[<3goesDOKIDOKI]

how old are you? when did it start?

sleep paralysis is a COMMON sleeping disorder, a lotttt of people have them.
it is a literally what you said. your brain becomes conscious before your body responds.

sleep paralysis happens normally right as your about to wake up, or right as your about to fall asleep.

it is nothing to be freaked out about! you don't die from it. nothing bad happens, there is no cure.

your body is paralysed because during REM sleep, everyones body is paralysed. thats just how it works... and people "hallucinate" sometimes because the cycle which your body is paralysed is when you dream. the paralysis is often associated with fear because people just panic.

i started to get it when i was around 12-13... some people get it often, some people don't.

for me, the sleeping disorder gradually became worse from when i was 13-17. at 17 my little episodes became from hearing a buzzing, to seeing images, to seeing and hearing fully as if everything was happening in real life.

so of course the last time it happened i freaked out... i was under extreme stress at the time.

i looked it up online and found that its more common to happen if you sleep on your back...rather than your side. and its triggered by stress.

so from then on if i'm stressed out i make sure i sleep on my side.

and heres my little trick. in order to get myself out of the paralysis (which always feels as if the paralysis is getting "deeper" and feels if i don't struggle i will never get out of it) i bite my tongue.

not so hard to get blood or anything. but i bite down on my tongue so to give me a little pain and i can break out of it easily. sorta like pinching yourself to get awake =P try that next time!

sorry to say that there is no cure... its just a sleeping disorder. like sleep walking

oh btw! in chinese its when a "ghost squashes you" literally pushing you down so you cant get up lol. but its bullocks to me =]

[SHEEKxD]

oh i heard of this before
its like gah wee something ><..
but this person told me
that a "ghost" is in your body and you soul is on the floor??
and like you can't move or anything

but im sure tahts not really true O_O..

[Jfer]

my grandpa always have this happen to him...he says that his ex's be coming back and sit on top of him..and he put a knife under his pillow..

hmm..this never happened to me but i think it did..cause once i couldnt move my legs..i was so freaked out!...but then a couple of minutes later i can move my legs again..creepy..and also i sleep on my sides..i feel more safer!

[sweetxvanilla]

That happens to me a lot too. My boyfriend and I both get kanashibari a lot ~~ ( the same as sleep paralysis)
And everytime i get it i'm always scared, so i decided to sleep with a light on one night and i haven't gotten it since then, but that was only a week ago.. So try sleeping with like a night light or something, i think it actually helps.

[bombshell]

i had it yesterday. its been a while since i had it too.
it happened while i was sleeping on my side. i remember not being able to move at all for a minute.

[teeny]

0_0 ive never had this before? sounds scary ^^

[gangster_lovin]

oh dengg this is scary

never happened to me before...watch it happens -.-"
but i'm used to sleeping on my side or my tummy ^^...

all these stories about demons and trying to trick you

[AsOne]

i get it every couple of months....i hate it. my boyfriend told me that koreans say it's a ghost sitting on you, which really freaked me out. And then (true story apparently) a girl i know has a friend in korea who was sleeped paralyzed and when she opened her eyes there was a demon lying beside her with it's face like RIGHT up in her face. she wasn't/isn't christian but heard that saying the lord's prayer makes them go away, but since she wasn't christian it didn't work and the ghost started mocking her and saying it back to her. and then she passed out and when she woke up it was gone.

haha sorry long post and scary if you believe it, but i just pray and it works

AHH this story scared the living daylights out of me. Thank goodness I have a habit of sleeping on my sides rather than on my back.

[mineforkeeps.]

Sleep paralysis...is that what it's called?! I never knew the name for it, but yeah that happens to me too, usually just when i'm going to sleep. It's scary as heck, but mine just went away eventually. When it used to happen often, it was as if I could put myself into that position if I just thought about the feeling right before I went to "sleep". weird I know. I think it's true what everyone else has been saying about not sleeping on your back, 'cause whenever I experienced it, I was sleeping on my back.

I used to try and explain it to my friends, but they'd look at me weird . I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who expriences this.

[iAM_Vindicated]

That happens to me a lot too. My boyfriend and I both get kanashibari a lot ~~ ( the same as sleep paralysis)
And everytime i get it i'm always scared, so i decided to sleep with a light on one night and i haven't gotten it since then, but that was only a week ago.. So try sleeping with like a night light or something, i think it actually helps.

lol that is soo cute. trust me i tried sleeping with a night light too.. but eventually the battery died out. fack



sleep paralysis happens normally right as your about to wake up, or right as your about to fall asleep.

^ omg thats so true. i can feel myself about to doze off to sleep but right when i do... i get sleep paraylysis

[irene23]

twice my sister happened this, she was scary..she said it was horrible.

[Lucystar]

You guys need to chill out with the superstition.

Sleep paralysis occurs because during the REM cycle of your sleep, your body is paralyzed. The REM cycle is when you dream. Sometimes, you wake up and your body is still paralyzed.

My pyschology teacher suggests going back to sleep for a few minutes and try to wake up again.

Although I've never had sleep paralysis, it's not uncommon.

Gooood luck <3.

[stopthebleeding]

I dont know if this is the same thing or not. But one time i woke up (or at least i thought i did) and it was like my eyes were half shut so i could only see a little, and my body was not responding to what i wanted it to do. It felt like more of a dream. I was relaxed, but scared after I completely woke up

[<3Jaejoong]

yup i get this nearly everyday >__< like a shadow was over me -__- actually talking to me too...freaks me out.....ummm vietnamese people say its "Ghost ____ (something iunno how to say)" and i always get it after i wake up and try to go to sleep again >__<

[Maia-X3]

Ahaha, I've gotten this quite a few times.... I used to find it fun until I found out that it wasn't a dream and it was REALLY happening to you.

When you get sleep paralysis your mind also hallucinates. [Yes!! Hallucination is real kids! =D] So you either hallucinate visually or sound..... sometimes both.

For me I get only sound... last time this guy was laughing at me [kind of echoing sound]. And I felt this huge force on top of me.... and I couldn't move, say, or do anything. How freaky... it can be cool sometimes but my heart starts beating so fast cuz... of course it's scary experience.

I can stop it now though.... right before I get it I start hearing sounds... indicating it's about to begin... at that point i still have some sort of control over my body so I just jolt up.. then I'm fine...

If you can recognise when it's about to begin then you should be able to prevent it... I think. =)

[cho chang]

duuuude noooo i can't read this at 4:30am.

i'll come back later. but i feel the need to share my part first. i've had sleep paralysis SEVERAL (maybe 4-5?) times since this year.. always when i've had little sleep. i thought it happened only when i was on my back, but on 2-3 occasions it did happen while i was sleeping on my side. i hate it because i can feel my nerves being tingly (like when your foot falls asleep) on the side that i'm not sleeping on. it always happens about 10 minutes after i fell asleep, and after a short dream. i think these dreams are usually bad.

the first time i was very freaked out, especially because i read about it before, and because i associated it with the whole scissor-lock thing. i woke up and experienced the paralysis after a dream in which i was in a car on some dark, demented road with my dad and another person who caused us to crash, killing my dad. ooortunately, my grandmother was in the same room at the time. i told her about the dream and started crying, because it seemed REALLY bad at the time. then i told her about the paralysis but i don't think she got it.

i don't think this is a spiritual sort of thing, because i've researched it and read that it has to do with your brain and the function that keeps your body still during dreams being shut off late, or something.
edit: okay, i just read everything else and for the people who feel it's spiritual and get ghosts/demons.. they could possibly be two entirely different things?

[yaboo]

hmm i have that happen to me too...
it first started when i woke up from a bad dream of the ring girl crawling on top of me staring at me in the face, when i woke up i couldnt move, couldnt breath, couldnt speak... it was freaking me out
chinese culture call this "gue ya chuan", which means a ghost on top of u. @_@ scary

but when it happen to me, my head is perfectly clear but the problem is that i couldnt breath! it feels like that i forgot how to breath. and i had to struggle really hard to get air back into my system... but another problem... i couldnt move!!1 aiya it happen to me really often too!! what is this problemmmmm

my aunt said it's the nerve in ur necck getting pressed on causing the unable to breath and move-ness T.T bbut idk...

[BebeSweet]

I get that often too. At least, once a month.

And the thing is that it always seems to go hand-in-hand with a nightmare.
So basically, I freak out everytime it happens. I read somewhere that moving
your toes first would release this, but I found that never worked for me.

Maia-X3! I also get sound hallucinations. It is the MOST scariest thing I've
ever experienced in my sleep. I couldn't even explain how it sounded exactly,
but it'd be repetitive and start from a distance but slowly creep closer and closer
till it sounded like it was right beside my ears. Very freaky stuff!

[sweetlypink]

i did a research paper on this for english 101. basically, on the most of the sources i found, the only way to cure this is by keeping a good sleep hygine. if you pm me, i can send you my paper. ^^

[iceage]

OMG my dad said that happens to him all the time too!!! he says it feels like if someone was sitting on his chest holding him down. but tat happens only when he sleeps with his hand over his heart.
i tried sleepin like tat once and it happened to me too! scary!