Sleep Paralysis

[TheProRacer]

Yes, there is a lucid dreaming thread too, but sleep paralysis is a whole different level of scary. It is far beyond dreaming.

Share your experiences!

Here is mine:

As I turn over on my left side and pull the cover over me, I began to think about a Cizeta V16. I was just laying there for minutes and then all of the sudden I was dreaming of being the delta operator in Call Of Duty Ghosts. I was in multiplayer mode on the map Overlord playing a 2v2 private match. I did not have any weapons. I was strafing to the right towards the underground tunnel on the right side of the map. I see a red name appear in the top left corner of the screen that reads out- FoamX -with a mic icon near it. I hear a demonic voice saying incomprehensible words, and then here it comes. I feel the transition into deep REM sleep. It's too late to snap out now! Then I hear someone say "🤬 snap out! 🤬 snap out!", repeatedly, fast and in a trance like manner while my arms are in a repedetive motion. I see a green backdrop while my arms are moving and then, I can't move, and then I'm floating out of my bed (OBE). I then hear a white/pink noise fade in. When I go to snap out of it, It fails. I try again, by physically jerking my leg towards me. I then wake up sitting up with my pillows in the floor. It kept me up for the rest of the night.

 

[photonrider]

With practise sleep catalepsy is easily handled - even eradicated.

It's the astral-travelling that is harder.

 

[TheProRacer]

With practise sleep catalepsy is easily handled - even eradicated.

It's the astral-travelling that is harder.

Alright. I'll name a few symptoms if you'd like me to. I'm in the Incubus level of sleep paralysis.

 

[DrPuppetwarrior]

Demons, Demons everywhere.

 

[TheProRacer]

My symptoms:

Bodily- vibrations, tingling, pressure, bulkyness, OBE's

Auditory- fading in and out ringing noises, buzzing, static/white noise, squealing, EHS's

Visual- random colors, sparks, flashes, video noise/static

Other- fear, breathlessness, feelings of death

My SP episodes always start with a distinguishable feeling of 'emptyness'. I always force out of the episodes because I'm afraid that it will last for 5 hours like it has in the past once.

 

[W3H5]

As I turn over on my left side and pull the cover over me, I began to think about a Cizeta V16. I was just laying there for minutes and then all of the sudden I was dreaming of................I then wake up sitting up with my pillows in the floor. It kept me up for the rest of the night.

All of what you mention happened between these two sentences were part of a dream as far as I can make out from the way you've put it. I don't think that is related to sleep paralysis so much as it was just a dream.

 

[TheProRacer]

All of what you mention happened between these two sentences were part of a dream as far as I can make out from the way you've put it. I don't think that is related to sleep paralysis so much as it was just a dream.

Ok,there are two occurrences that sleep paralysis can happen. There is hypnagogic (before REM sleep) and hypogogic (after REM sleep). I had hypogogic.

But, if you'd like me to, I'll post a legit and creepy SP story than lasted for literally five hours.

By the way, I've had SP reoccurring since I was 11.

 

[TheProRacer]

Not trying to double post, but from what I heard, everyone experiences sleep paralysis. It happens in this manner. Your mind goes to sleep, and then your muscles do. Sometimes we wake up in our mind accidentally after our muscles are asleep and we experience it by hallucinations, because our muscles say we are still fully asleep. Does this make sense?

(I get cold chills when I talk about my SP episodes for some reason)

 

[PeterJB]

I've never a presence of anything in the room, just don't like that I can't move.

 

[TheProRacer]

I've never a presence of anything in the room, just don't like that I can't move.

Do you get a distinctive feeling when you are paralyzed like I do? Like a feeling of discomfort and emptiness? It's a hard feeling to describe, but you know your in a SP episode when you get it.

 

[PeterJB]

Yeah I can usually work it out pretty fast, I feel like I'm half asleep, which I probably am, and my vision and general awareness is not brilliant.

 

[TheProRacer]

By the way everyone, the only way that I know that the episode of SP lasted for 5 hours is because I had an alarm clock in front of my bed at the time. It slowly went from 2:12 all the way until 7:39...

 

[photonrider]

Alright. I'll name a few symptoms if you'd like me to. I'm in the Incubus level of sleep paralysis.

Forget about the incubus - first we need to align you - try changing the position you sleep, first, and see if that has any effect. Check your compass positions, and if you are sleeping North/South try East/West and see if that helps.

Also - a previous post when I was talking to Hollow about her sleep paralysis problems:

About the sleep paralysis, or catalepsy, as some of you suffer - do not be frightened of it - only makes it worse. There are no demons around you. There is no heavy black dog seated on your chest. These are the streaming apps that your hardware (brain) manufactures from the software (your recorded experiences). What is actually happening is that while you are aware (conscious, though physically asleep) the link between your motor-controls and your decision-making is unconnected. As you become aware in your dream consciousness that you are paralyzed, first mentally relax. Then focus, forgetting everything else, only on your breath. Start to breathe in and out slowly, working towards deeper breaths - and you will soon gently find yourself awake and come to life.
Just like when you took your first breath.

We'll talk again after you've tried these out.

Always pay attention. As soon as you are aware that you are paralysed and cannot move . . . think! Relax. Forget the panic. As long as you can think and are aware - you are not dead, nor are you dying.
Then focus, forget all the demon-stuff, and start taking those breaths till you have focused attention - then open your eyes. The rest will come naturally.

 

[TheProRacer]

Oh not again...

 

[JMoney]

This happens to me about once a month. In my dream, where I would normally be able to speak and hear my voice, I'm muted. I can only rasp words. My brother told me that when I'm paralyzed in sleep I breathe very heavily. When I realize I'm dreaming and I need to wake up, my eyes close tight within the dream. I try to open them, to speak, to wake myself up, but I cannot. Finally I'm usually able to roll around and fall out of bed, ending the paralysis.

Any kind of dream is preferable to paralyzed dreams.

 

[terminator363]

Never happened to me

 

[MoLiEG]

Happened twice to me... it's horrible...

On the 2nd time, I felt a demonic presence on top of my body, and I swear I heard a female voice whispering "Aquí estoy" (I'm here, in english) while I was unable to move a single muscle.

Female devil??? I don't know... But it was horrible... beyond horrible...

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

Thread bump!

This happened just a week ago.

I dream I was walking outside our house and looking at the sky. Its very cloudy but I can see the stars clearly. But they're not stars.

They're moving. And there's thousands of them. That didn't surprised me though.

What caught my attention is...

"a weird flying object".

I quickly searched my pocket for my phone.

But when I'm about to capture the flying craft.

I felt an eerie presence that someones watching me.

A man appeared beside me.

He walked towards me and smiled.

Then he transformed to some sort of "creature", grabbed my arm and said, "What are you doing?!!".

The location of the dream quickly changed to where I'm sleeping at in reality. I saw my blanket flew to the ceiling and the creature in my face, blurred, still grabbing my arm.

I'm half awake at this point but I can clearly see the ceiling and the creature in front of me. I felt I am being pulled to the ceiling and my peripheral vision flickering.

So I struggled to wake up my girlfriend by moving my right hand to her shoulder...

calling her name and shaking her.

By doing that I woke my self up. Releasing me from paralysis...

and the creature had vanished.

I got up and saw a figure at the door...

that looks like a kid, peeking at me.

I calmed myself and turned on the lights. I searched the house to see if "something" really visited me.

But luckily, there's none.



Sound and looks cliche. But it happened.

 

[Hollow]

This happened just a week ago.

@ULTRAVIOLENZZ I loved going through your post, drawings are awesome, felt like a comic book.

I do have sleep paralysis episodes when I go to bed super tired. I often get the same type of experience, I hear footstep noises almost everytime, and I can feel someone on top of the bed, touching my head and sometimes knocking on my neck with their "fingers". Whatever this thing or person is, it has a very scary and unsettling presence.

I also saw a little kid once with an afro and no mouth trying to eat my feet, he was very short, he was staring straight into my eyes and spoke in little squeak sounds. I could feel the pain somehow of his nails sort of cutting my skin.

I still don't understand that heavy uneasy feeling that comes with sleep paralysis, that heightened fear that I never feel in real life. I just try not to go to bed super tired anymore..

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

Thanks @Hollow Yours are even scarier.

Sleep paralysis is rare for me. I got a lot of lucid dreams and nightmares though. My dreams always consist of me, killing or dying. In past years I've often visited by a big shadow figure in my dreams. One time it grabbed my arm too. One of the few times I've experienced sleep paralysis. It also told me to kill a dude in my dream. I can still remember the sound of the guy's making in the dream.

Funny part, many times I've woke myself punching in the air and the pillows. My dreams, even a normal dream are quite violent. Tired or not or even happy before sleeping, I'll always have very sick dreams. The worst I can remember is when I got really sick. I was just a kid back then. I was trapped in a maze and fell in a dark well. Then a shark appeared and decapitated me in one bite. I woke instantly and run to my mom. The other is when I saw a newborn on its feet, walking toward me then beheaded itself with a knife. I woke up and after some time I go to sleep again covering myself with a blanket.

Posting my experience gave me an idea to document my dreams in drawings. I kinda have a photographic memory but it seems I can only remember bad experiences that accurately.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

Great drawings, wish I could draw. Sounds like really scary experiences. The Nightmare documentary about this condition released yesterday in the UK, might be worth watching.

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

Thank you @Saidur_Ali I will look into it.

 

[Com Fox]

Is it odd that I never had Sleep Paralysis yet?

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

Is it odd that I never had Sleep Paralysis yet?

Don't ask for it. LL

 

[W3H5]

I think I might be sleeping with my eyes open. I don't know how it's related to sleep paralysis but I usually wake up with really dry, sore eyes. The only conclusion I can come to is that my eyes are opening as I sleep and becoming dried out.

 

[photonrider]

I think I might be sleeping with my eyes open. I don't know how it's related to sleep paralysis but I usually wake up with really dry, sore eyes. The only conclusion I can come to is that my eyes are opening as I sleep and becoming dried out.

People do sleep with their eyes open, Shem. I have observed my own children doing it at times (when they were adolescents.) Maybe deep sleep, physically drained sleep as in young energetic kids or wild men in China wielding khukris all day causes this. Get yourself a comfy sleep-mask - a bandana will do, too, this keeps your eyelids closed - and also cuts off all the light as a bonus.

I have so many questions for @ULTRAVIOLENZZ, but maybe another time. Great story, great art, - cliche but true? Sounds familiar.