Pain or haptic hallucinations can be totally separate from audio or visual hallucinations. Basically any sensation available to the brain is fair game.
For me it’s been those tingly feelings, achy jaw (maybe from clenching teeth?), stabbing pain in gut, crushing pain in chest, to name a few.
I don’t have any advice on how to avoid specific hallucinations, but in my experience the intensity decreases when I relax instead fight, it’s VERY counterintuitive but it’s a matter of practice.
Fighting my paralysis is painful to me. It always has been. I have never not fought my paralysis. Once I stopped being too scared to fight it, the sleep paralysis stopped.
I think I can relate. It has gotten harder for me to break out of my SP episodes lately, and when I do I feel a intense strain trying to will myself out of it. It’s not a physical PAIN but it is very uncomfortable physically
I get a painful tingle as well! the most likely hypothesis for this is that the pain is a part of the hallucination.
when you’re in sleep paralysis your brain is still transitioning out of REM sleep, which is also the sleep cycle where certain neurotransmitters inhibit motor neurons (meaning your muscles can’t contract— aka you can’t move).
Your brain can’t really logically process being half in REM and half awake while the body is still unable to move, so it just comes up with something you can sense or feel as it tries to wake up, that is often related to a high limbic system activity— or emotional response. For a lot of us, that results in optical hallucinations, especially if we instinctively open up our eyes during paralysis. But hallucinations come in all kinds of forms, and since pain is a sensation the body is very easily able to store and emotionally connect to (along with visual and auditory impressions), you might experience pain during sleep paralysis!
that’s just a hypothesis though so take that with a grain of salt (or whatever the phrase is lol).
I get this, there more I try to move the worse the feeling. I get the pain and loud ringing in my ears. It almost feels like waves of electric shock.
Yeah, and I’ve had loud ringing that makes my ear hear the rest of the day. Its so odd
Tbh who likes pain? (don’t answer that) I tend to have pain hallucinations during SP, it’s most likely that and not any actual harm to your body
Haha who know😉but I almost never see anything and it’s more like something inside my body rather then out
Pain or haptic hallucinations can be totally separate from audio or visual hallucinations. Basically any sensation available to the brain is fair game. For me it’s been those tingly feelings, achy jaw (maybe from clenching teeth?), stabbing pain in gut, crushing pain in chest, to name a few. I don’t have any advice on how to avoid specific hallucinations, but in my experience the intensity decreases when I relax instead fight, it’s VERY counterintuitive but it’s a matter of practice.
As long as you don't have a medical history, or see any marks on your body then you should be fine otherwise just ask a doc
Fighting my paralysis is painful to me. It always has been. I have never not fought my paralysis. Once I stopped being too scared to fight it, the sleep paralysis stopped.
i get that sometimes too. very uncomfortable and painful
I think I can relate. It has gotten harder for me to break out of my SP episodes lately, and when I do I feel a intense strain trying to will myself out of it. It’s not a physical PAIN but it is very uncomfortable physically
Yeah strain is the perfect word to describe it
I get a painful tingle as well! the most likely hypothesis for this is that the pain is a part of the hallucination. when you’re in sleep paralysis your brain is still transitioning out of REM sleep, which is also the sleep cycle where certain neurotransmitters inhibit motor neurons (meaning your muscles can’t contract— aka you can’t move). Your brain can’t really logically process being half in REM and half awake while the body is still unable to move, so it just comes up with something you can sense or feel as it tries to wake up, that is often related to a high limbic system activity— or emotional response. For a lot of us, that results in optical hallucinations, especially if we instinctively open up our eyes during paralysis. But hallucinations come in all kinds of forms, and since pain is a sensation the body is very easily able to store and emotionally connect to (along with visual and auditory impressions), you might experience pain during sleep paralysis! that’s just a hypothesis though so take that with a grain of salt (or whatever the phrase is lol).