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Unidentified Hacker,
Hmm, that explains a series of dreams that I had in my early twenties. I dreamt that I woke up in my room, but was oppressed by a weight pressing me down, a malevolent force. I fought with all my strength to sit up and eventually sat up, then began floating around the ceiling, I willed my limp arm to reach for the string to turn on the light, at which point, I was able to speak (my voice had been paralyzed, too). I usually recited a piece of the 23rd psalm (unusal for me, as I was not Christian), or shouted a friend's name or called for help. At that point, I was released, I fell in a heap to the floor and woke up (exhausted and terrified).
The dreams morphed over the next ten years until I was standing and fighting with a lamp to come on (it wouldn't), but I had more control.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 18, 2005 at 8:10 PM
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My friend has sleep paralysis....she has this stuff going on.
I don't have it, but the brain injury mimics some of those things....I get too much REM sleep (which is what sleep paralysis in, in part I understand). My dreams keep going when I'm awake, in essense. I open my eyes and the dreams goes on. But, as far as spirits, etc....I don't believe that is a hallucination. That's when they come to us, just before or after sleep. That's what I'm told anyway. They knock on my damn window. ;) I'm so far behind on reading, I didn't realize how long you'd been gone. You okay...?
posted by
Temple
on October 18, 2005 at 5:35 AM
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Just checking in on you
We haven't heard from you in a bit. Let us know that you are still out there OK?
posted by
Bel_
on October 10, 2005 at 10:43 PM
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Hi Unidentified_Hacker
Hi, just letting you know that I also suffer from schizophrenia...no spiders though but still some voices. The meds have been helping me a lot but it took a while to get to the point where I'd take them. Have the meds been helping you? I hope to "see" you around. Good to know there's someone else on this site with schizophrenia.
posted by
Feline-kwk
on September 29, 2005 at 4:03 PM
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It sometimes happens to me too...only this morning I thought I was awake
and getting ready for work, then the phone rang and I really woke up. Awesome stuff!! But it was quite good 'cause I'm actually on holidays so didn't need to go to work today...
posted by
Rosi
on September 28, 2005 at 8:57 PM
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I have this happen on occasion
No spiders but I can hear things that aren't really there. Sometimes good other times, enough to wake me up and make me nervous.
posted by
Bel_
on September 27, 2005 at 10:40 PM
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Yup. We got that.
I just consider it "falling asleep" or "waking up." I thought it was just part of being tired and not quite awake or asleep. Thankfully no spiders ever. If that starts now, believe me, you will be informed! 
I think the classic example might be what everyone thinks of as dreaming they are already awake. Some of those seem awfully real and involve a lot of non visual hallucinations of a sort. Now you will tell me that's not the same probably, but it's maybe just the most mundane one - so mundane everyone accepts it. Oh and definitely the "hearing something when going to sleep." Ask my husband how many times I've bugged him. In my own defense, my 7 YO does it too! He insists he hears voices but we've narrowed that one down to the same thing - he's asleep or somewhere close to it.
(No honest, we aren't psychotic or schizophrenic, really! We no one has told me I am anyway. No I will not let you take over typing. Because I said so that's why. Sheesh. Where was I?) 
posted by
FactorFiction
on September 27, 2005 at 6:30 PM
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MiaElla
I just read your post today. Will wonders never cease, we must have been tuned to the same brain frequencies this morning =P
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on September 27, 2005 at 4:51 PM
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Ariala
I'm sort of here, but sort of not. I don't know how often I'll be writing for a while, but it's good to know I was missed =)
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on September 27, 2005 at 4:50 PM
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Unidentified_Hacker
yup...happens to me a lot
posted by
MiaElla
on September 27, 2005 at 4:22 PM
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I thought they called that lucid sleeping...either way, I've experienced it
a couple of times, but not lately...I hate it when it happens because it seems soooo real!
Glad to see you back...I wondered what happened. Just read your previous posts and caught up.
posted by
Ariala
on September 27, 2005 at 3:50 PM
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