This Scares Me lol

[Domino]

I have not experienced that, but it does sound scary. But i have had times when trying to go to sleep or taking a nap, and i will be woken up by a violent shaking of my arms or legs. I will be half asleep and it feels like somebody has grabbed my arm or leg and started to shake it. It is so weird, that it is hard to describe. It is almost like i am falling and my arms start waving without me even doing it.

It's like being on a roller coaster in your dream and then awakening, and your body still moves. I wish i could describe this better, but when it happens to me, it is like what the heck...creeps me out a little, then i have to try and go to sleep again.

I've also had weird experiences where i would dream, wake up, still think i'm dreaming....but i'm actually awake but still in sleep mode. That was scary too, and also hard to describe.

Shawn

[BunnyMilk]

I have not experienced that, but it does sound scary. But i have had times when trying to go to sleep or taking a nap, and i will be woken up by a violent shaking of my arms or legs. I will be half asleep and it feels like somebody has grabbed my arm or leg and started to shake it. It is so weird, that it is hard to describe. It is almost like i am falling and my arms start waving without me even doing it.

It's like being on a roller coaster in your dream and then awakening, and your body still moves. I wish i could describe this better, but when it happens to me, it is like what the heck...creeps me out a little, then i have to try and go to sleep again.

I've also had weird experiences where i would dream, wake up, still think i'm dreaming....but i'm actually awake but still in sleep mode. That was scary too, and also hard to describe.

Shawn

This happens when you're heart skips a beat. (Apparently)...

Also what you're describing is weird yeah. I used to get it a lot and I use to suffer from schizophrenia and really just get used to it. It'll go away. (this is relating to the dream thing)

[Anarcho]

You know, I don't often think about night terrors anymore, but in looking around the internet, I find that I'm in good company.  From wikipedia:

"The most famous avowed sufferer of night terrors is probably H. R. Giger. H. P. Lovecraft is widely believed to have experienced them as well."

Well, perhaps this is why I am, as my girlfriend says, "fucked up". 

[Domino]

Also what you're describing is weird yeah. I used to get it a lot and I use to suffer from schizophrenia and really just get used to it. It'll go away. (this is relating to the dream thing)

I have GAD but definitively not that.  My Anxiety causes all kinds of sleep problems.

[MillsJROSS]

I used to wake up with sleep paralysis...haven't recently, but I'm sure it will happen again. While I don't personally believe this tidbit, but I read somewhere, when I was researching it because it was freaking me out, that many of the people who experience this are in some way psychic. Once again, I personally don't believe that...but it is interesting.

It's quite a terrifying experience, and if I never have another one, I'll be quite content in life.

-MillsJROSS

[Paper Carnival]

I'd love to think that this thing is a paranormal experience, but I don't think so. Both times it happened I was lying on bed tired, but not sleeping. So I guess it was most likely sort of a "half-sleep". Like I said in another thread here a while ago, if I could read the words I could see on the ceiling and make sense out of them I could say that it was some sort of divine message directed to me, but they were moving around so fast that I couldn't.

[MrColossal]

http://skepdic.com/sleepparalysis.html

sorry, it's just your brain messing around with your body, like usual.

Eric

[Penguinx]

I've a friend who's 37 and still gets about one episode a year.