[12gaugescrewup]

About a year and a half ago after i stopped smoking pot due to panic attacks, i started having these really insane sleeping problems. Not only did i start waking myself up with the craziest dreams i've ever had, i woke up paralyzed! All i could do was lay there and suffer, seeing abnormal stuff, my walls breathing, mirrors having ripples in them like wind blowing over the top of a pond, people popping up from no were talking to me, llistening to my heart beat get louder and louder. But that's not even the case now! It's gotten to where when i try to go to sleep my body slowly starts becoming paralyzed. Last night it started happening again when i was falling asleep, i was laying there watching tv and i started noticing my breathing became difficult, my body became heavy, i couldn't talk, or move any part of my body. I worked hard to move and not fall asleep, when i finally got myself to snap out of it i was fine. Until it happened again.. My mom use to have these really bad when she was young, she said the only thing you can really do is try your hardest to move and don't alow yourself to fall asleep or when you wake up in a night terror fight it and don't let yourself fall back asleep. I don't know the meaning to this. It drives me insane, its so horrible. I don't understand why i have panic attacks and these night terrors. The day i had my very first panic attack, i smoked pot with one of my close friends and had panic attacks for the rest of the night. Back then i was a stoner so i never had problems like this, i havn't been able to get high in almost 2 years without having a panic attack. My highs are really intense, there not normal like they use to be. I don't even feel human when i smoke pot anymore, I really wish i could find a answer to all of this.. What does everyone think about this?

[ECHOES]

It would be a good idea to get checked out medically including a sleep study. I had times of paralysis including waking up unable to breathe, unable to make those muscles work and scared to death because I could see and think but I couldn't move. Once it happened when I was in the hospital and I could see the nurse at the bed of the other patient in the room but couldn't move or speak. Years later I told my doctor about this because I was going to have surgery and I was so worried that it would happen after anesthesia and I would die.

I had the sleep study done and used a CPAP machine for about 10 years; then I lost a lot of weight and quit smoking and now the sleep apnea doesn't happen anymore..

Pot does induce panic/paranoia and it relaxed the muscles so much that I think it induces the paralysis too. My experience with this began when I smoked pot.

It is a scary thing to have happen! I'm sorry you're having this happen to you.

[12gaugescrewup]

Alright, thanks alot for the infomation. I might check into that ^.^