Am I the only person who just finds sleep paralysis annoying rather than terrifying, mainly because I wake up in the most uncomfortable positions possible.
Worst part about my dreams is that whenever I try to run away, pink chewing gum shoots up from the ground and wraps itself around my feet :v:
[QUOTE=Stryder21;36732984]I wonder why sleep paralysis is always so terrifying. I've never experienced it but all I ever read about are horror stories.[/QUOTE]
Imagine being complete incapable of moving, even when you try really hard. Even your eyes can't move, combine that with the feeling that your body parts are moving when you try to move them but they aren't. Its both bizarre and terrifying. [B][/B]
I think I am quite lucky the two or three times I have experienced it that it only lasted a minute or two at the most.
Probably not related to sleep paralysis, but I hate it when I'm about to fall asleep and then suddenly it feels like I'm falling and I shit myself awake.
[QUOTE=VaSTinY;36735291]I have some sortof sleep paralysis, or "sleep-scare" would be more fitting. Every few months I get wild panic attacks and start screaming on the top of my lungs and doing shit (according to my parents who of course rush in asking what the fuck is going on)
They keep asking me whatever it is I could possibly "dream" about that gets me these panic attacks, but I can NEVER remember anything of what I was seeing, I usually wake up in the middle of a panic attack and wonder why I'm sitting up and what the fuck is going on[/QUOTE]
I believe you are suffering from night terrors, the reason you can not remember what happens is because it was not a true dream during REM sleep, but rather your body reacting to a change in sleep cycle.
This site explains it well even though it is for parents (Night Terrors are most common in children and young adults)
[url]http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/sleep/terrors.html[/url]
read it as "How brian paralyzes muscles while you sleep", thought It was gonna be about some weird guy named brian with a fetish for paralysis
It's a bit surprising to me how many people are scared of sleep paralysis.
I've had sleep paralysis many, many, many times. Every time you get sleep paralysis that is the greatest opportunity to enter a lucid dream.
Too bad most people aren't informed about this stuff.
Tip, dont ever open your eyes. What you see is very vivid and terrifying,a few week ago I saw a little girl by the foot of my bed. wiggling your pinky abit has always worked for me.
[QUOTE=davethestoner;36739531]Tip, dont ever open your eyes. What you see is very vivid and terrifying,a few week ago I saw a little girl by the foot of my bed. wiggling your pinky abit has always worked for me.[/QUOTE]
That's just you entering the dream. When I first started doing this, I had scary experiences like that too,
but the more I did it the more I found myself able to get up from the bed in the dream.
I have insomnia
I remember this one time a few months ago where I got out of my bed, went into my kitchen, picked up a spoon, went back into my room then placed it on my desk and fell back in my bed asleep. I woke up and I saw the spoon on my desk wondering where the hell it came from. My grandma told me what happened afterwards. I don't remember a thing of it actually happening. It felt like I was asleep the entire time.
I had sleep paralysis once. That was too many times.
How can I get sleep paralysis? I have never had it and it sounds fun!
[QUOTE=TonyP;36740546]How can I get sleep paralysis? I have never had it and it sounds fun![/QUOTE]
It's not fun, people say it is to be "edgy"
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or maybe it's just too edgy for me
Oh man, I had no idea this was so common. I've had it in the past but not for years now, I haven't really done anything to try and induce it but it's really trippy.
Constantly falling in and out of the dream and trying to force yourself to get out of it is like an ongoing battle and you can't move either to try and escape from it.
I can't say I've really ever been terrified by it but it's just a really strange experience but my heart does race when it happens.
[QUOTE=Carne;36737489]Worst part about my dreams is that whenever I try to run away, pink chewing gum shoots up from the ground and wraps itself around my feet :v:[/QUOTE]
Whenever I try to run it feels like I'm going in slow motion but at normal running speed, I've never been able to successfully escape anything in my dreams from running because I'm always going so slow and can't speed up. This could be related to something in my life but I've had it for as long as I can remember and can't imagine what it would be that's causing it.
[QUOTE=Judas;36731680]SLeep paralysis is the scariest fucking thing.[/QUOTE]
Not as scary as dropping acid then sleeping before comeup and waking up to sleep paralysis.
I've sleep paralysis twice, but it isn't that bad for me. The first time I was confused but it only lasted a couple of seconds. The second time I just moved my feet around a little bit to remind the rest of my body that I'm awake.
[QUOTE=alx12345;36731455]You can learn to control that REM, keeping you mind awake and keeping the body to sleep to see and hear stuff that never happend, then get to a lucid dream.[/QUOTE]
I end up getting sleep paralysis and it's scary as fuck.
its all the nurrons in ur brayn saying dont move
[QUOTE=Pridit;36741019]Oh man, I had no idea this was so common. I've had it in the past but not for years now, I haven't really done anything to try and induce it but it's really trippy.
Constantly falling in and out of the dream and trying to force yourself to get out of it is like an ongoing battle and you can't move either to try and escape from it.
I can't say I've really ever been terrified by it but it's just a really strange experience but my heart does race when it happens.
Whenever I try to run it feels like I'm going in slow motion but at normal running speed, I've never been able to successfully escape anything in my dreams from running because I'm always going so slow and can't speed up. This could be related to something in my life but I've had it for as long as I can remember and can't imagine what it would be that's causing it.[/QUOTE]
Reading this description, I think I might've had a few mild cases of it when I was ill.
I've had one sleep paralysis that i can never forget.
My room was dark and it was a cloudless moonlit night outside, so the moonlight did brighten the room just enough for me to see the silhouette of the things in my room. At first i saw a wolf appear walking through the closed door, then it went behind my bed where my feet was. Suddenly i see a human silhouette rise up and slowly raised its hands towards my feet.
The position of my bed was on the other side of the door so i could see everything even when i couldn't move my head, i was fucking terrified and i tried so hard to yell. But i could only hear myself whispering and i couldn't move at all.
I closed my eyes and thought i was going to die.
At that point my body was "waking" up and i slowly regained control of my own body.
So yeah.. that hallucination was worse than The Excorsist, Candyman and REC combined.
I think that when you are having a sleep paralysis, your unconscious mind just bring the darkest,most horrofying imagination it can think of.
I wish i could say "fuck you" to my unconscious mind.
[QUOTE=Splut;36741727]its all the nurrons in ur brayn saying dont move[/QUOTE]
ok so if i want to sleepwalk i just have to dig out all the nurrons out of mai brayn?
Perhaps that was the purpose of the spork?
[QUOTE=EskillV2;36742523]I've had one sleep paralysis that i can never forget.
My room was dark and it was a cloudless moonlit night outside, so the moonlight did brighten the room just enough for me to see the silhouette of the things in my room. At first i saw a wolf appear walking through the closed door, then it went behind my bed where my feet was. Suddenly i see a human silhouette rise up and slowly raised its hands towards my feet.
The position of my bed was on the other side of the door so i could see everything even when i couldn't move my head, i was fucking terrified and i tried so hard to yell. But i could only hear myself whispering and i couldn't move at all.
I closed my eyes and thought i was going to die.
At that point my body was "waking" up and i slowly regained control of my own body.
So yeah.. that hallucination was worse than The Excorsist, Candyman and REC combined.
I think that when you are having a sleep paralysis, your unconscious mind just bring the darkest,most horrofying imagination it can think of.
I wish i could say "fuck you" to my unconscious mind.[/QUOTE]
reminds me of
[QUOTE][sub]If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you’ll hear that pebble sound at your window. It’s not a friend; just keep your eyes shut. The sound will get louder, the tapping will get faster and faster. Don’t let your curiosity get the better of you; don’t move. It’ll lose its patience, it’ll start thumping the window. Your window will shake and shudder and the noises will only get louder. It will furiously pound the window and shake the panes; don’t worry, the window won’t break but for goodness’ sake, DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES. No matter how scared you are, no matter how badly you want to scream, pretend like you don’t hear, pretend you’re still asleep.
After a while, the noises will stop. Don’t fall for it, keep your eyes shut. Try to sleep if you can. Don’t get up, don’t open your eyes, until the sun comes up.[/sub][/QUOTE]
:v:
I used to get sleep paralysis a lot. Scared the shit out of me because I thought I was being haunted or something.
Once I learned what it was and that it's perfectly normal, whenever I have it now (very rarely), I just kinda go, "Damn it. Here we go again," and wait it out patiently.
One time I went up from bed sleepwalking. Mom asked me what the hell I were doing that late, but I answered "I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna..." while still sleepwalking. After that I, according to my mother, moonwalked back and jumped into bed. I don't remember anything, but that what she told me at least.
To people saying they want sleep paralysis, this famous picture is based on the phenomenon.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG[/img_thumb]
It's not very accurate though, it's not as scary as the real thing
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[QUOTE=EskillV2;36742523]I think that when you are having a sleep paralysis, your unconscious mind just bring the darkest,most horrofying imagination it can think of.
I wish i could say "fuck you" to my unconscious mind.[/QUOTE]
I think it's more a case of you panicking because you can't move, which in turn causes scary things to appear.
what are you guys talking about sleep paralysis is fun as hell
I mean yeah I get nightmarish hallucinations sometimes but most of the time it's just a pleasant swirl of colours and distorted objects
Everytime I'm asleep I wake up at like 3 AM in the morning because of something in my dream that causes me to feel like I'm falling down a cliff, or hearing a LOUD noise from my radio.
Usually it's my radio.
Sleep paralysis is that thing where your mind plays horror shit to your eyes to check whether or not you're awake, right? And that's the reason it's always bad stuff, so you'll panick and wake, right?
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