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My First Disturbing Experience of Paralysis 4 Feb 2019 8:59 AM (6 years ago)

Feb 19th 2011 After being kept awake all night due to my little brother's 3 friends, and I mean ALL NIGHT. From 11 when my head hit the pillow I was waken

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How Do You Start A Lucid Dream? 4 Feb 2019 8:50 AM (6 years ago)

I've only had one lucid dream in my life. It was really exciting, but here are some details about my dreams: I rarely have bad dreams. But when I do,

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Sleep Paralysis / Lucid Dreaming in the Same Experience? 4 Feb 2019 8:49 AM (6 years ago)

I'm laying in bed trying to go to sleep so so hard but I just can't, I can't hit the switch of sleep time. Next thing I know I feel like I'm sinking slowly

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Fatigue and a Feeling of Constant Dread With My Sleep Apnea 4 Feb 2019 8:40 AM (6 years ago)

I was diagnosed about 8 years ago with OSA - having about 20-25 episodes every hour (Apnea/Hypopnea Index) where I would stop breathing. I would wake

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Sleeping Beauty And A Sexomniac 4 Feb 2019 8:31 AM (6 years ago)

I sleep like a rock. I work 6 days a week and usually fall asleep within seconds. I can usually remember at least part of one dream per night and I know

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I'm A Sexsomniac 4 Feb 2019 8:28 AM (6 years ago)

I am a 28 year old lesbian female. I used to have episodes of sleep sex quite frequently from age 18 to 21. I would wake up in the middle of the night

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Unsettling with Family History of Narcolepsy 4 Feb 2019 8:18 AM (6 years ago)

Hello, I am a 16 year old girl and I am sure I definitely have some sort of sleep disorder. My mother says that there is a history of Narcolepsy on her

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Staying Safe With Narcolepsy 4 Feb 2019 8:15 AM (6 years ago)

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy in 2018. I cannot watch movies and have to pull over while driving to have a 15 minute sleep at times. I have tried the

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Narcoleptic From Day One and Not "Failure To Thrive" 4 Feb 2019 8:14 AM (6 years ago)

I was born in 1979 and 3rd in the line of siblings. I never cried in the middle of the night like my brothers did. My mom said she had to wake me up

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Hallucinations from Narcolepsy - You Are Not Alone 4 Feb 2019 8:09 AM (6 years ago)

For a while now I have been having hallucinations everyday and night nonstop. When I was younger it only happened at night, but about a year ago they began

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The Constant Crunch Of Teeth Grinding 4 Feb 2019 8:06 AM (6 years ago)

My nickname is Jane... I'm 32 years old and I just found out I may possibly be suffering from Bruxism 😑. At the age of 28 I started waking up to loud

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Bruxism Discovered After Nearly Twenty Years of Terrible Headache Pain 4 Feb 2019 8:04 AM (6 years ago)

It wasn't until I was in my twenties that my dentist realized I had been grinding my teeth at night, likely for most of my life. It took chipping one of

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Teeth Hurt From CPAP? Or Maybe Grinding! 4 Feb 2019 8:03 AM (6 years ago)

After 4 months on CPAP my teeth started hurting and were loose every morning. I have a history of perfectly formed teeth that fit nicely in my jaw and

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Lifted Off The Bed And Paralysed! 5 Apr 2017 4:46 PM (8 years ago)

Last night i went to bed about midnight, i was so tired and was falling into a deep sleep, which is unusual for me as i have been on sleeping pills for

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Sleep Paralysis And Needing To Go To The Toilet! 5 Apr 2017 4:42 PM (8 years ago)

I have had severe ME for 20 years and during this time I have experienced sleep paralysis numerous times, both during the morning when waking from sleep

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It Feels Like Someone Is Shaking My Bed! Scary Sleep Paralysis 5 Apr 2017 4:41 PM (8 years ago)

I am 21 & a college student who experienced these lucid dreams and sleep paralysis for about 2 months now. The first time it happened was after not sleeping

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My 5 Year Old Child Won't Sleep 5 Apr 2017 4:31 PM (8 years ago)

I don't know what to do or where to look for help. My son was a great sleeper until this year. He routinely slept from 8 until 6 or 7, no problems! His

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My 8 Year Old Son Crying Out From His Sleep 5 Apr 2017 4:07 PM (8 years ago)

I have an 8 yr old son, who screams, kicks, and cries out after sleeping a couple of hours from going to bed. He's normally a happy child but he doesn't

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Both My Children (6 and 3) Have Suddenly Started Waking Early 5 Apr 2017 4:03 PM (8 years ago)

My children have both been good sleepers from birth but recently my 3 year old daughter has been either waking up at 5:30am then waking her 6 year old

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Sleep Paralysis With Hooded Figures 22 Dec 2016 10:39 AM (8 years ago)

So I am fairly conditioned to my SP problem, it has been happening since about the age of 6. I am 30 now and I believe that its time to find out more about

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From Sleep Deprived To Can't Sleep Enough With Fybromyalgia 22 Sep 2016 8:13 AM (9 years ago)

I was diagnosed with Fybromyalgia 5 years ago and slowly over the years my sleep has become less and less to the point of having no sleep to maybe an hour

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Sleep Deprived For 40 Years 22 Sep 2016 8:09 AM (9 years ago)

I've had insomnia since I was 20 years old. I could never manage to fall asleep before 4 or 5 a.m. My alarm would go off at 7:00 and I would get ready

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2 Known Incidents Of Acting Out In My Dreams 15 Aug 2016 5:38 PM (9 years ago)

When I was perhaps 10, I visited my friend Polly, who was a few years older than me, and spent the night. We used to live next door but I had moved to

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Husband Behaves Strangely When Asleep - I'm Wondering If It's RBD 15 Aug 2016 5:34 PM (9 years ago)

My husband and I have been married for almost two years. For his whole life, people have told him that he talks in his sleep, to the point where they have

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Two of my most hilarious sleepwalking incidents... 19 Jun 2016 3:56 PM (9 years ago)

For the first, I was having a special morning with my ten-year-old child who was about to take off for a camping expedition with her schoolmates. I was

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Lucky To Be Alive - Passed Out Behind The Wheel, Narcolepsy Diagnosis Followed 31 May 2016 10:25 AM (9 years ago)

Driving on the highway in the spring of 2009 I inexplicably 'passed out' behind the wheel. I vaguely recall the sound of a car horn and the sound of rough

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How RBD Ruined My Relationship 1 May 2016 10:56 AM (9 years ago)

I have had RBD for a few years but I thought everyone had these episodes so I never payed attention to it. It wasn't until after I started sleeping at

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You Do NOT Have To Snore Or Be Overweight To Have Sleep Apnea! 1 May 2016 10:50 AM (9 years ago)

I cannot begin to tell you how upset it makes me that every single article I read on sleep apnea always put all the emphasis on snoring with sleep apnea.

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Raped By A Stranger With Sexsomnia 1 May 2016 10:47 AM (9 years ago)

This happened about three years ago. I was asleep in bed when apparently my father had gone outside to a neighbour's house for a reason that I don't remember

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More Than Fifty Years to Diagnosis of Narcolepsy 1 May 2016 10:40 AM (9 years ago)

This account is only roughly chronological given symptoms appearing, treatments, new approaches, plus changes in doctors, the advent of the internet, and

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Am I Having Narcolepsy Too? 1 May 2016 10:39 AM (9 years ago)

Hi, I'm a 17 year old female and I think I'm having this too... I feel sleepy during the day and I get a lot of headaches too. Sometimes I can't even

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My Diagnosis with Narcolepsy Saved My Life 1 May 2016 9:32 AM (9 years ago)

Picture this: it's 6:45 AM. The sun is just rising over a green, flat-roofed bungalow in Puerto Rico. The neighbor's chickens are clucking happily while

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Dentist Sent From Heaven Fixed My Jaw Problems, Migraines, And Grinding Teeth 1 May 2016 9:22 AM (9 years ago)

I have been having jaw problems for years now. It all started with a dentist who put in a filling but did not file it down properly, and suddenly I started

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Multiple Sleep Terrors In One Night 9 Oct 2015 10:51 AM (10 years ago)

Last night I had multiple sleep terrors. It was almost unbearable. The state I am in when I realize I am having one is almost terrifying, like a small

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Is This Sleep Terrors or Anxiety Attacks? 9 Oct 2015 10:32 AM (10 years ago)

My son just turned 12 years old. Approximately 3 months ago he started having terrible episodes at night after having already been asleep for a little

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A Lamp For Treating Night Terrors - The SafeWake 9 Oct 2015 9:53 AM (10 years ago)

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a magic lamp that lights when you have a night terror? You’d wake to the comforting light instead of the dark. I made

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Solution I Have To Waking Up From Sleep Paralysis 24 Sep 2015 9:28 AM (10 years ago)

Here is how sleep paralysis happens to me: I'm laying on my back and trying to move in anyway possible. It feels like my ability to move has been drained

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I Thought My Boyfriend's House Was Haunted But I Was Just Hallucinating From Sleep Paralysis! 24 Sep 2015 9:26 AM (10 years ago)

This sleep paralysis phenomenon was happening to me frequently over the past few months and I was convinced it was my boyfriend's place that had a ghost.

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I Don't Know Why I Can't Move! 24 Sep 2015 9:12 AM (10 years ago)

So this first happened last year. I was having trouble falling asleep. Then, out of nowhere, I start to hear this ringing in my ears. It gradually gets

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Methods For Snapping Out Of Sleep Paralysis 24 Sep 2015 9:03 AM (10 years ago)

I have been experiencing sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember, occurring a few times a month. However, some nights have involved multiple back-to-back

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Experimented With SP Without Knowing It 24 Sep 2015 8:55 AM (10 years ago)

I'm 22 years old and I've been experiencing ASP for as long as I can remember. When I was very young it only happened when I took naps during the day,

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Four SP Episodes Back To Back And Strange Footsteps 18 Sep 2015 8:47 AM (10 years ago)

I've had several episodes of sleep paralysis, but they have always been when I was still asleep. I don't know how to describe it, but in previous episodes

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How Do I Induce Sleep Paralysis? 14 Sep 2015 7:37 AM (10 years ago)

I had my first experience with sleep paralysis last night. I had heard about binaural beats and thought I would try them out of curiosity. I went to sleep

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Reasoning With The Terror In The Night 12 Sep 2015 12:11 PM (10 years ago)

I experienced episodes of altered perception since I was a toddler (I’m 20 now). Sometimes the room would be immensely big, sometimes very small. There

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Too Scared To Sleep With Paralyzed Hag Dreams 7 or 8 Times A Month 12 Sep 2015 9:57 AM (10 years ago)

I'm currently 19 years old. I've only recently decided to research this condition of sleep paralysis. Though everyone's stories is similar to mine when

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Why am I being paralyzed and electrocuted while I'm sleeping? 11 Sep 2015 9:41 PM (10 years ago)

I get paralyzed but I am conscious of my surroundings while I'm asleep. This is followed by a very real and painful sense of electrocution, which typically

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My 22 Year Old Disabled Son Experiences Night Terrors 6 Sep 2015 8:54 AM (10 years ago)

It started at about age 15 after the purchase of my home. I awoke to this blood curdling scream from my son''s room. I ran in and he was thrashing up

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Our 11 Year Old Son Experiences Multiple Night Terrors 5 to 7 Nights Per Week 6 Sep 2015 8:01 AM (10 years ago)

Sam's terrors haven't always been this bad, but over the last six months, they've ratcheted up in frequency and intensity. He's talked in his sleep for

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My Daughter Wakes Up Continously, For Different Reasons 27 Aug 2015 8:30 PM (10 years ago)

I have a 5 year old daughter who has slept with me from birth up until January 2015. She's always had her own room but we still co-slept, even then she

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Turning Sleep Paralysis Into Lucid Dreaming 26 Aug 2015 6:16 PM (10 years ago)

I have experienced sleep paralysis since I was a teenager, and I was terrified when it would happen. I learned to try and relax while it happened, telling

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