I'm sure I've already told you all the one about the guitar made of mango
But I do remember having a particularly weird one when I was but a very young crowlet: For some reason, the muscles in my eyelids had severly atrophied, to the point at which I had to hold my eyes open with my fingers if I wanted to see anything. This led to a sort of "Day in the Life" montage where I followed my family round the house, into town, etc., desperately trying to hold my eyelids open to see where I was going. And of course, I tried harder and harder to get my eyes to open under their own muscle power, and eventually I got it! I managed to open them. And I opened my eyes wide...and woke up.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I hate paralysis dreams
I get those because I have apnoeia.
Oh my god, poor djtp, every day he finds out something more disturbing about me on here.
I should shut up.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)

apnoeia?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Where you kind of snore or your throat closes over and you're not getting enough oxygen
and it gives you trippy dreams and then you wake up unable to move and all spaced out and still tired
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

that's odd
might explain my dreams I guess, plus the feeling of needing an inhaler sometimes if I wake up despite not having an asthma attack. And the paralysis in the mornings- like a few seconds of not being able to move? Quite terrifying?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

I bet you have it
There's a physical type and a neurological type (which is more dangerous, because their brains literally forget to breathe while they're asleep)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

that sounds terrifying
(the neurological one). Mind you I read somewhere that you know when you're feeling like you're falling, so you scrabble with your hands/feet, then realise you're not exactly moving, that it's your heart skipping or adding a beat
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)

That can't be true
Because it happens to me almost every night, and now you're scaring me a lot
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)

don't be scared
I just read it somewhere, and I have it every night myself :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

Good, ok
Because I quite like them, when you think you're running and step on something, and think you're going to fall, and do that little jump. I wake up and laugh at myself every time.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

I was wrong anyway
did a quick google, apparantly they're called hypnic jerks, and are just a bunch of synapses firing in an odd way
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:53, Reply)

I thought so
I think I read somewhere that is like residual energy left in your nerves, that make you jump (FFS, I'm crap at explaining these things, I need to learn a lot more of vocabulary)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Sometimes I forget to breathe when I'm concentrating on something
like a very interesting film, and I find myself lacking oxygen and breathing strongly to get it back.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

you should get one of them reminder tattoos
like BGB has
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:41, Reply)

Hahaha
Maybe I need an alarm, every few seconds, to remind me to do it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

It's basically where
you stop breathing in your sleep.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

he'll be ticking another one off his list
"if it gets to 100 I'm outta here"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I'm surprised he hasn't yet

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

he's probably nearly there
she got 99 problems....
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Hahahhaha
HIT MEH!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

I get those
But I don't have apnoeia, as far as I know. My father used to say it was because I felt I wasn't doing enough with my life, and I was like in a prision. To be fair with him, now that I'm happy, happy, I've stopped having them.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:34, Reply)

I often have similar dreams
Where my vision gets really bad, and I have to strain to be able to see anything. I then wake up, because I've opened my eyes.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I hate that
I always dream that I can't see properly, it drives me mad. I got Wiggy to look it up for me on one of those dream explanation sites to see what it might mean and Wiggy said "it means your eyesight is bad".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Nice one Wiggy!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

mango is shit and dull and I hate him

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)