Paranormal Experience
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ttystikk
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Other than a healthy dose of edibles an hour or less before bedtime, I don't have any ideas.
That's awful just thinking about it. I hope you find relief soon.
Buddha2525
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ruby fruit
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Let's say someone threatened you when u were a young child and said if you tell anyone what you just saw you won't wake up ....
That could be enough of a reason to bring on that death feeling (night terror) when in bed and the need to have someone sleep in bed with you every night....
Just one of many examples...
Could be something simple like this but it's not at the forefront of memory and takes it's own shape once it's bedtime
Cannabis.Queen
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I can sleep alone, and sometimes it doesn't happen, but I have to have tv or light. I'm not scared of the dark either I'm a horror movie film maker (student) and if we were to really go into when I started having these it was when I moved to a new city with I was younger into a old house with a lot of history.
That alone gave me night mares but being 6 laying on the mattress on the ground beside your parents bed and having sleep paralysis (if you look it up you will see all the types people can get) I've had sleep paralysis ever since. I wake up but I can't move and then my mind panties and I have a night terror of a imaginary thing there to harm me but because of the sleep paralysis I can't call for help or move away. I cry and take it and hope it goes away. Can't even close my eyes to try to stop it.
I'll be going to my 10th sleep clinic over night assignment to see what my brain is doing to make this happen lol
Venus55
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So are u experiencing sleep paralysis or night terrors? Because the two are distinctively different and occur during different stages of sleep and often at different stages of life.
Night terrors occur most often in children, that tend to grow out of it. My son used to have night terrors and it’s disturbing to watch. He would wake up screaming in his cot and I’d go in there to see him thrashing around and if I tried to touch him or pick him up he’d get even worse with the thrashing and screaming, kicking, swinging. And same if I tried to talk to him or soothe him. I learnt not to look at him and just stand by the cot and get ready to block his head from hitting the sides of the cot as he’d launch into them. The longest one lasted about 35 mins one night. They always ended the same way where he’d just stop and lie back down and be asleep just like that. There is also no recollection of night terrors for the person experiencing them upon waking in the morning.
I experience (haven’t for a couple of years now) sleep paralysis, which often begins, as in my case in adolescence. My eyes open and I’m aware of my surroundings but will still have a dream playing at the same time with the sounds everything. I can’t talk and can’t move no matter how hard I try. I’ve read a lot of articles where people see shadows and evil spirits etc waiting to possess their bodies. I don’t see that but I do feel intense fear and completely vulnerable and exposed. To what I’m not sure.
To watch someone having a night terror compared to sleep paralysis are two completely different scenarios and like I said they occur at different stages of sleep.
It sounds like you’re experiencing sleep paralysis and like I described you still have whatever dream playing in front of your eyes even tho they’re open and can focus on the things around you. (Or at least the ceiling anyway, for me). So that coupled with the morbid fear felt throughout the paralysis, you’re confusing with a night terror. (Which you more than likely wouldn’t remember anyway.)
Either way, have you tried smoking weed before you go to sleep? I don’t know what your smoking habits are, but if u smoke during the day you could try cuttting down or stopping all together and smoking right before bed. That’s what works for me and not saying it would for you but can’t hurt to try.
Good luck with it all anyway babe and hope u find a way to get more peaceful sleep in your life
Night terrors occur most often in children, that tend to grow out of it. My son used to have night terrors and it’s disturbing to watch. He would wake up screaming in his cot and I’d go in there to see him thrashing around and if I tried to touch him or pick him up he’d get even worse with the thrashing and screaming, kicking, swinging. And same if I tried to talk to him or soothe him. I learnt not to look at him and just stand by the cot and get ready to block his head from hitting the sides of the cot as he’d launch into them. The longest one lasted about 35 mins one night. They always ended the same way where he’d just stop and lie back down and be asleep just like that. There is also no recollection of night terrors for the person experiencing them upon waking in the morning.
I experience (haven’t for a couple of years now) sleep paralysis, which often begins, as in my case in adolescence. My eyes open and I’m aware of my surroundings but will still have a dream playing at the same time with the sounds everything. I can’t talk and can’t move no matter how hard I try. I’ve read a lot of articles where people see shadows and evil spirits etc waiting to possess their bodies. I don’t see that but I do feel intense fear and completely vulnerable and exposed. To what I’m not sure.
To watch someone having a night terror compared to sleep paralysis are two completely different scenarios and like I said they occur at different stages of sleep.
It sounds like you’re experiencing sleep paralysis and like I described you still have whatever dream playing in front of your eyes even tho they’re open and can focus on the things around you. (Or at least the ceiling anyway, for me). So that coupled with the morbid fear felt throughout the paralysis, you’re confusing with a night terror. (Which you more than likely wouldn’t remember anyway.)
Either way, have you tried smoking weed before you go to sleep? I don’t know what your smoking habits are, but if u smoke during the day you could try cuttting down or stopping all together and smoking right before bed. That’s what works for me and not saying it would for you but can’t hurt to try.
Good luck with it all anyway babe and hope u find a way to get more peaceful sleep in your life
Cannabis.Queen
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Yeah I only thought nightmares because my therapist said sleep paralysis is very uncommon but I've had it since I was 6. Yeah the ceiling is my looking spot since my body can't seem to do what I want !So are u experiencing sleep paralysis or night terrors? Because the two are distinctively different and occur during different stages of sleep and often at different stages of life.
Night terrors occur most often in children, that tend to grow out of it. My son used to have night terrors and it’s disturbing to watch. He would wake up screaming in his cot and I’d go in there to see him thrashing around and if I tried to touch him or pick him up he’d get even worse with the thrashing and screaming, kicking, swinging. And same if I tried to talk to him or soothe him. I learnt not to look at him and just stand by the cot and get ready to block his head from hitting the sides of the cot as he’d launch into them. The longest one lasted about 35 mins one night. They always ended the same way where he’d just stop and lie back down and be asleep just like that. There is also no recollection of night terrors for the person experiencing them upon waking in the morning.
I experience (haven’t for a couple of years now) sleep paralysis, which often begins, as in my case in adolescence. My eyes open and I’m aware of my surroundings but will still have a dream playing at the same time with the sounds everything. I can’t talk and can’t move no matter how hard I try. I’ve read a lot of articles where people see shadows and evil spirits etc waiting to possess their bodies. I don’t see that but I do feel intense fear and completely vulnerable and exposed. To what I’m not sure.
To watch someone having a night terror compared to sleep paralysis are two completely different scenarios and like I said they occur at different stages of sleep.
It sounds like you’re experiencing sleep paralysis and like I described you still have whatever dream playing in front of your eyes even tho they’re open and can focus on the things around you. (Or at least the ceiling anyway, for me). So that coupled with the morbid fear felt throughout the paralysis, you’re confusing with a night terror. (Which you more than likely wouldn’t remember anyway.)
Either way, have you tried smoking weed before you go to sleep? I don’t know what your smoking habits are, but if u smoke during the day you could try cuttting down or stopping all together and smoking right before bed. That’s what works for me and not saying it would for you but can’t hurt to try.
Good luck with it all anyway babe and hope u find a way to get more peaceful sleep in your life
I'm going to try smoking before bed and see how that goes. Thanks girl! I just can't take it anymore; something's I feel and see this goblin looking thing on my chest just crushing me ..
Dalek Supreme
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From my research. Sleep paralysis is a vestigial remnant from our ape like ancestors. We used to sleep in trees therefore locking our muscles kept us from falling down.
Back in the ancient Roman era vestigial tails were more common compared to today. Such a visual oddity left natural selection to weed it out. But having the paralysis only left room for superstition. Thus this remnant from our past persists.
It's difficult getting this information due to the superstition that still persists. But it's a neurochemical linked to muscles relating to awake, and sleep states. Hallucination is the imbalance of sleeping neurochemicals overlapping awake state. You are just experiencing your subconscious while your muscles are locked.
Back in the ancient Roman era vestigial tails were more common compared to today. Such a visual oddity left natural selection to weed it out. But having the paralysis only left room for superstition. Thus this remnant from our past persists.
It's difficult getting this information due to the superstition that still persists. But it's a neurochemical linked to muscles relating to awake, and sleep states. Hallucination is the imbalance of sleeping neurochemicals overlapping awake state. You are just experiencing your subconscious while your muscles are locked.