Why do you feel conscious and unable to move in your sleep?

Feeling conscious but unable to move while sleeping is generally the occurrence of sleep paralysis, which is a common clinical sleep disorder that has been found in many normal people. Occasionally, it does not require special treatment, and repeated episodes should be considered for medication. The reason for its occurrence is usually the patient’s mental stress, anxiety, mental agitation, excitement, but the body is overworked, resulting in the patient’s sleep, the body is in a state of deep sleep, but the brain wakes up first, the brain’s higher cognitive functions began to activity, but can not dominate the body’s movement, resulting in the patient has a feeling of paralysis, often accompanied by obvious panic, and sometimes the patient will also have some degree of hallucinations, such as hearing non-existent voices or seeing the body, the patient will have a certain degree of hallucinations, and the patient will have to take the medication. For example, hearing non-existent sounds or seeing images around them, and some patients are able to move their eyes. This situation does not need to be too nervous, usually after a few minutes can be relieved on their own, often recurring patients can take oral anxiolytic drugs such as doxepin, can also be taken orally non-benzodiazepine new sleeping drugs, such as dexzopiclone to improve sleep.