Sleep Paralysis
I have a test in four hours and eight minutes. I can't sleep because I've been having sleep paralysis again and (even though I know that this isn't what is happening. . . ) I always think that I am dying or that there are ghosts when it happens. I read some lit on it to calm myself down, but all it has done is make me more nervous.
Sleep paralysis is basically when you. . . become paralyzed, uh, when you sleep. You are conscious and your senses work (you can only move your eyes, normally) - you just can't move or sleep and you have hallucinations, feel "presences" (you feel like there is someone RIGHT there, like standing over you), you feel pressure. . . it's very crazy. The hallucinations immediately vanish once you are able to move or scream or hear a loud REAL noise, or someone flips a light on, and so on. When you get out of it, it's just like BAM!, you just suddenly break out of it.
I don't like them.
When I was paralyzed tonight, the hallucination that accompanied it was a green cloud filling my entire room and coming toward me. I decided in my panic, that it wasn't something filling my room - I thought my vision was fading and I was dying. I felt like some sort of heavy liquid was being injected into my forehead and making me lose control of my face.
I'm not going back to bed and I have all the lights on in the house right now.
All I am thinking now is "No wonder I am such an insomniac."
Sleep paralysis is basically when you. . . become paralyzed, uh, when you sleep. You are conscious and your senses work (you can only move your eyes, normally) - you just can't move or sleep and you have hallucinations, feel "presences" (you feel like there is someone RIGHT there, like standing over you), you feel pressure. . . it's very crazy. The hallucinations immediately vanish once you are able to move or scream or hear a loud REAL noise, or someone flips a light on, and so on. When you get out of it, it's just like BAM!, you just suddenly break out of it.
I don't like them.
When I was paralyzed tonight, the hallucination that accompanied it was a green cloud filling my entire room and coming toward me. I decided in my panic, that it wasn't something filling my room - I thought my vision was fading and I was dying. I felt like some sort of heavy liquid was being injected into my forehead and making me lose control of my face.
I'm not going back to bed and I have all the lights on in the house right now.
All I am thinking now is "No wonder I am such an insomniac."