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Place withheld · 2010-07-28 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

Paralysis

My sleep schedule's been really fucked up lately. like i will go to bed at 4 and wake up at 10 and go to bed at 4 again. so when i came home last night i was so exhausted, i was out about 10 seconds after i hit the sack. ... and woke up naturally at 3am. What the hell?? I would shorted myself maybe 20 hours of sleep that week and all i get is 5 fucking hours? Anyway, after having hobbled around the house for like an hour I went back to bed, and in my half-dream I was at a checkout counter with my mom, and suddenly I felt my whole body going numb one limb at a time. So I said "mom I am fainting, help". Guess what she did? All she said was "oh ok", aloof and a little patronizing, and then she went back to paying the cashier. I remember thinking, "bitch, i am fuckin fainting i am going to fall, why do not you do anything" (not really, i do not talk to my mom that way unless i am PMDD'ing.no, not really.) and in my heated frustration I awoke. At first I thought, "shit, not again, I just want to sleep." and then I realized, the sensation I had just experienced was... <PERSON>,, SLEEP PARALYSIS. And after that all I had to do was lay still for 30 seconds and it would happen again. and again. and again, maybe a dozen times, and each time i would get so excited and bothered that the SP was not even able to progress to completion. In short, it never happened. Finally I got so fed up that I was just like, hey, fuck it, I got to sleep. So i did. FIN

What stood out: paralysis

 

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2011-06-08

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2010-10-11

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