Hello everyone!

Cool thing I found out a few day ago, I suffer from sleep paralysis.Let me give the explanation by quoting from a health website...

"Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. Sleep paralysis usually occurs at one of two times. If it occurs while you are falling asleep, it's called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. If it happens as you are waking up, it's called hypnopompic or postdormital sleep paralysis.During sleep, your body alternates between REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep. One cycle of REM and NREM sleep lasts about 90 minutes. NREM sleep occurs first and takes up to 75% of your overall sleep time. During NREM sleep, your body relaxes and restores itself. At the end of NREM, your sleep shifts to REM. Your eyes move quickly and dreams occur, but the rest of your body remains very relaxed. Your muscles are "turned off" during REM sleep. If you become aware before the REM cycle has finished, you may notice that you cannot move or speak."

So there it is.When talking to my family about it in earlier years it was just reffered to as "deep sleep" 'cause we didn't know what it was.I'm glad I actually know what it's called now.Thinking back I've had it since I was about 10, but I never really talked about it because it freaked me out back then.When I was younger I couln'd breathe when it happened and I was always scared, but it started happening less until about four years ago (teen years, you sleep to little and play too many computer or ps2 games ). But now I just relax when it happens and it goes away most of the time.The only other way I can get out of SP is to jurk my head to the side very quickly.I'm not quite sure why it help but ohwell.

It usually happens when I have a nap in the afternoon or if I'm very tired (been happening everyday for the last 11 days). Most likely from just being tired.

Well that's about it, just wanted to share some info (and also get my previous journal out of the way)

Have a good day