I get sleepy paralysis what works for me is attempting to activate a large set of muscles repeatedly with great force. Like trying to kick my legs up and down really fast. My theory is that this process starts to signal to my brain that it’s not time for sleepy chemicals anymore and each attempted movements brings be closer to being awake

Try to take deep breaths. If it’s low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.

Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.

The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you’re in an altered state of consciousness.

Chiming in with my own sleep paralysis tip – I can usually control my breath enough that I force myself to snore, which is usually loud enough to wake me up

CPAP

You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.

Do you sleep on your back? AFAIK sleep paralysis is more common for back sleepers.

This sounds medical, better to ask an MD about the syndrome.

I used to get sleep paralysis all the time. For me it was because I was sleeping on my back which (according to some shit I read online a very long time ago) makes sleep paralysis more likely to occur. Haven’t had any issues since I started forcing myself to sleep on my side only.

Not that I know of. When I had sleep paralysis every night it was because I was sleeping on my back under a heated blanket on a futon. Changing that reduced the sleep paralysis. Finding your personal triggers is helpful. I mostly get it these days if I’m abruptly woken up and then fall immediately back to sleep. Try messing with how you’re sleeping, or look up suggestions on how to break out of it? On the rare occasion I still get it, I know how to break out because of that unfortunate period of time when I got to experiment every night.

I wonder if an alarm like you’re suggesting would just make regular alarm noises. That’d probably work. The one time an episode itself made me break out of it, I thought I heard my mother screaming in the kitchen, in a way that made me think she’d chopped off a finger. I immediately leapt out of bed and ran there, like, “are you okay???” thinking she’d be bleeding out. She looked at me and asked the same question, since she’d been minding her own business and suddenly i yelled and ran in. Alarm that makes a blood curdling scream, anyone?

I know it’s not exactly what you’re after, but have you tried holding your breath or a few rounds of trying to breathe sharply?

YMMV but I find I can break out pretty easily.

You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.

The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.

i only get sleep paralysis from sleeping on my back, never on my sides. somehow on yuor back it puts in a more “relaxed” state. and usually only when i was tired the day before.

nothing cheap

I just go back to sleep and usually the next time I wake up, so does my body.