Raina
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posted on 26/12/2004 at 08:45 PM |
I am not quite sure this belongs in "Paranormal" but it sure feels like it.
How many of you experience odd unusual things when you sleep?
I'm starting this topic because I had another "attack" last night and it's
still very fresh in my memory.
Last night at 4:26am I woke up feeling paralyzed - like some things were
squishing me up into this little ball. I wasn't fully awake, but not
asleep either. In the background I could still hear my fan blowing in my
room. Something was running it's (hands) through my hair at the scalp.
Every time I experience this weird sleep disturbance, it is always the
same, that weird sensation of my head. Sometimes it's actually IN my head
not just the scalp. Not only that, a sound accompanies all this too. It
is so hard to describe. It's like a computer connecting to the internet
sound but all distorted. That's the closest I can come to describing it.
It goes away after I fight it for a bit. Last night it ended when I could
open my eyes.
Other nights, I wake up paralyzed on my stomach and something heavy jumps
up on my bed, like an enormous cat or dog. It walks over to me and starts
to rub it's paws on my back. I swear, it is very creepy. (My only pet is
a bird).
And still other nights, I hear a weird knocking sound and think should I
say, "come in?"... But then I scare myself at the same time and don't want
to invite anything in.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
[Edited on 27/12/2004 by Raina]
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littlegothgirlthatcould
Member Posts: 100 Registered: 13/2/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/2/2008 at 12:42 PM |
quote: I have Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome (CFS) which sucks big time.... Its difficult for me to fall asleep
and I am always tired no matter if I sleep for 12 hours, my muscles always
feel heavy as if i have croncrete bricks tied to me limbs...CFS is commonly
linked to Fibromylasia which thankfully I have not been diagnosed with as
of yet. I started off with Mild insomnia cause I can stay up for days at a
time not able to sleep but I could sleep for days at a time and it sucks
being tired all the friggn time.......
God, I have that too. and it's a pain in the ass. I can't stay awake in
school because I am so tired, and I sleep for hours everyday and am still
exausted when i wake up. Fibromylasia? whats that? ____________________ [[Ive learned too many things to let life pass me by now. Ive grown up and
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Sardonic-Pain
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posted on 16/12/2007 at 09:11 PM |
Well...I can't tell you much, but I can tell you this.I'm no doctor but I
think you read too many books or watch too many movies. Your subconscience
mind replays things that you have already seen or have done. You probably
punched yourself in the face. I have woken up with bruises before that I
can't explain but I know I toss a lot in my sleep. Its an easy
explaination.
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Kahlir
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posted on 12/12/2007 at 11:23 PM |
Im not really sure what to make of this, but I find it a little disturbing.
I havent posted much in the past. I logged on tonight for the first time
in probably a month to post none other than sleep related/dream problems
only to find out that it was a somewhat current topic. I really would like
some input because I am wondering if my two conditions maybe related or
not. The FIRST is that I have insomnia & panic related issues along with
sleep amnea which translates to very poor sleep sometimes waking up only
moments later gasping for breath or in a state of fight/flight. The SECOND
is that I have had dreams though rare but enough to be troublesome. The
dream situation ill try to explain with a dream that happened about 2 years
ago. When I am able to dream it is usually entirely with regards to
fighting from supernatural to the mundane barfight. Hell I once was 3
inches tall riding a horse charging a house cat with a lance but I digress.
With the majority of these dreams I usually have the feeling of total
control. During this dream in particular I was walking up to a new orleans
"anne rice style" mansion in the early summer afternoon. Very pleasant
weather. My gut at the time knowing that it will always result in a fight
was that this was going to be a vampire/undead encounter and I went in
reasurring myself that since the setting was so mundane and unoriginal that
it would be a cake walk. Im not sure if you are even able to recognize a
dream as unoriginal but I remember thinking to myself that in the dream. I
opened the double doors and a cookie-cutter vampire was laying on a
freudian style coutch being fed grapes by 3 gothic women (whom are played
by the 3 fates) hence the hair color (black, blonde, red) and I recall that
I recognized them for what they were. I asked the guy to step outside
because his entire demeanor was so fake and dramatic it was making me
almost sick. We began to encircle each other similar to how most boxers do
underneath the covered patio outside the front door. I'll have to say that
we were almost quite equal which is very rare even the monsters that are
larger than life though mentally draining wasnt of a real concern. The
fight went on with no one really having an advantage I shapeshifted claws
and repeated to slash him to bits. He ended up ont op of me somehow and
puched me repeatedly on the left side of my face. The fight ended with him
on top of me after he saw that punching me wasnt sufficient he ripped a
large piece of masonry from the curbside and countinued pounding me on left
side again I remember fading in and out of consciousness. He said
something to me that I couldnt fully understand but it sounded like
gloating. The last few things I remember is that while he was gloating and
I was almost gone I shifted the glands in my throat and spit acide all over
his face. He yelled furiously and with one large hit from the bit of mason
I was out. I awoke in my room but the room was in the style of the mansion
of my dreams it took me about 2 minutes as it slowly shifted into reality.
I was fully aware as I walked downstairs and out to my back porch that I
was awake and that the house would slowy fade back to reality. I couldnt
see out of my left eye. I lit a cigarette and my brother's girlfriend came
outside because she saw me stumbling and tooked one look at me and gasped.
She asked if I was in a fight. I replied ya sort of and checked in the
mirror and sure enough I was swollen all on my left side. I am curious to
know because I would prefer any rational explanations to this I have had
probably a couple of dozen dreams that this has occuried over a ten year
span. I was interested in any info you can give sorry if this should be a
new forum or not please forgive not use to typing. Sorry for the spelling
& grammar. My secretary wasnt hired for smarts. Just kidding about the
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Sorrow
Occasional Poster Posts: 18 Registered: 21/11/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/11/2007 at 06:16 PM |
Sounds like night terrors to me, but I really can't say. I get those too,
where I can't move and like, dream with my eyes open. Hallucinating, but
like, not. Hard to explain. Plus, always that damn feeling of sheer terror
for absolutely no reason.
It's actually kind of funky.
Like, after. It's like vomiting, it sucks while it's going on, but after
I'm all like, whoa that was awesome.
if it IS night terrors, doctors can give you pills that repress them, but
other then some relaxation methods and sleep therapy and shit, I think
that's pretty much all they can do. Also, I was told that night terrors
occur for a few reasons; too much stress, lack of sleep, and brain tumours.
Let's hope it's not that last one.
EDIT-wait this was posted like two years ago? My God lol-nevermind me then
lol.
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Maranda
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posted on 9/2/2005 at 07:00 PM |
I have a biochemical sleep disorder. One thing I learned, confirmed by a
doctor who treated a relative's sleep apnea, is that if you are
sleep-deprived, your dreams are much more intense when you do actually
sleep. Because your brain has been deprived of REM-stage mental processing,
it quickly goes into that stage when you do fall asleep. This can cause
nightmares, further disrupting sleep.
This doesn't sound like what you have, but it's worth knowing anyway.
____________________ "For every false dream that dies, a true one is remembered." - Patricia
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abject_paradigm
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posted on 9/2/2005 at 08:39 AM |
I've had a ton of weird sleep problems. When I was 5 I was diagnosed with
Night Terrors Syndrome. My mom says I would wake up every night at exactly
11:30pm screaming, with my eyes open but still darting back and forth in
REM. I still have occasional outbursts like waking up with a shout or a
quick jump, but it's nothing like it was when I was a child.
I also used to sleep-walk all the time. My grandparents used to live
across the street from us, and it wasn't uncommon for me to sleep over
there. Well, one night I fell asleep at my house and woke up at my
grandparent's. My grandma said I didn't knock or anything, I just stood at
the door, she assumed my parents sent me over, let me in and I went to
sleep on the couch. Needless to say, it scared the shit out of my parents
when they woke up and I wasn't there. When I was kid, I would sometimes
wake up standing in my basement, everything pitch black, not knowing where
the hell I was. It was pretty freaky.
As for sleep paralysis. I've also heard it called Night Hag disorder.
Usually the paralysis is accompanied by a really intense vibration feeling
throughout my body, and auditory hallucinations. It's another thing that
I've dealt with since I was a child. I even looked into astral projection
because it references the vibratory state of mid-conciousness. I can't say
that I know for sure that I've travelled out of my body, but I have become
lucid the midst of sleeping and experienced what seemed like astral
travel.
Naturally from all of my weird sleep disorders, I've taken a heavy interest
in them. I would suggest anyone who experiences sleep paralysis to look
into astral projection for fun if nothing else.
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Jesi
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posted on 4/2/2005 at 09:42 PM |
Hey Raina...welcome to my life. I've had Hallucinatory Sleep Disorder (er,
paralysis) for over a year now. It was somewhat scary when it first
happened...but now, it's not too bad. I get them about twice a month. It's
usually brought on by stress and lack of sleep.
It's Fun shit.
No, really. It's fun not being able to move or scream while you hear/see
shit moving around in your room. No reason to panic. It isn't real. Rats.
It would have been sweet if it were.
I didn't read the other posts...but besides people believing (esp. in
Germany) that a hag would come and sit on your chest...which caused the
paralysis...others believe it to be alien abuductions.
Where's Mulder and Scully when you need them, eh?
[Edited on 5/2/2005 by Jesi] ____________________
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/1/2005 at 04:33 PM |
Pass the Framboise Lambic please, or something just as sweet. ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/1/2005 at 03:03 PM |
a screw on top
Just remember, every time you crack open a bottle, an angel gets it's
wings. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/1/2005 at 01:42 PM |
I'm trying herbal teas right now, like Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time Tea
but I could check out this "nightcap" thing Bettie is talking about. Does
it have a puff ball on the end, a cork, or a twist top? ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/1/2005 at 12:26 AM |
My sleep pattern is hellish too. I'll spend weeks sleeping around the
clock and feel like a sodden clump of mud all day, or I won't be able to
sleep for beans for a month, talking 3 hrs a night, and be jittery crazy
like I'm a goddamned tweaker. I have a normal sleep cycle that is about
12-1am to 8-10am, but it only lasts for a couple of weeks or best a couple
of months and then whammo! back to no sleep or too much. I've learned to
regulate it with a night cap, or making sure that bills are paid, checkbook
balanced, dog is inside, and whatever else is out there that could make my
head spin and chatter in the dark when it should be rebooting. I feel for
ya, I do. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Sardonic-Pain
Fanatic Posts: 248 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/1/2005 at 06:29 PM |
I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) which sucks big time.... Its
difficult for me to fall asleep and I am always tired no matter if I sleep
for 12 hours, my muscles always feel heavy as if i have croncrete bricks
tied to me limbs...CFS is commonly linked to Fibromylasia which thankfully
I have not been diagnosed with as of yet. I started off with Mild insomnia
cause I can stay up for days at a time not able to sleep but I could sleep
for days at a time and it sucks being tired all the friggn time....... ____________________ My Life is like a porno-Without the sex-Just the weird music |
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bettie_x
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posted on 30/12/2004 at 11:47 PM |
Sailor I don't know the exact symptoms of night terrors, but those sound
like likely symptoms to me. Check the link for night terrors and see what
you find. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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bettie_x
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posted on 30/12/2004 at 11:43 PM |
Well GM, some people say things, and some people elaborate. Sometimes
things NEED to be elaborated apon, and some things NEED to be said, so with
that in mind pull the yardstick out of yer butt. And while we're crossing
t's and dotting i's, check also fourth post down to where raina asked other
people to share their various sleeping problems, which I did because I too
have had sleep paralysis...but oh wait that's been said. By me. Check 7th
post down. ANd lastly, I didn't see anyone else mention the possibility of
mild epilepsy, so your theoretical "we" did NOT mention that before.
[Edited on 12/31/2004 by bettie_x] ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Sailor_Sadist
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posted on 30/12/2004 at 07:45 PM |
I have very realistic dreams that leave me really confused in the morning.
I'll be angry at people thinking they did something, when in reality, it
was in a dream I had. I won't really remember that until later on in the
day, and then I'll feel horrible.
Night terrors are something that my doctor THOUGHT I had. I'm still not
sure if I had them. I had a long period of time (5 or 6 months) where I'd
wake up in the middle of the night in complete and utter fear. I'd either
be crying or screaming like the worst things in the world were happening to
me, and I'd usually be in the weird half-dream-like state where you see
things that really aren't there, or I'd still be fully asleep, but getting
up and fighting imaginary things. Could that of been night terrors? ____________________ - The post count is slowly rising!
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Schizo
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posted on 30/12/2004 at 06:07 AM |
Yes, but not so completely, so there's no need to be snooty. ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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gothicmorman
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posted on 29/12/2004 at 06:11 PM |
uh, yeah, thats what we said before... check third post down. |
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bettie_x
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posted on 29/12/2004 at 09:35 AM |
Raina those aren't panic attacks, as panic attacks don't cause paralysis.
Chest pain, difficulty breathing, uncontrollable emotions, headaches, sense
of panic or uncontrollable fear, yes. Paralysis, no. Panic attacks are a
chemical imbalance, and it's effects are triggered by external situations
and stimulation, like being around too many people, NOT being around
anyone, open spaces or closed spaces, silence or too much noise. They can
occur in the night, but you're fully mobile....you're just freaking out
because your brain says so.
it's most likely sleep paralysis like what I have, and they MAY be small
epileptic seizures (I haven't been checked for that, I hate doctors and it
hasn't happened when I'm awake so..eh). Epileptic seizures usually onset
with the sufferer hearing chimes, ringing in their ears, buzzing, other
loud sounds or unusual smells. They could also be waking dreams, which are
less severe but just as frightening as night terrors, where you are
conscious but your brain is still running in dream mode.
I personally don't deal well with change in any way shape or form, and have
sleep paralysis and sleep walking most frequently when I move to a new
home, change jobs, when I moved in with my boyfriend, and then it happened
WAY worse when I married him (it stopped after the first 6 months, but was
TERRIBLE in the months leading up to the wedding, I was waking up paralysed
every other night and sleep walking the rest) or when things are chaotic or
stressful at work or home. Start checking out what is going on in your
life when it happens, and what's going on when it starts to happen more
frequently. You may find that it's your brain's way of responding to
stress or discomfort.
or i could be spooks. call a preist. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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gothicmorman
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posted on 28/12/2004 at 10:25 PM |
i don't really have any serious sleep problems but i don't sleep very much,
not during the week anyway. i don't sleep very well most of the time
either. i just have long periods of sleeping little and doing lots then i
crash and sleep lots and lots. i just can't sleep at night though, i don't
like it. and there are things going on in the day so i can't sleep to much
then. nothing interesting really though. |
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