Sleep Paralysis!?

Lately, I've been having bad cases of sleep paralysis, or I believe that is what this is. What happens is I'll usually wake up, but I won't be able to move, or I'll move very, very slowly. I'm usually aware of what's happening around me, but I won't be able to say anything. Usually, after a minute or two, I'll just snap out of it. It's happened before when I was a kid, but now it seems to happen many times a night. I'm just wondering is this possibly dangerous and should I get it checked out? Or does this happen to lots of people and I'll just have to learn to deal with it? I'm just scared I won't be able to move back again one day, or that I'll be in that state for hours and no one will know.

-I'm going to talk to my parents about it and see if they can get me to a doctor.

-Ohgosh, I've only had the sleep paralysis where everything is normal, I've never had the one where I hallucinated, but now that I've been to websites talking about seeing ghosts and stuff. I'm too scared to sleep. @__@

have had it for about 6 years, mine seems to be associated with severe chronic pain disorder...it can take me a long time to move..an hour or more, fortunately, someone in my family finds me and starts to gently, and I mean GENTLY move me, once the movement has begun...I can do the rest myself... I cannot scream for help...just kinda croak "help" ..But, I have 2 dogs who sleep in my room and know when something is wrong...and they flip out ~get's someones attention ~and I've had my largest dog pull on my arm before..lucky me!! Good luck to you in finding out what the problem is..I'd sure like to know and stop it myself as well..seems the Docs aren't real educated in my pain in the neck of the woods..and Happiest of Holidays to you o<{}:@}}>

wow go see your dr

had it for a while......no long term cure, but it causes no harm just scary.
I have hallucinations like satan is on my chest or im dieing by my door...yay! fun fun...

they dont know why it happens

A lot of people have it, sleep paralysis is also called Old Hag Syndrome. During REM sleep your brain disengages many physical functions so that you don't act out your dreams.

It may seem like forever but the typical episode lasts less than 30 seconds. It's not dangerous just pretty damn spooky.

I have it too...

Some believe that it may be hereditary, but it is not certain what really causes it. Sleep recording shows the following for those who experience this...

*suppression of skeletal muscle tone
*sleep onset REM period
*dissociated REM sleep

However, it is not harmful. It causes no physical harm. You can minimize it by getting enough sleep, reducing stress, and exercising regularly.

But you don't have to worry about it. A lot of people have it. Don't panic when it occurs, relax and try your best to break free from being paralyzed.

They are night terror not like nightmares. A lot longer running r.e.m and if you cant remember a dream but you KNOW you basically had an Incubus on yourself you've had a night terror.
If they are severe they exhauste your amygdala look it up. Its were xanax works. You'll wake up cant move until a toe will twitch I ve laid there for 30 mins. until me/girl devised a scream code my scream is barely audible, but she is so trained she hears it in deepest sleeps and shakes me I twitch freak out she consoles me. A seizure drug stopped this. Gabatril. It was P.T.S.D. post trauma stress.Ifeel for you these things are scary. There is no current online blog for this ,
You wanna start one? Only 2% of population, has it The Wilford-wolfstat syndrome. Which isnt excepted by the AMA
or d.o.'s No drinking and heavy valium use hurts it.
If you ask a dr. about the sydrome he hasnt heard of it.
SLEEP STUDY: Tke barbituates they stop your R.E.M. But thats an addiction and if you ever lost them omg!!