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Electric shock and hallucinations while falling asleep

Sleep Health | Last Active: Jun 19 5:14pm | Replies (8)

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@charlesedens

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

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@charlesedens
Wow, I feel for you on everything you described. Aside from it all being terrifying, my greatest concern for you is the ladder incident. If I'm understanding that correctly, you weren't dreaming about being on a ladder, you were actually climbing a ladder when the paralysis hit? Is that correct? If so, that's a game changer.

Being terrified while actually safely in bed is one thing, but if you suddenly become paralyzed while in the middle of an activity that could really be physically dangerous. Is that the only time it has happened while you were already awake? Some kind of narcolepsy combined with sleep paralysis? Or like you said, maybe some kind of epilepsy combined with sleep paralysis? That might be worth a conversation with a doctor is you haven't already had one.

I'm curious if you take any sleep meds. I've hear stories about people taking sleep meds and then "drunk dialing" friends without any memory of it. I've also heard sleep meds can cause sleepwalking. Because of my history with sleep disorders, I have never and will never take any sleep meds. My doctors have recommended melatonin for my insomnia, but my mother and son both tried taking that and it gave them both nightmares when they didn't normally have them so I can only imagine what it would do to me. I also have sleep apnea so I want to be sure nothing puts me into a deeper than natural sleep so I don't walk up when needed. Maybe I'm being overly cautious, but I think anyone who has ever experienced sleep paralysis, sleepwalking, terrifying nightmares would do the same. I'm glad it at least helps to know others have had similar issues.