What is a temporary inability to move or speak that occurs when you're waking up or falling asleep?
Correct answer: Sleep paralysis
MuddyOddball64491
This happens to me every once in awhile. It is not a very pleasant experience.
Songbird55
My granddaughter has intermittent sleep paralysis. She has drawn her hallucinations, they are terrifying! I feel so bad for people with this condition! It must be a horrific experience!
Gary
It's happened to me a number of times makes me feel helpless and can't even call for help. I try to focus on moving an arm or leg to snap me out of it...really scary!
Chelseablue 1971
MuddyOddball64491, you can feel like you're being dragged down the bed-paranormal experience in true life!
Jemma
It's pretty awful. I experienced it for months during a particularly heartbreaking and stressful time of my life. The only way I could bring myself out of it was by trying to talk. I would usually be able to groan which helped to bring me out of the paralysis.
Doing mediation and relaxation techniques help massively. And keeping a regular sleep routine too x
ABBAsDtr
As a child I would get paralysis often. Now as an adult, I still do but rarely. When I do, I've learned that as soon as the paralysis starts, I start praying and it immediately goes away.
Ice Antonio
I suffer from this, it is really scary but what I try to do is that I try to calm myself and go back to sleep. It helps for me and after a few more hours of sleep I can wake up without a problem.
Player BARTEMAEUS 10
MuddyOddball64491, This has happened to me twice, very frightening.
Player #8567506
Gary, me too. makes me afraid to go back to sleep. makes me think this is what it would feel like to be buried alive. my worst nightmare!
Ln
it happens to me if I'm laying on my back. I can't move. my husband now knows if I'm grunting or twitching he wakes me
Rocky
This used to happen to me on a daily basis, worst time of my life
Hanora
It is of the worst feelings, ever. I had this happen to me quite a few times over the years. After the 3rd time, I started to realize what was happening. Now, if it does happen, I keep telling myself to wake up. Sometimes, I thought I had woken up, but it turned out that i wasn't. It felt like I was in a double paralysis state, but I was aware of it. If that makes any sense.
Moegal59
A useful question for me, as l have had two episodes to date.
Jo
Bed monsters, that's what I call it. I don't believe they are hallucinations, I heard my dressing table vibrating, I felt something jump on my bed. I was in a different realm, I know I experienced it and no one can tell me any different
Moira
I have had a few episodes of this, twice when I was in hospital, I thought it may have been due to pain medication I was on, really a very unpleasant and frightening experience.
Ms. June
kelo wren, maybe they are not hallicinations....next time try to pray, it always works for me coz I tend to get them quite often and they always come with sort of figures or "hallucinations" if you will....I used to be helpless and sometimes I felt like I was drowning in an ocean and when I come back to life, I could smell and taste the ocean in my mouth. It's really scrary, I wouldn't wish it for my worst enemy. I now believe that people that died in their sleep, went through that and gave up and hence, their deaths. Imagine my enxiety.
Phoenix
I've experienced this, and it is terrifying!
Royalty
it happens to me a lot. When it happens I pray in my sleep then it stops.
Mathew
I've experienced it a few times a year since I was 7. The sensation of being held down or unable to move my limbs while a figure stands over me.
Hearing whispering voices and
khatha
ABBAsDtr, me too .
Kaye
this happened to me multiple times and it isn't a pleasant feeling at all. During one of my episode I saw a dead friend of mine totally freaked me out
Player #66817220
Velizar, in the Middle Ages, it was angels/demons/mythical whatevers.
Player #66817220
giver, that's what most people used to think. Now a lot of people think it's aliens.
Mrmrpopo
Gary, that's exactly what happens to me
xxx
its demons !! best way to snap out of it is to keep calm tell them to go away and do a little pray.
yo
I experienced it quite a lot! Awfull sensation! I try to wake out of it by forced fast breathing, it works sometimes.
Mark Kenneth Cuchapin
It already happen to me several times already. Most of the time, I can here a deep voice, and seeing shadow like figures. I usually experience that if I sleep with my stomach full, and when it lie in bed flat, I don't know if those have a connection.
Lex
My husband gets this when he’s stressed. If I hear him groaning almost whimpering when we’re asleep, I wake him up. He’s said he’s actually screaming for help, but it barely comes out as a little squeal.
Mia
I have had it only once. Really scary
sharonrose
Chelseablue 1971, you can also feel like you're having an out of body experience which is very surreal.
sharonrose
Songbird55, it certainly is. I've written mine down, they are absolutely terrifying. After an episode I'm too scared to go back to sleep.
sharonrose
MuddyOddball64491, me too, very frightening indeed because it all seems so real.
LeGree
I remember the old saying that the devil was riding your back.
Player #44608313
I have had this, it terrified me.thought I was dying of a stroke. did not know what it was until now.
Granny
This is the most commented question. I didn't know so many people experience it. I heard somewhere that it is a disturb from an evil spirit.
Player #48623130
MuddyOddball64491, me too.
Velizar
Very often people in USA with this condition truly believe that they were abducted by aliens, while the Japanese halucinate ghosts and demons..... Just like in the movie "Grudge"!! That is sooooo scary!!
Valen
it happens to me, but I concentrate in breathing as hard as I can, and the sound of my breathing wakes me up. I suffered a lot when I was a teenager,but now I can get it out of it easily with that technique. Hope it can help somebody
SOS
Gary, What I do is concentrate on wiggling my fingers & toes then move to arms & legs. It was really scary the first couple of times it happened but I'm used to it now & just 'go with the flow' until I can move.
Player #18193302
Player #8567506, I have the same experiences. I have to turn light on after to not trigger 2nd wave.. it happens when Im over tired... I call it " trapped in my dreams".. awful experience !