Originally Posted by jay_bear

Or it was just a condition called sleep paralysis either way it fucking sucks. Pretty much woke up but could not move. At first I was speaking to my wife but the presence that was there was not my wife and looked more like my son and that was some scary shit. Then had a feeling like I went back to sleep, only to wake up with the feeling something was there. So I tried to get up but could not move, so I tried to say something but I could not speak. I started to fight real hard ,but still could not move or speak and the voices in the room got closer and a voice in my head said to calm down and have patience, which made me fight harder. This is a terrifying experience where you feel like you’re being restrained. You also hear and see weird shit like voices and movement which just freaks you out.
Then I wake up and it’s all over and nothing there. The first thing you think you have been abducted by aliens or demons are fucking with you. Of course you can Google it and find out that what you have experience was a condition called sleep paralysis. It still freaks you the fuck out.

I have had this condition throughout my life on and off. It did not help when I was younger that my grandmother would say it was the devil and I needed to pray. I don’t believe that of course but when you are going through an episode of sleep paralysis it crosses your mind even for a brief second as you try to explain what is happening.

I watched the video on this site and people have some freaky ass experiences, I mean shit right out of a horror movie.

http://becauseilive.hubpages.com/hub...-and-Treatment

I've experienced sleep paralysis quite a few times. No matter how often it happens I am in complete terror each time it does. You try to scream and it comes out as barely a whisper. It is quite an unsettling experience and I always have trouble getting to sleep afterwards.

I remember the first time I took shrooms.

I did this a lot too, I would wake up an gf would be on the couch giving me a wtf is wrong with you look then I stopped play video games and got better.

gl-

 

Originally Posted by Dyzalot

I've experienced sleep paralysis quite a few times. No matter how often it happens I am in complete terror each time it does. You try to scream and it comes out as barely a whisper. It is quite an unsettling experience and I always have trouble getting to sleep afterwards.

Yeah I could not go back to sleep afterwards

The title had potential

aren't these called "night terrors?"

i used to work awake overnights taking care of autistic teenagers. one night i had been up for about 3 days stragiht, and i was laying on the couch 'resting my eyes'. i opened my eyes to the 15 year old (who is somewhat dangerous) staring right in my face. couldn't move, couldnt talk, just hoped i wouldn't be attacked. scariest shit ever.

he eventually went back into his room, and i'm not sure what happened from that point, but nothing serious took place.

 

Originally Posted by jay_bear

Then I wake up and it’s all over and nothing there. The first thing you think you have been abducted by aliens or demons are fucking with you.

Happened to me nonstop severl times a week from age 15-25. Always within 10minutes of falling asleep and then several times the same night to where I didn't want to fall asleep due to the HORROR.

It was the WORST!

My typical experience with paralysis was me trying to punch or hit something or somehow get away, eventually I would 'fly' around the room with no doubt that everything was 100% reality. After dozens of repeat experiences and realizing the second I awoke that it was all 'fake' I was able to control what happened in the 'dreams' and force myself to wake up.

But it took many years and a hundred terrifying nights before I could realize during the experience what was happening. It is soooooo hard to wake myself from them but I can finally do it but still scary as shit. I usually beg and beg my body to alert my wife next to me to wake me up but I am frozen.

It is terrifying Especially when I am flying or fighting from room to room in my house with some entity always present. It's fucked. ALthough when the entity is a female angel I try to get off with her which is cool but freaky.

I only have these once every few years now. I'm 44. But due to this thread I am sure I will have one tonight. If that happens I will fly through my psychodelic worm hole and punch OP in the baby maker.

I almost made this exact thread last month. I have had this occur maybe 5 times, all post chemo and chalked it up to the whole cancer experience. It is so intense words can't describe it. I am aware that I am stuck and there is nothing I can do. I try to wake up but usually the experience will "jump" like in that stupid movie Inception. I will get out of one torture and enter another. Really seems like it is an abduction.

Good luck OP.

I had this happen to me only once. Woke up feeling like somebody was trying to strangle me. Felt another person there but I couldnt move at all or make out a face.

It went on for what seemed like hours and was really annoying but wasnt that scary for me because I had read about this before.

Ill deff never forget it tho and Im not exactly looking forward to the next experience.

I hav e this probably once a month or so. Once I learned what it is I found it pretty easy to cope. All you gotta do is relax yourself and start trying to wiggle your toes and your tongue. That usually snaps me out pretty quickly. Also, its apparently easy to start lucid dreaming if you just relax and accept it. Unfortunately I've never been able to achieve this.

This used to happen to me a lot back in college.

After the first few times I read up on it and the best advice that I got was "try to relax, breathe deep and go back to sleep"

Once I relaxed I'd fall right back to sleep

how is this so common and I've never heard of it? Sounds crazy hope i never have it

I get sleep paralysis often. I don't ever feel like I was abducted by aliens, but I've felt like I was having a seizure when trying to move my body. Apparently there are many similarities to seizures and sleep paralysis from what I've read. It tends to happen to me when I'm slightly dehydrated, and I rarely take naps but almost every single time I've taken a nap in the past 5 years it's happened.

Fucking sucks.