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[kallypup]

This is a pretty weird sleep phenomenon I've had fairly frequently. I'm prone to night terrors, and I thought that these episodes were just more of the same. I'll tell you, horror movies don't pack quite the punch after these.
Sleep Paralysis

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[bluemembrane]

Regarding Sleep Paralysis, I've had a few of these episodes myself. I never seemed to mind them. Basically, I'd wake up to find myself completely unable to move. Other times, I would feel like I was moving, but my body would stay put. On some occasions, I'd pull elements out of a dream I'd been having right into the waking world, finding myself both paralyzed-yet-awake, and still hallucinating some tiny (I mean like a particular object) part of the dream. This stuff used to happen the most when I'd go to bed while playing with a galvanic skin response machine. Basically, you put two fingers on the machine. It has an audio out jack that you put headphones into. Conductance of skin is positively correlated with higher stress, and higher conductance (as detected by the device) would lead to higher pitches coming out of the machine. Anyway, I'd go to bed with this thing on sometimes, as I'd been doing biofeedback training for back pain. Sometimes the noise from the machine would pull me out of dreams in weird spots, and I'd find myself going through externally-initiated sleep paralysis. Because I'd been meditating for a while, I wasn't so surprised to be in a state where I could neither feel nor move my body. Plus, all that ketamine I used to do probably familiarized me with the sensation. From what I hear from others, though, these are generally terrifying and unexpected events that you never get used to. Also, do you typically remember your night terrors? I've seen situations where people wake up screaming at the top of their lungs, can't stop screaming for an hour, and don't remember it when they get up the next morning. Anyway, that's my random feedback.

Peace.