Spotty01
Well-Known Member
Wow, this is definitely the wrong place to be asking people about my medical problems, but I'm too much of a wuss to go on any other forum and it's 5am and I'm the only one awake. I'm not asking for diagnoses or anything here, just opinionated responses and maybe some tips and tricks if possible.
Okay, first of all, I woke up a little less than an hour ago after going to bed and falling asleep at a little after 10pm last night. This is the second time, as of late, that I've gone to bed at a decent hour. On both occasions, I woke up with what I can only define as cases of sleep paralysis.
Basically, I wake up, I can see everything around me as clear as day. I can also hear these auditory hallucinations as clear as day, almost like I'm still dreaming, just without the images to accompany it. I can barely open my eyes and, when I do, it's a legit struggle to keep them open. I want to get up or call out and wake someone... but I can't.
I can't move, can't speak, and, for some reason, I'm always filled with intense anxiety and fear during these episodes until I really wake up, in which that feeling subsides. The only remedy I've found to this is just closing my eyes and returning to my slumber again; I'll wake up for real before long, perfectly normal.
I've been diagnosed with insomnia if that's a factor. I've noticed that I only have these episodes when I go to sleep early or, from other folks' perspectives, at a normal time. I've always had problems with not being able to go to sleep and stay that way at night, often awakening in the dead of night at complete random. I've also noticed that these episodes never occur when I go to sleep at 3 or 4am and wake up sometime post-sunrise.
At this point, I'm almost afraid to go to bed early because of these episodes, knowing that if I go to sleep late and wake up even later, it won't happen. Unfortunately, doing that causes rifts between me and my parents (I wouldn't even begin to try and explain this to them; they hardly listen anymore as it is and I barely trust them enough to believe they'd say it's anything but an excuse), not to mention it leaves me tired all day long, I usually wake up late into the afternoon, and it leaves me feeling very, VERY irritable and generally feeling like crap.
At this point, I don't know what to do anymore. Sleep aids make me hallucinate and melatonin causes vivid dreams, one of which was a horrifically gory nightmare triggered by the latter.
Like I said, I know this isn't the place to ask about it and, also like I said, I'm not asking for an official diagnosis or professional advice, I know that I probably won't get it here. It's about 5:30 in the morning so going to the doctor or a psychiatrist is out of the question and this whole situation is bothering the Hell out of me.
Does anyone else go through this? If so, what is it characterized by? Do you have any remedies for the problem? Any other advice? It'll bring me some comfort more than anything else. That is all.
Okay, first of all, I woke up a little less than an hour ago after going to bed and falling asleep at a little after 10pm last night. This is the second time, as of late, that I've gone to bed at a decent hour. On both occasions, I woke up with what I can only define as cases of sleep paralysis.
Basically, I wake up, I can see everything around me as clear as day. I can also hear these auditory hallucinations as clear as day, almost like I'm still dreaming, just without the images to accompany it. I can barely open my eyes and, when I do, it's a legit struggle to keep them open. I want to get up or call out and wake someone... but I can't.
I can't move, can't speak, and, for some reason, I'm always filled with intense anxiety and fear during these episodes until I really wake up, in which that feeling subsides. The only remedy I've found to this is just closing my eyes and returning to my slumber again; I'll wake up for real before long, perfectly normal.
I've been diagnosed with insomnia if that's a factor. I've noticed that I only have these episodes when I go to sleep early or, from other folks' perspectives, at a normal time. I've always had problems with not being able to go to sleep and stay that way at night, often awakening in the dead of night at complete random. I've also noticed that these episodes never occur when I go to sleep at 3 or 4am and wake up sometime post-sunrise.
At this point, I'm almost afraid to go to bed early because of these episodes, knowing that if I go to sleep late and wake up even later, it won't happen. Unfortunately, doing that causes rifts between me and my parents (I wouldn't even begin to try and explain this to them; they hardly listen anymore as it is and I barely trust them enough to believe they'd say it's anything but an excuse), not to mention it leaves me tired all day long, I usually wake up late into the afternoon, and it leaves me feeling very, VERY irritable and generally feeling like crap.
At this point, I don't know what to do anymore. Sleep aids make me hallucinate and melatonin causes vivid dreams, one of which was a horrifically gory nightmare triggered by the latter.
Like I said, I know this isn't the place to ask about it and, also like I said, I'm not asking for an official diagnosis or professional advice, I know that I probably won't get it here. It's about 5:30 in the morning so going to the doctor or a psychiatrist is out of the question and this whole situation is bothering the Hell out of me.
Does anyone else go through this? If so, what is it characterized by? Do you have any remedies for the problem? Any other advice? It'll bring me some comfort more than anything else. That is all.
