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[Evad]

Been there bud. Yes it is quite frightning. Now you know what its like to be paralysed.
heres an informative link.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sleep-paralysis

[Titan]

Damn... same page as i found, but you beat me to it

Anyway, i hope this explains some of the thoughts you had over this "incident", and see that it's perfectly normal.... well.... almost... that is.............

[taikara]

I've had that happen a lot of times too, usually while falling asleep...

I never felt really scared though ... sometimes a little, but maybe I'm used to it or something ... and it's usually accompanied by the feeling of falling/floating, and feeling sort of tingly, not bad like post-numbness tinglies, but a more warm feeling.

It hasn't happened in quite a while though...

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Strange never happened to me.

Worst thing that happens to me is that everything seems to grow massive yet still staying the same size and I shrink yet still staying the same size, I think it's some kind of mind trick. And if I walk somewhere I get dizzy and it's then followed by pins and needles and some uncontrolable shaking afterwards. I hate that feeling. But I think what I get has something to do with dehydration and lack of food. I do have one of the worst eating patterns.

But I've sleep walked once, my friend was playing his computer when I went to bed and I was dreaming I was just sitting on a chair beside him and fell asleep then I suddenly woke up to find that he had turned computer off and went to bed without telling me, so I got up walked across the room and found him in the bed I was supposed to sleep in so I started poking him telling him to get out of my bed then he said something I woke up and I was standing on the other side of the room at the bed he was meant to be sleeping in. It would probably be easier to understand if you knew the layout of the room.

[PrejudiceSucks]

It happens to me a lot, I don't find it that weird any more...

[Playbahnosh]

This is a very strange and interesting subject indeed. We humans are almost gone out to space, we contol every animal on the planet etc... but we are unable to control our own body. I've read a whole bunch of books and learnt very much on this subject. Let me explain:

Heres an example that I just though out:

Your body is just like a computer. A PC for instance, with a SUB-Conscious XP operating system and only one program, the Conscious V1.0 .
Now, your subcounscious is doing its job just like an operatin system, maintains the CPU(your brain), the power suppy(your heart)...etc. It has access to everything. But your conscious is like a single program, and it has only limited access to anything, it can operate the peripherals(eg you can move as you like, you can see, hear, speak etc) and has read/write access to the HDD(you can store thoughts and remeber them, but thats about it).

Normally, when you are awake, your conscious is working, does everything you like. Meanwhile, your subconscious maintains your system that you cannot control nor care about normally, like your heart beats, you breathe, you digest...etc.
You are just a program, you cannot control the system features.
But when you go to sleep, its like when you minimize a program to the system tray. You can no longer see it, nor do anything with it, it is resting. Meanwhile the subcounscious switches to maintenance mode. Your body goes to a stand-by state, turns off the unneeded features like digesting, slows down your heartbeat and breathing to spare energy...etc. It starts to defragment your brain, sort out and save needed data, delete temp files etc. It is when you dream, you live again the day passed since your last sleep and earlyier experiences. They mix in your brain, and create new experiences, that is your dream.

The conscious and the subconscious normaly do not interfere with each other. This means when your counscious it active, your subconscious is in stand-by and vice versa. But there is a little time zone, when they are both active. This is when you go to sleep and awake.
This paralysis you are talking about is the state, when your sub conscious is still working and your conscious suddenly becomes acive but not yet gained control over your body functions. It happens accidentally sometimes, when your subconscious is overloaded and no yet finished working, but you become awake.

Another strange and intersting subject is hypnosis. It is an artificially created REM phase with your conscious active. Your conscious and sub-conscious merge for a limited time. This is when you gain admin state over your inner PC. You'll have access to the system log, eg you can remeber anything that happened to you, that you cannot remember normally. (Your brain stores EVERYTHING you experienced in your life. Every single moment, what you feel, what you hear, see, smell etc) You can do anything with your body and brain you cannot normally. The only thing is to figure out how to do it, with is yet mostly unknown to us.

Phew, that was long...

So what do you think?

[PrejudiceSucks]

Hmm an odd assessment but a good one

[Quintopotere]

Both paralizations and sleepwalks occurred to me!

Paralization cause a bit of fear , but i consider sleepwalking fun! Even if sometimes could be confusing :blink:

[TheVoid]

It never happened to me. But often I sleep with the head or the whole body over an arm, so the following morning the limb is quite paralyzed and it's annoying to slap it 'till blood restarts to flux properly.

[Puffin]

Once i was talking to my mom in the kitchen. The doors to it were closed. I was going to go out, so i walked towards the doors. When i was almost there, i suddenly couldn't see a thing. Everything went pitch black. I started screaming, then i felt really dizzy and fell to the ground.

This felt nothing like fainting, i've done that millions of times. This was strange.

I used to sleepwalk. We lived in this really old house during the summers when i was a kid. I got this whole floor just for myself. There were two big rooms, one kitchen and one small room, where i'd usually sleep. Between those rooms was a tiny space, around 1m X 0.5m . Below this space was a really steep staircase. I used to walk back and forth this space, just over the stairs. Nothing really happened to me, though. But my parents always woke up because of the noise the house makes when someone walks around