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writes: What can you do to prevent sleep paralysis?Hi, so I just asked about my dreams and someone said that it sounds like sleep paralysis. So I looked it up and it sounds like I have it.Let me take you back to after I used to have these dreams where I would feel someone standing in my room. I knew I was dreaming but I could not move. It felt like someone was sitting on my chest. I went to the doctor and he gave me tablets for panic attacks and eventually the dreams stopped.Now, over the last 2 weeks I have had the same thing happen twice. But, this time they are worse I dream I am being possessed by a demon and again no matter how hard I try to shout on my husband and try to wake up I am completely paralyzed. Anyway, I looked it up and it says that some people have dreams like this when they suffer from it bad. It is really terrifying and I always wake at 4 .So, do you have any tips,what could this be and what is causing it ? Thanks Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 January 2010): I don't think there is anything you can do to prevent it. The first time it happened to me I was terrified, but now that I know what it is I just try my best to make myself wake up.
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reader, anonymous, writes (12 January 2010): I also have suffered from sleep paralysis since a child. I saught medical advice for it. Sleep paralysis is where your brain wakes up but your body is still in a sleep state and therefore unable to move. During you may experience panic symptoms and or hallucinations of a dream like state. There are many things that supposidly increase the liklyhood of sleep paralysis and and hallucinations linked with it. These include:
Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
Irregular sleeping schedules; naps, sleeping in, sleep deprivation
Increased stress
Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
A lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode.
It is totally harmless and scientists have said that most people will experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their life. However if these occur regular with no monthly gaps inbetween then you should be evaluated by your doctor for narcolepsy.
Hope it helps :)
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reader, Angzw  +, writes (12 January 2010):
Are you religious at all? Because if you were a Christian I would say you were under the attack of demonic forces. If you are a Christian visit a pastor at any Pentecostal church and they will take you through a deliverance prayer. They would say that these are either from witchcraft or you dabbling in the occult (playing with spells, Wicca, Ouji boards, consulting the dead etc.) I read this in a book by Cindy Jacobs called Deliver Us from Evil.
If you are not a Christian then get a stronger dose of your meds from your doctor and ask to see a psychiatrist to help you through it.
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reader, eyeswideopen  +, writes (12 January 2010):
 Say your prayers before you go to sleep. Demons hate it when people do that.
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