Somethings on my back at night, holding me down.

Maybe it is the bed intruder! You better "hide yo wife, hide yo children" to be on the safe side!0.o

sounds like sleep paralysis

ugh its AMAZING how all these people say this and yet not one ghost story has been proven true ok listen to me hear im going to give you really good advice
1. stop putting storys on here to look special because your not

2. if you feel like you have to put bullshit stories on here for attention go out and meet people

3. if this is true then it is sleep paralysis and you are making up the foot steps bit its notmal

take notes of them because there very good advice

Yeah that makes sense a demon has nothing better to do, than hold someone down at 2 in the morning.

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me too.

You probably won't believe me but its a demon I'm sorry your house is haunted I'm not trying to scare you but its true

Hopefully, it's sleep paralysis and not paranormal related.

This might be sleep paralysis. It isn't that common, but it isn't abnormal either.

Yah wat YBNORML said. Nothing to b scared of. Its normal. I myself had experienced this. I was so scared at first. But I learned how to control it. Very well. I think dats y I like sleeping n dreaming cuz I control wat goes on. N wen I dream I kno im dreaming. N I also kno how to wake myself up. Idk how but I kno how n its pretty awesome.

What you experienced is a non-ordinary experience of several ordinary states.

1. When you dream your brain releases powerful chemicals that paralyze your body so you don't act out your dream and hurt yourself. Sleep walkers are not getting this chemical. That running thru mud feeling in a dream when you are being chased is the body trying to move while paralyzed.

2. When you dream, no matter how bizarre the dream is, it seems real. You hear sounds. You see things. You feel textures. Smell and taste. The centers of the brain that process these things are processing signals so it all seems real.

3. States of consciousness. There are several but here we are only concerned with two: the dream state (REM sleep) and normal waking consciousness.

Now each of these are completely normal and scientifically verified and described. What happens when you have dream paralysis, are experiencing the seemingly real dream state AND wake up all at the same time?

Since ancient times this rare combination of physiological and consciousness states has been called The Demon. It can include the feeling of a presence (dream reality), touch (dream reality), voices (dream reality), and the experience of being stuck to the bed, pinned down, sat on, unable to move, paralyzed (the paralyzing chemicals in the system) all being experienced through the waking conscious awareness.

Two things then happen that can set up a feedback loop. The mind says, I am feeling, hearing, and experiencing something unusual. Which stirs fear. And you desperately ask What is it? As it searches for an answer in a split second it finds one out of the religious training: evil spirits, demons, ghosts... Which creates more fear. In my case, when I experienced this years ago, unable to even speak or move, I forced my self to yell "Jesus" and the experience immediately stopped. Which reinforced the idea that it was a spiritual demonic encounter.

However the word was selected on the basis of my background, and was uttered only when the paralysis "drug" wore off. I could have as well said "Matchbook!", for the word did not end it. The ending of the paralysis allowed the word to be said.

Nothing to fear. No demon attack. Just an unusual dream/sleep experience to enjoy.

I have had the same problem with sleep paralysis. People who make stupid jokes about it have never experienced it and can't understand how terrifying it can be. I was once seriously sleep deprived for weeks because it happened every single time I went to sleep.

You have to learn to accept that it's just a physical problem and learn NOT to be afraid. That's easier said then done, but if you can get to the point where you can relax and just tell yourself to go back to sleep, it will pass.

It helps to learn something about lucid dreaming. You just have to be able to take control of the situation and not let it control you.

Good luck!

Wow that is scary! I've seen a bit on sleep paralysis, and If that happened to me, I would never sleep AGAIN.

Happens to me once or twice a year. You're paralyzed when you dream so you don't act out your dreams. Sometimes you regain consciousness without "waking up." Don't sweat it. Instead, try to take control by forcing yourself to think of funny or pleasant things.

thats like so scary.....idk if thats normal or anything...pretty sure people in this world has had that too.
wen im in my bed i feel like someone is watching me....but urs sounds scaryer

if it is a ghost then just be polite and tell it to leave you alone. ghosts can be very bad especially if you can astrotravel because when you leave your body, they can enter it. its complicated to explain but be super polite, tell it that you care for it and you want it to be happy and to leave you alone. dont be nasty to it at all.
the same thing happened to me once when i was younger and i nearly crapped my pants but i told it nicely to leave me alone and it did. you dont want to mess with it.

Or a shadow person :-S

if you believe folklore, then it's an incubus or succubus demon holding you down while you sleep. Wiki it, it's kinda interesting.

Ya its a ghost

That's scary..

rape ghost...he lurks