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Do you have insomnia or any kind of other sleep disorder? Do you sleep on your back? I think sleeping on your back is a bad position for someone that experiences sleep paralysis regularly, and it happens more to people that don't get enough sleep or have odd sleep patterns. There are ways to avoid whatever might be causing it for you personally. :)

Yeah, I felt (or thought I did, whatever) something else in the room, something above me, that meant me harm. I really did think there was something there, I was convinced it was a ghost or something, and NOT a nice one....:p until I heard about this elsewhere.

that was pretty much the moment I started to realize I might be still dreaming.

Agree:o

(damn! I thought there would be some supernatural/spiritual causes...:D)

Let me start of by saying fuck you Psycom for making me type this for the 4th time now. Stupid IM is making it so I can't type and when I hit backspace I go back a page and have to start typing this again.

Anyway...

If you think sleep paralysis is bad, try sleeping with my boyfriend (don't actually try, he wouldn't appreciate it, but you know what I mean).

He suffers from hypnapombic/hypnagogic hallucinations. It's basically when you hallucinate just as you are falling asleep or waking up. Most people will see a cat or dog in their room and nothing more complex. Now Derek has gone to every sleep specialist around and they can't understand what causes it, but...

He will be having a nightmare, and when he starts to wake up from his dream he sees his nightmare in the room with him still.

The first time I experienced him having one of these hallucination wasn't so bad. We were sleeping and I woke up to him moving his head back and forth a lot. I asked him what was wrong and he sat up straight and seemed to snap out of it. Apparently he was dreaming that a mad scientist was trying to do brain surgery on him while he was still awake but paralyzed, and that the doctor was still standing behind him. From there it just got worse.

He woke up numerous times and yanked me out of bed, ran down the stairs with me and I'm half asleep freaking out thinking there was a fire. Turns out he was dreaming he had to save me from the zombies, what a gentleman. The next time he woke up, ran to the door and closed it. Stood with his back to the door and was stomping his feet on the ground in front of him. In this dream there were poisonous spiders on the floor that he needed to squish.

Every night with him is an adventure.

First off, <3.

And second, sorry to hear about that. Though I am kind of envious because I've always wanted to remember my dreams better. And what better way than to continue them while you wake up. though that still sucks.

Happens to me too, but I tend to keep the panic quiet. For awhile, there was a mirror near the bed and I made my girlfriend move it because of all the things I saw in there waking up in the middle of the night. One time I opened my eyes, looked in the mirror and my face was Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera makeup. It went away in a minute, but I was so groggy and confused, as I tend to be with these things, that I was convinced it was actually my face.

damn....you people are fucked up....I sleep like a log.

Try BEER :D

Ya know they are actally kinda lucky, normally people have to pay for such experiences.

It's where most of my stories come from.

I keep having this dream where I am falling down either through empty space or down the stairs!:eek: Most of the time I end up kicking the bedposts!:o

Nightmares bite.
 

I've experienced sleep paralysis, and bringing my dreams into the awakening state. Here's some interesting material on nightmares:

Folktales abound of deadly visions that visit us in our sleep. David Hambling reports on the real-life medical phenomenon.
Text: David Hambling / Images: Xavier Lemmens February 2006

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A man who goes to bed fit and healthy is heard to cry out in his sleep, Nightmare death syndrome
and the next morning is found dead. The same scene is repeated again and again. The doctors cannot find any physical cause for the mysterious deaths, but people mutter darkly about dæmonic beings and deadly dreams. The 11 victims were all Filipino sailors, and the case was investigated by Dr Gonzalo Aponte of the US Naval Hospital in Guam in 1960. The autopsies turned up nothing, but Dr Aponte found that sudden night deaths were well known in the Filipino community. In fact they have been recorded across the entire Far East. According to folklore, the sleeper is attacked by a nocturnal dæmon that squats on his chest and suffocates him. Witness reports bear this out, describing “choking, gasping, groaning, gurgling, frothing at the mouth, laboured breathing without wheezing or stridor, screaming, and other signs of terror.”

In the English-speaking world, we talk about the Night Hag and similar apparitions (see pp38–40). These terrifying beings are glimpsed in the darkness of nightmare, pressing down on their victims and preventing them from breathing. Their attacks, though scary, are generally harmless, whereas the nightmare demons of the Far East can be lethal. In Japan, this type of death is known as pok-kuri; the Filipinos call it bangungot or batibat; and the Hmong people of Vietnam and Laos call it tsob tsuang. In Thailand, the being to fear is the phi am or ‘widow ghost’ who comes to steal away the souls of young men. Some men defend themselves from phi am by wearing lipstick at night, so that the ghost mistakes them for women and leaves them alone.

Although he discovered references to the condition in Filipino medical literature as far back as 1917, Dr Aponte could draw no conclusions about the nightmare deaths. The same condition was later documented among refugees from South-East Asia, and in 1981 some 38 victims had been recorded in the US, most of them Hmong. The term Nightmare Death Syndrome was coined, which was later changed to Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death (SUND) or Sudden Unexplained Death Syndrome (SUDS) (see FT48:25, 55:15). The immediate cause of death was cardiac arrest. But why had the men’s hearts failed when there was seemingly nothing wrong with them? The breakthrough fi nally came from this side of the Atlantic. In 1986, Spanish-born Dr Pedro Brugada came across an unusual pattern on an electrocardiogram, which shows the electrical activity in the heart. The patient suffered from an irregularity in his heartbeat, and he had an ECG trace that looked like a shark’s fin.

The same unusual pattern turned up in two further patients, both men in their forties who had suffered from sudden collapses. Dr Brugada collected several more cases and by 1992 he was certain. The shark-fin ECG pattern, now known as the Brugada Sign, represents an irregularity in the rhythm of the heart. This irregularity can cause fibrillation, when the chambers of the heart pump out of sequence. The circulation of the blood ceases, and if the heart is not stimulated with an electric shock or similar treatment, the results are fatal. This condition – “sudden death with structurally normal heart” – became known as Brugada Syndrome.

Brugada deaths are different from those caused by other cardiac conditions because they are associated with periods of slow heartbeat. Deaths generally occur at night, or when the victim is sitting peacefully, not during strenuous exercise. “The typical patient is 40 years old, in the best moment of his life, very active, very productive, with no previous history of anything, and all of a sudden one night he never wakes up,” says Dr Brugada. SUDS patients showed the same telltale ECG pattern and it was confi rmed that SUDS and Brugada Syndrome are essentially the same condition. 1 In Southeast Asia and Japan it is alarmingly common; in Thailand, Brugada Syndrome (known locally as Lai Tai) is second only to road accidents as a cause of death of men under 40. Although rarer in Europe, it is more evenly distributed among the sexes, whereas in Asia it mainly affects men. An investigation into the genetic basis of the condition identified a mutation in a gene called SCN5a, which controls the flow of sodium ions into heart cells. The regularity of heartbeat is controlled by electrical fi elds generated by this fl ow of ions, and as soon as it fails the heart fi brillates. 2 This mutated gene is characteristic of Brugada patients.

Now we can assess whether patients are at risk from an ECG, and an electrical implant is available for those who are in greatest danger. Drug treatments are also being explored, and one day gene therapy may be available. Modern science seems to have defeated the ancient nightmare demons at last. However, things are not necessarily so simple. In Japan, thousands of elderly people visit the Buddhist temple at Kichidenji, the best known of the pokkuri-dera or ‘temples of sudden death’. What they pray for is to die “suddenly, unexpectedly, without having to suffer from prolonged illness and staying healthy until just before death takes place.” 3 The Japanese are the longest-lived nation in the world, and the prospect of extended illness in old age is not an appealing one. These days, some people see a sudden death in the night as a blessing rather than a curse.

damn, I saw this thread and thought sean was back:(

I have recurring dreams of Champagne. I'm not sure why, I hardly ever drink, but every one of my dreams for the past few months had champagne in it.

I usually have really intense nightmares that leave me in a cold sweat. I've always had them and believe that is one of the main reasons why im so into horror. I can usually control the kind of nitemare im gonna have due to the kind of horror movie i watched or book i read. Can anyone else?

Mine is switched. Waking up is the nightmare...sleeping is the beautiful dream:)

the other night i dreamed that i was dreaming .. then waking up - remembering the dream .. then falling asleep and dreaming again - then waking up and remembering the dream.

when i finally got up i had no idea if i had slept through it or had actually woken up.

weird as hell