Could this be classified as sleep paralysis?

[Apos]

Took me some time to find the forums again...was away for a couple months and was really hard to trace it again with my browser history cleared, finally found it so that I can talk about an experience I had less than a month ago.

I can't recall the exact date and I'm still highly unsure what actually went on. I remember everything clearly though, so I will try to be as thorough as possible.

So,it was a normal night like any other. I went to sleep at 12:30. Exactly 1 hour later I woke up and I felt paralyzed, but not completely. I felt like I could move and I was struggling,but I also had consciousness that my actual body could not move. Additionally,I felt extreme distress and was terrified, but once again,I could feel that my actual body did not respond to those feelings.In the contrary,it was like my actual body was relaxed,almost in euphoria. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but it was like I was at two places at the same time and I could receive feelings from both of them.

A few seconds later the paralysis went off and I immediately woke up. I was terrified at that time, although I tried to keep calm. Regardless of the experience, I didn't freak out and calmed myself a little, reminding myself that sleep paralysis is a possibility of what happened.

This time I kept the lights open (not that they could actually do anything, just for the placebo effect so that I could sleep again easier.) and I went back to bed a few minutes after my initial wake up.

Once again, exactly 1 hour passes and I find myself awoke at 2:30. This time though, something happened that unsettles me most. I didn't awake paralyzed. I awoke, I managed to roll away, as if I did it instinctively to avoid something and then I got paralyzed. (I was sleeping with my back at the bed and my torso looking straight upwards. I was paralyzed with my torso looking towards the wall.)
The moment I rolled I felt totally in control of myself, like having awoken normally, one second after and I'm once again paralyzed, experiencing the same symptoms of my initial paralysis, like the bipolar feelings between my body and my thoughts. Additionally, this time I could hear scrambling noises on my right ear, although it's not unlikely that this was caused by the fast rolling over.

A few seconds later and I'm in total control of my body once again. At this point I was really stressed and I did not sleep until later that day.

I was always aware that sleeping paralysis can lead to hallucinations, but I don't think I've ever read anywhere that it can occur after awakening the way I did the 2nd time. The timing of each incident between the other didn't help on me being curious about what happened,even though it could be just a coincidence.

I haven't had any such incidents of such paralysis in the past, nor any time since then. The incident did cause me some mild insomnia for a couple days, but I'm back to normal by now.

PS1: I do not do abuses of any sort, not even regular smoking/drinking.

 

[Alada]

Took me some time to find the forums again...was away for a couple months and was really hard to trace it again with my browser history cleared, finally found it so that I can talk about an experience I had less than a month ago.

Hi Apos, just wondering here, have you read any of Laura’s work? In particular ‘High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction’? I highly recommend you read it.

If there is anything along this line happening to you, then expanding your knowledge base, your field of awareness, would be a very good idea and can help block unwanted interference, both from external sources and from our own automatic reactions of fear. Knowledge protects.

 

[Apos]

I haven't read much of Laura's work as of present. Like I said it hasn't been much time since I registered and I had only then started getting into the wave series. I didn't have access to an internet connection of any sort while I was away, but I did stumble upon some of the STS,etc,stuff while looking around initially and I was aware at the time how they are using deceive tactics and so on, how it's the person who needs to refuse them and this kind of stuff. I actually had this in mind while I was being paralyzed and I did feel like giving a mental fight, but I didn't want to reach to a verdict of any sort when everything ended, despite the bias that I would have towards the incident being an encounter of some sort.

I haven't had any incidents since then like I mentioned, neither do I have a strong past of incidents. The only thing that can be described as a weird experience in my past is something that happened over 8 years ago when I slept at a friend's of mine house and we had the same "dream" of being into the room we slept, each of us from their respective point of view, and noticed a red light from the hallway that connected it to the living room. After a while we noticed a silhouette standing between us. At that point we both woke up screaming at the exact same time.

 

[truth seeker]

Hi Apos,

Some folks here have found that ingesting dairy can often cause sleep paralysis. Are you currently eating dairy? If so, you may want to try stopping it and seeing what happens.

 

[Apos]

Hi Apos,

Some folks here have found that ingesting dairy can often cause sleep paralysis. Are you currently eating dairy? If so, you may want to try stopping it and seeing what happens.

Dairy products are not exactly a big part of my diet, although I do eat some once in a while. My diet is more meat focused for the past few years.

I can't recall exactly, since some time has passed since then, but it is unlikely that I consumed bigger amounts than usual around the time this happened, if any at all.

The only thing that could be considered being digested more often is products that include glutton. (and yes,I've read the diet thread and tried getting rid of it, but with the local products that I have in my disposal to prepare food, I'd have to starve to death to avoid it right now) In any case, glutton is supposed to hinder the brain activity instead and not cause sleep paralysis from what I recall, correct me if I'm wrong.

Additionally, like I said, this has been a one-time thing only, so whether cutting down on anything would help, I can't tell, since there hasn't been anything to help with ever since or before that.

 

[truth seeker]

Hi Apos,

Thanks for the reply. A couple of thoughts - I think in this specific case, it's more the culmination of a lifetime of eating dairy.

While I realize that this is a one time thing, it probably wouldn't hurt to eliminate gluten and see how you feel in general. I'm basing this on the experiences of others and can't say for sure if it's playing a role but wouldn't be surprised if it was. I've had sleep paralysis in the past, albeit rarely but since making the switch, haven't had any such episodes. For what it's worth.

 

[Apos]

Hi Apos,

Thanks for the reply. A couple of thoughts - I think in this specific case, it's more the culmination of a lifetime of eating dairy.

While I realize that this is a one time thing, it probably wouldn't hurt to eliminate gluten and see how you feel in general. I'm basing this on the experiences of others and can't say for sure if it's playing a role but wouldn't be surprised if it was. I've had sleep paralysis in the past, albeit rarely but since making the switch, haven't had any such episodes. For what it's worth.

Well, that would be reassuring. Like I said, I've already searched my local shops and it wouldn't be possible to completely get rid of gluten at the time being. I wouldn't have access to products who can provide the basic nutrients+energy values while eliminating gluten.

I assure you that it's something that I always have in my mind and I do plan on abolishing it as soon as I got the opportunity and see for myself the difference that it can make. (although I will miss rice a lot.)

That being said, I am able at the time being to cut off on dairy with ease, since they don't have a frequent place in my current diet anyway.