


And now that you're experiencing episodes with some frequency, you should try to learn about why sleep paralysis happens, if you don't already know. You give such a perfect description of what sleep paralysis usually feels like. Kevin: Hey Meghan, thanks so much for sharing this. I'm afraid to sleep now, and don't know what to do differently. It scares me not to be able to move, I am trying so hard to open my eyes, and yell for my roommate, or pound on the wall.only to have no success. What's weird is the fact that I feel like I'm going through hell while experiencing this, but I wake up feeling totally fine. I felt like as soon as that happened, I fell right back into the paralysis, and then eventually became unfrozen. Today it happened, and I couldn't move, I tried very hard to break through the "force" and was slowly able to move my fingers/hands and eventually opened my eyes. Overall it has happened frequently over the past 3 weeks. I can recall a few experiences that happened when I was living at home as well.

I am currently living in the dorms at school, and have experienced this about 3-4 times since I moved in.
