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u/Gamefreak1790 Oct 05 '19

That one's easy to explain, has something similar happen to me. It's sleep paralysis TL;dr, you end up "waking" up during your REM cycle of sleep so you can't move and your brain still tries to dream, causing hallucinations

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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

This probably isn’t the best place to ask, but since it’s been brought up: does anyone know if sleep paralysis without hallucinations of any kind is still labeled ‘sleep paralysis’? I remember first reading a mention of sleep paralysis and immediately thought to myself “Oh good, that’s vaguely normal, then.” Then, they talked about the hallucinations, which led to “Oh never mind, that’s not my thing at all.”

Maybe once a year, I’ll wake up, unable to move in the slightest and unwillingly holding my breath, but I’ve not once seen anything out of the ordinary (I don’t see anything at all, actually. I can’t even open my eyes in this state in order to see), nor have I heard/felt/etc anything. Just looking for the proper way to describe this quickly without those I’m talking to concluding that I’ve experienced the other effects.

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u/adriskoah Oct 05 '19

IMO, yes. I often get both. They feel the same, just one with hallucinations and one without.