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Originally Posted by flameswin
I also get sleep paralysis that some have mentioned. Scary as hell. It's a tough phenomenon to describe to people who don't have it, to explain how odd/jolting it is.
I've read (I think on CP) that there are various degrees of sleep paralysis that range from a couple of seconds to literally minutes, combined with thinking someone's in your room trying to attack you.....Just imagine being "awake" unable to move you body and you're dreaming that someone is attacking you....and this goes on for like 5 minutes? That's insane.
Luckily I'm on the low end of the scale and get it about once every 3 weeks or so. For me it's usually 5 - 10 seconds. I just lay there, trying desperately to move limbs, then I start feeling like I can't breathe (I'd imagine cause your body is still trying to breath extremely lightly like when you're sleeping, so you can't speed it up/take larger breaths), so panic sets in.
Then when I snap out of it, I usually just jolt up and breath heavily, like I've just woken from a nightmare. Pretty surreal experience every time.
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Wow! That's sounds crazy-scary! I've never heard of that before.
And it totally explains a very strange experience I had a kid where I woke up once, unable to move, and totally convinced that Marvin The Martian from Bugs Bunny was in my room trying to drink my soul.