Sleep Help please- aka sleep paralysis?
What can I do to prevent an ongoing dream- aka Sleep paralysis?
For the past few weeks, I keep having this dream where I am aware of my surroundings... I try to wake up, but I can't. I end up screaming (inside and outside of my "dream") my arms are flailing, etc. My mind is connected, but my body can't respond. It is like something is keeping me from waking. There is no PTSD or anything like that, but this cannot be good and I shouldn't have the dream practically every night. I continue to pray, have smudged, etc for good measure as well. I know what this is supposed to be called (sleep paralysis,) but the fact that it is happening every night is becoming more and more difficult. I try to calm down in my sleep (deep breathing, etc.) but that doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. From what I read, this is something that happens to people every once and a while, but it is becoming consistant... That and it usually starts not too long after I have origionally fallen asleep. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
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Hi Natalie,
Sleep paralysis is often brought on by times of great stress, or times when you are keeping an irregular sleep schedule. Do the best you can to keep a regular sleep schedule, and get enough sleep, try to get to bed at the same time every night, and wake up at the same time every morning.
Yoga before bed may help you to relax. Also try some relaxation exercises as you go to sleep, a search will help you to turn up some good relaxation exercises where you tense and release your muscles group by group as you go to sleep. Even though you don't have PTSD, you may still be under some form of stress like working too hard, or having to do different shifts every day and things like that, and that could bring on things like this. Sometimes people also get this when they have interrupted a normal sleep schedule with things like partying too hard and being too wound up when they go to bed as well. There are many things that can cause "stress" in our lives, and cause us to go to bed with the mind too awake when the body needs to sleep, so look around and see if there is something that is causing you to feel wound up at bedtime. Good luck...
Its like your paralysed and you have to use all your strength to move your muscles. I hate it because I can't breathe very well, or talk. Its like my mind is awake but my body is still asleep.
I asked my psychology teacher about this and he said the name for it is obviously sleep paralysis and what may seem like 5 min of non-movement, it's really only a couple of seconds. Knowing that helps me a little. I think ambien helps with this because I sleep all through the night until both my body and mind are ready to wake up! It hasnt failed me yet..and hopefully never will
I actual have it infrequently, approximately another month or so it in many cases starts out with an extreme worry and anger immediately then i comprehend i won't be able to pass i don't have such undesirable hallucinations the two, worst ive had replaced into the face of a guy suitable in my face, if seems ought to kill i'd be ineffective. yet another hallucination replaced into the sensation of an rather boney hand on my shoulder grabbing me tightly. My technique is to easily concentration on certainly one of my arms and in simple terms concentration on moving it and not the rest, i'm exceptionally good at it and that i think of it is why i don't have hallucinations, i do no longer pay interest to the rest that is going on around me it is approximately it, i keep my eyes closed the entire time, no would desire to freak out anymore than i already am I AGREE, good theory, WHY DON"T human beings record THEMSELVES!?!?!? there are a number of human beings that say that they have this happen to them each and every evening and declare that there is not any way it replaced into in undemanding terms a hallucination. OH YEAH? then record IT and notice FOR your self