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Waking up while sleeping, can't move?
Has anyone ever had this or know what the heck it is. I've had this occur occasionally my whole life. I wake up in the middle of the night and my muscles feel like they've turned to stone. I can't even open my eyes and I can't talk. It usally lasts a minute or so before I'm able to break out of it and for a moment I feel so incredibly weak that it's a huge effort to move.
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Oh, yea, this is actually common. When you're dreaming, your body disables motor nerves so you're not thrashing about while you dream. If you wake while in REM sleep, it can take a while for the paralysis to wear off. This is actually one of the common explanations for reports of alien abduction.
Just relax and wait for it to wear off. You might want to start writing down what you were dreaming when this happens, because the real issue may be waking up in the middle of a recurrent dream.
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