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.

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.