Sleep paralysis experience(s)

I was sleeping with my boyfriend next to me in bed. I was tossing and turning, then suddenly I just couldn’t move. I was sleeping, but my eyes were open and I could see my boyfriend next to me and the bedroom as it normally looks. But I felt scared. Terrified even. I felt something on my legs and feet, like an animal biting at me. I couldn’t move to make it stop and it just made me even more terrified. In a split second, it stopped and I felt a huge heaviness around me. Like it was crushing me and I couldn’t move, scream, or think. I felt like someone was pressing me down, or laying on top of me. My eyes saw my boyfriend still sleeping next to me, so I knew he wasn’t the one making me feel trapped. I tried to move but I couldn’t, but then I “woke up”. I thought it was over because the heavy feeling was gone, but I still couldn’t move. Only move my eyes around. My room has a small orange nightlight in it, but it felt DARK. I can’t really describe it except it wasn’t right. Then I started to hear chanting. Like small children chanting, something I couldn’t make out but it was so loud it felt like it was in my brain. I felt something like heavy hands all around me pushing and pulling at me and shaking me in bed. The feeling like I was being shaken from inside my body, and my jaw was clenched so tight that I could feel it starting to hurt. I could just see my boyfriend laying there sleeping and remember asking myself “why isn’t he waking up?! Can’t he feel me moving and jerking around?! Why isn’t he waking up!” I closed my eyes super tight and when I opened them again, I realized I was “dreaming”. That’s when it hit me that I was dreaming that I was dreaming. But it didn’t feel like a dream, it felt real and I was scared. I woke my boyfriend up and I was in tears telling him what just happened and he said he didn’t feel me moving around or anything. But I knew it really happened because my jaw was in so much pain from being clenched so tightly. It terrified me so much that I didn’t sleep the rest of the night until morning came around. This experience happened about 6 months ago, and I couldn’t fall asleep without taking sleeping drugs. I was so scared to fall asleep and sleeping by myself that I purposely stayed awake until my boyfriend came to bed or until the meds started to kick in. Only recently have I been able to fall asleep without taking anything at night, but thinking about this experience still terrifies me. What was it? Was it really sleep paralysis, or was it just a bad sleeping experience? What makes it more creepy is that one of my very close friends said she had the SAME experience THE SAME NIGHT I did. we can’t explain it and I hate talking about it because people look at me like I’m crazy. But it happened to me, and it happened to my friend  

1. There is no real way for you and me to sleep without the help of our bodies, and the most basic of all human senses. We are programmed to be awake by our senses and the body is the only place we are able to get our own attention.

2. Sleep paralysis can be treated by any means available. If you have a condition that causes your brain to be asleep or you have a condition where your brain does not have the same amount of time it takes to recover from sleep, you may have a sleep paralysis that is caused by the brain not being fully engaged and unable to make the required movements for the rest of its time. This condition is known as sleep-deprivedness. If you experience sleep paralysis, you should consult a physician or a neurologist immediately.

3. The most basic and effective treatments available are medications and sleep aids, and there is a wide range of medications that can work for some people with the condition, such as sleep deprivation medications and antidepressants that work for others with the disorder.

I would recommend taking your sleep-disrupting medication as soon as you can to get your brain and nervous system ready to recover.

If the condition doesn't get worse, you may be able to take a sleep medication to relieve the symptoms of your sleep paralysis, but if the condition is not as bad, the treatment is not recommended.

4. The most important part of this medication, sleep-restorative medication (SLP), is called the REM sleep-wake cycle, or REM sleep.

5. It consists in the REM period of the body waking you and the REM period of your mind, which is about the time when the brain has recovered and is awake and able to process information. The REM period is the time that you have to wake your brain to the information that it needs to make decisions and to think and think. This time is usually the last time the brain wakes.

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