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"SHHH the news is on."

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.