Thread: Recurrent sleep paralysis

Over the past couple of weeks, I've experienced a very strange issue. I'm one of those people who, on occasion, has a nightmare. When I do, I end up waking up smack-bang into sleep paralysis, complete with my own black shadow man. If it isn't completely a nightmare, just a bad dream, I might get away with waking into sleep paralysis with only extreme tingly sensations, etc, but not the tactile sensations of any malevolent entity.

Recently, though, I've simply been waking up into sleep paralysis WITHOUT nightmares or bad dreams. I haven't been trying lucid dreaming or anything, although the other morning I did manage a degree of lucidity (I believe I may have also slipped towards mind awake and body asleep, feeling some sleep paralysis, but then I went back into the dreaming world). Only one dream has actually been unpleasant, but nothing like the bad dreams, yet alone nightmares, that normally land me in sleep paralysis. In other words, I've simply been waking up into sleep paralysis for no real reason.

It happened this morning, and I was lucky to escape any feelings of any presence in the room with me. The two other times I care to count had someone 'messing' me around, a bit like if my mother was trying to get me up and stroking my neck gently to wake me up. It was definitely unpleasant, even though I do feel it was supposed to be my mother. The sensations of touch on my neck...oooh. But that isn't the issue, I'm fully aware of the sensations, etc, that can accompany sleep paralysis. The issue is...I'm ending up in it without having bad dreams or nightmares. It's just too often. Usually it'd be once every few or so months, most likely much longer between instances of SP, and definitely only after a nightmare. I'm wondering what might be wrong (if anything is 'wrong'). It's unnerving to say the least.

The only thing out of place this morning was having a bit of a blocked nose, so I was a bit disorientated (I usually end up like that, uncomfortable, if a nostril is blocked). I don't really think it has much to do with it, though, considering I suffer from dry eyes, so now and then wake up with very sore, watery eyes and a blocked nose WITHOUT any SP accompanying it.

Psst, and no, I *NEVER* remember to relax and understand it's just SP, that it cannot hurt me. I always panic (or at least dislike it a lot) and want to get out of it.