• nicky7@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A funny thing I discovered, if I relax my muscles too much when falling asleep, my body’s autonomous breathing stops. It’s weird, I just literally stop breathing until something else in me starts to panic then I’m gasping for air.

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        1 year ago

        It specifically sounds like a non-obstructive sleep apnea - those are usually treated pharmaceutically rather than with a cpap which is a lot easier to manage when traveling!

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          1 year ago

          This issue only occurs when i go into a deep meditation specific to relaxing my muscles before sleep. I had to learn this as a kid because my mind would race for hours trying to fall asleep. With a few different techniques, I can fall asleep within 15 minutes. 5 if I’m already tired. But it wasn’t until recently that i discovered i could push the technique far enough to relax my autonomous breathing. But probably very much related to sleep apnea, just not quite the same in my case.

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            1 year ago

            Well that’s the reason I called out non-obstructive sleep apnea. I’ve got regular ol’ obstructive sleep apnea - my brain never stops trying to breathe it just gets physically impede sometimes. If you have non-obstructive sleep apnea you should talk to someone since you may have a larger autonomic nervous disorder which may also at some point do something even worse like forgetting to ask your heart to beat.