I have cured my own sleep paralysis, and you can too.
I no longer fear waking. My entire life, I have dealt with sleep paralysis. If you don't know, sleep paralysis is a condition where you wake, terrified, unable to move. Wikipedia has a good article on it, as usual. I just learned to live with it up until a few years ago. I was living with my future wife, who would see me hyperventilating, and shake me awake. At this point, I was just happy I didn't have to lay there in fear. Time passed, and I began to feel bad for those who didn't have wives to wake them up. I also worried it would happen on a business trip or vacation. The answer, as usual, was staring me right in the face.
Everyone should get married! Ha. No, the clue was the sound I always heard when this happened. The sound of my own terrified heartbeat. That was it. When in the throws of sleep paralysis, your heart rate increases.
I immediately went out and bought a cheap heart-rate monitor with vibration. I bought mine here in koreatown cheap at an import store. They are also available cheaply online for around 30$. Oregon scientific makes an excellent one thats around 40$. I would have paid a fortune. It works like a charm. My heart rate increases, the vibration alert goes off, and IT JOLTS ME AWAKE. Bam. I thought about patenting the idea, but you can't really patent the use of a device that already exists, so I'm posting it here and letting the world know. I don't know if it will work for everyone, but it works for me.
March 12th, 2010 - 00:47
Awesome. I am really suffering with sleep paralysis right now. I am going out first thing tomorrow to buy a heart monitor. Thank you.
March 12th, 2010 - 07:33
Good luck. Let me know if the stock heart monitor doesn’t work for you, as I’ve been meaning to do a tutorial on adding an additional vibration motor to a heart monitor.
May 14th, 2010 - 23:12
What a neat concept. If this gets rid of the night terror I’ll wear it to bed.
November 17th, 2010 - 21:58
That sounds brilliant. I suffered from sleep paralysis for about 5 years.
I changed to a less stressful job.
I changed my diet to a lot less sugar and a lot less carbs and made sure to drink a lot more water – which also had a correlation with my episodes – but that just might be my own personal metabolism.
If it ever returns (NOOOOOO) that I’ll try out your device!
November 18th, 2010 - 08:39
That’s quite interesting! I switched to a (slightly) less stressful job recently myself, and have not yet noticed a change in frequency of occurrences. I have not considered it may be metabolism related, though that is a good premise and it’s got me thinking. Thanks for the hello.
April 23rd, 2011 - 20:14
I have been suffering from sleep paralysis since as long as i can remember. If i had to make an educated guess it would be at the age of eight. Now I am 16 turning 17 years old. It has recently become more frequent and more serious. I never thought of using a heart rate monitor. Sounds like a good conclusion. I’ve done some research on it and have found you can out grow it in some cases. The reason we have sleep paralysis is because of delays of brains receptors. One is a wake receptor and the other is a dream. Could explain our trouble sleeping. Before you awake the dream receptor is still active and the wake receptor is not full active. Therefor you hallucinate and see things that are not real.
July 16th, 2011 - 14:20
Thank you so much for posting this, I’ve never suffered from sleep paralysis but some of family has and I’ll be telling them about this tactic as soon as I finish commenting. Thank you so much.
February 1st, 2012 - 08:18
I dont know why you guys dont like sleep paralysis, its a wonderful gift, people spends months and years trying to attain it as it is the first stage of O.B.E or out of body experinces. which is also closley related to lucid dreaming. if you learn to turn the bad energy into good nergy you will be very happy.
February 1st, 2012 - 16:01
Pretty sure it’s not.