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http://dreamstudies.org/201...paralysis/

This has only happened to me once many years ago. I thought I was being attacked by a poltergeist. I could not move and it felt like the ceiling had come down whole and was crushing me into the mattress. Honestly, I had never heard of sleep paralysis and thought it was a haunting.

scared to sleep, i have had that happen. it usually isnt scary to me when i feel like im floating out of my bed. it feels cool. sometimes i can even feel myself touch the ceiling. or kinda slowly bounce off the walls like a screen saver. But the scary part is when im laying there and cant move and i hear someone next to me. Or i feel a intense humming in my head.

Okay. I will! :)

Send me a message if it doesn't and I'll help you with more idea on therapy, I been doing this crap for a long time and I would like to see you and other have the same results. In fact my dog dixie used to have seizures and I reduced them from 6 times a year to just 1 or none at all without medication. changed her food and living spaces that she's in a calm and more quite enviroment.

Thanks Black Rose. I'll try that from now on. I just always suffered through it and prayed I'd wake up soon.

That tends to happen to me as well. I hope you will be able to take this advice, as I said. Remain calm and try and take slow breathing but the goal is to train your mind and body to adjust to it and then eventually you'll be able to get out of the paralysis. I know I do, I always work my way up to clenching my hands that eventually my legs move and my chest inhales. Everything is back to normal and I don't have them as often unless I'm having a real bad nightmare.

Good Night all and wishing you a good nights sleep.

Oh, okay.

Scared to Sleep I don't think it has anything to do with your sanity. The study I did said it usually didn't have anything to do with serious Physicoligal problems.

I sleep on my side and my tummy. But it's weird because when I wake up afterwards I'm always on my back.

For some it can happen every night and others, well like myself I've over come it. What you need to do it start with your finger or toes. Tell yourself, wiggle your toe or try and move your finger and sometimes that will completely stop the paralysis. It does for me, Then as you moving your finger, curl them right down into a fist that it's gonna take some time but it will eventually work as it's a mind struggling thing. Me, I assume their is someone in the room and it scares the **** out of me as I am what you call a spiritual person that it might be something else but I hope you find the answers your looking for. Does this mainly happen when your laying on your back or side?

I just need some relief. I'm starting to question my sanity. Any suggestions? This should not be happening every single night.

What Happens With Hypnopompic Sleep Paralysis?

During sleep, your body alternates between REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep. One cycle of REM and NREM sleep lasts about 90 minutes. NREM sleep occurs first and takes up to 75% of your overall sleep time. During NREM sleep, your body relaxes and restores itself. At the end of NREM, your sleep shifts to REM. Your eyes move quickly and dreams occur, but the rest of your body remains very relaxed. Your muscles are "turned off" during REM sleep. If you become aware before the REM cycle has finished, you may notice that you cannot move or speak.

It happens to me every night. Sometimes I do feel like someone is on my chest and I can't move or breathe. Sometimes I feel like I'm levitating and someone is pulling me out of my bed and throwing me around the room. It's so scary. I hate going to sleep.

I believe I've had it one 1 or 2 occasions and those who don't know what it is should really understand it better. Mine doesn't happen frequently but I still think it's something else so I'm not 100% sure if it is.When I have mine it feels like this heavy weight of a person is laying on me and I can't move hardly and inch especially even my arms. I try and relax as that is key to the paralysis but after a nightmare it is hard to do but when your in the middle of one of those episodes you need to close your eyes and count back from 20 and repteadly tell your body to move. As I said it's all in the mind and it's about over powering it with your mind.

Does anyone else suffer from this? I'm scared to go to sleep every night. It's terrifying.