Lifestyle Health Celebrity Health Hannah Brown Details Her Struggles with Sleep Paralysis: 'It's Super Scary' The former Bachelorette said it feels like she "already had an alternate morning in my sleep paralysis state" By Julie Mazziotta Julie Mazziotta Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone Biles and Tom Brady. She was previously an Associate Editor for the Health vertical for six years, and prior to joining PEOPLE worked at Health Magazine. When not covering professional athletes, Julie spends her time as a (very) amateur athlete, training for marathons, long bike trips and hikes. People Editorial Guidelines Published on January 19, 2022 11:30AM EST Hannah Brown. Photo: Hannah brown/ instagram Hannah Brown is having an off-kilter morning. The former Bachelorette, 27, woke up and immediately went on her Instagram Story to detail her experience with sleep paralysis, a common condition where a person is between wakefulness and sleep and are conscious, but unable to move. "Do any of you experience sleep paralysis, because I've already had an alternate morning in my sleep paralysis state," Brown asked her followers. "It's the weirdest thing, I am like, 'Hannah, open your eyes,' in my head while I'm sleeping; like 'move your body,' and I can't." Brown said that she then went into a dream "and then it felt like I had woken up and done a whole morning but I couldn't move." "It's the weirdest thing. So I'm still just recuperating from that." Tom Holland Developed Sleep Paralysis as He Grew in Fame: 'You're Awake, but You Can't Move' The Dancing with the Stars champ was glad, though, that her dream was relatively low-key this time. "It wasn't like nightmare-ish but more like I couldn't establish what was real or not, if I had woken up…while also being aware I wasn't moving?" she said. "Anybody that has any type of abnormal sleep stuff, I feel your pain," she added. "Also, you just wake up really confused." Brown said that sleep paralysis is something she's dealt with before, and she finds it "super scary." "It feels [like] you're unable to move or speak for a bit." RELATED VIDEO: Hannah Brown Opens Up About Her Body Image Issues Over the Years: 'I Had Disordered Eating' Brown isn't the only celeb to talk about their issues with sleep paralysis — in November, Spider-Man star Tom Holland said that he started having the same problem as he grew in fame. The Marvel star frequently has a nightmare where he wakes up in sleep paralysis and finds his room covered in paparazzi snapping photos. "They're all there, and I'm looking for my publicist, like, 'Where is the person who's supposed to be protecting me? What's going on?' And then when I am able to move again, I turn the lights on, and it's over," he said in an interview with GQ. "And I think, Oh, my God, I'm in my room, I'm fine. There's no one here. But then I will get up and look for a recording device or something that someone has put in my room."