Some of your symptoms sound like sleep paralysis. |
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I have been having isolated episodes of the following since 2007, and am hoping someone has experienced the same or something similar to provide me with advice. I tried browsing the forums b/c maybe a million people have posted this already...I am having trouble finding it, so I'm sorry if this is repetitive, although that would be reassuring! |
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Some of your symptoms sound like sleep paralysis. |
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Thanks for the info. It is a help simply to have someone respond! Sleep paralysis does happen to me and it is very similar to the wikipedia description. However, my experience of sleep paralysis does not seem much like the vibrations. I'm not really paralysed during the vibrations - I don't think. These vibrations are newer so I'm less familiar with all the symptoms. Usually during sleep paralysis episodes, I wake up in my bedroom, or wake up in the environment that I went to sleep in. I think I have woken up but then discover I can't see correctly, my vision is blurred or impeded. Then I realize I cannot move, and although I know I am dreaming, I slowly begin to panic and eventually wake up. I used to be able to trigger the wake up, but no longer have control over that. What a bummer, eh? |
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I´ve tried WILD:ing a couple of times and usually I get the vibrations and it gets hard to breathe. And here´s a link to WILD - Wake Induced Lucid Dream - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource |
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ohhh...you actually try to achieve those vibrations? I guess it wouldn't be scary if you knew what it was and was trying to do it. Last night I decided I would try and bring them on and then follow it through to see what happened if I just let it occur, and also wanted to see if my body was physically vibrating of if it was mental, but of course as soon as I was ready for it I had the most peaceful night's rest...thanks for the info! |
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It sounds like sleep paralysis. Some people don't become 100% paralyzed when it happens, at least not right away. Once I was able to move my fingers for a few moments before the sleep paralysis ended. |
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Last edited by Puffin; 10-13-2010 at 08:56 PM.
We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
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Very, very interesting. Okay I guess I'll get over myself and go with the flow but do you feel partially blinded when it happens? Like, when I have those sleep paralysis dreams all I'm doing is laying in my bedchamber unable to move and feeling like I can't see very well. |
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Sometimes. I used to get sleep paralysis before I even knew what it was (scariest thing of my life), and I'd always open my eyes because not being able to move would terrify me. I'd see either something shadowy like a hand, a cute rabbit, or a dark shadow on the wall. After that I learned to just keep my eyes closed because first of all, sometimes hallucinations can be scary so you don't want to see them anyways. The second reason is because if you get too much visual stimuli from your surroundings, your body will snap out of SP. |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
That's got to be sleep paralysis. |
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I started taking antidepressants around ten months ago, and it really impacted my ability to enter SP (unfortunately). Yeah, I can still enter it maybe once a week, but it's a far cry from before. Regarding the heartbeat, sometimes it's a hallucination, but it can also be real, simply from your excitement or surprise that you're in SP. But if it's really fast and even loud, it's probably a hallucination. |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
Well now that everyone's doing it I'm not so sure I want to stop it. Haha. No, but you really have all relieved my mind about this SP. If it happens again, I'll try out your advice. But that vibrating thing cannot paralysis...I'm not paralyzed?? Just humming away and hearing a train er somethin'. I guess I'll let you know what goes down when I follow through with it. I've been emboldened through all this chitchat and info. |
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I've been dealing with sleep paralysis my entire life. My father suffers from it too so when I was a little girl I thought it was normal. It wasn't until I got older and started telling people about it that I learned that not everyone has this problem. |
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Well, as far as I know, the sleep paralysis and body vibrations are two entirely different situations. I haven’t had sleep paralysis issues for about a month, but instead have had those vibrations at least twice, maybe three times. But the vibrations are always when I’m at least partway between waking and sleeping state, if not secretly asleep entirely. With SP, sometimes I feel like I’m falling toward the ceiling too. Nothing I do wakes me up from it as a trigger anymore. I will try holding my breath though, that’s a good one. I try screaming or talking but my mouth is impeded as much as my vision. I think the best thing may to be just letting it happen and seeing if I fall back into a dream like you guys do, or wake up naturally. |
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Those vibrations are very common during the transition between sleep and wakefulness. As you describe, they can happen as you are falling asleep, as you are waking up, or between dreams. Most WILD and OBE/AP guides will mention them as a part of the process, or even focus on them as a method of inducing the dream. It can be a very intense feeling. Sometimes, I feel like I am vibrating so hard, I am going to explode. I don't know the exact explanation, but I've always assumed they were related to the spontaneous middle ear muscle activity that is common in REM. Even if the two are unrelated, it is good to remember that your eyes are not the only muscles that spaz out in REM. If you are aware enough to focus on your body, you will feel all sorts of wacky things happening. |
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You guys are super fantastic. Thanks for everything - I'll still post what that psychologist says after my Monday appointment for curiosities sake. In the meantime, I may as well check out some of these guides. |
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Hellooo: had the appointment yesterday. He was quite possibly the nicest man in Canada. A hyperbole that would really ring true if you could have met him. Anywho - he did not really have any info for me. Long story short - he doesn't think I'm crazy and asked me about my childhood like any psychologist worth their weight. But he thinks I should get a physical. But then added as an after thought: "but there probably won't be anything wrong with you. You seem healthy". So I guess it's back to me riding them out the next time they pop up and try to boil my blood. Thanks again for your advice everyone, I feel like I can handle it now! Unless I'm laying down for bed...then I think, "don't you dare do it, bod!" |
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All you need to remember is that you can't to any harm if it happens. |
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