Dusty
01-20-2001, 04:15 AM
I used to get them a lot when I was younger but as I aged they got less and less, now only rarely. I have never meet or talked to another person who has had them.
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Dusty
01-22-2001, 11:45 PM
Sorry I misspelled it. The name is hypnogagic hallucinations.
Slee-P
03-29-2001, 11:54 PM
A.k.a sleep paralysis? It happened first when I was 11 or so. I woke up and couldn't move. That first time, I could talk for some reason and I screamed to my mom for help. She just laughed at me, and after a while my brain finally let my body wake up. All the subsequent ones have been classic, though. I can't move, can't talk, can't open my eyes, almost feels like I'm suffocating. I'm usually having a dream where something is trying to lure me to it, or I have to get away, but I can't b/c I've been immobilized. It's so scary... even now that I know what's happening it scares me to death. It usually happens when I've let myself get too tired or stressed out, but sometimes for no apparent reason. I used to sleepwalk but stopped sometime before college, and I also talk in my sleep, so I know that mechanisim in brain is just screwy. Does anyone know of any treatments for this, or is it just something to deal with?
LittleFilly56
04-11-2001, 10:18 PM
Sleep-P, I have suffered with this my whole life, but until now, thought it was just something peculiar to me. I feel like I'm burried alive, and I struggle and scream in my sleep so someone will wake me up. My husband knows that when I start this, he is to wake me up. I have sometimes been able to over it by praying. It is frightening, but I find the less I am frightened of it, the better it gets. There is usually something trying to pull me back into what I think is a deep sleep state, but I fight and struggle to wake up, experiencing the total paralysis you speak of. Sometimes I am even aware of what is going on around me.
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SHERCAT1
04-15-2001, 06:33 PM
I didn't even know there was a name for those hallucinations until last year. I have been having them all my life. I have a pretty creative and active mind day and night. Nighttime is non-stop dreams which is fun but sometimes scarey if my eyes are open and the room has those blobs or whatever the heck they are floating around. Sometimes I see bright objects jump out at me and I blink until I can awaken. I find that lying on my belly stops another weird dream occur- works with sleep paralysis as well.
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catndogma
05-08-2001, 02:09 AM
I, too, have experienced this. I feel like I'm awake...I can even "see" my surroundings, yet I can't get up. Then I realized I'm asleep, and try to wake myself up, and it cycles over and over again... It's SO scary. Thank God it doesn't happen very often. Its just nice to know I'm not alone!