Sleep paralysis to lucid dream

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Avatar f tn Hello. For a few years now there have been times when as I'm falling asleep, it feels like someone grabs gives my leg a hard pull (it happened last night, actually). And there are other times when if I'm having a dream, and something in my dream makes me anxious, I can feel myself start to wake up,or I'm aware that it's a dream (or both), and I fully wake up to my heart racing.
Avatar m tn Your symptoms could be due to sleep paralysis. Disorders related to dreaming could occur with REM sleep behavior disorders. Here the person acts out the dreams. Your symptoms of seeing things could also be due to sleep disorders “Nightmare” or "Night terror" disorders . Here the person experiences symptoms of bad, frightening dreams which interfere with his sleep schedules.
Avatar m tn No idea, happens to me alot, but it is right at that threshold where you can lucid dream, give it a try, you can do or be anything you want.
Avatar f tn What you are experiencing is called sleep paralysis and hypnogogic hallucinations. Sleep paralysis happens when you start to wake out of a dream but your brain wakes up while your body is still paralyzed (during REM or dream sleep you are paralyzed so you wont hurt yourself acting out your dreams). The hypnogogic hallucinations are related. Do you have panic attacks or narcolepsy by any chance? My doctor told me both those problems make your specific sleep problems more likely.
1305767 tn?1361192676 You simply have to make the step toward controlling, in your case being able to move. I have no knowledge about sleep paralysis... but it may be possible to use Lucid Dreaming techniques.
Avatar f tn The symptoms you are experiencing could be due to an entity called sleep paralysis. When this happens in sleep the person has difficulty moving his hands or feet. This is the symptom of a sleep disorder called Narcolepsy. This sleep disorder is characterized by excessive day time sleepiness, sleep paralysis, cataplexy where the person has episodes of loss of muscle function while awake, hypnogogic hallucinations and automatic behavior.
568812 tn?1379165794 Like my mom said, I used to get it and be really frightened of it. But at some point I started looking up on the internet, found out about sleep paralysis and read up whatever articles I could find. The ones I found most reassuring where the articles that had a scientific/medical base and left out the supernatural element. Also I learned the parlysis part is natural when the body gets into REM mode. What isn't quite natural is that you are awake durring that REM stage.
436338 tn?1204359355 Considering you are remembering the events upon waking, you are most likely coming out of REM sleep. If you're unable to move and aware of it, it is likely an episode of SP. Sleep paralysis usuallly produces very vivid scenes that can be very life like. With me I get it in all kinds of stages. It seems to manifest itself into very lucid dreaming.
Avatar f tn Physiological symptoms of sleep paralysis are the same with those of syncope. Thus, sleep paralysis is caused by syncope. For experts in cardiovascular diseases, sleep paralysis or syncope is a common symptoms of cardiovascular disease【1】. For a long time, due to the ignorance of physiological knowledge of syncope , ischemie cerebrale ,palpitations and so on, psychological illusion in people’s sleep generated by such physical symptoms i.e.
Avatar f tn You are definitely suffering from some sleep disorder other than sleep paralysis. If you get up in middle of night, it can be also be due to sleep apnea. Loss of memory etc are due to incomplete sleep. Please consult a sleep specialist and get sleep studies done. Take care!
Avatar m tn I get sleep paralysis at least 3 times a week since I was around 10, but I taught myself to not panic and return to sleep. You can actually teach yourself to lucid dream when this happens.
2038180 tn?1329861306 I knew i was asleep, but i couldnt wake myself up, i was lying there completely unable to move, with this shadow at my neck, and i was telling my brain it was a dream, but it meant nothing, extreme panic was going through me, and it was like i could feel the pain caused from whatever it was doing, i tried desperately to get a scream through my dream so that it would come out in reality in hopes my dad or someone would come in and wake me up, because i physically couldnt wake up, even though i k
1544075 tn?1296026498 Maybe do a little reading about sleep paralysis and then consider having a sleep study done. Honestly, when I got of the benzodiazepines, the worst of it stopped.
Avatar m tn For the past year I have been experiencing sleep paralysis on a daily basis. Every time this happens I feel my whole brain buzzing like there is electricity flowing through it and it pulses slowly as more and more pain starts to accumulate. It gets to be so painful it feels like my brain is about to implode and no matter what I do I always feel extreme pain. I hear myself telling myself to wake up before the pain gets unbearable but it doesn't work most of the time.
Avatar f tn ok, so I found out this is called sleep paralysis. Nothing to worry about, here's some info if you have/had these problems I did:) http://en.wikipedia.
Avatar f tn The fear part of the brain is close to the sexual part which is (i believe) that many sleep paralysis are accompanied by very lucid sexual dreams (inncubus and succubus for the ignorant) i believe it is synapsis misfiring.
Avatar n tn For the past couple of years, almost nightly, I awake with a start because the bed is moving in a way that I'm certain someone else has to be in the room. Tonight, it was a series of light running pressures on the bed, so I jumped out of sleep, turning on the flashlight, certain someone was trying to get in the bed. It's always the same -- no one is there, nothing can account for it.
Avatar m tn For me it typically happens when I am in a deep sleep and the dream turns into a lucid one. Lucid dreams are like being conscious in your sleep. It is hard when it is a nightmare but great when it is a good dream. Last night I had a stressful nightmare and I woke this morning on the edge and panicky.
Avatar n tn As I go to bed and slowly drift off to sleep i start thinking of stuff to help me dream. I usually like doing this as i can have vivid dreams or sometimes lucid dreams. But as I think of the dreams I lose track and sometimes see only black, and the only things I feel are me trembling alot and being unable to breath or move. I try to fight it but sometimes it gets the better of me and I can't stop the oncoming of it.
5621933 tn?1371092794 First off, the ability to lucid dream is something people have to work at. Remembering your dreams in great detail is also something people have to work at. I have trained myself to do these things by keeping a dream journal and suggesting it to myself, its not something that came naturally. I like being able to control my dreams. It sounds like what youre complaining about is more about restless sleep and dreams that tend to disturb your sleep.
Avatar f tn They have full stories that I could recite to you without a problem. However, the other night I had a dream where I had to get away from someone and I bit them. I woke up that morning with a pretty deep bite mark on my arm. How did I not wake up from the bite and what's causing my crazy vivid dreams?
Avatar m tn ve been having lucid dreams (while dreaming I become fully aware that I am dreaming) but upon becoming lucid in my dreams I can feel my head hurting from forcing myself to stay asleep. I can also feel my sleeping body at first in bed during my lucid state. I was wondering how I could calm myself down when I realize I'm dreaming?
Avatar f tn Like its luring me in and it just seems so much easier to give in and go back to the dream than to wake up. But I always know that I have to wake up. I have to. And so I try everything but it gets harder to wake up with every time. These dreams always seem to occur just as I'm falling asleep, never when I'm deep in sleep. It's always when I'm still partially conscious and it feels like I have the choice to either wake up or give in to the dream.
Avatar f tn t sound rude but do you (or anyone else) know approximately how much it would cost to go to a sleep specialist to get tested?
675347 tn?1365460645 I had lucid dreams (when you know, in the dream, that you are dreaming) But as soon as I do realize that it kind of gives me a shock, and I wake up! So I have no idea where this realization could lead. I've heard that lucid dreaming can be used to help solve problems in life, and give Spiritual direction. Also I don't seem to be able to do this at will. Does anyone have any experience with this?
2143567 tn?1342539031 In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[9] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations.[8] The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful or dream-like objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision.
Avatar f tn As for your state of horror and not being able to move, this is called sleep paralysis. Various factors increase the likelihood of sleep paralysis including sleeping in a face upwards or supine position, increased stress, sudden environmental/lifestyle changes, a lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode, excessive consumption of alcohol coupled with lack of adequate sleep.
Avatar f tn t wake up no matter how hard i tried and when I was about to wake up I would be dragged right back into the horrible dream I was having Is anyone else experiencing sleep paralysis for the first time while pregnant.