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Electric shock and hallucinations while falling asleep
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Hi @sleeplessintexas -- like others mentioned, you are describing sleep paralysis. I haven't heard of electric shocks occurring with it, but it's not a ghost. I've had them very occasionally over a 40 year period. Yes, I'm usually on my back, maybe always, but I turn that way during sleep. It always seems to happen when I'm extremely over-tired. The very real nightmares that come with it are terrifying. Mine are always someone has broken into the house and is coming to get me while I can't move to defend myself. You can't talk, but over the years I've learned that I can force a single tone noise out of my mouth. Test it out while awake and pretend you can't move your mouth to see what noise you can make. Your husband should hear it if he's sleeping next to you. Instruct him to wake you up out of it, but not be standing right over you or that will scare you when you come out of it. You can't move, but I've also learned over the years with great effort, I can strain my neck muscles to move my head slightly and slowly side to side. As I'm able to do it more and more, I can eventually wake myself up, but it's not quick so I still go through some of the nightmare. Once awake, I'm so unbelievably groggy that if I fall back asleep I'll go right back into it, so stay up for at least an hour, get out of bed, watch a comedy to change your thoughts. Let you husband know to keep an eye on you for distress when sleeping. I feel for you. Best of luck.
Oh, and I have a number of sleep disorders. I've always had insomnia, nightmares every night of my life, I was a sleepwalker in elementary school, sleep apnea as an adult, hyponogogic hallucinations where I start dreaming the minute I close my eyes, but before I fall asleep -- always disturbing
like I'm about to get into a car accident and I slam on the brakes in my recliner in real life since I'm not asleep yet, but it feels real. Scary. That's also occasional, but unwelcome. I feel like all people with one sleep disorder may have many. Hard to get quality sleep. Do you have other sleep disorders as well?
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I sit here with tears in my eyes all in like a baby parenting the same thing I never thought nobody else was going through this is the most powerful scariest thing I've ever experience in a negative aspect. I've been experiencing this for the past 7 to 8 years and my first inclination of this was I was crawling up my aunt's ladder onto her shed to repair roof leak and as my last step was going to hit the top of the ladder I paralyzed I was awake but I was paralyzed I couldn't move my head was singing out luckily I was paralyzed cuz I had one arm wrapped around the ladder so I wouldn't fall I had to wait until they subsided a little bit but I was so scared to move I had to call my ass for my cell phone and had her come out and help me down the ladder and then it just got worse from there I went in and lay down trying to get my thoughts together and then I went into a sleep dream but I was awake it was really weird I was screaming and yelling for my aunt to help me cuz I felt a really dark presence I can see shadowy figures and demons is what I claim to say they are and they were trying to take me there was something trying to overpower me but luckily I was covered in the blood blood of Jesus and I screamed his name then I woke up but as I was sleeping I remember wish I could see her standing doing laundry and I was screaming her name trying to get her to help me because I was packed up paralyzer I feel like something was trying to hurt me here I am 54 years old 6'4 240 lb not a small guy but I was definitely terrified it was been going off and on for many years now and sometimes I feel like I might be having a mannerism stroke it knocks my equilibrium off and makes it to where I have no balance and I had to constantly got that buzz going through it and it is quite scary I do have a history of methamphetamines and it seems to have come after I stop using it for many years and then I started using it again but it came after I really stressed out one time over a dissolved marriage at 28 years and then following another with somebody after that who destroyed my heart again I read something that says it could be a part of epilepsy I'm not sure but this ain't right or normal it's something very very powerful . I wish I have a dream last night of being attacked or being intruded by somebody like a robber in the house I have a gun in my house which I speak with and I was woke up this morning thinking oh my gosh I could have grabbed that gun cuz I was trying to find it in my sleep and I couldn't that just be awful if I grabbed a shot somebody intercept or something so yeah now I blocked my gun up to avoid any type of accidents which is not the reason we keep a gun we don't want it locked up we want to be able to access it if needed and now it's locked up