Sleep Paralysis

4068ac1elhodqr · 24-09-2016 08:46PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Why what's up with that? I love owls.

Owls are fine, just not at 3:33 in the am - well according to this movie anyway: http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/

Depp · 24-09-2016 08:52PM

I usually get it when I go to sleep overtired, the first few times its terrifyin but when you know whats going on its not near as bad, for the first while when it started I was nearly afraid to sleep which only made it worse!

Kevwoody · 24-09-2016 09:07PM

Only ever happened me once before, I was staying in a hotel up in Cavan, near Virginia I think.
Anyway it was around 4am, and I woke suddenly and couldn't physically move. I was lying on my side and the light was on in the bathroom and I could see a dark figure standing staring at me. I tried to speak but couldn't. Next thing the bed felt like it took off at speed towards the wall but it just kept going, with yer man getting closer to me all the time.
I've never been as scared in all my life. I'm a grown man and I knew what had happened me when I woke up, but yet it took me a few weeks to get over it!

Olishi4 · 24-09-2016 11:00PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Why what's up with that? I love owls.

There's an owl sanctuary near where my oh is from and he brought me to it and ever since then I've loved them. There was one in particular that we saw that had a bright blue eyelid and pink surrounding the eye almost like makeup. I can't find anything like it on Google or anywhere! I had to confirm with my OH that that is what i saw otherwise i wouldnt have believed myself

linpoo · 24-09-2016 11:30PM

LaVail wrote: »

I get this at least 2 times per week every week. Been happening for about 7 years now. Even though I know exactly what's going on when it's happening it still scares the sh1t out of me. Try to roar or move my hands to wake up but that always fails me.

I notice that the next day I am exhausted and drained from the whole thing.

I've read that sleeping on your back causes it

ScrubsfanChris · 25-09-2016 01:00AM

Kevwoody wrote: »

Only ever happened me once before, I was staying in a hotel up in Cavan, near Virginia I think.
Anyway it was around 4am, and I woke suddenly and couldn't physically move. I was lying on my side and the light was on in the bathroom and I could see a dark figure standing staring at me. I tried to speak but couldn't. Next thing the bed felt like it took off at speed towards the wall but it just kept going, with yer man getting closer to me all the time.
I've never been as scared in all my life. I'm a grown man and I knew what had happened me when I woke up, but yet it took me a few weeks to get over it!

Sounds terrifing ....
I got feeling once like there was someone/something around me but never "seen" anything :eek:
Scariest thing for me was my breathing rate felt involuntary I wasn't in control of it was

Related note, sceptics blame this phenomenon for all alien obduction stories, which I believe myself. There are many account of this even going back to the 18th and 19th centuries, although then it was demons people saw.

messinkiapina · 25-09-2016 01:04AM

Happens to me now and again. Usually if I've been sleep deprived for a number of nights in a row, or stressed out over something.

1st few times it happened to me I was terrified, thinking I was going to trapped in that state forever more, fully conscious but unable to move a muscle in my body. After a few times, I realised it was something that I just have to ride out, and it makes it a little less scary. I say a LITTLE less, because it's still a f*****g awful experience.

Depp · 25-09-2016 02:03AM

Kevwoody wrote: »

Only ever happened me once before, I was staying in a hotel up in Cavan, near Virginia I think.
Anyway it was around 4am, and I woke suddenly and couldn't physically move. I was lying on my side and the light was on in the bathroom and I could see a dark figure standing staring at me. I tried to speak but couldn't. Next thing the bed felt like it took off at speed towards the wall but it just kept going, with yer man getting closer to me all the time.
I've never been as scared in all my life. I'm a grown man and I knew what had happened me when I woke up, but yet it took me a few weeks to get over it!

what it is when I get it is a guy sitting on the end of my bed with no facial features staring at me and I cant move or speak, it freaks me out but after a few seconds I usually realize whats happening

Speedwell · 25-09-2016 02:41AM

Oh, I get completely stupid crap that would win Academy awards for "most terrifying screenplay". The last one, I woke up crying next to an annoyed husband telling me to calm down, and I distinctly remember my dream being walking around a large shopping-mall-like institution of some sort trying to figure out why I was losing my mind and sanity to some sort of rapidly progressive dementia. Getting into elevators and going to unexpected places was part of it. I literally had the actual feeling of knowing that I used to be able to think and remember and process things better. If I ever have a dream like that again I hope someone shoots me before I wake up and find it's true.

jon burrows · 10-12-2016 05:09AM

I have experienced sleep paralysis a lot of times. One particular scary one was me waking up not been able to move, only the eyes move, I could see the curtains the bed, the walls everything as normal until I looked to the right and I saw this small old lady with a black shawl covering her face with a black dress slowly hovering over towards me, I tried screaming but nothing came out, eventually after a few fearful seconds I woke up and the missus told me I was only making low groaning noises, but for me I was trying so hard to scream.

764dak · 18-12-2016 11:56AM

The first time I had it was when I was 7 or 8.

jeff bingham · 18-12-2016 12:26PM

Have gotten sleep paralysis probably once a month for the last 10 years. The very first time the old woman/hag was standing over me.. took me awhile to get over that one as I was only a young lad. Got used to it and most times I can turn it into lucid dreaming. It's hard to explain.

I have had 2 bad experiences in the last year that I remember. One time I fell asleep on the couch and could see a man standing in the hallway holding a knife in the reflection of the glass on the door. I lay there frozen screaming in my head until I came to properly

The other I was in bed and felt something move beside me I thought the dog had gotten in and was asleep beside me so waited the paralysis out until I heard a male voice say "he's asleep do it now!"

Both times I wasn't sure if I was imagining it or if I was having paralysis at the exact point these people had decided to murder me... in general I'm not paranoid that people want to kill me so not sure where those hallucinations came from

Jimmy Garlic · 18-12-2016 12:31PM

I get this the odd time, the hag and all, but only if I am on my back.

HellSquirrel · 18-12-2016 01:40PM

Have a skim through the thread about Weird/Unexplained stuff happening to you. A lot of people give accounts of classic sleep paralysis that alarmed them. Have it myself every now and again -less so now than I used to, although I did have a myoclonic jerk reaction last night when dozing off.

My method of dealing with it is to ignore the rest of my body and the lurking terror of the noise or shadow just out of my line of sight and focus hard on the fingers of one hand to make them twitch. Once I've got a twitch, the spell's broken, I can move again and the fear drains. It's not as scary now as it used to be before I knew about it. It could be absolutely terrifying when I was small.

Unearthly · 18-12-2016 01:46PM

I get it if I have a nap earlier in the day like an hour or 2. That night then it would happen. Unable to breath or move for a few seconds. Sometimes eyes open and imagining people in my room.

CPTM · 19-12-2016 01:23AM

HellSquirrel wrote:

Have a skim through the thread about Weird/Unexplained stuff happening to you. A lot of people give accounts of classic sleep paralysis that alarmed them. Have it myself every now and again -less so now than I used to, although I did have a myoclonic jerk reaction last night when dozing off.

Would you please have a link to that thread, Hellsquirral?

Mickeroo · 19-12-2016 01:27AM

Nearly guaranteed I'll get it if I fall asleep on my back. Can be genuinely terrifying. Easy to see how people came up with things like succubi and alien abductions to try and explain it.

Cupcake_Crisis · 19-12-2016 01:57AM

I get it all the time, but it's more likely to happen if im having a nap. The first few times scared the crap out of me but I can recognise the feeling now. For me it feels like my brain has woken up before my body so my mind is fully cognitive, I just can't move a muscle.

Once I had hallucinations and it was horrible. I could 100% see a huge black shadow of a man slowly moving towards my bed and I couldn't move or scream. The feeling of panic!

lazybones32 · 19-12-2016 03:29AM

Deftlefthand: maybe you should try meditation, mindfulness, relaxation or contemplative prayer? Whatever stuff your mind is trying to deal with at night could be the cause of this problem as it doesn't sound to have its source in a physical affliction.

Just my thought.

Sleep Paralysis

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