For those of you have experienced sleep paralysis is it easiest just to agree that what happens in sleep paralysis stays in sleep paralysis land??

Scary first time, looking forward to the next!

Not had it for many years but I do recall it being pretty weird. I can recall being convinced there was a stranger in the room, but completely helpless to react. When fully awake felt spooked for some considerable time.

Yes, normally wake up in middle of being murdered, most distressing. When I finally regain ability to move I usually jump out of bed shouting and ready to do battle. Had it a few times, normally when staying somewhere unfamiliar such as hotels.

Yep thought someone was pulling me out of my sofabed by my feet (have a sofabed at work for really late nights) was so freaked out I went home, Used to get similar ones all the time when I was younger and had a few when I was in tent village at basra that freaked others out worse lol.

As horrific as they are they do stop as quickly as they start up. Get your diet checked out and poss see your doc mine are coursed by fatigue (glandular fever permanently in my system) and I don’t absorb certain minerals and vits right so imbalanced.

I seem to remember there is a type of fish which when eaten can induce extreme sleep paralysis. Will try to remember which one

Haven’t had it for years. First time I actually thought I was dying. Can’t say I miss it!

Really scarey, though at first I could fly, moving about the room and I was in control, looking down at myself in bed which I loved, then realised I was being moved by an malevolent outside force and pushed and held under the bed and trying to shout to my ex. to please help me, managed to pull myself back to wakefulness, she was sitting up in bed reading and said I had went to sleep very quickly and when I asked her if she had’nt heard my cries for help that I had been quietly whimpering but that was all. It left me terrorised and frightened to go back to sleep. It has happened a few times since and follows the same scenario. It hasn’t happened since I gave up the weed and I don’t miss either.

Yep. It’s happened a couple of times when I’ve had no choice but to lie there and just accept it. Scary the first time, certainly.

I did have on occasion where I (dreamt I) left my body and was looking down on it on the bed. That was just weird.

Strangely enough I didn’t remember about the experience until a couple of days later, remembered it very clearly too. Started off by seeing (imagining!) a dark shape on the bedroom ceiling that lowered and stopped on my chest, it was heavy! Remember that I tried to call out to sleeping wife but no sound came out…..and although it took me a couple of days to remember the experience I know I wasnt dreaming, it was real! Realising I was unable to talk I tried to move my hand to wake my wife…..no joy, couldnt speak or move but was fully awake, very strange indeed.

Apparently it happens when half your brain is awake whilst the other half still sleeping, kind of makes some sense. Read that is is also common in teens and 20 something year olds due to lack of sleep due to social life – happened to me after a looooooong weekend at all nighters so maybe true too?

Sleep paralysis AND bells palsy………..what next?!?

I’ve had sleep paralysis and real paralysis, sleep paralysis is a laugh, real paralysis makes you appreciate a comfy mattress.

I can recall being convinced there was a stranger in the room, but completely helpless to react. When fully awake felt spooked for some considerable time.

I remember having exactly this happen once

This is said to account for many of the alien abduction/visitor stories.

Occasionally after nights and sleeping during the day yes. Quite a relaxing experiencing.

I had it last night! Went into a room where there was a bloke with a hood covering his head – he was holding a big long sword and so was I. I thought I could see and he couldn’t. But then, just before I was shut into the room a hood was suddenly put over my head! I started swinging the sword to stop the other bloke coming near me. I woke up knowing it was a dream and tried to take the hood off, but I couldn’t move to take it off. Quite scary.

scotroutes – Member
This is said to account for many of the alien abduction/visitor stories.

^ what you said there makes sense dude if you didn’t know what was happening you’d think aliens or demons I remember as a kid thinking monsters in the dark were after me and many sleepless nights in fear, even though im used to them and know whats happening it still freaks me out when I get a bad one. Low iron count and chemical imbalance in the brain course a lot of mine.

My sister is worse as when you comes round she has been known to be quite violent almost knocking my brother in law out with her lashing out then has no memory of it for till the next morning.

Every TUesday for a few years after heavy weeekends.

I knew it was coming, I even had sitters for a while who would watch me, said it was the oddest thing, with my eyes looking around the room, yet they could tell I was asleep.

Generally it was ok to start with, third person and all that, then I would somehow stop breathing, or get my face stuck in the pillow or bed sheets, end up feeling like i was suffocating, until I woke up.

used to get them in my teens and early twenties when i’d had a particularity heavy weekend of of *cough* self prescribing recreational narcotics *cough* in the early 90’s. the whole thing of something sitting on your chest, wanting to scream but unable to make any sound is all very familiar.

for balance though, in the same phase, i often used to sit bolt upright in bed scream at the top of my lungs for minutes at a time and then go straight back to sleep.

used to scare the living bejusus out of my girlfriend. needless to say we are no longer together and my drugs of choice these days are renes and ibuprofen mainly!

I’ve had it several times – always when in the camper van and always the same thing.

I can hear someone stealing bikes from the back and I can’t get up, or do anything about it.
I hate it, freaks me out every time and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

I’ve had it a few times, I ‘wake up’ it’s freezing cold and a deceased close relative is either standing at the end of the bed or sitting at the side of the bed just looking at us, they have a peaceful look about them, I try to speak but I can’t, I’m frozen, unable to move. I just have to lie there looking. Eventually they slowly leave the room.
Then I can move.

Got it last week, first time for years. Like others have said – seems to include a nightmare. I too thought someone else was in the room.

I think I was nearly man “probed” in the backdoor by a shadowy victorian bloke/figure with side burns in my sleep/dream whatever. He caught me by surprise as he just appeared in my dream suddenly. I had to clinch my backdoor to prevent him entering me from my backdoor. When I woke up I could still feel as if I was probed. i.e. The uncomfortable pressure was there … 😕

The house I lived in is about 250 yr old but let it be known that if he appeared again I shall do the probing to him this time Dracula’s style. He shall beg for mercy … He should know who the master is. Not him. He should show respect and know his place! 😡

Another time in the same room a ghostly figure (actually a skeleton wearing some tatty black cloth with only half body and long hairs to hips, (how does a skeleton possess long hair I do not know?) floated towards me then ended up entering my chest … I was freak out and my heart rate was beating very fast but I could not move at all. Whether that skeleton was a male or female I do not know but all I know is that that skeleton is very dead now floating in the pool of death. i.e. dead pool where all forms of death can be witness. Ya, dead! Try that again by being disrespectful and see where you will end up. 😡

Oh ya … some of you actually encountered ghosts … 😛

Also shorted (two weeks) after my aunt died she “came for a visit” barefooted in my dream but still as jolly and told me she wanted to go the casino … she was/is still a gambler.

mitsumonkey – Member

If you touch them you will wake up … try touch them next time. 😀

They wanted something or to let you how they were.