Are you having sleep paralysis?

[Technicolor]

Are you having sleep paralysis?

I have sleep paralysis pretty often. And once I have it at a night, it goes on repeatly unless I don't stand up and wake up my sleepy condition and then sleep again. 

 

 

[Technicolor]

Tonight I also visually hallucinated. When I opened my eye little, there was something near me. I forced to open my eyes fully and when I could open my eyes fully, it disappered.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Technicolor

[Redneckerz]

Photo's do not load in.

[Technicolor]

1 hour ago, Redneckerz said:

Photo's do not load in.

 

You never have sleep paralysis?

[Murdoch]

21 minutes ago, Technicolor said:

 

You never have sleep paralysis?

 

He means the image you posted in the first place is not loading for us.

 

I have never experienced sleep paralysis but I have done the whole "sudden jerk falling to sleep" thing. 

[Redneckerz]

35 minutes ago, Technicolor said:

 

You never have sleep paralysis?

Your pictures aren't loading.

[heliumlamb]

32 minutes ago, Redneckerz said:

Your pictures aren't loading.

Yes. Something like that

Edited February 3, 2023 by heliumlamb

[Savarin]

Well I hope you can get your images working, friend. On the mean time;

 

Sleep Paralysis is pretty freaky. I don't have them often, I'd say once every few months or so, but it's not a fun experience. I don't have a lot of visual hallucinations, but I do have auditory ones. One time, I had one while sleeping on my side, and it felt like a group of people were speaking gibberish on my bedroom, eventually getting louder and louder, until I felt some weight on top of me, like someone was climbing on top of me on the bed, and straight up screaming words I couldn't understand on my ear.

 

Maybe it lasted 10 seconds, maybe 15 minutes, I don't know, hard to tell. But it's indeed fucked up.

[Doom_Dude]

Never had sleep paralysis and don't want it. I don't even have nightmares.

[DNSKILL5]

Nope. I’ve had more like insomnia though. I’m a night owl and work overnights too, but on my days off I try to have a “normal” schedule instead of my vampiric one. I don’t have nightmares much at all, and whether I have a nightmare or basic dream I usually forget them as soon as I’m out of bed. The exceptions are dreams that felt a lot more meaningful and leave me thinking about them long enough to tell someone about them. 

[NoWits]

Oh, God... It's happening again...

 

[Technicolor]

2 hours ago, Redneckerz said:

Your pictures aren't loading.

 

They were paintings about sleep paralysis from late 18th century by Henry Fuseli.

 

I can see them on page.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Technicolor

[Savarin]

29 minutes ago, Technicolor said:

I can see them on page.

 

This is the true nightmare we have to face

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[Technicolor]

14 minutes ago, Savarin said:

 

This is the true nightmare we have to face

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Nightmare 1781 by Henry Fuseli and Nightmare 1790-1791 by Henry Fuseli.

[Jello]

3 hours ago, Technicolor said:

 

You never have sleep paralysis?

This is what we're seeing in your post:

 

 

I've experienced it once, when I was fifteen. I woke up during the middle of the night and I saw some kind of shadow figure by my bedroom door. I wanted to wake up, but I couldn't. Thankfully it didn't last that long, and it was over twenty years ago. If you're consistently dealing with this, you might need to look at your sleep schedule, and diet, and maybe talk to a therapist. Because it's not a normal occurrence, and it needs to be addressed.

[Technicolor]

51 minutes ago, Jello said:

This is what we're seeing in your post:

 

 

 

I see the pictures from your post.

[Chezza]

Your pictures are having sleep paralysis.

[Technicolor]

4 minutes ago, Chezza said:

Your pictures are having sleep paralysis.

 

 Perhaps it can't be seen from USA. I can see them on Page myself. When I am offline, I still see them.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Technicolor

[Jello]

5 minutes ago, Technicolor said:

 

It must be an USA thing. Perhaps it can't be seen from USA.

Yeah, this is what we're all getting:

 

 

I had to take a screenshot and upload it to imgur, because if I tried saving the picture the download would fail because the file couldn't be found.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Jello

[Blzut3]

It happens occasionally for me, but I learned about it being a thing before it happened. Thus for me it's just a thing that happens on rare occasion.  It feels a little weird being awake and your body being unresponsive, but in a few seconds it clears up.  My mind never had to run wild with it, so it no big deal.

[Chow Yun Thin]

I'll save everyone the trouble and just link to Wikipedia: 1781 1790

 

I don't get them, but I had a roommate who was prone to them and hearing him describe it made it sound like an "and I must scream" situation. I may have inadvertently triggered one episode in him when late one night, he asked what I was reading online. I said I was reading the horror section on Snopes (long before the site was sanitized) and he became concerned, saying reading that stuff so late will give me nightmares. It didn't, but I found out two days later that he suffered an attack.

[Halfblind]

I know a little about science and weird health issues. I have a point to all this and an experience to share, so please bear with me. I also have a chronic illness, if you want to know more, please let me know.

 

If you have restless leg syndrome or twitching muscles before going to bed it is often caused by nutritional deficiencies. It also may be caused by neurological disorders. If it is the former, even if you eat a healthy diet, your body might still need extra vitamins and minerals. Many have reported relief after supplementing magnesium, calcium or iron. The only way to know for sure is to do a mineral and heavy metal hair test to know what minerals you are deficient in. Please also consult with a doctor of functional medicine, or vitamin expert if you have additional questions. Most western doctors don't know much about nutrition. Also, about 80% of Americans are deficient in many different nutrients.

 

There is another similar disorder to RLS that is called 'myoclonic jerks' which are primarily caused by neurological disorders like a pinched spinal nerve or other neuromuscular issues like multiple sclerosis. These happen right as you are going to bed and you can experience involuntary jerks of your legs, arms and even your head. These are very scary and can really affect your quality of life. I have these sometimes, but doctors don't seem to be concerned about them, like anything else that I have.

 

Years ago, I started having very weird health issues. Very weird that I still can't explain what I am going through to doctors, and I still haven't recovered to this day. In 2007 I started having very bad stomach pains, but I had to pushed through the pain. Years passed, and I thought that the stomach issues would also pass, but they started getting worse every year. In 2015, shortly after my father passed away, my family had to clean the house. Unknown to me was that the house had toxic mold. In March, of that year, I started having very bad health problems, to where I had to quit my job.

 

Years later I also found out that I had a stomach infection called Helicobacter Pylori, but eradication made me very sick. I now feel worse somehow afterwards. Doctors would always dismiss my stomach issues as anxiety, so it made it harder to find help and answers. Part of my health issues, I also suffer from debilitating headaches. Every time I went to see a doctor about them, they always prescribed antidepressants. When taking the meds, I got even more sick.

 

Years later I found out that I have genetic limitation on how my liver metabolizes substances and detoxifies. My liver either produces very few or not at all of key enzymes responsible to metabolize medications and for detoxification. This makes taking any number of certain medications extremely toxic to me. Taking the smallest amount of the meds would make me bedridden with a fever for weeks. These meds included SSRI's, acid inhibitors and beta blockers. I also cannot take natural herbs like St. Johns wart nor Turmeric. I recently was also diagnosed with Gilbert's syndrome, and I now have full and permanent jaundice.

 

With that out of the way, on to my story of sleep paralysis. When I was taking the medication Amitriptyline, prescribed for the headaches, the medication would have extreme side effects. Later I found out that A was one of the medications that I cannot take due to the genetic liver enzyme issues. While on the medication I would be so tired all the time. It would cause my chronic fatigue issues to become worse even on the smallest prescribable dose. Then one night after taking a higher dose than I did before, per doctor's orders, I had my sleep paralysis experience.

 

While in sleep paralysis, my brain was conscious, for I could see my surroundings perfectly, but I could not move anything. All I could do was lie in bed and wait. Then it happened I saw something very scary floating above my bed next to the window. It was a shadow person, but different than what others have experienced. The most common shadow people are the lady that sits on your chest and the hat man. Mine had long slender arms and legs, horns on his head and red glowing eyes. It watched me while I was helpless. I finally mustered up the strength to snore, which then scared it away. Then I finally mustered up the will to get of bed and the experience was all over. To this day I cannot ever forget about it.

 

I theorize that my experience with sleep paralysis was caused by my chronic illness and a toxic liver overload from everything, but especially the meds. I saw something that I never thought I would ever see in my life. Am I better for It. I don't know. Sorry my story was a little long, but I thought I would share it anyway.

[DeadMantis]

This thread weirds me the hell out for some reason, It's like, the beginning of midnight in my area so idk.

 

Anyone ever have that thing happen to you while sleeping where your legs will shoot straight like rigor mortis if you decide to try and sleep with your legs bent backwards.

Edited February 3, 2023 by DeadMantis

[Halfblind]

3 minutes ago, DeadMantis said:

Anyone ever have that thing happen to you while sleeping where your legs will shoot straight like rigor mortis if you decide to try and sleep with your legs bent backwards.

I think what you are describing is what I mentioned above called 'myoclonic jerks' and yes, I get them sometimes.

 

For more information on sleep paralysis please watch this video.

 

[DeadMantis]

8 minutes ago, Halfblind said:

I think what you are describing is what I mentioned above called 'myoclonic jerks' and yes, I get them sometimes.

 

For more information on sleep paralysis please watch this video.

 

Looked it up really quick, not sure if that's exactly what I've have. It only happens when I have my when my legs are bent (like a person laying on the beach) and I suspect it might be some sort of automatic stretching reflex.

 

Still though, it spooks the shit out of me when that happens.

Edited February 3, 2023 by DeadMantis

[heliumlamb]

my experience with sleep paralysis was most rampant (at least once or twice a week, every week for a year) when i was smoking 15-30 cigarettes a day, every day. it genuinely was like My Images Aren't Loading and my brain/body was missing dependencies yet still trying its darndest to function. and that function, of me attempting to just to sit upright, was just me moving my elbow around 3 centimeters and my brain wanting to scream, but the only sound i could make was an exhale. less like "demons walking about" and more like entities shifting the textures of all that surrounded me - seen, felt and heard - into a variation of itself. the brain could work, but not as expected and absolutely not with the body.

and when i stopped treating my body as some sort chemical testing facility, it ceased for the most part.

Edited February 3, 2023 by heliumlamb

[Pechudin]

I had it a couple of times.

 

Just like dreams, what you see during paralysis depends on what you expect. Let's say you dream of an ocean. If you are afraid of sharks, they will appear, since you thought of them. If you try to swim, and think that you are too slow - bam - you will be.

 

Similarly, when people experience sleep paralysis they are usually frightened, so their brain conjures up apparitions - explanations for what is happening. However, if you remember that what you see depends on what you expect, sleep paralysis can be funny or not frightening. Personally, when I had it I recalled that nothing is going to happen, so nothing did. Some people even use this to initiate lucid dreams.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

I'm having it right now. All of you guys look real, but I know you aren't. This is just a dream, so I can get away with saying fuck. 

 

Also, your pictures aren't loading. Your response makes no sense, but then again this is a dream after all.

[Herr Dethnout]

4 minutes ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

All of you guys look real, but I know you aren't.

I'm not? Man, now I feel depressed.

 

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[Redneckerz]

13 minutes ago, Herr Dethnout said:

I'm not? Man, now I feel depressed.

 

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Your feelings do not exist when in a dream.