Post below, only happend to me once when I was very young, dont remember it well.
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Sorry typed quickly, *experienced
Yeah.
Shit's fucked up.
I've had a few but one I remember was that I was on my bed and about to be sucked into some type of otherworldly portal that had formed at the end of my bed. Shit was freaky as shit because I legit couldn't move until my cat jumped on me. :v:
It's incredibly terrifying when it happens. Especially when you try to call for help. You can hear yourself doing so, but in actuality you aren't saying anything. Or it was like that for me at least.
only once
I had a dream about the slenderman once, around 2012 (I almost can't believe I actually believed the stories), and when I woke up, it was like he was leaning out from behind the door to my room, which was open
yes, about twice a year. i've never been terrified from it, it's just kind of annoying that i can't move
tip: wiggle your toes until you wake up, toes are the only part you're able to move
When I was little I had it happen all the goddamn time; there's at least three times I can clearly remember, a few more that are foggy, and some things that I remember happened to me when I was very very little that I suspect were probably sleep paralysis as well. Usually happened when I was really tired...which is most of the time.
Literally the stuff of nightmares. So glad I don't get it anymore.
Yes but not scary ass shit. I've seen ravens in my room (I don't read Poe).
But it wasn't scary or anything because I wasn't awake enough to realize that it's not normal to have a raven in my room, and if I was awake enough I'd realize it wasn't real anyway.
Going from awake to sleep paralysis to lucid dream, is the second of the two primary techniques of lucid dreaming. So I get a lot of paralysis as a result, but also get into lucid dreams from them.
[QUOTE=Orkel;51457350]Going from awake to sleep paralysis to lucid dream, is the second of the two primary techniques of lucid dreaming. So I get a lot of paralysis as a result, but also get into lucid dreams from them.[/QUOTE]
I haven't had any luck with lucid dreaming. The closest I got was waking up in the middle of the night a couple times and finding myself tapping the fingers on my right hand on my bed, which I tried using for WILD.
ya a few times
All the time, and often enough to be used to it. I recently had sleep paralysis and hallucinated this thing standing over me.
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It isn't fun, but you have to remind yourself that the images you're viewing aren't real. It's more annoying than scary after awhile.
In a rough part of my life I used to get it on a nightly basis. Terrible experience, there's a feeling from it you just don't quite shake off despite how frequent it happens
I've had sleep paralysis a few times, nothing scary has come out of it. Unless you consider these little fuzz balls scary
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I experienced normal as well as sexual sleep paralysis. Was a hell of a ride with a black androgynously shaped entity on top of me. That is where the stories of succubus and incubus comes from. Although I read about some people who unlike me it ain't pleasant for, some are what they feel being raped by demons.
it felt like something heavy was slowly sinking into my chest all the while I was having auditory hallucinations. I heard my dad talk to me, and I whispered into my left ear.
messed up.
[QUOTE=slayer20;51458462]I've had sleep paralysis a few times, nothing scary has come out of it. Unless you consider these little fuzz balls scary
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i dunno i'd be relieved if instead of shadow monsters little fuzzballs showed up
Yes and it took me years to realize this was something that's actually documented. It used to happen way more often when I was a teen, not so much anymore. Like maybe once every 4 months ? Unless I have a weird-ass week where it happens like 2 or 3 times.
It really is a weird thing. You can't fully describe it unless you experience it. Like words don't do it justice.
Many people picture scary things around the room when this happens. This never happened to me. Ever. I'm actually thankfull for that. I also never experienced the high pressure people often feel on their chest while in sleep paralysis.
First of all, whenever I realize I'm in sleep paralysis, it's always as I'm about to wake up in the morning. Or when I take an out of place afternoon nap. It usually lasts around 1 minute, but it feels like forever. When I realize I can't control my own body, I try to wiggle it awake. Somehow, only some portions of my body remains active. Most of the time, it's the tip of my fingers which I manage to curl a little bit or the tip of my chin which I can also move a little bit. In my mind in panic, I somehow think that moving as much as I can will trigger some kind of "wake up reflex". It never works. Yet I always instinctively do that when sleep paralysis occurs to me.
I also try to scream, but it's fruitless. Like someone else said on this thread, it feels like you're shouting, but your body doesn't produce a sound. My girlfriend who sleeps next to me can testify ; she said she never hears me at all when it happens.
Once I do wake up, it's a relief. It's finally over. I remember that one day, I was so at ease when I did wake up from it that I fell back asleep and it happened a second time. I felt like an idiot afterward.
But yeah, shit sucks. I wish I could go on without these, they aren't fun at all.
I know for me that sleeping on the side or on my stomach never triggers any sleep paralysis. Anyone else avoiding it by doing this?
Most sleep paralysis isn't scary for me. Most the time when it happens I'm legit half awake, can't get up or really move but I can look around. I can force my way out of it if I try hard enough. The only time it was scary was when I couldn't move but I heard whispering voices next to my bed and from where the whispers were coming from I saw a faint bit of red light glowing down on the floor. Was something straight out of Amnesia.
had it happen once where I saw a shadow coming closer and closer and I couldn't move at all, shit got me good was terrified for a while
[QUOTE=Orkel;51457350]Going from awake to sleep paralysis to lucid dream, is the second of the two primary techniques of lucid dreaming. So I get a lot of paralysis as a result, but also get into lucid dreams from them.[/QUOTE]
Sounds interesting, got any more info on that?
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year and like some others mentioned, it's a terrifying experience.
Mine usually involve a never ending cycle of dream-waking up. My brain thinks it's time to get up and attempts to stand up, but my body cannot move, so my mind fades out. Only for me to wake up from that mini dream to attempt to stand up again.. Only to wake up from that mini dream to try to stand up.. And then I wake up from that dream and try to stand up.. over and over again. Half-lucid, thinking "Am I ever going to wake up in real life?!?" I can't move or make a sound throughout the entire thing. And it's some of the worst experiences I've ever had.
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;51458614]I know for me that sleeping on the side or on my stomach never triggers any sleep paralysis. Anyone else avoiding it by doing this?[/QUOTE]
You and me both. Sleeping on my back is a recipe for sleep paralysis.
how do you get lucid dreaming because I will be willing to put up with this to get to that
I had it a couple of times. Thankfully it hasn't happened to me in several years now.
Last time I had it, I woke up to see gigantic centipedes crawling all over my ceiling and obviously I couldn't move or do anything about it. They ended up crawling outside my field of view until I could move a few minutes later.
Pretty fucked up stuff.
I've had it a handful of times. During the worst one I thought I had become blind in a weird way, it's kinda hard to explain
My eyes were open, so I was looking at the wall beside my bed. My body felt more sluggish than I've ever felt, but I could barely move. I could hear myself moving, and I could feel it too, but from my visual perspective everything was frozen in place. I couldn't get up, but I managed to roll out of bed. it was freaky, because I could FEEL myself rolling out of bed, but still I could only see the wall. It felt like the image of the wall had burned itself onto my retinas and I honestly thought I had contracted some form of blindness
i experience it regularly maybe twice a month, mainly when im stressed out before i fall asleep or have a stressful dream
most recently when i had it a few days ago i had a vivid feeling of my lower jaw being stuck and trying as hard as i could with all my strength to move it side to side (while also trying to move my arms and legs) and when i finally did i heard a massive crunching sound with what felt like blood flooding my mouth
and then i became conscious shortly afterwards, moved my jaw slightly and it "clicked" and moved on with my day.
(am i the only one who shifts their jaw around and hears a click at least once a day??)
i knew i was awake but i couldn't move and my eyelids were closed. i heard voices, a few murmuring quietly at first, but they grew louder and more frightened until i was trapped in a cacophony of screams. i was able to open my eyes, and the screams stopped at once.
later that day, the Turkish coup attempt happened
When I was a pre-teen, I'd come home from school and flop on my bed, laying sideways, and day dream about whatever was in my head that day. There were a few days that I remember being awake, but not being able to control my breathing/movement; moments like that scared the shit out of me, yet I couldn't do anything to stop it. One time my body started to roll over, facing down, but my head would stay facing sideways; I was afraid that I was going to break my neck or choke myself.
I had no idea what sleep paralysis was until I looked into lucid dreaming years later. I enjoyed my time inducing it for lucid dreams, but those experiences when I was way younger were terrifying.
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