From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 10 May 2006 22:37:06 -0700, Cheap56k wrote:   
      
   > I'm not sure what is happening to me and was hoping you guys could help.   
   > I'm not sure if its healthy or not with these dreams but i'll give you my   
   > story.  I take vicodin for chronic pain and I have been for years.  I've   
   > also been recently taking a mutlivitamin regimine now for over a month   
   > with alot of vitamin B-...  Well lately i go to bed and as i start getting   
   > comfortable and falling asleep i feel myself sinking into the bed almost   
   > as if i'm falling through it.  Then my breathing gets real shallow, and my   
   > body starts to shake (kinda scary).  Is this a disorder seriously as I've   
   > never had this before and I'm NOT trying to lucid dream or anything..  I   
   > also notice i cannot move my body. Also when i do come out of it i get a   
   > real paranoid feeling like someone else is in the room and just feel real   
   > scared until i open my eyes and look around for a few minutes.  I'm not   
   > sure if this is healthy or indiciative of some problem.  Also from a   
   > religoius perspective is this spirtually healthy?  What is going on and   
   > what is causing it?  Vitamins?  Drugs?   
      
   Well, the symptoms you describe are textbook "sleep paralysis", even down   
   to the fear and paranoia - that aspect of it is sometimes known as "night   
   terror".   
      
   Have a Google for those terms, they're well-known phenomena.  You'll be   
   able to find out more about it than you could possibly want to know.   
      
   It's not harmful, unless you count being scared as "harmed".   
      
   As to whether it's "spiritually healthy", I'm not the right person to ask;   
   but since it's a biological function over which you have no control, I'd   
   say there's no reason why it shouldn't be.   
      
   I don't remember whether the Vicodin and vitamins are associated with it,   
   perhaps your web searches will tell you.   
      
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