Anyone ever set their alarm to wake them for something important, and then woken up anyway a minute before the alarm goes off? This happens to me a lot.

Has anyone ever "half woken up" and found themselves paralysed? This happened to me once, and it scared me to death. I was still half asleep, and could just about move my arm a little.

What about sleepwalking? I once had a conversation with someone while I was still asleep. I'd only slept for two hours. When I woke up properly I had a nagging feeling that I'd been downstairs, but to this day I only know about the conversation because I was told about it (and no, I hadn't been drinking!).

Finally, and most freaky, has anyone had to fight their way back to being fully awake, due to the feeling that there was some evil presence in the room with you, and that bad things would happen if you lost consciousness? I'm not mad, and I don't really believe in supernatural stuff, but I've had this happen to me. I'd like to put it down to something psychological, what with your brain still being half asleep. But it would be nice to know if anyone else has had this experience!

Originally posted by Funky Dave
Has anyone ever "half woken up" and found themselves paralysed? This happened to me once, and it scared me to death. I was still half asleep, and could just about move my arm a little.

Yes, loads of times. This is called "Sleep Paralysis" and is quite common.

I think it's called sleep paralysis. I have no experience of this, but some of my friends do. I can relate to that alarm clock thing though. I often wake up seconds before the alarm goes off.

I often wake up just before the alarm goes off and have heard a few people saying that it also happens to them.

As far as I'm aware I personally don't sleep walk or anything but I frequently get woken up by my boyfriends sleep talking. I can sometimes have entire nonsense conversations with him until he'll suddenly stop and continue sleeping peacefully.

Unfortunately I usually laugh my head off at what he says and this either means that he becomes frustrated and stops talking or that I wake him up. The best thing he shouted at about 4a.m once was 'Dangerous carrots shine brightly'. I'd love to know what he was thinking but he can't remember.

Another time he jumped out of bed and told me that 'the electric cable pipes were going drip, drip, drip' (answers on a postcard please).

My younger brother used to have a sleep walking problem and used to think that everywhere in the house was a toilet. Our parents once stopped him in the nick of time from peeing on the T.V (whilst they were watching it).

One of my friends used to say that she'd wake up in the middle of the night in mid air but I'm not sure I believe that one (think she probably dreamt it). Another friend says that she gets sleep paralysis as already mentioned. Yet another friend says that she used to often feel compressions in her bed throughout the night as if people were sitting down next to her when she was younger but maybe that's more of a supernatural type thingy.

It's all a mystery to me!

With regards to the alarm thing, aint that something to do with ones "body clock"? Has anyone had the recollection, whilst sleeping, of leaving ones body and floating above oneself? :confused:
Used to happen to me occasionaly as a kid. I would either be simply hovering in a corner of the room looking down on myself or I would experiance the feeling of being in a hot air balloon floating up from myself and drifting away, returning before I lost sight of myself, only to repeat the process over again! :loopy:

I've just finished reading James Herbert's "Nobody True" which is very much along these lines (outer body experiances etc) and could really relate (Excellent read, but I am a bit of a fan). :clap:

I thrash around more than anyone else in my sleep. I'm a whirlwind of feet, knees, hands and elbows. I often fall out of bed (even though it's a kingsize bed).

I also talk in my sleep a lot apparently too, though i doubt that i do.

One time when i was doing the coast to coast walk, i was sleeping in a bed and breakfast and in the middle of the night i awoke and sat bolt upright and shouted out

MOTHER! ME FEET!

I then dropped back down to the bed and slept thoguh the night, very odd.

Anyone else talk in their sleep?

Wilf

Originally posted by Clair-bear
...The best thing he shouted at about 4a.m once was 'Dangerous carrots shine brightly'. I'd love to know what he was thinking but he can't remember.

Another time he jumped out of bed and told me that 'the electric cable pipes were going drip, drip, drip' (answers on a postcard please)....Sounds like a Freudian one-track mind to me...

apparently, the sleep paralysis, is where the term nightmare comes from. Something to do with german i think. Back ye old days, when people suffered sleep paralysis, it was believed to be a witch holding them down, this is where the mare bit comes from.
I suffer from a hell of a lot, started a couple of years ago, and now it seems to happen about 2-3 times a week. It still scares me silly

:thumbsup: 99.99% of Alien abductions can be put down to "Sleep Paralysis"

And apparently out of every five dreams, two are nightmares.

The other three sure as hell make up for it.

I guess that a 'nightmare' could be defined as 'any dream without a good ending' so it makes that statistic more believeable...



I seem to be able to remember all of my dreams. Well, at least one dream per night anyway... last night it was a dream where I was in London, and there was someone driving around the London Eye in a Formula 1 car...

Im a highly active sleeper, I occaisionally wake up with a sprained ankle cos Ive booted the wall in my sleep! :o also have a tendancy to cling onto things so have to sleep with a massive pillow just to hug!
Once when I was about 5 during sleep I got up took off clothes and for no reason at all put on a swimming cossie and a tutu??? I woke up like that wondering what the hell had gone on....not done it since tho!
also talk in my sleep...apparantly...once I was directing a fleet of builders how to construct a swimming pool and my finest one according to sis is when for no reason at all i said "Ooooooooo all the pretty feathers...." and laughed solidly for an hour! :loopy:

I have been told I talk in my sleep,sadly I cant confirm this as I am normally asleep.

I once slept with my hand resting on the radiator and gave myself a nasty burn. I still have the scar to this day.

I once drank a glass of milkshake when I was asleep! I rested it on myself and put straw in mouth and then fell asleep. Woke up with straw still in mouth and glass empty and no sign of spilliage!!!
So either I did drink it in my sleep or someone is messing with my mind! :loopy: