# I was paralyzed last night

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 28, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-paralyzed-last-night/236968 "2004-03-28T21:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Faucet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faucet)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-paralyzed-last-night/236968/21 "2004-03-29T20:21:21Z")

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Well Thank you all… after reading your experiences if I have another SP episode it will be a heck of a lot less scary. It was almost like I could have wrote anyone of those replies to my posts because yes I have thought “am I dead or what?” and I have heard voices and seen weird shapes during some of these episodes and that made it 10 times scarier than a normal one but atleast now it will not be quite as frightening after reading these experiences. Thanks for your responses and thanks for the informative link.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-paralyzed-last-night/236968/22 "2004-03-30T03:37:29Z")

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> [@Futile Gesture](#):
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> … In my experience it has nothing to do with not enough rest or stress. If anything the exact opposite; too much sleep; mind’s awake but body is still being lazy. …

might your experience be mostly from when you wake up? if not, then i’m wrong, otherwise that would be the opposite. when you are stressed and you’re pre-occupied, your sub-conscious takes over before your mind fall asleep. on the other hand, if you had too much sleep your mind wakes up while your body is still in sleep mode.\*

- IANAD!! ^^;

> [@JuanitaTech](#):
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> An M&Ms candy.

:smack:

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-paralyzed-last-night/236968/23 "2004-03-30T03:56:13Z")

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I suffer from this too, but only rarely. Even still, the very few times it has happened are enough to terrify me. I always fight out of it, and my heart will pound for half an hour afterwards from the adrenal rush. Typically, I will then stay up the rest of the night out of fear of it happening again, which has resulted in some days with less than 1 hour asleep.

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