Mind awake, body asleep?

[malliemut]

For the past few months, since Nov, I've been having this problem with waking up. It just started suddenly and happens a few night a moths, once to three times in the same night.
Usually its morning, after a full nights sleep, when it happens. My mind will wake up. I'll be compleatly conciouse. I can think, remember, everything as when I'm fully awake, but my body stays asleep. I feel literaly paralyzed, in a coma. Everything is dark. It's just like I'm laying there with my eyes closed but I can't move or screem now matter how hard I try. Usually I freak out and lay there for a while trying to wake my body up somehow till my husband hears me wimpering, cause I'm trying to screem for him, and he wakes me up. I know it's not just a bad dream and I'm scared my body might never wake up one day. Can anyone help on what this is or advice or something?

[Heiferly]

I was wondering if you might help us out by answering a one-question survey?  If you have a moment, go to the front page (hit the back to community button at the top of this page) and locate the poll about sleep topics. I would love to have your feedback. Thanks, H.

[Heiferly]

It is natural to be in a state of flaccid paralysis during REM sleep (the dream phase of sleep). Occasionally people will wake up whilst the body is still in the REM state, usually due to sleep deprivation, and this is called "sleep paralysis." Most people will experience sleep paralysis at least once in their lives.

[seattlem8]

Hi, Just read this post from long ago and it brought back memories of the times I have experienced similar feelings. Since then I have learned a lot about how my body functions thanks to the internet and caring people like those who have replied.  I have been told I had demons, crazy, possible brain damage and all kinds of goofy stuff.
I came across some information about why men get aroused in the middle of the night and it shed some light on lots of scary night time activities. I have come to realize our brains operate like a computer.
When we think about how our computer functions when we have clicked the mouse to many times/ when the fan goes on because the computer is working hard/ the computer runs slow/ acts like it has malware or a virus/ or just doesn't want to turn on, refresh or even wake up!!!!  Once I realized this then I could understand my brain better.  We defragment, clean our hard drives, delete unused files, learn to care for our computers and even take them in to specialists when we can't figure out what is wrong with it.  I hope you can see the correlation I am suggesting. This simple understanding has helped me live easier and reduce my anxiety, and understand life in a whole new perspective.  Now back to the post that I alluded to about men being aroused in the middle of the night or in the morning. The post said the brain goes through updates just like our computers, phones and even cable provider. Basically your brain is checking to make sure all systems a working properly. Well when a man get's aroused then the physically anatomy changes in a very sensitive area, thus it is "wake up" time unless the person is really in a very deep sleep. Now for night paralysis I believe that our extremities are kind of just hanging out there and our core are more important functions. The brain expends more time testing our torso than our arms, fingers, legs and toes at certain times. Normally we don't realize this unless we wake up on our own and disrupt the brain's processing mode. Just think when we want to use our computer and it is doing an update. Some people freak out and think they have been attacked by a Trojan.  Knowledge is very healing . I am bipolar and my first experience was when I was in a mental hospital. You can bet your "biffey" I am going to learn how to be that scared never again.
Peace and well wishes to you all.....Need to go to sleep mode....processing over and out, lol

[crissy70054]

The same thing happens to me Im only 14

[lousvalerie]

Hi, so it's currently past 2 AM as I type this. At about an hour ago, I woke up from such a thing that many of you are relating to and having. This isn't the first time it's happened to me before. This has happened to me many times in the past, but the thought of it really being a problem never surfaces up. Well, the topic actually has before and as always for me being a little research fad, I did look through to it once except I didn't care enough to the extent where I'm kind of worried. Whenever these things happen I never look into it because I already know that I'll wake up each time, but this time when I woke up I began to question things. In my experiences, I sometimes have my eyes open, but I mostly have them closed. Even though I say I know I'll wake up there's still, of course, that worry about never waking up so sometimes I try really hard to move, but when I do I feel this sort of pain and there's always this strange sort of buzzing noise whenever I move. I don't think I hallucinate during the process, but eh. Anyways, what I find really interesting about myself is that I don't always wake up the same. I could either open my eyes right away and be fully awake by actually preparing myself to wake up like in my mind screaming 'wake up' or just the usual trying to nudge myself out of it. Honestly, this just irritates me a lot and sometimes when I wake up I feel to exhausted to get up, but then it happens again like I just seriously am so done with this. I'm a 14 year old girl in High School, but this has been happening for years and I just want clarification if I really do have sleep disorders. On top of that, there's many other disorders much like BPD I'm concerned of having.

[louchisaleh]

I've experienced this, its really anoying, and I just overthink and just couldn't sleep from overthinking and worrying, fearing it would happen to me again. I experience the same problem .. My mind wakes up, I can think, I can hear, but I can't move my body, and at the same time, I feel my heart is stopped, I can't breathe .. I keep fighting and trying to wake up my body and move, and then I wake up at the last breathe ! This is gettin me really worried and depressed, any suggestions please ?