then I jumped on the computer and headed straight for Wikipedia to figure out what the heck had happened. The paralysis was scary, but the truly terrifying thing was that "being" that was walking around the room and then hovering over me. I realize it's a psychological condition, but man, it feels VERY real. I'm getting chills just thinking about that thing touching my back. Freaky stuff...a very trippy experience, and one that I hope I don't have to repeat.

ive been dealing with this problem for years now and im glad to hear that im not the only one. sometimes when it happens i wish my wife would be trying to wake me up and see if i can wake myself up any faster, it just seems like it always happens after ive been woken up for just a split second and then i fall back into such a deep sleep that my body just wont wake up. and i always only have a small hole between my lips to breathe through. this is a very scary problem but im so relieved to see im not the only one and that i havent "almost died in my sleep" like 100 times in my lifetime. i seriously thought thats what was happening to me but i guess not

I just finish having that dream. My body is intensly shaking like CRAZY! and my head. i kant wake up is like im trap in my dream i know im in the dream because ive had this for about a year now. and sometimes i go from DREAM TO DREAM is like i thought i really woke up off the shaking and im looking around but i still really diidnt wake up get me? just now i had the shaking dream SLEEPING ON MY BACK..... i diidnt even put my mine to it because if i force my body to wake up i'll wake up with intense headache. well abviously i try to wake up like trying to open my eyes back in forth. ITS EXACKLY TO SOMEONE HAVING A SEIZURE. thats what the dream is. If you were to say this dream to someone like a cousin or a freind they dont put to much attention to it and say thats just a dream. Im like saying in my mine you dont know what im talking about. OK after i wake up I do get a scared and then i have to turn on all the darn lights on, on my room. AGAIN: My entire body is shaking and i cant seem to wake up and if i try to move i cant im really stiff {Extremely stiff} im even tried knocking on my wall to call my mom to see how does my body reacht to the dream am i shaking a little bit alot or im i just not moving at all just sleeping it never works knocking on the wall. i cant even knock on the wall because im extremely stiff its like i dont got no power steering in me lol. Its horrible! And the dream last about 1-2 mins. sometimes less. Also i can hear the entire house talking perfectly i can even hear my mom talking and ive tried calling her name and knocking on teh wall but my body for some reason in the dream wont let me speak. Nor knock on the wall because i cant. What i tried doing one day is to see if my body is actually moving not in the dream, if im actually moving in real life. so what i tried doing is putting my hand out from my covers and putting ONE finger up and see if that finger was up. when i woke up My hand was out the covers but no finger was up.....when i woke up i possibly put it down i dont know... i wonder how my body reachts if i had a video camera taping me Well it happens to me just like 2 times a month so i cant film 30 days straight waiting for this to happen again. Well i just woke up off this dream and went to go to do some research on the internet its 4.22 AM im kind of scared if i go to sleep it'all come right back again to that horrible dream again witch it always happens. i diidnt really get to even sleep i think i slept proly like 18 minutes i was on ebay i remembered the clock saying like 3:54 i turned off the computer.and now i turned it back on to do research see if there anybody that had this dream and YES im not the only one. i really thought i was the only one that had this type of dream. i told my mom that i was having this crazy dream/shaking dream and she said thats of you playing those video games that get you so intense. well i havent played video games for about a week so.....i once thought that sense i sleep with my TV on it had to do something with that idk. probably i dont sleep concentrated i mildy leave the tv sound on barely. First of all icant sleep with my tv i just wont go to sleep dont matter if im extremely tired. sometimes after having the dream i cant go to sleep for like the next 3 hours just starring at the roof of my room.well if anyone has something else besides these type of dream that {WE} have it cant be worse. i didnt put mine to the shaking dream this time i know i was in a dream so i just woke up but it was still horrible. Is this like a sleep disorder...Or it just a bad dream....

My name is LAZARIO Im 16

I just finish having that dream. My body is intensly shaking like CRAZY! and my head. i kant wake up is like im trap in my dream i know im in the dream because ive had this for about a year now. and sometimes i go from DREAM TO DREAM is like i thought i really woke up off the shaking and im looking around but i still really diidnt wake up get me? just now i had the shaking dream ON MY BACK. i diidnt even put my mine to it because if i force my body to wake up i'll wake up with intense headache. well abviously i try to wake up like trying to open my eyes back in forth. ITS EXACKLY TO SOMEONE HAVING A SEIZURE. thats what the dream is. If you were to say this dream to someone like a cousin or a freind they dont put to much attention to it and say thats just a dream. Im like saying in my mine you dont know what im talking about. OK after i wake up I do get a scared and then i have to turn on all the darn lights on, on my room. AGAIN: My entire body is shaking and i cant seem to wake up and if i try to move i cant im really stiff {Extremely stiff} im even tried knocking on my wall to call my mom to see how does my body reacht to the dream am i shaking a little bit alot or im i just not moving at all just sleeping it never works knocking on the wall. i cant even knock on the wall because im extremely stiff its like i dont got no power steering in me lol. Its horrible! And the dream last about 1-2 mins. sometimes less. Also i can hear the entire house talking perfectly i can even hear my mom talking and ive tried calling her name and knocking on teh wall but my body for some reason in the dream wont let me speak. Nor knock on the wall because i cant. What i tried doing one day is to see if my body is actually moving not in the dream, if im actually moving in real life. so what i tried doing is putting my hand out from my covers and putting ONE finger up and see if that finger was up. when i woke up My hand was out the covers but no finger was up.....when i woke up i possibly put it down i dont know... i wonder how my body reachts if i had a video camera taping me Well it happens to me just like 2 times a month so i cant film 30 days straight waiting for this to happen again. Well i just woke up off this dream and went to go to do some research on the internet its 4.22 AM im kind of scared if i go to sleep it'all come right back again to that horrible dream again witch it always happens. i diidnt really get to even sleep i think i slept proly like 18 minutes i was on ebay i remembered the clock saying like 3:54 i turned off the computer.and now i turned it back on to do research see if there anybody that had this dream and YES im not the only one. i really thought i was the only one that had this type of dream. i told my mom that i was having this crazy dream/shaking dream and she said thats of you playing those video games that get you so intense. well i havent played video games for about a week so.....i once thought that sense i sleep with my TV on it had to do something with that idk. probably i dont sleep concentrated i mildy leave the tv sound on barely. First of all icant sleep with my tv i just wont go to sleep dont matter if im extremely tired. sometimes after having the dream i cant go to sleep for like the next 3 hours just starring at the roof of my room.well if anyone has something else besides these type of dream that {WE} have it cant be worse. i didnt put mine to the shaking dream this time i know i was in a dream so i just woke up but it was still horrible. Is this like a sleep disorder...Or it just a bad dream....

My name is LAZARIO Im 16

It just happend again to me this morning. I thought it was over, its been 4months. I woke up this morning, hearing the tiled ceiling get pushed open. Then hearing someone whisper in my ear saying "You little fuc*ing pig, im gonna kill you". I couldnt move, I couldnt even open my eyes. This time I knew what was happening, so I tried moving my toes and gradually taking control over my body.

All the previous times it happend, i've never heard a voice whispering in my ear. But I still heard and felt the presence.

The weird thing is. The night before I was feeling uncomfortable, I wanted to sleep on my back, but I knew that could trigger sleep peralisys. I thought it was over, so I slept that was anyways and it happend.

I dont think it happend becouse I slept on my back, but becouse I was thinking it "would" happen if I sleep on my back. If you think its gonna happen, it will.

I'm 20 and have had sleep paralysis on and off since about 16. The first case I had was a hallucination inside my bedroom where I appeared motionless and sprawled out on my floor. I was staring out the window at an unnaturally large moon in brightly negative colors. The wind blew hard into my room through a closed window and then I came to. I didn't know what to think when I awoke. I had never experienced anything like it. Had I known the recurring episodes would be terrifying I probably would've been scared. Ever since then I've had it on and off. Sometimes a few times a week, other times I'll get great sleep for months and then suddenly get SP three times in one night. I recall another hallucination I had where I was exiting a dream, or so I thought, and this horribly mangled and disfigured dead man's head was growling and whispering in my ear in a black nothingness. As soon as he "spoke" I awoke in paralysis with a feeling of shaking and sinking. I eventually researched it. Personally I find I get it when I'm extremely overtired and sleeping in a warm to hot temperature. I will not sleep without one leg uncovered by my covers now. I haven't had it in a good while, but I've come to "feel" when SP is coming on. There's this feeling of falling into a sleep but falling too quickly, and I open my eyes and shake a limb or something to wake up a bit more. Sometimes it just furthers the torment but other times it will work. This is usually in the late morning after sleeping in. I rarely take naps because of it. There was a response a few posts back suggesting getting up and walking around. I'd advise doing so. Get a glass of water, shake your limbs out. I can remember one of the first times I got SP I decided to "challenge" it and let myself be enveloped by it. It's really a unique experience that much of the world probably won't realize, albeit a terribly haunting experience. I originally got it sleeping on my sides, so I slept on my back for about a month and eventually got SP doing that. There's really no escaping it entirely. It's a vice I, like most of you I'm sure, live with. I think a steady sleeping pattern will help. Mine is quite messed up because I'm a college student who doesn't go to sleep before 2 am every night, but I guess that's a pattern in itself. I'll post the next time I get it.

i had the exact thing happen to me i know its scary i think its called sp (sleep paralysis) from what i read so far its spota be normal...but it dosent feel like it.what helps me is just take really deep breaths..it helps me when this happens mabe it will help you too!

I set my alarm to get up at 11 am, I awoke and put the snooze button on for another 15 minutes. I fell asleep and entered a dream where I was researching some sort of historical horror story and I typed in the name of this character..supposedly the central figure of mass murders, a woman in early 19th century garments and a white featureless head. As soon as I entered the name, an image of her ushered itself in out of my periphery (for some reason it was the most terrifying thing I'd ever seen, and all she did was 'appear'). My eyes rolled back into my head and a flash of white overcame with a loud noise like the crack of lightning, I awoke paralysed and swiftly shook loose (abnormally fast) and laid there with my eyes wide open in shock. I've had SP hundreds of times but for some reason this 10 second bout was probably the most frightening since the one mentioned in my last post. I wish you could see what I saw, and I know a lot of you have similar bouts where you just can't 'explain' them in a way you'd like others to understand.

I cant get over how may people suffer from this condition.
i have from as far back as i can remember. I thought i was just weird. but im discovering there are alot of people out there with it, much more severe then i imagined.

Why is there not alot of information out there. Has it got the doctors stumped?
If it wasnt for this web site, i would have continued to think it was all in my head.

Ok well i've been having sleep paralysis about 6 or 7 times in this past year (or more whatever) and i want to know if it's ok to have it. I think i've figured it out, because whenever it happens i awake on my back and sometimes wake up with the paralysis and i try to sleep again and then it happens again! can someone explain increases the likelihood of it happening because i find it interesting actually. This might sound silly...but did this kind of natural occurence trigger ideas for movies like the exorcist and other demon movies..anyway sleep paralysis is weird but its not really a serious illness or anything...since it happens every so often my curious conscience would like to be notified

I have been living with this disorder for more years than I can remember now. I never knew it had a name and other people had it. I seriously just thought I was wierd. When I try to explain it my husband or mother they just look at me like Im nuts or had a bad dream.
I was on another discussion website this morning and someone gave me the term sleep paralysis....Im even a nurse and I havent ever looked it up.
The episodes that I have had are scary. I wake up and I cant move, breathe, talk, or yell...I can look around my room and see everything. I often feel like there is someone or something watching me in these episodes but I havent ever seen anything. My whole body is buzzing and my heart pounds. When I was little I thought that aliens were trying to abduct me...Too many scary movies. Another time when I was 16 I decided I was just going to ride it out and see what happens...and I swear it felt like if I completley let go I was going to float because something was pulling me. I could have sworn I was slammed into a wall. Does anyone ever have this happen? Do you feel like you are being pulled?
Other times I will finally get my arm or leg to move and it will stop...And I get up and walk around and come back to bed to have it happen again only before I fall asleep and I can feel it starting. It hasnt happened as much since I have been with my husband...And to be honest it happened a lot more when I was alone and no one slept with me. It never has happened to me in the day time.. I know I dont have narcolepsy....Its just aggravating to have these episodes.
And it doesnt matter how many times it happens its never pleasant. Its down right scary.
Im soo glad I found this site and I see that other people are going through the same thing which makes me not crazy. Im going to talk to my doctor today about it and see what she thinks. Thanks soo much for sharing your stories...It has helped immensly!

Anyone ever had multiple SP attacks in the one night/day ? If you have then upon wakening after an attack, try drinking a glass of water. I know that may sound ridiculous but I swear it works for me. Nevertheless it still gets you, and onl a few days ago I had a particularly violent attack which seemed to coincide with a horrific war siren like noise. Anyway, try keeping a glass of water by your bedside, and good luck.

Thank you all for letting me share your forum. It's such a relief that I can talk to people, near or far away, who suffer these terrors as I do. I have never spoken to anyone about this, in case they think I'm nuts.

I recieve this sleep paralyzation 3-4 times a night at least every other night for the past year or so, it used to happen back in high school here and there but it just keeps getting worse and worse... The thing is it happens in no reguards to where im sleeping how im sleeping, temp of room, diet, or anything... I can breath normal through out the "thing" I feel no pressure on my chest, its more of a pulling sensation or a lifting sensation... For example I was at a rest stop with a bud of mine during a road trip we were resting lol... i started to fall asleep i think one moment im talking to him the next im telling or yelling for this presence to go away... I scared him because he said i was twitching and yelling for it to let me go, but he said my arms were moving around in odd ways but to me it felt like i couldnt move them? is this normal? and if not should i see someone about it?

I'm not prone to taking naps very often. I'll go entire semesters of school without naps and stay up to 1-3 am every night. I got a cold, something's going around, recently and decided to take some naps between class and work to ease the cold. Now, usually when I take a nap I'll get so tired and sleepy that I feel like I can't sleep, like your body is just too exhausted to let you stay asleep for more than 5 minutes. It's next to sleep paralysis, but I don't remember being paralyzed or anything like that. I get this a lot between sleep paralysis episodes. I haven't had any recently, not much since my last post..but last time I posted I started having them again. Anyone else get this heavy/exhausted feeling when you nap during the day? I NEVER ever nap and this is probably why. And to the post before this, when I have sleep paralysis I make clawing gestures with my arms, but my arms don't move. I feel my arms making the gestures and the sensation of them making the physical action, but they're still. And shaking myself loose always starts with my foot, not my arm or head. What about you guys? Good to see more posts since my last one. Sleep well

i try to avoid naps but sometimes i just slump. i feel physically heavy but not sleepy and if i sit in a warm environment i may drift off.

these sleeps are never productive. i usually cannot sleep until the house is quiet otherwise i wake at the slightest noise and go into a sleep-wake cycle which is exhausting.

its better just to get up and wlk around when that happens but often i am so shell shocked that i cannot even perfom that simple thought process.

sleep paralysis is comparatively rare for me. always around normal wake -up time (ie when it is light outside)

i am immobilised but i can see. there is no sound only vision. and i am unable to breathe. the only way i have been able to snap out of it is to concentrate hard on exhaling which sometimes i have been able to do whilst other times i have blacked out.

its horrible but in a weird way i heve become used to it and once i have gotten over the initial disorientation i just get on with it.

it only happens if i am on my back which i go to great lengths to avoid but i am a restless sleeper and sometimes i end up on my back no matter what. (even with tennis balls sown into the back of my nightshirt.)

MCW

So I mentioned that I have bouts of weird naps between sleep paralysis episodes. I had SP for the first time in a while last night, and it was intense. I notice that the first ones I have after long periods of inactivity are extreme. A long episode for me is about 30 seconds of me trying desperately to escape paralysis. Sometimes I'll let it idle for 5-10 seconds to regain my train of thought. This past night I had it about an hour after I got into bed, right before I fell asleep. I'd been wrestling with falling into SP for the hour and must've dozed off, too tired to wake myself from falling into SP. Since I recognized I was in it, I experimented with moving my arm and just feeling my arm moving. I moved my pinky finger on my right hand across my leg, or so I felt. I couldn't turn my head to see my hand moving but still felt it. I recall some sort of tragedy before I fell into paralysis, some fictional story of a male figure about to become a victim of something I couldn't make out. I just really feel I could impose these kinds of happenings on others, like they have to experience this before they die. To move your limbs without moving, your brain teases your very free will. Why do I feel movement but -KNOW- I'm not moving? Only a few accounts of my SP have disabled my breathing, and if so only for seconds. I think I want to journey into this the next time I get it. See how long I can last and what sort of things I see and hear. This is the stuff of legend, people would've been persecuted for describing these accounts centuries ago. Thank you all for being listeners and making this a comfortable tell-all environment.