Man Has Sleep Paralysis, So He Sets Up A Camera...

originally posted by: UNIT76
a reply to: JokerThe1st
a few weeks later i'm telling him about this.. you know what he says to me? (with a nasty little smile on his face)
"i almost got ya, didn't i?"




My reply:

That's a really creepy response your dad made.


I got a similar creepy comment by my husband 10 yrs later. Keeping in mind I never ever disclosed this to him. He suddenly pipes up one night. " wtf is your problem with going to bed, you seem to get bitchy", I just replied it's nothing you would understand. I just get scared sometimes. To my horror he said " I know what it is " I said you don't . He said " it's me. I bring them to you". There's more to the story, but it freaked me out. I divorced him now.

edit on 20-7-2014 by violet because: (no reason given)

I czn't edit my messed up quoting post above.

a reply to: UNIT76

Thank you for sharing that experience it will help
As far as your dad's comment i would suspect he either said it to frighten you and hold power over, or he was an astral projector playing dark games with you, the mask's you mention could i please ask the detail ?

I am not against The Book or a lot of its messages but i am careful on what i take as good messages from it. There are parts of that book that negative hands have been involved with.

One does not need a book,church,priest to know and love the light of The Creator, but If that path helps in your betterment/ light and purpose then i hold no problems, it is when the negative aspects of those works takes peoples minds, falsity and deception have worked there magic.

The Creator is within us all, you have the will, you have the light.

Hoax or not. People that have had a lot of SP know the feeling..... If you've never had it take a high dose of melatonin or ambien they have the chemicals that put you in that trance that your body needs. When your mind wakes up before your body you kind of glitch reality.. Whether you believe in demons, angels OBE or not. Or think it's all in yor head. They are there. If you have a strong mind it can be fun you can control a little bit of it. But the more scared you get the closer to hell you'll see. That's just my two cents. If I could be more elaborate and make more sense I would but I'm typing on a phone. Goodtimes in SP land!

originally posted by: mblahnikluver
a reply to: Bybyots

Well this gave me chills.

Earlier this year I had a similar experience. I had just gone to bed so I was not asleep. I was facing the window in my room and when I turned to face the other size I saw a shadow figure by my door. I screamed and it just disappeared. My dog them comes running out of my closet a place he had never gone in before and hasn't since. I feel he saw it too and hid.

I had not seen shadow figures or experienced sleep paralysis in years so it spooked me just a tad.

I've never set up video because I am honestly a bit scared of what I might see.

Thats really spooky! Your dog hiding says alot aswell! i feel the same i don't think i could set up a camera & record it for fear of what i may see, im a big wimp i wont lie.

Ohhh come on now. Please consider going into detail? I have a feeling the details of both your dad and ex husband will be relevant to certain cases of SP.

a reply to: violet

i think people won't understand unless they experience these things for themselves
thanks for adding your story
..it just goes to show, we never *really* know someone, do we?
(even the people we love & claim to love us back)

i know my dad likes football.. and that's it!
(he should've been a spy)
i think the people who got their hooks into him first still have sway over him, that's all..
i'm careful not to say too much about all this just yet

you know what's funny here? i could have my dad come over today and sit him down to read this..
and he won't bat an eyelid (i know because i FORCED him to take me to.. where he goes.. so i could confront the people.. within 2 minutes i was asked to "please leave")

i hear what the other person is suggesting (messing around, trying to "hold power")
you are nice & right to be objective like that.. but you don't know my dad like i do..
that SP "experience" was not the only time he's "let me know"
before i vacate, i'll be making a topic about all this "stuff"
and come what may


carved wooden duality masks (origen unknown)
the painting i "broke" was an encoded "sad clown" (the study there is the teardrops tattooed permanently on a persons cheek just under/side of the eye)


i don't think my dad is some kind of astral vampire (he could be, he's good at keeping secrets & presenting himself?)
he is under a negative influence (that i can say for sure)
i also think the thing i saw was not my dad, but emulated him (when the SP experience first started, i tried calling out to him, he was downstairs watching TV, i could actually hear all that.. it was the "thing" that was pretending to be my dad, telling me to "shut up" & "be quiet"..)
having said that, i have no idea why my dad said "almost got ya, didn't i?" but then i also cannot explain why he has also said & done other things in the past?
..even though i don't know EXACTLY what's going on here, i've got a pretty good idea, there is more i'll eventually post about one day

Look at the cup of water when the shadow moves. There is a splash of water in the cup on the left side that repeats itself between frames of the ghost moving.

The Ghost Hunters had a similar case in one of their many episodes and they showed it to be car headlights.. it was reproduceable..

So while that doesn't mean it IS car headlights, it's certainly the most likely explanation.. so I personally am leaning toward that as the cause.

originally posted by: OpenEars123
Dude I believe you, and am sorry to here you're having sleep paralysis.

There probably is a good explanation for the shadow, but either way sleep paralysis is not a happy business!

I've only had it twice before, like you in a similar time period. And it was the 3rd worst experience/feeling of my life.

FYI the 1st was a sudden panic attack as I was falling asleep (happen a few months back, I thought I was dying!)
And the 2nd was a nightmare many years back.

I feel for you man. Set up your cam so we can see you and the whole room. And make sure you've got underwear on! 😉

I experienced it ONCE in my life when I was young... I was ill and left the light on that night.. I fell asleep with my eyes open and thought I saw something moving toward me.. I couldn't move or scream so I clenched my eyes shut and suddenly was able to get up and leave the room.. it was such a creepy feeling

a reply to: Kandinsky

Hi Kandinsky. Thanks for coming by,

It could be a still shot with effects added. This possibility is strengthened in my view when we consider how many sleep labs have been studying SP for decades. They sometimes include more than one camera and haven't yet recorded shifty, dark shadows.

On one of the few forums where I found the video being discussed, folks have suggested that the shadow was placed in the video using an application called "after effects".

I don't know if we need to go as far as CGI or manipulation, I think that the really pronounced image is a result of the camera and possibly one other variable, such as a vehicle passing outside or something passing in an exterior hallway.

I also was tripping on the idea that there seems to be no one in the bed; and if he is, what is that? His feet?



All in all I was hopeful for a discussion on SP. I am a lifelong experiencer of SP and other sleep-related and temporal-lobe-related craziness as well.

a reply to: CirqueDeTruth

Very good points Cirque. I hadn't really thought of that, but you are right, when we sleep we move all the time. We are never "paralyzed". To be paralyzed would be abnormal no matter what state of consciousness we are in.

I've had SP myself and I am on the fence. I was frozen and could not move and that is very, very strange, but I'm not sure that it is paranormal. I do lean that way though. The experiences I have had make me think that there is something really wicked messing with us. At least that's the way it feels.

My feeling on the video is that even though I see the flaws everyone else is pointing out, I think he would have simulated a much more dramatic shadow if he were trying to pull a hoax.

I keep playing it trying to see a shape beside a dinosaur but idk to look left or right. Which is the break in atmosphere. When a spirit does something it makes the air this and at 3 when lots of sleep and REM is happening is highest or thinnest per se.

Anyway to the OP it's either a spirit your related or where you moved to. People move to places where similar energy to theirself has been. I feel spirit may even get your attention driving by or almost as a beacon. And if you are at a cross roads in life where the spirit has failed they will surely do things to push you. I don't know if it's regret, or angelic or work to get in heaven but ever case n story I have seen it rings true over and over.

To get answers it usually has to do with you. Does it happen every night? Same time? Same place? Other locations? What bad things are happening in your life? Do you feel at a cross roads ANY KIND??? Are there worse nights than others? Have you done things different on those nights?

Do you feel very cold waking up?

What do you dream of?

Have you felt pokes, pinch, tickles, flicks, nerves going making reflexes?
are your emotions feeling different?

Do you wake up in odd moods? Better? Worse?

Is this your mother or loved one trying to say something?

a reply to: Bybyots

a reply to: Bybyots

I once had sleep paralysis, it just stopped a few years ago. I would see the craziest things when I was laying in bed with my eyes open unable to move. When I was able to get out of it, I was never sure if it was a dream or a hallucination, but I was always able to see the room I was sleeping in.

Creepy video, could be a hoax, who knows. Sleep paralysis is no hoax, it sucks. I don't miss it at all *knock on wood*

ETA* When I was laying in bed, asleep, I would wake up and be paralyzed, but I was always able to move my eyes. When I would come out of it, I was never sure if the crazy things I was seeing in the actual room I was also seeing was a dream / reality mashup or a if the entire thing was hallucination. Im pretty sure I was seeing the actual room I was in and I was still dreaming though. Still always creepy.

originally posted by: wtbengineer
a reply to: CirqueDeTruth

Very good points Cirque. I hadn't really thought of that, but you are right, when we sleep we move all the time. We are never "paralyzed". To be paralyzed would be abnormal no matter what state of consciousness we are in.

I've had SP myself and I am on the fence. I was frozen and could not move and that is very, very strange, but I'm not sure that it is paranormal. I do lean that way though. The experiences I have had make me think that there is something really wicked messing with us. At least that's the way it feels.

My feeling on the video is that even though I see the flaws everyone else is pointing out, I think he would have simulated a much more dramatic shadow if he were trying to pull a hoax.

I did a website for a sleep study guy, he explained to me that when we dream or go into REM deep sleep, our brain stops sending signals to the top of the spine, so we dont act out our dreams. That is a medical explanation / understanding, doesn't make it right though.

a reply to: UNIT76

I have had a somewhat similar experience. I had a "shadow figure" impersonate my mother--body, voice, and all. And I was awake! It grabbed my wrist and pinned my arm behind my back and I was not able to move easily. It changed from an image of my mother to this disgusting gollum-like create (LOTR style). For some reason I asked it who sent it, and it got in my face and shrieked, "Your mother!" At that point I was pretty terrified and started to pray. It turned into a black shadow with red eyes and left through the window.

I have never asked my mom about this. I'm not sure how to bring it up.

However, she seems to run hot and cold with Christianity. One moment she supports it and the next she acts like she hates everything about it, everything is a cult, etc. I'm not sure what to make of all of this.

originally posted by: JokerThe1st
a reply to: GogoVicMorrow

The best advice for anyone experiencing it i can give is, Try to stay calm,relax and let it happen your function of body will return i promise you.breath deeply and focus.

That goes against the feeling of the experience. I've had five paralysis. I can recall all five vividly. It's malevolent and a feeling of urgency. The last thing I feel I want to do is go along for the ride..

Mine have lasted for a couple of minutes or more. Hard to gauge time when your in it.

I don't see anything I don't ever recall hearing anything. It's just a feeling that wakes me up, but my eyes are closed and I can't move or speak..

The first one i had . It felt like something was trying to enter or possess me.

As far as setting up a camera. Been there done that. Problem is, it could be weeks or years between episodes.

originally posted by: CirqueDeTruth
You know, people whom experience the paranormal are damned if they do, damned if the don't - are they not?

The first thing an individual hears when relaying a personal story is - Why didn't you take pictures? Why didn't you set up a video camera? Why didn't you... yada yada yada.

But then on the flip side when people do keep a camera with them and capture something, or set up a video camera to capture evidence...

It's immediately set down as a hoax.

~ Cirque

Thanks, saved me from having to write that up. 100% agreed.

Of course does this mean it isn't a hoax? No. But there is a fine line between being skeptical and belligerent, many of the driveby members on ATS have yet to learn this apparently.

---- On topic ----

This looks to me like some sort of brontosaurus shaped animal, could possibly be a figurine being shadowed by a passing car. At my greatest attempt to see a living being, what I'd wager is the midrif = small arms, and the topside would be a long neck and head- or possibly a trunk similar to an elephants.

Whatever it is, is peculiar to me, as it is in a position where it appears to be "leaning over" the person in bed.

Really interesting, but obviously possible of being a hoax as well. At this point in time it would be rude and foolish to just bark "hoax" however.

Anybody else hear the whooshing or see a white flash .
P.s. I used to and sometimes do it on demand .
Great experience .
Ask me anything about it as I'm an expert at it .