(Can some Mod plz fix the spelling of Paralyzation in topic title?).

Sometimes, when I wake up, I can't move at all. I know I'm awake, but I can't move or anything. (I'm have asleep as I type this).

I try to talk or move, but I can't. It's a horrible feeling How do I fix this?

Interesting enough I have heard of this before and i think i have maybe experienced something like it myself!
where my mind has awakened and it is not yet telling my body that it is time to do the same quite a weird felling i must say!
As far as stopping it i dunno! i have only had this experience once myself!
Sorry

I know how you feel i have experienced it alot myself, I just focus all my energy to moving a part of my body whether it b my arm or my leg.. and i find that if i move my body somewhere than the rest of my body will then move freely... I have also noticed that if i try to fall back to sleep afterwards that it will keep hapening and i become paralyzed again, so i try to get out of bed strait after im able to move.

GOD i hate this, this happens to me sometimes, its the most helpless feeling i've ever had. a 3 year old could come and whoop my ass. its like i can move my eyes but my body jus ownt respond and i have to focus ALL of my will into moving and once i force my body to move an inch, i regain control. the other day i fell asleep at my desk in my room and when i woke up not only could i not move but i couldnt see either. when i opened my eyes it was like a snapshot was taken and all could see was the very first thing i looked it, no matter where i turned my head. freaky stuff

EXACTLY! I have the EXACT same experience almost everynight, i need to focus ALL my energy into moving my arms and shaking (trying) my head or i stay paralyzed.

If i dont try to move i feel my body floating, its scary because i really feel myself "ascending", floating, going up. When i fall asleep again this repeats for like 3, 4 times.

Has anyone tried to "let it go"? Do nothing when this happens? Let your body float?

Any explanation? Maybe involuntary "astral projection" / "out of body experience" ?

This has happened to me many times! I was curious as well so I looked into it and found that it is actually quite common. Researchers call it sleep paralysis and they say it is related to our sleep cycle (REM). During REM sleep our body produces something to prevent movement and sleep paralysis happens at the beginning or the end of that cycle. So I guess it is like your body doesn't know that you are awake yet! I have always been very tired or stressed when it has happened to me but there are different reasons for it that I have read about. Some say alien abductions and spiritual encounters can be explained by this because of the feeling of a presence. Some people report hallucinations. There are many sites out there, here is one that i found.


http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

HMMMM let me see if I can hit this on the head... you wake up and u cant move, you can see every thing, hear everything around you, and maybe move one body part right?.. ok thats what I go through and its way more then ppl think.. when you sleep your soul leaves the body I know it sounds like crap but what is really happening is your soul is re entering the body when u wake. your brain is working fine but the body is limp untill the soul full re enters. I use to think i was just really tired or my brain was sleep until other things started happening. The first thing is the noise around me, for instance ive heard the sound of paper being thrown around the room by the sheets i mean like thousands, next ive been touched, and heard bangin. but the most recent one to make me know its more than what yall think is.. I feel alseep at work one day and I was laying on the couch in the break room. I woke up to the usual but this time it was diffrent, I heard talking amongst women, I thought my bos had walked in and i was in deep sh**.. but i couldnt move so instantly i start thinking of excuse and I come up with im sick, so i roll my eyes around and look up and I see this girl she looks at me and then walks off, slowley I regain function of my libs and look around the room, their was no one their, Im not making this up and if you keep going through this is will happen to you. its nothing to be scared of or atleast I havent had anything to fear yet... thats all for now ~1~

ive had this expereince before as well,but only in a house that had strange goings on in,i moved out and never had it happen again,it was quiet scary at the time.

Smart one, I have never really heard things besides maybe the T.V. that was left on but you give a valid point. I don't know to much about out of body experiences except from word of mouth, but it is very interesting! The first time it happened to me I saw a girl sitting on me, she kind of looked like the girl from the Exorcist movie. I was totally freaked out! After that I have never really seen anything but I have felt that something was there just out of site. It does kind of feel like you're being pulled out of your body though. I am really up in the air about this one! Spiritual or scientific?

When this happens to me i feel myself getting "pulled" out of my body, i feel floating and if i dont react i "just go", if i let myself go, sometimes, i start earing sounds like a strong "bzzz", its intensity goes up and down, its scary, i hate when this "bzzz" thing happens.

I never saw girls or boys or little chickens or whatever next to me when this happens .

Were you able to go anywhere?

What happens sometimes to me is when I'm sleeping and dreaming that I'm flying or walking then when I fall and touch the ground in my dream,I wake up because my body jumped or gaves that moviment when we strike against the ground,and I feel that sensation in my chest like when we go down quickly in a road coaster.
Understand what I mean?

I've had this happen to me quite alot... since i was a teenager and it still happens, the way i try and get myself out of the paralysis is i try and make a noise so that my husband can wake up and then shake me awake and it works, but making that noise takes all of my energy to do. Although it's been happening to me for over 15 years i still get frightened every single time

Never tried to go anywhere because i allways stop myself from being pulled out of my body, the reason i do this is because of the strong noise and weird sensations i feel when i let myself go, its like someone is gonna pop up next to you, i feel like someone's there, i cant really explain what i feel, its a combination of fear and really high noises surrounding me. And i think i have no control of myself when this happens so i cant go anywhere

Another thing happened to me when I was young,its when I woke up in the middle of night with my room full of darkness,I was felling a presence of somebody else in the room and I was kinda paralise and with afraid to turn on the light,because I though to be caught by what I had in my room,but afterall it wasn't there anything,it was my feeling that made me to be very scary.

This happened to me sometimes,and then I didn't want sleeping with light off anymore,nowadays I can.

This happens to me too. Usually I'll be asleep on the couch when it happens. I awake, feeling completely paralyzed and I hear strange noises, usually like someone is trying to get into my house (when no one is really there). It's so common now that I just tell myself to go back to sleep instead of trying to move.

There is a site, the forums of which may hold an answer to this dilemma of thine. I am sure that somewhere in the forums there is an answer. This site focuses on a thing called "Lucid Dreaming", which is dreaming while being aware of it, and eventually gaining complete power within your Dreamworld... If you are interested in this site, you will probably be interested in the following site, too.

DreamViews.com

Sleep paralysis is a natural state induced by the brain to protect the body during REM sleep. The process involves certain neuro transmitters being shut down so that you do not physically act out your dreams. If you are wakened before these neuro transmitters are reconnected you will experience exactly what you described. There is also chemical secretion during sleep that has the same effect. Sleep paralysis is neither dangerous nor life threatening but indeed can be scarey.

Sometimes i have lucid dreams, im aware that i am dreaming, i can do whatever i want, move to anywhere, do anything, i love when this happens, you know that you are dreaming, you know you are sleeping in your bed and you can move to anywhere. Unfortunately this kind of dream dont happen to me for years, currently i only have partial awareness when i dream, its difficult to explain, in a moment i know im dreaming, in the next moment i dont know. Oh, the "good" thing about this kind of dreams is that you wont forget them like the common dreams.

MysticRose how can you go back to sleep when that happens? Dont you feel yourself being pushed out?

What is the dreams objective? Why our body/mind needs them? Any scientific explanation?

I dont understand when you say what is lucid dreams I think I never had that.

A lucid dream is a dream like any other but you are aware (100% aware or partial aware) that you're dreaming, you know you're sleeping in your bed, you know the dream isnt real and you can control your dream, full control or partial control, usually i can only free move in my dream but i think its possible to do whatever you want. You can "get out" of the dream at any time too.

Its hard to understand unless you have this kind of dreams
I just dont understand why our mind need to create dreams and how lucid dreams happen.

Another thing that plays with our mind is a very strange one,and is not have to do with sleep or dreams.

Try to make this :

Be in front of a mirror,then focus your eyes on your eyes,and then concentrate at it and say many times "who am I" "what am I doing" repeat a lot of times until you reach to a level that you dont recognise yourself and your mind becames confused about yourself.It's funny

Sometimes I can do that with words or other people. I can have an "outside" view of other people or the "structure" of a word, just keep saying it over and over and soon it will sound weird and in that state of mind, you will forget its meaning and just ponder the sound you are making and it's origins and what a weird word it is. I can do it almost instantaneously. The mind never ceases to amaze me!!!

Not a 100% sure what you mean by pushed out but I am fully aware during my paralysis that it is just sleep paralysis. It's almost like I think to myself, "not again". I wake up unable to move-- desperately trying to move a finger or scream or something. But once my mind realizes that I am just suffering sleep paralysis, I just go back to sleep.... I know I'll wake up back to normal.

In fact, I had this happen again the day I wrote that first post. It's neverending for me but I was relieved to know that it is fairly common. My family thinks I'm crazy.

My brother inlaw and an old neighbour told me that they suffer from sleep paralysis, i had not heard of it till a couple of years ago, first it sounded a little frightening to me, but they both told me how they get used to it, it dosn't happen all the time to them, but when it does they both seem to deal with it, they fully understand what is happening and basically just wait until some movement returns.
It was really interesting when each of them explained it to me.

Some people equate sleep paralasys with the night hag, or night terrors. Not to say that these do not happen, but the brain does shut the body down to help prevent the sleeper from harming themselves through sleepwalking. You could be waking up and your brain hasn't kicked off these failsafes yet. Some people have also for some reason bi-pass this phenomina and sleepwalk anyway. Hope this helps a little.

Iv been having sleep paralysis for many years now. I'd wake up mostly on my back with a strange feeling going through my entire body
(a bit like pins and needles) and buzzing in my head. Sometimes it would happen 3 or 4 times a week some times not at all

It's scary at first but after a while you do get use to it. When it first started happening to me i was terrified, i used to struggle bring myself
around but now i can control when to wake up or stay paralyzed. To wake up all i have to do is choose to awake. Before i could choose to
wake up i had to shake my head hard and i would wake up. If i didn't sit up for a minute i would go back into a paralyzed state.

It is possible to bring it on i used to bring it on during the day so i could get use to it at night. Now that I'm OK with being paralyzed the next
step was to go deeper into it i cant explain it but the deeper i go the stronger the feeling of pins and needles and the louder the buzzing is.
After a while i started hearing voices in my head like thoughts i also seeing colours around the room.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...howtopic=114164

Check out that thread

I get it all the time.. its horrible isn't it?

lol! im serious when i say this, and i am telling the truth, because i have said it on a lot of threads the same things happens to me. i cant move, but i don't try to focus on moving a body part, i just try to move my whole body, i always jump out of it by kinda twitching, and then i can move my body, and i usually end up flinging myself into the air, because its like a jolt of energy that surged through my body. and when i fall asleep, it happens again, and i now when it will happen again, because i can just feel it.

i dont try to just let it go, because it only happens when i am dreaming, and my eyes are closed, but i can still sense whats going on around my in real life. and it only happens when i am having a nightmare, and i know when i am having a nightmare when it happens. i try to get out of it as quickly as possible, because i know from experience, its only going to get worse.

its like your body isnt connected to your brain, and your nerves are dead, your body just wont listen when you tell it to move, i hate it when it happens

Sleep paralysis. :) I was on a chatboard the other day and joined in in the Esoterics room, and we talked about astral projection. Someone asked me how I induce it, I said the method with the breathing-control, vibrations, paralysis and all that stuff. But these guys had no idea what I was talking about. Not only did they not know that most ppl go through all these every evening after losing consciousness, just before the REM period, they didn't even believe that such things happen and stated that they never do! :D I mean, how can they know for sure if they're not even conscious! If they tried to stay focused and reach the "mind awake, body asleep" state, they would feel and hear it all themselves. I know, it's all scary, until you get used to them. And according to a scientific theory we astral-project EVERY night. Well, I'm not sure, whatever. But I definitely wont say its impossible like most ppl would without doing further research... Oh, how to get out of the state. Start moving your fingers and toes, and gradually the migger muscles. If you can't even move your fingers and toes, then take deep breaths, swallow, move yout tongue, then your facial muscles, neck, etc., anything that involves the muscles, any muscles, and then just spread the movements involving the greater muscles. But before you do that, why not try what you can do with your astral body? Reach through the wall, fly out above the street, out of the solar system? :D Up to you...

On my couch is where I notice it the most as well... loud ringing in my ears too.

However I could have sworn I just heard somewhere that most people have total paralysis at some point during their sleep patterns... almost every night.

Yes, that's how it works. Presumably it's a precaution against acting out your dreams.

The phrase sleep paralysis is an odd term for the conscious awareness of paralysis while waking up (or sometimes when falling asleep). The paralysis itself could not be more normal. The abnormal part is simply that the paralysis has not released as quickly as it should (or has set in a bit quicker than it should).

This has happened to me once when I was young in my bed, and the second time happened this year while sleeping on the couch. Crazy experience.