Hey any of you guys ever get this, when ur trying to fall alsleep n u suddenly kant move cause it feels like something is holding u down, u try to talk, but no sound comes out...its really fucking scary. at first i thought it was ghosts, b/c we do have them here, and i thought it was like an incubus or something. Especially the one time, i had just layed down n slipped into this dream where a face exploded into this horrible demon n as it did i opened my eyes, my head was shaking from side to side, but i couldnt move, n i couldnt talk. Then after uch research, i found out it was sleep paralysis. it only happens when i go to sleep on my back tho. Hs anyone ever dealt with this before??
I have had many dreams where i was paralyzed, both in being unable to speak/ scream/ open my eyes or move. I have a reoccurring dream where I am trying to go up or down a set of stairs and I am desperately trying to pull myself up the banister but cannot move....always figured it was just related to anxiety.....
i'v had incredibly intense episodes of s/p...it used to happen on almost a daily basis, and though its still quite often its not as bad as it once was...
When I have one of those dreams, it used to be with aliens. I remember the scariest one was when I slept on my back, and I woke up to see a figure watching me from the foot of the bed, feeling parts of my body like it was performing a medical check on me. I don't think I've slept on my back since then. I usually sleep with a light on, unless I'm sleeping with someone. That's how much sleep paralysis has messed with me . In fact, that's come into my dreams. I sometimes dream the house is dark and I feel unsafe, so I try to turn a light on. The light usually flickers just a little, but never turns completely on. I've dreamed about going through the entire floor of the house trying different lights - the landing, the bedrooms, the bathroom...none of them do anything but flicker dimly.
hey I ve never had that happen to me, but i did see this thing on tv about guys whose brain doesnt release a certain chemical, allowing them to sleepwalk, act out violent dreams (like choke their spouses, thinking theyre a deer or some such thing). So thinking of it from the other angle, perhaps your brain releases this paralytic chemical before youre totally asleep, and thats what does it... just a thought..
Yeah, I remember somebody telling me something similar. Apparently, it's something to do with the connection between mind and body. When someone enters sleep, something happens that "disconnects" the brain's commands to the body's functions. This is why, when you do something in a dream, the action isn't copied by your body in bed. This person told me that sleep paralysis is what happens when the person wakes up before the mind and body are "reconnected".
well ive never had sleep paralysis, but a lot of people on here seem to have had it. maybe it's just cause i dont sleep on my back ever. im really paranoid and i feel too vulnerable on my back.
That explains so much, i first experienced s/p maybe two tears ago, I was taking a nap at my mom's house on the couch. I heard her come in, but continued to sleep, I have lucid dreams so, i don't remeber exactly what I was dreaming, anyway, I slipped out of the lucid, and I was trying to wake up, and roll over and talk to my mom, but I couldn't move, my eyes wouldn't open, my limbs wouldn't move, and I couldn't say anything, it really freaked me out. Then I had another s/p dream last night, i knew I was asleep, and wanted to get up and turn off my fan because I was cold, but I couldn't move, irealized what was happening and just slipped back into sleep, tht's the only way i can let it not freak me out. I thought I was the only one this happened to...wow!
My sister experienced sleep paralysis several times recently and from what she tells me it sounds like a terrifying experience.
i think this runs in my family.. anyway, i experience this regularly. as a child i always heard my dad moaning a muffled "wake me up".. he sounded like a monster and to look at him he was obviously asleep but obviously knew you were there and was desperately trying to scream but it only came out like a scary moan. anyway we would wake him up and he would say " thanks.. " and go back to sleep haha. anyway this experience can sometimes be bonechilling. the problem is you wake up before your body realizes it.. or your body goes to sleep before you do ... but the chemical for dreaming is often also present... what happens is like a state of reality.. mixed with dreamworld causing hallucinations.. for me.. i sometimes have full senses of reality ... but a dream at the same time.. and added onto that.. not being able to move.. for me not being able to speak... often feeling a weight or a pressure on your chest or whole body... for me i often feel tingling up and down my body.. sometimes it is the intense bodily tingling of fear and other times i have very erotic dreams which hold my body in an intense tingle that pulses up and down from my head to my toes. i almost always hallucinate a being , a presence or a person of some kind in the room.. there is always a presence. sometimes it is someone i know.. sometimes i can fully see a person as if in reality that i have never met before .. other times its more like just a vague presence of pure evil.. like a cloud or a dark face.. and yet other times its very strange beings.. like once i imagined a large porcelean pig with evil eyes made of ruby , emerald , and whatever the blue stone was... staring at me.. in almost all cases i am absolutely terrified of this presence. other times i am turned on by it up to a point where the presence no longer turns me on but horrifies me and i panic. once i saw my sister walking up the stares.. i believe i actually had my eyes open.. i was lying in my bed thinking that i was calling out to her to wake me... evidently no sound was coming out.. only air... as she reached the top of the stairs.. i was relieved.. then she turned and faced me... she had MY FACE!!!! and i could see her !!! at that point i knew i was hallucinating and started frantically trying to jerk myself awake... that is the worst part.. the panic.. and trying to jerk yourself out of it.. it happens spontaneously .. almost like you cannot really control it. i think its all subconscious. sleep paralysis is a horrifying mix of the conscious and subconscious. ... but can be very interesting too.. especially on the subject of obe's which tend to also happen during sleep paralysis.
once i was lying in the bed at my grandmas house, and saw the room around me.. couldnt move .. was paralysed but i watched a snake crawl into my stomach and felt it slither around in my intestines.. i believed this snake to be the devil at the time. turned out after i jerked awake i was only having a stomach ache.
once a man was standing at the edge of my bed talking to me. he was an old man wearing a flannel shirt.... he was unshaven and just kept on talking and talking and talking ... his words were clear and seemed to make sense though i do not remember anything of what he said... i remember he seemed to be laughing in a making fun sort of way at me... not making fun but... laughing in a snide way talking to me in such a way that he was expressing that i was inadequate in some form or another.. maybe intelligence... at first i was trying to listen to him.. i found it interesting.. until again i panicked upon realization that he was a figment of my imagination and the rest of the room i saw was not.. and that i was asleep and paralysed. i could not make him disappear or run away... i was vulnerable at his mercy.. which is how it always feels in sleep paralysis with whatever presence is felt... but i panicked.. jerked my head to the side and woke up.
That's happened to me, too! It's happened after dreams in which I was chased by a really evil, malevolent dark man. (A character like that has been in lots of nightmares I've had... When I wake up and think about those dreams later, they seem pretty cool!) The sleep paralysis thing has a name, but I can't remember it. It is part of the brain mechanism that prevents us from acting out our dreams and hurting ourselves when we are not conscious. If every time you dreamed you were running full speed, you did it with your physical body, you'd get pretty messed up, now wouldn't you? I think a LOT (most? all?) of people who say that they were held down in bed by a ghost are simply people who woke up and became conscious before they had really left their dream state, and the timing of the release from that sleep paralysis -- which is normal -- is slightly off. They spend a few seconds still bringing the dream out into reality, and with it the paralysis. Then it wears off and they feel like "the evil ghost" left the room or disipated, when all it was was a bad memory from the dream. Like the thread starter said, it took a lot of research to find out the truth about why he was held motionless. I wish more people would be objective and scientific about this kind of thing, instead of leaping to silly conclusions like belief in ghosts, and ghosts or succubi are attacking them in their sleep. Why would a succubus or ghost who had the power to attack you flee just because you woke up? Blue skies, -Jeffrey
you know you have a really good point... i used to think the same things.. the thing that gets me though.. is why... if it only has to do with chemicals being released or whatever.. you know.. waking up before your body has.. or your body falling asleep before your mind has fully.. ... then why in our sleep paralysis state do so many of us have this foreboding feeling of a malevolent presence.. no matter what we dream it to look like or represent... why is it that so many of us feel this presence at all? we could say that maybe it is our unconscious fears taking a form in our dreamlike state.. ok its obviously a hallucination.. and the hallucinations differ in appearance or form to the different people who imagine them.. but why so often is it a dark or "evil" or malevolent presence that we feel? i also agree with taking a scientific approach to it..but at the same time this question in itsself is something that gets me curious... not saying i believe it is spirits or whatever.. i just think it is a very curious thing that so many of the stories i have heard of sleep paralysis include of one sort or another .. an evil presence.
it happens to me a lot too. the best one was when i was dreaming i was at work and i couldnt understand what my boss was telling me to do, he started yelling at me, and i woke up into sleep paralysis like usual, and i couldnt move my body to try and get my girlfriend to shake me, and i started hearing noises in my head like acid buzz, and then it grew into the weirdest fucking noise i ever heard, like a demon laughing by really high pitched, and the my room spun out into a whirlwind of fire and demons were swarmng around me and talking in fucked up languages and voices, than my girlfriend rolled over and looked at me and snapped me out of it, then i jumped out of bed and i was shaking and shit then we had a cig and i fell back asleep. mad weird
I think this might be to do with the state somebody is in when they enter paralysis. Maybe it's our instinct saying "I can't move, and not being able to move is bad...", and from that the part of ourself that is still in a dream state creates this force. I've had a couple of bouts of sleep paralysis where I know what's happened. I usually try to move parts of my body. It never seems to speed up my waking up, but I've noticed it keeps my mind focused on one thing...which means I'm not thinking about what might be holding me down
Why am I reading this at 16 AM??? This sleep paralyses sounds like a nightmare...I feel sorry for those of you who experianced it..
I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times and everytime I've felt an evil presence. But I know its got nothing to do with demons or shit, it's probably just the evil inside my mind.
