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Mama Luigi

#21 May 23, 2008, 08:56:42 pm

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I don't have this... but I do have a strange problem where I'll sleep on my arm wrong, wake up in the middle of the night and have a virtually dead arm (it's so numb). I'll pick it up and drop it and it's kind of fun but at the same time it feels really bad! Eventually it will slowly wake up and I can move it again and all is well (I promptly go back to sleep).

It does bother me when this happens though.

Err but yes this sleep paralysis thing sounds millions of times worse.

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#22 May 23, 2008, 08:58:55 pm

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Quote from: Mr Epic Hero on May 23, 2008, 08:56:42 pm

I don't have this... but I do have a strange problem where I'll sleep on my arm wrong, wake up in the middle of the night and have a virtually dead arm (it's so numb). I'll pick it up and drop it and it's kind of fun but at the same time it feels really bad! Eventually it will slowly wake up and I can move it again and all is well (I promptly go back to sleep).

It does bother me when this happens though.

Err but yes this sleep paralysis thing sounds millions of times worse.

When this happens I would suggest pooring water on it.

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#23 May 23, 2008, 10:02:54 pm

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for the dead body parts, it's jsutbecause of blocking the blod circulation by sleeping over it, by I'm not sure, it's kinda fun actually. but it's a totally different topic than sleep paralysis.
and yeah I've seen the topic before in here, I think I started it last time maybe, when I first had it.

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#24 May 23, 2008, 10:06:45 pm

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I've had this happen to me many times and it scares me so much. The thing that sucks most about it is that you want to scream, yet you cant and you just get this feeling of terror.

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datamanc3r

#25 May 24, 2008, 12:41:12 am

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Quote from: Cray on May 23, 2008, 01:30:54 pm

The scariest time was around 1 year ago, I started to get scared all of a sudden again, and I saw the black fucker in my door, only this time it had long hair, after unsuccessfully trying to scream or move again, the stupid shadow JUMPS from my door, to my bed, just over me, in what it seemed like 0.1 sec, like it was standing in front of the door, then BAM over me, its face just against mine, I couldn't get myself to look at it, I was way to scared, and I could even feel its weight over me too. it was freaking scary ;_;

I have one very fond moment when I was able to look the fucker in the eye and smash its nose in. Sure I was scared as hell, but that's probably what prompted me to do it. Words cannot describe how gratifying that was -- of course, the thing immediately disappeared as I was able to gain mobility, and I had accidentally made a dent in the wall...but nonetheless, THAT was epic awesome.

But the next time I had one of those dreams, instead of that thing being at my door, it was my girlfriend -- and when she took two steps into my room and laid into my bed, I put my arms around her and her HEAD FELL OFF. That scared the SHIT out of me. And it's not like you can punch that to wake yourself up.

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#26 May 24, 2008, 01:32:47 am

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I didn't read all replies, but from what ABM said, it's like your mind "wakes up" but the body is still "sleeping" and since the mind usually "locks" the body to prevent movement while sleeping, you can't move until your BODY wakes up too?

Damn.

Imagine if the mind gets STUCK in the "awake state" but the body doesn't wake up at all. FUUUUUUUUUCk.

Quote from: Mr Epic Hero on May 23, 2008, 08:56:42 pm

I don't have this... but I do have a strange problem where I'll sleep on my arm wrong, wake up in the middle of the night and have a virtually dead arm (it's so numb). I'll pick it up and drop it and it's kind of fun but at the same time it feels really bad! Eventually it will slowly wake up and I can move it again and all is well (I promptly go back to sleep).

I had this like, last week! I woke up, wanted to scratch my head, and I was like, WTF?? I can't move my arm!! OH FUCK! I pinched it and stuff, nothing, not a single feeling. Then after a while it came back, so I scratched my head and promptly went back to sleep.

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#27 May 24, 2008, 01:46:08 am

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Well, I did have a sleeping paralysis attack once. It really freaked the living shit out of me too. I just woke up and everything was fuzzy. So I try to roll over, but I find that I can't. So I then try to move my arms and fingers and realize that I can't. So now I'm extremely freaked out but I'm trying to calm myself down. I tell myself that I'm probably not putting any effort into it or something since I was tired but I remained "paralyzed" for about a minute or two more before I was able to move again.

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datamanc3r

#28 May 24, 2008, 07:12:02 am

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That's exactly what sleep paralysis is. I think anything more than that -- the hallucinations, etc. -- is just lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when you can think while sleeping. And if you're laying there unable to move -- but able to receive sensory information -- all the while dreaming up some scary figure by your bedroom door, god that all just sucks.

I think I was able to move while lucid dreaming because I had developed a system when I was *alot* younger for escaping nightmares. I know this sounds silly, but what I would do is I would lay down on the floor, kick my legs up and 'roll into the air' -- thus awakening myself. I think it worked because I largely believed it would work. Perhaps if you are too negative and you are afraid that you won't be able to move -- you really won't get out of the dream. Perhaps the same principle works with sleep paralysis. Deep down, if you're afraid that you'll be unable to move out of the dream, you won't.

Maybe sleep paralysis is a symptom of too much pessimism. Mayhap it's completely psychosomatic.

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#29 May 24, 2008, 11:30:09 am

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in lucid dreaming you're aware that everything is a dream, although with broken logic (god knows I got some weird lucid dreams tales to tell ho ho!)

in night terrors (aka sleep paralysis with hallucinations) you often believe the EVIL presense is real.

so while its similar its not really same imo

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#30 May 24, 2008, 04:46:53 pm

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the hallucinations are pretty common in sleep paralysis, because what happens is that the brain doesn't understand what's happening, why can't you move, so in order to create a logic, it makes you believe there is something that is preventing you from moving, like an evil prescence. It's not a sign of pessimism, when it happens I focus all my strenght in a particular movement ( a small one, like a hand or a foot) and after a while of reying really hard ot works.
It's not lucid dreaming because you're not dreaming, you're hallucinating. That's why if you have a way of waking up from nightmares, it won't work here, mainly because you can move to roll inthe floor or anywhere, because you're paralysed.

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#31 May 25, 2008, 01:01:32 am

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Well never got any of those because I hardly dream most of the time. My head is usually blank

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#32 May 25, 2008, 01:13:10 am

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Quote from: Juris on May 24, 2008, 07:12:02 am

That's exactly what sleep paralysis is. I think anything more than that -- the hallucinations, etc. -- is just lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when you can think while sleeping. And if you're laying there unable to move -- but able to receive sensory information -- all the while dreaming up some scary figure by your bedroom door, god that all just sucks.

I think I was able to move while lucid dreaming because I had developed a system when I was *alot* younger for escaping nightmares. I know this sounds silly, but what I would do is I would lay down on the floor, kick my legs up and 'roll into the air' -- thus awakening myself. I think it worked because I largely believed it would work. Perhaps if you are too negative and you are afraid that you won't be able to move -- you really won't get out of the dream. Perhaps the same principle works with sleep paralysis. Deep down, if you're afraid that you'll be unable to move out of the dream, you won't.

Maybe sleep paralysis is a symptom of too much pessimism. Mayhap it's completely psychosomatic.

Ahahah. That's how I overcame overcame it sometimes. I did it by accident though. Like my dream guy was punching something or kicking and I instantly did it, and that woke me right up.

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#33 May 25, 2008, 01:16:34 am

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After reading these stories it makes me feel lucky that I haven't had this happen to me, at least yet. If sleeping on your stomach is said to prevent this thats good lol, because thats how i sleep anyway.

How many of you HAVEN'T had this happen? i'm curious if it's most or just a couple.

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#34 May 25, 2008, 02:30:15 am

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Quote from: Cyborgasm on May 25, 2008, 01:16:34 am

How many of you HAVEN'T had this happen? I'm curious if it's most or just a couple.

I've never suffered from it. Which is pretty lucky, because I'd probably freak out if I did.

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#35 May 25, 2008, 02:59:56 am

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Wait you guys don't like this sensation? I get it really rarely and it's awesome. Nothing livens sleeping up like a plummeting sensation and you can't move and oh god oh god BANG you're awake.

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#36 May 25, 2008, 04:54:56 am

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One time, when I was younger, I woke up with a rat on my chest, and I was just absolutely petrified by it, for no apparent reason; it was as if the rat was holding a gun to my head telling me to be still. When I snapped out of it, I had no idea what the fuck, and ran to my parents. I came back to my room with my pissed off mom and there was no rat to be found. It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out about sleep paralysis.
That said, although I wouldn't want it to happen to me again, it's not the worst thing that can happen while you're sleeping

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