I have paralysis while I sleep. It starts with my head tingleing the same way your foot or leg would if you had been sitting on it and it started to fall asleep. The problem is, by the time I feel the tingle it is too late. After the tingle there is a loud buzzing in my head. It actually, literally feels like there is some sort of electrical short in my brain. My entire body is paralized and I am well aware that I am asleep, but cannot move a single muscle in my body. My heart starts racing and pounding and I panic. Recently I have been able to make my breathing eratic enough to wake my husband so that he can wake me up, so that I can move. My breathing is the only thing in my entire body that I have started to learn to manipulate so that I can get attention enough to be woken up. I have read that if you relax and go with it, the paralysis will pass. I am always WAY TOO scared to relax enough to go with it. Does this method work for anyone? Does anyone have any remedy for this?

Remedy
Search the net for sleep paralysis, try to find out as much as possible. Personally, I believe it has something to do with the state of body asleep-mind awake. Many people experience it.
I bet there are numerous websites out there, that can help you.

I've had this for years and I doubt there's any remedy for it. There are things that may help but I think what's most important is to accept it. I've tried fighting it and that just made it worse. I've gotten used to it now and I actually kind of enjoy it sometimes as it has some interesting experiences to go with it.
However sometimes I experience horrible hallucinations that go with it, which scare me a lot.
Next time you have it just try to think of somrone you love or create the emotion yourself. Just love and accept all that happens. Don't even pay attention to your paralysed body. Just be aware of yourself and that this isn't permanent. This has helped me though some scary experiences. I think I would have suffered much more if I hadn't managed to keep my cool.
There are also other things that may help. Do you suffer from it on your back? People say that it's common to suffer from it while on your back. I read you can tie a tennis ball to your back to stop you from rolling over.
I also read to focus on your solar plexus area and you can even enter a lucid dream from there. It may also be possible to leave your body from paralysis.

Here is an article on sleep paralysis you might find interesting:

http://www.ghoststudy.com/new6/article_sub..._paralysis2.htm

It sounds like the start of an OBE. If you can overcome the belief that you are paralyzed, then you will actually be able to get up and walk around. When we are in AP or OBE our minds and what we are thinking is true at the time is a very powerful tool. Try excersizing the belief that you CAN get up. It worked for me. GOOD LUCK!

Ive had this as well..for over 20 yrs..how often does it happen? I have Narcolepsy ..But I also have ALOT of brain damage...so you may need to see your Dr or a Neurologist..Im not able to control it as you seem to be doing which is great..I hope you get well soon..


The main symptoms of narcolepsy are excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal REM sleep: Narcolepsy is not only a serious and common medical problem, it also offers basic sleep researchers a unique opportunity to gather new information on the central mechanisms regulating REM sleep and alertness. Since the 1960s it has been known that several of the disabling symptoms of narcolepsy, such as sleep paralysis, cataplexy and hypnagogic hallucinations, are pathological equivalents of REM sleep. In sleep paralysis, a frightening symptom considered to be an abnormal episode of REM sleep atonia, the patient suddenly finds himself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up. During hypnagogic hallucinations, patients experience dream-like auditory or visual hallucinations, while dozing or falling asleep. Cataplexy, a pathological equivalent of REM sleep atonia unique to narcolepsy, is a striking, sudden episode of muscle weakness triggered by emotions. Typically, the patient's knees buckle and may give way upon laughing, elation, surprise or anger. In other typical cataplectic attacks the head may drop or the jaw may become slack. In severe cases, the patient might fall down and become completely paralyzed for a few seconds to several minutes. Reflexes are abolished during the attack.

I suffer from this too. But it only seems to happen when I'm asleep on the couch. I've done some research on sleep paralysis and it's more common than we think. I'm sorry I don't have any answers on how to combat this... I find I just have to wait it out, but I definitely understand how scary it is to be in this situation. My family and friends think I'm crazy and making it up... but it makes me feel better to know that there are other people out there who have the same problem and that there's a name for it.

Maybe this'll help some:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

if ur asleep den how does it affect you? You should only worry when it starts to carry over to when your awake!!!!!!!!! I sleep walk and its like im dreaming about myself walking and thats what i do i get up and walk!

It affects me because my mind is completely aware of everything. Obviously you cannot even begin to imagine what paralysis feels like. When this happenens, I cannot move my lips, fingers, toes...not a single muscle...I am actually awake, but am completely helpless and can only pray that I will keep breathing long enough to wake up.

Go to a sleep clinic and get checked out. Your not describing obe or phantomania your describing a purely psychological phenomenon. Hypnogogic hallucinations are extremely common to sleep paralysis and both together with this frequency may in fact indicate narcalepsy. There are drugs you can take that may help but you need a competent psychiatrist first.

Amyssister,
I know what ur going thru..

Innocent,
Some friends and family dont understand..and ur not crazy..its better to talk to those who do understand and have the same problem..thanks for posting the link which is helpful to all of us that have this..

I agree with KevinM..thats a great idea..

its sporadic. I could not have it for a year, but if I have it once, it will happen maybe a 1/2 dozen times in a month or so before it stops again.

I since may have been felt this paralysis and more than once in a night, I am so afraid that I try my hardest to move. I could swear that I saw an attic door everytime open above me with something coming out, and just recently I hear someone say the name that I was trying to say so that my sister can hear me, it was real freaky. I am actually afraid of going to sleep.

Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain is awakened from a REM state into essentially a normal fully awake state, but the bodily paralysis is still occurring. This causes the person to be fully aware, but unable to move.

In addition, this state is usually accompanied by certain specific kinds of hallucinations. This state usually lasts no more than two minutes before a person is able to either return to full REM sleep or to become fully awake, though the sense of how much time has gone by is often distorted during sleep paralysis.

People who are fortunate enough to be facing a clock while having an episode may often be surprised to see how little time has gone by during an episode that seems to last a very long time.

Possible causes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis#Possible_causes

I only tend to get this when I have had too much to drink one night then don’t drink the next night... And no... I am not saying that I get it the night of the drinking... I get it the night after... And when it happens it can happen 10 times in a row... I will wake paralyzed break free from it, go to sleep and boom... I wake up paralyzed again... The second or third time it happens I am used to it so I use a little trick that my brother taught me since he and my mother get this as well...
I close my eyes and relax... I imagine myself levitating... I will usually feel something press against the front of my body... I open my eyes and I am flat against the ceiling... I then use my hands to work my way down the wall as calmly as possible as to not wake myself... Once I am standing on the ground I go for a walk through walls fences or what ever... It is quite a pleasant experience... I believe this is what Chris_com28 was speaking of when he mentioned lucid dreaming... Of course this trick is only good if you don’t have the hallucination of someone or something in the room with you scaring the bejesus out of you...
Being yesterday was New Years Eve and I had too much to drink, I am looking forward to some sleep paralysis tonight... I just hope I don’t get those pesky hallucinations with it... Hope this helps you...

Hi Amy

I to have suffered from Sleep Paralysis and in the same way as you have. One way I overcame the experience was to identify the first initial signs of going into sleep paralysis. For me this was a unusal deeping sensation within my body that accompanied the begining of the buzzing sound. At that stage I would prevent myself from falling asleep. This part can repeat itself many times until I fall asleep. Occassionally this fails, so I taught myself how to control the experience. I also learnt to fall asleep on my tummy, as lying on my back seemed to coincide with sleep paralysis

Over a space of two weeks the number of times I had sleep paralysis deminished. I also worked on getting more sleep and decreasing my stress levels.

Hope this is of some help to you

Take care

Alyesha

Hi every 1 i don't know if this helps but i thought i would tell you any way, I have only had this 2 times
every night i sleep with the computer and TV on have done for years, the 2 times this has happened to
me is when they have both been off, i don't know if this is the same with any 1 else but it would be interesting
to find out as it seems like to much of a big coincidence.
also just i thought for long term suffers try sleep with the TV on or electrical current of some sort in room
hope this helps as i know this is scary.
please let me know what you think
thanks Ben