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Sleep paralysis - my experience

Stereolab said:
I always used to get sleep-paralyzed on airplanes. I had to fly from Baltimore to Cincinnati every Monday morning at 5AM. I'd fall asleep before the plane even took off, but I'd go into sleep paralysis around the time when the plane was preparing to land. I remember hearing the pilot telling us we were preparing to land, and I was scared as hell that I wouldn't be able to wake up and get off the plane.

This happened to me just about every week on the plane...but other than that, I can only remember having sleep paralysis once or twice in my own bed.
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That must have been really frightening. It sounds almost like subconsious stress and anxiety about landing and taking off (the two most dangerous phases of flying) might even have played a role.
 
One night when I was six years old and living in South America I woke up and saw this lion next to my bed. I reached for a broom that was next to my bed and started beating the hell out of the lion. My mom rushed into the room, flipped on the light to find me attacking our poor dog.
 
Doesn't this thread show that enough frigtening things can happen to us in our mundane world without making up even more fearful paranormal ones? -- see my sig.

Note, Burns was religious, but despised organised religion.
 
Also, look at how spooky these stories would be if told on a believers forum, omitting the scientific element.
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Here is a good example. At least someone does mention sleep paralysis. It seems to have turned out all right in the end. She seems to have reported a remote Satanist to the police. I wonder what they could charge him with -- spectral visitation? Unwelcome spirit manifestation? Being "The Entity"?

http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=121244
 
The times I've experienced sleep paralysis, I was acutely aware of my immediate environment. I had no visual hallucination and certainly never confused the experience with alien-napping. I really don't believe these experiences are related. I've seen the comparison elsewhere, but it does not ring true to me.

A suggestion to Jambo. If your experience is periodic, perhaps there is an environmental cause? I'm thinking of stuff like allergies (for example to seasonal food). You would be best able to spot any patterns in your own life. Next time it occurs, make careful notes of what you did and ate the previous couple of days. You might spot a pattern. It might even be a response to stress- Exams for example.
 
jambo372 said:
Can you get migraine without the headache ?.
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Well, I get the appalling semicranial pain without the flashing lights. I obviously have half of your medical problem. Do you want it back?

I used to get something like the light effects migraine sufferers describe doing Zen meditation... I also heard the distinctive sound of one hand clapping...
 
Literally, since infancy? And this has never been checked out?

When you say every few months or more, can you flesh that out with some numbers? eg three times a year , but maybe two of those in one month, or regularly once every six months- see where I'm going? Is there any link between the pattern, if any, and the rest of your life? eg is it related to holiday times, school term end /start, Christmas and Easter-( I know a man who , as a kid, always got ill after Easter. Turned out to be allergy to cocoa from chocolate eggs!He didn't eat it the rest of the year-wierd family.)

Or something seasonal?

Or an annual visit from your uncle Vlad the Poisoner?
 
No - Incidentally last night was the night.

It doesn't bother me for more than about 30 mins maximum, it would be a waste of time going to the doctors - they would think I had a screw loose going to them with something as daft as that.
 
No they wouldn't. If they do, get a new doctor. Something as persistent as you describe requires an explanation. Doctors deal with far more trivial stuff than this. It's part of the job.
 
It just happens completely at random.

PS Who is Vlad ? Tee hee hee.

But it doesn't bother me - why should I go to the doctor ?
I know someone who goes to the doctors everyday with every ailment - I think they just make it up.
 
And apparently Jambo sees orbs all the time as well.

According to Jambo his optician said this was fine and didn't send him for testing.

Of course there are those who think that if anyone has anything then Jambo has to have it too...
 
jambo372 said:
No - Incidentally last night was the night.

It doesn't bother me for more than about 30 mins maximum, it would be a waste of time going to the doctors - they would think I had a screw loose going to them with something as daft as that.
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NO THEY WOULD NOT! Unless you really are making this up and don't want to go because you know it's not real. But if this really happens to you, and you want to stop throwing up and feeling miserable, no doctor is going to ridicule you for going to him or her for help. Did you write down a list symptoms since you had it last night?

Wait, it doesn't bother you???? You said you it made you vomit uncontrolably! Vomiting is bad! That's a sign something is wrong with you, even if it doesn't bother you.
 
I know someone who goes to the doctors everyday with every ailment - I think they just make it up.


Yes, some people are hypochondriacs. They exaggerate symptoms, or totally make them up to get attention or impress others in some confused way. Do you think that description fits you? I'm taking what you say to be the truth, as I see no sane reason for you to make it up. I can't imagine why a doctor should doubt you.

Up to you of course, but at least keep a record of anything that might be related. If it gets more troublesome, you may find it useful.
 
For the last time - I don't want to go to the doctor because it's not an illness and I can avoid the nausea by rolling over onto my stomach and closing my eyes as soon as I wake up and feel my self spinning - if I don't do this within seconds I vomit.

And no I certainly am not a hypochondriac.
 
Are you sure it's not "the whirlies"? I'll bet your mother put Mcewan's Export in your bottle to get you to sleep.

So you won't risk the NHS*, but you want that voodoo doc's phone number? I'm getting a bad feeling about this.
Hey, if you get his number , PM me. I have a couple of targets in mind myself.
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* In Monklands- Death Capital of The World? You may be right.
 
It couldn't have been "the whirlies" except that one night we finished that bottle of vodka.

I wish I had his number. Don't know how much he charges. I know a few wiccans but that's a fat lot of good - they're not allowed to curse.

PS What have you got against Monklands ?
 
Jambo-

The old Monklands district had the highest death rates from heart
attack, atherosclerosis and lung cancer of any area in the NHS, or indeed the western world. Square sausage,soft water, beer and fags largely to blame. Of course, the whole central belt has a poor record in those areas- hence the health initiatives coming out of Holyrood- notably the new public smoking ban.

Funnily enough my only real connections there were with the sports centres. I used to belong to Bell-Monklands Archery Club.
 
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