Thread: Sleep paralysis every single night this week, What is going on!!?

Okay well, Ever since sunday I have been having sleep paralysis just before bed everynight, usually I only got it once a month if lucky, now suddenly I get it every night and I want to know why. Of course its an amazing feat for an option for lucid dreaming, but everytime it happens I have some sort of blood curdling yelling or screaming in my ears and it feels like im being electrocuted or on fire. And after a few seconds of it just feeling so weird and creepy, I wake up then fall asleep an hour later, does anyone have any help or opinions?

Is your sleeping schedule stable? Have you experienced any stress before it started happening?

*Moved to Sleep and Health*

Well usually im headed to bed arround 12:30, and Stress -about a month ago I broke up with my (ex) but I wasnt all to stressed about that, Im not really stressed at all I just suddenly get it now

There are several factors which can contribute to SP. First, it is important to make sure you're properly diagnosing this as SP. In short sleep paralysis is waking up, except that you're still paralyzed and your brain is also still in nightmare mode. It is sometimes associated with hallucinations, visual, auditory, physical, and often associated with the feeling of a "presence".

If that fits, then you may be one of those unlucky people who has this happen frequently. I am one of those people myself.

Factors which contribute to SP include:
Sleeping on your back
Stress
Poor and/or incomplete nutrition
Fatigue
Stimulant consumption (such as caffeine)
Drug use (certain prescribed and even illegal drugs can contribute to SP)

It may help to keep a journal which would include your mood and sleep habits as well as the kinds of things you eat and drink. You may find common patterns and root out possible triggers. However, from what I understand, for those with this condition, its not something that really has much of a reason behind it. For me, if I take a nap during the day and I'm laying on my back, I'm just going to experience SP. That's just the way my brain works now.

If you are a cronic sufferer, and you're at all interested in being a guinna pig, then feel free to get involved with a study I'm doing on the effects of meditation and sleep paralysis.

For about a year, when I was 15-16 years old, I had SP several times a night before falling asleep. I'd start drifting off, and once I got relaxed I would feeling a rushing in my head and realize I was paralyzed. I'd try to move until I could, and then it would happen again, so often I was afraid of staying still for too long and I had difficulty falling asleep. Trying to figure out what I was experiencing online was how I found out about lucid dreaming, so it was good in a way.

It was extremely annoying, but nothing I tried to help it worked. My brain was just malfunctioning in that way and it lasted for a long time. Now, years later, I don't get SP at all besides very occasionally, with no clear reason as to why it went away or what caused it in the first place. Interestingly, I found out afterward, while describing it to my mother, that she suffered from the same thing (except she also hallucinated during it) at around the same age as I did, and it went away after the same amount of time. For this reason I suspect there may be some genetic component.

Originally Posted by DreamOracle

Okay well, Ever since sunday I have been having sleep paralysis just before bed everynight, usually I only got it once a month if lucky, now suddenly I get it every night and I want to know why. Of course its an amazing feat for an option for lucid dreaming, but everytime it happens I have some sort of blood curdling yelling or screaming in my ears and it feels like im being electrocuted or on fire. And after a few seconds of it just feeling so weird and creepy, I wake up then fall asleep an hour later, does anyone have any help or opinions?

I envy you! Honestly, if I had sleep paralysis every night, I would be able to turn it into a WILD with ease.

Read my WILD technique and try to do what it says there. Yes, the loud sounds are scary, and the vibrations (if you feel them) can also be scary, but try to convince yourself that this cannot harm you.

With a little practice you will be able to enter LDs directly from SP.