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Something weird is happening !
Okay , i'm 18 years old and i'm experiencing a strange thing when i go to sleep.When i'm almost asleep , suddenly i hear this loud vibration right in my ears and when i hear it , my heart beats so fast ! ,my heart rate increases.I also get paralyzed and my eyes are shut down by force , i get scared though , its as if something is dragging me and paralyzing me ,however; i can fight back and unparalyze myself by trying,so hard, to move a muscle.i don't know what it is actually , i never tried letting go of myself and see what happens , i always break this up by moving or opening my eyes ,which are closing by force.
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I believe it's the usual sequence of your body 'falling asleep' getting slightly out of synchronisation. Normally we lose our consciousness and awareness, then the part of our brain which controls our physical functions (movement etc) shuts down and our heart rate then lowers. And we're fully asleep. If the normal order gets a bit mixed it causes really freaky feelings and sensations. If we're still conscious when the heart-rate steps down we often 'wake up with a start' (like a jolt, a shock) just as we're beginning to fall asleep. Sometimes feeling like we're falling down a hole? And then our heart begins to 'race' and beat fast. If the part that controls the muscles (our so-called 'motor functions') shuts down while we're still conscious we get a scary and desperate feeling of paralysis. And we try to 'force' our limbs to move, finding it very difficult, even impossible for a second or two. Then it 'breaks' as you describe. Similar paralysis and panic feelings can occur when we wake up (in this case we regain our conscious awareness while the motor function controlling area of the brain is still asleep). There's no medical condition I know of that causes it, and it's not a sign of anything failing physically and it does not in itself predict or lead to any psychiatric condition I know of. Things tend to 'right themselves' and we fall asleep 'in the right order' again. It might pop up at random periods all your life. If you're worried speak to a doctor. (I did, it happened to me when I was 20-ish. I'm not the paranoid or hypochondriac type at all...but it really spooked me. Don't laugh...I thought when it happened "Oh shit...this must be what dying feels like...I'm dying!" Needless to say it wasn't...and I didn't!!
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