Sleep Paralysis & False Awakenings

[sfer]

I've had off and on sleep paralysis since childhood. Often it's when I'm very tired and I just fall back asleep, so it tends to be mild.

False awakenings suck ass. It's not like I enjoy my morning routine.

[tonypaladino]

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I've had off and on sleep paralysis since childhood. Often it's when I'm very tired and I just fall back asleep, so it tends to be mild.

False awakenings suck ass. It's not like I enjoy my morning routine.

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My false awakenings rarely get past me getting out of bed. So no one else has ever had them one after another? It was so [censored] scary. All day long I was wondering if I was still dreaming.

[STLantny]

I used to get this all the time. I was paralyzed, soemthing bad was happening in my dream, but I kind of knew it was a dream, but I still screamed, woke my roomate up more than once at 5am.

[Blarg]

I've had the false awakenings, and they can be just weird and kind of cool. But they can also be terrifying when they're nightmares, not only because for the nightmare part, but because I often have just enough consciousness to know that the repeats are cycling, and that I'm due for more and more high points of fear or despair or both. So the anticipation of nastiness and the feeling of its horrible inevitability make it even worse. Strangely, the borderline knowing it's a dream doesn't really do anything to make me able to step back and go, Whew, it's not really real, what a relief. I still bear the full emotional brunt. It's like I get stuck with the worst aspects of fantasy and reality merged into one.

Luckily this happens very, very rarely. I don't even get nightmares very often. I don't think I even had a single one as a kid.