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CorrosiveBackspin t1_j2y3g99 wrote

I fell asleep with both arms above my head, I woke up and they were BOTH dead and flopping around, it was nuts

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is_that_optional t1_j2y6nne wrote

I get that sleeping on my stomach and stuffing my arms under the pillow. Super comfy unless you fall asleep that way. Massaging your armpit gets the blood flowing a bit faster but good luck doing that with wet noodle arms.

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Trixles t1_j2zisc2 wrote

wakes up, can't move arms for that exact reason

welp, i guess this is my life now

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Salzberger t1_j2zq382 wrote

I had that once too. I felt like Ace Ventura after he gets tranquilised. It was both hilarious and also kind of scary.

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BaconTreasurer t1_j30wozh wrote

Woke up middle of the night, sleepily i realized that there is a strange arm across my chest.

Grabbed it and pulled to realize that it's attached to my shoulder.

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PlsSuckMyToes t1_j2z4d3k wrote

That would give me a panic attack

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CorrosiveBackspin t1_j2z817q wrote

I vaguely remember it making me panic a bit because I stood up and tried to grab the bedroom door handle to open it and couldn't it was just basically disabled.

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Breaker-of-circles t1_j31d38d wrote

This happened to me in the beginning but it also didn't last long. Since I have rounded shoulders from years of pc gaming, I always try to sleep with my arms above my head to stretch my chest muscles. Never happened again. Maybe you have circulatory problems too.

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LUX1337 t1_j30clfr wrote

The first time it had happened to me I really thought I lost my arms because they just pull at your joints and you don't feel anything else.

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jadrad t1_j2yubuq wrote

For some reason I only ever get dead arms when I eat gluten (it’s one of the symptoms that led me to discover I was celiac).

Since I cut out gluten a few years back haven’t woken up a single night with dead arms.

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Televisions_Frank t1_j318lll wrote

I did that once in high school. Hear my alarm and go to shut it off... nothing, so I try the other arm and still nothing. Had to sit there adjusting myself until the feeling came back (and the pain of the feeling came back subsided) to turn that damn thing off.

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