Diet and sleep paralysis

[Mr Meowgi]

Last night I had my first sleep paralysis since the first of the year when I changed my diet. I can feel it coming on in my head above my ears and in my ears, like a yawn on steroids. I have changed my diet and yesterday my meals are as follows. Morning Organic bacon, free range eggs, buckwheat bread toast with hand churned butter. Dinner steak ( grass fed Scottish black and white ) locally grown beans from our local public market, golden potatoes mashed, butter added. As well, I have added the following supplements; multivitamins, glucosamine/chondroiten, MSM cranberry, golden-seal root and apple cider vinegar as well as cranberry tabs. The dream started off me swimming in a weird pool, details are lost to me. Then it got very sad feeling and I was drowning in black goo. I was paralyzed in the black goo and after a struggle to free myself I awoke with the black goo fading off into the room. I am trying hard not to be food. Friday was the first dairy milk I had drank since the first of the year. I added it to some gluten free rice cereal with real cane sugar which I have been avoiding. I just do not understand what the sleep paralysis was about. As I explained above, my meals yesterday. Perhaps it was the potatoes, I have yet to go paleo-diet but the switch so far has done the trick. I am careful as well to look at the labels on my supplements. Any thoughts, comments or snide remarks would help. Thanks

 

[Muxel]

Buckwheat, beans and potatoes won't do, Mr Meowgi. Milk no, butter yes if you can tolerate it. Stay away from sugar, go for complex carbs if you wish. Gluten-free rice cereal is highly suspect. (Use the search function for these foods on the 'Life Without Bread' thread for more info.)

Also consider Éiriú Eolas.

I'm extremely tardy about doing EE, and I haven't yet touched the 6-month mark to be completely clean from gluten, so maybe that's why I'm still getting SP episodes. But my SP has taken on a different "flavor" lately. I get more "dream sluggishness", more "false awakenings". And the "wave" that courses through my body at the onset of SP has been unusually intense.

I just do not understand what the sleep paralysis was about.

Neither do I, Meowgi. :( But you don't sound like a chronic SP sufferer, so maybe yours will go away when you "set your nerves straight" with diet and EE.

 

[Mr Meowgi]

I have started EE about 2 months ago but I am slack on it, my nerves are a bit frayed as of late as I have an up and coming surgery (see post in whats on your mind ). I'm not a sugar junkie and try to stay away from processed foods as much as possible. I do crave CARBS! That is something I really need to work on, getting away from carbs. Butter I get from our local public market, it is Amish churn butter. It is as close as I can get to butter from cows that eat properly. I get free range animals to eat whenever possible, on occasion I can get a good piece of prime beef reasonably priced. It does come down to costs most days. I am out on disability until after my surgery. Thank you for your concern and help Muxel.

 

[dugdeep]

I get sleep paralysis, too, but I've never made much of a connection with diet. I suppose I have been getting fewer episodes since changing my diet, but I still get it occassionally. For me it seems that timing has a lot to do with it. If I nap during the day I am way more likely to have it happen. Like Muxel, mine take the form of false awakenings - I'm completely awake lying in my bed or on the couch, completely cognizant of my surroundings, what time it is, what day it is, when I laid down, but I'm totally unnable to move. I usually end up exerting a lot of force just to move one body part and keep moving it until the rest of my body wakes up, but it takes huge effort. It's always a scary experience . Plus, I'm always extremely groggy after those episodes, as if my body wasn't actually ready to wake up yet. Sleep paralysis really sucks.

 

[ocean59]

Just a quick question, how much water do either of you consume in a day? I don't have anything to offer other than my own subjective experience, but I've noticed a big connection between dehydration and waking up extra groggily/heavily. Fwiw.

 

[SeekinTruth]

I have no experience with SP, but thought I'd comment on the diet issues which may not have that much direct connection to SP, I don't know. However, as Muxel said, you can still improve your diet quite a bit, Mr. Meowgi. Cut out ALL grains and dairy (except butter, if tolerated, and ghee). Then all sugars, and then continue to lower all other carbs (which all digest down to sugar anyway, except the fiber) steadily and carefully while increasing the healthy fats to replace the carbs, if you've read the material and know what to expect. Do NOT trust gluten-free labels, either.

Being on a budget, it will also help save money in the long run, besides greatly improving your health. Once you get to the diet proper, and adapt, you're carb and other cravings will eventually go away if you're eating enough fat that you're specific system needs. Then you'll end up eating much less, saving money and time preparing food, etc. I've been eating only two meals almost every day -- breakfast and dinner. Less "variety" of food shopping and throwing out food that goes bad, etc. added to the great health and energy benefits is REALLY liberating. Hope this helps, if you want to continue to transition to the high fat/low carb diet. :)

 

[Ca.]

Morning Organic bacon, free range eggs, buckwheat bread toast with hand churned butter. Dinner steak ( grass fed Scottish black and white ) locally grown beans from our local public market, golden potatoes mashed, butter added. As well, I have added the following supplements; multivitamins, glucosamine/chondroiten, MSM cranberry, golden-seal root and apple cider vinegar as well as cranberry tabs. The dream started off me swimming in a weird pool, details are lost to me. Friday was the first dairy milk I had drank since the first of the year. I added it to some gluten free rice cereal with real cane sugar
Perhaps it was the potatoes,

I believe that the diet has lot to do with sleep patterns, and getting the deep sleep necessary to combat some of the activity that promotes the issues you have described. i like your breakfast menu, as that is one of the most important meal's for combating the days challenge's one confronts by helping to maintain, to staying balanced emotionally, supporting enegry levels, and helping to eliminate sugar craving's till the next meal.

i think that there is perhaps a little spike in the sugar issue if the cereal is white rice based, and by adding the milk, which usally has a high sugar content (try almond milk with reduced sugar content) and adding potatoes, convert in to the blood faster possilbly causing problems, especially at night befor bed time. That might produce spikes in blood sugar level's, swing's in temperament, and maybe sleep issues down the way.

What i have been doing lately is that i have made the last meal (it is a challenge) the lightest but nutritional, meal of the day and try and consume no later then 1800 hours, or 6:00 pm. And then taking my repair, and replenish vitiman's at that time for the nights rest. This the time when the body repair's, and is able to utilize and better able to absorbing them if the diet is correct (gluten free).

Also i have been incorporating some sort rigorous exercise of at least (for me) if time allows 2 to 3 hours of hiking, biking, or swimming, (but any amount of time is better than nothing) routine every other day, during the day which seems to help a lot in reducing tension the in the mind, and body, like a discharge excess energies ( from the days stress) also it helps to promote detox, and burn some calories that have been taken in, and have accumulated during the week. It also helps to maintain muscle mass, and bone density, and promote cellular growth, again if the diet is correct.

And last is as I've stated, i take chromium picolinate with my melatonin before bedtime. Yes i want to dream, work through issues, and explore in the medium.

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[RedFox]

I use to get sleep paralysis all the time - it happened nearly every night as a teenager. Incidental I was eating a bowl of cereal with milk every night before sleep as a teenager.
I agree about the sleeping in daylight (I'll still get sleep paralysis if I do), so you may want to check out the sleeping complete darkness thread. Doing so also means you don't need to take melatonin.

I had one recurrence of it last year I believe after having eaten out at a restaurant. It was either something in the food, or the sorbet I'd eaten (I hadn't checked if it was milk free) - so sugar/milk are the two most likely culprits for myself when it comes to sleep paralysis.

 

[dugdeep]

I use to get sleep paralysis all the time - it happened nearly every night as a teenager. Incidental I was eating a bowl of cereal with milk every night before sleep as a teenager.
I agree about the sleeping in daylight (I'll still get sleep paralysis if I do), so you may want to check out the sleeping complete darkness thread. Doing so also means you don't need to take melatonin.

I had one recurrence of it last year I believe after having eaten out at a restaurant. It was either something in the food, or the sorbet I'd eaten (I hadn't checked if it was milk free) - so sugar/milk are the two most likely culprits for myself when it comes to sleep paralysis.

Well that definitely seems to give evidence for a dietary connection. Thinking more deeply about it, I can definitely say that my sleep paralysis issues have been diminished significantly since changing my diet. It used to happen to me constantly when I was a teenager and now it's much more rare (probably only once a month or so). This leads me to believe there may be still be something in my diet I might be sensitive to, or some source of inflammation I'm not seeing (maybe stress?).

Just a quick question, how much water do either of you consume in a day? I don't have anything to offer other than my own subjective experience, but I've noticed a big connection between dehydration and waking up extra groggily/heavily. Fwiw.

Speaking for myself, I'm definitely drinking enough water. I don't usually measure, but I'd estimate I'm around 2-2.5L/day.

 

[Mr Meowgi]

Thank you all for your input on this topic. I had it again last night with noise. I have rarely had noise, It was like a bug, or a fan or a combination of bug noise and fan noise. This is one of the reasons I relate it to "others feeding upon me" I did wake up drained this morning like someone pulled my plug. I cook my eggs in the bacon fat, as I drain it into a small container. I cook it in the over on a large cookie sheet covered with foil at 425 for 15 minutes. It comes out nice and crisp and I get quite a bit of fat to cook my eggs in. I have switched to almond milk, I had switched at the beginning of the year. I happened to be out of almond milk last Friday night. I had not put the napping during the day in to the equation, so thanks for the tip. It will be hard while I am down after surgery, as I will be highly medicated for 7-10 days. I asked the doctor about non narcotic pain meds but she said I would be in a great deal of pain for at least 5-7 days. I have to take meds for allergies as well. I get one sided stuffed up nose at night. My allergies have kicked up since my 30s. When living in the southern USA during my younger years I got into red fire ants and had to be life flighted to the hospital. The doctor told me my histamines would be screwed up when I got older and to expect allergies. Thanks again for all the comments!!!!