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[penguinofhonor]

Gah, it happened to me again. Twice.

Yesterday I was hanging out with my roommate and fell asleep on her bed. This time I recognized it and started panicking. I could only control my breathing, so I started breathing loudly to try and get her attention. She shook me, assuming I was having a nightmare or something, and it wore off after a few more seconds. I'm not sure if being shaken helped.

This morning I woke up, realized I was paralyzed, and started panicking. Then I realized I was panicking, calmed down, and tried to move. Surprisingly, I could control the fingers on my left hand, so I wiggled them until I could move the rest of me.

I don't like that this is happening more often, but hopefully this morning's incident means I'm slowly gaining control over it.

[Shakerag]

All I can say is to try and recognize it when it happens and just tell yourself that it'll pass in a few seconds.

[AlleeCat]

I actually suffer from this quite often, and have most of my life. The only difference is that if I try hard enough, I can actually move, albeit very slowly. Every time it happens, I'm always still in my room, and rather than actually seeing something scary, I just have this really strong feeling that something horrible and twisted is right outside my field of vision. I'm usually able to wake up at that point by squeezing my eyes closed as hard as I can, and sometimes moving enough for my body to realize I shouldn't be paralyzed anymore, but if I fall asleep again, I go right back into the paralysis dream, so I usually end up having to stay awake for a few hours before I can go back to sleep. Did I mention that the only time they ever happen is in the middle of the night?

I don't know if that helped at all, I just wanted to share my experience with it. It's not harmful in any way, as far as I can tell, just sort of a thing that happens probably once or twice a month. I've learned to just sort of accept it and live with it.

[Man of Paper]

I've been through bouts of sleep paralysis very frequently (the worst time was about a month and a half ago where I woke up with SP three times over the course of the same night), and did notice that I always "wake up" on my back. I sleep on my side or stomach, but over the course of the night I guess I settle into that position a lot. Nowadays when I fail to move my own body I stop trying until that overwhelming feeling of dread begins to pass. As a lucid dreamer myself, I can say it is very, very hard, personally, to try to take control of any of the hallucinations I'm having. I have a few things I look at when I wake up to make sure it's not a dream in a dream, so when I register my totems, if you will, (one which is on the ceiling, the other on the wall at the foot of my bed, at least one of which is in view when I have SP) I don't recognize it as a dream and proceed to get hallucinated, if I can use that as a verb.

[penguinofhonor]

All I can say is to try and recognize it when it happens and just tell yourself that it'll pass in a few seconds.

Pshaw, if I can gain control of the sleep paralysis through expanding my control beyond my left hand, I'm going to do it. I don't need your defeatism.