Sleep Paralysis

**Hangin' Burrito** · 09-05-2011, 04:52

I thought I'd experienced it a couple times in my hammock, then I realized it was just my TQ wrapped around my neck!!

**Oxblood** · 09-05-2011, 09:50

I experience sleep paralysis periodically. I often find it is associated with a nightmare. Awful feeling.

**Gra_factor** · 09-05-2011, 11:05

It's a never happened to me at least that I know of, and I hope it never does, although it's perfectly natural. Sleep paralysis is when our bodies are still in a dream state but our mind has woken up. When we dream, our bodies can't move. Evolution selected for our ancestors who were not able to act out their dreams.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wi...-paralysis.jpg

**Marius357** · 09-05-2011, 12:12

i experience it often at work, I work 24 hour shifts and get 1-2 hours of sleep per shift, when I finally fall asleep and the pager tones drop sometimes I can not move for a minute or so. You just have to keep trying to wake your body up and move on, some of the crews I work with thought the stations were haunted when it happened to them and I had to explain sleep paralysis to them. If you are not aware of what it is it can be quite terrifying, now i has happened so much to me it is almost normal, Again It only happens at work when I am extremely tired and get sleep in 20-30 minute increments.

**Jcavenagh** · 09-05-2011, 12:51

I haven't experienced this in a hammock yet. It has happened to me many times over the years while in bed.

**HamMike** · 09-05-2011, 14:42

It's happened to me when I was hanigin at a metro park. Some early morning walkers were approaching on the path near my hammock. I could hear them talking and getting closer but I just couldn't make myself move and aknowledge them. At the time I just chocked it up to being out of it. I had some crazy dreams before that too.

**HamMike** · 09-05-2011, 14:47

Originally Posted by thexuprising

It happened a lot when I was a kid, then again when when I was 18 I had it once so I studied a bunch about it along with other silly things like astral projection. It started happening every, to every other night, I think because I was thinking about it so much. it was creepy.

Astral projection!? I found our next campfire discussion Chad! I read about this when I was a kid and am pretty sure I achieved it, or atleast being in control of my dreamstate. It calls for recognizing you are dreaming and taking control of it.

**awilder** · 09-05-2011, 15:44

Originally Posted by Gra_factor

It's a never happened to me at least that I know of, and I hope it never does, although it's perfectly natural. Sleep paralysis is when our bodies are still in a dream state but our mind has woken up. When we dream, our bodies can't move. Evolution selected for our ancestors who were not able to act out their dreams.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wi...-paralysis.jpg

Funny picture! One more reason to use a bugnet!

**Captain Smiley** · 09-05-2011, 16:39

It's never hapenned to me but I know the feeling. I got pinned under my ex wife once, absolutly horrifying. Thank God my current is a still sleeper.

**MrClean417** · 09-05-2011, 20:05

Originally Posted by thexuprising

It happened a lot when I was a kid, then again when when I was 18 I had it once so I studied a bunch about it along with other silly things like astral projection. It started happening every, to every other night, I think because I was thinking about it so much. it was creepy.

Ahhhh, so you've read 'Soul Traveler'. Listened to the author way back when Art Bell did the Coast to Coast show. Seemed like a bunch of frap but a really nice guy to listen to.