Can someone please help me?!

[ianjack]

For a few years now, I have had a weird occurrence during sleep. It is as if my mind is awake, but my body is still asleep. I am conscious, but I cannot open my eyes or move. I feel very scared, and try to move my body. Then after a short period of time I "snap" out of it and I am awake and able to move. I used to experience this at least once a week, but after I started taking zoloft, and then switched to Paxil they rarely happen. All of the sudden I had one after almost a year of not having them, and am afraid that they are going to occur on a regular basis. Does anyone know about this kind of thing or have any ideas of what it could be? Thank you for your time

[amormyangel]

Hello there, I might be wrong ofcourse im not a pro at this sort of thing but it sounds to me like night terrors.or even panick attacks. I have experienced night terrors myself but it was under a time of great stress. I found that if i would just mannage to move my eyes from side to side the rest of my body would follow and wake up. There is a website you can join, Night Terrors Resource Center. I hope you find some answers. I now its almost imposible but try not to go off to sleep thinking about it to much. Try falling to sleep reading a book or write about something you enjoy until u drop off. All the best to u. Lisa

[Paige]

It sounds like lucid dreaming to me... Many people try very hard and often unsuccessfully for years to achieve what it seems you have achieved with no effort what so ever. In lucid dreaming you are asleep but your mind is conscious and actually able to control the dream. People try use this to figure out what their dreams mean or work out problems sub-consciously. If it happens again try to stay calm and just be in the dream..know that it is only a dream and do not panic...Maybe even enjoy the dream.

Paige : )

[andybuildz]

Originally Posted by Paige

It sounds like lucid dreaming to me... Many people try very hard and often unsuccessfully for years to achieve what it seems you have achieved with no effort what so ever. In lucid dreaming you are asleep but your mind is conscious and actually able to control the dream. People try use this to figure out what their dreams mean or work out problems sub-consciously. If it happens again try to stay calm and just be in the dream..know that it is only a dream and do not panic...Maybe even enjoy the dream.

Paige : )

I get that a little but for me its more about determining what i want to dream about because I'm able to do that. Thing is...I don't know how to change the channel

[WonderlandAlli]

Ianjack, sounds like you get sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I doubt its demon-demons, more like inner "demons" you haven't worked through keeping you awake. Since you don't get in when on Paxil, I think its a mental thing. The pills are knocking you out so your mind isn't focusing on whatever subconcious thing is keeping you up.

Lucid dreaming is nothing to do with this; in sleep paralysis its as you said: You're conscious of being in bed but unable to move. Lucid dreaming is the ability, in a dream, to manipulate the dream in a variety of ways. (I've read a lot on lucid dreaming, because it started developing strongly in me when I was about 19. Currently I can call back old dreams at will, stop dreams, pause, manipulate, fast forward and rewind so to speak.)

Explore Wiki, investigate the possible psycological causes, maybe see a doctor or if you feel its coming from something aside from yourself, perhaps a shaman.

[WonderlandAlli]

Ian you may also want to check out Cataplexy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Narcolepsy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia as the two are related and one side effect of narcoplepsy is the hallucinations in sleep paralysis.

[lovingheart]

hi,
its demon disturbing you, believe it or not
i feel sorry that you solved this by med; yet don't leave med without consulting docs.
i experienced this myself and it was exactly the way you described and i know other people who experienced this also and some of them are friends
for me, i am awake and i can hear everything around me, only i can't move my body and i feel scared and hardly can breath and sometimes i can see and know if its day or night and sometimes i scream but i don't know if really someone heard me or not, because no one come to help, but the solution for me and for my friends and others was to recite:
(Allah! There is no deity save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He will. His throne includeth the heavens and the earth, and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.) until it leave me, remember this and whenever that thing come again, keep saying it and it will definitely will leave you, trying it wont hurt, its better than staying in mental meds for long time, and i can see that you reply a post here saying it works for you, because it worked with every one i told,
whenever they used to disturb me , i was reciting this verses and it left me in a minute and after few times they never come again and its now more than 10 years, that verse is a holy middle eastrean wisdem to kick awy demons