apnoeia?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:24, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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)