I sometimes suffer from sleep paralysis.
I wake up, but my body is paralyzed and I’m still dreaming. The dreams are more like hallucinations and feel incredibly real.
I panic, so I try my best to call out for help. That part is embarassing when I stay over at friends places and I wake them up with my “heeeeelp meeeee” wails.
How do I prevent sleep paralysys from happening? Is there a way to snap out of it?
Try to lie awake and let it pass. When you become coherent, what you are you going to say to yourself to ground you: “I am at such-with-such, I am with so-and-so, I am okay.”
Some medications make that happen. What meds are you on?
Invega, seroquel, esomeprazole, metformin
I don’t think any of those cause that but maybe for you it’s a rare reaction to either the Seroquel or Invega.
Zyprexa and klonopin helped stopped it for me, and then it started when I went on Invega. Then I didn’t sleep period. I went on Depakote, and actually felt my brain exposed and spattered all over my bed, and heard flies around me ( I thought i was dead). Then as I kept taking all the meds every day, and my pdoc told me to take klonopin every night (not for that reason), it went away. I have to sleep in complete darkness with amazon Alexa sleep sounds or I cant sleep and get sleep paralysis too. I used to get it close to every night from the age of 16-22. I had my fair share of demons…
When i was on seroquel I used to get sleep paralysis. I’ve never had it again since stopping it and switching to paliperidone. It could be that. I used to have crazy dreams too.
İ m getting sleep paralsis but not common. Usually i get when i sleep under daylight. Try to sleep at nights. İm on invega also but i don t think its about medicines.
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