Sleep paralysis unable to wake up

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514704 tn?1228312637 I feel you might be probably suffering from a kind of sleep disturbance known to be sleep paralysis, which occurs when you go to sleep or tend to wake up. It is a temporary phenomenon where in you feel incapable of moving your body or part of it physically but keep trying to shout loudly or seek someone’s help. This may last for just a few seconds to minutes and can repeat once again if you sleep.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar n tn i can see but not hear and i am unable to breathe. i have kind of gotten used to it. sometimes i can wake/start breathing by concentrating hard on exhaling. which leads me to believe that it is connected in my case to the sleep apnea which i have also had for quite a while.
Avatar n tn However, often it still will not wake him up. When he was at home, he depended on me to get him up. Now that he is on his own, it is a real problem. He just received a suspension for two weeks at work due to tardies. He does not have to be at work until 10:00, and he makes sure he is in the bed by 11:00. His alarm is set for 9:00, but he can not depend on it to wake him up. Is there any help for this?
Avatar n tn 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. These episodes have started up again recently, and occur more often. Does anyone know if this a side effect of any of the above medications.
Avatar n tn t called the cops) But nothing I do can wake him up. So usually I have to just wait for him to roll over in his sleep which can take up to an hour or I just fall asleep laying halfway off the bed. Does anybody know whats going on with him? Could this be a form of Sleep apnea or sleep paralysis?
1544075 tn?1296026498 Not sure if this would work for you, but my sleep doc told me to try to move my eyes side to side, and to try to wiggle a finger. Sometimes this will trigger the brain to wake up the rest of the way. Good luck!
Avatar m tn s like that my body start to paralyse and i go in deep sleep and then it holds me tightly pushing me in crushing way my heart beat faster but because i am use to it i relax myself when it comes and i fight it back and trying to twist it break it, even if i wake up and sleep straight away it will come back like 9 times in one night I have to totaly get awake and change my sleeping position, look if u have it in bad way and u scare to get u worse ask for someone who have big knowledge in islam onl
Avatar n tn what makes sleep paralysis happen? what can i do to reduce the risk of suffering sleep paralysis? what medication is avalible for this disorder? how effective is it? how does it help? i would be very gratefull to hear off you.
2038180 tn?1329861306 Last night as i was going to sleep i just felt terrified, i knew that clearly its something in your head thats happening during the REM cycle or whatever, but i was still extremely scared to actually fall asleep, that when i finally did, i was pretty much waking up within every hour, i think my body was doing it so that on purpose because of how frightened i was to go into REM sleep and have that horror wash over me again, that my body would wake up constantly not allowing me to go into that s
573569 tn?1278629655 after fighting it for awhile, an i actually fall asleep, its the other problem of waking up. it feels like im fighting to wake up, like im fighting for my soul to return to my body.
Avatar m tn i also have other weird things happen with my heart. sometimes when i start drifting into sleep ill experience sleep paralysis, where im still awake but my body is paralyzed. the paralysis isnt what scares me, its that whenever it happens my heart will start beating really fast until i break out of it.
Avatar n tn Sleep paralysis occurs when you may go to sleep or may tend to wake up from sleep. It is a temporary phenomenon where you are incapable of moving your body or even part of it physically but keep trying to shout loudly or seek someone’s help. It may be lasting for a few seconds to minutes. It can repeat once again if you sleep and there is no physical injury to body, but you will be probably frightened with sweating and increased heart beat with shortness of breath.
Avatar m tn 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...
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar n tn Our bodies are paralyzed while we undergo REM sleep, and for good reason (lest we act out our dreams and injure ourselves). But in some small number of cases we can actually start to wake up before paralysis wears off, and yet still remain in a dreaming state. What results is hallucination, often of some extremely scary stuff.
10131590 tn?1408165341 but what helped me was taking a nice shower before bed and a heating pad now at 37 weeks i dont feel anything and i sleep like a baby BUT wake up with my hands and feet very swollen monster style!!
Avatar n tn If I wake my boyfriend up, he will wake up but his still talking and acting like his dreaming. He sometimes doesnt "wake up" for 20 mintues even though his eyes are open. It kind of freaks me out. Was wondering if anyone knew what this is or experiences it.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar f tn Like I was paralyzed and I was unable to wake up. So I started thrashing back and forth in bed until finally I opened my eyes and sat up crying. I remember being honestly terrified to fall back asleep because I thought I might never wake up. The dreams stopped for a few months after that but just last week I was trying to fall asleep at around 11 o clock and I had some sort of normal dream I don't remember but then I wanted to wake up and so I did.
Avatar n tn My inability to move, scream for help, open my eyes while asleep are becoming more frequent. I am really concerned because once I finally awaken, my heart rate is very high and I am starting to have panic attacks after awakening. I realize what is happening but can not "pull out" of my sleep. I am afraid to go to sleep at night now and my husband does not sleep well either because he is worried that I am going to have "sleep paralysis" and wants to be able to wake me up.
Avatar f tn This doesn't happen overnight, but at least once a week. I go to sleep and during a dream, I wake up but my body is still sleeping. I can hear everything going on around me, but my body isn't awake.I try to move or scream so my husband will wake me. I hear myself making noises, or feel myself moving, but it really isn't happening. It lasts for maybe 30 seconds or up to a minute. When I do wake up, I am very scared.