[jon boy]

on a regular basis and i have no idea why. i go to bed as normal and wake up in the kitchen, on the couch, in chairs. its starting to make me feel really weird and my wife is making sure that i dont try and go outside or something. anyone else do this? i did it a few times when i was younger and sometimes through my teens and twenties but never like this.

maybe i should film it but i am scared it will look like something out of the 4th kind.

[static-harmony]

Actually I sleep walk every now and then. I have fallen asleep in my room and woken up in the living room.

[nicfit]

If I were you I'd definitely tape the "event" (both audio and video).
Perhaps it could help understanding what for/when/how the thing triggers.
I won't ask you to up the vids on youtube.
I promise.
I'd be shitless scared of my actions if I knew I'd been sleepwalking.

[knox]

now you ask your wife to youtube it and you might get a few well paid tv interviews.

i think generally people sleepwalk more when they are tense.

[SONIC GAIL]

only when I've taken too many pills

[ni'k]

one time i woke up under the bridge in the trees beside the motorway, topless, in the foetal position clutching an empty bottle, with no memory of how i got there. does that count?

[SONIC GAIL]

BLack Out

[ni'k]

i would hope so, altho i can't distinctly remember any alcohol, which is rather worrying.

the bottle was just one of those sprite bottles you get in bars, not booze.

anyway, jonboy it's just you have a demon inside you who can only take over control of your nervous system when you are asleep and defenseless, we need to do an exorcism. or you could try sitting in a darkened room listening to every melvins album consecutively, that would scare it away.

[SONIC GAIL]

Roofies?

[ni'k]

if only

[SONIC GAIL]

You gotta becareful that's really scary

[[Sandbag]]

I once woke up in the kitchen, when I was younger...

I have this thing, it's like you're dreaming, and you wake up, and you open your eyes, but you cannot move at all.. is like part of yourself is still in the dream.

[EVOLghost]

^ is that like when you wake up instantly from a lucid dream?

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by [Sandbag]

I once woke up in the kitchen, when I was younger...

I have this thing, it's like you're dreaming, and you wake up, and you open your eyes, but you cannot move at all.. is like part of yourself is still in the dream.

that's called sleep paralysis. almost everyone gets it, but most of the time you don't remember it. i went thru a period were it happened almost nightly with auditory hallucinations and things in the room.

some people have ones were there is a person or light or something in the room with them or sitting on their chest. in the middle ages it was at times attributed to succubi, and more recently has been suggested as the real cause of some people's claims about alien abductions.

back when i was getting extreme bouts of it it could happen maybe 5-6 times in one night, but eventually i'd be able to break free of it by slowly forcing myself to move a finger, and then another until i got back up and broke out of it, but as soon as i would lay down again it would happen.

what i find fascinating is that such freaky shit like this happens to so many of us but we don't even talk about it to each other.

[dale_gribble]

i only sleep murder, i wake up with my hands covered in blood and semen...

[Lurker]

There have been a few occasions when I've had waking dreams but never with paralysis.

[radarmaker]

I woke up last Sunday to discover that either a) someone had broken into my flat, eaten half a peshwari naan and the remains of box of chocolates and then pissed in my laundry basket, or b) I had done all of the above whilst asleep.

Curious. It's really not my usual style.

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by ni'k

that's called sleep paralysis. almost everyone gets it, but most of the time you don't remember it. i went thru a period were it happened almost nightly with auditory hallucinations and things in the room.

some people have ones were there is a person or light or something in the room with them or sitting on their chest. in the middle ages it was at times attributed to succubi, and more recently has been suggested as the real cause of some people's claims about alien abductions.

back when i was getting extreme bouts of it it could happen maybe 5-6 times in one night, but eventually i'd be able to break free of it by slowly forcing myself to move a finger, and then another until i got back up and broke out of it, but as soon as i would lay down again it would happen.

what i find fascinating is that such freaky shit like this happens to so many of us but we don't even talk about it to each other.

excellent case-study. high marks for detailed account.

sleep paralysis is an extreme form of more common hypnagogic hallucinations. it has only recently been linked to a condition where certain reuptake systems fail, causing the normal body-paralysis that is experienced during REM to continue, despite waking.

were you taking opiates or prescribed SSRIs at the time?

please enjoy faux-rep. my first attempt failed.

[static-harmony]

I actually have had sleep paralysis, but it only had happened after the intake of MDMA.

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

excellent case-study. high marks for detailed account.

sleep paralysis is an extreme form of more common hypnagogic hallucinations. it has only recently been linked to a condition where certain reuptake systems fail, causing the normal body-paralysis that is experienced during REM to continue, despite waking.

were you taking opiates or prescribed SSRIs at the time?

please enjoy faux-rep. my first attempt failed.

i can remember a few when i was on ssri's but it only got extreme after i was off them. no opitates altho alcohol, weed, lsd and very dodgy ecstacy where all being taken at the time.

i don't have anyway to describe the utter intensity that these reached towards the end. there were some were i would literally be submerged in an orchestra of screaming noises, voices and sounds from every inch of the room around me, as if there were about 25 speakers placed around my head each playing something different. of course when it happens it's difficult to remember it afterwards, and while it is happening you are in a state so close to sleep that it can be difficult, if not impossible to be fully concioussly aware of it, as soon as you do you tend to break out of it.

i know of k heads who report having it, so i'm assuming it can be brought on drug use.

i have not had any since then and have been off drugs which seems to have put a stop to it.