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- cjacks9, on 11/14/2008, -1/+106Makes sense. I've gone to sleep and woken up, but couldn't move. That was messed up.
- Typhoon2009, on 11/14/2008, -2/+93Brains are so god-damned cool.
- BrownManUPS, on 11/13/2008, -2/+62Every so often when I wake up, I initially can't remember where I fell asleep at. It's pretty scary but I think that part of my brain just isn't on yet. Very interesting hypothesis.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -3/+61Is this why it's so darn easy for dreams to get wiped out of my memory as soon as I wake up?
- SpectralSounds, on 11/14/2008, -0/+58That is called sleep paralysis. It has happened to me a few times as well. To describe the event as, "pure terror" would be an understatement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis - T8erT0T, on 11/14/2008, -2/+47...could be the roofies.
Just saying. - daimposter, on 11/14/2008, -3/+40is this just another excuse i can use at work to slack off?
- billbugger, on 11/14/2008, -1/+38My buddy had the same problem and always wondered why he woke up with a dick drawn on his face.
He should've taken his shoes off before passing out. - Bob24, on 11/14/2008, -0/+36I have experienced this also. It is pretty scary.
- RutgerB, on 11/14/2008, -0/+25One time when I woke up I didn't understand the numbers and characters on my alarm, they seemed like a difficult equation. Guess the logic part of my brain wasn't awake yet.
This article does make that a good excuse when late on the job! - inactive, on 11/14/2008, -1/+25 It's just done booting up yet. Just because your desktop has appeared doesn't mean the OS isn't still loading in the background.
- Blablah01, on 11/14/2008, -0/+23BRRAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINS!
- vsujohn2, on 11/14/2008, -0/+23Are you sure you aren't just a very articulate zombie?
- McGrude, on 11/14/2008, -1/+23I've "woken up" but another part of my brain thinks I'm dreaming, so I can't move. If I concentrate really hard I can move my big toes, and eventually I'll manage to fully wake myself up. It is really scary being conscious but unable to control your breathing or move. It's happened to me 5 or 6 times.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -0/+22It's called Sleep Paralysis, it's not too uncommon.
- billbugger, on 11/14/2008, -0/+20That was mentioned in the comments above
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis - MadOtaku, on 11/14/2008, -1/+20That's a known phenomenon called sleep paralysis. It's very interesting and I'd recommend googling it. It's too much to clutter up the comments with but I thought you might like to know what it's called!
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+19No. Your brain has developed a mechanism to protect you from the horror of your recurring "jazzercizing clown and giant ferret with nunchucks" dream.
- vsujohn2, on 11/14/2008, -0/+19No, now your boss can write you up for sleeping at work even more.
- BaldGuy, on 11/14/2008, -4/+21Or GHB. My college buddies used to put it in my drink all the time. On a seemingly unrelated note I also used to wake up with blood in my shorts. Is that weird? Maybe the part of my brain that keeps my ass from bleeding was shut off.
- GothAlice, on 11/14/2008, -0/+17The physical disconnect between your brain's motor cortex and actual motor control nerves is interesting. Your brain has a clutch. Often I full-body-twitch violently when going to sleep as my brain's clutch is a bit sticky and it keeps god damn stomping on it.
- diskoh, on 11/14/2008, -2/+18This explains why on very rare occasion I will partially wake up but not be able to move. I've even tried to scream for help before in panic because I was paralyzed. It's terrifying when that happens.
- SleepParalysis, on 11/15/2008, -0/+16Next time you go through Sleep Paralysis relax, stay aware and let your body fall asleep. You should go directly into a dream fully aware. I experience it pretty much every time I fall asleep or wake up, no matter the time or place.
Any hallucinations you see, feel, hear, smell, taste, etc. are called hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. I especially like how when during sleep paralysis you roll over or stand up it actually feels like you're moving but in reality you've done nothing.
The other stuff you might experience is exploding head syndrome which will be flashes of light or loud explosions when you fall asleep or wake up.
I probably have a brain tumor or something ;P That's my theory anyways. - inactive, on 11/14/2008, -1/+16Needs more parallel booting.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -0/+14If you're a chick, this is very common. I call it the fluffy puppy effect.
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+13Haha, great analogy. Windows opens its eyes a good 3 minutes before it really wakes up.
- Tishiablo, on 11/15/2008, -0/+12Yeah, that sometimes happens to me, also.. Sometimes I'd fall asleep in boring classes and I wake up and I'm like ,"What the *****? Where am I?". I look around and eventually I figure out what happened.
I've also had another experience to where I'd stay up late at night doing some coding (yea, nerdy, I know..) and when I wake up, I really, truly thought that I must do a function to get my ass out of bed. It was awful. - mufasa, on 11/14/2008, -0/+11Haha, i remember when i was 9-10 or something, and slept over at a friend, in his brothers room, woke up and panicked for some seconds, could'nt remember where i was.. :p scary stuff.
- atomic811, on 11/14/2008, -1/+12are you Mormon?
- atomic811, on 11/14/2008, -0/+11I have no idea what you are talking about, but I laughed anyway.
- FredFredrickson, on 11/14/2008, -0/+10What in the hell does that have to do with the article?
- Indyanna, on 11/14/2008, -2/+12Re: So next time your partner wants to talk at bedtime and asks "Are you asleep?"
WHY do people do that? Especially the "people" I'm married to - ? - atomic811, on 11/14/2008, -1/+10I had something similar. I woke up and my brain was trying to divide the letter "D" by the number 2 and I started to feel sick. Then it stopped and everything was normal. Lasted maybe 20 seconds.
- tallguyg, on 11/15/2008, -0/+9Hopefully you can take comfort in the fact that it is not a rare phenomenon at all, as the all the previous comment can attest to.
WARNING Science Content:
The reason it happens is your brain actually paralyzes your body while sleep so that you do not physically act out your dreams while you sleep and potentially hurt yourself (or others).
There is a sleep disorder where your brain does not successfully paralyze your body and you act out all your dreams. My dad has it, he once dreamed he was a football player and tackled the headboard. He got a lot of stitches on his face for that.
So you can think of sleep paralysis as your brain working TOO well to keep you safe while you sleep! - Namco, on 11/14/2008, -0/+9Twice in my life my brain has woken up and I could think, but couldn't open my eyes or move a muscle. The one I remember most was Jan 1st and I could hear the Rose Parade in the background. After a few seconds of struggling trying to open my eyes, I said "***** it" and went back to sleep almost instantly. I woke up like a half hour later all rested and weirded out at the experience.
- CaptnTastyface, on 11/15/2008, -0/+9I get sleep paralysis on a regular basis. It tends to happen to me when I sleep lightly, ie when I take naps. I am at times visited by very convincing hallucinations during episodes of sleep paralysis - "people" who seem to be real at the time - that threaten or in some other way terrorize me. I can't put into words how frightening it is when this happens.
It is relatively common for people to experience these kinds of hallucinations with sleep paralysis, so it is no wonder they attribute them to demons or some kind of evil spirit. - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+8This is ripe for an extended anecdote. Please tell us more about yourself and about this Raymonty character.
- manacit2, on 11/15/2008, -0/+8I get this on a regular basis, thankfully I'm not _totally_ awake when it happens so I don't remember it that much when I wake up (only a few seconds really), but it ***** sucks to wake up, and try and move but not be able to.
- werries, on 11/15/2008, -0/+8Yes, its nerdy.
No, we don't care that its nerdy, this is digg for pete's sake. - veriix, on 11/14/2008, -0/+8she is
- Gee1004, on 11/14/2008, -2/+9Borgs do not sleep
- themusicalduck, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7I've had problems with sleep paralysis for years, it's usually most likely to happen during high-stress times or with sleep deprivation.
Pretty scary the first time I had it, think I was only around 10, but you get used to it eventually.
You also sometimes hallucinate or hear things which can be scary or not. - Zervaman, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7Yup, sleep paralysis. I've gotten that a couple times.
It is pretty disorientating, and a bit freaky being conscious but paralyzed.
I believe that "back in the day" people attributed these events to demons and succubi. - diskoh, on 11/14/2008, -0/+7Sorry for not replying in that thread instead! I was just excited to share my story so I neglected to read the comments first.
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7Interestingly, most people report difficulty reading text or numbers in dreams. This was illustrated in the movie Waking Life, where the digital clock refused to form coherent numbers.
- ASSASSYN360, on 11/15/2008, -0/+6I have to use a damn boot disk to get my brain up and running every morning. It started running in safe mode when I graduated college. I keep getting the error code bmp11 "ran out of Memory" error code C00D11C6!
- xerigen, on 11/15/2008, -0/+6That used to happen to me like once a month and I hated it. It always happened when I realized I was in a dream that I didn't like and thought to myself in my dream "why don't I just wake up?" It once happened to me in school and that really sucked. I think it's called a lucid dream.
- o5rob5o, on 11/14/2008, -4/+10This happens to me after a long night of drinking. The night slowly comes back to me, then its like...oh *****.
- werries, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5Same thing always happened to me at summer camp as a kid.
Terrifying. -
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