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I have experienced sleep paralysis. Usually I will get it most of the week for a while and then for about a year it will go away and come back.
People experience different things when they are experiencing sleep paralysis, and I want to hear what yours are!
What are your sleep paralysis experiences?
I've only ever had it when I had taken certain painkillers. My GP told me it meant I was allergic to that medication. Regardless, you couldn't pay me to take those pills ever again.
Wow, was just poking my head in here and can't believe anyone I knew is actually still around!
About four years worth of a while, in fact. I am up down and all around, but quite well at present. How have you been? (may or may not be asleep at some point soon, I really should be :P)
Wow. That's crazy. You'll regret returning, let me warn you.
Yeah...bout the same. Life, I guess. No worries, I know it's super late there. Often thought of you and wondered how you were. It's nice to see you again :)
It does seem like things have changed.. a lot. Nice to see some of the old guard still around, but... https://imgur.com/r/highqualitygifs/cMWalaa That's about how it felt looking around at posts last night.
It's nice to see you too. :) I've often thought about this place and everyone here and wondered how you were doing.
I've experienced sleep paralysis before. It sucked. I woke up in the dead of night, could hardly see a thing. My eyes popped open because I thought I heard the door open and shut. There was a shadow across the room. It loomed as high as the ceiling, looked vaguely humanoid and made it's way up to me. That was when I realized I couldn't move. I tried to yell, I couldn't believe my eyes, but my body just wouldn't move. Panic washed over me as I thought I felt it reach out to touch me. That was the last straw. Through what felt like soup, I FORCED my arm up, yelped and promptly fell out of the bed on the side I thought I was being attacked. By the time I fought out of my blanket of course, there was nothing but me. Alone and feeling very confused. It happens more when you're dehydrated, I learned later.
I have the feeling of something pressing down on me. Can't move or scream. Just a feeling of terror and evil. Both times I have been stressed and over-tired. I do wonder if alien abduction and seeing ghosts is related to this. It's something you never forget.
i'm half awake and can see the room but cant move.. i start hearing noises around me like footsteps and whispers, one time i even heard a ball dribbling around me in a creepy way..haha then i usually feel this presence sit beside beside me and start touching or pulling my hair but i dont see anything.. i'm more on hearing and feeling unlike others who see shadows and creatures.. its still creepy though.,
never had one myself.
Heard that is a kind of a naightmarish demon or something that trys to get power over you using your nightmare terrors to kill you. Usually you wake up before it can harm you, but if you cant...
I had it quite a few times while on seroquel. I would think I woke up but wouldn't know where I was. I would then experience multiple quick random dreams that seemed real and I couldn't react to them or know what I was doing. I just had to experience whatever dream was occurring while feeling fully awake and unable to move.
Since stopping that aweful medication I've experienced this on a few occasions. The worst part for me is not knowing where I was or how I got there. Sometimes not even knowing my own name or who I was.
I think you may be talking about Lucid dreaming? I heard Lucid dreaming is connected to sleep paralysis a bit but are quite different.
Ya don't want sleep paralysis, mate. It's not pretty. You can't move, can't speak or scream, and if you hallucinate while you're paralysed then the two things you want to do most because it's usually not bunnies, rainbows, and sunshine that you see during it, are things ya can't do.
It can be a real bummer. I can honestly say that the first time I had it I was a little bitch. Lol.
I have it and it is terrible. TBH I have it on a daily basis.
One night I was sleep and there was this demon like creature on me and I started too breathe heavy. I tried too scream but it wouldn't work I tried too move it wouldn't work. I just felt trapped. After I woke up I was scared too go too sleep.
Btw I voted not normal but it definitely happens. I'm interest to hear your experiences OP.
I think I've only experiencedoing sleep paralysis one time that I can recall.
It felt like I was awake in my bedroom, but I couldn't move. My left hand was hanging off the bed, and it appeared that a ghostly white disembodied hand was holding my hand.
I had to concentrate very hard to be able to move my hand. Then the first thing I did when I could move my hand was to reach over and turn on the radio. Apparently in my late teens music had the power to chase away disembodied phantom hands.
I don't remember my exact age, I must have been in my late teens. At the time I had never heard of sleep paralysis, so I thought a ghost want grabbing me.