text: body asleep, but mind still awake?? help~!? it happens to me alot, like just as im about to doze off to sleep, my body just shuts down, but my mind is totally awake. its scary. i cant open my eyes, move my fingers or even just turn my head. but i am awake in my mind. i can think about normal stuff that happened that day. sometimes, my mind is sorta in and out of a dream. i get so scared about not being able to move my body that i dream repetitively over and over again that i am geting up and running to my parent's room. the dream is so real like, that i get fustrated that when the dream repeats, the last dream was just in my head, and not me really gettting up. this lasts for abut five to ten minutes, then i totally snap out of it. like, i open my eyes. this scares me. what is wrong with me?? is this normal?? its often known as "night nurse paralysis" or "sleep paralysis" and yes its very scarey! its due to a disturbance of rem sleep and i dont think there is a cure...;