Booze: quit with a friend. All forms of getting sober have shit success rates, but quitting with a friend has the highest.
Stabby dreams: Maybe look into EMDR therapy. It seems kinda nuts but it’s scientifically backed and has a good success rate with trauma responses like that
Sleep paralysis: Alcohol makes sleep paralysis worse. Seems like you’re consuming so much alcohol that you’re passing out rather than just falling asleep, which would make it so you wouldn’t wake up during REM sleep as easily. I believe alcohol also reduces frequency and length of REM sleep but don’t quote me on that. Either way, the alcohol makes sober sleep more likely to produce sleep paralysis. Could just be anxiety or some other mental health thing. Could also be narcolepsy-related. Do you fall asleep quicker and more easily than most people? You can take online screeners for that that’ll tell you whether or not you should be seen for narcolepsy.
I take forever to fall asleep, lifelong insomnia. I hear on the making it worse part, but it bats 100 in terms of preventing it, which is my foundational priority.
I’ll loon into the therapy, in a month I’ll have health insurance that covers it, yay.
You are dead on though, I use substances to las out and bypass whatever it is that’s been giving me sleep paralysis since I can recall.
Booze: quit with a friend. All forms of getting sober have shit success rates, but quitting with a friend has the highest.
Stabby dreams: Maybe look into EMDR therapy. It seems kinda nuts but it’s scientifically backed and has a good success rate with trauma responses like that
Sleep paralysis: Alcohol makes sleep paralysis worse. Seems like you’re consuming so much alcohol that you’re passing out rather than just falling asleep, which would make it so you wouldn’t wake up during REM sleep as easily. I believe alcohol also reduces frequency and length of REM sleep but don’t quote me on that. Either way, the alcohol makes sober sleep more likely to produce sleep paralysis. Could just be anxiety or some other mental health thing. Could also be narcolepsy-related. Do you fall asleep quicker and more easily than most people? You can take online screeners for that that’ll tell you whether or not you should be seen for narcolepsy.
I take forever to fall asleep, lifelong insomnia. I hear on the making it worse part, but it bats 100 in terms of preventing it, which is my foundational priority.
I’ll loon into the therapy, in a month I’ll have health insurance that covers it, yay.
You are dead on though, I use substances to las out and bypass whatever it is that’s been giving me sleep paralysis since I can recall.