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Anybody ever woken up and not been able to move?
Last edited by Happyman88; 06-06-2010 at 11:01 PM.
Feels like someones got you pinned and then you think they actually have then all of a sudden you're awake and can move in a bit of a panic ?
Nope. But sometimes when I'm just about to drift off.. like semi awake semi asleep.. say if I'm dreaming/thinking of falling over sometimes my leg will like jump and i'll wake up.
Happened to me a couple of times. But only when I wake up in the middle of a dream. Only lasts a couple of seconds - not 10-20.
We call that "kanashibari" in Japanese. Some say it's spiritual stuff others say you simply get this when you're really tired. Luckily I haven't experienced that myself though! Having said that 3.00AM is believed to be most spiritual friendly time of the day in Japan and it's called "ushimitudoki". End of Japanese class
I used to get it a lot, and hadnt had it for a while and it happened the other night, i was completely numb down one side for about half an hour after waking up. Not a nice feeling.
You owe it to yourself to click here really.Originally Posted by Blitzen
Yes, I have experienced that as well but only for a couple of seconds till you wake up - almost as bad as the sensation of falling through the air from a great height--hate that !! .
I did my degree in Psychology. This is linked to an evolutionary defence.
The reason you can't move if you awake suddenly is because your brain stops all your muscles moving so you can't act out your dreams. This is to stop you hurting yourself
Or the person pinning you down !!!This is to stop you hurting yourself
That sounds very scary. I'd think I was dieing or something if that happened to me.
You actually can't move for 20 seconds?
I'm not happy if I wake up with pins and needles.
I'm sure it is what you say, but maybe go the doctors and make sure? It might be Weirdscaryomgicantmoveophobiaitis!
I've never experienced this, but does anyone ever get that feeling of falling and you wake up and bolt up to an upright position?
Again another evolutionary defence mechanism.
I tend to get the spooky effects when I'm drifting off to sleep, not when I'm waking up. I quite often (say once a week) awake with a start because I've dreampt that I'm falling- bam! massive jump, which sometimes even wakes my wife up and causes her to ask what's up.
In my mid-late teens (when I'd already fallen into my lifelong pattern of general sleep deprivation) I used to fail to wake up properly and had some funny halucinations as a result. My mum used to have a right time of it trying to get me up in the sixth form. The best one was when I woke up convinced that I was a bit of paper in a printer, and that I'd have to fold myself around the drum (my sheets) to be able to get up. Obviously (or so it seemed at the time), since I was lying on my back and my legs aren't double jointed, I was about to experience some difficulty. I don't quite remember how I communicated the problem to my mum in my awake-but-dreaming state, but I seem to remember that her reaction was a mixture of beffudlement and severe irritation
Wow I thought I was the only one who had this!
I use to get it a lot when I used to stay up and watch England play cricket in the middle of the night. It's a really weird thing but you get use to it after a while, I felt like I could force my way out of it, by sort of tensing my self. I feel like I could see things and I can think as if I was conscious. But it is a bit scary when you try to move or talk.
Care to explain? I thought this was due to my fear of heights, and it felt like I was falling out of a plane/parachuting.
Once, I dreamt I was touching a lady, and when I woke up, someone had tiped a full Yakult all over me.
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