Sleep Paralysis

rgambs said:

I definitely have fucked up sleep patterns.  I may be mildly narcoleptic or have a similar issue.
My sleep states cycle rapidly and as a result, I remember a high number of dreams, which sometimes occur constantly throughout the night with an awakening every half hour or so.  The old wife lady remembers a dream upon waking like once a month, and I average 2.5 per night.
I can get "stuck in a loop" and have the same dream continuously for hours.  The sucky part is that it's usually just a fragment of a dream or even just a thought.
All night long just walking a single flight of steps, wondering how to get somewhere, or even just  thinking blue, blue, blue, forever.  Sometimes even getting out of bed for a half hour isn't enough to break the cycle!
I have lucid dreams every week, but I'm not able to control the direction, only able to recognise it for a dream.  
I've experienced somnambulism a few times, but nothing freaky.

I have had three "out of body" experiences connected to paralysis events, each time I slid off the bed feet first and layed on the floor wondering how I would get up since I can't move, only to wake up in the bed and confused about being there.

Someday I need a sleep study.
Really though, I don't have insomnia and I'm thankful for that.
I am a hardy fellow who can get by on 5 hours of sleep every night, even with wakings at least every hour.

One perk, I've almost never overslept more than about 15-20 minutes and I don't use an alarm clock.  I always know about what time it is.