Sleep paralysis unable to breathe
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Every now and then I have a problem sleeping usually when I fall asleep during the day on the couch or when I stay home sick. I'm 16 years old and this has happened more than often. When it happens I fall asleep but it feels like I'm still awake. For example I can feel the texture of the couch and I can hear what show is playing on the tv. I sometimes feel a weight sitting on my chest making it hard for me to breathe (especially when I'm sick and have to breathe through my nose).
This has started to happen to me one or few times in a month. I lay in my bed try to sleep all of a sudden I start seeing something usually some scary persons I try to move but I am unable to do it but after a little struggle I snap out of it, I try to go asleep again, then it always happens again... If it happens once at night it happenes again...
I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time last night. It was absolutely terrifying. I couldn'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.
It happened to me once before pregnancy. I was having an awful dream and woke up unable to move. It's like your body's half way phase between sleep and waking states.
the strength of this command depends on how sure the body is that the mind are sleeping, this depends on how still you lie, if you lie very still the body is almost convinced that the mind is sleeping, and send out a very tiny signal which can easily be ignored by you and result in sleep paralysis with your mind awake, sleep paralysis feels almost like led on top of your body, and can easily be mistaken for someone pushing you against the bed.
VERY SCAERY AND UNCOMFTABLE.!!!
I concentrated on moving just my baby finger but that seemed to take forever. As soon as I was able to move it everything returned to normal and I was able to breathe. Terrifying.
I had awful headaches back then too, so looking back, the Chiari was symptomatic. Fortunately that experience hasn't happened since.
I am a 20F, I am currently taking adderol 20mg when I need to study, and Xanax to help me with panic attack, as well as Suboxone. I have been suffering with hypnopompic Sleep Paralysis- I wake up, usually from a day-time nap, unable to move or talk. I always brushed it off as a dream until it lasted for about an hour, I fell on the floor and was found there. During this time of Paralysis i got overheated, excessive sweating, and couldnt stop biting my tongue.
I was unable to sleep for awhile before this and only slept for two hours. Yesterday was also the three year anniversary of my mothers death who I was very close to so I am sure this was not a coincidence. Is this most likely an isolated incident by stress and the situation or should I be concerned?
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.
Unfortunately, there is no practical way to decipher between normal REM sleep and sleep paralysis. This is because in normal REM sleep you experience the same paralysis as in sleep paralysis; the only difference is your level of consciousness at the time. So there's no way to develop a sensor that an app could use to address this issue.
This also may be of interest to you: I have a service dog whose primary task is medical alert.
For the last 3 nights in a row I have been woken out of a DEEP sleep completely unable to breathe. It lasts for about 30 seconds and the first time I thought maybe I had a bad dream...same for the second time. But the 3rd time felt different i felt like i was choking on water or some type of liquid. And after i caught my breathe i couldn't stop burping. WHAT IS THIS?
some nights I'd wake up, and be completely paralysed, only able to move my eyes. I wouldnt be able to speak, or move any other part of me. I'd have a great sense of fear, and It'd take a few minutes to come out and back to normal, then I could completely move and everything would be fine again, I'd just be abit shocked as to what just happened, I started to get this more and more, to the point where it was 6-10 times a night..so I cut out ALL caffine.
T CUTTING IT, SO I WENT QUICKLY TO MY OXYGEN MACHINE, THAT FAILED, I WAS STRUGGING TO BREATHE, I MADE IT TO THE PHONE, CALLED 911, GAVE THEM NAME AND ADDRESS, AND I LOST CONCHINESS, ALL I REMEMBER IS EMT'S IN MY APT, , THEN WHEN I CAME TO 10 HRS LATER I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, WHICH I WAS RELEASED.
MY NEIGHBORS TOLD ME THAT I WAS WHITE AND LIFELESS AS THE EMTS CARRIED ME OUT.
WELL THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR ME.
ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME ?
I believe my habitual abuse substance abuse has triggered my sleep paralysis. I also have sleep apnea depression anxiety paranoia. My don't shows any of this to friends or family. It's more when I'm alone. I've been diagnosed with depression and sleep apnea. I have been clean for quite some time but then to sleep paralysis came into play. And so I don't want to go to sleep. I haven't gotten any help.
Recently I have had 2 nights where I try to go to sleep and i feel as though my body does and i will even snore but yet i am awake mentally and am aware of my surroundings...once I tried to yell out to my husband and couldnt move or talk...I am under huge amounts of stress right now and having alot of pain from some things and was just wondering if this could all be a cause for this and what it means and how to make it stop!
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