Sleep Paralysis Victims...

ooh ooooh oooooooooooooh! Mesthinks I experienced an episode of this Sleep Paralysis last night!

(Didn't help that I'd just had a dream about a new guy playing Batman - who might I add, was MIGHTY FINE with no rubber outfit on....I shan't delve into the nature of the dream but I must say, I woke up - briefly - with a grin on my face, haha!)

Anyways, after grinning like a cheshire cat, I think I was still half asleep, but I was sleeping on a mattress on my friends floor, and sleeping on my side at this point. I nearly started to drift back off to sleep (8AM, by the way, when this happened), and the side i was on meant I could see my friend sleeping in her bed. Anyways, sorry for digressing(!), all of a sudden my body felt like dead weight, and it seemed like, after ones rather horny dream, I felt like someone had straddled me, but kneeling, because i felt the weight one side of me, and then the same pressure on the other side. I don't know any other way to explain it, but that's the feeling I got.
So, I could only move my eyes for a few seconds, then, with a bit of force, managed to move my head around a little more, but I still couldn't see so well. But I didn't see any scary being or owt hanging over me, lol!

But yeah, after a few minutes I was fine, then started to wonder if it really had just happened. Hm.

So, my question is - can these things follow you? Seeing as this was at my friends flat in London, and I'm now home in Kent. Is there possibility of this happening to me again??

Just a quick wee bump - just wondered if anyone read my last post and are able to help me out with my question??
Ta

Originally posted by CSK222
reply to post by ll__raine__ll

 

Not to pry, but what was your exp that was so different? Maybe it was like one of mine. Hopefully not.

from what i've read on the subject i don't think my experience with sleep paralysis is much different from others experiences. it's basically the usual ... you wake up (or think you've woken up) but you can't move and feel or sense a malevolent presence etc.

the 'not being able to move' to check out your immediate surroundings is the scary part. brrrr ... lol.

that said i don't know anyone else personally ... who has experienced sleep paralysis. that, to me, is what makes it a kinda unique experience.

reply to post by emmy


as i understand it there's nothing actually paranormal or extraordinary about sleep paralysis and you can have an episode anywhere.

its apparently got something to do with your brain still being in sleep mode and not allowing you to move (this is an inbuilt protection mechanism so we're not wondering all over the place while we're sleeping) while you are in fact awake or partially awake.

i think the fear is psychological in that the moment you realize you can't move your brain goes into hyper-drive trying to figure out why and automatically ascribes a sinister reason for the paralysis. that's when we start to sense a boogyman in the corner or a crushing weight on our bodies. i believe we're still part dreaming whilst being awake. it's freaky eh.

I am 20 at this moment, turning 21 next month. I am a college kid, and yesterday trying to induce a Lucid Dream, I had an extra surprise; sleep paralysis. Actually, i just researched about the phenomenon and found out what it was called. Yesterday was surely the weirdest of all. It was the shortest of all of them, thus not as " bad " however yesterday for the first time it "attacked" me. Basically I felt the classic fear, and suddenly a black dog jumped on my chest and I choked it. Then it kinda disappeared on thin air; I closed my eyes and when I opened them again, I could move. It was definitely the most intense of all the experiences but also the shortest.
The first time I had one, I had both my arms spread open to my side; like a cross (sometimes i am a messy sleeper) and I felt the "malevolent being present" feeling. I also heard voices, and they did not sound friendly. I was stuck on that state for a reaaaallllly long time. I think I thought about everything I could think of, I was waiting to get killed by something i didnt know what it was. I though about screaming for my mom, brother, dad, anyone you name it. Anyways... I felt the pressure in my chest; well it wasnt really pressure, it was more like i was losing my " life " type of thing. my chest hurt in a weird way. Anyway, at one point I was so desperate that I actually Prayed (i am not very religious...) and weirdly enough the evil feeling went away, and I felt warmth in my heart and a voice saying: "dont worry, we love you." and The End. Never told anyone about this, cuz i didnt want anyone to think that i was crazy, so since i found out that this thing is a hallucination cool.. There you have it.. My story...

reply to post by ll__raine__ll


ah hah! lol thanks for answering that query. Yeah it is mighty odd - first time too, hehe! Ah, now I know how it feels I can kinda join in on these conversations, at last

reply to post by ll__raine__ll


Do you ever wish it was something more?
or
Are you convinced with the "norm"?

Ugh...mine started at about 11. They were very rare most of my teenage years. In my twenties, they have been mainly when I have moved (change of environment), or been stressed out or sick. I am now 27 and I guess you can say I have been experimenting with them more. They have been the worst lately. There will be the "being" spirit, whatever you wanna call it pretty much in the bed with me. I'm a pretty stuborn person so I have been able to mouth words, mainly telling whatever it is to go away, but that's probably just the lucidity. The worst has been actualy seeing a hand or feeling a touch, or feeling like my blankets are being pulled off of me. I know it is stress, not being on a good sleep schedule etc. I noticed some of the other posts were asking if anyone has ever had a good experience, NO. I have had to explain them to whomever my boyfriend is at the time, lol, and basicaly just told them to wake me up, that's a nice way of not having to deal with it. I have only met one other person that gets them and I normally don't tell anyone who hasn't because they think you're crazy.

yo i've had this happen to me about 5 or six times in the past 4 years but the first time was the worst, i woke u and felt something grabing my shoulder, i couldent move and felt puure horrer i started to yell jesus christ but couldent speek, after about a minunet i started to bearly get out as i strted to fight to say the saviors name , i heard the most evil laugh go trough my room, it wont no dreem and it wont no sleep #, i know what i felt, it was a demon or the devil himself

I've had these since childhood, never had a "pleasant" one, but apparently I've gotten pretty jaded about them, over the years.

First one I remember, I was lying on my side and facing the wall. Always slept with my bed against the wall, probably a comfort thing. Anyway, I "woke up" and couldn't move, felt a hand holding the back of my head so I couldn't turn it, felt a pressure around my chest (I assumed it was something's other arm, which scared the **** out of me, yes) and started to get this strange "buzzing" feeling all over my body.

The date was Nov. 1, and I was 11 years old at the time. Sorta burned into my memory, that date was. Never told anyone about it, just figured it was a really, really bad dream.

They started up again a couple or so years later. Mostly the same stuff other people have mentioned--evil presence "sensed" (but not seen, until I was much older) occasionally loud noises, paralysis of course, the weird buzzing sensation (which was sometimes rather pleasant, actually), being completely terrified, and as an added "bonus," tactile hallucinations as well--hands grabbing my ankles, shoulders, neck, head, etc.

Never in a sexual way (in my teens I might kinda have liked that--had a healthy degree of carnal curiosity for my age, I confess ) ...the "grabby hands" seemed to only hold/squash me rather like someone running an orange through a juicer, more or less.

The interesting part, though, imho, is the end of those "grabby hands." I had an SP episode in which I could both "sense" and "see" the "enitity" responsible (an old woman in a shawl or veil, is what I pictured), and it... well, it attached something to the top of my head. Rather than being scared, I got angry. Deep-down, sense-of-violation angry. I reasoned out that since I couldn't move physically, I'd move non-physically--grabbed the... thing, whatever it was, yanked it out of the crown of my head and threw it at the figure standing at the foot of my bed. In the dream or... whatever it was, I told the thing that it had no right to touch me and was not welcome in my home.

Had a few more episodes since then, but no more grabby hands, and no more really scary ones, either, but that could well be just psychological, imho.

Now, in later years, I've had some real doozies. My personal favorites, for lack of a better term, occurred when my eyelids got stuck half-open so that I was seeing the room around me while still in the midst of an SP episode.

In one, I was only mildly affected, and amusing myself while waiting for the paralysis to end by glancing around the room. Had a few interesting... visual misinterpretations, basically, like seeing light from a window as the head of a large white horse, but I wasn't afraid or anything. As I said, though, I wasn't particularly affected that time, which helped a lot.

In another, the entire back wall of my bedroom fell away and I saw an other-worldly, elven-looking being (white light and the whole nine yards) on horseback, of all things. I remember thinking "well, grand--I'm hallucinating albino elves, now, what will be next, unicorns?" ...Snapped out of it as soon as I had that thought, so maybe sarcasm offends the less-scary ones.

Another one that was more amusing than terrifying (like I said, I've possibly just gotten jaded with these things over the years) was the "grey man." Again, I was having an SP episode with my eyelids annoyingly stuck half-open, and saw this grey shape out of the corner of my eye--kind of a dirty beige color--and it drifted over to the side of my bed, at which point I could "see" it more clearly. It looked like a small human shape with a blurry face, like one of the demon-things from the "Jacob's Ladder" movie, and admittedly, I was a little scared... until I woke up, and realized I'd been terrified of a "blurry little nightmare midget."

Fwiw, I've never been diagnosed with any biochemical issues and am distressingly normal, despite the above.

reply to post by MajorMalfunction


I completely agree with your first response in this thread. I've had sleep paralysis in the past and my feelings of anxiety always stemmed from the fact that I couldn't move or fully wake up.

If the OP says the world is filled with balance and that if there are bad entities then there must be good entities, but nobody has seen a good entity, then it seems logical that it must be something else entirely. Simple sleep paralysis and the accompanying anxiety seems very simple and logical to me.

I have experienced this twice, but never really knew what it was until this thread.

It happened to me both times while staying at a friends flat which was in a converted factory. Now me being me my imagination runs wild about old building and ghosts etc. I may add I have never seen one.

Both times I woke up there in the middle of the night unable to move and it felt like someone had their hands round my neck trying to strangle me. Both these times when I awoke it was from bad dreams, with a suden shock, but I cannot remember what the dreams were.

Nice to know that this was my mind playing games, as it kinda freaked me out!

reply to post by quitebored


i just wanted to thank you for your post. it was very intresting to read about the variety of exsperiances you have had. i found the one about the demon midget thing really intresting because i have seen that one also haha.

the most intresting thing about being in that state is that you feel intuitivly what the diffrent presances are. like the black hooded figure, i "knew" was a being of pure hatred and evil. when i saw the small evil thing i picked up on a feeling that it was a being of "uncleanlyness or dirty"

when you talk about being angry that happend to me too once. once i found myself being full of rage that one of these things would disturb my sleep. that happend with the small evil creature (which to me looked like a "grey" alien. i do not really believe in aliens though (at least that they visit us on earth) so this was odd that i would see one. i rember being mad at it and knowing it could not hurt me but still being furious it would prey on me. the sad thing is that it just laughed at my anger.

like i may have said before i since have discovered that these beings are lower sorts of spirits. they prey on negative emotions and feed off of them in a type of spiritual vamperisim. this is why i now believe that you never see good ones. the good spirits are on a higher spiritual plane and will not interupt you in such a way.

whenever anyone encounters one of the episodes this is how you will defeat them. you must not show any negative feeling or emotion. no matter how scary they are you must "know" that no matter what these spirits cannot physically hurt you. the only thing they want is for you to fear them. if you do not fear them or hate them or give them any other sort of negative energy like anger they will not be able to get any power from you. in fact if you really want to mess with them you could project a feeling of love or happiness, this is like garlic to vampires and they will run quickly.

i was reading on wikipedia the other day about wraith's and i think it bears similarity to the beings encountered in the sleep paralyisis state. it said:
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A wraith, in reality, targets its victims by their personal fear of it. The wraith waits until the victim has fallen asleep, then it haunts the persons dreams as a distraction for its real intentions. The wraith attempts to overcome its victim with fear so it may drag him/her into another dimension.

i found that intresting. the more you fear them the stronger they get. so stay strong and show no fear and they will quickly find someone weaker to bother.

testimonys of many young people who succesfully got read of seep paralisys:

How to stop sleep paralisys:
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well hello, i'm new here.
i have heard about sleep paralysis and many stories of friends etc that have experienced something like that, but i never did.
though, i find interesting such stories (even though i don't believe in most of them) i just like to exchange views and to explore the limits of the human's brain.
from the moment i heard about sleep paralysis (and i have to tell you that i read all your stories and experiences posted here) i think of it every night and it makes me anxious, what if it happens to me too, am i going to get away with it easily?, how will i react? keep in mind that i rarely remember my dreams (and in some cases i feel very happy about that).
some of you said that you have found ways to stop this experience or maybe make it more easy for you. please give some hints. "i would like to be prepared if that happens hah"
thanx in advance

OP... If you are still on the site here are my experiences.... i've just started a new thread too because i didn't see your post!

Since 2000 i have had experiences with the "Paranormal" shall we say.... and i'll start by telling you about the first one which occured in an apartment i used to live in not far from here... first of all it started with the banging of the bedroom door as if while asleep something had been in the room but as i woke up it left the room at that precise moment and shut the door and then over the course of a couple of years this thing would attack me in my sleep by sitting on me, holding my arms so i couldn't move but also hit me in my abdomen area, i also couldn't shout out as there was some strange force stopping me from doing so.... now i know people will say that this is "sleep paralysis" and i have read about it but i honestly believe it was something else... either a demon, a ghost or Succubus (which i've read about too). I no longer have this thing after me whatever it was which i'm glad about as it was some pretty scary stuff!

My second experience with strange phenomena has happened over the last few years too.... again while asleep but this is a nice feeling totally oposite to what i just told you about.... i have had a feeling of being lifted out of bed and about to be taken someplace only for me to wake up suddenly and be back in my bed (sort of like an outter body experience i suppose) but i believe i was going to be taken someplace but was/have been too scared so i've woken up.... this happened quite a lot.... also a white light has appeared above my head a couple of times when there was no light on or cars driving by to project light into the room... this time i think it was either Aliens wanting to take me some place or maybe it was just my time to go to another World... either way i didn't get to find out.

Lastly and most recently while walking through the park i suddenly stopped, believing there was something following me so i looked up and saw what resembled an Orb moving amongst the trees... it didn't do anything and i only looked for a while before continuing on my way... again i figure this is some spirit or alien orb of some kind.... or an Angel!

Anyway if you have any thoughts on it let me know..... I think i am now Enlightened and do not get any bad/evil spirits around me



[edit on 20-6-2009 by TruthxIsxInxThexMist]

I've had sleep paralysis episodes for the last 8 years. I'm convinced that it happens when I change up my sleeping patterns or under some stress. My wife on the other hand is utterly convinced I'm a demon spawn from hell.
She swears by this because no human can make the sounds that i make while under SP. She says she has a tough time going back to sleep after one of my episodes, all she can do is lay there and stare at me.

i had sleep paralysis a cuple nights back it was horrible i was hiding in my dream and then suddenly i snapped and woke up and cudnt move i saw a hand over my right eye i was laying on my side and i tried moving when i get sleep paraylsis i always feel a pure evil spirit not being able to move is terrifying i kept trying to move and the fear was very intense lasted at least a minute and then i heard a very evil laugh and then i woke up

maybe it was finished harveting my negative energy the place were u are when u experience sleep paraysis i beileve is the realm that demons reside it feels like a very weird place half dream half real and you can still see but i think my eyes were maybe close not sure

im only 17 had this bout 5 times now

How to Stop Sleep Paralysis (1 of15):

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Usually when I have SP, I don't experience any beings, I just hear sounds and am filled with fear. One time, though, I felt an indentation on the bed, like when my cat jumps up, but none of my cats were in the room. I didn't see anything, but I could sense that whatever was there was a long-haired woman who was leaning over me. I was still afraid, like I always am during SP, but I didn't feel that she was evil.