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Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep
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Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep
Hiro Takahashi
A person may wake up and find himself unable to move or speak as if he is frozen. He also may hear footsteps, see a ghost-like creature, or feel someone sitting on his chest. Throughout the history, people considered this phenomenon as work done by evil spirits. However, the modern science can explain the terrifying event as a Sleep Paralysis.
A Sleep Paralysis is possibly a hereditary disorder in which one experiences very frightening seconds or minutes of total body paralysis with little respiration and eye movements (1). A victim in this state feels awake, but he cannot move or speak (2). In addition to the immobility, the common symptoms include feeling choked or suffocated, hearing strange noises like footsteps and voices, seeing beings or dark shadows, and feeling an existance of someone in the room (1). Although these symptoms often direct the victims to believe in ghosts, mistransmission of neural signals in the brain causes Sleep Paralysis. When a person sleeps, his brain sends signals to inhibit any muscle contraction (3). If he comes into consciousness before the brain sends signals to activate muscle contraction, he cannot move his body, and consequently, become "paralyzed"(2).
In order to understand how a body becomes paralyzed while the person is awake, it is necessary to understand sleep cycles. In a mammalian sleep, the brain activity undergoes two different states called non-REM (NREM) sleep and REM sleep, which differ very much from wakefulness (3). NREM and REM sleep alternate cyclically through the night; in human, about 80 minutes of NREM sleep starts a night of sleep, about 10 minutes of REM sleep follows, and this 90 minute cycle is repeated about 3 to 6 times during the night (3). During NREM sleep, a body produces few movement, but the body has capability of tossing about in bed and producing some other motor events, such as sleepwalking and sleeptalking (3). The cardiac-muscle contraction and breathing occur at a uniform rate, and the eyes move slowly (2). During REM sleep, on the other hand, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure vary (3). The eyes move rapidly because most dreaming takes place in this period, and the sleeper probably "look" at the moving objects in a dream (2).
The brain's control over muscles during REM sleep points out that in this period, a body is normally in the state of total paralysis, called a "nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis" (3). Probably to prevent a person from "acting out" a dream, the brain sends signals to inhibit any muscle contractions (2). Although some peripheral muscles, such as the muscles of the fingers and face, still twitch, the large skeletal muscles become relaxed, or "paralyzed" as a result (3). Some evidence supports that the motor paralysis of REM sleep protect against the acting out of one's dreams. A patient who suffers from rare syndrome called REM Sleep Behavior Disorder lacks the normal nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis, and he acts out violent dreams during REM sleep, often with injurious consequences (4). For example, a 60-year-old surgeon dreamt that he was attacked "by criminals, terrorists, and monsters who always tried to kill [him]" and fighting against them in the nightmare, he was actually punching and kicking his wife who slept in the same bed (4).
A nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis during REM sleep is accomplished actively by postsynaptic inhibition of motorneurons (3). Although the exact process of motor inhibition is not clear, some neurotransmitters and hormones are known to generate the many components of REM sleep. Aministering physostigmine, an inhibitor of the catabolic enzyme, increases the concentration of acetylcholine within the neurons in the pons, making it possible to artificially generate and start REM sleep in the middle of NREM sleep (3). Carbachol, the cholinergic agonist, produces a period of REM sleep in cat when directly injected into the pontine tegmentum (3). The hormone melatonin, a "master hormone" (5) that mainly controls circadian rhythms, also seems to play an important role in enhancing the REM state; the level of melatonin secretion by the pineal gland reaches its lowest during REM sleep (5). Such neurotransmitters and hormones probably activate or inhibit the activity of second messengers, which then activate or inhibit the third messengers, and so on till the last messenger inhibit the synaptic transmission or cause hyperpolarization of the motorneurons. And if, for some reason, the nervous or endocrine system continues to release the neural inhibitors, a person may experience Sleep Paralysis as he enters awakefully into or awakens directly from REM period (2).
While the modern neuroscience can describe the state of Sleep Paralysis as some errors of the neural transmission in the brain during REM sleep, a person who has seen or heard ghost-like figures/voices may easily believe that eveil spirits fully controlled his entire body. However, the images or noises, which the victim believes that he has seen or heard, are most likely hallucinations; and hallucinations, too, can result from the brain activity. In the 1960's, the Canadian neurologist W. Penfield introduced that electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe can cause the auditory hallucinations in the wake state (5). The buzzing or ringing sounds in the ears and other auditory hallucinations are closely associated with the activity of the auditory cortex and involves the temporal lobe (5). During the early period of sleep paralysis, the activity of the temporal lobe increases significantly, sometimes inducing hallucinatory sense (5). Similarly, the visual cortex generates internal visual stimuli, causing the victim to "see" terrifying figures during the paralysis (5).
How an episode of Sleep Paralysis induces visual or auditory hallucinations is still not clear, but it seems to have a significant relationship with anxiety (5). For anxiety is a neurocognitive event closely related to both psychological and physical processes, the extreme anxiety or panic may cause the release of several different signal molecules that trigger all kinds of physical events (5). A person experiencing Sleep Paralysis feels mortal fear or extreme panic, and hence, the brain generates and releases internal visual or auditory stimuli, producing hallucinations.
Also, hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis may happen, for one keeps dreaming even after some parts of his brain wakes up directly from REM sleep. Since the nervous and endocrine systems continue to release the neural inhibitors which sustain the paralysis, it may be possible that those systems keep releasing the neural activators that stimulate dreaming. Thus, a person continues to "see" the images and "hear" the noises produced in the dream that he has just had in REM sleep from which he has awaken.
Understanding more neural concepts of Sleep Paralysis, some researchers now hypothesize that a very rare condition called Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) may closely relate to Sleep Paralysis (1). Upon the death, a SUNDS victim produces no body movement even though he experiences a myocardial infarction and strong breathing difficulties and should straggle in agony (5). The death may be caused by the extreme muscle atonia during Sleep Paralysis, which is so severe that even the cardiac muscles and the diaghragm paralyze (5).
Until I started researching on this subject, I have believed that the total paralysis of a body is due to an evil taking absolute control over the body. However, the interactions between neurons in the brain can explain this seemingly mysterious phenomenon in a scientific way. Although the explanation is not complete yet, for there are many unclear processes about Sleep Paralysis, the current hypothesis appears to reject the possibility of ghosts on this matter. Of course, it is impossible to completely disprove the existence of "spirits", "minds", or "God" affecting one's behavior. Nevertheless, like Sleep Paralysis and SUNDS, many or the mysterious conditions and behaviors which are only explained in supernatural terms probably result from brain.
WWW Sources
1)The Evil's of Sleep Paralysis
4)REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Neurologic Dissociative Sleep Disorder
5)Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis
Comments made prior to 2007
I have been trying to figure out what was going on in my sleep untill i read this.Now i am happy to know what my body was expeiencing. It's quite scary your first couple experiences of sleep paralysis but now i'm gonna stay calm when it is happening to me and try to get my own understanding of the experience ... Jeremy, 21 March 2006
I have had sleep paralyisis at least once per month for the last 8 years. I am 29 as of this writing. I just had the experience about 1 hour ago and thus has caused me to do reasearch about it on the net. I noticed that many Dr.'s contribute this to anxiety, stress and other factors. My question is ... why is there always an evil presence in that concious yet body is still asleep phase? Today I heard a loud static sound, and opened my eyes to a spider crawling all over my arm. When I prayed to God, or said His name (Jehovah) the spider would start to disappear. I finally went thru my mental prayer when I awoke. This leads me to believe that it is more of a spiritual occurence, because I never have positive images while in this paralized state. I know there are many things in which our ancestors thought it was demonic rather than scientific, only to find there was a scientific explanation. However, I think this is different and cannot be simply written off as "scientific". There is not enough proof to show that it is scientific.
About a month ago I had another episode of sleep paralysis and I saw a small presence in the room with me. It was dark, and I could not see it's face (I am getting chills typing about it right now). My question is, why is there always an evil presence not only associated with my episodes, but so many others I have read about? ... Abel, 24 August 2006
i was thinking it is evil who do that during night but now i find out why. I am suffering from sleep paralyze possibly every nigh spicily when i have dinar ... Salah Nasser, 28 January 2007
I used to have this sleeping disorder when I was a child. It has come back once or twice with adulthood, but otherwise, it is in the past. I used to, with great effort, move my hand to my face and pull an eye open, which would wake me up, but sometimes the struggle was too much and I would go on into a deeper sleep.
Since the brain can do this to me, can it also cause me to get migraines just as I am about to wake up?
It seems, as I have discovered, if I get less than 4 hours sleep a night, I do not get migraines. If I get 6 hours or more, it's about a 90% chance I will wake with a migraine. Later in the day, I get an hour or two nap and that is the routine as it works. Doctors just sort of treat the migraine and don't get into the sleep thing I have. I take MaxAult for the migraines when they do get me.
I woke one time, and just as I woke, I felt this white-hot needle going into my head... bingo. A migraine in 5 seconds. That is how they can occur. I wake with them otherwise. I figure it my brain doing things it shouldn't. I have a clean bill of health otherwise.
Thanks for your time. Have a good day ... Jay, 11 February 2007
I have a question, and hope someone out there has an answer, it has been months and I have thus far failed to find one. Has there ever been a record of anyone receiving the effects of sleep paralysis without having been asleep? The reason I ask this, is a while ago, having not slept in a few hours, I was sitting at my computer, and it seemed to have happened to me. Within seconds I was too tired to hold up my own head, and my breathing got very difficult. Then I began to feel a sort of dizziness as my limbs lost feeling, and dropped to my side. after this, the dizziness turned to near blindness. I could see, but nothing would focus, and everything I tried to look at seemed to dart around like a mosquito. By this time I had no feeling in my entire body, could move nothing without quite a bit of concentration, and I could barely breath. My mother heard me try and make out some kind of cry for help, and found me there spilled into my computer chair. She rolled me to my bed, and poured me into it. Within about 10-15 minutes I had regained everything I once had, but my sea legs did not ware off for another ten or so minutes. I went to the emergency soon after. I had an E.K.G. and a C.A.T. scan, with no results, and I piss less in a week then the amount of blood they took that night. After basically telling me I was lying, the doctor told me that my symptoms did not fit anything at all. What I do know, is I have been researching the issue ever since, and can only base my problem on Sleep Paralysis. All the symptoms match. And again, my question....Has there ever been a record of someone under the effects of sleep paralysis without ever having gone to sleep? I hope you can shed some sort of light on this subject, as it,...well, it freaked me the hell out, and no one has been able to answer me! Thank you for your time ... Mitchel Henderson, 7 December 2007
I used get this "evil paralysed me" feeling when i was paralysed and usually saw a ghost. i tried to shout or move but no sound escaped my mouth and couldn't move at all. it happened again yesterday and was almost convinced that ghosts/evil spirits were getting the better of me. But, me being a practical and logical guy, erjected this theory and started researching on this phenomenon. I came across this research paper on Sleep Paralysis. This greatly helped me in alleviating my fears. And next time i "see" a ghost during sleep paralyses, ill just laugh at it ;-) Thanks for the research ... Siddarth, 10 December 2007
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i know your pain
i have been experiencing this for quite awhile now and i never told anybody about it but i see and hear strange noises and i saw this demon like figure on the wall hissing at me i was unable to do anything about it i was so scared i thought i was being possessed why dose this happen how come you see demons instead of something happy like your favorite cartoon charater
It's not evil; I've proved it!
I was affected by this feeling of paralysis, pressure something holding me down, and ringing or electrical buzzing in my ears. I also felt it was a scary thing and had to sleep on my side to try and avoid it. After reading a lot on this via the internet I came to believe it was something to do with the inner vibrations on the ear drum and body muscle spasms. I ended up buying foam ear plugs and since then I've never ever experienced this again! I am now a believer of it being the vibrations on the ear drum and the response of the sympathetic nervous system during my in between light sleep and deep sleep. It's only a cost of $4ish dollars (2011)and you can try it for yourself. Nothing evil...just the body responding to normal stimuli and now you have a way to avoid that stimuli!!!!!!
Two nights ago
I haven't been experiencing my SP episodes in about 4 or 5 months -give or take.. but now it is happening again.
Nothing violent..
Kind of "erotic" in nature o_O
but it still frightens me.
Though my episodes have been mild.
I still can't seem to understand why its happening now..
(shrugs)
Creeps me out..
anybody ever been hurt by this?
this only happens to me like twice maybe three times a year.. but when it happens i sometimes wake up with a red mark where something has been pushing down on me sometimes dogs or sometimes a woman figure can never make out the face tho.... i shout for help and all the usual but nowt happens... is this a bad thing or just normal?
about the red marks after waking up..
You say you wake up to physical red marks on your body after dreaming they were happening? When I started having SP and horrible hullicinations I thought I was going through stages of being possessed. I looked a lot into it and one of the so called signs your being visited by spiritual beings and not just have a mental disorder is physical signs on your body from an unknown source after dreaming they were happening. I'm not saying that's what's happening to you, and please forgive me if im scaring you unneccessarily. You could just be hurting yourself in your sleep, but I find it interesting to hear about it actually happening to someone.
Hey there people..Well
Hey there people..Well honeslty I have been hurt by this...There was a time where I expirienced Sleep Paralysis and within that dream all of a sudden I feel as if something not someone...but something was kind of like sucking half of my brain. It hurt alot...Many of the times I feel as if i can control Sleep Paralysis though. Many of the times I can sense that its occuring at the moment and I have the option to wether I want to fight it (meaning..try to get up and move) but that only makes it worse by feeling the pressure stronger. Or I can let it be and pray for it to stop soon.
It freeks the shit out of me because i know that not many expirience it and even though researchers have come into several conclusions..I know that there is something else to it...Hopefully nothing that bad.
Aliens
(Sorry my english isnt good)i m 14 and i have fear against the aliens.I remember when i heard the stories about aliens and humans.I didnt cear about it but when i had a dream, it totally scared me.It started when i was 11.Dream was so real that i'm afraid until now.I dont know how many dreams i have seen, i belive that 5-7 dreams.The last one was 4:30 o,clock.I'm slightly nervous too and i dont like those dreams.
It was like that:
i saw a normal dream where my classmates and me are just doing something.
Then i feeled that i'm awake or i belived that i'm, i tried to move but i cant.I was afraid so much that i wanted to wake up and run away.I saw the window and opened door.Next i sensed somebody coming, i didnt saw him because i closed my eyes.Next he lifted my legs up, did something, and disappeared.Few seconds went by and i woke up.
Sometimes they pull me out of bed.Sometimes they put a vibrating tube into the rectum.This is so weird that i want to get rid of those dreams.
sp
hey, well I believe I have SP and have had it for some time. I did not really think about it till about 6 months ago when my brother mentioned he had it. I have read a few of the comments left from other people who have this disorder but I don't see shapes or hear noises or anything like that I just feel paralysed and very scared I always manage to move my right arm after a few minutes. I am just grateful i don't have visions or hear noises or i would be a wreck
sleep paralyses
i'm 32 years old, female and i'm going through a detox program for alcohol. i'm somehow consearned that it has got something to do with that. 2 nights i'n a row i've been having these dreams that seem so real that i can actually feel being touched. but last night something really scary happenend. i was asleep and i dreamd that somebody sat on me and pulled the covers over my face. i could hardly breath but i knew it was only a dream. when i woke up i couldn't move, i felled the covers still over my face and still couldn't breath but the weirdest thing was that i couldn't open my eyes either. after strungeling and forcing myself to open my eyes i finally managed, just to find out there was no cover over my face and noone in the room. the same thing would happen over and over again....
LOL
Guys, guys Cmon. This haas happenned to me a lot. Sometimes twice on one night. It is normal i think, normal for me now, because i am soo used to it. I know what to do when it happens.... Just dont fall asleep when it happens - it is a bad idea.
What do u mean dont fall
What do u mean dont fall asleep!? it happens when ur already sleeping! any better suggestions? :( im having this almost every night..sometimes a few times in one night..
Wow Im in shock right now,
Wow Im in shock right now, Ive been having this sleep paralysis for years but its getting worse, I asked God to please tell me what it is bc I felt like it was the devil, and here I am reading all of ur post. Ive never seen anything that wasnt in my head Id see demons and things popping in my mind, The last few weeks have been so bad where it felt like someone or something was inside me I felt it in my chest my ribs my back I was making these weird noises as if it was in me and using my body, my eyes rolled back in my head and man is it freaky, as soon as I close my eyes it takes over me. i HATE THIS!! And theres no cure"?:?
eyes role in the back of your head
eyes role back in your head - NARCOLEPSIE...- Sleeping Paralysys - Accompanied by hilusinations etc. no demons.! this has happened to me alot....
This is normal to me now - Steps to take
I am a 23 year old South african. I have experienced this sleeping paralysis so frequently, and sometimes i experience this twice in one night. This has happened to me so much that i sometimes forget that it has happened to me when i eventually wake up from it. It normally happens just as i fall asleep. I am used to it, and just wait for the paralasys to go away, and I force myself to wake up. I sometimes know when it is gonna happen before i fall asleep. This is normal now, and i am not scared at all. I was terrified in the beginning, but now that i am used to it i KNOW that it is my brain doing this, in a dreaming state. I KNOW that my brain is awake during that time, but my body isnt, and that is why I am paralysed. I thought that it my be something evil happening to me, or a ghost etc, but if something was gonna happen to me it would have happpenned to me long ago. This is normal, and happens to a lot of people. People who think that it is a demon or something, dont know what they are talking about. It is not the case. The fact is, that you are hilusinating/dreaming whiile half your mind is awake...or something like that. Dont get me wrong, once it felt to me as if my body was being lifted from my bed, and I once felt like i am being pushed of my bed. Once alsoo saw a figure, but this is an illusination, and i didnt know it then but i know it now. I amm so at ease.....lol.
Also as i seen mentioned by someone else. This normally happenns when i take a nap after work, and then go to bed 3-4 hours later then it happenns..... trust me, you wont die, and you wont get possessed... It iis not a nice feeling, but it is not awful when you know what it is.... I also thought it might be sommething evil, but now that i know it might not be and that i cope well when it is happening.... i feel okay
when it happens to the following
Step 1: Force yourself to move and wake
Step 2: If this doesnt work, try harder
Step 3: If step 2 also doesnt work, you are just not trying hard enough
Step 4: Now you will have to just be patient and wake slowly.
I promise you will eventually wake up and be able to move.
i actually enjoy it ..
i find being awake while sleeping an exciting experience. Its strange but i know that i am dreaming , i can go to places i want to build buildings,do anything; kind of INCEPTION thing. The worst part is waking up in the middle of doing something exciting .. ..
But i have a question : since i am enjoing the dream ,is it possible that i may never wake up ? which means i will be dead.. This is really bothering me so whenever this thing {sleep paralyzing} happens , i try extremely hard to wake myself up..i am really bothered ,my body might not be able to move forever or i might end up in coma ..
i Dont think you will never wake up
Glad to know that you are not that scared. I personnally think that it is a dream, and you will also wake up. I once dreamt that i was pllaying rugby, and as i tackled the guy, i went into SP mode . hahahaha. Now what now!??;LOL. I tried to wake up, could, new exacty why, relaxed a while, then bam, i gave it everything i had.lol. then woke up. sometimes as the SP happens i get out of it before it cathes me.?
sleep paralysis
i was 8 when i first experienced it. i was terrified it would happen again and i still am. somehow before i sleep i just happen to think of whether or not it will come again. i have had it more than ten times these past few years, but recently they having become more repetetive. i have learned that trying to breath and telling yourself its not real helps alot because if you struggle it only scares you more. the repetetive part is the one that scares me and i don't know how to fix it.
Hey, come on..
Hey. Come on.. I've been experiencing this sleep paralysis thing a lot, and it only happens when I was taking a nap (during daytime). I never saw anything like ghost etc during my awaken-paralyzed period. Well I was scared and panicked everytime I was awaken and I couldn't move a muscle, only my eyes could see something but it's kinda blurry though. But everytime I experienced it I just forced my eyes to open and sometimes managed to move my hand a little but it felt soo heavy and I couldn't feel my arm at all. It took a great effort to force my eyes open though sometimes it took a few minutes but I could manage it. And when I usually slept again because my eyes felt really heavy, when I awoke for the second time I would experience this 'sleep paralysis' again. And it's true, each time I experienced sleep paralysis, the sleepings after that would have that same effect too when I woke up. So I think it's not evil doings at all, it's just some brain doings.
moments between sleep
well,i'm experiencing this since i was a kid until now that i'm already 22.it usualy happens when i'm about to sleep,or at morning when i wake up at 3am.sometimes even at the afternoon when i nap.
what happens is that i suddenly got disturbed.i know im awake and aware at my surrounding but i can't move,i even cnt open my mouth.i always try to shout or make noise but nothing comes out in my mouth.its a frustrating struggle.sometimes i heard voices but most of the time when this happens i felt like someone or somethings touching me.like touching me from my feet up to my legs up to my stomach then on my chest.there are some instance i felt a hand is touching my neck trying to choke me.when this point comes im struggling so hard then i can move again.i began to think back then that there might be an INCUBUS haunting me.but even when im sleeping at my boyfriends house i also sometimes expercieng this paralyzing effect but i knew im awake.
sometimes it appears like im having a dream,then suddenly i became counsious but i could still see the episode from my dream while im stil sleeping.and then like before i still cnt move.
Not until now that i stumbled in this article while searching in google and learned that it is called sleep paralysis.now i know what and why it is happening to me and im not so horrified anymore thinking that theres an evil entity haunting me.im thanking that someone posted this article and ive gain knowledge about it.
Nothing is Sleep paralyze
I believe and everyone will believe it somehow, thak there is nothing like SP, its rubbish the people who has not dream it like that they talk about it ...ha ha ha..... scientist are less knower of this.....This is really a thing happening around all over the world to all people, dont believe in scientific, becoz they didnt have a chance in that like SP.....,
we should consider scientist as a child here, who does not any
thing like that as SP, actually when they dont get the right answer they make the statement that its a illness,,, ha ha ha ...
you know...there is a health problem issue...and people understand it well...and you know ...the one who is having and being in that sort of sleep...ohh my god ..ask them those who get it ...they will tell you...
scientist make a noise always...
they dont know nothing ....just keep practising and saying thing like 'may be' may be' may be' ....its really interesting ...
we should not ask and rely thing always on scientist way....
this is spirit disorder i would say this word here 'spirit disorder'
when our spirit connect it to the unknown world, and this is happening all around,
I, being with my self, i just go to sleep and have a dream and spirit connection almost thrice in a week, and you know the place i see the same where i have been sleeping in it, its been the experience for so many years, i had to research by my own terms, i didnot believe any scientific way ...becoz scienitist are child like brain to me, who ask many things and do nothing on it .....
ok, now i tell you about me ...its not only about me ..its for all....the way i sleep and you thats matters, if you lie left on side ...you will have no problem as spirit disorders, we have two kind of spirit disorder ..one is we connect to it ..and other is the other spirit connect to us ..... ....
I m telling you that ...it cant be solve by brainy people ...its a paranormal thing which we share....as far as ..i do have a spirit connection within a minuter after going to bed, even sometimes i make talk with them to solve and share their things, and some spirits are greater soul as well they guide us throughtout our whole life ...you dont know we people not alone sleep in a room, there are much spirit who likes to sleep well with us, and some wants to talk with us, and some wants to disturb to us, but we dont have to worry about ....the one who believes in God, they will never have bad thing on it ....i believe in God, and you believe in God, so the things are clear... just believe in you and trust on god always...nothing will happen bad by it ....just feel it ...
its all spirit who has left here by some desires at all ..so they need to share things but just wants that they have made mistakes in life ...now they guide us somehow ...that we should not do any harm and bad things around .... never break a heart ..do good deeds.... life is so short..... never hurt anyone ...dont cheat with people....help your self and others ....i believe in mankind is greater than every religion...so believe the things around you ....
take care
god bless you
I totally agree! Although,
I totally agree! Although, there is nothing 'disorder' about it; It's simply about connecting with the spiritual world, or having an out-of-body experience. It's a good thing.
Sleep Paralysis?
same thing here, and the only thing that gets me through it is praying and saying in my head, "The Lord is my Sheperd".
The other night my boyfriend woke me up saying he just had the same thing happen to him and then it hit me, right after he said it....this is so scary.
It first happened about 3 years ago and some of the people from my church came and prayed over my room, the house and the property, and it went away.
We think it was ättacking me because i had just left my ex husband and have become very religious, praying a lot etc. This is now the 3rd or 4th time it has happened again in my room in about 6 weeks, its happened to my boyfriend and my nanny that takes care of my son during the day, so is this really sleep paralysis, and everyone in my room is suffereing from it?
This Has Nothing to Do With The Brain... Its The Devil...
I dont not see how you can say this has something to do with the brain. Simply because this has been happening to me since i was little... elementary age. I hear things... im not able to open my eyes, speak, or move but when i call on Jesus... this thing became to let go. Im growing up under a house where everything is blessed. The devil can get in only where he can fit in. Now how is it that all of a sudden am i hearing and feeling these things but when i call on Jesus they stop? One time when I ws calling on him I heard something say that piece of shi* in a demonic voice. So you explian this to me since this has thing has something to do with the "brain" because my theory is this is a demonic spirit who taunts you in your sleep...
wtf
Are you or do you know anyone who has this a Jehovah's witness or an ex-witness??
Amanda Its All In Your Dream
Amanda being paralyzed in your sleep is very negative even though your brain is up you are still in a stage of REM...your dreams are what you think of in your head so by you calling on jesus your making yourself think which results in a dream that you are not having but the sounds and visions of this dream are still occuring,,,i hope this makes sense and there is no demon are devils in your room at night :) hope i helped
why it is the brain
When you call on Jesus when this happens you are creating your own comfort zone which your brain believes to get rid of the spirit. Everyone has their own way of making it go away, mine is I feel that it isn't real and see a demonic figure and roll over close my eyes and say go back to sleep, it has worked every time for me since I was 8 years old. Also the figure saying that piece of shi* is your brain thinking it is a demon and when you call on Jesus your brain thinks of what a demon would say and that just so happened to be what your brain interpreted it as.
MY ANTIDEPRESSANT EXPERIENCE
Several years ago my physician placed me on an antidepressant to see if it would help my neuropathy and it worked great for the physical pain. After being on this drug for a few years I started having these very terrifying dreams.
The first dream I kept having was repetitive at least twice a month. I was a soldier in a jungle and I see myself in third person as I run up a hill with a grenade in my hand and as I throw the grenade I trip, fall and roll down the hill and that is when I wake up on the floor of my bedroom. After the second dream I finally moved my night stand because I was tired of hitting my head on it every time I rolled of bed. The second experience I had was having the sense that someone was in my bedroom and I sensed the need to wake up. I set straight up in my bed and saw an elderly man standing at the foot of my bed watching my wife sleep. He was just a mist but he had an aura about him and I was able to make out his facial features. I was so frightened that I was paralyzed, I opened my mouth to yell at him but nothing came out. He glanced over and looked at me and faded away and I passed out asleep again. My third and final (I hope) experience was when I woke up and saw a small girl in her nightgown standing next to my wife watching us sleep. She was standing beside my wife between the bed and wall. I didn't believe my own eyes and ended up falling back to sleep. Then I was awakened again because the bed felt like someone had bounced on it. I turned to my side to see why my wife was shaking the bed and I felt something setting on my back. This little girl jumped off my back and landed between me and my wife. I was frightened but I was not paralyzed with fear. I was more annoyed and a little irritated so I reached out to grab the little girl by the arm. Before I could grab her she jumped once more over my wife and through the bedroom wall. I was still in motion and found myself laying across my wifes back from trying to catch the girl before she got away. My wife stirred but never awakened. These dreams absolutely terrified me and left me wondering if I was having some type of side effect from my medication. Well, it took over a month to be weaned off this medication (due to withdrawals). Its been three months since I have taken the medication and I have not had anymore of these horrible experiences. Maybe it was just coincidence that the dreams stopped, I don't know....I just hope they don't return. I just hope my experience can help others. If you have similiar circumstances as myself you may want to consider discussing it with your doctor/doctors.
Happened two hours ago
Last night I stayed over at a friends house. I was really tired so i just laid on the floor and went to sleep. I remember having a long dream. There was nothing strange about this dream (I was waling around a jungle) but when i woke up, thats when it happened.Im positive that i was awake.I couldnt move. I didnt feel anything too crazy like spirits watching me or things like that, I only felt paralyzed and my muscles hurting/sore as if i just ran a marathon the night before. I was laying down on my side on the floor, same place i had crashed the night before. Then while staring across the room i saw a snake come out of my friends back pack. It was slowly making its way around objects in the room moving closer to me. At this point I was panicing and had trouble breathing. I wanted to run but I couldnt move an inch. I felt like i had to grab something to kill it with, it was coming for me! After a few seconds (Ill say about 15-20) of watching it slowly get closer, I was suddenly able to move but only very slowly. I was very weak and I remember my muscles were hurting as i reached for my shoe (the only thing next to me). I grabbed it and turned the other way to face the snake, I was angry now, I was ready to crush it, but it was no longer there. I think i went back to sleep. When i woke up a few hours ago i saw my shoe in my hand. I typed stuff in on google and found this site. I just wanted to share my experience with you guys. Im 19 years old and have had only two of these dreams happen to me, but the last one was a few months ago. I dont think much of them but i just really hope I dont start getting these dreams normally.
frightened
It had been two nights before i was over my brother house late and my wife had called me telling me to come home already and i asked her why? well she said "its 'cause i was laying down with the lights off and t.v as well. my daughter was in bed asleep next to me, and i was barely knocking out when suddenly i feel someone sit next to me inbed and then i seen a dark shadown and some arms reached out and pulled my blanket down, then i stood still for about five seconds then got up and turned on the lights. no one was their and i got scared...i told her i would be home the next day. The next night nothing happened to me.Then the night after that im laying next to my wife hugging her from the back and i was barely knocking out when suddenly i feel pressure on top of me and i could not move or say anything. i try squeezing her arm but i couldnt. I tried turning around to see who it was on top of me but i couldnt move, although my eyes could, i still couldnt see anyone. I desperately tried screaming my wifes name out but i couldnt... I did moan like i was gasping for air and my wife told me she heard me but didnt turn around to see me.. about fifteen seconds later i recaptured all scences i had lost. I had never experinced nothing like this ever and my wife told me they had never scared her like that before... what does this mean?????
Terrified.. Felt totally Helpless
Its happened to me a few times now an you would think you'd get used to it, but each time has been almost as terrifying as the last. However, the first First time will always stay with me.. I was 18 at the time and i'd been lying in bed watching tv, nothing was on so i decided i'd try an get some sleep. Not feeling particularly tired i turned off the tv and the light, put my head down for no longer than 2 minutes when i felt a sudden cold breeze cross me followed by the most petrifying loud breathing noise in my ear (the noise still sends shivers down my spine)I immediately tried to scream for help but nothing would come out no matter how hard i tried. It felt like something was laying across my chest and holding me down, i was desperately trying to kick and punch but was frozen solid, my eyes where tight shut so i couldn't see if anything was there but it was as if my bed was tilting to the side and i was going to fall out, not being able to see made it all the worse, my stomach was churning.. After about 10/15 seconds (to me it felt like a life time) Another breeze of cold air and a distinct screeching sound, I regained all movement, turned on the light and tv an watched the news until morning to scared to try to sleep.. The overwhelming feeling of helplessness was horrendous, never been so scared in my life. I was certain it was some sort of poltergeist or paranormal entity but seeing other peoples similar experiences is really comforting.
dont be scared.......
El Dee it also once happened to me, that it felt like i levitated from my bed, but only my legs , and my head forced into my pillow. Also once happened that it felt like i was being pushed from the bed etc.... U must understand that thhis is not a demon/ghost or something like so.... Its is just that you are scared, or still dealing with a dream or hilusinating that i believe you are experiencing it to be so terrifying.... it is normal, the mind can fight or flight - so when you are scared automatically you wanna 'flight' but you cant. Close your eveys, go with whatever happens, and just force yoursel to wake up... TTry not to think about it.....
Um...
Hi. I'm 12 years old. I'm not positive yet but I think i may have this. About a week ago i was in class on a dull day. I looked out the window and saw a shadowy figure with mist coming from under it. It turned towards me and stared at me, and than it was in front of me. I attempted to scream out but couldn't make a sound. It leaned forward and it felt like my heart stopped. I could only move my eyes and my hand so i looked around and saw that no one noticed. I moved my pencil of my desk and when it hit the floor my partner leaned down to pick it up. When he put it on my desk he noticed something was wrong. I heard him call out to my teacher and the... thing turned towards him and made a sucking screech. The teacher walked over and walked through it and it was gone. I told the teacher and she sent me to the counselor. I told her and she looked at me like i was crazy and sent me to class. Help?
email mail me with answer can
email mail me with answer can you from this
can it kill you
can it kill you iam so scared
Just calm down
Since I am 7 years old I am always having this sleep paralysis and as of now, I am already 23 years old sometimes I felt I couldn't breath but as time goes by, I used to it, I did research about this matter and I had read that some of people who suffering sleep paralysis enjoying it instead of fearing it.
So whenever I have sleep paralysis I just close my eyes even I heard some demonic voices, foot steps, and etch then I will able to move though its only a dream at least I am moving even I see devil I am not afraid of it because I know "its only a dream" then afterward I could do everything I wanted to do in my dreams. It was fun I could fly I could have power to fight the devil LOL.
The worst thing happened to me was I had sleep paralysis in my dreams meaning I am dreaming in my dreams and wake up thrice but still in my dreams and when I finally woke up I couldn't distinguish if I am still in my dreams or it was already a reality. I had to bite my self, it was really creepy I was afraid that I would not able to wake up so it happened. Anyway just calm down when you suffering sleep paralysis and close your eyes then you will be in your deep sleep.
Demons in my sleep.
This article has been helpful to me but I'm convinced that a demon or evil spirit is trying to kill me in my sleep when this experience happens to me. Every time, I feel like I'm literally fighting something and when I know I can't win, I scream out the name of Jesus! Although it's like I can barely speak, let alone yell. It's a horrible experience and now I try to remember to pray against it before I go to sleep at night. It also happens if I take a nap too. It feels so much like a smothering and a physical fight! And like the article says, something sitting on my chest. When I finally say or scream the name of Jesus it stops almost immediately! I'm not sure if it's because my brain and body comes out of it by then, but it's kinda weird that it stops when I say the name Jesus. It seems too real just to be something going on in my own mind and body. I would like to record myself sleeping to see what I look like when this happens.
Same thing here... I have had
Same thing here... I have had such nightmares where I can't move and cant even speak. I have felt sommething pulling me out of bed, felt pressure on my back and even seen a dark figure. Odd but I would only have these dreams when I fell asleep on my back. Whenever I had them I would be so scared, but when I even think of the name Jesus and say it in my mind... I start to wake up and am finally free. I wonder why that is? Some things science seems to explain but then there is always a reason to believe something more. Good luck to you, lucky I have not had such dreams in a couple of years now!
To Tenille
Hey Tenille you know when you said you only get those dreams if you fall asleep on your back? well when I was young my mother told me to never sleep on my back because something scary will happen or you will see something scary. I believed her and always slept on my side. Now I sleep on my back and sometimes when I wake up I am paralyzed. I guess she was right.
Same here!!
I only have these night terrors/ paralysises when I'm sleeping on my back. Sometimes I feel like I'm being lifted up or pulled off my bed, but other times I feel like somethings sitting on my chest and pushing my back into the bed and I see a dark shadow ever so slowly luming over me more and more. If I can muster the thought of plz Jesus help me, it goes away like that and I'm free and well again. I have forced myself to fall asleep on my belly because it seems like a safe position. But I do agree that it seems quite odd that it's the same in all of our cases.. if it's random misfiring of neurotransmittors why do we all have the same symptoms of evil when dreams differ so greatly?? I can understand why thinking of Jesus gets rid of it tho...because maybe we believe through our entire entity that when we most need it Jesus will not let us burden with something we can not handle and so our mind is able to get rid of the evil feeling?? I don't want to and won't write off that Jesus doesn't have any part in this cuz what if this is something that is greater than just the misfiring of transmittors?? After all, it just doesn't make sense....obviously our mind is a powerful tool and can make us believe whatever we create as real in our own minds, but why are all of our experiences the same??? I haven't heard anything about getting raped, or being being covered in snakes or spiders all of a suddenly, or a murderer walking into the room...No! It's always pressure on the body and shadows/ spirits and creepy noises. Does anybody have an answer for this?
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I am only just browsing this now because I have night terrors that are unspeakable and did not know what to do so I looked it up on the internet and found this "scientific explanation" but I have the same problem you do. Never did I imagine that some one shared my fear, do you know more about this condition that would help shed some light on my darkest secret I would be ever sooo grateful please contact me if this message finds you!!
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Have this a lot...
I've had sleep paralysis episodes frequently, as long as I can remember. It's only the past couple of years that I've been aware that it's SP, and it doesn't terrify me as much now. Now I am able to tell myself that it is SP, and sometimes I'm able to wake myself up, others I find myself thinking "Oh, is that it? Ok." and then I go back to sleep.
I had several episodes when I was first married (in 1983) and they were bad enough that we thought there was Something in the house and had the pastor come out and walk through the house, praying. (I don't remember if it worked.)
In the past ten years or so I've had several of the 'something heavy sitting on my chest' episodes- specifically a small black kitty- and when I wake up, I find I'm having an asthma attack in my sleep. The thing is, we know that there is a ghost in our house- my roommate and I have both seen it, and several guests too. We've gotten the puzzled "Did you get a new cat?" questions, and they say it was small, black, looked at them for a minutes and then walked out of the room. And I've come to conclude that Ghost Kitty meant to wake me up, so I could take my medicine. It's really weird.
I had something happen a few years back though that gives me pause. It might have been SP... or might not. My fiance and I were at his parents' house. His dad had passed away and we were there at the house sorting things to clear the house so it could be sold. So we were sleeping in the master bedroom, and one night I woke up because I had this terrible pain in my feet. I looked down at the foot of the bed, and there was this... thing. Standing there. It was quite tall, over six feet, and was wearing tattered black robes with a hood. I couldn't see the face because the hood was up, but I knew it was staring at me. And I realized why my feet hurt, because this creature had my feet in its hands- it had really long fingers and was rather skeletal-looking- and it was digging its thumbs into the soles of my feet. Absolute terror washed over me, and I couldn't move or cry out. Then suddenly I _was_ able to move, and I screamed and jumped back and tried to crawl under my fiance. It woke him up, and it took a couple of minutes for me to be coherent enough to tell him what happened.
I still don't know what really happened, and whether I was or wasn't awake. But I do know that when we turned the light on, there were marks on the soles of my feet, just where that thing had been digging it's thumbs into them.
The weirder thing- not long after that the third Harry Potter movie came out, and when I saw it, I thought I'd been drenched in ice water- the dementors looked *EXACTLY* like that thing from that night. It was weird, like a deja vu moment. I'm still frightened. What if I hadn't woken up when I did?
death knocking
i've revently diagnosed with very poor health
I have been very stresseed and not doing well
I've had these dreams for years,
Sometimes people have woke me up hearing my cries for help
I'm always paralized and most of the time i feel my eyes open and see in my room
I just had one and i was very affraid
I seemed to keep trying to walk and move but kept ending repeating itself'
there seemed to be a presence in the room(dark presence)
this presence seemd to be in me and as I was trying to scream it seemed I was
moaning with the presence voice ..
I read the articale on sp and it seems correct but maybe
there is something more
Is death knocking on my door ?
Or is it just all the stress I've been going through thses days catching up on me
I did have a wierd feeling woke and went to sleep in the living room
I've had these dreams for years but tonight seemed very frightning to me
worried about a ghost
I have this ghost watching me at night. i dnot know what he wants and i can feel cold spots. he just sits and stares. i feel someone laying in the bed with me. could i have a ghost lover???
sleep paralysis
Hi I read some of the information about sleep Paralysis on your website and was wondering if some one was in a awake and asleep state and felt light, meaning in body weight,if you understand what I mean and can talk what would you call that.
Because this only happened once but I was in a sleep papalysis state and walked in to my nans room and asked for a key for some odd reason I didn't and still dont know why and i started to open her wardrob and kept repeating my self saying i was looking for a key. so what could you think it could be.
Sleep Paralysis ha more like demon Paralysis.
FIRST EXPERIENCE around midnight
When I was about 5 or 6 I woke up in the closet it see a transparent form trowing objects around in my room and yet the objects themselves were of the same nature of the transparent being. I was so frightened that I couldn't move or cry for help. Then it suddenly stopped and I ran in the living room with my father who was watching TV.
SECOND EXPERIENCE around midnight
When I was around the age of 12 my cousins came from out of town to visit. That night after everyone was asleep once again I was froze and couldn't speak. I had model airplanes hanging from my ceiling and my radio was on. Well the airplanes seemed to be making strange sounds and my radios volume kept going up and down.
Third Experience Afternoon during the day
I was 18. I walked in the house my mother was sitting in the living room. I went to my bedroom shut the door and laid on the bottom bunk bed I was bound by some force tried to cry out for my mother but couldn't move a muscle. Everything went black couldn't see. As my sight returned I was looking at the bottom bunk from the bottom of the top bunk it had me held up against the bottom of the top bunk looking down at the bottom bunk. Then again black. This time when my sight returned I was looking down at my door from the ceiling it had me pinned to the ceiling. I tried to reach the door nob but couldn't move. Went black again and I was back on the bed with full motion. I ran out my room my mother asked me what was the matter I said nothing and went outside.
I 30 now and I've had two recent experiences one I woke up looking into the living room from my bed my wife sleeping next to me I felt fear overcome me couldn't move or even wake my wife right next to me it lasted maybe 30 seconds to a minute. This happened about two weeks ago. From these few experiences I have always believed there was some force watching me tormenting me but I also have had the impression that this could have been a figment of my imagination or a dream that started after laying down for just a few seconds but does it not take more than a few seconds to go into REM if you are not dead tired and I also had plenty of dreams and nightmares and none have felt as real as this.
After this last one I know now that there is something evil lurking before me. Seven days ago Tuesday morning around 2 A.M. my wife just laid on the couch I just turned over in my bed as I was lying there I felt the bed move as if somebody was getting in it I turned over believing to see my wife I saw nothing I was held down by this overwhelming force tried to call for her but every muscle was stunned with fear unbearable fear. The reason this one was so different from the others was because this I was not asleep and I felt my bed move all the others i don't recall felling anything move except the hair on the back of my neck. I don't really care if anyone believes me but I witnessed fist hand what its like to have experienced this and I know science cant even begin to give me an answer and if it tries I will laugh in its face.
i agree
i agree on your " if science tries to give me an answer than i will laugh in its face!" i totaly agree!!!!!!!!!!
I believe everything your
I believe everything your saying because i experience everything you just told im like undrestanding that its not just me they want its other people they want too from my experience i believe its something we have that they want so bsd that they followed us from our childhood and now were adults their still at it but now to me its like cat and mouse i use to be terrified scared to sleep im so use to it that i talk to them some are women and some are men or gay pevertic creature of something they have a way of making you see strange things when every you get a close look at them they turn into something else i believe that if you stop breathing its all over for and you die in yor sleep as the so call dr.sicencetist will oh he died of nature causes a lie some kind of being sufucate me to death cause it to look like nature cause on here i cant believe these people really believe in this crap called sleep paralysis but i do know we have something they want real bad im keep fighting them til the end not go give them my life for it do not belong to me it belong to my God JEHOVAH
My experience had a sort of 'witness'
Interesting that so many have experienced what I have recently experienced, and I'm amazed that I hadn't tried to look it up before now!
I have had several episodes of sleep-paralysis over the years, but not so often as to be really troublesome. (Though I can still remember every time as if it happened yesterday!)
The really interesting thing is that I had it a couple of weeks ago, and it was the first time I heard the buzzing/crinkling sound. I was actually awake though... unless I fell back asleep almost immediately, I heard/felt my husband get out of bed, walk across the room, quietly open and close the bedroom door to get ready for work, and then the buzzing/crinkling sound started... it seemed to be moving toward me from further away in the room, and I felt something/someone standing beside my bed. I was terrified and tried to move and scream, but could do neither. I might have gotten out a little muffled whimper, but that's all.
The buzzing/crinkling got louder, the feeling of terror was so intense I thought I would burst, and then finally I was able to let out a sound - just an "AHHH!" sound... and then I could sit up.
My husband came back in the room then and said, "What's wrong?"
I told him I must have been having a bad dream.
However, later that night, when I was telling him about what I had experienced, he said he had HEARD the noise! He thought our cat had run into the bedroom when he opened the door (she didn't), and when he looked into the dark room to see if she had, he saw something glitter.
He just shut the door and went to get ready for work. He decided the glittering he saw was his imagination, because he saw our cat sitting in the hallway after he shut the door. He said he then heard the noise (same noise I heard, a sort of crinkling... static-y) and then heard me let out that yell. When he opened the door, the noise had stopped... it stopped abruptly when I was finally able to make a noise and move.
If he hadn't told me he heard what I heard, I would have written it off as a bad dream... with a weird twist, since I thought I was awake because I knew he was getting up. But for him to have heard it, through the closed door and with our air filter going, it had to be as loud as I thought it was!
So many theories... and I might have just believed it was all in my brain, but he heard the sound too!
Now, I don't know what to think.
from my own experiences and from hearing from others...
Stress and low energy seem to be a main catalyst for sleep paralysis.
Many of you probably subconsciously are stressed out and also lack proper sleep.
I used to get these when I was younger. I am now 27. I got them frequently in high school and in college.
Embarrassing enough I was stressed out cause of girls and also never doing homework. And in college it was
the same thing - girls and waiting til the last minute to do work. But once college was over, I barely experienced sp
anymore. But occasionally I'll get one, but when I do, I know it's not harmful and doesn't last long and been experimenting with it.
I don't freak out anymore or get scared. Some of the times I just let it ride out, seeing what ill happen, but nothing really does, I just
gain my movement back and become fully awake. I actually had one last night which is why I'm re-researching it. But it was different last night, I actually felt it coming. Then once it hit, I knew what to expect and actually tried to control it. I was able to open eye and move it around, trying to see what was going on but saw nothing. Just my dark bedroom. I just ended up gaining my body movements back. Lately I've been lacking proper sleep and been stressing out. To those who pray, I think what stops sp is when you slowly regain consciousness cause you are rationally thinking on purpose. I do believe most people are still in a lucid dream state when the going into sleep paralysis. This is from my personal experience. I know I've been in a lucid state while in sp. But last night was the first time I actually had my eye open (I wasn't able to open my right eye). Other times, yes I've seen and heard things. Usually, a lot I'll hear wind blowing violently past my ears, and feel wind on my face, also one time I've seen three beautiful women with glowing blue eyes dressed in black at the end of my bed and that instance I was sharing a hotel room with my parents, and it was daytime. I took a nap, and there was a couch my father was reading on at the end of the bed off to the side. Once I fell asleep, sp hit me, and I knew I was a lucid state. My father didn't move at all, but the women were slowing moving and then disappeared once I regained full consciousness and movement. When I fully woke, my father was in a different position but still sitting there.
I still haven't figured out if it's actually an 'evil' presence as some believe or just a psychological phenomenon. But I do believe a lot has to do with being in a lucid state. A state in which one is conscious of dreaming, rather than believing the dream is real. But it's def controllable, you just can't freak out. Now, since I'm more stressed and my sleep pattern is off, I'll probably experience more, which is good, cause I want to test out more things. But all I have to say, it's definitely controllable and probably the images you see are most likely imaginary. I don't think people realize that your brain and what you see are actually electric impulses.
Energy enter the eye which is then converted into an electric pulse which then produces an image in your brain. When you dream, you have all these electric pulses firing 'randomly' (another question) which seem to be based upon you body trauma directly correlates and reflects your mood and 'energy'.
I don't think people realize how media really impacts you subconsciously. Subliminal messages are embedded all over the media, in songs, movies, TV, and ads. There are images of death, demonic entities and sex. These are constantly being embedded into your head at least, six hrs a day. These do in fact effect the way
you dream and what you see while dreaming. In the old days, religion was the way of life, so the idea of demons and the devil or like entities were constantly embedded into peoples' minds. (not bashing religion or anything) but be aware that the human brain is like a sponge, you are constantly processing information non stop. And those subliminals which are getting worse and worse as technology evolves, will really impact people. Which is why I think, it's very frequent for
younger people to get sp more frequent as older people, cause they are more directly subjected to constant media and their brains are still developing.
Again, these are just my thoughts as nothing has been 'proven'.
Responses are def welcome. Just reply to my post and an email will notify me.
I DISAGREE
i seem to notice the sp hits me when or if i over sleep. lets say i wae up but force myself to go bk to sleep, try to sleep the day away. i can't it hits me just about every time. my normal hrs are 4 hopefully six if lucky a night. if i tryb to force sleep i end up paralized. strange.another thing i notice is i used to be on ritalin as a child i was very hyper adhd. one of the side effects they say is sleep disordeers/paralisis i believe?????