Once, not too long ago, I was awoken in the middle of the night because I couldn't breathe. I felt something watching me. I opened my eyes and felt a cold pressure gripping my throat. There was a large dark figure sitting on my chest laughing. In a gurgled voice, all I could say is "Where are you?" I know that doesn't make sense, but i was half asleep. As soon as I spoke, the figure jumped off of me, and swiftly glided around my bed and towards the door. I still get shivers when I think about it. This really happened. I really turned the lights on and I really laid awake in horror for the rest of the night. I went to a Church and bought a St. Benedict's medal and had it blessed. I leave it by my bedside. The ghoul never returned.
I later found out the true cause of this visitation. My girlfriend, the only person I trusted enough to share the story with, came to me and told me about sleep paralysis. Sleep Paralysis is a condition that 50%% of college students get at least once, but they are a mere minority of the other people that get such terrors. Sleep Paralysis is when the part of the brain that controls muscle movement is still asleep, but the rest of the brain is awake. This causes a sense of panic, and it many cases, the hypnagogic state of the person causes them to hallucinate a terrible figure sitting on them or beside them, and usually occurs when sleeping supine. This condition is called "The Old Hag" and many other colloquialisms. Before modern medicine, this was commonly attributed to demonic visits, succubi, and presently alien abduction.
The main causes of Sleep Paralysis are stress and irregular sleep schedule. It is exacerbated by sleeping on one's back. This is a normal happening that has happened to countless people over the centuries. You are normal, and healthy, you just had a rough day. ;)
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Once, not too long ago, I was awoken in the middle of the night because I couldn't breathe. I felt something watching me. I opened my eyes and felt a cold pressure gripping my throat. There was a large dark figure sitting on my chest laughing. In a gurgled voice, all I could say is "Where are you?" I know that doesn't make sense, but i was half asleep. As soon as I spoke, the figure jumped off of me, and swiftly glided around my bed and towards the door. I still get shivers when I think about it. This really happened. I really turned the lights on and I really laid awake in horror for the rest of the night. I went to a Church and bought a St. Benedict's medal and had it blessed. I leave it by my bedside. The ghoul never returned.
I later found out the true cause of this visitation. My girlfriend, the only person I trusted enough to share the story with, came to me and told me about sleep paralysis. Sleep Paralysis is a condition that 50%% of college students get at least once, but they are a mere minority of the other people that get such terrors. Sleep Paralysis is when the part of the brain that controls muscle movement is still asleep, but the rest of the brain is awake. This causes a sense of panic, and it many cases, the hypnagogic state of the person causes them to hallucinate a terrible figure sitting on them or beside them, and usually occurs when sleeping supine. This condition is called "The Old Hag" and many other colloquialisms. Before modern medicine, this was commonly attributed to demonic visits, succubi, and presently alien abduction.
The main causes of Sleep Paralysis are stress and irregular sleep schedule. It is exacerbated by sleeping on one's back. This is a normal happening that has happened to countless people over the centuries. You are normal, and healthy, you just had a rough day. ;)
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BUT-- you felt the classic 'someone sitting on your chest', and 'not being able to breathe or move'... the poster did not say that.