Theres a thing called sleep paralysis, basically your body is paralyzed from a chemical whenever you sleep, to prevent you from sleep walking, and Ive woken up before, while my body was still in that state, finding it very hard to talk and breath, I was trying to scream, "help" but it was just a whisper.. but for a long time I wondered what happened to me.. and now I know
That has happened to me a lot. I didn't know it was more or less normal until I told a doctor about it.
I get it every now and then, along with vivid hallucinations. Its fucking terrifying. First time was about eighteen months or so ago. I spent the night with a friend drinking, listening to black metal and yelling "praise satan" all night. Went to bed and woke up at about 6am, opened my eyes and saw in front of me this brown imp/demon like creature with red eyes staring at me snarling, and holding a blade in each hand. I tried to scream and move but was completely paralysed, and got this overwhelming sense of dread, awe and terror. I felt this intense burning tingling all over my body which lingered for hours afterwards. After a couple of seconds, and remembering my previous night I felt complete helplessness and just wished for it to be over. After a few more seconds it vanished and I was able to move, and was confused and frightened. Second time happened a few months later, I moved into a new flat and woke up randomly one night, was frozen, and saw one of my flatmates enter my room with a megaphone, and scream in my ear. I saw it, I heard it, I felt it, then I woke up and was alone, my flatmate asleep. Dont know what the fuck was going in my brain with that one. Third time was at the start of the year, in my apartment in the city. My girlfriend was downstairs watching tv with my (other) flatmate and I went to bed cuz I was tired. A little while later I woke, saw the door open, assumed it was my girlfriend and then realised I couldnt move, and again felt the same sense of dread, awe & terror that I did the first time. I saw this little shadow enter the room but then it disappeared and I was able to move again. I fell asleep shortly afterwards not sure what to make of it, and when my girlfriend did come in I asked if she had opened the door earlier and she hadnt. Fuck. Fourth time was maybe less than a week ago. I was dreaming that my cell phone was ringing, (well vibrating) and could hear it on my desk. I (and at this point was still aslepe and dreaming) moved to the desk to pick it up, flipped it open and on the screen saw a different demon face that started laughing, then I woke up and couldnt move and had the image of the face in my mind and could still hear the laugh. Again I felt the same burning sense of dread. The people I've told have all sort of given the same "Wow that sounds cool" response, and while I appreciate having the experience I really hope it doesnt happen again. Four times is enough. Feeling like youre about to die and having vivid hallucinations really isnt fun.
When I was having one of those episodes, I heard a growling that seemed to come from a point about 5 feet from my bed. It was not a growl that you would hear from any earthly creature, but rather like some great beast. It persisted for at least 5 seconds after I was fully awake.
The last time I had sleep paralysis, I resisted it and it felt like my soul came out of my body and I started seening a bright light in my living room and I seen this man at the carnival on the other side of my room and he was running from these shadow people and then the shadow people ran after me and I started falling and I screamed to God and woke up. It was insane and kinda scary, I think the trazadone did that, it does werid stuff when i sleep sometimes
this happens to me. it has since I was a little kid. I also have hallucinations in this state, usually of bugs on the floor/walls/in bed. sometimes snakes. sometimes it's just these .. blobs of energy, with arms (not human arms, just like. tentacles kind of?) extending out (don't really know how to explain it). once it was an old, grey woman holding a child in the corner of the room. it's scary. and for a brief while (that feels way longer than it is), I can't move, scream, or look away.
I've had this happen a few times and its not very nice thing to happen. It makes you not want to go back to sleep just in case it happens again. ^_^
It happens to me quite often. The first time it happened I was sure I had gone to hell, I had no idea about sleep paralysis back then, I was scared shitless. It's like a lucid dream, but 10 times more real, because it is kind of 'real', because you're awake but hallucinating madly. But later I found out all about sleep paralysis and tried to enjoy it, which is hard. I always have a feeling of some strange presence, that thing is usually behind me where I can't see it, only feel its massive body crushing me. However now I always identify sleep paralysis and it ALWAYS leads me into a lucid dream. I'm kinda looking forward to my next sleep paralysis moment!
This is not an uncommon occurrence at all...odds are this has happened to you but you just have not recognized it as sleep paralysis.
