Is what i’m experiencing even sleep paralysis or something different?
I’ll do my best to explain but I just had an all new sleep paralysis experience so i’m just gonna try to explain them all.
As a kid i had true sleep paralysis just once where i fully woke up in my own bedroom, no imagery, i just couldn’t see much and at the time had no idea what was happening to me.
I thought the sleep paralysis was done but its only just been recently that ive realized it never fully stopped it just happened differently where I will have sleep paralysis fully in a dream where sometimes im not even in the same room im in when i fell asleep or the dream will be so vivid that im seeing people and things that were never there, like a few months ago i woke up to have my roommate making fun of me for not being able to get out of sleep paralysis while im begging him to shake me and then when i wake up obviously hes not even there and never was.
whenever i do get sleep paralysis tho its like my body is lagging in a video game. i feel myself move and then i lag back to my original spot unchanged which i know means im not moving but through out the entire experience i am moving (like my arm or leg or head) and just going back to my original location every 2 seconds.
I also have these dreams where im super cognizant of my feelings in the real world. like i sleep with my face on my pillow and in these dreams i can feel what my face is feeling, it often comes with congested breathing and not being able to see out of one eye because obviously my face is half in the pillow.
well this morning i just woke up to an all new version of both of those at the same time because it seems i had sleep paralysis in a dream which i think i’ve done before but this time i didn’t wake up i woke up into the same dream and started freaking out because i could move again but the right side of my face was still numb (because i sleep on my stomach with half my face in the pillow) i think this is called a false awakening but honestly i have no clue.
All of this happens so frequently but the version i got today was a difference version/combo of all of it, i have had false awakenings before but only once maybe twice so the combo unsettled me a bit.
Is there anyone that can explain what types of dreams these are or why they might happen to me so frequently?