u/Glum_Cheetah_3447

there will be times where i will wake up into sleep paralysis, eventually be able to force myself out of the paralysis out of fear, and then after i’ve forced myself to snap out of it, i will still be unable to move much at all. during all of this, i will experience VERY intense fatigue. like to the point i still can’t move or wake myself up enough to even move into a different position.

eventually i will be dragged back into sleep, and then sleep paralysis will IMMEDIATELY happen again. so again i will try to wiggle myself awake (even though i’m not actually moving, just TRYING to move), i will again be extremely fatigued (almost like i’m drugged it’s so bad), i’ll then be unable to move enough to ACTUALLY wake up, fall asleep, and finally fall into a sleep paralysis. this is how the cycle starts. it happens exactly this way, every time.

different hallucinations every time.

this process will happen multiple times until an outside force (person, my dog, a loud noise, or getting enough sleep until i can wake up) causes me to snap back to awake.

the symptoms i experience happen while i’m in waking: the extreme fatigue, the paralysis, the fear, they all happen within maybe 30 seconds or less? i just am kind of stuck in a cycle of sleep paralysis because i CANNOT move even when it’s over, and i cannot wake myself up. i will be too exhausted to move or keep my eyes open.

does anyone else experience this?? it’s terrifying when it happens because i have no control. it doesn’t happen that often luckily, but have been having it happen more in the last couple years than i ever have before.

anyways… please let me know if y’all experience this and if you maybe have an explanation for it?

there will be times where i’ll have my eyes closed laying in bed, sometimes i’ll have an eye mask on (doesn’t matter), but then i’ll randomly feel a shift in my perception and i’ll feel kind of like a CUBE? or like something around me is or I AM moving really fast or slow, even when i am not moving at all. or maybe i’m being thrown into the air and landing super hard and my perception will shake from the impact. nothing hurts at all; it’s literally just a feeling i get. it may also feel overwhelming and make me anxious.

it’s always really random, and doesn’t happen all the time. it will just happen, and it’s almost imperceptible it happens so “fast” or so slightly that it’s like “did that just happen?”

it just happened to me where i had my eye mask on, eyes closed but still awake and listening to something… then i felt it. i felt cubular? i asked my boyfriend “this won’t make sense, but do you ever feel like a cube?” and to my surprise, HE SAID YES. so i HAD to ask, and didn’t know where else or how else to put it. so there.

please let me know… and it doesn’t have to be a cube, it can be a circle, or you feel big or small, or fast or slow, or floaty or heavy, or like you don’t exist for a second. any weird perception shift that makes you not feel like the right thing, at the right pace, or in the right plane of existence or something.

small, not important edit: thank you guys so much for your answers. very enlightening. i hope to hear from more people about their experiences!