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GatheringExp:
We need Sleeptech's wisdom here.
MrChris13:
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Rach, get your mother to explain!
Miss_Ghouls:
--- Quote from: HaydenTheBuilder on March 14, 2014, 06:57:33 PM ---Strangely, I only have one kind of nightmare, and its really freaky. For some reason, I only have it when I'm sick and it goes like this: I wake up one day, it is still night, and I can't seem to move my body. I'm just lying there in the dark, then suddenly something starts pushing me down really hard. I barely can breath. Than random things come out of the ceiling (like a horse or a potato) and start raining on me. That's when I wake up.
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It's very possible that you're not actually dreaming-dreaming, and you're going through "Sleep Paralysis". I've experienced it once or twice, and both times it's been absolutely terrifying.
--- Quote ---"Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either when falling asleep or wakening, temporarily experience an inability to move (being paralyzed). More formally, it is a transition state between wakefulness and rest characterized by complete muscle atonia (muscle weakness). It can occur at sleep onset or upon awakening, and it is often associated with terrifying visions (e.g. an intruder in the room), to which one is unable to react due to paralysis. It is believed a result of disrupted REM sleep, which is normally characterized by complete muscle atonia that prevents individuals from acting out their dreams. ((Like when you see a pet moving their legs in their sleep like they're running? you do it too :D))"
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The "intruder in the room" can be anything, but from what i've heard from others (and seems to be most common with me at least) was shadows, or black smokey figures. The ones I've seen have slipped under my bedroom door, manifested from the dark spot under my desk, and my best friend had one that "crawled through the window and made horrible scratching sounds".
It's also EXTREMELY common to feel and "see" the thing sit on your chest, making it feel hard to breathe, which only increases the panic the victim feels when they're unable to "wake".
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The easiest way to "wake up" from this, is to try to ignore whatever's going on. The noises, the feelings, the visions -- ignore it completely. While you're trying to ignore it, start to wiggle your fingers and toes if you can. Focus on it. Don't try to move whole body parts yet, just your fingers/toes. Once you can get them to move, go bigger, and move your hands/feet. Then your arms, and shoulders, your neck and head, try and wiggle around, but don't sit up until you are 100% sure you can move, or you could fall out of bed and plop onto the floor (it's happened to me before and it was both funny and terrifying, because it can start all over again and the shadows under the bed will be enough to make you scream like a little girl on your first roller coaster, lol)
The only way i know to really prevent it, is to de-stress before bed, and make sure you're hydrated, and fully rested. Don't go to bed angry/upset (or try not to), drink lots of water (have a glass of water/water bottle beside your bed), and don't ever follow any of those "Lucid Dreaming" posts you see on the internet, because they're bogus, lol.
Also, don't google image search sleep paralysis, there's some scary stuff in there o_o
vespamartio:
That happy moment when someone is describing something terrible and it happens to everyone and you are just very happy this hasn't happened to you and you feel bad for anyone who has to endure this horror >:(
MrChris13:
My older brother used to get this all the time, except there was no "intruder". He said he would wake up, but he couldn't move at all and he'd start to panic trying to move parts of his body.
And Ghouls, Lucid Dreaming is totally not bogus. I've done it twice. You have to be completely calm in order not to wake yourself. I've only been able to keep at it a couple of seconds, though, before I wake up. It'd be neat to be able to control your dream fully without waking up. Usually I wake up when I Lucid Dream because I get really excited.
(Lucid Dreaming is when you can realize that you're dreaming and you can just do whatever you want.)
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