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&is it possible to engage in sexual actions while asleep? i recently slept in a man's bed fully clothed each night for a month. Not intending to do anything &
&Hi, I'm a 19 year old female. My family and friends have made me aware that I am extremely aggressive when there is a disruption in my sleep. I am a very &
&Do elaborate dreams mean anything? I have dreams where it seems, that from what I can remember, whole new worlds are created and the story lines that they &
&Hi there,
I have a young, sleepless baby and for eight months had terrible insomnia which thankfully is resolving now. However, I still find it hard &
&I am 44 years old and at least 3-4 nights a week I am woken by my partner who insists on having a full conversation (anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 hours) &
&I am curious to why the intense training military units (i.e. Navy Seals) go through involves long periods of sleep deprivation.
Can anyone share their &
&So for about the past 3 months I have been screaming horribly in my sleep, I have no recollection of this but my husband or daughter wakes me up and tells &
&Well I am currently 16 years old, I dropped out of high school and began to study at home, as well as work sometimes fixing computers and such. I exercise, &
&My daughter has been taking meds for seizures for 2 years.
A new neurologist has suggested she may actually be experiencing
sleep paralysis .
However, &
&I have observed the sleeping patterns of my bed partner over the past year or thereabouts. I have noticed the following behaviours:
1. During periods &
&It started off as my Boyfriend just saying random things in his sleep, nothing more. Then one night we had a conversation that didn't make too much sense, &
&I get paralyzed but I am conscious of my surroundings while I'm asleep, this is followed by a very real and painful sense of electrocution, which typically &
&What should I do for the last hour of my day in order to sleep better? What activities are ok to do before I go to bed?
Reading and talking prevent me &
&My daughter's boyfriend started a new job, third shift.
He claims on his second night he got to work and and fell asleep in his truck at 11:00pm and did &
&I have not had a period for 12 months and have been having a lot of trouble either getting to sleep and now, if I can get to sleep, waking up frequently. &
&Each night I get around 7-9 hours of solid sleep. If I wake up at all it's just once to turn over and I don't snore. During the day I'm always sleepy. &
&I have a lot of dreams that end with my being angry or outraged about something, and I express those feelings sometimes vocally but always feeling very &
&My son aged 4 years 10 months sweats a lot on the head and on the back, just when he starts to fall asleep (in the first half an hour). Later in sleep, &
&Where can I get a list of the 80 specific sleep disorders?
our page here
about all the various types of sleep disorders. It has &
&How do you quantify Alpha Intrusion as mild, moderate, or severe?
&Is there any research out there about sleep difficulties and Attention Deficit?
I have had sleep issues all my life, but now in my early 40s it is getting &
&My wife and I were discussing our 4 year old daughter's sleeping patterns. It seems she wakes up several times during the night, only to let us know that &
&On the weekends I spend the night with my boyfriend at his house. He is 25 years old. Throughout the day everything is going well and there is no problem &
&I am 20 years old and my parents think it is very weird that I go to sleep at 2-4 am in the morning and get around 10 hours of sleep. At night, I am on &
&plz help me......my son is 14 years old.......and sine infancy, he takes hours to fall asleep......even the days when he says he is feeling sleepy, when &
&When I go to bed it takes awhile for me to fall asleep. I am all over the bed, cannot find a good way to lay. Then when I go to sleep my fiance says I &
&MY SON IS 19 YEAR OLD. HE CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT EVEN HE STAYS UP FOR 2 DAYS. HE STILL CAN'T GO TO SLEEP AND HE FEELS SLEEPY IN THE MORNING, LIKE 5AM HE &
&I'm a male in my 40's and have snored moderately for most of my adult life with no issues with sleeping or complaints of loud snoring.
About 6 years ago &
&My 7-year-old son will not sleep alone. He goes to bed ok and falls asleep but wakes up 2-3 times in the night and comes and wakes me up to tell me he &
&Why does my boyfriend only dream when I sleep at his house?
A great question, thanks for asking. A more precise way of phrasing it though &
&I have very specific dreams which sometimes come true at another time.
Why and how is this happening?
There are a number of different schools &
&What percent of the population is sleep deprived?
Is there a source that lists deprivation and related ages?
&Hello, I'm 21 years old and I am Brazilian. After much searching on the internet I came to this Stanford University website (I read in Brazilian Wikipedia &
&I am a 40-year-old female diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia 3 years ago.
I don't understand how I can technically be asleep but still remain standing, &
&Dear Sir/Madame,
At the medical university I am attending we have to study really hard. I do use ginseng and B vitamins to provide my brain enough &
&I am a 59 year old Caucasian female in relatively good health. Approximately 20 years ago, after a sleep lab evaluation, I was diagnosed with Hypnagogic &
&When I'm going to sleep my head feels all funny, like a weight dragging my head down. It scares me. It doesn't happen all the time, it just feels weird &
&Hi, I don't know where to start off, so I'll just start with the basics. My name is "G." I found your site this morning after doing a search on hallucinations &
&Lately my boyfriend has noticed that in the middle of the night I sit up and rock back and forth shaking my head from left to right.
I have no memory &
&In the past century humans have reduced our average time spent asleep by 20 percent. What are some of the societal changes and changes in individual lifestyles &
&I am wondering if anyone has ever conducted sleep studies on inmates. The reason I ask is I believe there may well be a connection between the sleepy mind &
&My daughter has never been able to recall a dream.
She is having some anxiety about not being able to dream or recall dreams.
She said, "Mom, all I see &
&Can s sleep study determine how long you've had sleep apnea? I am a Veteran and trying to receive compensation for Sleep Apnea because i believe it is &
&My wife is 60 years old, she has a very stressful job. Almost every night she is awakened in her sleep by a bad dream. She ends up moving to the living &
&I'm a 35 year old single female and I have been having sleep problems on and off for 5 years now. There are times that I get so tired at the end of the &
&My boyfriend usually falls asleep while on the phone, but you can always tell when he is falling asleep. You have to repeat the question over and over, &
&Hello, I have a friend who knows a guy that has NEVER slept at all his entire life.
He has seen countless doctors about this but apparantly they don't &
&Recently had cataract replaced with (unknown to me) UV and blue light filter lens. I had a belief that blue light energy affected sleep cycles and wonder &
&Hi, I would like to understand how we can catch up on sleep/sleep debt in situations where we have had poor sleep for several nights.
For example, the &
&First off, my question is what exactly is the mental difference between sleep and the state of being unconscious, usually due to either trauma or blood &
&From what i read it seems like
sleep paralysis
but the only thing thats different is that i feel like a ghost. I was laying up stairs in my room. Then &
I am ten years old from New Zealand and I
sleepwalk .
I would like to do my school science project on sleepwalking but I am struggling to find &
&I'm a 45 year old female and even as a child I would wake up at night and see things that couldn't have possibly been in my room or couldn't have possibly &
&PLEASE HEAR ME OUT I paid online for the
Ryan Hurd help book
about overcoming night terror or nightmares with night paralysis. It would not download. &
&Sometimes when I awake I see faces looking down on me. One old lady was sitting in a chair at the side of my bed. I am not frighted anymore as i soon realise &
&I am big sleeper. I like getting anywhere from 9-11 hours of sleep. Even 12 hours every so often. I've read that if you sleep too much you will also have &
&I don't know how common it is to have multiple parasomnias, but after perusing your lists, it seems I've had quite a few at one point or another.
Enuresis &
&I have severe obstructive sleep apnea + insomnia. Who can I speak with about this treatment?
Hi Bonnie, thanks for writing. You can search &
&Hi there,
I'm just 15 years old and i experience this sleep disorder: I cannot breathe,
cannot move my body, even say words but i can see my surroundngs. &
&I recently got with this guy. He has a hard time sleeping with me because he says that I talk all night. And it's not always nice, that I threaten him. &
&My dad is 44 years old and has cholesterol problems. He sleeps his full eight hours of sleep everyday and yet he still feels sleepy. He is not tired but &
&Any current research evaluating the validity of sleep texting as a current phenomena?
As in grabbing your phone and actually typing out and &
&I understand there are over eighty specific sleep disorders. What are they? Kevin's Response That's right, there are over eighty different sleep disorders &
&We moved to a new city a little over 2 months ago. The move along with some other recent traumatic events (including an EEG which came back normal) has &
&What advice would you give to those whose sleep is affected by jet lag? More importantly, how would you define jet lag? Kevin's Response Hey Christopher, &
&Might it be valuable in subjects with sleep problems to do home monitoring every night?
I understand that there are limitations compared to a visit to &
&As I understand it, sleeping in late does not make up for missed REM sleep earlier in the night. Has this theory changed since I attended
Sleep and Dreams &
&I have been told that if a person sleeps too much at one time, say for 12 hours, that they begin to dream too much, and then start burning the energy that &
Problems Sleeping -
When I don't get a good night sleep, I wake up with migraines and my heart racing. I found a natural way to resolve my issues.
I received as a gift an ...
Hi! I am now pregnant and the baby is due in 2 months' time. For the past month I had big troubles falling asleep in the night. It started with my legs ...
I have been waking in the night with intense body heat at about 12 or 1 AM every night. This is not night sweats, as I am not sweating and have had night ...
I am a 51 year old woman who has had sleep issues for awhile.
I can fall asleep after reading, but
I don't sleep restfully.
I have gotten into the terrible ...
They say a good night?s sleep is like an indulgence. How true! Looking back in time, I remember that my tryst with insomnia began in class ninth or tenth ...
How is it possible to go two, three days with no more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep?
Well, I've been routinely doing it for months now, and it's getting ...
I really don't know how to explain my situation. I think all the time nonstop but when I am about to go to sleep I can hear my thoughts really loud and ...
My 7 year old daughter goes to bed ok 7.30pm but she wants us to keep checking on her every 10 mins, she nods off to sleep but wakes thinking we havnt ...
I am not able to just fall asleep naturally anymore. I am exhausted and I am able to sleep only with a sleeping pill (restoril) every night. I sleep only ...
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome -
I was diagnosed last week with DSPS.
Since then I've been taking Melatonin at night and using light therapy in the morning.
At first it was simple and ...
This article
describes very well the condition I have had for years, recently exacerbated by moving from California to London for a study abroad program ...
I am a woman, who will soon turn 60 yrs. old.
delayed sleep phase syndrome
since I moved from the West coast to East Coast, about 40 years ...
An informative
article , but it falls into the usual "daywalker" trap that DSPS is caused by poor sleep hygiene and bad habits.
It can be, but for a ...
See the paper "Poor Compensatory Function for Sleep Loss as a Pathogenic Factor in Patients with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome" Uchiyama, et al. (2000) Sleep....
My question is, can someone with DSPS ( delayed sleep phase syndrome ) ever really change their schedule successfully?I?m 38 years old, and have been ...
I have done all of the above many times as I have tried to be in sync with the daytime world.
By getting up early and depriving myself of sleep, I find ...
Sadly, my 13 year old son was diagnosed with
We had to set up a special program with the the school system.
If he can't fall asleep until between ...
sounds a lot like myself.
I have to drag myself out of bed and am a zombie until about 1-2pm where I happen to notice I am now fully awake, alert,...
Yet again another night not sleeping. I feel very lonely every night awake and only discovered
a few days ago about
DSPS . I thought that was just some ...
I started high school 3 years ago in September, and the first winter I was there, my sleeping patterns changed drastically. I started lying awake in bed ...
Hello doctor. Listen, I have read your article, I have suffered from DSPS since I've been 14 (now I'm 25) And so many years of looking for a cure only ...
Since age 2, my best hrs. have been 2pm to 12 midnight. My dad worked 2nd shift when I was young, so that's when Mom did her housework. She always let ...
I have N24 {non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome}. My sleep schedule shifts an hour later every day, regardless of treatment.
Can you share how ...
I am 29 years old with 2 children. I work until midnight so I don't get home til about 12:30 am. I can never go straight to sleep so I usually stay up ...
I am 41 and have delayed phase sleep syndrome. I was born with a natural sleep cycle of 4am to 12 noon. This was confirmed by my mother who informed me ...
affected my education, my working life... everything. From infanthood (parents driving me around for ages to get me to sleep) to childhood (parents ...
I'm on a 2am -2pm 'night time' I will generally sleep for 6-8 hours or so between 2am or 2pm. This is fine for me it genuinely does not bother me in anyway....
Hi, I am a 47 year old woman. From age 18, I can only fall asleep with the t.v. on, when it's quiet I can hear the silence and it sounds like an alarm ...
As far back as I can remember, and even further back than that (according to my mother), I have had what seems to be DSPS. As a toddler and small child,...
My sleep pattern has been like this for a little while now, ever since my life has changed in a drastic way. I dont know if that has anything to do with ...
I've been told by Stanford sleep that I have delayed sleep phase. Is there anyway to verify this...I think its something else I've been plagued with for ...
Ok long story made short. How does
apply to someone who works a rotating/swing shift? Does anyone have a solution for that? Your biological clock ...
I have had a problem with my sleeping for a while now but never known what it was. My mother is very reluctant on taking me to the doctors as she said ...
(This visitor-submitted comment refers to
this page on delayed sleep phase syndrome )
Things that don't work for it:-Sleep DebtForget it. Your ...
Wow, I can't believe I didn't see
before. I was surfing Wikipedia this morning when I came across this by accident. It may as well have been written ...
Or it would be if I didn't have to get up for work at 6 am. After a day of this I'm whacked, never mind a whole working week. Get home from work, eat, chill ...
I want to cure this so bad. Kevin's Answer Ah, the segmented sleep schedule that's even more unorthodox than the typical
delayed sleep phase syndrome ...
Effects of Sleep Deprivation -
Although I try to plan to get up early on my free day's, I never succeed. I'll use today as an example: last night I fell asleep around midnight (24.00hr)...
I have a disease called interstitial cystitis (IC). This is a bladder condition which is not only painful but causes urinary frequency and urgency which ...
A guy named Mike at my college never gets enough sleep and he's a complete wreck. He likes to yell a lot, and is very irritable, this is because he plays ...
When I was in high school, I wouldn't get lots of sleep.
Cramming for tests, hanging out with my girlfriend, even talking with friends.
Sleep deprivation ...
Sleep Apnea -
I'm 36 years-old with a normal BMI that was recently diagnosed with Sleep Apnea after having a Sleep Study done. It seems I may have had this condition ...
My uncle goes to sleep sometimes unexpectedly (i.e: Watching a movie, playing the game, after cooking dinner etc.) He generally stops breathing after a ...
My doctor is considering a study for me.....I wake from my sleep with a headache and my blood pressure has increased.
When I am awake there is not a blood ...
Why does obstruction in nasal breathing cause OSA?
Why doesn't the body succeed then in breathing through the mouth, assuming the tongue isn't in the ...
I'm a loud snorer and despite having laser on the palette it has failed. I still continue to feel sleepy and sluggish during the day. I thought it was ...
Sleepwalking -
A few years back my husband and I were getting ready for bed when we heard our son grumbling from his room. As we were about to go in to see what was wrong ...
Is it possible to enter a somnambulistic state directly from a fully awakened state, in a time of only several seconds?The subject, a 14-year-old male ...
Apparently I
a LOT. My mother and I sleep downstairs (I'm a 16 year old girl) because our dog is very old and needs constant supervision and ...
I got out of bed and walked into my parent's room. My parents thought that was strange
because I am 12 and it's my little sister that usually goes into ...
When I was about 18, I started having my sleep "running" episodes. I have scared the daylights out of a number of p my parents, college ...
My son is 5 years old, sometimes when he wakes up and he is not really awake. His eyes are open but he starts shaking and chattering his teeth like he ...
We recently found out that my husband is a sleepwalker. My sister caught him watching TV with shorts on. (He went to bed and woke up in boxers.) He can'...
I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade. My mom told me I feel asleep onto the couch in the living room. She told me to get up and go to bed. She said I got ...
Why is it that when I fell asleep last night, I woke up without realizing it while I was consecutively breathing hard and shaking with my eyes bright red?...
Sleep Talking -
I had a full conversation with my girlfriend whilst she was sleeping. First, she was incoherent and was talking about skateboards, so I woke her up. She ...
My girlfriend and i talk on the phone every night before bed. After we've been talking for a while its usually pretty late, we continue talking carrying ...
I just want to know..if
sleep talking
can have harmful or dangerous effects?
Hey Farah, sleep talking is almost never harmful in any way ...
My wife and I often have conversations while were both asleep. The problems often arise when wewake up and for no particular reason, one of us may feel ...
Our 11 year old son appears to be a very light sleeper.
When my husband goes in to check on him before we go to bed, he often says "Goodnight son" to ...
Hello :)Well I have a very close relationship with my boyfriend and we can really talk about anything. In the last few months I find myself waking ...
Hello- I am a high school psychology teacher. We were discussing sleep and dreaming and a student of mine said that something interesting happened to her....
I can't actually hear me shouting in my sleep but mam says it's like I'm having arguments all night long.
Thanks for writing in Samantha....
My husband tells me that a few times a month, if he wakes up during the night, I am involved in a long conversation. Well, it has the rhythm of a conversation ...
My boyfriend sleep talks ALL night almost every night. He doesn't mumble, he speaks very clearly just as when he is awake. I can have long conversations ...
Are you more truthful when you
sleep talk ?
Interesting question. I can't provide very much evidence or insight on this from what I currently ...
My cousin and I went on holiday together twice. Each time we slept in the same room. On our first holiday together I woke up one night, as my cousin asked ...
I have a friend who says hilarious things while sleep talking. We found this out at camp when she sleep talked every night! She sang songs and our favorite ...
Sleep Paralysis -
I'm 16 years old and have often woken up to find myself unable to move or speak. First of all I have been having problems sleeping for months now, where ...
I'm presently twenty years of age and since as far back as I can remember whenever I would wake up from a good night's rest and fall back to sleep I would ...
I'm 14 yrs. old now. I don't know how to exactly say it but... This
sleep paralysis
has happened to me, only I'm not afraid of it.The first time:...
I've been living with
sleep paralysis
since I was a little girl.
But of course at the time I didn't know what was wrong with me -- all I knew was that ...
I am a multi-published speculative fiction author and I have a very vivid imagination. When the hallucinations started, I really thought I was losing touch ...
I just made a video about my
experiences, you can see it at
/barnabusdonn
{Kevin: I've also embedded Barney's video just below} ....here ...
I had another episode last night.
Now that I am 36 they happen less often.
My mind wakes up but my body cannot move.
The air in the room feels different,...
I have had a few experiences with
as a teenager but never frequent enough to really cause me to notice.
Most of my unusual dreams at the time had ...
I don't know that I've ever had sleep paralysis happen at night. Maybe once or twice in the morning. But when I experience it the most is when I take naps ...
Occasionally (a few times per year) after what seems like only minutes after going to bed I will have an intense sensation (I assume a dream-state) of ...
sleep paralysis
pretty often and have stopped being freaked out by it. When I realize what's happening I just slowly start trying to wiggle my ...
I am 34 years old, and I have been experiencing
sleep paralysis
lucid dreaming
hypnopompic imagery
for over 20 years. Years ago I was ...
Sleep Paralysis
from time to time. In most cases, for some reason I get it when I'm trying to go to sleep when I'm not tired. I have experienced ...
Hi there. I experience
sleep paralysis
on a relatively regular basis. Most of the time, my body just becomes paralysed while my mind is fully alert, and ...
I am doing research on sleep disorders for my psychology class and came upon one of the stories posted here. It was exactly what had happened to me only ...
My Name is Meghan. I have been experiencing episodes that I now think I can link to
sleep paralysis . I have yet to figure out if I'm actually dreaming ...
I think I have been experiencing
sleep paralysis
since I was 5 years old--at least that is the earliest episode I can remember. I was laying in my bed,...
I consider myself a normal 42 yr. old female, other than my lack of healthy and restful sleep. I have suffered from
Sleep Paralysis
since I was 15 yrs....
I am a 26 year old male. I have been fighting with sleep paralysis since I was 5 years old.In my search for answers I began researching the web. I ...
I don't know how to explain it, but a few times I have dreamt that I am laying there awake and paralyzed or keep going in and out of dreams, but I don'...
What a great site!!
I've just been reading about
Sleep Paralysis
and it mentions
Narcolepsy .
I'll have a look at that, but it's actually
Sleep Apnoea ...
I'm 17 currently, but the very first time
sleep paralysis
happened to me was last year, while I was still 16. I woke up randomly, and was frozen....
So after reading
& writing a post - its obvious that we're all having the same thing going on. Growing up - my favorite movies ever were (and still ...
When I was in my early 20's (before children) and I had some free time in the afternoons, I liked to take naps on the couch.
On several occasions, I would ...
I have a feeling that I may have
this , I think I've actually had it for years and just thought it was normal, horrible but normal. It?s a very strange ...
I have suffered
sleep paralysis
before just after i had my baby due to sleep deprivation i think!I kept thinking there was a ghost in my room and ...
I'll write more tomorrow because I'm too exhausted at the moment. I'm petrified to sleep - it's getting worse & worse every single night - harder & harder ...
I am a strong Christian i have a deep realtionship with God and offen have mystical experiences this one was terrible. it was during the day i felt weak ...
I believe I suffer from
Sleep Paralysis .
Every night right before I'm about to go to sleep everything slowly fades darker then it already is, it feels ...
I normally sleep next to my spouse as usual and had a very strange experience as this has never happened to me before ... Woke up around 3pm and noticed ...
I had been sleeping most of the day that day, and so i didn't fall asleep until around 230 only to wake up at 3:13 to realize that i had just had a really ...
THE MYTHIt is not hard to see why demons, devils, and other beasties of the night have been blamed for these nocturnal 'attacks'. Virtually all cultures ...
Surprisingly, though, is the consistency of such reports made by societies and cultures with no previous knowledge of each other or their lore. The main ...
Last night, I drove home from my Holiday break. It was about an 8 hour drive and I had an overload of Caffeine. When I went to bed, I was very tired. Before ...
I've had these
sleep paralysis
episodes more than a few times. You can't seem to move even after trying to force yourself. Once it felt as if something ...
I am 15 years old and have always had trouble getting to sleep straightaway. I have experianced sp before.. it is a horrible experiance. Last night i experianced ...
I have had too many episodes of
to remember them all, however my most recent episode was two nights ago as i was drifting off to sleep, suddenly ...
It is a Christmas scene. The house has a gloves and cinnamon aroma, Christmas paper, scotch tape and unwrapped gifts lie on the floor while a blinking ...
Hi There!My name is Christina, I'm 30 years old and I have had
sleep paralysis
episodes since I was 14 years old.
They first started a couple of ...
I always thought something was wrong with me, when I would go to sleep and all of a sudden I open my eyes and I hear noises and everything looks how it ...
Hi All,I've had
these strange experiences
for years but I really thought that they were either stress related or it was just something supernatural ...
One week ago I experience a sleep paralysis, at first I thought it was a nightmare or it was pressure from my school work until I kept getting it often....
I have experienced
frequently. Interesting to now know why...@ times I have been awake and unable to move. My kids and husband would think I was ...
The other day, after coming home from work, I decided to take a quick nap but when awaking from my nap I could not move, speak, or barely breathe! I was ...
I remember most of my dreams, and they are usually harmless. The is the 1st time I've experienced this type of dream, what I am calling a nightmare. I ...
I am 32 years old and for the last 6 months have had nightmares every night. They wake me up all through the night, sometimes my heart is racing so fast ...
I have had a recurring "dream" since I was about 14 or so (I am now 38 yrs old). Every time this occurs, I feel like I am awake but in a dreamlike state....
My story of sleep paralysis... Fell asleep on the couch watching a movie, woke up at 1:00 am was very sleepy walking to bedroom, but when i laid down in ...
One night I was sleeping in at a relatives house. Since there wasn't an extra bed, I slept in the living room beside the kitchen and the balcony. In other ...
I thought it may have been a ghost. I was having a really bad dream. Only to wake up to an extreme pressure on my back. I tried to scream but I couldn'...
My name is Kaitlin, I am 15 years old and I am from Australia. Last night I woke up at almost 1:00am. I turned on my light, sat up and checked the time ...
My name is Joe, I just had my second experience with
Sleep Paralysis
last night. I remember having a similar experience several months ago but I didn'...
I have sleep paralysis sometimes frequently..but have not had it in a while... Maybe in about 8 months....This morning I had it... It seemed as though ...
My name is Hannah. I am at the age of 15 and I have experienced
sleep paralysis
twice. The fist time it happened to me was when I was 13 years old and ...
A story of
sleep paralysis
Read more stories here
One Sunday afternoon on a bright beautiful day, I went in my bedroom to get some comfortable ...
I started having such thing from last 3-4 years. I am 26 now. Sometimes when I sleep I get a dream, then my mind will tell me that its just a dream and ...
Hi there. I experience sleep paralysis on a relatively regular basis. Most of the time, my body just becomes paralysed while my mind is fully alert, and ...
For a long period of time I was very stressed and unhappy with my life. During this period of time very often I would wake up
completely immobile , and ...
I remember it happened twice in one early day around 6 in the morning. My friend said she saw me standing in the hall with the light on, come back in, listen ...
I experience ASP ( admin: awareness during
sleep paralysis
) on a somewhat regular basis and I'd truly like to understand it more. It's made my sleep ...
It has happened a few times I am asleep, and I have these dreams that I am fighting a very strong force. I can't really move it's too strong, it pulls ...
I was sleeping at a friend's house that I had never been to.
We were planning on holding a paranormal investigation because of some strange goings on ...
I'm not sure if it's common to have constant
in one room, but I've lived in this house for 10 years. The first I heard of it was when me and ...
Since 1978 I have had about 70 or 80 episodes of
sleep paralysis . The first occurred while I was napping at my job. I worked a split shift so I had some ...
This is not the frist time this has happened to me--it started when I was a young child. I
went to sleep last night at 10:05. I don't know what happened ...
I have experienced
sleep paralysis
from time to time since I was 13 years old, most often when I do not get enough sleep or am extremely tired when I ...
I experienced
sleep paralysis
twice so far. The first time it was a little scary just because I was like "WTF dude, I am totally unable to move". But ...
Hello, My name is Gloria and I'm 17. When I first experienced
I was 15 and I was sleeping next to my mother due to family staying at my house. As ...
I have never been to a doctor or anything for sleep paralysis but I know that I have it because it has happened to me plenty of times. I usually have music ...
Kevin's Response:
Hey Hue, thanks for the question. What people hear during an episode of sleep paralysis varies completely, from nothing at all to terrifying,...
I have been having problems with
Sleep Paralysis
as long as I can remember. I am 29 years old, in good health, with low stress, and a good sleep pattern....
A Sleep Paralysis Story
I woke up...and I heard a witch who was repeating that: "You can't wake up, I'm going to kill you..". I was trying to move,...
It was a normal day and this was the first time it ever happened to me. I didn't do anything out of routine. I went to sleep that night at about 10:30 ...
In my dream there was a set u it's like my body knew I was about to experience
sleep paralysis . The events aren't relevant until ...
Sleep Terrors -
I am a 29 y/o female that has been having sleep issues for approx. 8 years. My terrors seem to come in clusters. I will go for quite awhile without having ...
My son has been having sleep terrors on and off for the past 6 months or so. The last few have lasted about 20 minutes. Is there a way that I can wake ...
the 1st I know of was in my bed at my parents. I dreamt there were 2 men in my doorway. One of them stepped closer to me. I felt trapped in my covers. My ...
I'm a 27-year-old woman. I share a bed with my boyfriend. Every so often I am jolted awake and I see an imagined spider in the room. I am terribly phobic ...
Hi I am Simon, My first
night terror
occurred in my early teens. The previous night I was sharing a bunk bed with my brothers and they all decided ...
night terrors
when i was 4 and 8 when I moved from house to house. About 6 to 10 episodes that i know of but my parents don't tell me when i get ...
My whole family is telling me I screamed last night, but I don't remember a thing. I remember waking up feeling weird, like I wasn't rested, but don'...
I often scream during a dream during the first few hours of sleep. The scream awakens me, often my wife reassures me, and I fall back to sleep. I have ...
MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH OUR SON ADAM'S SLEEP TERRORS FOR AT LEAST 18 MONTHS. HE IS TURNING 4 IN JANUARY. WATCHING HIM GO THROUGH THESE ...
Hello. Two nights in succession this week I have sat bolt upright in the middle of the night screaming.
They seen to be bl really ...
My 8 yr old son has approx two
night terror
episodes a month. He wakes, runs around, wide eyed and terrified. Heart rate and breathing rapid. After 5 ...
I have had
night terrors
all my life, many of the times they are your "normal night terrors",
but some of the times when I start waking up from an episode,...
I am an adult female, 56 yrs old, experiencing sleep terrors more frequently during times of extreme stress, yet sometimes experiencing them for no apparent ...
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When I sleep I dream of demons. Demons in little ...
Events are rare - once every 3 to 4 months sometimes occur few weeks of one another, then not a gain for months. Notice it happens when she has a cold ...
It seems that the people that do these studies in fact do not suffer from these episodes...if they did they would understand just how truly terrifying ...
I am a 59 Y.O female and for the past few years have been having what I call night visions.
In the past few weeks they have increased to the point of ...
My boyfriend and I have been together for about 1 year now.
I've been having trouble sleeping due to the fact I wake up from hearing him scream and scared ...
My son, who is 1 yr. old now, has had
sleep terrors
since his 3rd month. At first it occurred only once a month, now it is more frequent, twice a month....
My son is 6 years old. About 4 weeks ago he started doing weird things in his sleep. The first night he got out of bed, went to his bathroom and was trying ...
Hi, I have suffered with night terrors for as long as I can remember (I am 33 now). The abnormalities range from sleepwalking, sleep talking/shouting, actual ...
I had sleep terrors quite frequently when I was a kid but I have them less often now, so what is the chance they will go away into adult hood? And also ...
Narcolepsy -
Hi all,I have Bipolar disorder and Clinical depression along with my Narcolepsy and Sleep Apnea. Fortunately my doctors are good communicators. They ...
Hi,I'm a 55 year old male and was diagnosed with
Narcolepsy
at about 45 although I can now put 2 and 2 together and realize I've had some symptoms ...
A few years ago, whilst driving, I was suddenly jolted back to reality - I had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel and thankfully awoken just in time ...
I being a student also have excessive sleepiness during day time. I thought it is due to the classes I am attending the whole day. But then when I suffered ...
I had never heard of
Narcolepsy , and was just enjoying my life and my work in all kinds of places all over the world and have been doing this for the ...
Childhood Sleep Disorders -
My daughter is 6yr. Ever since i can remember she doesn't like to sleep. Falling asleep is the main issue, but she often wakes up, mutiple times in the ...
My daughter has such anxiety about sleeping alone, she panics every time we "make" her sleep by herself. When she finally falls asleep with someone lying ...
I'm really puzzled by his sleep disorder, the first times he woke up throwing up and shaking, now he just wakes up and he heaves and moans shaking like ...
My son who is now 9 has always had a hard time getting to sleep, since he could walk we would find him sleeping in several different places every night....
My son is 7 years old and ever since I can remember, he has had difficulty falling asleep.
He always asks my husband and I to lay with him to go to sleep ...
My son has always been a light sleeper and has always woken up at least 2-4 times a night. He is three years old. As a result of his lack of sleep he is ...
My son had a sleep study that showed 16 episodes in one hour. After removing his tonsil & adenoids and a new sleep study, we are down to 2-5 episodes an ...
It seems that my 10 week old baby wakes to every noise during the day when I put her down for naps.
At night, she seems to be able to sleep through most ...
My daughter has been a poor sleeper since she was born.
As a baby, she would not sleep for longer than 20 minutes most days.
She would wake every 2 hours ...
My daughter is 5 years old and is not sleeping restfully therefore is very tired all the time and is very naughty because of it.
She has had a problem ...
My 3 year-old son has never been a "great" sleeper, but I have managed to keep his sleep time within the realm of what children his age should be getting....
For years my daughter has struggled with staying asleep, which I take full responsibility for.
As a single parent for her first three years I would always ...
My son is 5 1/2 and I can't count on one hand how many nights he's been able to sleep through the night. He has several allergies which makes ...
My best friend's baby boy rarely sleeps at night. It only started about 5 months ago. He only turned 1 this month.
She never gets a good nights rest.
My 4 year old granddaughter has had 3 episodes of waking but not being able to fully wake, urinating, eyes rolling back and very dilated, and not being ...
My eight month old has a lot of trouble sleeping.
I chart his sleep, and it comes out to about 6 hours a day.
He rarely sleeps more than 15 minutes at ...
My daughter is 7 years old. For the last 2 weeks she has been waking up with
night terrors . She leaps up crying and sweating, teeth chattering and asking ...
I have a 10 year old daughter that was diagnosed with Idiopathic Insomnia when she was 6. She has great trouble falling sleep at night and wakes up quite ...
Hi there, My 7 yr old has bad or "scary" dreams every night within the first hour of sleep. He is often distressed, crying and irrational but can be consoled ...
My child, since birth, has never slept through the night and still at 2 and a half takes almost 2 hours to fall asleep every single night.I would like ...
My daughter
sleepwalks
and has night terror since she was a baby. She worths now she does bothes, now she doesn't want room and sleeps with me and now ...
My daughter is two and a half years old and just recently we weaned her off of her pacifier.
Ever since then she will wake up every night normally around ...
This began 2 years ago, after we transitioned him to a toddler bed. At first, he would walk to our room and wake me up to ask for juice or water. I then ...
Hello,My 6 year old son is a very bright and active child.
However, he has struggled with sleep since he was an infant, and now at the age of 6, he ...
My son has had sleep apnea since 3 months old. He has had five surgeries on adenoids that keep growing back. The most recent ENT we saw a few months ago ...
My husband and I are having a hard time with our 21 month old. He had a traumatic birth but has been healthy since then with the exception of sleep. Even ...
Hello, hope you are well. My child every couple of weeks will have one to two all nighters where he can't sleep and sometimes acts very hyper. There was ...
I truly appreciate reading about
other families' experiences
on this site to simply know we are not alone. Our daughter, now nearly 8 yrs. old, is still ...
My 7 year old son talks, screams, and sits up in his sleep. Last week in the middle of the night he fell into the wood frame on his bed and was rushed ...
I have a 7 year old son, who for years now, just will not go to sleep at bedtime. He finds it extremely hard to even stay still, let alone relax in his ...
My son who just turned 4 was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2.
He refuses to sleep!
It takes several hours for him to settle down enough to go to ...
My 5yr old son is so "wired" at bedtime and can't seem to relax enough to fall asleep until nearly midnight every night. My husband and I are exhausted ...
I am trying to determine if my 5-year-old is having night terrors or some other middle of the night issue. Her problem is similar to what I have read about ...
My son is seven years old.
He has difficulty falling asleep at night and gets very "wound up" at bed time.
We have tried being very consistent with bedtime ...
My 5-year-old daughter has been having sleep issues since the day she was born.
I accredit part of her difficulty sleeping to the fact that she was in ...
Not only does she snore loudly though, she also sometimes stops breathing for a second.I'm worried. What should I do? Kevin's Answer Hi there,
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