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It's never happened to me, I've just heard of it. You can look it up on Wikipedia if you would like. I'm terrified of it happening to me. Sometes so much that I won't sleep for days on end. (Which is a problem because that increases the risk of it happening, plus I have work).
It's happened to me once. I have quite literally never felt so god damn scared in my entire life. I think about it every night..but I usually take midol PM to sleep so it doesn't happen. I do find it slightly weird you can't sleep even though it's never happened to you though. Go to therapy.
Well I read up on it and one dream I had I did exactly what the said . Like focusing on one part either a finger or ect to break the paralysis .
big z: Thats not exactly what we're talking about, but it does sound like it could be a type of hypnagogic hallucination.
I've also had a feeling were I woke up or it I thought was awake was in a truck bymyslef all my friends were gone and there was a growling dog rite beside me .. I was honeslty soo scared but I don't know what happened or why it happens .. Someone let me know
I once haas a dream when I was sleeping on my stomach thy I was drowning and I could almost reach the bottom but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't.. It felt like I was have asleep and half awake is this what you guys are talkin about?? I have had dreams similar to that a couple times and it freaks me out
Could someone tell me if this is just a bad dream or something different .. It feels real and when I do wake up I'm freaked out .. ???? HELP???
I had been doing research for about a year and always wanted it to happen to me. It did twice. Then i never wanted to sleep again lol. It was mostly the sounds that scared me so I blasted music for like a week after that when I went to sleep. I still think it was a good experience tho since I was really interested in the subject, and got an amazing totally undisapointing first hand experience. It was just really really scary. So I guess my advice to you is to apreciate the beauty of sleep paralysis. As long as it doesn't happen chronically I think I could enjoy it, long after its over obviously lol.
I'm very interested in hypnagogia (state between wakefulness and sleep) and things like that too. It's fascinating.
What did you see/hear/feel? Lol the first time I had it, I was 10/11 and I saw rats crawling all over my chair and then I KNEW that they were spreading, everywhere, all over my room. I'm not scared of rats, but I was fucking terrified. And I couldn't move at all, so I concentrated on getting my finger to move and somehow, I broke out of it through sheer will.
It was so weird, because I could SEE the fur and the tails and the wriggling.
I've also seen me, but with huge, black holes in my head instead of eyes, "felt" an invisible demon that wanted to kill me and "felt" a huge black presence behind me. In the latter and the one where I saw a version of myself, it was as though my dreamworld and reality were blending, so I was shifting from awake and asleep. It's hard to explain.
Nope, didn't enjoy those experiences, but there was a rush when I got out of it lol.
I've had it several times and have been afraid to sleep because of it before.
It's an interesting experience. It should be obvious that whatever is "there" is not real, and yet the terror most certainly is.
Do as they say...don't sleep on your back and chill. That's all you can do.
It is VERY normal to be afraid of it. I get it about twice a month and it scares the shit out of me every time...