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get the red out

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5. I experienced it quite a bit as a child

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2019, 02:39 PM

May 2019

I would wake up frozen, having trouble breathing, and trying to yell for my parents but couldn't get a sound out. That was just AWFUL!

I have only had that experience a handful of times since childhood. I have depression rather than bi-polar, but have never known what caused these experiences.

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Sleep Paralysis [View all] Tobin S. May 2019 OP

It is also the reason for most alien visitations and abductions that are reported Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #1

I have experienced this couple of times during my life, that and lucid dreaming once or twice... Thomas Hurt May 2019 #2

also astral projection still_one May 2019 #3

naw, I have never left my body, just didn't like how the dream was going, so I changed it. Thomas Hurt May 2019 #4

I have done that too in this state, or thought I was. Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #9

same here still_one May 2019 #11

all my dreams are lucid. unblock May 2019 #7

I experienced it quite a bit as a child get the red out May 2019 #5

i have had it a number of times in my life, though not recently. unblock May 2019 #6

Could you have a sleep study? JustAnotherGen May 2019 #8

In my case I saw things that werent there, heard things. Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #10

Aliens, aliens, aliens JustAnotherGen May 2019 #12

For real, think about it. During this state have you seen or heard things that arent there? Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #13

Seriously JustAnotherGen May 2019 #14

that is why I dont bother with alien abduction stories usually, unless they are loggers Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #15

2nd rec for a sleep study. mopinko May 2019 #16

I'm not sure if I can attribute my own "very tangled brain" to dysfunctional grandparents... hunter May 2019 #17