I could not wake up, move and heard footsteps nearby. I share a way to get out of sleep paralysis

Hello. Today I want to write about hell in reality - such a phenomenon as sleep paralysis. People familiar with this strange brain game will never forget these sensations. I was surprised that some, for the sake of interest, try to deliberately enter a frightening state for months.

What is sleep paralysis?

Psychics claim that the boundaries between the worlds are blurred as if in sleep paralysis.

Folk signs say: the tricks of brownies and spirits, unambiguously.

Doctors say that the strange condition is the result of overwork and malfunctioning of the nervous system.

I tend to believe the latter. I am a "lucky woman" who is sleep-paralyzed from adolescence. And in the phenomenon there are no brownies, no astral, no portal to another dimension. Only panic and a desire to wake up. Although, I confess, over time, I began to treat such "dreams" with interest.

Here we go again

It is the desire to wake up and move with the impossibility of doing this - the "beauty" of sleep paralysis. The brain realizes that you are sleeping. You try to roll over on your side, it seems that you have succeeded, and then with chagrin you realize: nothing comes of it. No matter how hard you try to scream in order to call for help, at best a lowing comes out. The nightmare seems endless.

But there are worse things. For example, it seems that it is difficult to breathe and someone presses on your chest. By the way, it is from here that the legs of stories about brownies strangling the inhabitants of the house grow. Some sufferers manage to open their eyes, and they also see "glitches" in the form of shadows. Fortunately, I can only hear them.

The other day I was tired at work, slept a little during the day, and lay down on my stomach at midnight to sleep on. I am recovering from ultrasound in my ears. "This bullshit again!" By the way, when this fate visited me for the first time, I didn’t hear anything about sleep paralysis and did a great job.

I feel that a cat purrs under my noses, and even tickles the nose with fur, not allowing me to breathe normally. But I know, the animal is on the street. You have to wake up, otherwise the light show will begin. So, Katya, the main thing is not to panic!

I lie, waiting for what will happen next. So, the "cat" ran away. But walking began nearby. Someone is stomping on the floor, right next to the bed. Yeah, and knocks in the closet are not clear. Attempts to wake up are in vain.

"Katya, calm down! It's over now, you will have some tea and continue to sleep! " Timid attempts to escape from the captivity of the nightmare end with a return to it. The brain convulsively goes over the ways to get out of sleep paralysis and remembers one trick that worked before.

You just have to try to touch your thumbnail with your little finger. On the third try I succeeded and, hurray, I woke up sweating. And now they turned over on their side and sleep on: sleep paralysis never occurs in those who sleep on their side. Only on those sleeping on the back, less often on the stomach.

Have you had the honor to face such a condition? How do you get out of it? Share, comrades!