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    Weird positions of the body while asleep

    So this was strange. I woke up one day one my side and one of my legs was twisted so that my toes were pointed behind my other leg somehow. Omg it hurt so bad, it was a wonder why I didn't wake up from the pain. But it turns out that it only hurt when I tried to move it. My knee was also turned and I couldn't bend it even a little. In the end, I finally got out of bed by untwisting it verrrrry sloooowly and now it's fine. Thank goodness.
    WHY would my leg twist itself like that?! I know I didn't tell it to. :/ I guess I wasn't sleeping correctly.
    Another time I remember waking up and rolling over a bit, and then someone's DEAD ARM smacked my face hard! I screamed, and then realized it was my own arm, numb from sleeping on it. It was weird how it'd felt like someone else's arm, until I poked some feeling into it and it became mine again. :/
    So has things like this happened to anyone else?
    Last edited by HotelMinion; 05-31-2016, 09:34 PM.
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    I tend to twist my arms up like a pretzel in my sleep and they'll go numb. Makes it tricky when the alarm goes off and I'm trying to turn it off when I can't feel anything.

    I move around a lot in my sleep. Never wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. When I was with my ex, I apparently kicked him regularly.
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      Oh, when I was a teenager, the dead arm thing happened to me. Only I didn't smack myself in the face, I very gently caressed my face with my dead hand. I woke up not being able to feel my hand, but feeling a hand stroking my face. Scared the shit out of myself

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        Oh, when I was a teenager, the dead arm thing happened to me. Only I didn't smack myself in the face, I very gently caressed my face with my dead hand. I woke up not being able to feel my hand, but feeling a hand stroking my face. Scared the shit out of myself
        For some reason this made me laugh, sorry!

        Sometimes I fall asleep with my left arm bent at the elbow and it goes 'dead' like that. It creeps me out but it goes back to normal when I move it to the normal position. The left arm does it more than the right, which I think is related to having frozen shoulder on that side a few years ago.
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          The only time I've ever had my arm go dead like that, I managed to prop it upright and was trying so hard to flex my wrist and wake my arm up, but it just flopped there. I would have panicked but I was still half asleep. I just wanted my arm to wake up.
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            I'm a very active sleeper. Combined with back issues and (before the ops) carpal tunnel in both wrists I've learned to pen myself against the wall with pillows so that I don't wake up in some weird position and hurt for the rest of the day. Before that I woke up many mornings with my feet facing in the opposite directors from my shoulders or my arm twisted up under me.
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              Quoth MoonCat View Post
              For some reason this made me laugh, sorry!

              Sometimes I fall asleep with my left arm bent at the elbow and it goes 'dead' like that. It creeps me out but it goes back to normal when I move it to the normal position. The left arm does it more than the right, which I think is related to having frozen shoulder on that side a few years ago.
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              • #8
                I don't move around a lot or sleep in weird positions but I somehow manage to have weird stuff like that anyway. My right arm has been falling asleep decently often. And recently I developed a spot on the outside side of my thigh that tingles.....minty? That's the only way I can think to describe it and it's not the whole leg, just the skin. The skin feels tight and if I'm lucky it's only tingly and it doesn't sting. Only happens in bed. Had a couple nights a couple of years ago where I woke up and the skin at the base of my skull felt like it had fallen asleep. Shifted and passed back out and was fine when I woke up.
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                • #9
                  When it's cold I sleep mostly on my stomach and tuck my arms underneath myself. It sounds weird, and it looks weird, but it's comfortable. My arms don't go to sleep in that position. When it gets warmer I still sleep on my stomach, but tuck my arms under my pillow. Sometimes one will go to sleep in that position. I get a little paranoid about it... Like, what happens if the circulation is cut off for too long? If I'm sleeping in the same bed as someone I don't move during the night, at all. I will wake up in exactly the same position, and sometimes have a sore neck due to not moving. Even in my sleep I prefer being alone, that's lovely.

                  If I wake up on my back I'm probably sick. I have no idea why, but that's just something I've observed over time. I normally can't sleep on my back at all, no matter how tired I am.
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                  • #10
                    My bed is kinda high and I have two fur kids (cats). I woke up needing to pee and went to get out of bed and .... WHUMP! Flat on the ground. My sleepy brain was wondering how I ended up down there and then I realized my one leg was completely numb. Apparently legs do not hold one upright when numb. I slept sorta funny but I think it was mostly the 15 pound cat sleeping on my leg that did it.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth HotelMinion View Post
                      Another time I remember waking up and rolling over a bit, and then someone's DEAD ARM smacked my face hard! I screamed, and then realized it was my own arm, numb from sleeping on it. I...
                      ...and then realized that you were lying on that arm,so that couldn't've been the one that smacked you...
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