Night Terrors/Sleep Paralysis

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I have something not quite the same, but similar. I like it's other name: Old Hag Syndrome.

You probably have, although not been awake when it occured.

SP happens as a natural process. It's something the brain does to prevent people from acting out their dreams supposidly. It only becomes a problem if the person is awake enough to be aware it is happening.

thats the one you hear from Newfoundland, sits on your chest and stop you from breathing, I hear there is a version in Vietnam

I know the body is paralyzed during REM sleep, what I meant was that I don't remember ever waking up with the paralysis still going on.

I had at least three or four night terrors when I was a kid, and I know that my boyfriend (who has aspie traits but probably isn't actually an aspie) used to have them a lot, stopped, and then started to have them again recently. My mum said that she'd had some when she was a kid too when we were talking about them the other day.

Interestingly, though, Nick "turned off" (his words) his ability to see images in his head, and that was what stopped them (they started again when he realised what he'd done and turned it back on), and my mum can't see images in her head at all. We had a good conversation about it.

Never had Sleep Paralysis though. That sounds like a really interesting (and really scary) experience.

In Chinese it's known as "ghost pressing on body". :/

During these times pretty much the only part of yourself you can control is your breath, so try breathing in and out till the spell breaks. Or say something (as some others here have posted).

I hate it. For someone who gets claustrophobia like myself, the feeling of being trapped just aggravates me. It happened a lot but now I take Risperdal. It's an antipsychotic and I use it for depression but it seems to work against the sleep paralysis. Interestingly, my doctor had never heard of the term before. It really does surprise me sometimes how much doctors know.

I get sleep paralysis.