Submitted 1 day ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
I mean like, detects your brainwaves and shakes you awake if it detects you are awake but unable to move.
Like I can still slightly move my fingers during sleep paralysis, is there a way to use my tiny bit of control to activate a button, which then triggers a device that shakes me awake? 😆
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Idk I keep getting sleep paralysis every night, feels so weird.
In addition to what other people have said, it can also be caused by having an irregular sleep schedule and stress. Working on those things might help it go away.
stress
Politically-induced stress aint going away until Jan 20, 2029, at the earliest… 🤷♂️ So I’m f’ed basically…
If you live someplace where weed is legal, eat a quarter to an eighth of a gummy. Not enough to feel any sort of high, but it really worked well for me for work related stress.
My fiancée has learned the signs of my sleep paralysis episodes. She’ll notice my body I’m twitching and it’ll wake her up. Sometimes I can even manage to get some grunts out.
Originally she would wake up and kind of gently comfort me, and try to wake me up. Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Cat energy
CPAP
You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.
Get examined. Narcolepsy is a terrible thing. My friend couldn’t work late as she’d be prone to hallucination while driving. She’s better now with a good drug regimen and awareness but she reports being very frightened for a while.
It’s my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain “switches off” the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don’t come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn’t been switched back on.
I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.
This sounds medical, better to ask an MD about the syndrome.
I get sleepy paralysis what works for me is attempting to activate a large set of muscles repeatedly with great force. Like trying to kick my legs up and down really fast. My theory is that this process starts to signal to my brain that it’s not time for sleepy chemicals anymore and each attempted movements brings be closer to being awake
Find a button up pajama shirt with a chest pocket, and sew a tennis ball (or something similar sized/shaped) into it. Can’t have sleep paralysis of you can’t sleep on your back.
Try to take deep breaths. If it's low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.
Alternative if your brain/body won't allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.
The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you're in an altered state of consciousness.
Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.
Remember that guide to not take medical advice from Internet strangers? This is one of those examples.
Seriously, Talk to your doctor.
First of all, get a sleep study done. Sleep paralysis can be a sign of underlying sleeping disorders such as apnea, which is incredibly unhealthy if untreated.
If you study checks out clean and you’re still looking for a way to manipulate something with your fingers then the only thing I can think of that you’d be able to DIY is some kind of Arduino-type button thingamajig that you could strap to a finger that sends a wireless signal to some kind of alarm in the room.
A D1 mini is small, cheap, and easy to configure. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you’ll need to do some homework and learn some stuff, but as far as projects go it’s pretty simple to set up. Hardest part would likely be rigging something that you could use that doesn’t get triggered inadvertently. Cockpit style toggle switch with a cover, maybe? Lol.
I know it’s not exactly what you’re after, but have you tried holding your breath or a few rounds of trying to breathe sharply?
YMMV but I find I can break out pretty easily.
Chiming in with my own sleep paralysis tip – I can usually control my breath enough that I force myself to snore, which is usually loud enough to wake me up
You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.
The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.
But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.
Prazosin helps me there. Also helps nightmares and night terrors which is why it was prescribed for me.
Do you sleep on your back? AFAIK sleep paralysis is more common for back sleepers.
Idk I kinda roll around lmao
The reason you can’t move is because you’re still actually asleep. What works for me is continually trying to jolt myself awake
If I’m still asleep, why do I see what’s around me? Am I hallucinating?
You know you’re in your bed, and so that’s what your brain puts you in. You’re close enough to awake that you have awareness you don’t usually have while asleep, but the muscle blocking your brain does to stop you actually moving your body when you move in your dreams is still active. It’s a weird kind of hybrid state.
I used to get sleep paralysis all the time. For me it was because I was sleeping on my back which (according to some shit I read online a very long time ago) makes sleep paralysis more likely to occur. Haven’t had any issues since I started forcing myself to sleep on my side only.
that happens to me to, only on the back, and only when im exhausted from the prior day. theres also the paralysis demon dream.
I cant see my demon but I can sense it, just out of sight. I’m not sure which is worse.
You mean the witches that appear over th bed dream
Not that I know of. When I had sleep paralysis every night it was because I was sleeping on my back under a heated blanket on a futon. Changing that reduced the sleep paralysis. Finding your personal triggers is helpful. I mostly get it these days if I'm abruptly woken up and then fall immediately back to sleep. Try messing with how you're sleeping, or look up suggestions on how to break out of it? On the rare occasion I still get it, I know how to break out because of that unfortunate period of time when I got to experiment every night.
I wonder if an alarm like you're suggesting would just make regular alarm noises. That'd probably work. The one time an episode itself made me break out of it, I thought I heard my mother screaming in the kitchen, in a way that made me think she'd chopped off a finger. I immediately leapt out of bed and ran there, like, "are you okay???" thinking she'd be bleeding out. She looked at me and asked the same question, since she'd been minding her own business and suddenly i yelled and ran in. Alarm that makes a blood curdling scream, anyone?
I just go back to sleep and usually the next time I wake up, so does my body.
Try listening to something that you can settle in with and that helps you focus less on your body and just silence.
i only get sleep paralysis from sleeping on my back, never on my sides. somehow on yuor back it puts in a more “relaxed” state. and usually only when i was tired the day before.
nothing cheap
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No advice for you OP, I just try and ride it out. I try breathing as erratic as I can to get my wife to wake me but it never works.
I do have a question though : did you see the witch? Ive had all sorts of half-dreams but never met her yet, I’m kinda scared cause she appears in so many people’s accounts of sleep paralysis.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No, there is no cool looking monster, I’m just alone and can’t move. Borrring. Its more like psychological horror. Like imagine there bing a ghost or something, that you can’t see but seemingly (psychologically) feel the presence of in your mind. And you also can’t run, since you can’t move. Way more creepy IMO.