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[squamous]

Interesting little bit on sleep paralysis here. I had some relatively unsettling sleep paralysis experiences during my college days, but don't recall any major episode since around 1994. The last one was kind of intense actually, in a way I probably couldn't adequately convey to anyone else. Hmmm. One thing, I never actually saw anything while having one of these spells... I definitely heard and sensed things that weren't actually present, overlaid with what was truly in the environment, but I didn't see anything that wasn't really there. Anyway, it's a weird thing. Has anyone else had these experiences? How about with visual elements to them?

Speaking of sleep paralysis I think it's time to go to bed, since I have to get up relatively early tomorrow morning. Stupid agreeing to work on Sunday....

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[boonedog.livejournal.com]

I've had sleep paralysis twice in my life and it was really really scary.
When I was a kid once I had it where I "couldn't wake up and get back to my body" and I was standing in a dark place desperately trying to "wake up". Another time in my early 20's, I thought I'd opened my eyes, but everything looked surreal and I couldn't move and it felt like something big (other than my cat) was sitting on my chest. Both lasted only a minute or two at them most, but seemed like a really long time while it was happening.