re: Anyone ever battle Sleep paralysis/hallucinations?

I still get that dream too. It's late November, I'm walking on campus and suddenly I realize there was a class I registered for, attended about two times in August and completely forgot about since. In my panic I can't remember where the class is on campus or what time it starts. I graduated in 1992.

I've suffered from chronic sleep paralysis since I was a child. Like five times a week bad, to the point I would try to stay awake because of it, which ended up causing near life threatening insomnia. I tried the whole vivid dreaming thing where you train yourself to acknowledge the situation and kinda do what you want in the dream. It wasn't consistent enough to work, and I'd still have brutal panic attacks from them sometimes. I'd wake up, have an attack, and they could last over an hour to the point I called 911 thinking I was legitimately dying.

I talked to specialist around the country and tried a million different things over the years. Finally, we found out that Seroquil knocks me right the frick out and I don't wake up until my wife beats me or a siren goes off. That keeps the episodes down to maybe once a month and manageable.

It's always tough explaining to people who've never had one, it is without a doubt the scariest thing I've ever experienced and I've been through some rough shite in my days.

Just not sure that I believe you.

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have learned to try to wiggle my toes to help snap out of it.

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few years ago I went through a phase where I was going through sleep paralysis pretty offten. As I stated earlier, I would feel like I was made of iron and a magnet was holding me down. So when I would wake up paralyzed and couldn't talk, I would strain to roll or scoot to one side of the bed all the way until I would actually roll off the bed and then that would wake me out of it every time true story

This happened to me once about 20 years ago. I could hear someone walking around my apartment and I could not move or open my eyes. Seemed to last forever. When I could finally move, there were no signs of anyone else there.

Its incredibly strange how many people see or feel a presence when this happens

Yea, I occasionally have sleep paralysis. Started when I was in my late teens. It totally freaked me out when it first happened. It's horrifying to not be able to move, and then feel this presence with you. Once I swore I even felt someone sit on the edge of the bed and I just couldn't move a muscle. I know what it is now so it doesn't bother me as much plus it seems like it doesn't happen as often as I get older.

Happens to me a few times a year. The most common time is on Sunday nights after a weekend without much sleep or if my sleeping pattern has been thrown off.

The first time it happened I was in Mexico at a resort a few years ago and it absolutely freaked me out because of the presence in the room and I had no clue what was going on. Now I do better when it happens, but those first few times are miserable. Definitely have the dreading to go back to sleep feeling once I wake up from it.

Last night I had at least 3 dreams that I died in. EVery time I died I woke up and had to make sure i was still alive. It sucked.

all the time.