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Is sleep paralysis real?
I've had sleep paralysis before in my dreams and shortly after waking up, but if I try hard enough, then I can break through and stop it, and I can move around. It uses up a lot more energy though, and I have to keep moving, because if I stop moving, I'll go back into sleep paralysis. Am I special or something?
6 Answers
- Anonymous5 months agoFavorite Answer
Yes. I used to get sleep paralysis all the time. I couldn't move and eventually I could move if I tried hard enough just like your description. That's pretty common. Don't worry they're just dreams.
- Anonymous5 months ago
Only when you cant wake up when having a bad dream
- Anonymous5 months ago
ya it's real... it happens to me when my sleep is ****** up, sleeping too much or too little. you are not a special snowflake
- Good ManLv 75 months ago
Yes , when U r facing difficulties in real life which u r not able to coup with which lead to see u such weird and scary dreams may result to dream paralysis
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- WinterRoseLv 75 months ago
Go to the Doctor and ask him/her to help you overcome this type of paralysis. I would not go through Life with it, if there is a way to heal it. Maybe you enjoy feeling "special' and that is why this paralysis continues. Think about that for awhile, and see if there is some way to make a change.
- skeptikLv 75 months ago
Yes, it's real.
Sleep paralysis is a medical condition (of unknown origin) where a normal physiological process associated with REM sleep overlaps stages of awareness where it normally doesn't exist.
It's normal for your body's neural signals to be blocked during REM so you don't unconsciously try to act out your dreams, and injure yourself in your sleep. The dysfunction that presents as sleep paralysis is when that block persists into the period when you are waking up.
The hallucinatory impressions associated with it are the result of one part of the brain essentially still dreaming, while another part thinks it's awake.