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[Garath]

its fairly common that you have trouble moving, or unable to move when waking up. it's even got its own name in mild cases: sleep drunken. Panic attacks when you're unable to move are more related to feeling helpless and restricted. The situation itself is relatively harmless. I'm sure someone said it already: There's a "switch" in your brain that says -sleep, dont move and -awake, move. When that switch doesnt go off when you're sleeping, we call it sleepwalking, and noone thinks its a sign of epilepsy or anything. When it fails to switch when you get awake its called sleep paralysis, and should cause as much worry, so not much. It is however much more frightening and stressful, because you are aware of your condition.

I personally dont know anyone who hasnt woken up in the middle of a night from a loud sound that wasnt there at some point in their life. Vivid dreams often include sounds, often even speech that, in your sleep, was comprehensible (hey, i can speak french in my sleep! or at least my dreams). This system backfiring in making the illusion of a load sound that triggers an alarm to wake you up... I would only get worried if its always the same sound and you start to hear it when awake too, or daydreaming. On brain malfunctions related to music there is musicofilia, or something, from i forgot which writer, which isnt entirely scientific, but more anecdotal and therefore more recognisable

[MC Tsiru]

I would become very panicked for a bit, and then I would be able to move again.

Cheers!

Don't worry, you're all right.

I very well understand your feelings with the experience of these sleep related phenomena. I sometimes hear voices when i drift into sleep ... the first time i feared becoming bonkers. Another time i woke up in my bed with the feeling of a presence behind me and not being able to move ... i feared a stroke or even worse.

The latter phenomenon is (as Garath said) kinda the opposite of sleep walking. The motorical functions have to be deactivated in sleep so we don't run around and do stupid things. Sometimes it happens that motor control isn't regained before conciousness/memory ... so we find ourselves paralyzed in bed. It might well be that we all experience this more often then we remember because our memory isn't working that early.

These things happen to me when i do a lot of non-self related thinking (especially quirky math) and meditation.

[Omegastick]

I personally dont know anyone who hasnt woken up in the middle of a night from a loud sound that wasnt there at some point in their life. Vivid dreams often include sounds, often even speech that, in your sleep, was comprehensible (hey, i can speak french in my sleep! or at least my dreams). This system backfiring in making the illusion of a load sound that triggers an alarm to wake you up... I would only get worried if its always the same sound and you start to hear it when awake too, or daydreaming. On brain malfunctions related to music there is musicofilia, or something, from i forgot which writer, which isnt entirely scientific, but more anecdotal and therefore more recognisable

Funnily enough, I was woken up by some music-box music the other morning. It started in my dream and after I woke up was still there for a few seconds, despite the fact that we have nothing that would make that sound in our house.