I have a question that is for anyone who knows anything about sleep disorders or dream interpretations. Anyone think they can help?

fredg

Hi,
What is your question?
Thanks.

bizygurl

Hi, Ask away, we will do our best to help you.

Jesushelper76

Yes, on both. What is your question?

lilfyre

Sleep disorder yes, dream interruptions not really, every one interprets them differently. Ask away so far there are 3 of us willing to try and help you all we need is the question.

perrya18

its somewhat a long story and it has to do with both. It happened a couple nights ago, and i emailed someone about it so ill just copy/paste what i wrote her.

It is now almost 2 oclock in the morning. I got into bed at around midnight, read for an hour and turned my light off at approx. 1 am. I dont think i ever really fell asleep. I remember everything quite clearly although exactly how it happened is very vague. I know that i was half asleep half awake, but this whole time i was dreaming. The first thing i dreamt was that my radio was on playing very loud music, and i remember thinking what is going on, and then i became fully aware and realized that i was dreaming the radio was on, partly because of the fact that when the music was playing the radio wasnt where it actually is in reality. Then, after falling into this half and half state again, i became aware of everything around me. I heard my breathing as though i were breathing into a microphone. i was aware of every sound in my room, and yet it was only subconsience because i knew i was half asleep. That isnt what is causing me to write this however. Before i continue i should aslo say that during this entire episode i could think quite clearly. for example i was thinking to myself while asleep that maybe i felt like this because of the advil i had taken for a migraine before going to sleep. After i thought to myself that i had never felt this way before, i tried to pull myself out of sleep to wake up fully and maybe read for a while to get more tired. However, that is when something strange happened. I became fully awake, but i could not move. All i could do was breath. I could not open my eyes, and i could not move any body part, fingers, toes, toungue, eyes...nothing. All i could feel was a tingling sensation in my left forearm, and as i write this i can still feel the tingling. I was like that for about 30 seconds before i consentrated as hard as i could on moving my arm and without even realizing what i was doing, i shot my arm staright out and that is how i ended my episode. I have never had this happen to me, and to be quite honest, i am terrible afraid to go back to sleep.

bizygurl

This has actually happened to me a few times. What I think you may have expirenced was some sort of out of "sleep paraylisis" it usually accompanies a very intense dream which I have heard them called "Lucid dreaming" where your body is completely asleep and you are in a dream state.

your dream mimics a reality that almost seems real like something you would expirence in your waking state. But what happens your mind knows your dreaming. So essentially your consiouce mind gets confused and your body goes into one of those "fight or flight" modes because your mind can't distinguish what's going on, so when you wake up abruptly its almost like your subconsoius hasn't turned off, since its your subconcous that keeps you from flopping around and acting out your dreams. So your body is a wake but your mind hasn't registered it.

For instance when you wake up naturally, your mind has had time to slowly "wake up" into a consouis state. It may seem scarey but there isn't anything wrong. I was dealing with these a lot a few years ago and decided to do some research about Sleep Paralyisis and what I expirenced seem to fit that.

I hope you were able to make some sense out of what I said. I tried to put it into the best terms without it sounding confusing.

perrya18

Thanks for your help. It makes alot of sence and fits, however, how can it be explained that i was half asleep tho? i never actually fell asleep. I kept waking up and it was like i was just dozing.

Jesushelper76

When your body is so tired, you may think or feel that you are up but your body is still in a sleep state, but your mind is alert and aware of what is going on. Your body needs more rest and you keep fighting it. You have to many things going on in your waking state it is actually impeeding on your sleep quality. Sleep Paralysis is very commen and can very scary. Like bizygurl said it does happen and it is normal. I would say if it was continuous or happening lots of times to get help because obvously not having enough sleep over long periods of time could be potentially harmful for your mind and body. Since it only happened once, it is mind and body telling you its not dealing well with not a lot of sleep.

perrya18

that actualy makes alot of sense because lately i havent been getting much sleep. It seems like no matter how tired i am, its so hard for me to fall asleep. Would that be considered insomnia?