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.

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.