Forgetting to breathe during sleep
So I’m 19 and have some sort of falling asleep and waking up cycle that happens to me like very randomly. The first time it happened was when I was 14.. I fell asleep on my side and it felt like a few minutes had went by and then it’s like my mind was 40% awake and almost I was holding my breath or forgetting to breathe while I was sleeping and I couldn’t get myself to move or fully become conscious. I’m not sure if my mind was making it up or not but I was aware something was wrong and I needed to get up. it’s not like I jolted awake it was gradually over about 30 seconds until I would fully come to and it felt as if I had got up in the Knick of time before I ran out of breath or was gonna die. I wasn’t gasping for air or anything like that I would just be shook up a little. it happened for days in a row sometimes to the point where I was scared to fall asleep because it was happening multiple times in a row. It just happened to me recently again out of nowhere and lasted for like 2 nights and stopped. I can’t tell if it’s my mind playing tricks on me and I’m not actually forgetting to breathe but it is really scary. I keep seeing sleep apnea but I don’t snore or have any kind of issues of that sort..