any experience with this? I had it sooo bad for about 2 years. the worst time I fell asleep reading a book lying on my side with my hand on the book in front of me. I woke up in paralysis, try to move and would raise my head and then snap back to the pillow. I'd raise my head again, this time getting a little bit further, then snap instantly back to the pillow, like the sequence was restarting. This must have happened over 100 times, by the end I was fighting against this force and managed to throw myself out of the bed, writhing on the floor trying to scream, and then *snap* I'm back in the bed. usually dreams have a blurry, out of control kind of feel to them, like you're an observer, but this was so vivid. usually you don't remember falling asleep, its just morning all of a sudden, but I literally closed my eyes and re-awoke into sleep paralysis instantly. when I finally woke up properly, I couldn't tell that I had awaken and was suprised at how fluid my movements where this time, and waited to snap back, but it never came. I couldn't really sleep for the rest of that night in case it happened again. Another time I fell asleep on my sofa, and this spirit was floating over me, like a young boy dressed in modern clothes but transparent and white. He was the spirirt that tortured me in my paralytic moments. after repititions like the ones described above I found the strength to raise a hand and flip him the middle finger, for all the anguish he'd caused me, and then I was overwhelmed with an electric shock type feeling on my brain (inside my skull, not my head) and my testicles! I was locked in place, and dragged into the centre of the room, where I felt a burning sensation and then woke up back on the sofa. Scary shit. despite these incidents I learned to control the paralysis and began to realise when it was starting, and I ended up having maybe a dozen really beautiful lucid dreams, so it's not all bad. any similar experiences?
My most recent involved me being beaten my five or six negative entities. They were the size of 3 year old children and reminded me of the "Jawa's" on the Star Wars movie. They weren't causing any pain but the shock of the attack was freaking me out. I tried to wake up but found myself unable to move my body. Being unable to defend myself or move my arms or legs was frightening enough and I began to panic. My body was in a paralyzed state and felt very heavy. After what seemed to be a long time I finally awoke from the dream somewhat shaken from what I just experienced. This phase was what I later found out to be sleep paralysis. This is what I'm trying to learn to control. Right now I'm practicing astral projection.
My friend gets this a lot. She said she usually awakes with someone stood over her, or sat on top of her, rendering her unable to move. Sounds crazy as fuck. She also keeps getting reoccurring nightmares where she doesn't know if she is dreaming or awake. She hears noises in the hallway of her student halls, but when she goes to look what the noises is, the corridor is empty and the lights are flickering. She goes back and gets in bed, and can see the silhouette of someone sat in the chair in the corner of the room, but when she gets up to get a closer look it is gone. She keeps having the same experience over and over again. So glad that I have never had to experience anything like that. I would be terrified!
Yeah i get sleep paralysis quite abit, usually after waking up from a lucid dream. My friends dad (a doctor) told me that it is the result of waking up while your eyes are still in the REM phase - which would make sense, since your dream movements don't correlate to body motions (for the most part), hence when your brain is still wired for being in a dream, but you are consciously awake (to a greater or lesser extent), you wouldn't be able to actually move your body, at least that's how I interpreted it. I've also experienced the 'snapping back' scenario that snootch described, although it has never lasted that long (3-10 snaps I'd say). Just the other night I had my first experience 'hallucinating' during the paralysis, I didn't see anything, but heard a deep 'god-esque' voice behind me saying 'you've crossed the chalk line' and several other cryptic one-liners that hit me with less potency. My mom also has repeating experiences with people standing over her when she wakes up, like your friend mr. mojo, although she's not paralyzed. According to her, she can feel a presence in the house slowly coming in the door, up the stairs, and standing over her, when she opens her eyes, lo and behold there they are in fully lifelike proportions and detail. Never the same person twice, and never anyone she ever knew. As a kid I would wake up with her scream, or with her hand thumping the wall to make them go away (it worked), but now, having grown accustomed to it, she politely asks them to leave, and they obligingly evaporate. She's always been curios about talking to them, but never has, fearing the 'crazy' connotations that it might carry. Weird stuff, gotta love it though in some ways - dreams are about a third of our reality, and arguably the most radically subjective, certainly the most malleable before our will, so make the most of them
