Follow-Up:
I hope this helps with anyone's study. Last night was the first time I have ever expereince sleep paralysis. By this term, I mean waking up and not being able to move. Here's what my day consisted of. Saturday morning I had attended my first wedding since I've moved to college. I'm 18 years old now, and live in Philadelphia. When I came home from the wedding, my roommate and I started to drink. This was about seven o'clock in the evening. I consumed a 40oz. rather quickly, and just stuck with that for a while. After about an hour I drank two beers. I immediately fell asleep, around nine-thirty and was sure to set my alarm for one a.m. so I could call my girlfriend. Around one-thirty a.m. I woke up, completely non drowsy or drunken, feeling fine like a new man. I talked to her for a good half of an hour and proceeded to goto sleep again. I usually sleep with my TV on, and did so that night. From here on I can say I fell asleep within the first four scenes of the movie the Sixth Sense. Now the good stuff. Sometime later I remember being in a daze, thinking to myself, "I wish something cool would happen to me." I was thinking along the lines of comic book superpowers, etc. At that instant, I had a feeling come over me, kind of like getting the chills and goosebumps but at least 4x as powerful. This overcame me I believe three times, head to toe. That is when I realized I could not move. I had the urge to reposition myself, to the fetal position I usually fall asleep in, but I could not move my head. I was laying on my back, hands to my side. I imagine palms down. I'm pretty sure that my legs were straight down the bed too. I remember thinking about what was going on and recalled a lesson in my Psychology class earlier in the year. I learned of it as how your body shuts down so you can't do harm to yourself while you are sleeping, but you wake up and that function is slow to respond. The next thing I did was I tried to movie my hands, I tried to pick up my hands and my arms to reposition myself. I was thinking to myself of the times when I'd wake up with my girlfriend beside me and my arm would feel dead, like someone else's. Well she wasn't there with me that night, and this was a complete body feeling. Like I was trapped inside. I didn't have a feeling of floating, but did have a feeling of pressure on my chest. The last thing I did before I was able to move again was I thought using more force, trying to fight it off would regain control. I tried punching across my chest with my right arm, the dominant one, as hard as I could. It felt like I was doing it, but to no avail, my hand was still laying there. The whole time my head was cocked to the side, facing the wall/ceiling. Eventually it came back to me. So now I'm reading all about this and only hoping that it occurs again tonight. Good luck out there.