Anyone get sleep paralysis?

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Sleep paralysis rarely includes trauma stuff. So it sounds like a double whammy. Do not sleep on your back, sleep paralysis occurs mostly on you back somtimes side, but almost neveron your stomach and should go away compleatly by mid to late 20's

 

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My Niece has this and one time I googled sleep paralysis and dream interpretation or such and got a great website (I do not remember it now) that really explained the subconsciousness processing of this and it does relate to trauma for some people. I hope you find that link.

 

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1) Do you experience sleep paralysis or hynagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there upon falling asleep or waking up)? Do the hallucinations have anything to do with any trauma you experienced, content-wise?

Yes, absolutely. I have quite severe paralysis, and its definitely trauma related. I have vivid dreams of being sliced open with a scalpel and my insides being pulled out (I had several major surgeries that left me with a "zipper scar" down the center of my body from sternum to pelvis). I scream and cry and the pain feels so real. ill start to wake up but I cant move a muscle or speak.

I was also in an abusive relationship and often have night terrors of his attacks. Ive woken up with my neck and chest torn to shreds from me dreaming of clawing trying to get his hands off my throat.

2) What other sleep disturbances do you deal with?
just general insomnia. I think its primarily of fear of falling asleep and having a nightmare.

 

[MamaHopeful]

Yeah that makes sense. Sometimes the sleep paralysis hallucinations I get are loosely related to trau...

Please keep me posted on the twitching and spasming and what they say. For me this is the hardest thing at night. The moment I begin to sleep my legs go crazy - almost like I'm running or something. It stops when I sit up up but then the second I fall back to sleep it keeps happening again.

Let me know if you hear anything!

 

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@lullaby19 When I saw the monster I couldn’t move and would just keep closing my eyes
And opening later praying he was gone.
I so badly just wanted to pull the covers over my head or hide but I couldn’t. I was frozen.

Now I wake up after a nightmare and will not be in bed but somewhere else rocking and sucking my thumb. I am in my 30’s so this really freaked me out the first time it happened a few years ago. Sometimes I remember the nightmare but mostly just wake up scared and in a panic.

I’m crying as I type this because I am very ashamed of it and don’t discuss it. I know I shouldn’t feel that way but I do.

No, that's not to be ashamed of I don't think!. It seems like a younger you is activated, and walks out of the bed, sucks it's thumb, and then you become conscious of the present self. I think, take special note of the "being ashamed" it could be a part of the self remaining when you shift back?

I've experienced sleep paralysis twice that i can actually remember. I've had frequent nightmares since I was a child. I remember sitting outside my parents room alot crying to come sleep with them due to nightmares. I internalize stress alot and my nightmares seem to come from that. From losing a sister when I was a teen, alcoholic father, plus being a police officer and in law enforcement for 12 years I deal with a lot of nightmares.
Sleep paralysis makes me feel like I'm being smothered by a mattress and I'm awake but I'm suffocating. Im feel like I'm watching myself suffocate but I can't move and I'm screaming but no one can hear me. Its the worse feeling ever. I wake up laying on my back with my hands crossed over my chest too.
Had some nightmares last night due to stressing over my combat vet ex and Our talk yesterday. This is actually my first post so glad I can open up and talk and know im not alone on these situations.

Has that ever happened; like being smothered by a mattress or similar?

Please keep me posted on the twitching and spasming and what they say. For me this is the hardest thing at night. The moment I begin to sleep my legs go crazy - almost like I'm running or something. It stops when I sit up up but then the second I fall back to sleep it keeps happening again.

Let me know if you hear anything!

some meds can cause restless leg syndrome: is it like that, or I'm running in my dream?