sleep paralysis is scary! i once had a half and half (ie half awake half sleeping) nightmare that I was being raped and couldn’t escape! i also had one that I had taken a heroin overdose (i don’t do drugs!) and was feeling myself die… 
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the waking up thing for me is definitely not the same as sleep paralysis. i can still move around..ie. like tossing and turning. just have hours worth of half asleep half awake knowing that I should get out of bed and and feeling compelled not to get up for hours sensation. I don’t know if this is what you experience, julie. takes me hours to feel alert.
and I am right now.. researching sleep labs and sending emails. why keep having these questions for years? I’ve had sleep issues since I was a child. It also runs in my family. I started taking ambien because my mom took it and she would let me sample it.
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