screaming and scared in sleep Posted: 09-10-08 20:08pm
Hello, i would like to ask for opinions,
guesses and if possible good advice on
this matter, and i thank you for your
attention.
I was in the computer playing games when i
hear my mom screaming while she slept, but
it sounded like she had a pillow on her
face so the sound was muffled, i go there
and wake her up, she is really scared,
terrified, and says : i thought it was you
who was here,
basically she explained that she feels
this weird feeling all over her body, and
can't move
she also mentioned that one time she had a
pillow on her face and she claimed that
someone or something was trying to cut her
breath, she can't "speak" she says because
it sounds really weak( again she says: she
realizes its weak whisper like if she is
unable to scream for help ) yet she cries
and talks and i can hear her well enough
to get to her , she says she can't move
but im not really sure she can't because i
have to "open" her fetal position because
she is so tense, rigid muscles and stuff,
im guessing she is actually making strain
on the muscles or something because she is
scared. i've ruled out sleep paralysis
because obviously she can talk.
I'm sorry i can't povide more solid
information, but hearing my mom cry whil
she sleeps a hole bunch of times doesnt
make me take an obvervatory stance for a
moment while she sounds like she is being
murdered or something. Would you please
tell me what you think and how to possibly
fix this.
My mother says she won't go to a doctor,
im going to be honest here, she problably
thinks its some evil spirit, and althought
i dont disrespect such things i am afraid
she is just suffering from a sleep
disorder derived from stress, of which she
has plenty, how to convince her to go to a
doctor would be a nice answer to this.
To finalize, this has been happening for
quite a while she says, i suspect a few
years, my mother is 46 years old.
Thank you again.
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MandMs
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Posted: 09-12-08 05:31am
Does she go back to deep sleep without
ever having fully awakened?
Does she generally remember her dream and
some of the events in the dream leading up
to her awakening or she recall a sense of
profound fear, but, not the episode?
Has your mother experienced such an
episode during daytime naps?
Is she often sleep deprivated?
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sneakya
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answers Posted: 09-12-08 08:59am
She wakes up completely,usually watches tv
or takes some sleeping pills.
She remembers the episode, and feels it
strongly, its a very vivid experience to
her, she tells me she is not sleeping but
is partially paralised and has some weird
sensations, she also claimed in one of
these episodes that someone had her pillow
on her face and was pushing hard so she
would die. Then she said some words and it
stopped. She said " go to hell".
So as you can see there are a lot of
details she remembers.
My mother's words and opinions on these
dreams or episodes or whatever they are,
are oriented to the aspect of spirituality
and i say again i don't really believe it
is a spirit. I do believe she needed so
show some control in a certain degree and
these words are supost to mean you can
order one of these beings back to where
they came from. in other words, they mean
authority. But im just theorizing on this
one.
no episodes on daytime naps
She is the most sleep deprivated person
i've ever known. So yes.
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NightStar
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Posted: 09-12-08 09:10am
I don't think you should rule out sleep
paralysis just because she can talk I
can't, but I would not say that some one
else could not do it themselves.
I personally think sleep deprivation
causes sleep paralysis, I think she needs
to get more sleep otherwise what ever is
going on will just happen more often.
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sneakya! Posted: 09-17-08 03:39am
I agree with NightStar that you shouldn't
rule out sleep paralysis.
This "event" of temporary paralysis,
usually is accompanied with brief and
vivid imagery or hallucinations.
Visual imagery is very common and can be
very terrifying. Typically, occurs with
the eyes closed though it can occur with
eyes open.
The person may think that someone is
standing beside them or they may hear
strange sounds.
Feeling a weight on one's chest, as if
being underneath a person or heavy
object.
This can be dreamlike, possibly causing
the person to think that they are still
dreaming.
The sleep paralysis episode usually lasts
from a few seconds to a few minutes
although a duration as long as 70 minutes
has been reported.
The experience may end due to efforts to
overcome it by the experient, may be
terminated by someone else either by touch
or verbally, the experience may move into
a dream or the episode may simply
terminate spontaneously.
Sleep deprivation and irregular sleep
pattern are the main reasons for having
sleep paralysis experiences.
Having sleep paralysis at least once a
week for 6 months, requires medical
treatment.
Best wishes!
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NightStar
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Posted: 09-17-08 10:10am
I went for medical treatment, the doctor
had me take an EEG at the hospital, and I
had an episode in the middle of the test.
But the results still came back normal, I
was stunned. The doctor never went further
with it after that. I eventually grew out
of it, I get 7 / 8 hours of sleep every
night. My medication insures that. I take
Geodone for Bipolar so it knocks me out at
night.
I never had to go back to the doctor for
this problem, since it just stopped about
5 years back.
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sneakya
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Posted: 09-17-08 15:44pm
Ok thank you all for your replies.
I will make sure to help fix this issue.
