Originally posted by Blight
Has anyone ever had sleep paralysis?The LSD trip just reminded me that I had it on my 40th birthday.
You mean the feeling that you're sleeping but you cannot move whatsoever yet you are contrarily and acutely aware of the environment around you? Like you are paralyzed and can feel people walking around you (because they actually are) but no matter what, you cannot break out of the paralysis?
Sometimes to the point where the only thing you feel you can control is your breathing but you're still trapped in your body, so if you fell asleep in an awkward position, your breathing is stifled? And you wonder why you cannot wake up or wrest out of it despite the fear/dread/panic you'll suffocate?
Never read into it much but after awhile I hypothesized these were lucid nightmares where your acute awareness of your surroundings are actually dreams you formulate. No less awful, mind you. Because if you suffer through those, even when you are aware it was happening... there was nothing you could do to break me out of them until it felt like thirty minutes had passed where you feel like you're choking on your breath and suffocating violently.
Imagine yourself in a sleeping position with a fat guy sitting on you awkwardly and you're struggling to breathe for minutes upon minutes and you cannot move a muscle. It's literal slow suffocation.
If Hell were a place. It'd be that state forever. I wouldn't wish it upon the worst of people.
But, yeah, no personal experience with that at all.
Except like... all the ****ing time when I would take naps on couches, lazy-boyz, but also even sometimes when sleeping in my bed. Lessen stress, lessen nightmares, lessen the chances of experiencing those.