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Heather · #1 04-19-2006, 10:00 AM

Some of you may remember that I experience sleep paralysis once in a while - sometimes up to 3x per week or more. Just read this article - anyone else ever have it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/hl_nm/near_death_dc

cru5h · #2 04-19-2006, 01:40 PM

nope, can't say that I have

Complicated Woman · #3 04-19-2006, 01:42 PM

That has happened to me on rare occasions. Usually if I am really sick or stressed out.

Indigo · #4 04-19-2006, 01:46 PM

It used to happen to me a lot especially when stressed. For some reason it has not happened in awhile. Which is weird because I have been pretty stressed lately. It is pretty freaky and scary.

Steph · #5 04-19-2006, 02:06 PM

Nope. The only thing that happens to me is that I do work in my sleep when I am stressed out and when falling asleep sometimes I could swear that I hear people whispering my name.

ljeagle · #6 04-19-2006, 04:38 PM

A few times a week I will have really bad dreams and it's like I'm trying to wake my self up but I can't. It's like I can't move my body but I'm not sure this is talking about the same thing.

whiddle · #7 04-19-2006, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ljeagle

A few times a week I will have really bad dreams and it's like I'm trying to wake my self up but I can't. It's like I can't move my body but I'm not sure this is talking about the same thing.

I experience this but I have never thought I was going to die. I do sometimes *think* I can hear someone who has broken into my house or other things that didn't happen. I am not sure if it is the same thing.

Heather- aren't you on bed rest?

ljeagle · #8 04-19-2006, 04:52 PM

I can be asleep and hear my door open and shut or hear like some one said something to me. I get up and look around and no one is there.

whiddle · #9 04-19-2006, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ljeagle

I can be asleep and hear my door open and shut or hear like some one said something to me. I get up and look around and no one is there.

hehe me too! Then, I wake DH up to chech for the boogeyman. I'll sleuth around my house with a flasklight trying to find the *intruder*

cru5h · #10 04-19-2006, 05:23 PM

It sounds like you're all experiencing various forms of hypnagogia.

I experience hypnagogic hallucinations (visual stuff) before I fall asleep sometimes. I see flashes of faces, places and situations. Like last night I was given a flash of a woman sitting at a desk with her back turned to me. In the past I was shown a flash of the Pope, dead. I usually see really screwed up faces or random places I've never been. I sometimes experience hypnopompia (the waking version of hypnagogia). When I experience that, it's auditory. I wake with songs in my head - like I'm singing them as I'm waking up.

About how sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations can occur in people without being narcoleptic.