Thanks for the advice, I do sleep on my back now but I didn't when I was suffering from them. I have a bad back and cannot sleep on my stomach at all. I can sleep for small periods of time on my sides, but once I come off clonazepam. I know they will come back. They came back pretty quickly when I came off Valium. I'll talk to my sleep Dr about it when I see him next.

tokitokiATTACK and locust thank for your suggestions. And locust you are so right when they are combined with sleep paralysis. 99% of mine are. I feel the paralysis setting in and then it begins, mainly upon waking. When I'm falling asleep, they are generally more auditory in nature and don't bother me too much.

It's so hard to explain to people, the absolute worst ones for me are I wake up from a nightmare, it's always very early dawn, there is a very dark blue haze. I dive for my light and it won't switch on or if it's not too bad I'll get up for a glass of water. Every time I get to the kitchen and touch a glass or another light switch, I wake up back in bed paralysed and then the nightmare I was having enters the room. It's not early dawn either. That was one of they ways I learnt it was happening and learnt how to take control of them.

Maybe I'll just wait and see what happens when I come off clonazepam. I can always stay on a low dose like 0.25 or 0.5mg and see if that works!

I'm just looking to see if there are any other ways out there to stop them, either through a practiced technique or medication other than a benzo. W