Night Terrors

[Sapphire Rain]

Originally Posted by jamuko

I'm surprised no one's mentioned sleep paralysis. That's what some of you seem to be describing. It's the thing neptuneshalo talked about, which is a process your body goes through every night to keep your muscles relaxed while sleeping. The problem arises if you happen to regain consciousness somehow and your body remains paralyzed...

I was thinking the same thing when I read the first post. I know very little, but I saw something about it once. I've had a few times where I was somewhere between asleep and awake (I was just waking up or just falling asleep) and I couldn't move right away. A couple of times that it happened, it happened more than once as I was drifting in and out of sleep. I'd wake up and try to move but all I could do was wiggle my pinky finger. The worst ones were where I was in a position where it was a little hard to breathe but I couldn't move to another position. Luckily it was only about 10 or 20 seconds, but it's still very unpleasant.