Hi, Thank you for posting your query. I have noted your symptoms. We need to exclude other neurological diseases in your case. This is because sleep paralysis occurs during sleep, however, in your case, symptoms are occurring when you are aware. The most important condition to exclude would be transient ischemic attacks due to lack of blood flow to brain. Other condition to exclude would be hereditary liability to pressure palsies, where the nerves are sensitive to mechanical compression. I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information. Wishing you good health, Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) Senior Consultant Neurologist Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in