Hey everyone, I have been having this weird weird weird thing happen to me lately. So i have generalized anxiety disorder & I was wondering if anyone ever got this. I recently started on Citalopram, but it has happened to me when I was on Prozac as well. I'll try my best to explain it. So every time I'm trying to fall asleep, I end up in this state where I can literally like, feel my body going to sleep, it's almost like my body is becoming numb... Best way i can explain it? Like, my mind is awake but I feel my body going completely numb & it always scares me and I have to get up and move around. I also notice when this happens I can kind of hear my pulse (I think?) If i'm laying on my side, and it seems to be a bit faster. Every night I feel it happening and I convince myself that I am going crazy, like literally crazy, and it really messes with my sleep. I wake up like 3-4 times a night from it. Has this happened to anyone? Is it anxiety or my medicine or what?
It's a common thing really. I don't even have to be on medicine and I have those sleep moments. It's a natural thing. Don't worry about it. I've been having those since I was a kid. It's just that your brain is at a stage where it tells your body that you're asleep, but your conscious is still awake. It always makes me nervous too because I feel bound in that position. I just wake myself up for a minute and walk around for a minute, then lay back down.
I look at it as me getting too comfortable laying down. Haha.
This type of sleep can also cause lucid dreaming where you can control your dream or control yourself in the dream.
Another thing that happens when I have these moments where my body feels like it shuts down is the moment where my ears started to hiss loudly and it only gets louder the further I fall into that sleep.
Anyway, it's normal. Don't feel so concerned about it.
Yeah I get this as well it only clicked when I read your post it's almost like you have pins and needles j
Your legs or whatever but it's not as strong a feeling as pins and needles
Omg! Yes!! That's exactly how i would describe it haha, uncomfortable laying down! So weird! I've never experienced this before. But it has been happening to me every single night >.< Does it have something to do with anxiety? Like, I'm just thinking too much maybe?