AHH!! I can't move!!!

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it aint that comon but then again not so rare aswell, u probly just have sleep paralysis.

It should be noted that many alien abduction stories and a fair percentage of other supernatural events can be explained with sleep paralysis.

Your body releases hormones that prevent you from hurting yourself in your sleep. Sleepwalkers do not produce enough of that hormone, and sleep paralysis is the opposite - your body continues to keep you paralyzed, despite the fact that you've already woken up.

Sometimes, during this stage, your mind hasn't come fully back online. You're receiving some percentage of your usual sensory input, but your brain is still dreaming. It's during this time that you can see some amazing things. Dreams overlay reality, and i can tell you from personal experience that it is COMPLETELY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM REALITY. I've never had any alien experiences, but i have had a sort of "ghost / demon" sleep paralysis episode. I saw it, heard it, felt it, and even smelled it. If you've never experienced it, it's hard to explain. But i've had very vivid dreams - and this was no dream (errr... it technically was, but i can understand why people are tricked into thinking it was real - it seriously feels as real as any other moment in your life)

Anyway, i was just pointing this stuff out, cause if you're having the paralysis part of it you'll probably end up with an interesting dream overlaying reality at some point. But if it happens, maybe you'll understand the mechanism - and so it won't at all be a scary moment.

I always hope i have a sleep paralysis session where i'm being abducted - cause now i know what it REALLY is, and to be able to enjoy it for the *dream* that it is would be amazing. It's like free virtual reality.

Help, my brain just got paralysed reading all that BS.

When the paralysis is over, you guys need to stop watching Star Trek and get out a bit more.

I love Star Trek.......

Dontcha love the bits in Enterprise when T'pol has to be decomtaminated? Those pointy nips of hers should be declared a health hazard.

She also has to be "Serviced" every seven years or she will try to murder Cptn. Archer.

Tuvock is my Brotha from anotha Motha, Zup Yo!!

Also Dilitheum Crystals will paralize and possibly kill you. They cause Cysts and Colon Polyps.

I'm so serious when I say this but I can do the exact same thing. It is so awesome,but terrifying. Its a rare ability, but it can make you a little delusional after waking up.

It's normal. It's just sleep paralysis, and it's NOT bs. I have the same thing occasionally, and you CAN have some seriously weird "dreams". It can be pretty terrifying when your brain tries to come up with a good reason why you can't move until you realize exactly what it is and that it will pass.... Star Trek is a joke.

I had dream paralysis once. It was REALLY annoying because I had to go to the toilet REALLY BADLY!!! And I kept trying to get up, but I couldn't. And then after a while I kept on dreaming that I was getting up and walking towards the toilet, but couldn't get there. It would take a lot longer to get there than what I dreamed, and halfway there I'd realise I was still in my bed. So I tried to get up again to go to the toilet, but then again, I realised I was dreaming.

I tell ya, when I finally WAS able to get up and go to the toilet, I cannot express how relieved I was.

I get the same feeling sometimes. Id can be a really scarry... I just to have a in what i'm just walking somewhere and suddenly i start to fall down. And in moment when i begin to fall down i got a really scared , and that feeling is too weird to be explaind. But , right now that feeling is like freeze in one moment. It is like something had cought me in it's grip , my skin gets like all frozen .. Its not that i'm cold , but i can't move than. At all. It is some kind of fear , a really strong one that i feel than . It's too weird to be explained! Just ... my heart is beating like fastest drums, but i know that is an imposible cuz i would die than, and again i know that it is my heart and again it is not cuz i feel a lot of fear , and can't move and i feel like i'm dying but kindof interested in what it will came out like , and i'm trying to move but i can't ,than i open my eyes and that is really hard for me to do id , but the picture is the same. I know that i'm not dreaming them cuz i am completely avare of everything that is happening around me , hear the sound but i can't see anything... Really scarry , it has just happened to me when i tried to sleep an 2-3 hours ago. And that grip holds me longer and longer everytime i have it... It is something like my body is sleeping , but my mind is completely awake ... Got it feels terrifying! I don't want that to anyone ...

Someone else asked the very same thing on here recently, and the answer is that, yes, it is normal. It's called Sleep Paralysis, or Waking Paralysis. No, I don't know why two terms that sound like they should mean exactly the opposite to each other mean the same thing.

totally normal. it happens to me as well. like i'm subsonsciously awake and i'll want to move to go pee or whatevs, and my body doesn't seem to want to agree.