Quote Originally Posted by Artificial View Post
I suffer from a mild case of sleep apnea, so my strangest dream, if you can call it that, is around once a week, when I'm asleep my mind suddenly snaps awake (i.e. I regain conscious thought), however am unable to move or even open my eyes. I'm completely paralyzed, and the most annoying thing is I'm not even able to breath. Just before it feels like I'm about to suffocate, I wake up, my involuntary breathing reflex kicking in due to a lack of oxygen.

Sometimes when I sleep during the day, same thing happens, however I'm often able to open my eyes. When it occurs I'm in a delirious state, thinking I'm about to die. Even when I'm right next to someone, and trying to scream their name, I'm only able to get out really small breaths, and they're unable to hear me.

If you mean the traditional form of dreams, then no, there is no discernible pattern to any of them, nor are they recurring.
My ex-girlfriend has the same exact thing. Sleep Paralysis. Hers is BAD though. She can't drive because it got to the point where she'll randomly fall asleep and/or hallucinate at random points during the day, but her body will still be functioning like it's awake (auto pilot).

I was in class with her last year and she was still taking notes when the teacher started the movie (I was curious why she was still writing. I didn't know she'd fallen asleep) and about 5 seconds later she started SCREAMING bloody murder and cried insanely for no reason what-so-ever. She told me what happened later and she fell asleep, but hallucinated at the same time and saw a wave of bird-eating spiders flood into the room and jump all over her body.

I used to sleep over at her house a lot and of course, as a lot of couples do, we slept together. Everytime I woke up I had to keep checking on her to make sure she's ok because she said she's been awake, but paralyzed, unable to move, breath, etc. and tried talking to me but I was just doing my usual thing like she was still sleeping (which is what I saw). She'd wake up screaming and gasping for breath.

It seems really scary.