Sleep paralysis is it normal?

This happens to me every time i sleep because of my thyroid condition. They really aren't that bad once you get used to them. just set your alarm early so you have time to start moving. Also, being yanked off of the bed/ couch works well if you have something soft to land on and a willing helper. Just anything to snap you out of it; thrash, scream, flex. If you aren't careful, you will fall back asleep.

I get it from time to time. Its a weird feeling being awake and not being able to move. Sometimes this happened in nightmares where I am unable to move or yell. But for the most part It just wares off after a few seconds, no big deal.

My friend has it a lot and she says she thought someone was trying to smother her in her pillow. She woke up on her front and she said it felt like someone was holding her there. She even blamed her boyfriend at first. She gets it far worse than I do.

Also sleep paralysis is your brains way of stopping your body thrashing around too much when you are dreaming. Nothing to do with evil spirits or any of that nonsense.

Shit be scary, yo.

I have it a lot. Someone told me it was due to certain chemical releases in the brain, or lack of chemical releases or something.

When I was trying to lucid dream, I had a sleep paralysis experience. Having researched it, the fear that comes with it was repressed by my fascination by what was going on. I don't recall feeling crushed, but it was more difficult to breathe and I couldn't move. My body felt heavy. It was weird... I tried to move my arm, and I _felt_ it move up, but it was like a ghost arm. My arm actually did not move at all. I avoided looking around my room and kept my eyes shut, because I knew there was a possibility of hallucinations and I didn't want to panic. I tried quickly opening and closing my eyes, scrunching my face, because I had read that that was supposed to be a fail safe method of getting out of sleep paralysis. It didn't work, so I started wiggling my toes and slowly worked up to kicking my legs. Eventually I was able to sit up, which broke the paralysis. Before I did I was curious and opened my eyes to look around my room. To my right there was a shadowy black-cloaked figure with a skull head in a hood. It was pretty sweet. I want sleep paralysis to happen to me again, because I want to try using it to enter a lucid dream. I wasn't successful any other way.

Your experience is very similar to mine. I woke up, felt heavy, couldn't take my head off the pillow or lift my arm off the mattress. I thought I'd suffered a stroke and would be permanently paralysed. I was scared stiff and there was a rising panic at not being able to move in the short-term.

After sixty to ninety seconds, I pretty much had full movement back. I'm led to believe it's an area in the posterior pons which paralyses our muscles while we sleep so we don't sleep walk (it's probably responsible for the feeling of walking through treacle in dreams) but it also messes up a little and paralyses us while awake, which is much scarier.

I only had it once. If it happens again, I'd be less scared but so far, it hasn't.

hopefully you won't freak out as much next time because you'll know what's going out. I've always wanted to try do but i can't keep myself awake and still etc like you're meant to

Definitely sleep paralysis. But I have a more spiritual idea of what that is. I think it's just an evil presence, they can't hurt you though. If you research it, many people record black figures walking around, and a heaviness, as if they were sitting on them. I remember when it happened to me it was something like that.

I would try not going to bed at such a late hour, it would do wonders for you I'm sure.
The thing is when you get up and go back to sleep, I don't know what happens, but for me, the likeliness of remembering a dream is a lot higher. So if you have less interrupted sleep you are likely not to experience that again for awhile but I can't guarentee anything.