Thread: A new way of looking at sleep "paralysis"

Originally Posted by analyst

the dead arm thing used to happen all the time to me when i used to sleep on my stomach... what's worse is when both arms have it! then you can only roll over or inch like a caterpillar! very helpless.

Arg. I've had it happen with a single arm, but I don't like to imagine waking with two dead arms. Imagine you're sleeping on you're stomach and you manage to sit up using your leg muscles... then you'd just have these two arms flapping around limply... arghh

I just wanted to mention that my experience of dead arm is different when it occurs during sleep paralysis from when it is just a case of waking up and having a dead arm from laying on it. When it is the case of sleep paralysis I will wake up laying on my back, hardly able to move, and lift my arm up from my side, usually my right arm, feeling so heavy it is nearly impossible and in surprise at the effort required I suppose, lift it into view in front of me, I will look at it and though staring straight at my forearm, it appears quite invisible from the elbow down, I know it is there, and I am awake as far as seeing everything around me, however my arm is not visible to me and I see straight through it. Pretty weird stuff I have to say! One time just after this moment, at the end of my bed a dark cloaked figure shot out a branch at me which tapered towards my chest and struck me there, and I grappled it to the best of my paralysed ability with my two hands. Then I just remember looking around the room and realising that I would just cause more of the same type of visions because everything I looked at was on the verge of manifesting, and I was still paralysed, so I didn't look at anything too shapely and eventually I was awake. Incredible.