I feel like i'm dying when i fall asleep

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Does anybody else feel themselves falling asleep?
Just as I'm drifting off I suddenly get the feeling that I'm dying. Happens during lucid dreams too.
Sometimes it can be heart attacks, drowning, last night I thought I had a stroke or something and my head was spinning and everything was going black I was genuinely panicking thinking I was going to die.
The thing is that it's usually when I am just drifting off, like my body thinks it's dying or something. I once reached for my phone to call 999 but that woke me up and everything was fine.

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  • Nickvey
    6 years ago

    its a good thing you didnt dial 666 satan would have shown up

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  • Boojum
    6 years ago

    Weird shit can happen when the brain goes through the processes of shifting into sleep mode.

    One of the most unpleasant is sleep paralysis. What you describe doesn't entirely fit the classic symptoms of that, but I suspect what you experience is somehow related.

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/sleep-paralysis-is-scary-af?utm_term=.itlpPNp54#.tuoAW4AQe

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  • hinsanu
    6 years ago

    sounds like insomnia or sleep paralysis.

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  • S12207
    6 years ago

    I've definitely never felt what you're talking about, sounds pretty scary. I have had sleep paralysis a few times before.

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    • Algum
      6 years ago

      I like some of the lucid dreams that I've had. Some of them are very bizarre and interesting. It's like escaping to a whole another world or dimension, I like that. This feeling the poster said that feels like he/ she's having a heart attack or dying, I've never had that. That may be some sort of panic attack he/she may be having as his/her body is shifting into sleep paralysis, kind of like an extreme nightmare which is setting off the panic attacks. I've had those panic attacks before while awake, and they can make you feel like you're having a heart attack.

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      • S12207
        6 years ago

        Ya I used to get panic attacks when I was younger too and it's awful, I could only imagine how that would feel waking up to that.

        Lucid dreams are awesome, and yes, bizarre as well. I always try to put myself back to sleep to go back there, but never can.

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Sometimes I just don't want to wake up again.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      Are you okay?
      You're a valued member of IIN :)

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      • RoseIsabella
        6 years ago

        Thanks for asking, I guess its just been a hard year for me.
        :-)

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