Anyone know if it’s possible to have partial sleep paralysis?
Last night I woke up multiple times, each time with my right arm being paralyzed. I could not move it, so I lifted it up and down with my left hand ~ this was kind of funny to me but at the same time a little worrying. The last time I woke up from it I tried to un-paralyze my right arm and it worked, so I went back to bed and now, of course my arm is fine… still, is this sleep paralysis or something else?
Juz this morning i was trying to get back to full sleep while i got a bunch of “mini” dreams i got a Partial SP where i could move but it was REALLY hard took like a minute or two to get full control again. Now i know what it feels like so i am more mentally prepared next time.
yes sometihmes we think dreams like they were real. Once i had a dream where i had SP but i realised it was a dream once i woke up so you may have been dreaming
Well it is possible it was a dream… but i’m so certain it was reality! I felt my arm in my hand, the weight of it falling… it is just too realistic compared to what i’ve experienced in a dream before.
About how I slept - my back was hurting heaps during the night so I kept waking up (which is when I noticed my arm being paralyzed). I’m sure it wasn’t a bad position that caused it… I slept on my back and either side, so they are good positions to sleep in posture-wise.
I’m going to assume at least one of the 5+ times was reality haha. Sigh… will I ever know what it was?!
Are you sure that your arm did not just “fall asleep” the usual way (by accidentally cutting off blood flow)? It has happened to me and I could not really move it as well.
Well I had no feeling in my arm what-so-ever, as if it wasn’t connected to my body. I was lying on my left side (on my left arm) most of the time or on my back, so it wouldn’t have gone to sleep like that as you suggest.
Perhaps it’s possible for a single body part to be paralyzed? Even though it is strange, perhaps it’s just uncommon.
As far I know, it’s fully possible to get partial SP. Wikipedia suports me:
As you said - It’s possible, but uncommon. In most of SP I had my body was getting into full SP part by part. Some people wakes up in full SP, it’s sometimes used to AP/OOBE. You could just wake up in partial one. Uncommon, but possible.
But it can be also like Ionflux wrote - feeling made by bad blood circulance is VERY simmilar to early SP.
Don’t you just love it when you wake up and you’ve been sleeping on your arm and you can’t move it for a while? And then slowly regain control. I think it’s really funny.
Why!?!? it sounds so fun to have no feeling in youir arm whatsoever! The closest ive ever gotten to that was when my leg fell asleep and when i stood up i almost fell down. Plus, now you know that it isn’t permanent or anything.
I’ve had this before, also with my right arm. It’s probably just sleeping on your arm in a way so that it cuts off the circulation, like people have said before. I only wake up with a paralyzed arm if I had been sleeping either on top of it or it being on top of my head like I was trying to use it for a pillow, but my head rolled off in mid-sleep. It’s fun!
This morning, I had SP, and was moving my left arm (felt really stiff but I eventually managed to move it). I was completely sure it was real. But when I woke up and thought about it I realised that whilst in SP, I was wearing a different set of pyjamas.
EDIT: I misread your post, oops. What you described happens when you cut off the circulation (usually by lying on your arm)
It’s true that I probably cut off my blood flow to my arm, although I find it strange because I was lying on the opposite side. I suppose there is no real way of knowing how I was sleeping all of the time though.
Hey sorry to interrupt, but I once woke up in the middle of the night and my hand was all weird, it felt really weird, paralysed, and I could move it, but if I relaxed it would move back into its original position, at a right angle to my forearm. Was this sleep paralysis that carried on when I woke up? After movingmy hand aorund for a bit it loosened up and started going back to normal.
That sounds closely related to my situtation, yet remember I had no control, you had control it just moved strangely… hmm… I don’t know why it would do that?
@Li10
It could be both SP and problems with blood flow. But You could move it, so it propably was a problems with circulation. I could be wrong, trough.
I only wake up with a paralyzed arm if I had been sleeping either on top of it or it being on top of my head like I was trying to use it for a pillow, but my head rolled off in mid-sleep. It’s fun!