Once, fairly recently in fact (~1 month back). It was late morning, I think I woke up halfway then drifted back to sleep. I dreamt that I was lying on a couch in the living room of a narrow house. Looking from the back of the living room to the front where the entrance was, the couch was up against the left wall, with the stairs leading up on the right, directly opposite the sofa. This pretty much mirrored the layout of my room, except in place of the entrance to the house was the only wall with windows in my room, and in place of the stairs was the door to my room. The stairs were also nearer to the couch than the door was to my bed, and the entrance was further from the couch than the windows were from my bed. The living room was lit from the entrance, and by the light streaming down the stairwell. It was the kind of lighting you get at dawn and dusk (dawn in the case of my dream), where everything's a dim shade of blue. My room was similarly lit at that time, because I'm in the basement, the windows don't admit much light, and the curtains were drawn, which further reduced the amount of light in the room.
Anyway, I was lying on the couch, and my girlfriend was upstairs. At some point, she started coming down. I don't recall hearing her coming downstairs, I just knew that she was. She came into view, reached the bottom of the stairs, then started walking towards me. She was wearing a white nightgown and her hair was covering her face. In real life, my girlfriend's hair is nowhere near long enough to cover even half her face. It was at this point where I started to wake up again, and my dream started to blend with my room. The girl walking towards me (who was now no longer my girlfriend in my mind) reached the couch, stood next to it, and started reaching towards me with her right hand. I then became awake enough to realise I was in my room lying on my bed, but not awake enough to stop dreaming. In other words, I suddenly realised that there was an unknown girl wearing a white nightgown, whose hair obscured her face, standing next to my bed reaching for me with her pale hand. I promptly shat a wheelbarrow of bricks, and tried to grab her arm with my left hand while asking her who she was. I managed to grab her hand, but since I wasn't actually properly awake yet, I couldn't make a sound. I panicked and my heart started beating really fast. This was when I woke up fully and realised I was in my room, my door was locked, and there was no one else in the room with me. I was sweating, my heart was still racing, and I found my left arm lying above my head.
Overall a very interesting experience, wouldn't mind going through it again.
I had it a bunch of times but I don't hallucinate. First time it happened was because I was mucking about while in sleep mode, accidentally summoned a phantom by thinking too much about it, nopedisconnect improperly from the dream.
My mind was awake but my body was still asleep.
My eyes open and I could look around but I couldn't move a muscle except for my toes. I could attempt to speak but with no ability to articulate, I could only moan.
I pretty much cancelled the bad dream before it happened so there wasn't a problem.
The move-your-toes technique works and I only had sleep paralysis whilst sleeping on my back.
I may have had one nightmarish sleep paralysis episode (big indescript shadow) but that may had been a bad dream.
I had also felt my body lose power when falling asleep.
Only once. Ive been in some shit in my life but that one time holyshit.
It was so mindfucky scary. There was a point that i kept screaming for help but it was like i had no mouth. I hear a creepy demon child just out of view laughing at me across the room.
The worst part was when I believe i was crawling towards the door to escape and then I woke up from the sleep glad that the whole ordeal was over...
Only to fucking realize that I was still stuck in the fucking bed and that demon bitch was still giggling.
It was crazy as hell, worse than my worst shroom or acid trips.
When I was the kid there was the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person"]shadow of a bear[/URL] (standing on its hindlegs) in the corner of my room watching me. I was terrified and just shut my eyes and waited for it to leave.
Also, I have a friend who has had it a few times. In fact one time he had it when we were in a group voice chat. He said that hearing us talking during the ordeal had made the experience easier on him.
I've had it fully a few times, one time when I was trying to lucid dream, and when I was a kid I would often get a version of it where I would be cross eyed and looking around my room but I couldn't move, but If I did move a little bit I would rubber band back to my original position in bed.
I experience sleep paralysis often enough that I occasionally have dreams of it which results in me waking myself up trying to fight against it, lol. Interestingly enough I never have the issues with [I]seeing[/I] anything during sleep paralysis unless it happens to be one of the instances where I'm dreaming I'm experiencing it. I only experience the feeling of being watched and such. (I know it's a dream because the lighting during the dream doesn't align with the lighting after I wake up.)
Also: protip; If you're scared of seeing shit, you can still close your eyes.
Happened to me once when I was 6/7, I never knew what it was until I looked back at it and searched online years later.
Shits really scary, I was terrified of going back to sleep for a week.
[QUOTE=GamerChick;51457220]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.[/QUOTE]
Had simillar experience. Some weirdass edgy entity tried to consume me in my dream and turn it into nightmare. Instead of simply waking up I actually had to struggle with this entity, trying to move felt the same as 'not to give yourself up'.
I have, it's fucking crazy. I was dreaming with my eyes open, my guitar amplifier was somehow outside so I knew I was tripping. I woke up, but couldn't move. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't for some reason. It was spooky shit. Didn't even last that long, but felt like an eternity
Do any of you guys experienced sleep paralysis without hallucinations / feeling of being watched / high pressure on the chest ? I do experience a lot of sleep paralysis but I have a hard time relating to you guys because I have none of these symptoms.
For me it's like just having tetraplegia. Unable to use your body in some kind of limbo.
Few times. It's a shitty feeling when you feel some force creep up on you when you cannot move. You try to scream for help but you make no sound. Gladly haven't had 1 in year though
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;51460855]Also: protip; If you're scared of seeing shit, you can still close your eyes.[/QUOTE]
No. In sleep paralysis you tend to see "through" your eyelids since it's mostly a dream still.
Yeah, to the point that I can calm my thoughts and be aware of what's going on. It doesn't even bother me anymore.
Numerous times, yes.
For me, the "static man" is the recurring focal point of it all. Just a weird, silhouette of a man who seems to flicker in and out of existence to the tune of constant grainy noise, sort of like TV static I guess, but different, hard to say.
I know it's only a hallucination, but in the moment there is simply something so overwhelmingly dreadful about his perceived presence that I can't seem to acknowledge that. The noise, along with him just looming over me in the corner, always in my vision even if just out of the corner of my eye, seems to bring such a sensation of weight and suffocation.
Creepy, but also sort of cool, exciting I guess.
i had sleep paralysis once a few years back, pretty scary the first time it happens. unfortunately my tv was on so i was forced to sit through an entire episode of friends.
I've experienced weird shit enough times but that was in my old house where i lived when i was 4 to 9 years old and it became something more than what i can qualify as sleeping paralysis. I hope this won't be too long of a wall of text but i will try to tell everything i experienced over the years.
Because i never felt safe in that house, it was like something was always watching me . When i was 5/6 years old things got completely fucked in the night. It started with me waking up in the middle of the night and seeing red eyes in the corner of the room. But i always shat my pants and pulled the blankets over my head and ignored everything i heard. This happened 1 time a month give or take.
But things got more out of hand. When i was 7 this happened again but with a BANG sound. i woke up and turned around and this motherfucking thing was standing next to me. It was standing next to my window too so light shined on it. But it was a shadow figure with glowing red eyes and a cowboy like hat on. This made me believe i was hallucinating or something because a shadow with a cowboy hat? yeah, no, no way... But it was still standing there and when i started to move it vanished through the wall. Once again i shat my pants and pulled the blankets over my head. (I got a computer and internet when i was 10 years old i started to research it but the fact it had a hat on and red eyes was apparently normal as he was called "the hat man" and reported all over the world, i once again shat my pants because could all of my experiences really have happened? But that was when i already moved to another house where nothing ever happened, so it was ok.
I started to hear things scrape around my desk in the night. banging on the walls, somebody walking around. But what made things really weird is that this wasn't only happening ''in my head'' because objects really did start to move in my room. Things falling on the ground in the night or simply found in another place the next day. Sometimes a pile of donald duck comics i had were spread around the room, that happened 2 times. And souds of doors opening and closing would happen once in a while.
But these were harmless things really, it was scary and annoying but harmless. Until i woke up in the middle of the night again, under my bed, and my blankets on the other side of the room, it was stone cold in my room on a hot summer night. I was cold as hell too so in a shaking movement i crawled to the side of my room where my blankets were and crawled back onto the bed where i simply tried to get back to sleep, didn't really work as i was so scared. But nothing more happened that night. Just the fact that it was almost freezing in my room while it was so hot that night.
A couple of weeks later i woke up because i heard a high pitched sound repeating over and over and over again, i got out of bed and investigated what it was. In a dusty plastic box over in the corner of the room i went and heard it came out of there. I opened the box and it was filled with old toys, creepy dolls and lego. Then i found it. An old Tamagotchi that had died at least 4/5 years ago. Had suddenly come back to life, with a flickering screen and high pitched sounds. So i removed the battery. And suddenly i felt that the room became incredibly cold again. I knew enough and went back to bed, at this point i didn't really care anymore i was just so used to him fucking around.
I saw it 3 more times before we moved to another house a year later because of financial issues. One time i went to the bathroom in the night and it was standing on the staircase with his red eyes looking at me. I simply said hello, before going past him. He was always so cold and felt a little static, but didn't attack me... yet.
Now the event where the sleeping paralysis happened. I woke up on my back which was unusual for me, so i tried to get back on my side, i couldn't. I opened my eyes and there he was in the corner of the room. Red eyes, human sillhouette and a black hat. slowly creeping towards me. And after 30 seconds he suddenly teleported through my room over me. I felt really cold hands starting to choke me and i couldn't breath. I could only wait and try to move or yell but it was impossible. Suddenly my whole head snapped with an immense force to the right side and i could hear the muscle in my neck snap. It was that moment i suddenly could move again but i seriously didn't have air in my lungs anymore and had to gasp for air.
The pain in my neck was fucking real too and it hurt like hell. The pain held on for a week or 2 and the first couple of days i couldn't look to the left side without getting a sharp burning sensation through my neck.
3 months later my parents found a house and before we got to move it gave me one last visit. I was having a nightmare about a big house and couldn't find my way out. Suddenly i tripped and looked behind me and there he was again. But as i saw him i heard a fucking loud crash and it smashed me right out of my dream. I sat right up in my bed and looked at a big black thing hanging over me. I went back under my blankets and thought fuck this shit. The next morning i woke up and hoped whatever that was had gone away. i looked up from under my blankets and saw my whole closet full of clothes, heavy as hell and always standing extremely steady on the ground. Had fallen over me. Leaning against my bed. (i had a high bed so the closet couldn't fall on me,but was hanging against the side of my bed over me.) I got up and with all my power managed to get the closet back up again. My parents asked me what that loud bang was and i told them it simply fell over.
They did not believe me and thought i had been fucking around with it in the middle of the night, why would i even do that...
I never told them about these experiences because they would obviously not believe me or think i am crazy. They never complained about anything except some of the weird sounds in the night and they would blame me for it. But as we finally moved to our current house it felt safe in there, no weird sounds, no feelings of being watched, no activities and no middle of the night chocking parties.
I don't want to believe what happened, i almost can't. A shadow with a hat on and red eyes is already a stupid concept, how does that fucker get a hat in the first place... but the fact he could literally fuck up my room and throw shit around makes this more that sleeping paralysis, i think... I'm just glad it is over now.
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Holy crap that is a fuckton of text, well hopefully it's atleast interesting or entertaining...
[QUOTE=brandsmanato;51467261]creepy first hand account[/QUOTE]
Sleep paralysis is named for being just that. Paralysis during sleep.
Whatever it is you were dealing with, I don't think it is simply a nasty case of sleep paralysis, because this thing was stalking you while you were both awake and asleep, and it was following you house to house.
Happy to hear that you're feeling fine as of right now. If it happens again, however, you will need to talk to somebody. If need be, set up a camera in your room.
[editline]3rd December 2016[/editline]
To clarify, I am no paranormal expert (on the contrary, I remain skeptical of those things, just don't ask me to live in places where sketchy things are happening), but something that is physically moving things around is something more tangible than a nasty hallucination.
Once, didn't hallucinate or see any weird shit. Just annoyed that I couldn't move since I knew what was going on.
[QUOTE=brandsmanato;51467261]spoopy shit[/QUOTE]
Sounds like yer place is haunted bro. Call the priests to bless it n shiet.
I sometimes have it, but only once like really proper. I have woken up, and I'm not sure if I'm awake, but I'm aware of my surroundings.
But once, I couldn't move for like what seemed like an eternity, and just, nothing works. Your body has just, show down. It was probably like 10 seconds to a minute maybe, but it felt so long...
I've had it 3 or 4 times previously, just last night I had a case of it without even realizing. My eyes opened up and my bed was covered in huge bugs. I was freaking out but couldn't do anything besides wiggle and watch. The next morning I woke up wondering what that part of the dream was before I remembered it
[editline]4th December 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=X-tra;51462430]Do any of you guys experienced sleep paralysis without hallucinations / feeling of being watched / high pressure on the chest ? I do experience a lot of sleep paralysis but I have a hard time relating to you guys because I have none of these symptoms.
For me it's like just having tetraplegia. Unable to use your body in some kind of limbo.[/QUOTE]
I've had this a few times. Where I could see everything around me, even my own body, but every movement I promoted had no effect on my body. And you can't force yourself out of it, you just have to wait it out until you click. No feeling of monsters or distortions, just becoming a vegetable on a couch until I wake up.
[QUOTE=Orkel;51462609]No. In sleep paralysis you tend to see "through" your eyelids since it's mostly a dream still.[/QUOTE]
Ah, well in that case all I've got left to reccomend is Jesus, but I know that's not exactly going to fly around here. In more neutral terms, you need a really good reason not to fear so as to be able to master your mind, assuming that's all it is.
You can escape it by Changing your breathing. Just try to breath inconsistently.
I've experienced a form of it. No obvious hallucinations or distortions, just being unable to move. The real terror came from the fact that I am unable to breathe either. Every time I go into a panic and think [I]"If I can't move myself, I will suffocate."[/I] and mustering all my strength to jerk myself into a new position. Thing is, I'm not sure if it's actual suffocating, or just my partially-asleep brain not 'feeling' my breathing. It always happens when I awake face-down, but for all I know that may be the hallucination and I'm actually just sleeping and breathing normally.
just once... it was very unpleasant
not being able to move despite being completely 'awake'
stuff of nightmares
There is some weird interaction with my anxiety medication and sleep. If I forget to take it, I will have sleep paralysis or exploding head syndrome episodes, coupled with horrible nightmares and I won't be able to get a wink of sleep. If I take it however I sleep like a baby.
I experience them a lot but the mos remarkable was the one i culdn't breathe in and i felt like im gonna die
They are not as vivid as painful, i usually feel really bad after them
i think i did. i was also seeing what looked like my roommate preparing to stab me in some sort of sacrifice, and my heart was beating heavily.
[QUOTE=meek;51475355]There is some weird interaction with my anxiety medication and sleep. If I forget to take it, I will have sleep paralysis or exploding head syndrome episodes, coupled with horrible nightmares and I won't be able to get a wink of sleep. If I take it however I sleep like a baby.[/QUOTE]
I've experienced sleep paralysis once but if i might go off on a tangent, can you explain exploding head syndrome to me? I have a theory what you might mean, in which case I occasionally get that. If however it's not what I'm thinking of, I congratulate you you your ability to survive with no head.
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