What the heck happened to me last night?

[Alejandro]

omg its the worst feeling, like you can't control it!! Imagine how worse that is, with a charlie horse too.

oh goooddddd!!

 

[CelineChic]

This happened to my legs once and I started to scream. But I think it turned out that I was partially asleep and dreaming because when I snapped out of it my husband said that I didn't scream.

Very strange how our mind can play tricks on us sometimes.

 

[jennifer~]

I sometimes experiece sleep paralysis, which feels exactly as the term would suggest: full conciousness coupled with a delayed ability to wake one's body from sleep--or to move, in other words. It's bizarre, and scared me initially, since I believed I was losing my mind until I found a term for my experience. It feels different from being partially asleep and dreaming, because the only thing asleep is one's body, though the two are hard to distinguish when one experiencing sleep paralysis believes s/he is dreaming (as is often the case). Which leads me to believe it's more common than people are aware, since almost everyone has claimed the former at one time...

 

[missbliss]

Okay, thanks for making me feel normal! lol This happenned to me before & I believe I gave myself a mild hearattack from the event. I thought I had a stroke, because I couldn't move only my right arm.

 

[Bluestar07]

I sometimes experiece sleep paralysis, which feels exactly as the term would suggest: full conciousness coupled with a delayed ability to wake one's body from sleep--or to move, in other words. It's bizarre, and scared me initially, since I believed I was losing my mind until I found a term for my experience. It feels different from being partially asleep and dreaming, because the only thing asleep is one's body, though the two are hard to distinguish when one experiencing sleep paralysis believes s/he is dreaming (as is often the case). Which leads me to believe it's more common than people are aware, since almost everyone has claimed the former at one time...

Hey I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this! It's so freaky - sleep paralysis. You describe exactly what I experience. Usually, it would be something like I'm lying my my side and then I feel like I have turned to the other side. The feeling of having moved is incredibly strong, like it's very real. But the next moment, I realise I'm still lying on the original side. And this will happen repeatedly like a video looping. And it get's extremely frustrating. I used to panic the first few times. I remember the first time... I have fallen asleep lying on my tummy. So can you imagine how scary it is that I could not roll over! And I was alone!

Now that I'm aware of this condition, I just try to relax until my mind and body gets synchronised in being awake. It's still extremely frustrating though!

It usually happens when I'm very very tired and go into a deep sleep.

 

[lemeray]

Happens to my feet. But it's more like a spasm or something, they curl and it's so painful to try to move them back in place.

 

[Eline]

I have it sometimes as well. Either my hand or my total arm feels rubbery, flabby (almost boneless) and really heavy when I try to lift it with my other hand. I'm glad more people have this problem, cause I'm shocked every time it happens and afraid I will never be able to move it again! It would be really frightening when both your arms get numb ...

 

[adorefaith]

i'm sorry but god this thread is funny....
i have literally laughed out loud reading all of your posts....

this has happened to me a few times too....
and it is terribly scary.....i honestly thought i was paralysed the first time too....
i couldnt figure out what the hell had happened....
.....

and then you lie there afterward, so thankful....
the rest of the morning i walk around thinking 'thank god the feeling came back'.....
nice to know others are experiencing the same thing!....

 

[laurette]

A few months ago I used to wake up and couldn't do anything: neither opening my eyes, nor moving any part of my body nor scream for 1-2 minutes. I always thought that this was the time I was going to die, it was really scarying the hell out of me.
When I told my friends and mom they didn't take it serious and thought I was daydreaming but I was definitely not (thanks for posting the sleep paralysis link, jennifer, it is comforting )

As the others already said: I think it's normal what happened to you, this always happens with my leg when I sit on it.

lemeray: that's a cramp

 

[ibimus]

That happens to me if I sleep in a strange position, and cut off the circulation in whatever limb was unlucky enough to be where it was.

My problem is that I usually discover it without being fully awake yet, so I usually just poke at it with my other hand, and wonder why that limb doesn't work.

 

[morgan38]

If you absolutely can't move, I would guess it's sleep paralysis. My college roomate a couple years ago suffered from narcolepsy, and she would often find herself unable to move any part of her body. It was very scary for her...but it happens occasionally to lots of people and it's nothing to worry about.

 

[haute femme]

Don't worry about it!! I've had the same thing happen too.. It's so weird, you get a fear so you have to have someone around you and it feels weird to even lift so you use your other arm and just touch it until feeling comes back.. eghhg discomfort

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

stay hydrated, eat your bananas and drink milk

 

[MissPrint]

Up until now I thought sleep paralysis was always accompanied by halucinating, or however its spelled. It sounded really scary.

My brothers legs went numb once on a long car trip and he got out of the car and fell flat on his face. It was so funny (painful for him I'm sure ) I was rolling on the ground laughing.

 

[jennifer~]

My hallucinations are getting awfully weird...

 

[laurette]

hallucinations?
do you have them when you wake up/fall asleep?