semi-conscious sleeping problem, mind wakes before body does

Lavarock64 · 06-30-08, 01:25 PM

All right.......Maybe a mud member goes through this, no one at work does and they think I'm nuts.

This happens about twice a year. I'll be sound a sleep and the conscious part of my brain wakes up, but my body does not. It's a creepy feeling, like your trapped. What I then have to do is channel all of my thoughts / energy to one part of my body to get it to move (like a hand or foot). As soon as I get it to move, slowly the rest of my body starts to wake. As I get the foot or had to cooperate, it often very choppy (like the nurons are only half firing - only half the spark plugs are firing).

This has been happening ever since I can remember, but damn it's

creepy. Anyone else go through this?

Arleaux · 06-30-08, 02:06 PM

Happens to me at about the same frequency. It absolutely terrifies me! I've even had it combined with an evil voice taunting me.
My wife is aware of it and has actually helped awaken me. I can make a barely audible scream after what seems like an eternity. This alerts her to wake me.
One of the worst things ever!!!
Good luck dude.

EricG · 06-30-08, 02:08 PM

Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I had it happen once - was pretty creepy.

cruiser88 · 06-30-08, 02:12 PM

Never experienced that but I do sleep walk.

roscoFJ73 · 06-30-08, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Lavarock64

All right.......Maybe a mud member goes through this, no one at work does and they think I'm nuts.

This happens about twice a year. I'll be sound a sleep and the conscious part of my brain wakes up, but my body does not. It's a creepy feeling, like your trapped. What I then have to do is channel all of my thoughts / energy to one part of my body to get it to move (like a hand or foot). As soon as I get it to move, slowly the rest of my body starts to wake. As I get the foot or had to cooperate, it often very choppy (like the nurons are only half firing - only half the spark plugs are firing).

This has been happening ever since I can remember, but damn it's

creepy. Anyone else go through this?

I heard a doctor on the radio talking about it. He said to do just what you are trying to do,relax and come to grips with it

bogus one · 06-30-08, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by cruiser88

Never experienced that but I do sleep eat.

monniepoo · 06-30-08, 03:06 PM

That happends to me quite frequently... I feel paralized for a min or two.

nicksfj-40 · 06-30-08, 03:13 PM

You guys are weird.

I just hear voices saying incoherent things in my head before I fall asleep.

cruiser88 · 06-30-08, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bogus one

I gotz nothing.....well played asshole

re_guderian · 06-30-08, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Lavarock64

All right.......Maybe a mud member goes through this, no one at work does and they think I'm nuts.

You're nuts.

just kidding. Sounds like something I'd rather avoid, but if it happens to me, now at least I'll know what it is...

94cruisercal · 06-30-08, 03:55 PM

Been through that a few times though not with the frequency that you do. I heard that it is stress related. Yes it is scary especially the first few times but try to relax and wait it out. I know that feeling of trying to scream or signal to someone that something is wrong and not being able to move or speak. Weird stuff

Hilux · 06-30-08, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Lavarock64

All right.......Maybe a mud member goes through this, no one at work does and they think I'm nuts. /quote]

You're nuts.

just kidding. Sounds like something I'd rather avoid, but if it happens to me, now at least I'll know what it is...

I think we need to start a "how to quote" thread

Hilux · 06-30-08, 04:07 PM

happens to me, only when I go to sleep. I try to wake but I can't. Holding my breath is the only thing I can do to awake.

What sucks is that you are between states. I've had my garage broke into twice, I installed a baby monitor....

see if you can see where I'm going with this.....

I'll nod off, and think I hear something in the monitor then it's like "hurry up and WAKE UP!!" "They'll get away.."

And it's hard as hell to wake myself up.

I've heard you can control what you dream about this way (interesting stuff on Coast to Coast) but I got nothing.

calphi27 · 06-30-08, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Hilux

I've heard you can control what you dream about this way (interesting stuff on Coast to Coast) but I got nothing.

I have been only able to control my dreams about 3 times and it was wicked. During that time, I remember it being almost impossible to move, but it did not bother me because I wanted to stay in the dream and not wake up just yet.

Hilux · 06-30-08, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by calphi27

I have been only able to control my dreams about 3 times and it was wicked. During that time, I remember it being almost impossible to move, but it did not bother me because I wanted to stay in the dream and not wake up just yet.

:shutters:

G** DA****!

I can only see black. Can't move, can't think about something and see it...NOTHING!

So I just hold my breath and TRY to wiggle a toe or finger to wake up. Doing that, the movement sorta starts small and runs up my limb until I can move it enough to wake up.

My worst fear is to go under in an operation like that....

i want to fly....

anyone else see flashing lights and LOUD, thunderous booms?

Trapper50cal · 07-01-08, 01:12 AM

If I wake up too quickly, I can't speak. If I am startled awake (intruder noise/dream of intruder-happened twice) I find that I can't form words for about 30 seconds or so. Very weird. Body works mouth doesn't.

WristPin · 07-01-08, 05:23 PM

y'all a bunch of damn freaks!

calico kid · 07-01-08, 05:33 PM

I hate it.

NaterGator · 07-01-08, 05:51 PM

I think it's caused by a lack of some chemical (or the release of a hormone) and it happens to me fairly frequently (maybe monthly)

I've grown to enjoy it; now I know what is going on and it's like a game trying to get the rest of my body to respond

CruisinFJ60 · 07-01-08, 06:07 PM

I have been asleep before and completly and totally crashed out, but i can hear everything, I know everything that is going on ect. Its crazy. I was snooring one time and thought i was asking who was snoring (but i aparently never made and sound when i tried to speak) and woke up and found out it was me. That happens to me fairly often. I have awoken in a startle a couple times and it was a kinda outta body experience like i could see myself and when i tried to scream or say something nothing came out... then bout 30 seconds later all was good... i dunno.. Maybe im just crazy...

dizzidave · 07-01-08, 06:17 PM

Yep, happens to me too. Exactly, like twice a year. Don't like the "no control" action much.

Oh well.

cruiser88 · 07-01-08, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by CruisinFJ60

I have been asleep before and completly and totally crashed out, but i can hear everything, I know everything that is going on ect. Its crazy. I was snooring one time and thought i was asking who was snoring (but i aparently never made and sound when i tried to speak) and woke up and found out it was me. That happens to me fairly often. I have awoken in a startle a couple times and it was a kinda outta body experience like i could see myself and when i tried to scream or say something nothing came out... then bout 30 seconds later all was good... i dunno.. Maybe im just crazy...

No....you are just far more relaxed than most.

2damslow · 07-01-08, 09:48 PM

I've had that before. It was terrifying because I had to consiously breathe. It was like I was not automatically breathing, I had to make the decision to take each breath. Before it happened, I heard a very loud BOOM in the room, like a gunshot. My wife was awake working at the computer the whole time in the next room over. She heard nothing.

Occasionally, I will hear the very loud BOOMs. THey are authentic enought that I always get up and investigate. Always. No paralysis though.

CJF · 07-01-08, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by WristPin

y'all a bunch of damn freaks!

No chit!!

:shudder:

Spook50 · 07-01-08, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by monniepoo

That happends to me quite frequen

06-30-08, 01:25 PM	#1
Lavarock64 IH8MUD Rookie Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Fingerlakes NY Posts: 59	semi-conscious sleeping problem, mind wakes before body does All right.......Maybe a mud member goes through this, no one at work does and they think I'm nuts. This happens about twice a year. I'll be sound a sleep and the conscious part of my brain wakes up, but my body does not. It's a creepy feeling, like your trapped. What I then have to do is channel all of my thoughts / energy to one part of my body to get it to move (like a hand or foot). As soon as I get it to move, slowly the rest of my body starts to wake. As I get the foot or had to cooperate, it often very choppy (like the nurons are only half firing - only half the spark plugs are firing). This has been happening ever since I can remember, but damn it's creepy. Anyone else go through this?

06-30-08, 02:06 PM	#2
Arleaux tardus veho Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Missippi TLCA# 14758 Posts: 396	Happens to me at about the same frequency. It absolutely terrifies me! I've even had it combined with an evil voice taunting me. My wife is aware of it and has actually helped awaken me. I can make a barely audible scream after what seems like an eternity. This alerts her to wake me. One of the worst things ever!!! Good luck dude. __________________ Chris 04 530i 97 lx450 retro-locked, CDL switch, 7 pin mod, Slee 4" kit, ShortBus bumper, 35's, GPS, DVD... being chased by a couple of eXmarks. "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs"

06-30-08, 02:08 PM	#3
EricG IH8MUD Addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 558	Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I had it happen once - was pretty creepy. __________________ It is neither necessary or possible to educate someone who never questions anything. - Josephe Heller, Catch 22 93 FZJ80 - Locked & Lifted - still waiting on Loaded (CDL, 7pin, Axle transplant from Jenny Cruiser, 2" OME lift)

06-30-08, 02:12 PM	#4
cruiser88 IH8MUD Lifer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: over here TLCA# 17319 Posts: 7,155	Never experienced that but I do sleep walk. __________________ http://s237.photobucket.com/albums/f...13957_15_0.jpg http://s237.photobucket.com/albums/f...113957_1_2.jpg

06-30-08, 03:06 PM	#7
monniepoo IH8MUD Regular Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: UPLAND TLCA# 18362 Posts: 203	That happends to me quite frequently... I feel paralized for a min or two. __________________ MySpace

06-30-08, 03:13 PM	#8
nicksfj-40 IH8MUD Junior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Posts: 118	You guys are weird. I just hear voices saying incoherent things in my head before I fall asleep. __________________ 1973 FJ 40 ..... My Myspace = myspace.com/kooblakhan

06-30-08, 03:55 PM	#11
94cruisercal IH8MUD Rookie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: In a house Posts: 31	Been through that a few times though not with the frequency that you do. I heard that it is stress related. Yes it is scary especially the first few times but try to relax and wait it out. I know that feeling of trying to scream or signal to someone that something is wrong and not being able to move or speak. Weird stuff

06-30-08, 04:07 PM	#13
Hilux IH8MUD Addict Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: I don't feel tardy? TLCA# 9h9-69 Posts: 764	happens to me, only when I go to sleep. I try to wake but I can't. Holding my breath is the only thing I can do to awake. What sucks is that you are between states. I've had my garage broke into twice, I installed a baby monitor.... see if you can see where I'm going with this..... I'll nod off, and think I hear something in the monitor then it's like "hurry up and WAKE UP!!" "They'll get away.." And it's hard as hell to wake myself up. I've heard you can control what you dream about this way (interesting stuff on Coast to Coast) but I got nothing. __________________ Originally Posted by Hilux I want to be the Ben Braddock of the apocalypse And Resident headache getter ridder of-er for the ladiezzz...

07-01-08, 01:12 AM	#16
Trapper50cal IH8MUD Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Durango, CO TLCA# 15812 Posts: 789	IDK if its related If I wake up too quickly, I can't speak. If I am startled awake (intruder noise/dream of intruder-happened twice) I find that I can't form words for about 30 seconds or so. Very weird. Body works mouth doesn't. __________________ 83 FJ60-5" ALCANS-HYSTEER-80 TRE's-RICEBUILT RODS-AUSSIELOCKER-ARB DeerSlayer-LONGFIELDS-35" MTR's-BILSTEIN 5150's-Warn M8000-Ultimate Air-Defender Rack-Rising Sun Roof Clamps-Yukons-Thanks Ige-Groucho-EricS-Corbett-Schmoozer-DurangoDDS-Zen80-Marlin-Bobby-Proffitts

07-01-08, 05:33 PM	#18
calico kid IH8MUD Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 628	I hate it. __________________ "Daddy it's like a hippopotamus on wheels." "LONG LIVE THE PIG" A green and white 55, a gray 40 and a black monty YouTube - pig ride Credere, Obbedire, Combattere http://www.calicocleanup.com/ http://www.marksoffroad.net mark saved my cruiser

07-01-08, 05:51 PM	#19
NaterGator Dive on in... Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tampa/Gainesville, FL TLCA# 18767 Posts: 1,248	I think it's caused by a lack of some chemical (or the release of a hormone) and it happens to me fairly frequently (maybe monthly) I've grown to enjoy it; now I know what is going on and it's like a game trying to get the rest of my body to respond __________________ '96 LX450, 33" Revos, OME lifted, etc, etc Love the life you live, live the life you love. -Bob Marley Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -Oscar Wilde Firefox users, get your youtube on!

07-01-08, 06:17 PM	#21
dizzidave IH8MUD Rookie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: North of you Posts: 71	Yep, happens to me too. Exactly, like twice a year. Don't like the "no control" action much. Oh well.

07-01-08, 09:48 PM	#23
2damslow IH8MUD Regular Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: hyrum Utah. Posts: 246	I've had that before. It was terrifying because I had to consiously breathe. It was like I was not automatically breathing, I had to make the decision to take each breath. Before it happened, I heard a very loud BOOM in the room, like a gunshot. My wife was awake working at the computer the whole time in the next room over. She heard nothing. Occasionally, I will hear the very loud BOOMs. THey are authentic enought that I always get up and investigate. Always. No paralysis though. __________________ Some people really have a way with words... I am not have way.