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Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU started this discussion 14 years ago#17,126
So I came back from my class that ended at 10:45 and took a nap, falling asleep sometime around 11:30. I woke up around 50 minutes later but was still tired so I tried to fall back asleep. I was somewhere between mostly asleep and sort-of awake. Then weird shit started to happen. I started imagining that my roommate and his girlfriend were fighting about stuff (something about video games, and him taking a programming course next semester). Eventually the verbal argument seemed to get a lot closer, and I could "see" my door was sort of open and I could "sense" that they were both in my room out of my peripheral vision. At this point, my whole body started to feel pins and needles, like what happens after your foot falls asleep and it feels funny and slightly painful to put pressure on it. Around this time, my top right molar (which was feeling the pins and needles) seemed to have a lot of pressure pushing on it. So much so that I thought it was going to fly out any second, so at this point I start to try to wake myself up (because I'm vaguely aware that I'm dreaming, I guess).
I can't seem to wake myself up though. Whenever I try to move I physically cannot, and the pins and needles sensation intensifies in whatever limbs i try to move to such a degree that I physically cannot bring myself to move them, no matter how hard I try. When I open my eyes I see a different ceiling than the one that's in my room, so I get really nervous and close my eyes in an effort to remain calm, because the more I look at the ceiling, the more stressed I get and the harder it is for me to will myself awake. All the while, the pressure behind my upper right molar is intensifying, so every second that I spend not being able to wake myself up feels like another second closer to having that tooth shoot out. Eventually I somehow happen to wake up, and now I'm slightly afraid to fall back asleep and experience that again. When I woke up I didn't know how much time had passed. It felt like hours had passed, but it had barely been 1 hour since I fell asleep for my nap at 11:30
Sorry for the tl;dr but I tried to write this as raw and unedited as possible so you can see my thought process.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later[^][v]#290,417
Eek. At least it didn't happen in the library.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^][v]#290,419
@previous (B)
Yeah if I were napping on campus that would have been 50 times worse. At least I was in a familiar room that I felt safe in. I am afraid to fall back asleep now though. I don't want to have to suffer through that again.
Green !2IX54m.7BM joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 15 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^][v]#290,423
That shit can kill you :(
Ks !KansasxqvM joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,443
@OP
Sleep paralysis is scary shit. I used to get it fairly often when I drank a lot, some terrifying moments were experienced. Fuck that shit.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,467
> Eventually the verbal argument seemed to get a lot closer, and I could "see" my door was sort of open and I could "sense" that they were both in my room out of my peripheral vision ... Whenever I try to move I physically cannot, and the pins and needles sensation intensifies in whatever limbs i try to move to such a degree that I physically cannot bring myself to move them
This experience is pretty consistent with sleep paralysis. Try to imagine being probed by aliens or stalked by Disney creatures next time. :D
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,468
@previous (E)
I'd rather not. I would probably freak the fuck out and not sleep for 3 days.
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 19 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,472
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Apparently the trick is to stay calm and realize it's not real. Getting the just-out-of-sight voices to start talking about something by thinking about it hard enough is funny too if you can get hang of it.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,473
@previous (E)
That's the weird thing though. I was in some weird state where I in some sense knew it was a dream, and was consciously trying to get out of it by waking up, but at the same time I was convinced that what was going on was actually happening to me in the real world. If I'm lucky I'll never have to experience that again, but if I ever do, I will try to do that.
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 18 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,479
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
I went through something similar while going through some pretty severe withdrawals. I would hear voices just behind the wall or outside the window arguing or plotting to kill me or whatever. When I would start trying to figure out what they were plotting or arguing about, the conversation would inevitably go in whatever direction I was thinking it would. Eventually, I figured out that if I thought about something silly intently enough, say fuzzy bunnies, it would pop up in their conversation or argument almost immediately. The fact that you can guide the conversation is a big tip-off that it's just a hallucination. It can be hard to do when you are half-awake and scared shitless. Once it happens though, it's fun and comforting to make your hallucinations talk about kittens, recite poetry, or argue philosophical points until you come around fully and they disappear.
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Green !2IX54m.7BM replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,481
Oh shit. I'm getting this at the moment. Did you also used to get nightmares you couldn't describe?
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Ks !KansasxqvM replied with this 14 years ago, 40 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,507
@previous (Green !2IX54m.7BM)
Nah, I rarely remember my dreams. But sleep paralysis is like having nightmares while you're awake. I do remember that shit, crazy ass, terrifying stuff.
Indy the Great !!Qfi6Kl58p joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 13 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,604
Yes, that is Sleep Paralysis and I have it often. Terrifying, is it not?
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^][v]#290,605
@previous (Indy the Great !!Qfi6Kl58p)
What's terrifying?