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Date: 2022-07-07
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Fridae
I get sleep paralysis really often. I get it while entering sleep and also while exiting sleep, maybe more so while entering sleep. It really is quite a scary experience. I have found that, since I am usually fully aware that the paralysis is occurring, I simply just keep my eyes closed and try my absolute hardest to rock myself awake. Since I have just always kept my eyes closed, I have never had a scary visual occur, only the sense of real other presences and the actual feelings of hands or something acting itself on me. Helps me deal with it anyway. It doesn't really scare me so much anymore since I don't see anything and the fact that I am always aware of the situation I am in and the fact it isn't real.
Edit: I did once roll over and full on punch my girlfriend in the face one night while trying to break free of the paralysis. I was trying to punch this demon or whatever I felt the presence of trying to attack me. I was completely stuck trying everything I could to punch this thing I felt the presence of and then when I finally woke up (or was released, yeah, I rolled over and full close fist punched my girlfriend in the face.
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I get sleep paralysis really often. I get it while entering sleep and also while exiting sleep, maybe more so while entering sleep. It really is quite a scary experience. I have found that, since I am usually fully aware that the paralysis is occurring, I simply just keep my eyes closed and try my absolute hardest to rock myself awake. Since I have just always kept my eyes closed, I have never had a scary visual occur, only the sense of real other presences and the actual feelings of hands or something acting itself on me. Helps me deal with it anyway. It doesn't really scare me so much anymore since I don't see anything and the fact that I am always aware of the situation I am in and the fact it isn't real.
Edit: I did once roll over and full on punch my girlfriend in the face one night while trying to break free of the paralysis. I was trying to punch this demon or whatever I felt the presence of trying to attack me. I was completely stuck trying everything I could to punch this thing I felt the presence of and then when I finally woke up (or was released, yeah, I rolled over and full close fist punched my girlfriend in the face.
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DaHyi
If our brains are supposed to sort out memories during REM, what are the consequences of our brain also creating memories of the dreams we have? The memories might be a bit fuzzy because of how illogical the plot of dreams usually is, but they're neatly stored with a specific dream time tag (a time tag is metadata which lets you know how old a memory is without relying on context.
If it's possible to be in NREM 2 and in REM while awake, is it possible to be in NREM 3 while awake?
Some of my kind claim to suddenly fall asleep without seeing it coming; if that's true, what stage of sleep do they go into when seized by a sleep attack? I always get the NREM2 crashes first, and then the hallucinations, so I don't know what it's like to just suddenly fall asleep.
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If our brains are supposed to sort out memories during REM, what are the consequences of our brain also creating memories of the dreams we have? The memories might be a bit fuzzy because of how illogical the plot of dreams usually is, but they're neatly stored with a specific dream time tag (a time tag is metadata which lets you know how old a memory is without relying on context.
If it's possible to be in NREM 2 and in REM while awake, is it possible to be in NREM 3 while awake?
Some of my kind claim to suddenly fall asleep without seeing it coming; if that's true, what stage of sleep do they go into when seized by a sleep attack? I always get the NREM2 crashes first, and then the hallucinations, so I don't know what it's like to just suddenly fall asleep.
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AliceLycoris
I experienced sleep paralysis once. I woke up on the basement couch, me entire body as tingling and I felt physically locked in. Off in the corner, I saw what appeared to be an alien-like or Shadow Person-like figure. However, as I woke up more the figure morphed into what was actually there - my father's high-back desk chair. I never felt fear or worry though, more curiosity as to what I was seeing. So as I focused on the figure, not giving into the fear of a delusion, I began to see what was truly there. Maybe there are aliens, maybe there are Shadow People, I won't absolutely rule it out, but in my experience I was just dreaming while awake.
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I experienced sleep paralysis once. I woke up on the basement couch, me entire body as tingling and I felt physically locked in. Off in the corner, I saw what appeared to be an alien-like or Shadow Person-like figure. However, as I woke up more the figure morphed into what was actually there - my father's high-back desk chair. I never felt fear or worry though, more curiosity as to what I was seeing. So as I focused on the figure, not giving into the fear of a delusion, I began to see what was truly there. Maybe there are aliens, maybe there are Shadow People, I won't absolutely rule it out, but in my experience I was just dreaming while awake.
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Di
When I am in process of falling asleep, I go through a phase where my body appears to be asleep and doesn't react to stimulus like when awake (e g. tickling doesn't tickle, but my mind is fully awake and aware and listening to everything. I don't think it's sleep paralysis as there have never been any scary things and I can always consciously decide to ' wake up' my body if I choose to. Does anyone know what this is, and is it normal?
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When I am in process of falling asleep, I go through a phase where my body appears to be asleep and doesn't react to stimulus like when awake (e g. tickling doesn't tickle, but my mind is fully awake and aware and listening to everything. I don't think it's sleep paralysis as there have never been any scary things and I can always consciously decide to ' wake up' my body if I choose to. Does anyone know what this is, and is it normal?
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Andi
Paused at 5: 32 you just talked about transcranial direct current stimulation in regard to lucid dreaming
Duuuuude-. I actually had TDCS to help bring me out of the coma I was in. I received transcranial direct current stimulation in November/December of 2014 when it was a newer treatment. I was the very first person to have that done at OSU-s Wexner Medical Center. It-s really interesting to me to hear it talked about!
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Paused at 5: 32 you just talked about transcranial direct current stimulation in regard to lucid dreaming
Duuuuude-. I actually had TDCS to help bring me out of the coma I was in. I received transcranial direct current stimulation in November/December of 2014 when it was a newer treatment. I was the very first person to have that done at OSU-s Wexner Medical Center. It-s really interesting to me to hear it talked about!
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JAMO
I am a Surgical Technologist and I can tell you the first few times you see the actual brain during a Craniotomy just sitting there pulsating in all of it's beauty. it's hard not to think that THAT is life. That mass of tissue is everything you have ever thought, felt, seen, heard. it's the closest thing to proving that we are in a simulation. We are all honestly, just living in that pulsating mass of tissue. I love it.
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I am a Surgical Technologist and I can tell you the first few times you see the actual brain during a Craniotomy just sitting there pulsating in all of it's beauty. it's hard not to think that THAT is life. That mass of tissue is everything you have ever thought, felt, seen, heard. it's the closest thing to proving that we are in a simulation. We are all honestly, just living in that pulsating mass of tissue. I love it.
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Sevinch
When i was having sleep paralysis, sometimes (i get it very often) i think of sth and it immediately happens like if i m dreaming and it turns immediately into sleep paralysis. I had someone choking me several times during sleep paralysis but it was sth i thought of
I thought of someone hugging me but that thing was choking me
Ok it sounds weird imma stop now
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When i was having sleep paralysis, sometimes (i get it very often) i think of sth and it immediately happens like if i m dreaming and it turns immediately into sleep paralysis. I had someone choking me several times during sleep paralysis but it was sth i thought of
I thought of someone hugging me but that thing was choking me
Ok it sounds weird imma stop now
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izzyy
i got a weird thing that happens where i experience sleep paralysis however i go out of it, and then go back into it again and again. it probably happens like 15 times in a row but i do not see strange shadows others might see when they go through it. i always get a feeling in my stomach that tickles and suddenly i'm able to move again.
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i got a weird thing that happens where i experience sleep paralysis however i go out of it, and then go back into it again and again. it probably happens like 15 times in a row but i do not see strange shadows others might see when they go through it. i always get a feeling in my stomach that tickles and suddenly i'm able to move again.
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Tinnitus
Please address night sweats! Also, I never get more than 30 mins deep sleep and it's affecting me psychologically and physically. I am trying to see if I have chiari malformation 1. I also have hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome and extreme cptsd and depression. Would love your thoughts on the connections.
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Please address night sweats! Also, I never get more than 30 mins deep sleep and it's affecting me psychologically and physically. I am trying to see if I have chiari malformation 1. I also have hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome and extreme cptsd and depression. Would love your thoughts on the connections.
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Dany
I wonder if this can be classified as a lucid dream. I often end up having a rational conversation with myself in my dream telling myself -it-s just a dream, but I don-t like this feeling- and I sort of shake myself awake. But it-s only during deeeeep sleep that it sometimes occurs.
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I wonder if this can be classified as a lucid dream. I often end up having a rational conversation with myself in my dream telling myself -it-s just a dream, but I don-t like this feeling- and I sort of shake myself awake. But it-s only during deeeeep sleep that it sometimes occurs.
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