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[Repulsion]

  So, sometimes weird things happen when I try to get to sleep.
  I'd be lying on my side or back, and then I'd be unable to move for a few seconds. I would become very panicked for a bit, and then I would be able to move again.
  Also, another thing that happens when I try to get to sleep is that I hear a large sound that jolts me awake. For example, a few days ago I kept hearing what sounded to me like a loud piano note or something.
 

  I just want to know what these things are, if they are common, etcetera. They are a bit disturbing sometimes.

  Also, another thing that happens (when I'm not sleeping, however) is that I'd be walking around or doing something, and then I'd feel very weak and tired and my eyes would dim and I would maybe collapse to the floor and lose control of my muscles for a few seconds and flail my limbs around. Does anyone know what these things are?

[Frajic]

Sounds like sleep paralysis. The sounds you hear may be related.

[Hivemind]

The first sounds like sleep paralysis, I agree. The second sounds like Grand Mal seizures. I can vouch for this, considering I had/have epilepsy. I haven't seizured since I was about 14, but I would speak to your doctor. They'll likely want you to get an EEG done to monitor brain activity, but considering the safety concerns of being an epileptic (and no, you cannot swallow your tongue, that's a myth), it's better to have to testing done and know for sure.

[Singularity-SRX]

The sounds thing happens to me to, all the time, and I have only now realized that it's a possible ticket to lucid dreaming. Please wait a moment while I kill myself.

[Repulsion]

  Wait wait wait... so I might be an epileptic? God damn...

The sounds thing happens to me to, all the time, and I have only now realized that it's a possible ticket to lucid dreaming. Please wait a moment while I kill myself.

Er, what do you mean, it's a possible ticket to lucid dreaming?

[Hivemind]

"Might" be.

As far as it being a ticket to lucid dreaming, with sleep paralysis you can be awake and aware but still experience dreams. I have a friend that would hallucinate with the same recurring dream whenever it happened, with a demon sitting on his chest or back for the duration of the paralysis.

If you learn to force yourself to be aware that it's a dream though, you can control your dreams. Explore, do as you want, etc.

[Repulsion]

  Hmmm... well I asked a friend about it and she said that it was probably a type of dream...

Anyways, right now I have this recurring dream... I can't remember all the details but I think it's either repeatedly grabbing people's hands and shocking them, or shaving their heads, or something like that. Really confusing.

Also, to clarify, I only feel 'paralyzed' for a matter of seconds. I'm not sure if I am actually only paralyzed for a matter of seconds, or if it really is a dream and I experience a lot of time when I think I've only spent seconds... although I don't believe the latter much.

[Singularity-SRX]

When you start feeling paralyzed, do you change your breathing pattern? As in from being calm to scared, making you breathe faster.

And what I meant before is that when you go into sleep paralysis, if you manage to ignore all the weird things you see and hear, everything will (as is possibly ) merge together into a dream, and you should basically have full awareness. There's a thread about lucid dreaming around here somewhere...

[GlyphGryph]

The sound seem like a type of hypnagogic hallucinations - its not uncommon for sleep paralysis to be connected with this, since its generally due to a blurring between the boundaries of sleep and awake as far as the body is concerned.

I used to hear sounds when going to sleep (and visuals, oh god they were rare but that is a pretty crazy thing) and it was the hypnagogic hallucinations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia#Sounds

[Fossaman]

Also, another thing that happens (when I'm not sleeping, however) is that I'd be walking around or doing something, and then I'd feel very weak and tired and my eyes would dim and I would maybe collapse to the floor and lose control of my muscles for a few seconds and flail my limbs around. Does anyone know what these things are?

Have you noticed any more specific trigger than 'walking around'? For instance, does it happen right after standing or bending over?

But this one is definitely a 'go see a doctor!' sort of thing. Near-blackouts are not healthy.

[Supercharazad]

For the sound one, I remember when I was about 5, my cieling lamp cast a shadow, of which I was terrified, and one night, I woke up facing it, after hearing a low piano note, this was before we had a keyboard.

Related?

[DeKaFu]

  Also, another thing that happens when I try to get to sleep is that I hear a large sound that jolts me awake. For example, a few days ago I kept hearing what sounded to me like a loud piano note or something.

Could it be...Exploding Head Syndrome?!

[G-Flex]

Other people have gone into this a bit here, but yeah, sleep paralysis is fairly normal/benign, and sudden hallucinations like that (like hearing someone shout) happen to me from time to time as I fall asleep.

I used to get really bad sleep paralysis as a kid. I would be having a nightmare, for instance, realize it, and force myself to wake up, but apparently this didn't wake me up quite right, as I'd be lying in bed completely unable to move anything except my head, while this overwhelming feeling of dread would come over me and I'd get sucked back into the dream against my will. It's sort of how I picture getting sucked into Hell must feel like.

[Lekegolo Khanid]

Other people have gone into this a bit here, but yeah, sleep paralysis is fairly normal/benign, and sudden hallucinations like that (like hearing someone shout) happen to me from time to time as I fall asleep.

I used to get really bad sleep paralysis as a kid. I would be having a nightmare, for instance, realize it, and force myself to wake up, but apparently this didn't wake me up quite right, as I'd be lying in bed completely unable to move anything except my head, while this overwhelming feeling of dread would come over me and I'd get sucked back into the dream against my will. It's sort of how I picture getting sucked into Hell must feel like.

I had the same thing, except I couldn't move at all and I'd be stuck like that fighting it for up to 30 minutes, I know because I always slept facing my alarm clock, and then after a while I would be able to move again but I'd be all cramped up. Stopped happening though.

[Tellemurius]

i'm able to sleep with my eyes open so all of my dreams was the damn wall i was staring at.