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.
Sleep paralysis is it normal?
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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.