# So I woke up this morning with a paralysed arm...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 19, 2001, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-woke-up-this-morning-with-a-paralysed-arm/58575 "2001-03-19T11:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doc\_Moss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Doc\_Moss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doc_Moss)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-woke-up-this-morning-with-a-paralysed-arm/58575/21 "2001-03-21T05:13:59Z")

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Thanks for the answers, guys.

BTW, when the condition occurs in my arm, I AM usually sleeping with them tucked under my pillow… probably should stop doing that.

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**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-woke-up-this-morning-with-a-paralysed-arm/58575/22 "2001-03-21T13:25:19Z")

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Well, the first time that happened to me I was in a mental hospital. No, really. It was an old converted TB Hospital and I was 15. (yes I was a wild child.)  
I woke up my second night there after having a nightmare about all the dead TB patients who may have died in that very room. I slid my left hand under the pillow and felt a cold hand! I pinched it and nothing so I grabed the hand and pulled REAL HARD! and ended up throwing my skinny ass onto the hard tile floor.

It still happens from time to time.

Osip

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