[Wine666]

Hi I'm new to this so hope this works.
I have just been woken up by my hubby yet again because I was trying to call out in my dream.
In my dream I was talking to my sister about our partners. The discussion was that we think they was having ano afair.
I could hear screaming in a room across from mine. The first thought was that it was the demon that won't show itself. So I was going to be really quite and then just smash through the door.
When I approach my door it's got white bars on it. I open it. I realise I have knifes and folks in my hands.
I jump through the door across from mine. There's a old lady in bed that was screaming get away.
And on a chair at the side off the bed was a old lady .she was wearing olive green clothes and her completion was the same colour. I was so scared off this old woman (demon) I held my knifes and falls up to protect myself. And then tried to call out to my sister. But the words wouldn't come out. The harder I tried to call her the scarier I got. But no words would come out.
The next I knew is my hubby shocking me saying wake up babe wake up.
I have dreams like this a lot and I feel I can't go back to sleep cos I'm so scared to go back to the dreams.
Can anyone help me and tell me why I have sleep paralysis?

[Skeezyks]

Hello Wine666: Welcome to PsychCentral… from the Skeezyks! I hope you find the time you spend here to be of benefit.

What I experienced as sleep paralysis, over the years, was that I would be dreaming but then I would wake up & be completely unable to move or make any kind of sound at all. For many years I didn't know what was going on. I'd never heard of sleep paralysis. Over time, I taught myself to focus on moving the index finger of my right hand, then the hand itself. This typically broke through the paralysis. But it was terrifying. I haven't had one of these experiences in quite a few years now. I think I may have stopped having them around the time I first went on antidepressants. But I don't know for sure. I could be wrong about that. I'm just extremely glad they're gone! I'm afraid I don't know what causes them.

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[Captain Spaulding]

I have had 4-5 major sleep paralysis episodes in my life and a bunch of little ones.
Basically it's when your mind awakes fully, but your body is still asleep. This either happens falling into sleep, or coming out of sleep, usually suddenly. Once, when I was little, my Mom called my name, it startled me awake, but I couldn't move or talk for a good 20 seconds before coming out of it. When I was little, I didn't understand what was happening or even that it was something unusual. I've read that if your normal sleep is disturbed or you wake up while your brain is switching between REM sleep to deep sleep it can trigger an episode. In my scariest episode later in life, I fully woke up but realized I couldn't move. I couldn't open my eyes, couldn't even make a peep. This happened multiple times across a 5 year period. The scariest one was I woke up, it sounded as if a freight train was in my ears, something in the room was so loud. (It turned out to be my box fan, my hearing was greatly affected) Then deep in my ears felt as if I had Bengay or Icy Hot in there. It was a sensation that you couldn't tell if it was hot, cold, or both. My tongue was pressed to the back of my throat causing a horrible gargly snoring sound. My whole body was completely paralyzed, so I couldn't even move my tongue. It was very scary. As I was coming out of it, the loud roar of the box fan faded to it's normal sound, the sensation in my ears slowly faded, and I slowly regained enough movement to move my tongue and breath normally. While this is happening, you almost get a euphoric feeling, at least I do. A lot of people only experience fear and cannot feel the slight euphoric feeling. As for me, I don't really have too much fear, so it feels very strange. One of my first major experiences, I was paralyzed with my eyes shut, but I felt as if I could see around the room in what looked like how they make echo-location look in movies. It reminded me of the movie Daredevil, where he can see with echo-location. I knew I wasn't though, so it must have been a hallucination. From what I've read, you can hallucinate while having a SP attack, but I've only had a hallucination once. As scary as they can be, I quite like the way it feels when nothing too scary is happening.