Help asap please!!!!

[Ken189]

Last night I woke up to  my father screaming in his sleep he kept yelling for me and tell me how he couldn't move. When I tried waking him up he would briefly open his eyes only to have his right eye drift off to the side. Almost like a lazy eye would do. It was like he was trying to wake up but couldn't no matter how hard I shook him. He just kept talking but it made no sense just like the way people do when their talking in their sleep. When he finally woke up he acted as if nothing had happened. I'm not sure whats going on but it wasn't just a nightmare.

[sac727]

It could be nothing, but he really needs to see a doc to make sure he didn't have a stroke in his sleep. I hope you get answers soon.

[HarryWmG]

I've seen it before. Your dad was having a nightmare. A dream is but a dream but a Nightmare is a Nightmare. Good you were there to see him thru it and that is probably what his nightmare was about - dying alone. As Cher sang "we all end up dying alone".  When my dad died I got to him a couple minutes too late: respiratory arrest and 'flat-lined'. Paramedics did not do anything, my mom too shook up to do anything and I too immature to take action to revive him (like slap him silly and shout till his heart started again). Anyway, Ken, be there for your dad and he'll, I'm sure, he will be there for you!

[skyesharica]

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I think I had something like a cardiac or a stroke from nightmares.  But I would also fear waking up cold when the air con broke.  Waking up dead.  A doctor told me that repeated severe nightmares could cause a cardiac.  But my heart beat is a lot better now than it was over the past 6-7 weeks.  I recall waking up, feeling PUSHED off the bed, and feeling the sensation of near death.  I just called out a kind of spiritual chant to God and was put back on the bed and rested.  This happened several times, in different ways.  Waking up colder than usual.  Seeing near psychotic images as soon as I closed my eyes ... horrifying threats from a hag witch I actually know.

[Jerry_NJ]

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[Jerry_NJ]

I don't recall the details but look up something like "sleep paralyses"   I believe we all enter a paralyses state when we sleep or at least when we dream - this is the body's way to protect itself form violent dream caused reactions.  

It is rather normal for people not to remember dreams.. so I think it is possible you father was having a nightmare and was calling out (seems that paralyses doesn't include the loss of speach), and when you tried to wake him he was in a delayed paralyses state for that period of time it took you to bring him "around".  

It think there must be some thread on thiis subject on Med Help.

In fact here is one area on that subject:
http://www.medhelp.org/search?utf8=%26%23x2713%3B&query=sleep+paralyses&camp=top_nav_search