Sleep Paralysis

[Lynnie]

Eek, that does sound pretty scary when you've never experienced it before, and then suddenly experience it twice. PBL has a good point with getting enough oxygen. Do you exercise? I don't experience total paralysis, but I do wake up sometimes finding a limb, usually an arm but sometimes an entire leg, fast asleep, and I can't feel it at all, and I have to use one of my other appendages to move it before it starts to tingle and wake up. That can be scary when I see my arm there, but I can't feel it at all, much less being able to move it. I'm sure it's due to poor circulation, and that's probably due to my not exercising as much as I use to. I'm wondering if maybe your problem is also a circulation problem, which would also include an oxygen problem. Maybe the blood is still circulating fine deep inside the body, like to all the organs, but not so well to the outside of the body, like the muscles and skin. Do you feel any tingling when you wake up, or does the feeling slowly just start coming back? Hmm, I'm curious about this too now... I'll try to do more research online.