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sho.gun
10-14-2002, 12:04 PM
Last night when I was sleeping I woke up and i couldn't move... it was scary. I tried moving my head but I just couldn't. I'm thinking that it's probably just a dream but I was awake, on my bed, staring at my comforter, and CAN'T MOVE! :mad:

Oh and while this is happening my heart just started beating faster and faster like I'm having a heart attack... the heck is wrong with me. This isn't the first time either.
blueindian
10-14-2002, 12:27 PM
happens to me all the time. panic attack probably. mostly happens when i smoke before i go to sleep.
attgig
10-14-2002, 12:33 PM
<freaky voice>it's spiritual man....</freaky voice>
creampuff
10-14-2002, 12:54 PM
omg! this happened to me too... i woke up, but literally couldn't move or talk. i thought i died or something. when i told people this they just laughed!

i think my head fell asleep.... like the blood circulation to the brain??? i was sleeping in UCLA library at the time... my head was on the arm of the couch.
Blu
10-14-2002, 01:24 PM
Originally posted by creampuff
omg! this happened to me too... i woke up, but literally couldn't move or talk. i thought i died or something. when i told people this they just laughed!

i think my head fell asleep.... like the blood circulation to the brain??? i was sleeping in UCLA library at the time... my head was on the arm of the couch.

I don't think your head fell asleep, if that was the case, you'd passout in a jiffy.
DankNstickY
10-14-2002, 11:23 PM
actually... we sleep in cycles , if u will. theres different periods of sleep. a couple of my co-workers are majoring in psychology, and they brought this up sometime last week. they said that phase 1 is when ur brain relaxes, and phase 2 is like when ur muscles relax, and stage 3 is when ur totally relaxed that ur muscles don't move and ur in such a deep sleep that practically nothing can wake u up. thats kinda like when u start dreaming. then in order to wake up, u have to go through those phases, in reverse order. so if u wake up before your body goes through those phases correctly, u'll be STIFF because ur muscles will be in that phase where they are relaxed and won't really respond to anything. then u just have to wait for ur body to "recuperate" (sp?) by finishing going through those phases.

:shrug: the phases are not accurate, but the part about ur muscles not responding due to incompletion of the phases is. i'm not the one studying so i can't really explain it well.

....... but yea.... dr. dank speaketh.

come ... tell me ur problems... :D
NuTs62
10-14-2002, 11:31 PM
Originally posted by DankNstickY

....... but yea.... dr. dank speaketh.

come ... tell me ur problems... :D

well doc.. ya kno i have this lil itch.. not to mention fungus growing in my... oh wait, u aren't my doc.. what am i doing here? :confused:
DankNstickY
10-14-2002, 11:41 PM
Originally posted by NuTs62


well doc.. ya kno i have this lil itch.. not to mention fungus growing in my... oh wait, u aren't my doc.. what am i doing here? :confused:

relax... really, hehe, it's alllll part of procedure for me to examine the...... :shifty: wait - err... NO! GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!
sleepminded
10-14-2002, 11:42 PM
:hmm:








wierdos...
seqiro
10-15-2002, 12:13 AM
It happens to me too. It's called sleep paralysis and it's usually nothing to worry about.

Here's an article about it: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/sleepparalysis990411.html

The increased heart rate is probably what blueindian said: a panic attack, caused by the fear of waking up paralyzed.
Freelance Superhero
10-15-2002, 12:30 AM
as a matter of fact this happened to me two nights ago too...

and i've had some really creepy experiences with it in the past, like many others... just freaked the hell outta me...
revil
10-15-2002, 12:51 AM
you guys try to move around when you wake up? it takes at least 15 minutes after i wake up to get the initiatve to move.
Cantacuzene
10-15-2002, 05:05 AM
My roommate gets that all the time. I imagine its pretty scary.
kain9i6
10-15-2002, 09:50 AM
Luckily I haven't experienced that as of yet.. I seem to "jump" out of bed when the alarm goes off.. I have slept wrong on my arm, making it fall asleep, and when I roll over I have 30lbs of dead weight slam onto my face and bust my lip, blacken my eye and make my nose bleed.. Talk about beating your self up over something eh?? heh..

Rule of thumb: "Try and remember not to roll over right when you wake up just in case your arm is totally asleep. It will save you the pain"
chadlnc
10-15-2002, 10:29 AM
I read the article and found it very interesting. DankNstickY was on the right track with not waking up in the right order, apparently our bodies are paralyed by our brains when we dream so that we don't act our on our dreams. Something sleep-walkers brains don't do? It sounds really freaky and I'm glad it has never happened to me. Although, like kain9i6 my arm falls asleep all the time. This is usually do to the fact that I end up sleeping on my back with arm behind my head. I try not let myself fall asleep like that knowing my arm will go to sleep, but I end up doing it anyway. I can't imagine how worried I would be if I couldn't move my whole body.
sho.gun
10-15-2002, 11:08 AM
ah i've been enlightened... thanks for the informative responses especially the one by Dr. Dank. I guess I should be glad to know that it doesn't cause permanent damage or anything cuz hell that'd be scary.

I guess the scariest thing for me is not the part where I can't move, it's just that my heart starts beating faster and faster until eventually I thought I'm just gonna curl up and die right then and there. Now I dunno if my heart is beating that fast in reality, maybe because of fear, or am I dreaming... Weird, I never thought I'd be asking myself whether something is a dream or reality...

Glad I'm not alone though :D