Nested Night Terrors

😮😮😮. For the longest time I thought I would never run into someone else that had Sleep paralysis. In my case, I fell on my head pretty hard when I was 15... 2 months later the first episode happened. I had no idea what the hell was going on. I would see and hear stuff all the while trying to squirm out of it. After the first dozen times it happened, I started doing research. I thought I was suffering from a mild form of epilepsy but soon found out it was sleep paralysis. It hasn't happened in at least 8 months and was happening less frequently the older I got. I always hoped that every time it happened was the last. I never sleep on my back or stomach. The stomach was the worst for me because of the struggle to breath. It's such a scary condition. As long as I'm in the right position, I can use my full concentration to move my leg enough and get it to fall off the side of the bed. it usually brings me right out of it. My god I could go on for hours about this. Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you grow out of it as I seem to be doing. 💖

I come from a complete family of empaths. When my mom passed my sis dreamed of her giving her 3 roses, each for people who were going to die, Within a month all 3 died. I can literally see in between sleep and reality, kind of being half asleep but know what is happening. I used to wake up screaming too, i would see ghostlike apparitions coming through the half asleep state. This happens if I am stressed about something mostly. I hear it is my paternal grandma who comes to visit. I am her spitting image, For years i dreamed the same dream. Lost in th woods, caught in a horrible storm and stranded on a bridge over the ocean. Never fell in no matter how the storm raged, One night I found my way onto a long perfect road. I had overcome my dreams. Never had that dream again. I got sleep paralysis a couple times. I would repeat 'the lord is my shephad, i shall not want bible verse over and over'. We all have our own out of a situation. You are not alone, I rely on the bible to ward off whatever it is. I just open it to the Psalms and belief kills or cures. Choose your method. Your mind is the key.

What a coincidence- I only experience sleep paralysis while sleeping on my back, too. I'm able to consistently get out of it by wiggling my fingertips or toes first and gradually moving connected parts of my body until I'm not paralyzed anymore. I don't have night terrors, so I can't offer any better suggestions there, but making tiny movements until the rest of my body wakes up definitely helps with the sleep paralysis.

I never experienced sleeping paralysis, but I am empath and lucid dreaming is quite common for me.

This is excellent work and insightful ❤️‼️

I'm sorry you are going through this

I rarely dream, or if I do I don't remember them. After reading your account of them, I'm grateful for that. Interesting story, Ashley.

Oh man, I never knew that there was a word for nested dreams! As a little kid, I had a repetitive nested dream that tortured me almost every night for a few years. Thanks for sharing this info!

Nice, both very informative and personally relatable. Would it be mean if I say, don't let the bedbugs bite? Good job. :)

So sorry this happened to you. I’ve experienced something similar a few years ago and I’m so glad it’s over. Hope it never returns. ❤️

Crikey...apart from when the tornadoes started etc. I fully relate to the other stuff. I've had problems with sleep paralysis on and off most of my teen to adult life. When I was younger, back in the 90s didn't realise what it was. It just felt like, as you so vividly described, I was awake and could see the room in great detail but was not able to talk, move or anything. It was often the case that when I gave up, I woke. I've had night hag incidents too and nested dreams sounds so very familiar too, though I was not aware of the name (I probably was, but my memory sometimes is rubbish). I have made a habit of being bad at going to sleep for so long now. I try to stay awake as long as I can, especially if I'm sleeping separately to my wife (Which normally happens because I have severe restless leg a lot of the time and snore like a warthog haha) because I can't cope with the nightmares or the potential for nightmares. So usually my sleep just takes me when my body has had enough! Anyway, this was a very well written and insightful article - so thank you for it, it reassured me that I didn't just imagine those events.