Have you ever experienced any weird things during sleep?
Once I had a dream that I was chocked while I sleep in my bed by an orange Sully from Monsters Inc.
I tried to scream and to move but couldn't.
Woke up and everything was the same just like in the dream, without Sully of course. My mouth was dry and had cold sweat on my back.
That's my case.
Just made the orange Sully for fun. Open at your own risk :D
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i once experienced sleep paralysis, like others have said your body produces a paralytic to keep you from moving during REM sleep, if you are woken during that it takes a few moments for it to wear off. What i usually run into though is just slow heart rate on waking, flexing y hands and feet for a little while gets the blood flowing and makes it easier to get up.
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I think it happened to me once, many years ago. My sisters were all off to uni so I slept all alone in a big room, there was a big garden behind us so there would be some weird noises throughout the nights. I slept fine most of the time, but some nights I would wake up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, I would feel like someone was staring at me without seeing anyone. One night in paricular I woke up and couldn't move, I couldn't tell if it was real or just a dream, I just felt so heavy and couldn't move a muscle. I rememeber staring at the bed posts in the quiet darkness, repeating to mysef that it was just a dream and beg to wake up soon. Then it passed, I startled awake, drank some water and went back to sleep. It only happened once though, these days I just sleep really late and don't dream anything out of exhaustion.
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Ive had the paralysis a couple times. First time wasnt scary, just surreal: I woke up, saw that an open copy of douglas adams' life, the universe, and everything in front of my face, found that i couldnt move my arms to push the book away, and then spent five minutes trying to convince myself that i wasnt actually reading anything.
The other time I really remember was a few nights back, when I was lying on my side. I could feel a pair of hands on my back, and when i opened my eyes there was a man just staring right into them a few centimeters away. But somehow I knew the hands and the face were on the same body, he was bending his neck completely over my shoulder to look at me. I screamed (so i guess it wasnt true paralysis, but still), and I swear i watched that long-necked weirdo run like an ostrich out of my room and down the hallway, cackling all the while. Then my mom asked me if I was okay, and I figured if she didnt see the guy then it must've been a dream and I calmed down. Still, preferred the book thing.
I've also lately been...i dont know if its sleepwalking, per se, but its weird. like, i wake up and see an animal that's not supposed to be in my room, i jump out of bed and stare at it, then blink a couple of times and it'd suddenly vanish and i'd look around and realize that i'd been dreaming half-awake. So far, I've seen two sea urchins, three snakes, and a chameleon.
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I went through a phase of sleep paralysis in my late teens. I'd be sort of half awake and the shadows in the room would start to come to life. I'd be filled with dread and be struggling to move but I couldn't. And then suddenly my muscles would finally start working and I'd leap up in the air flailing about. The same thing happened every time and it should have been obvious what was happening but for some reason it never was - I'd always be filled with the same sense of uncontrolled dread. If the episodes lasted long enough the shadows would join together into a humanoid shape that started screaming from a freakishly large mouth and reaching towards me, although it didn't always get that far.
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Yeah, once.
It was during a bad time, my sleep schedule was off, and I was exhausted. I went to sleep on the couch, drifted off, and woke up briefly, unable to move. I felt/heard whispering voices in my head (presumably the voices of the dead--that was my feeling) telling me to join them. Fortunately, I'd read about sleep paralysis before so I had a muddled idea of what was happening. Still, I hope it never happens again.
As a side note, I was reading House of Leaves during this time period. If you ever have a nervous breakdown, read that book. Highly recommended for a good time!
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Had tons of things since ever, vivid nightmares, paralysis, astral projection, lucid dreaming. In all of them fear will break you. The fun part is to recognize each one of this alterstates of mind and overcome fear. Being aware.
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Nah nothing too weird, only problems related to effectively close completely the eyes. If you want to not sleep, you can search for big problems that can be achieved after having this problem on a serious / severe way...
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Alright, so I've had numerous bouts with sleep paralysis, some more severe than others, and luckily it doesn't happen often to me anymore. But I'll regale you with my first experience.
So about 10 years back(was 15) I was over my cousin's house in New York and we were watching a Nightmare on Elm Street marathon. I was never really afraid of Freddie, he was more comical than anything to me. So after awhile we went back home and I was in bed, laying on my side with my back facing the door trying to go to sleep.
I didn't know at the time, that I could "trigger" sleep paralysis to happen if I feel myself falling asleep, then decide I don't want to sleep and try to get up, but I'm then "locked in" to SP at that point.
So that's what happened all those years ago, but since it was the first time I panicked a lot more initially. I felt like I could see, but wasn't sure if my eyes were open. I tried to throw myself from side to side to wake myself up and it felt like I was hitting invisible walls in my head. I then tried to use my left arm and turn myself over and it felt like an eternity, and I saw my hand in front of me slowly moving, however I didn't recognize it as my hand. I was then about to flip myself over, but then it felt like I blinked and I was "teleported" back into my original state of my back facing the door.
At that point I convinced myself to calm down and just wait it out, until I started to hear footsteps slowly creeping up behind me. I then heard that classic sound of Freddie dragging his claws against metal pipes, slowly, slowly getting closer to me. I was in full panic mode, felt like my heart was going to explode. I then felt warm breathing on my ear and then I instantly regained full control of my body and flung myself off my bed. Went to immediately ask my parents if anybody came to my room and they said nope. Needless to say I was afraid to go to sleep for awhile. Ironic as hell being that that's Freddie's whole schpiel lol.
Have had some other really weird experiences, but this one was one of the worst with visual/auditory hallucinations. Now if it happens again it's a very quick realization of me being in that state, and just calmly waiting it out until I can move again.
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For sure, I have another one I'll type up in a little while.
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Ok, so here's another.
So I didn't intentionally mean to trigger it again, but it happened in the way I said before. I was laying down, about to fall asleep again(I had just woken up in the morning, but hadn't gotten out of bed) and I didn't want to waste more of the day so I was determined to get up, but as I tried to get up I had fallen asleep already and I was back in the sleep paralysis mode.
Now, I was fully aware that I was in this state from the beginning so it wasn't really a cause of panic. In fact it started out really cool. I was on my side, my eyes facing my TV which was turned off, just biding my time and waiting for the episode to be over.
Then all of a sudden I started to see bright lights popping up all around my TV, as if the TV was on and there were fireworks on display. I watched this for what seemed to be awhile and was entranced at how beautiful they looked, I wasn't even bothered that I couldn't move at this point....until it went all south.
The TV "turned off", and I was left in silence again which caused me to worry a bit. My anxiety was on the money, because some weird visions started to manifest around me. In an extremely bright manner, as if light was breaking out of my wall, words started to be slowly written out in this luminescent font on my wall. What made me start to worry even more were that the words being written out were "fuck" "fucker" and "monster". Weird I know, but this is what I saw. Then panic mode started to set in and I tried to thrash about, only to hit those "invisible walls" in my head.
As the writing calmed down I was given a brief moment of solace as(this is a bit out there I know) I started to hear Nas, 2pac, and Snoop rapping as if they were right next to me in the room. This audio hallucination was so surreal. I had been listening to them over my life, not even that recently, so I found it weird that's what the audio hallucination manifested. So I was calming down, vibing and such until the rapping sound cut out as if someone took a record off the player.
There was silence for a bit, and then in the manner that this episode seemed to be playing out, with at first showing me something good, then taking it away and showing me something bad, as if someone was playing a cruel joke on me, giving me a false sense of security and then slashing it down, the audio hallucinations took a dive for the worst.
It's tough for me to explain it, but all of I sudden I started to hear a female voice talking in tongues. It wasn't even words, it was as if someone was trying to formulate speech, but instead just made guttural, sporadic breathing noises. It felt like she was right on top of me, but I didn't feel her. I felt her breath, and her voice was right above my ear, as close as it could possibly be without it manifesting inside me. I then regained control of my body and jumped up from my bed quicker than I ever have before.
So yeah, needless to say I spent that day trying to stay awake as long as I could, lest I have another episode. This was the most recent(a year ago), and most severe episode. Luckily haven't had any, even minor ones in awhile.
Just reading this back it sounds like a short story horror fiction haha, if only it was. The memories still upset me at times.
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Alien visitations? XD Poor persons that have to deal with that.
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Experienced it 2 to 3 times, more than 6 years ago (I was 14-15 can't really remember). The first time I woke up because I felt like someone sat on my bed right next to me. I expected it to be my mother or another member of my family. After "waking up" I couldn't open my eyes yet I was sure that I could see my room. I immediately recalled that all of my family members were out of the house for the day and that's when the panic kicked in. As most people, I had difficulty breathing and couldn't move any body part. After some struggling I managed to fully wake up. I was sweaty, shaking and had the urge to start crying.
It was the first and only time that it was so intense. The next time(s), it was for mere seconds while the first felt like it lasted for 3-5 minutes. I'd describe it as an extremely unpleasant experience all around.
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i used to have sleep paralysis and sleep astral projection all the time when i was younger. the astral projection was cooler but for some reason i was never able to look back at my bed to look at myself. and if you even thought about it you would startle yourself awake.
and when i would walk too far away from my body my projection felt like it was weighed down like something was holding me back. and you would start to get scared and panic thinking something is watching you and coming for you.
with sleep paralysis i didnt feel like anything was sitting on me but i did have a fear something was in the room with me and i wasnt able to move to look.
now that im 28 years old. i honestly hate that none of this happens to me anymore. i look back on it and feel like it was a super power and that i just didnt master it lol v__v i always hate that i didnt try and control it better
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Just googled ... apparently occurs more widely than i expected and isn't even regarded as a sickness - more like a malfunction > the paralysis that keeps your sleeping body in place still active, while your bodily motor functions needed to move aren't - reasons all kinds of things ... stress, sleep depravity, other. Can't tell for sure without extensive reading, but as long you don't end up as a vegetable (exceedingly rare foil card malfunction) its less dangerous than sleep walking, but according to the experience more impressive lol. Doubt i'll ever have it, but in case i'd try to force sleep until i'd actually fall asleep again to wake up later - quite frankly its hard to imagine that your body wouldn't respond but you're still awake.
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When I was falling asleep in class like the lazy jerk I am, I had a couple semi-conscious moments of inability to move. It wore off pretty quickly though, and nothing else really happened. I think I developed an aversion to the word "asymtote" though.
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Have experienced it a few times. It's just having my mind awake while my body is asleep. Nothing really threatening. It just gives fun nightmares which could be written as good horror stories,.Had myself being wrapped by a giant spider but I can't see the spider, just the shadow of it from the mirror. Also had a shadow of man standing beside me while I'm sleeping and can't move.
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I've had this a bunch of times when I was maybe 10-12 years old - woke up unable to move and feeling like I couldn't breathe as much as I needed to, so I panicked thinking I was slowly suffocating. Since it happened a few times, I knew I just had to move a little bit to get out of it, but it was always really hard to do. Never saw any creepy figures though. I also used to have pretty bad nightmares when I was younger - now I barely have dreams I remember (which is good, really don't need those nightmares, or confusing dreams that make me think I did things in RL I haven't actually done yet, so I forget to do them)
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I knew someone who had sleep paralysis on a very regular base, like aat least once every week.
Turned out he had a sleep disorder.
Luckiky i haven't had auch things.
Only thing I have is that I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, they are almost always lucid.
For who doesn't know what lucid dreaming is, as it also wasn't in the poll (shame):
It is being aware of your dream, while you're dreaming. This usually also allows you to alter the dream.
Edit:
I can't vote in the poll, because for me 10 hours sleep feels like it lasts 10 seconds, but I snore, speak, and turn a whole lot in my sleep, so not like a dead person
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hmm maybe once, not sure if it counts as paralysis, but it was bit scary...still long time ago, so no clear memory.
Most of the phases of sleeping I am easy to wake up by just saying my name...so usually I am not well rested, or stay in bed too long.
Some ppl try to induce lucid dreaming/astrals, either by power of mind or by external help (drugs, not enough air etc), hard to judge if it's real or just placebo/''regular'' hallucinations :)
I don't like /alien hand/ - pretty common, if you sleep weird positions and cut of blood flow to your hand - I woke up few times to that, one was scary, as I couldn't move whole arm for quite a bit...
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When I was 8/9 yrs old I use to sleepwalk. Lots of funny stories from my sisters.
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I experienced it a couple times, but now I have a cat. So I do not have to sleep any more. Also, when it starts destroying the furniture in the middle of the night, I wake up so fast that I do not have time for fancy paralysis.
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I experienced that once and I had a hallucination. I woke up and saw a shadow creature near my bed which at the time I thought was the devil and it really terrified me. I tried to scream with all my strength and nothing came out. I tried to move but not a single bone of my body responded. I felt as if my entire body was electrified, and that the creature kept getting closer and intensifying that feeling. It was the most horrible sensation ever, as if I was an outsider in my own body and couldn't control it.
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Never experienced it myself but I've seen a lot of interesting videos on youtube talking about sleep paralysis, shadow people and lucid dreams.
Shane Dawson has some pretty scary videos talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVZov9XWFE
He starts talking about it 3 minutes into the video. Apparently people that suffer from anxiety tend to have sleep paralysis a lot.
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So, let's talk about something more serious but still not too serious, and popular enough (I hope) to attract some interesting responses, and who knows, maybe first hand experiences.
I've clicked on articles about Night Hag and Shadow person and since I live alone, no sleep for me tonight :(
Jokes aside, I've experienced sleep paralysis at least once. Woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't breathe, my throat and lungs were frozen, and electric current was shaking my entire upper body... I felt like I'm gonna die... like my tongue is turning to dust... still, somehow managed to start breathing through my nose when I remembered that can be done too.
So... your turn. Tell us what you've lived through.
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