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Awake but can't move? Possibly dreaming?
17/F
Okay, this is hard to explain but I'm going to try..
Last night I was sleeping and woke up in the middle of the night, but I couldn't move my body AT ALL. I could pretty much see around me and I told myself to move my body but I couldn't because it just felt soo heavy and painful. After a minute or two I could finally move.
This has happened quite a few times before, but I want to know what this is. It really freaks me out and I'm terrified when it's happening.
Thank you!
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This is totally normal
when you are asleep your brain turns certain parts of your body off so that when your dreaming your body dosnt act out your dreams
so your brain will shut down the part of your brain that makes muscels move while your asleep
your lungs heart eyes still work but you cant move your arms or your body
normally it takes around ten minutes to wake up or for your body to go from dreaming to awake and moving
when you wake up very very suddenly your brain dosnt have thoose ten minutes to turn your muscels back on
it sounds really strange but its actually really really cool
next time embellish it think about it
its kind of like having an out of body exsperience
if you would like to researxh it more look up:
Sleep paralysis thats what its called
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It's called sleep paralysis, and it's actually quite common. Basically what happens during sleep is your body is paralyzed so that you can't act out your dreams. Your mind is always at work, especially during sleep, but for some reason, whenever your sleep cycle is interrupted, your mind wakes up but your body still remains paralyzed. And then after a few minutes, your whole body wakes up and you can move again.
This is completely normal and yes i know how it feels and i understand you completely, it happens to all people every once in a while.Its really freaky, and for a minute, you think you can't even breath. And if you've studied biophysics or the EEG or biology or whatever lol anything related to what happens during sleep, you'll learn the body paralysis part.
Hope i helped, please be free to contact me if you need anything else. Best of luck.
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