[fm47]

a really good way to prevent sp for me is to turn on music with my computer and set my computer on an automatic shutdown... set it slightly over a time that you think you'd fall asleep.  Have it at 30 min if you must.  The point is to distract your mind before you fall asleep, meaning TV will also work.  Of course, you don't want any sound, or, as little as possible sound, while you sleep, so make sure it can be timed to shut off.  Gl

an on the note of that document i was planning to write... I've written a few things down, but havnt written everything yet with school and all so we'll have to see

[brandon]

Hello,
   my name is brandon, 34yrs old from the US.  i have had SP for as long as i could remember. i have been thinking for ever that i was the only one with this and thought that it was from taking to much LSD and POT. Or opening some spiritual can of worms from lying on my bed naked trying to astro project at about age 9.  Later in life, while on these hallucinogens (Spelling?) at around 19 yrs old to 21, i was able to meditate and go into this state of SP so as to reach "nirvana". the whole time i was able to speak.  i got so good at it that i was able to do it by just listening to trance, or rave music with no drugs.  and then i was able to just meditate with nothing else and "The Door" as i called it would open. each time it got more intense and what felt as "Going deeper".  After a while, i had it "come on" on accident while just sitting there. but not fully.  all of these i was not asleep at all.  At about 22 yeas old i became a christian. and i thought it would stop.   i was never able to fully project my body until one night.  i was lying on my bed and i was NOT asleep.  i have a hard time going asleep anyway.  i just read some book on christians getting rocked by demons and other weird stuff.  and the thought came to me... just the thought, i haven’t tried to go out side my body for a while.. then zoom i was sitting up out side my body. i could hear this sound like you hear when you are yawning but more intense. like hearing your own blood coursing threw your veins. then the utter panicking terror hit me.  sheer utter terror. and a force so evil was in my room. then the blacker than black syrupy sticky evil demon thing started choking me.  i looked down and saw my body laying there. i could hear my heart beating. & the though came to me that i must get back in my body then the grip got tighter around my neck.  it started pulling me out of my body. i felt and believe it wanted my body to live in and was trying to "pull me out of the shell so this spiritual hermit crap could have his new shell... sorta speak"  there was a reason for him choking me.  there is a name that demons fear and that is higher than all other names which is Jesus.  i tried like CRAZY to speak Jesus help me to no avail.  Gutturally i got out the name Jesus only and then it was like snapping a rubber band.... slam! i was back in my body, gasped for air, started yelling and freaking out... ran to wake up my dad who used to be like some warlock, witch dude who used to give guided group tours with small groups of people...ASTRO PROJECTING!  freak! and one time while in another city they all "flew up to my city to check on my mom and she was giving me a cool bath in the sink because i had a fever.  he "flew" back and they got back in their bodies and all concurred that they all saw the same thing.  he called my mom and without her telling him what she was doing, he told her that i would be ok and what he saw.  she freaked out because she knew he was away and couldn't have known what she was doing...  weird eh...  any way  i knew my dad had experience with eccencar, or astro projecting.  so i woke him up and told him the happenings.  he calmed me down and revealed to me that our family had a generational ability to do this and it ( the SP episodes) is a door i discovered.  he said that it all was real and not a dream and he used it when he was younger to fly around and check stuff out and even as a leader of some group that would do it together.  he said once opening the door the feeling of fear would come, that was the devils tool.  he said if you give in to the fear, you would be given a feeling of nirvana and ecstasy or enlightenment.  but to be warned  that is the trick... kind of like bait.  if you give in to it he can come in and kick you out or rule over you or posses you.  so resist it!!! I know i know.. you are thinking what a fruit cake...bunch of loons.  any way being christians, we prayed that this "door" would be shut by God and that it would never be opened again.
   I wish i could say it worked.  It still haunts me.  i feel that there are demons waiting for me to slip up and go or slip out of my body so they can jump in.  i still have these "Doorway" SP episodes about once a month and some times twice or three times a day.  frozen like under a trance, not able to move any thing but my eyes. terror seizing me. cant even scream. weird blood rushing threw my head under pressure, all while awake just before falling asleep. or just watching tv.  if any of you are thinking of going out of their bodies... beware!!!  we don’t know whets out there! i know we are curious and inquisitive creatures..  but trust me what worth is it to not be able to get back inside your own body while some trickster is at the steering wheel!?  and your just screwed!!!  
  any way...crazy world we live in. i have my own conclusions as to what medically SP is and isn't but no idea as to the cure. if any one can email me a cure for this or needs support or would like to talk about this email me at faithfulfive@juno.com    idiots and jerks along with spammers will be reported,   thanks brandon

[kimmer]

Hello.  This started happening to me years ago.  The occurrence is sometimes preceded by a loud banging noise while I am still awake.  Normally, I would jump up and check on a loud banging noise in my home in the middle of the night, but I immediately fall asleep.  Later, at some point, I feel as if I am wide awake and alert but I cannot move, only my eyes. I will see a black figure wearing a hat and overcoat -- it reminds me of those characters you see in the old Humphrey Bogart gangster movies -- but totally black, no features, with its hands in its pockets.  Even though I could not see a face, I got the impression it was just peering at me from my bedroom door. Another time I was vacationing in Ireland, and I woke up and an old white-haired lady in a long robe-like garment was standing at my bedside right by my head and was clacking two stones together.  I see other things too and call me a crackpot but I woke up and saw a grey creature like a human but only about 3 feet tall, large head, thin arms and huge eyes.  It looked surprised that I opened my eyes and looked at it.  It had four very long fingers and no thumb.  There were others in the room, too, standing to the side and back of it.  I finally refused to sleep at night and only sleep in the day.  It never happens in the daytime.  I did accidentlly fall asleep last night while it was dark and the same thing happened only when I opened my eyes I saw a large owl.  Sometimes if I can just move a finger or a toe I can come out of it but I have a very, very hard time staying awake when I do.  I feel like I have been drugged.  It's freaky. I wish I could overcome this problem.

[kimmer]

Hello.  This started happening to me years ago.  The occurrence is sometimes preceded by a loud banging noise while I am still awake.  Normally, I would jump up and check on a loud banging noise in my home in the middle of the night, but I immediately fall asleep.  Later, at some point, I feel as if I am wide awake and alert but I cannot move, only my eyes. I will see a black figure wearing a hat and overcoat -- it reminds me of those characters you see in the old Humphrey Bogart gangster movies -- but totally black, no features, with its hands in its pockets.  Even though I could not see a face, I got the impression it was just peering at me from my bedroom door. Another time I was vacationing in Ireland, and I woke up and an old white-haired lady in a long robe-like garment was standing at my bedside right by my head and was clacking two stones together.  I see other things too and call me a crackpot but I woke up and saw a grey creature like a human but only about 3 feet tall, large head, thin arms and huge eyes.  It looked surprised that I opened my eyes and looked at it.  It had four very long fingers and no thumb.  There were others in the room, too, standing to the side and back of it.  I finally refused to sleep at night and only sleep in the day.  It never happens in the daytime.  I did accidentlly fall asleep last night while it was dark and the same thing happened only when I opened my eyes I saw a large owl.  Sometimes if I can just move a finger or a toe I can come out of it but I have a very, very hard time staying awake when I do.  I feel like I have been drugged.  It's freaky. I wish I could overcome this problem.

[jaded_sad_girl]

THIS IS A LETTER I SENT TO THE WRITER OF AN ARTICLE ABOUT SP.IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING AND I DID NOT WANT TO RE-WRITE IT.



Subj: PLEASE READ THIS!(seriously please)about SP..  
Date: 9/23/2006 7:23:04 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Ducky7766@AOL.COM
To: slinkii@theshadowlands.net
 


Thank you so much for the page you wrote about SP. I have been an occasional sufferer for about 4 years now. I have been looking for somebody that has had this "SP" since my first attack, even consulted docters, but with no such luck. I have NEVER had a decent explanation until today. I am 21 and recently had a child. I noticed that I had more attacks durring pregnancy, and when my husband I were fighting than any other time. Also durring pregancy I was forced to sleep on my back often.I have always wondered about the relation of the supine position to the "paralyzing dreams".
       The two worst episodes were terrifying. The first horrible episode happened when I was taking an afternoon nap. I had not yet fallen asleep , or so I thought. The paralyzing sensation came over me. All of a sudden I saw a hand coming at me.(This would be the ONLY hallucination that I actually saw something THAT WASNT REAL, and not just felt the presence)The hand looked grey and dead, and was not attatched to any sort of body. It was just  floating there. I regained movement and the hand dissapeared. I continued to try to sleep but everytime I tried the SP would start again..Oddly enough if i caught it on time I could stop it from completely paralyzing me. I would only "start" to become tingly. weird eh? Well I just decided to lay on my side after that.It worked. But that was one of the scariest things I have ever seen. It seemed so real..
       The second scariest encounter with SP happened at night. I was sleeping next to Ryan and all of a sudden I was paralyzed again. I was awake I could SEE the alarm clock. It said 2:55 a.m. I started floating , for some reason I could still see Ryan too. He sat up and gave me a horrified look. I was so scared. SO SCARED. Then i started thinking, why doesnt he help me. I was able to move again shortly after. I slapped the hell out of Ryan saying "why didnt you help me?" He said he had been sleeping the whole time. I looked at the clock and it said 2:59 a.m..After the dream I couldnt seem to catch my breath. I kept falling down when I tried to walk. Ryan took me to the docter. They said my blood pressure was dangerously low.They kept me in the hospital until I was regular again. THE Frea  kin DOCTER TOLD ME IT WAS AN "ANXIETY ATTACK"  I know it wasnt. I dont know how I knew. I just did. I was pissed off.
       My first experience with SP was the most insane one though. Not quite as scary for me at the time because I had no idea what it was..I was laying in bed..not sleeping just laying down.All of a sudden I felt this numbness come over me. I could barely move , but i still could a little bit. But It felt like I was "almost paralyzed" and I had a falling feeling in my stomache. I thought It was fun oddly enough.AND I COULD CONTROL IT WITH MY MIND. So i closed my eyes and started thinking about a roller coster. It was so out of this world.When i closed my eyes and thought about the roller coster, I was there , I could feel It , See it , Hear it.Its like I really was on a roller coaster ride. When I felt like I was about to loose control of the dream Or that it was getting way too intense , I could use my mind to bring me out of it.I repeated this  a few times. It was actually amusing me. Sadly that was the only SP occurance that I have been able to control. THE ONLY ONE. All the SP occurances after that were impossible to control. I always fought them but it never worked.Whn I read your article it made me think about my first experience..If there is a way to contol SP,god knows what we could do with it.....

       Anyways you are the first person that I have met that has suffered from SP.I thought i would tell you about my most bizzare bouts of SP. Until today I thought I was freakin crazy

sincerly
amanda

ducky7766@aol.com
my main email

[ScouseLad]

WOW. thank you. I'll try that..

quote:Originally posted by arunescu

I'm glad I found this thread. All my life I thought only I suffered from this "thing" which is the most frightening experience ever

I had sleep paralisys very often as child - maybe weekly. in time the episodes have diminished in number but I was still experiencing it once every 6 months as a teenager

I'm 26 now and haven't had one for a long time - maybe 2 or 3 years

In all these occurences an evil presence was around me - and it was always a woman though I can't describe her figure. The feeling can be described as being burried alive and there was nothing I could do. couldn't move, couldn't speak and the most interesting thing was that I was awake - could see the room and the evil presence around me. I believe there is nothing more frightening in this world than sleep paralysis

as a teenager, even though I realized there are no ghosts, UFOs, poltergeist, etc I was still frightened while paralised as that presence was so real in the room and it wasn't a dream although it feels like one

in time I developed an escape method and become experienced in doing this: maybe someone who still suffers from sleep paralisys can apply it as well:

while paralysed try to contract and expand your butt muscles very fast - you will then be able to move other muscles untill you will be in control of your whole body and be able to "wake up"

I guess we all tried hard to escape these episodes but lately I wanted just to stay there in that state and see what happens without trying to escape........ it never happened again though...still waiting

Arun

[ScouseLad]

I red about 1 and a half pages of this subject, and got lazy. Anyway I can go to bed if I want, and willingly suffer sleep paralisis. I have looked it up before because it used to terrorise me. The way that I don't suffer from it these days is by sleeping on my front. I cannot sleep on my back or I am 80% - 90% sure it will happen again to me... (unless there is someone else in the room or bed or couch)

Many times however, do i wake up lying on my back from the weirdest OBE's (Out of Body Experiences).
If you suffer from sleep paralisis do not read on if you get scared easily.
To me, when this happens (OBE) I actually feel asif my soul is leaving my body. And I think that is genuinly what has happend to me before. I don't care if you don't beleave in you have a soul and physical sensors are all in your brain or whatever... People who suffer from brain damage etc are all still there.. they just cant refer or relate the way they used to.
Anyway going back a couple of weeks to when it last happend.. I went asleep on my stomach (as I always do) and woke up on my back, however before i woke up on my back... I woke up (or so it seemed).. And then i proceeded to get out of bed, without my body, and float.. (can't think of a better word 2 describe the moving) to my door, and to try and get out of my bedroom.. However I could not open my door as i couldn't use my hands (because theyre on my body).. And so looking around, or down, you don't see legs.. It's asif you can float around, but its like learning to walk again.. And so because i could't open the door I thought this is bad, and tried screaming but couldn't. Then what I always do is think to throw myself to the floor in an attempt to make a noise and hopefully woke up someone else in the house. But I float down to the floor, feel like a beeched whale and then wake up. Weird eh?..
Another time I went asleep on my back, drifted off, woke up, couldn't move. This was a few months back now, but still vivid in my memory.. anyway i woke up and was completely relaxed but I was trying lightly to move.. When I felt myself lifting up through the roof, and I could see all the house tops around me, and I thought about visiting some friends who live very close by, but I began to get terrified thinking asif I was dying or something.. And relaxed back letting my soul enter my body.. Or so it seems...
I think that the old lady may also somehow be where the grim reper comes from,(as in different cultures its different hilusanations) as it's something we can think and comprehend that is going to kill us before we die and can float off I don't where..  
Some of my friends have suffered from sleep paralisis also, although not as frequently as myself, and without the weird things that happen to me, and I'm always the one whos started the topic of conversation about it before realising that they suffer from it.
I'm not sure if many other people experience soul leaving the body experiences.. but I know I have.
I also beleave that when you die you experience sleep paralisis.. but in a much less terrorising way.. a more relaxed way.. I like to think.. This is because waking up from sleep paralisis sometimes I think to myself 'I was sure I was going to die'.. Then forget what actually happend, but when also knowing it was sleep paralisis. Like kind of when you have a dream and within a few seconds its erased from your memory.. I can't actually think of anything more to say about my own experiences...

Peace...

[N2Jesus]

I'm 19, and I've been dealing with sleep paralysis since I was about 10 years old.  My episodes come in clusters.  I'll experience SP many times in one week, then go a couple weeks without it happening.  Though I usually only experience paralysis along with a sensed presence, occasionally it's much worse.

Once I was napping on my couch and I woke up suddenly unable to move (blah blah).  I remember that I was paralysed for a long time and I was trying very hard to move.  Then I suddenly woke up and sat up on my couch.  I called my dad on the phone and then I called a friend.  I suddenly realized that I wasn't really awake, I was having a lucid dream then.  I then woke up on the couch again but couldnt move.  I then "woke up" for a third time.  I immediately realized it was only a dream.  I remember walking around my room thinking how real everything seemed.  I then got weirded out because I knew I was still paralysed on the couch.  I woke up on my couch paralysed again.  I then saw shadows of peoples feet moving around the room and I thougt someone had broken in.  I then woke up for real.

Another time, which was more recent, I was sleeping on my couch again.  I woke up paralysed.  I tried very hard to move my feet and legs to wake myself up.  Then I felt someone picking me up by my hair.  I felt like the thing picking me up was an evil being.  I then felt like I was lying on my back and flying down an endless hallway.  I also felt like I was flying around the "being" that picked me up.  He said something to me that was very vivid in my dream, but when I woke up, I couldn't remember what he said.

Anywho, I'm a little tired of typing, haha.

[lph]

Thanks for everyone who have posted their experiences.

i've just googled my experience and found this website, i've never posted a thread or blog before because i always think people who do so, are people who haven't got anything better to do so with their lifes!
but this is different, recently i've experienced exactly what many of you have posted. to tell you the truth it's terrified me, i've recently found my religon again and have thought that i'm allowing my religous beliefs to overtake me unconsciencely. But from reading this i'm comforted that, i'm not alone in my experiences (i thought i was losing it! [])

But i'm not sure if this is a medical or spiritual issue?

Just to give you an idea, i can now sense when it's going to happen (2-3 minutes before they do so) when i'm half alseep and they have been getting worse?!?, well they've been more concerning and realistic/ and darker recently. it now happens 2-3 times a night - 3/4 times a week. Last night for the first time i saw a figure standing above me on my bed (it looked like me, a double...but i'm not sure) the night before that i saw i white round orb going to and from my face from the far wall from my bed, i can open my eyes but i can't scream or move. im suffering from paralysis! usually i think i see dark shadows moving around the room, but i wonder if this is just my mind playing tricks on me?

on every experience my head is ringing or buzzing, and i need to shake myself to getting out of this - but i'm feeling weaker and weaker from my first experince. They are lasting alot longer now!

i've tried everything from prayer before sleeping, to attempting to say the lords prayer whilst it's happening to me. neither has worked in stopping it!

if this is something spiritual it certainly isn't something good or nice, my only other comfort apart from now knowing others have experienced similar incidents and that i'm not a nutter! is that where there is evil there must be a good - certainly re-inforces my faith in a higher power/ or greater power (for me, being god).

Thanks again to everyone who have recorded their comments, i only decided to google this after what i experienced last night - with seeing that image of myself, and it's really given me a piece of mind that i'm not alone.

ta

[fm47]

Wow, this thread just grows and grows.  Anyhow, I had a couple more sp experiences since I've last posted.  What's hilarious is that it's become a game for me.  I realized that if I begin to feel fear, it becomes sudden hell.  In the darkness (which seems to be the recent theme, where everything is just a dark nothingness), my leg started to be tugged, I thought, "Crap, I'm thinking of fear" and just that thought alone made that tug an yanking.  Soon I was playing tug-of-war with... hm, I wonder what it was.  Anyhow, the "thing" pulling my leg, although was "winning", could not pull me away from where I was (although I was really nowhere inside the vast of darkness), perhaps a few inches.  Then it started spinning me around and around, as if trying to twist the attachment between me and the surface apart.  It didn't work.
The day after that, I thought, "If I thought fear... it becomes scary, but what if I thought of... her (a particular girl I've had a crush on for a while)?  So I tried my best to remember, and I did.  I began thinking her name, repeating it in my head and thinking of her image.  Although it didn't work out as planned, I met with a different girl... of which I've cannot say I have had any real experience or imaginations with.  It was very brief, as if I couldn't sustain the ability to "control" my dream, and I woke up.

What do I make of this?
A) It's all in the mind in these two cases
B) Experimentation with such phenomenons are scary.  Why?  Because sometimes you think "maybe I'll just let it win and 'take me', but just before it feels like it's really going to take you, you panic.  I imagine it to be the sudden regret of those committing suicide.
C) These two dreams do not conclude what my beliefs of SP are.

For those who are interested in experimenting with it, please share your experiment results

[Kir]

I had to look this issue up to see if there was a forum topic.
Ive had a read through and it clearly prooves i'm not going insane..
I'm 17 and I have had this experience 3 times.. The first was about a year ago. The pinning to the bed happened and the buzzing in my ear. And to the right side of me was a white figure of a bloke laying next to me. Scared me half to death but I didn'y know whether it was a dream, it felt so real. The second time was about 2 months ago. I could feel the similar feeling as the first. But my cousin died last december and I figured Whats the worst that could happen and I let it pin me with no struggling. I said hello and it said hello back. This was not the frightening feeling everyone else is describing. This was a warming feeling and it talked to me I asked why it was there and it said "to keep you company" It could have all been a halucination but it told me to close my eyes and go to sleep, and as I did I felt stroking of my hair and arm. After this amazing experience I thought nothing of it. Untill about 5 days ago. It happend again.. i let myself get pinned again said hello and it replyed. I asked where it was and the next moment a black ( I dont know how to describe it) appeared merging itself together.. It was a horrible feeling and not the nice one i had felt the second time.. The fear caused me to struggle and I couldnt shout. My mother was downstairs but I couldnt scream. But as I sruggled The blackness just merged into itself and vanished.. I then got up and grabbed my mobile phone.. And turned on my side reading my phone. I left it by the pillow allowing me to know whether it was a dream or not. I then looked around me room and there were a few white figures although I See that as my eyes playing up because I had just switched my lamp on and off. I woke up the next day and the phone possition prooved that it was no dream.  

Sleep paralysis Is the most terrifying thing ive ever experienced. Most of my mates shrug it off as if i'm making it up.. only one person i know has experienced it for themselves. From now on I won't sleep on my back. Only my side. I'm just so glad i'm not the only one who goes through this.

[ursularanis]

I have this rather strange phenomenon happening over the past 6 years or so. I awake from sleep and as I am about to fall back to sleep I go into what I can only describe as a quazi altered state. The sensation is a kind of fuzziness and shifting with a buzzing noise in my ears. I have on occasion willed myself to reproduce this event. It is neither pleasant or unpleasant but a bit disconcerting. I often fight it and am able to come back to ordinary consciousness. The last time this occured I heard whispering voices. Have you heard anyone else describe such symptoms?
Thank you for your time.
Ursula

Ursula

[Hardly hannah_x]

I was looking up sites about sleep paralysis, as "weird" things have been happening to me and many occasions.
I'm not sure yet what they are fully but it's good to hear i'm not the only one and i'm not going mental.
They are all very similar to what is stated here but they just seen so slear and real!
Strange eh?
I may be young but i understand the thngs that isee, get me?
It's one of the most terrifying things i've experienced aswell and i strongly dislike how people tend not to belive me beecause it makes me doubt what i've experienced.
Just glad to hear i'm not mad.

[tachox2]

I've read of others clearly seeing things, hearing voices, having sex with things, etc. but I have not had that experience.  Well except for 2 shadow figures that attacked me one time but they were just dark images.  Anyways, I don't believe the previous poster is crazy.

My SP goes back 28 years starting at the young age of 14.  Took me 26 years to figure out what it was and find others that had it!  I rarely get them anymore but had the typical experiences (loud buzzing, unable to stay awake, wake up immediately and can't move, and, of course, a sense of dread/evil).  

One way I found to defeat the process is to move while the buzzing sound starts.  It takes a huge amount of effort though as it feels like I've been drugged and have zero energy.  If I do move, it breaks the buzzing, then I wait for the buzzing to completely end and go to sleep without the SP.

One thing that I can't find anywhere is an explaination of the loud (painful) buzzing sound that starts the SP.  I would rate it as a moderate headache.  If anyone has a link, please post it.

[jjpoirier]

hi all,

i actually just got up (2:30am) and tried to google a search of this frightening experience. i could not sleep cause i am to freaked.

i have had similiar experiences to the ones posted on this site. i am glad to have found such a forum.

i'll explain while its fairly fresh in my mind... its as though i am just about to sleep or feel half asleep. i had my eyes open, and i could not move but it felt as though my body was shaking or convulsing. i couldnt speak or yell. the room seemed a bit brighter then usual and with my body sorta shaking, either my eyes where shaking to or kinda earthquake happening. it seemed at the time it was the house. i remember a kind of noise as well, but not sure what it was. my wife was sleeping beside me and i thought something was happening to her or that she was talking. i have fought to wake up from something before but this was really bad, it felt as though i was close to death. if i had stayed in that state i thought sure it was over. it felt like something was gonna leave my body or some sort of possesion. definately felt bad.  when i finally woke my wife was asleep so she didnt wake so i know i couldnt have woken her. when i turned towards her she must have been in a nightmare at the time. it sounded as though i heard whimpers or fear like noises. after i put my hand on her she stopped. almost as though she dreampt me going through this?? it was the worst sleep/terror paralysis i have had to date.

something that also is wierd that others may experience. is halucinations. im talking when you wake during the night and see thing and u are sure they are real. I have been experiencing these since age of 12. (27 on oct 24). i have seen bugs on my bed, snakes on the floor, dirt on the bed including my coat which  i thought for sure was there and tried to take it off the bed and my wife woke and asked what  i was doing and as i told her i started to realize there was no coat and i was trying to through the blankets on the floor. mostly i halucinate these days is my pet rat got out of the cage somehow and is on the bed or under the sheets. it freaks me out cause its as though i see her plain as day and i have went to pick her up and feels as though i touch her and as i begin to realize i cant pick her up or if i whip the sheets off me or turn on the light there is nothing of course. just my wife thinking im crazy and half dozed and little cranky cause i woke her.

i appologize if i got off topic a bit but was to freaked to sleep. still skethcy if i should [V] i will post past experiences and new experiences when they happen of this sleep/terror paralysis when i can.

g'night all

[catfishbiff]

I cannot say that in my terrifying experience that I ever hallucinated or heard anything, but I did experience that paralyzation and terror that I won't soon forget.  I took a nap in my college dorm room and woke up, unable to move or make an oral noise.  The only thing that I remember being able to do was blink.  The terror that I felt is unsurpassed by anything I've ever experienced; I thought that I would be lying there still as stone until my roommates believed me to be diceased.  Finally, I remember trying to whistle to get the attention of one of my roommates in the next room, and I thankfully regained all range of motion.  Like most others, I googled this system and now a mere hour later I am reliving the most frightening moment of my 18 year old life. I sympathize with all of you.

[terrytoh]

From what I gone through, I strongly feel that stress is the main cause of sp. We should try to reduce our stress...Hope everyone here is listening...

[fm47]

I agree that stress seems to be a big factor on why people get SP.  But sometimes, stress or not, SP just happens and it makes you wonder between what's just a dream and what's more than a dream.  Some SP experiences I've had I conclude in that they were simply of stress and daily analysis, but certain other ones...

[ScouseLad]

hi all,

i actually just got up (2:30am) and tried to google a search of this frightening experience. i could not sleep cause i am to freaked.

i have had similiar experiences to the ones posted on this site. i am glad to have found such a forum.

i'll explain while its fairly fresh in my mind... its as though i am just about to sleep or feel half asleep. i had my eyes open, and i could not move but it felt as though my body was shaking or convulsing. i couldnt speak or yell. the room seemed a bit brighter then usual and with my body sorta shaking, either my eyes where shaking to or kinda earthquake happening. it seemed at the time it was the house. i remember a kind of noise as well, but not sure what it was. my wife was sleeping beside me and i thought something was happening to her or that she was talking. i have fought to wake up from something before but this was really bad, it felt as though i was close to death. if i had stayed in that state i thought sure it was over. it felt like something was gonna leave my body or some sort of possesion. definately felt bad.  when i finally woke my wife was asleep so she didnt wake so i know i couldnt have woken her. when i turned towards her she must have been in a nightmare at the time. it sounded as though i heard whimpers or fear like noises. after i put my hand on her she stopped. almost as though she dreampt me going through this?? it was the worst sleep/terror paralysis i have had to date.

something that also is wierd that others may experience. is halucinations. im talking when you wake during the night and see thing and u are sure they are real. I have been experiencing these since age of 12. (27 on oct 24). i have seen bugs on my bed, snakes on the floor, dirt on the bed including my coat which  i thought for sure was there and tried to take it off the bed and my wife woke and asked what  i was doing and as i told her i started to realize there was no coat and i was trying to through the blankets on the floor. mostly i halucinate these days is my pet rat got out of the cage somehow and is on the bed or under the sheets. it freaks me out cause its as though i see her plain as day and i have went to pick her up and feels as though i touch her and as i begin to realize i cant pick her up or if i whip the sheets off me or turn on the light there is nothing of course. just my wife thinking im crazy and half dozed and little cranky cause i woke her.

i appologize if i got off topic a bit but was to freaked to sleep. still skethcy if i should [V] i will post past experiences and new experiences when they happen of this sleep/terror paralysis when i can.

g'night all

I think that this sometimes goes hand in hand with sleep paralisis.
I had a kind of thing the same as this the other night. I was asleep and me and my friend had been out on the town, drinking and socialising with other people. But i know it wasnt the alcoholc that effected this, because it also happend another time when I wasn't drunk. Anyway..
I was sleeping, and when I woke up I seen like a fat guy hovering above my bed, and i screamed out a kind of 'UGH' sound. Then i looked at my friend sleeping on a matress on the floor and he made a noise and rolled over, so I knew that I had made the noise out loud, and then I just went back to sleep.

Another time I was dreaming that I was on my bed, and couldn't move, and my friend said to me 'lets put this game on the xbox' so i said 'alright'. Then all the other people in the room started rapping as he was reaching for the game, saying thing like 'Pac man (his nickname) is puttin da game on game on'. (lol i have alot of black friends) and then he came over to me and passed me the game.. as i leaned up to grab it i woke up. Then as I was awake I could still see him for a few seconds, and then he like turned into my lamp, and i was sitting up reaching out to the lamp.
This is a bit weird but they where the only two times I have hillusanated off waking up.

But scientifically.. I think that its maybe an overactive sleeping brain that causes this..
I know that your body realeases some chemical into your blood that paralises you when you sleep, and when you wake up this chemical is still in your brain or blood and thats the reason people suffer from sleep paralises.
The same thing could be happening for hillusanated from being asleep. You could just still have some chemical in your blood/brain, and when you wake up fully you realise that the thing actually isnt there.

Anywayz jus thought that would help.
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