sleep help: Does anyone heard of “sleep paralyzed”? - Help.com

I personally been dealing with this issue as well. It started when i was twelve, and now im nineteen. I actually expierenced this yesterday. IT started with my eyes being closed but i was able to hear what was going on around me. Then all of a sudden, I was able to open my right eye. I remember looking around and hearing myself breathing fast and hard, my younger cousin was watching me and knowing she was awake I wanted her to wake me up. Doing so, I tried so hard to move my head back and forth it seemed forever. My head was shacking rapidley, and I personally remember telling myself,”OMG” and I began to pray. I was so exhausted of trying to move my body then I began shacking my feet. A few seconds later, I woke up and I sat up and I was terrified. My weak body began to shack and every night Im hoping that it doesnt happen!

I think its all to do with the brain. I get this too every now and then and I know what you guys and girls are saying you cannot move or scream. I dont really belive its ghosts or anything evil but in some cases I have read it does get much more voilent and alot scarier as the brain hits REM mode which is the dream level and some what beyond I belive. The only thing I can say about this is sleep to someone who knows your condition! Dont fall asleep stressed or angry and defintly dont think too much what will happen or what you see or hear. For everyone I can surely belive this is a subject that goes beyond the mind itself in to another world but who knows which realm we enter.

alfredo_b wrote:
I have something like that, ive been having it very frequently lastly, its that i want to wake up but i cant, i can hear things go around me, i can hear the people in my house, but i cant move. if i move i get very tired because it takes alot of energy to do so. the only controll that i have over my body is when i breathe. so i start breathing hard and repeatedly to hope someone would think something is wrong with me and wake me up, but sometimes it doesent happen and i have no idea how much it will last this time. the real problem is when i have mucus in my nose and my mouth is closed. This happened to me right now today. i coudnt breathe niether through my nose and my mouth was full of mocus and coudnt parsly breathe anything through my mouth. i was so scared i thought that i would die but suddenly woke up. ussualy when i fight to wake up when im having this and i finally wake up, i have an extreeme sleepyness and just close my eyes, but asoon as i close my eyes, it strikes again! it once happened to me over 5 times! i dont know what is happening to me, if someone knows please tell me how is the desease called, what happens, why it happens and how to prevent it, thanks :)

Hey Alfredo, what’s goin on? Hopefully you have solved your sleeping problem. I have read through quite a few posts and all of them seem to vary slightly. It seems to me that I have the exact same issue as you, just not as frequently. The only thing I am able to control in this paralysis state is my eye movement and I can hear/see things moving out of my peripheral. I have always been able to pull myself out of this, but it seems to take about 15 seconds. My problem initially was being able to fall asleep after these events took place. Try sleeping on your side after these take place, that has worked well for me. I don’t know why, but I think I’ve only gone into this paralysis while sleeping on my back. Just something to think about, hopefully it helps.

-Jerry

i have also noticed that this has only happened to me when im on my back or my neck is bent forward. it sounds like the circulation is cut off or something.