Sleep Paralysis

Has anyone suffered these? I had one some time ago, but didn’t know until just now what it was.

Terrible, absolutely terrible condition.

It’s hard to explain, but basically you can’t move your body at all. Maybe eyes if even. Often there is involved hallusinations, which makes it even more scary. (dark figures, monsters etc..) Your comprehension is awake, but the possible dream continues. In my ‘paralysis’ there was some kind of dark figure (which appaears to a lot of people) with a knife in his hand coming towards me to kill me. I see it and I’m aware of it, but I just can’t move myself at all or make sound, so I’m voluntary letting the figure kill me or whatever. It is still your dream, but your comprehension tells that you’re awake. The helplesness and the fright is indescribable. It lasts few minutes, but it feels a lot longer. Then you wake up and everything is okay again.

A friend of mine had one scary one. In some of his paralysis’ he was sure that he was handed a grenade without the pin, that he felt the weight of it the shape and the coldness and he knew it would explode any second, but he couldn’t throw it away, because you can’t move in the condition.

Normal nightmares are nothing compared to these.

Holy shit! That sounds like some freaky shit, man. I'm glad I'm not fucked in the head like you.

>>1
I've had two before that I can remember.  The first time was a big dog monster like cerberus growling at me and wanting to eat my head.  The other was a shadow person wearing a trenchcoat standing over my bed and staring at me with heavy breathing sounds.

Really scary shit, but it has nothing to do with being "fucked in the head", it is actually fairly common.  In fact, it's thought to be the explanation for the many people who believe they have been abducted by aliens.  Having experience it, it's easy to see how these people could believe they were really being abducted instead of just a weird nightmare.

I remember it happened to me at least.
It is really scary and it sucks.
Hate it.

I talk about things in my sleep...

Much to the amusement of people in my house.

Basically, your body tries to paralyze you to keep you from moving around while you're asleep, to avoid injury. This seems to be especially true when you're sleeping on a small surface, or an elevated surface (This is why you hardly ever roll right off the bed in your sleep)


However, sometimes you can be partially awakened, but the paralisys is there still. In this case, you'll have 'waking dreams', which are basically dreams, except they're happening in the world around you. This can also happen when you're in a very light state of sleep, and have a dream (such as dosing off at work or school, after not sleeping well the previous night)

Myself, I only had one like that (which was when I was a little kid, I dreamt there was a HUGE cartoon character gathering in my living room.), mostly I talk in my sleep, and am a tosser.

>>5
lol

i thought sleep parylsis or however it spealt was when

the part of your brain that wakes you up gets somewhat confused, and ends up waking you up somewhat but the part of your brain that parylsisisis you when you sleep is still active, so you have an active brain yet an inactive body which then in turn sends weird signals to your brain like your half awake and half asleep and as such you get weird imagery

I'm having a heart attack in this dream of mine. No pain, just the incredibly strong squeezing sensation.
Luckily i have some sort of reflex that wakes me up immediately when i realise i'm dreaming.

Don't sleep on your back if you want to avoid it, sleeping like that seems to be an important factor in entering paralysis.

It's easy to get out of sleep paralysis if you just remember one thing:

Your fingers and toes are not paralyzed during this state.

If you want to get out of it, just move your fingers and toes as hard as you can.  Real nerve impulses are much more powerful than the imagined ones that are brought about during sleep, so the sensation of movement on the skin nearby your fingers and toes should snap you right out of it.

I went through a particularly bad one of these, where I thought I was moving but I really wasn't, and I kept "waking up" only realize I wasn't actually awake yet.  Then I remembered watching something on TV about this when I was like seven or eight on the discovery channel, and they said that only your fingers and toes are unparalyzed.  They didn't however realize that you could use it to get out of sleep paralysis.  I thought of that on my own.

Stick it in her pooper.

Haha many of these stories are similiar to my sole experience of this.

I have lots of sleeping problems, I used to sleep walk a lot and I mean I used to do some pretty weird and quite complex feats without feeling pain. Such as climbing out of a 2 story window, jumping onto a car and running down the street bare foot. I did all of this without getting injured apart from grazing the sole of my feet on the rough tarmac.

Anyway I remember having this wonderful dream, that's all I remember it was just enjoyable. When I am in this sort of world and things are just interesting and you meet strange people and stuff I can't remember exactly, but the sleep paralysis afterwards was real and seriously weird.

I woke up and I thought "Eh? I woke up in the middle of the night.", so I got up and got around and then went back to bed. A sinister figure from my dream re-appeared sort of as I lay awake in the dark, I just saw something moving, a strange moving object, with some unknown details apparent but that I could not make sense of and I thought, "Eh? Now I'm hallucinating.. This is normal when I am sleepy." So I laid back in the bed and thought about something, then I heard a comical growly goblin-like voice say something and I felt something tugging my blanket and I thought to myself "I'm hallucinating again, it will go away in a second" except I thought this same thing for a few seconds even after it began pulling me out of bed. As I was being pulled into a strange hole in the wall I suddenly thought "wtf This is real?" and as whatever was tugging me managed to get me into this void in the wall I woke up and my sleep paralysis was over and I switched the light on. The entire episode felt completely real. I was more or less dismissing the events as hallucinations out of logic rather than physical evidence,

You might not think this is important, but it was important to me. The hole in the wall was not apparent in real life, it wasn't a flat face or a dark area or anything it was the corner of a wall with some obstructions here and there. Dreams seem to be memories of recent events and your rationalisations of them, I have no idea what the hole in the wall was supposed to be.

>>12
Hallucinating should not be normal, how the hell could you dismiss it just like that? It would scare the shit out of normal people.

Even if there's a slight chance that i saw something that does not belong there, the first thing i do is to check it out.

>>13

i have fucked up dreams

like i woke up(or so i thought) like any ordinary day, i get out of bed, open my curtains, walk downstairs, and say hi to my family, since the bathroom is at the other end of the house theirs a bedroom near there, anyway i went towards the bathroom and realised i was dreaming something inside me told me this wasnt reality, needless to say the bathroom/bedroom door slammed shut and something picked up by the neck and held me in the air at the corner

then i woke up

>>14
Haha awesome, that's exactly the kind of thing I experience, I know exactly how you feel.

>>13
I usually hallucinate when I am sleepy, I've learned to ignore it until I am properly awake. You know when you are walking around in your own house in the middle of the night in the dark and you remember as a kid this would be mega scary, but then you just shrug off the superstitions and go about your business? It's like that.

I used to get those when I was younger. It sounds really fucked up but I kind of miss them now, the scare was a great rush...

Ive only had one or two, one where I was drowning, another where someone was cutting my throat. There scary as hell, they make you feel horrible aswell

I’ve heard of this. Normally it usually doesn’t refer to sleep paralysis, but to demons trying to kill an individual. In catholic religion rumour has it that the person is being held down by a demon and the person cannot move until the demon decides to release his stranglehold. It is said that usually the person has their door open. There is more to this story but it basically revolves around those two points. If you try to look at the clock and you see 3:00am (which is the devils hour) then I would shit my pants.

I had a dream that I was flying through space like Super Sonic, and there were ships chasing after me, firing lasers, and I was all dodging them and shit, and there was this kick ass hard, fast techno music playing. It was EXTREME!

I dreamt that I was fillipino and went out swimming.
Then a shark almost ate me. When I got to the shore the shark followed and ate me. wtf does that mean?

>>20


Pool's Closed. Due to Sharks.

>>21
I'M THE GOD DAMN BATMAN. WHATCHA GONNA DO?

>>18
Now THATS scary

>>23
Now THIS guy is superstitious!

People, it's just a dream/hallucination. No matter what happens, after it's over you're free of any pain or injuries inflicted on you. Once you grasp that you'll hardly have nightmares since you trained your mind to understand that anything that isn't real isn't real. Works well for me, but obviously it takes some effort.

And, even if you are afraid in a dream you can shake it off soon after you wake up. Better yet, do what I do, beat the shit out of anything that gets in my way. I'm generally the invincible god-like being who pwns any attacker in my dreams. You should try it sometime. Confidence ftw.

I had a dream I took a Xbox 360 from walmart, and it fit in my pocket. Totally impossible, amirite?

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