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This ever happen to you?

acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
About 7 years ago I fell asleep on my couch. All of a sudden I felt something holding me down, I could not move or open my eyes. I struggled for a few seconds and threw myself under the coffee table. Then it was over. It bothered me for years

I don't know if it was real or a dream.
So then.............

My buddy calls me yesterday and tells me this story.

He was sleeping in his bed, and all of a sudden he felt like he was being held down as if someone was over top of him. He tried to get up and could not. He however was able to open his eyes and kept trying to get up. All of a sudden he could. he jumped up went into the living room and smoked a cigarette. He got all bugged out.

Weird that we both had the same experience.
Have any of you had this happen?

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  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    sounds freaky. it must be some postsleep occurance. i dont know. i'm only 15 :o
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    I've heard of that. There's a name for it...I can't remember what it is called, but people experience it from time to time. I think I would have even more trouble sleeping if I experienced that!
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Not exactly to that extent. But, I have a friend (female friend) and we are always in each other's dreams (not like *that*).
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  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Its called sleep paralysis. It happens to me about once a month. Its terrifying.

    Basically what happens is, when someone is sleeping something in your brain is "turned off" (I forget what, some kind of neurotransmitter or something) and this keeps you from acting out your dreams (people who sleep walk don't have this turned off). Sleep paralysis occurs when your mind wakes up, but this thing is still turned off, so for a few seconds you can't move because your body still thinks your sleeping.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    we had a thread about this a few months back. It's a symptom of sleep paralysis often known as "Old Hag Syndrome" where you feel like a malevolent presence is forcing itself on you and stopping you being able to move.

    It happens to a lot of people. I have had it a few times. Not for a while though. The only weird thing that happens in my sleep not is those incredibly vivid dreams that occur when you think you are awake so you genuinely believe them. I had the sensation of "waking up" the other day and a cleaner barged right into my room while I was undressed in bed and I shouted at her to fuck off really loudly. When I really woke up that morning it took a while to work out if it actually happened or not til I realised my door was locked from the inside and the cleaners never clean our rooms anyway :D

    here's some info on sleep paralysis.
    http://www.dreamsnightmares.com/sleepparalysis.html
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Yosi beat me to it :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Yosi beat me to it :)
    great minds thinkalike. well at least yosi's thinks :D:p:)
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    great minds thinkalike. well at least yosi's thinks :D:p
    What the hell are you implying? :eek:

    I am very intelligent :) I just don't use my intelligence very often. Like now, I'm supposed to be writing an essay on the literary form of cyclical short stories and their implementation by James Joyce in his exploration of spiritual and social paralysis, "Dubliners". Instead I am talking about sleep paralysis on here :o
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    the entity
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  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    What the hell are you implying? :eek:

    I am very intelligent :) I just don't use my intelligence very often. Like now, I'm supposed to be writing an essay on the literary form of cyclical short stories and their implementation by James Joyce in his exploration of spiritual and social paralysis, "Dubliners". Instead I am talking about sleep paralysis on here :o
    just ride the wave and you'll be fine :D
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  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    What the hell are you implying? :eek:

    I wasn't sure what was being implied either :D

    I hope at least it was something nice about me :p
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    yosi wrote:
    I wasn't sure what was being implied either :D

    I hope at least it was something nice about me :p
    At first I thought he was calling your mind great and taking the piss out of me... but now I'm not so sure. I doubt even he knows ;)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    At first I thought he was calling your mind great and taking the piss out of me... but now I'm not so sure. I doubt even he knows ;)
    i was taking the piss out on you! :D jokingly of course :p
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  • In My DreamsIn My Dreams Posts: 299
    It happened to me once. I was asleep but my eyes were open and I could see a form hovering over me, holding me down. Very scary. Knock on wood it only happened once.
    A real possibility I may meet you in my dreams ~ I go to sleep
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