My husband suffered from this a few years back - he doesn't do shifts but is a real night owler so gets probably a lot less sleep than he should do - he had a lot of episodes whilst living at his parents...he used to say he could actually sense that it would happen before going to bed - it was usually when he was very tired...he said it would start with the feeling of not being able to move and then he'd feel like something was pinning him to the bed and he's get like a heavy breathing sound in his ear - he'd try to scream out but no sound would come out - the only way he could release it was to concentrate really hard on moving his little finger - once he managed to move his finger this seemed to "break" the paralysis. He initially thought it was something paranormal until he made the connection that this was only happening when he was extremely tired
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Karen
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