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Do you ever suffer from sleep paralysis?

• mrcsparker 12y ago
  Never.
• Smirnoff 12y ago
  I am not the OP but I do experience sleep paralysis. I started experiencing it during my late teens; it was scary at first but I learned to control it and calm down when it happens. The worst part about sleep paralysis is that things happen to you while you are in bed in your room (or where ever you fell asleep) and things seem too real-- ghosts trying to choke you, a monster slowly crawling towards you, or just some person in the mask breaking into your house and you can't move or scream to ask for help. Sometimes it happens at night and you can move around (but that's a dream), then you wake up and can't move (and that's either sleep paralysis or yet another dream). Then you wake up for real but you don't know if that's still a dream. Sometimes it happens during the day when you nap. You can hear people around you talking but no one seems to see/feel that building is about to be destroyed or hear you screaming because you can't move your lips. Luckily, I learned to control it. All you need to do is calm down and say that it is a dream. Personally, there are clues that give up the fact that I am in sleep paralysis-- I can't see faces clearly, regardless of the thing being alive or inanimate (like stuffed toys). So I just calm down, admit that it is a dream, and fall asleep again. PS: I also wouldn't call it "suffering sleep paralysis". It happened frequently (several times per month) when I was young but after I turned 22 it might have happened 3 or 4 times only.