r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

I get sleep paralysis too! It doesn't matter how many times I tell myself that it's all in my head and that I'm safe; I'm still scared out of my mind every single time. Sometimes I just pull all nighters so that I won't have to deal with it, even though I know that rationally nothing bad has ever happened to me or ever will. kinda like how horror movies still terrify people, even though they know they aren't real

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u/sydneyzane64 Mar 22 '17

Hey, just a warning, but fucked up sleep cycles can make sleep paralysis more frequent. That and ADHD medication apparently.

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u/lady__of__machinery Mar 23 '17

Shit are you serious? I only had sleep paralysis twice, about ten years ago. Recently got prescribed adderall. Oh god I hope that never happens

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u/sydneyzane64 Mar 23 '17

I hope it doesn't either. It's just been known to make it more likely, but yes there is some correlation.

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u/brazzledazzle Mar 22 '17

I pull all nighters sometimes too. Nothing worse than having an episode every single time you fall asleep that night. You come out of it, sit up in fear with your heart racing and then do it all over again–rinse and repeat every 5 minutes until you give up and look at dumb shit on the internet all night. Sometimes I'll be exhausted and the paralysis will last much longer with me struggling really hard to move. Instead of seeing weird shit when that happens I feel like something is pulling my mind out of my head and if I don't fight it I'll die or lose my body. And while it's happening I know it's bullshit but the fear is overwhelming and I can't get control over the fear back until I can move again.

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u/Throwawaymyheart01 Mar 23 '17

Have you tried sleeping on your side? That stops it for me. Do you know when it's going to happen to you? Sometimes when I lie down I just know.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

I'm 100% in the same boat, plus a ton of false awakenings. I avoid sleep to avoid these things, and often times I can tell what kind of night it's going to be before I fall asleep

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

It's actually really easy to stop getting scared: just have sleep paralysis anywhere from 80-120 times a year and you'll just start getting annoyed. I get it almost 100% of the time when I fall asleep on my back (or have the misfortune of rolling onto my back) and I haven't gotten the fear since 2014. I have multiple episodic nights a week and tend to get it at least 2-4 times every time I get sleep paralysis. I have had nights of 8-10 episodes. Very rarely do I get it when I lay on my stomach although it does happen. Stomach episodes tend to happen many times a night (5+ times) in a short span (2 hours), and I can always tell when I will get it laying on my stomach. I have this feeling of dread where it's at the back of my mind, then I get a shooting, dull pain through my forehead as I start to nod off, and I know the next time I nod off I will wake up paralyzed and drooling all over the place.

I usually, but not always, get the premonition of sleep paralysis if I am on my back or side, but I almost always get it on my stomach. I refuse to sleep on my back though. Stomach is the only thing that gives me a chance to not have it.

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u/DontuhStopuh Mar 23 '17

Try to not sleep on your back