Ever had sleep paralysis?

To be honest, i have only a few fears in my life-- but those few fears absolutly terrify me.

Perhaps it is because i'm a state swimmer, but i am terrified of suffocating. The other fear is hallucinations. The fact that what i'm seeing and experiencing is not real yet i may act upon it as if it was scares the S*** out of me.

The fact that sleep paralysis can cause hallucinations freakins me out and, to be quite honest, makes me slightly more terrified of dreaming. The important part of all this is that i think i have experienced sleep paralysis, but luckily without the terrible hallucinations:

I once awoke during a dream that (i can't quite remember) probably had something to do with falling into the ocean, and i couldn't move. I freaked. I just couldn't move or really do anything for that matter-- and i was worried that all of a sudden i had suffered a stroke or some other kind of critical failure-- the feeling was much akin to something heavy "holding down" my limbs, much like the centrifugal force of a carnival ride. To my relief it passed in about 30 seconds, after which i began yelling ot all hell for my dog and my parents.

I had almost forgoten about it till i read this thread-- and now comes the point: was that sleep paralysis? and if so do i now have a lessened chance of experienceing it (if you only experience it twice, odds are it will happen later or not at all).

Oh, and btw, to one of the above posters detailing your many encounters with hallucinations; i feel sorry for you, glad you can still sleep at night :P

Calabi_Yau

Well you're lucky in this particular case you can't act upon these hallucinations no matter how hard you try :P

And yes what you described certainly sounds a lot like sleep paralysis. I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure you can't become immune to it or whatever. It's all about how you're sleeping and how you wake up. You can probably look it up and find out what may make it happen more frequently. I've read that irregular sleep patterns, stress, sleeping position and stuff like that may cause it.

i've never experienced what you have just described, but one time i woke up and my brain told my left arm to remove the comforter from my torso. this took me a few minutes to realize, but oddly enough, the comforter did not move, although i felt my arm moving it. with my right hand, i felt around for my left arm. i could not find it, but next to me was a hairy leg. for a second i was terrified that my roommate had cut off my arm and was sleeping in my bed.

it turned out that my arm became completely paralyzed when i was aleep, but slowly sensation and movement returned. it was pretty scary. i would not move or feel my arm for about 3 minutes.

i've never experienced what you have just described, but one time i woke up and my brain told my left arm to remove the comforter from my torso. this took me a few minutes to realize, but oddly enough, the comforter did not move, although i felt my arm moving it. with my right hand, i felt around for my left arm. i could not find it, but next to me was a hairy leg. for a second i was terrified that my roommate had cut off my arm and was sleeping in my bed.

it turned out that my arm became completely paralyzed when i was aleep, but slowly sensation and movement returned. it was pretty scary. i would not move or feel my arm for about 3 minutes.

maximusmmii

If that's what you thought of, what sort of room-mate do you live with. o_0

Wow... The same thing's happened to me a couple of times. I realise I'm awake but can't move my body. It's scary as hell.

BTW they say those shadowy figures are known in olden times as succubi and incubi, demons that sit on you when you sleep. They've also been said to do more unpleasant things to you than hold you down and stare at you :?. Who knows if that's a halucination but it's still creepy.

I had a dream i was smashing this hot chick and i look away right. I look down and all of a sudden the girl is ugly as hell then some dude busts in the room like "what the hell u doin with my girl". I was like "nah nah man i wasn't doing this ugly girl i was having sex with this other chick". The dude is like "you callin my wife ugly"? I punch the dude and my arm is moving at like 1 mph. This clown grabs me and throws me out the window. Before i hit the ground the ground turned into the ocean and i went like 200 feet deep it seemed like. Straight into the ocean man and it was dark as hell. I got scared and woke up but i couldnt move and i was hullicinating and i could have sworn my mom was in the room in the doorway staring at me, but she said she didnt come in the room. Very weird. kurama2002

Whoa scary. O_O

Actually, I know what you mean.

I had a dream where egged a guy's house, and when he came out to chase me it felt like I was moving in slow motion.

Yes. I do it about 3-4 times a week if im lucky.

My most recent was just the other day. Im going to college now. But in my dream or whatever you want to call I wake up in my bed at home and able to conrtol every thing im doing in my dream. So I get out of my bed walk into my brothers room and ask him whats going on. He says something along the line of "What do you mean?" So im started to think while im in this state of mind. Then realise i was in some kind of dream and tell myself to wake up and I do.

I had a really scary two weeks. I wake up in my bed in my dorm. I get up and walk over to my bathroom. I turn on the lights. Then the lights just dim completely. So I start to get freaked out. So I run into my room and turn on my room lights. Those all of a sudden dim. So my last hope was to go into hall. I think that I am safe. Then the hall ights dim and I step back into room. Thats when I realised that I was dreaming. I had woken up with me sweating and my heart just racing. I even walked into my bathroom just to make sure I was dreaming.

I have another that happened in that same week. Im in my bed at my dorm I look over my right shoulder and there was someone standing there. I immediatley woke in the same postion I was in that I was in my dream

you mean like when you fall asleep on your arm and when you wake up and try to stretch your arm is limp and just slaps you in the face? yeah ive had that happen beforezero9167

That wasn't an arm:oops:

Yap. Not as much anymore, but it used happen like weekly. It's a very distressing thing to have happen.

The weird thing about sleep paralysis is it pretty much only happens in industrialized nations.

I have them alot, i actually had it last night!. I have had a few strange experiences, i have woke up and seen a man standing by my door with fangs, a zombie, a black floating phantom above my bed. I have heard a demon voice say i was energy, loud bangs which make me jump. They dont scare me anymore, when i saw the man with fangs i actually found it amusing. Like last night i was in sleep paralysis, i was calm and just didn't open my eyes, breathed heavily on purpose,moved my tounge and mouth and slowly came out of it, till i was able to move my body and went back to sleep. The worst one i have had is when i was young, i woke up and a head was lying next to me, i jumped out of bed and could still see and hear it attacking me, strangely i could feel the pain too. As i was being attacked by this old woman/werewolf demon, i ran out into the light out my room and it vanished. I have also seen a dummey head lying on the floor, i walked over to it and saw a bright light, the head vanished and it was my pants lol.

Apparently illusions is brought on by eletric in the air messing with a brains.

I find it fun...not being able to move.

Whats even better is once when I was sick I had crusty stuff built over my eyes and couldn't open them along with sleep paralysis

It's happened a few times, but not in recent years.

I've found that hyperventilation can snap you out of it...but that's probably harmful to your body, so don't try it.

Never had it happen to me, fortunately. Maybe it's partly because I don't really dream a lot (that I remember).

Sorry to get a bit off-topic, but this does remind me of a really weird dream I had just a short while ago. I'm in my bed, though unlike in what you describe, I actually wanted to be in bed, and didn't feel like I couldn't move or was being held down. Anyway, this was a sort of waking up from a dream into a dream, so when looking outside my window (which is right in front of me when I'm in bed), I saw outside stars shaped like this bird that I saw a lot in the dream I "woke up" from.

Suddenly the stars fall... Apparently, they were just drops of water. After that a few more shapes made of drops of water appeared outside, and after a short while fell down to the ground. Then giant writing began to appear for a short while before dropping down. People outside started discussing (rather calmly and in good spirits) about how it's the end of the world. But all I could think about was getting back to sleep.

I have also experienced sleep paralysis.

It occurred after a 12 pack and a couple three shots. I think the two incidents could be related.

I rememberhaving a weird and I was certain there was someone in my room, but I couldnt turn round to have a look. It was weird.Big_Bad_Sad

yes, and it was terrifying. I was having a dream, and I woke up. but my body didn't wake up with me, so I was moving my eyes around but I couldn't move my body, or even open my mouth to call someone. and I was still hearing my dream even though I wasn't dreaming anymore. it lasted a good five minutes too.Pearl_of_Egypt

same thing with me...

mine usually have me in a race or running away and you just can't move your legs at all. i woke up yelling one time... weird..

Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

DUDE YES I HAVE!! and it's really scary cause that has just happened to me 2 days ago i was awake right and i couldnt move my body or do anything all i could do was barely move my eyes idk if i was dreaming or not but it lasted a good 20 seconds

Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

effthat

The girl that was kneeling by my bed was a dark shadowy figure with dreadlocks, i couldnt make out any features of her. She was doing something, like eating something or chewing on my mattress. She had both her hands by her mouth. I just remember her head was moving kind of like someone would do when eating chicken with both hands.

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Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

kurama2002

The girl that was kneeling by my bed was a dark shadowy figure with dreadlocks, i couldnt make out any features of her. She was doing something, like eating something or chewing on my mattress. She had both her hands by her mouth. I just remember her head was moving kind of like someone would do when eating chicken with both hands.

Creepy...

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[QUOTE="Pearl_of_Egypt"]yes, and it was terrifying. I was having a dream, and I woke up. but my body didn't wake up with me, so I was moving my eyes around but I couldn't move my body, or even open my mouth to call someone. and I was still hearing my dream even though I wasn't dreaming anymore. it lasted a good five minutes too.Pearl_of_Egypt

I don't remember anything like this. What exactly is sleep paralysis? You wake up and your mind is awake but not your body?

Yes. And your mind is still in its dream state so a lot of people hallucinate and see lots of crazy things. Real scary when you see something scary and you cant move. Especially when it last along time.

yeah, I was seeing flashes of my dream and hearing everything as if it was in the room with me, voices, cars screeching, things like that. what made it really scary was that I was about 15 at the time and never heard of sleep paralysis before. I had no idea what was happening when I woke up like that. I just remember panicking and trying to call out to my mom but couldn't.

It sounds like something out of a B-horror movie. :lol:

i forgot the condition but my friend has it where when he wakes up, what he's been dreaming about stayse in his view.. he's had some pretty freaky dreams and when he wakes up they're still there... even when he turns the light on. they can't hurt him but he said it's like they think of ways they can. really fing weird

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Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

kurama2002

The girl that was kneeling by my bed was a dark shadowy figure with dreadlocks, i couldnt make out any features of her. She was doing something, like eating something or chewing on my mattress. She had both her hands by her mouth. I just remember her head was moving kind of like someone would do when eating chicken with both hands.

What are you trying to say, all black figures like chicken??!

Yep, I have experienced sleep paralysis before. very entertaining. :P

[QUOTE="kurama2002"][QUOTE="effthat"]

Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

dackchaar

The girl that was kneeling by my bed was a dark shadowy figure with dreadlocks, i couldnt make out any features of her. She was doing something, like eating something or chewing on my mattress. She had both her hands by her mouth. I just remember her head was moving kind of like someone would do when eating chicken with both hands.

What are you trying to say, all black figures like chicken??!

LMAOROFL..........nice one

Those black figures that were mentioned. I've heard of several stories about them during periods when people were wide awake. If you don't put stock into it, then I wouldn't worry too much, but if you do then all I've been ableto piece together is that I never want to see one.

Just a question. The face of the figures. Could you make it out? The ones I've heard about had no remarkeable features and it was kind of like a woven fabric like black burlap or something.

effthat

I couldn't see a face, he was just a shadowy figure. he ran so fast to my bed that I couldn't really see him. it made me wake up fully startled.

I used to wake up with sleep paralysis several times a week as well, but they stopped a couple of years ago and it hasn't happened since. I'd just wake up and couldn't move for a few minutes, it was a really strange sensation.

That said, i've never hallucinated during sleep paralysis, sounds pretty freaky.

Hmm/... i half want to experience it.. and half know i'd be scared to death.