This is what it feels like to have recurrent sleep paralysis.
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link does not work for me but i used to have real bad sleep paralysis! plus i was grinding my teeth at the same time so i got to learn what it feels like to grind your teeth but also be paralyzed and unable to stop. felt like my teeth were exploding
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Weird! Does this work: uncertainkind.substack.com/p/on-sleep-par
That's FASCINATING. Did you just gradually come out of it? That teeth thing is so relateable eeeek
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yep, that link works! and hooooly crap this is wild. my sleep paralysis hallucinations pretty much always involve specific people i know; the worst one i used to get was this ringing voice of my dad yelling at me. these days when i get them they're often benign though
once i hallucinated a friend lying on top of me but like in a friendly way, it was kinda fun. it's super interesting to me that you get unfamiliar entities. i guess once they show up once they show up more easily forever...
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and yeah i just gradually came out of it over the course of a few years, didn't really do anything on purpose. gradually improving my sleep hygiene was good and getting a better handle on my feelings was probably good too
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