I mean like, detects your brainwaves and shakes you awake if it detects you are awake but unable to move.
Like I can still slightly move my fingers during sleep paralysis, is there a way to use my tiny bit of control to activate a button, which then triggers a device that shakes me awake? 😆
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Idk I keep getting sleep paralysis every night, feels so weird.
In my experience, I’m awake, I’m conscious, I just can’t move.
But if I logically think “this is sleep paralysis, that’s pretty dope” the feeling of looming malevolence fades eventually and I’m able to move again.
If a person or device shakes you awake, do you more quickly regain the ability to move?
Ear plugs and sleep mask?
In addition to what other people have said, it can also be caused by having an irregular sleep schedule and stress. Working on those things might help it go away.
stress
Politically-induced stress aint going away until Jan 20, 2029, at the earliest… 🤷♂️ So I’m f’ed basically…
Yeah, not surprising that stress & anxiety caused by the current political climate would trigger this type of sleep disruption.
Any little things you can control that lower your physical, mental or emotional stress levels can add up to reduce the frequency of this happening. It’s not an all or nothing deal.
If you live someplace where weed is legal, eat a quarter to an eighth of a gummy. Not enough to feel any sort of high, but it really worked well for me for work related stress.
No advice for you OP, I just try and ride it out. I try breathing as erratic as I can to get my wife to wake me but it never works.
I do have a question though : did you see the witch? Ive had all sorts of half-dreams but never met her yet, I’m kinda scared cause she appears in so many people’s accounts of sleep paralysis.
No, there is no cool looking monster, I’m just alone and can’t move. Borrring. Its more like psychological horror. Like imagine there bing a ghost or something, that you can’t see but seemingly (psychologically) feel the presence of in your mind. And you also can’t run, since you can’t move. Way more creepy IMO.
My fiancée has learned the signs of my sleep paralysis episodes. She’ll notice my body I’m twitching and it’ll wake her up. Sometimes I can even manage to get some grunts out.
Originally she would wake up and kind of gently comfort me, and try to wake me up. Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Cat energy
It’s my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain “switches off” the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don’t come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn’t been switched back on.
I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.
Find a button up pajama shirt with a chest pocket, and sew a tennis ball (or something similar sized/shaped) into it. Can’t have sleep paralysis of you can’t sleep on your back.
Get examined. Narcolepsy is a terrible thing. My friend couldn’t work late as she’d be prone to hallucination while driving. She’s better now with a good drug regimen and awareness but she reports being very frightened for a while.
CPAP
You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.
First of all, get a sleep study done. Sleep paralysis can be a sign of underlying sleeping disorders such as apnea, which is incredibly unhealthy if untreated.
If you study checks out clean and you’re still looking for a way to manipulate something with your fingers then the only thing I can think of that you’d be able to DIY is some kind of Arduino-type button thingamajig that you could strap to a finger that sends a wireless signal to some kind of alarm in the room.
A D1 mini is small, cheap, and easy to configure. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you’ll need to do some homework and learn some stuff, but as far as projects go it’s pretty simple to set up. Hardest part would likely be rigging something that you could use that doesn’t get triggered inadvertently. Cockpit style toggle switch with a cover, maybe? Lol.
I get sleepy paralysis what works for me is attempting to activate a large set of muscles repeatedly with great force. Like trying to kick my legs up and down really fast. My theory is that this process starts to signal to my brain that it’s not time for sleepy chemicals anymore and each attempted movements brings be closer to being awake
This sounds medical, better to ask an MD about the syndrome.
Try to take deep breaths. If it’s low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.
Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.
The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you’re in an altered state of consciousness.
Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.
Remember that guide to not take medical advice from Internet strangers? This is one of those examples.
Seriously, Talk to your doctor.
Prazosin helps me there. Also helps nightmares and night terrors which is why it was prescribed for me.
I know it’s not exactly what you’re after, but have you tried holding your breath or a few rounds of trying to breathe sharply?
YMMV but I find I can break out pretty easily.
