Sleep Paralysis Attack

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Today i had my third sleep paralysis attack.

Before that i was dreaming that i had gone for a trip with my mother, brother in law, son.

During the trip we were exhausted and decided to lie down in the hotel room. I could not move or wake up even after repeatedly trying.

I kept mentally chanting Gods name and also tried hard to wake up but could only see through half open eyes the room.

It got scarier and there was this dream where a boy and girl decides to meet on the terrace.

As they climb on the terrace they see a black cat.

Now it was a long time while i was paralysed and could not wake up. I just started calling out to my mother in this subconscious state

And suddenly i was able to wake up...it was a scary experience.

Its strange that after i called out to my mother this paralysis ended. My relationship with my mom as been bad and last 2 years im not in touch with her. Within me it hurts because im not a person who as hurt anyone but i know for my safety i need to keep away from her.

I get those attacks and they're not very fun at all.

Is it that people with AS or bipolar get these attacks and not others

I do not know if there is any correlation between sleep paralysis and AS or bipolar... I doubt it. Sleep paralysis is a sleep disorder that random people get... usually people under a certain age (maybe 25? I forget) seem to get this and then grow out of. I never did grow out of sleep paralysis and I still have episodes where this happens to me... though much less now than in the past. Usually if I am having sleep paralysis episodes, then I am under a lot of stress.

It can be an unnerving thing to go through. Like you, eventually I pull out of it while trying to 'reach out' or 'call out' to someone or something. I do not think it much matters who or what the thing is, it is just that eventually your body comes around and you can snap out of it and move or speak again and that is enough to get body and mind on the same page again...

Sorry you had this happen to you. Hopefully the third time will be the last time for you.

It usually happens to me during morning time when im quite tired after household work and take a nap

If you believe in jesus or are willing to try jesus try praying to him to remove them I have had sleep paralysis attacks and they were stopped in the name and authority of jesus christ

I have sleep paralysis on occasion.
May I ak anybody with this problem if they are on any psychiatric medication? I notice my sleep paralysis/hallucinations started when I was on Risperidone/Risperdal, were worse when I was on Seroquel and now that I am not on medication I very rarely have them.

I used to get these very regularly, when I lived at my parents' house. It's really frightening and quite often I'd be having a really bad dream, yet I was awake and unable to move or speak. When I got married, they more or less stopped and I only had a very occasional one. Each time it happened, I was able to correlate it with having eaten cheese fairly late in the evening. The reason it happened so regularly before I got married was that my parents often made cheese on toast as a late night snack and I hadn't been able to make the connection. The last time it happened was a few years ago. We went on holiday to Austria and arrived after the evening meal had finished. A small buffet was set up in our room, consisting of bread and various cheeses. I thought I'd be OK so ate it.

Individuals
Its dependant on how far an fast your pendulum swings.
If at all.
Stress and medication/drug induced .

http://bipolar.about.com/cs/mania/ht/bl-ht-mania.htm

Take some melatonin.

Don't let these attacks of sleep paralysis bother you. They are harmless. You can reduce your chances of suffering such an attack by improving your sleep hygeine.

http://www.sleepeducation.com/Hygiene.aspx

I get it too, but only in the form of fairly brief paralysis now, I've stopped having the hallucinations. I find that staying calm really helps and maybe that's one reason I don't get hallucinations anymore. Possibly the terror of panicking and wondering if you're going to hallucinate makes it worse by messing up your brain chemistry even more. Focusing on trying to move one part of the body slowly and calmly creates less stress than trying to force my whole body to wake up because it doesn't draw attention to the predicament of total paralysis and make instinctive alarm bells go off in my head. I try not to let myself fall asleep on my back, which is the strongest trigger I've identified, as it is for many people.

Chanting God's Name or some mantra is a good idea, I use the same often too.. Another method I use, when you are deraming and want to wake up, you may try to breath deep and fast with diaphragm. This helps me when I want to wake up from a scary dream, or when I already woke up and don't want to fall in the same dream again.

Sleep paralysis just happens when your body is asleep but your mind is still awake. Personally i do not find it very scary, I think it is interesting when it happens to me.

For some reason a good way to snap out of it is to wiggle your big toes. I read that somewhere, and I have tried it and it worked.