umm yeah. once in college, before i knew what this was, i explained the symptoms to a professor who just lectured about REM sleep. He had no idea what I was t

umm yeah. once in college, before i knew what this was, i explained the symptoms to a professor who just lectured about REM sleep. He had no idea what I was talking about and it made me feel like a crazy person. But a few years later more information has appeared on the internet and I've identified it as sleep paralysis. I haven't been able to put it into a pattern yet, though it's happened when I'm sober, semi-drunk (but never when I'm passed out), and when I fall asleep in a car--not driving, of course, though it's accompanied by a dream that I'm driving and am unable to move--talk about scary.