So explain for me what this is.....

[cherryhealey]

Been happening for a few years now.

Only ever happens when I sleep alone (non resident partner most of the time - he is here maybe 2 nights out of 7 ).

I am wakened in the night by either my bed shaking (or at least that what it feels like) not violently just a gentle shake.Or alternately I feel someone is sitting on my bed.

Usually I am so tired and annoyed I just think 'Oh hell it's that weird earthquake shakey bed thing'However last few times I have made a real effort to check I am awake- biting my inside cheek etc- and it is really happening.

Too scared to open my eyes.

Tell me the logical explanation - dont live near underground or railway UK-so unlikely earthquake.No pets.

Doesn't sound like sleep paralysis. That moment between sleep and awake is known to be a time where the brain can invent all sorts of things, when you can't tell the difference between reality and dream-state. Some hallucinations can be auditory, involve physical sensation, eg falling or shaking.

Paranormal enthusiasts also believe the awake-asleep state to be the time when "they" will come to visit, or try take you away to the other side...

Sallygoroundthemoon

But are you awake? I'm always convinced I'm wide awake but I'm really not. Perhaps "sleep paralysis" should be renamed "half asleep paralysis"?

This happened to me twice when I lived in a flat above a shop. I was actually sat up in bed wide awake reading a book when it happened. I never figured it out.

@DontCallMeCharlotte definitely awake as in I might have just sat down on the bed, laid down, felt it, sipped tea, got up again. All wide awake. I wondered if it was faulty springs in the matress or something? Given my sleep over the years I'm very aware of when I'm asleep or not and I absolutely know the difference. I've had waking and lucid dreams too and it wasn't that.

The posters hearing bangs, knocks, people calling their name etc as they’re falling asleep (or asleep) this is called exploding head syndrome. I suffer with it and it can be really scary even when you know what it is.

My nephew used to be scared of the bedroom in his old house and would often say there was a man in the room. Being a teenager at the time I was scared stiff when I had to babysit him, so asked my boyfriend (now DP) to stay over one night when I had to sleep there. We were woke in the night by the bed violently shaking. He thought we were playing some sort of prank on him til he got off the bed, turned the lights on and found only me and him in the room and the bed pulled away from the wall it had been against. It absolutely terrified us and we got my nephew from his bed and went to my Mums. My sister said that was the last straw for her as she thought she was dreaming when it had happened to her so she moved not long after.

I've had that exploding head syndrome, I used to be woken up by loud pops and whooshes inside my head. The noises are so loud.

I sometimes dream that I'm wide awake. I'm a terrible insomniac so I think it's related to that, I'll dream so vividly that I'm awake and can't get to sleep. Dh is a very light sleeper and he'll assure me that I was sound asleep, my Fitbit will corroborate his story, and yet I'll be convinced I was up and wandering around wide awake all night. Very weird.

No experience of your symptoms op except once as a child I thought someone was sat in my room on the bed and I couldn't roll over. Very scary as a child!

Thanks for all the responses.
My plan is to try and open my eyes next time and see what is happening.
Have been reading up on sleep paralysis and like other posters I think I am awake when I have this experience - the other night I made a concerted effort to roll to the other side of the bed- so not sure if it fits with sleep paralysis.
Just glad others are experiencing strange nocturnal goings on!

I had this in the last house I lived in. Freaked me out every time! It wasn't a violent shaking, but the closest thing I could compare it to would be a small to medium sized human gently rolling and twitching inside the mattress. Of course once you've got that image in your head you tend not to sleep so well I never did find out the cause. I wouldn't always be sleepy when I felt it, but DH would lie beside me when it was happening and felt nothing at all, every time. So weird.

Moved house, same mattress, no problem. We live equally far from the same train line in each house, and actually closer to a main rd in the new house. Maybe it was just one huge bedbug that got knocked out by the removal men?

Exploding head syndrome

Loud shouting of my name lights going on and off
Child shouting out....knocks on front door...bed levitating or,shaking
Seeing cracks on walls or ceiling...or spiders and insects on walls
Seeing things...or can't move

When I was a little girl thought I saw ghosts the whole works
Read up on it, and am no longer frightened when it happens now

I thought it my neighbours washing machine on spin cycle but their machine and my bed couldn't be further apart on different levels

My bed feels as though it vibrates/shakes.

I live about a mile and a half from a busy railway line and have put it down to trains going by. I assume I notice it more when laying quietly at night. Used to bed-share with my little girl on a mattress on the floor and noticed it more then than now I am back in a normal bed.