I've done that wake up and can't move thing. I read somewhere that that happens when you're actually still asleep and just dreaming that you've woken up. I choose to believe that as it allows me to not worry about it very much.
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-t - May 13, 2006 2:24:53 pm PDT #7128 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kristen - May 13, 2006 2:30:25 pm PDT #7129 of 10002
ita, what you're describing sounds a lot like night terrors/sleep paralysis. Which is when you're dreaming but you think you're awake and paralyzed. I used to get those a lot. I would wake up all freaked out with a thumping heart and everything because, my version of the night terrors came complete with not only the belief that I was awake and paralyzed but, also, that someone was on top of me.
I hate that shit.
Emily - May 13, 2006 2:39:09 pm PDT #7130 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So far as I know, it's just that the mechanism which keeps your body from responding to your brain's commands while you're asleep (and thus running and shouting and, say, pissing just because you dreamed you were doing it) hasn't shut down properly (much like Windows).
Jesse - May 13, 2006 2:40:22 pm PDT #7131 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I should just toss out (recycle) all the articles I've printed out for school that I'll never need again, right?
ChiKat - May 13, 2006 2:43:42 pm PDT #7132 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Yes, Jesse, you should. Release the clutter.
Jesse - May 13, 2006 2:46:37 pm PDT #7133 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It just seems like such a waste. Ah well -- the cost of printing was included in my tuition, so.
Cass - May 13, 2006 2:47:14 pm PDT #7134 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
hasn't shut down properly (much like Windows).So we should force a reboot?
Pix - May 13, 2006 2:48:45 pm PDT #7135 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
So far as I know, it's just that the mechanism which keeps your body from responding to your brain's commands while you're asleep (and thus running and shouting and, say, pissing just because you dreamed you were doing it) hasn't shut down properly (much like Windows).
You just made me snort, Emily.
Fwiw, I get chronic heart palpitations. They suck, but my doc checked rhythms ekg and said it's just nerves.
Strega - May 13, 2006 3:05:36 pm PDT #7136 of 10002
So far as I know, it's just that the mechanism which keeps your body from responding to your brain's commands while you're asleep (and thus running and shouting and, say, pissing just because you dreamed you were doing it) hasn't shut down properly (much like Windows).
I think I read that it tends to be more common when you wake up out of a deep sleep. And then your half-asleep brain flips out and tries to figure out why you can't move, and it hardly ever comes up with pleasant theories like, "I must be buried in kittens!"
Someone theorized that a fair number of alien abduction stories spring from this, because a lot of them start out with people waking up and discovering that they're mysteriously paralyzed.
tommyrot - May 13, 2006 3:15:14 pm PDT #7137 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Someone theorized that a fair number of alien abduction stories spring from this, because a lot of them start out with people waking up and discovering that they're mysteriously paralyzed.
Yeah, I've heard this.
If only your other scenario was more common.
"I was abducted by kittens!"