Have you ever, woken up to the horror of being temporarily paralysed and unable to shout for help?
I should say that in my own experiences, I can't move any part of my body without a great deal of effort, other than my eyes, and also can't speak.
If I persevere long enough, I can eventually move something, which leads to rest of my body 'waking up', so to speak.
But I have to keep moving or run the risk of it washing back over me, and it's difficult because it's a comfortable feeling that's hard to resist. Almost like you're slipping back into a great sleep but as you give in to it, the terror builds, as does the paralysis.
Is this an experience you can relate to? If so, have you ever been given a satisfactory explanation as to what it is?
I've been given around three different medical diagnoses of what doctors think:
One is Epilepsy (which I don't have).
The second diagnosis was something called Night Terrors; given without much of an explanation as to what this is, or of why it's happening, at least nothing that seems to correlate to myself.
And the other is called Sleep Paralysis
On being given the third diagnosis, I felt that doctors were just guessing.
Can any readers cast some light on this?
