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[Bustanen]

Thank God I've never had these. I would have a heart attack if the greys showed up.

 

[mariachi507]

Yeah, there's nothing quite like it. It's as if the Grim Reaper is in the room with you and despite what part of your brain tells you otherwise you feel it everywhere. Heart starts racing and you're almost frozen in fear. Of course the Cherry on top is that the presence can be whatever your brain definitely doesn't want it be.

General tips if this ever happens again to you. Do NOT look at the direction of wherever you feel the presence is. Keep your eyes closed and remember that this isn't real. Focus on wiggling your big toe and try to get back control of your body until you're fully awake.

I'm lucky in the sense that I can snap myself out of sleep paralysis by doing the above. At this point I average 2-3 episodes a month but at least now I know what it is and am educated on the subject. The only time it ever catches me off guard is if I hallucinate that I've already snapped out of it when I haven't.

 

[Badpsychometry]

It was a hypnagogic hallucination i get em everytime i have sleep paralysis.

Well, thanks for that...

 

[Mortemis]

Used to happen to me pretty often as a teen. It was absolutely terrifying, but later on it became kinda cool. Hasn't happened to me in a few years though.

For me I never actually saw anything, but I always felt a presence in my room coming towards me, and I feel like that's actually scarier than seeing some weird alien creature or whatever others see.

 

[ATOMICJORGE]

Thank God I've never had these. I would have a heart attack if the greys showed up.

Thats a story for another thread but yes I will never forget it.

All right it's 6 AM here I will try to rest a little and will get back to the thread in some hours hopefully with good news, thanks for stopping by everyone

 

[meppi]

I've got a similar thing but without the paralysis.

Just imagine waking up to some weird shit going on in your bedroom, freaking out, either start throwing shit around because it's in your bed, or next to your bed and even running out of the room while knowing perfectly well where in the house you are and still seeing that stuff. Only to slowly recover a couple minutes later in a different room and deciding you're going back to bed.
Yet, still checking to make sure there's nothing there in case the "things" were snakes or other vermin that particular night.

Fun stuff!

Been a couple of years for me now luckily.
Everything went pretty quiet once I moved out of the house of horrors and into my new place.

Thank God I've never had these. I would have a heart attack if the greys showed up.

One of the instances I remember vividly was of two grown men in dark, old fashioned clothes standing next to my bed. One on the right and one at my feet.
The one at my feet was whispering to me, but I couldn't make out the words.
I even replied to him twice "I can't hear you". I moved over to open the curtains on the left side of my bed and they just vanished into thin air. Again, fun stuff.

Many people have experienced wgat I call the between. Dont worry OP those creaturs from other dimensions cannot hurt you will only scare you.

That's actually a good way to put it. It feels like a state between being fully awake as in being aware where you are in the real world and then the other side of seeing shit that should not be there, from the dream world.

 

[parkinho]

I've only had sleep paralysis once, but I thought I was being abducted by aliens. Good times.

 

[Poppy]

i am familiar with the shadow visitor

 

[Bedameister]

Sleep paralysis is so fucking scary. Glad I didn't have it in years. First time I had it I thought I'm dying

 

[Citizen_Insane]

Hahaha I was hoping someone would post that

 

[Ravelle]

The worst type of sleep/in bed experiences are the half-asleep illusions.

Like when your brain thinks it sees a spider above your bed on your wall or walking over your sheets. I turbo jump out of bed in panic, throwing my sheets across the room, investigating my pillow and bed if it's safe.

Or when you picture something coming flying toward your head or falling of a sidewalk.

When I was young I had a bunch of dreams in which I tried to scream out but no sound came out, then waking up halfway and screaming the house awake.

 

[slade]

I had this happen a few times and had no idea what it was until I saw one of these GAF threads pop up. It was the most surreal experience. I had this ringing in my ear that just seemed to gradually raise the level of terror I felt at not being able to move. And then black fire covering my whole body. Thankfully, it only happened a few times ten or so years ago and has never happened since.

 

[bulletbill10]

When I was young I had a bunch of dreams in which I tried to scream out but no sound came out, then waking up halfway and screaming the house awake.

This was my go-to strategy for nightmares when I was a kid. I would usually stick with a nightmare if I was lucid enough, until it became too scary, then I took the scream emergency exit. I got good enough that it was usually just a peep in the "awake" world.

 

[Moonkid]

The bit that bothers me is the feeling that you're not going to be able to breathe and the sudden rush/falling feeling like turbulence on a plane. If I could have the rest without that I'd be fine, every time it happens even though I know it's just sleep paralysis I still worry that I'm going to stop breathing.

Oh it's definitely still uncomfortable, it just used to be a lot worse for me exacerabated by other shit. I always have a moment of dread, however brief, of not being able to inhale.

 

[Mango Positive]

I've had two experiences with it and both were freaking amazing.

First one was the "alien abduction" one. Flashing lights all over the room, red and blue lights like a police car right outside the 2nd story window and a very loud whooshing, like a space ship. I was more confused than scared. When it just faded away, I woke my wife up asking what that was. She had no idea what I was talking about.

The next time, I was dreaming I was doing laundry (because my subconscious knows how to PAR-TAY), when suddenly the dryer got really loud like a jet plane and i woke to find myself in bed with the noise incredibly loud still going on. I started to vibrate really hard. Instead of being scared, I just went with it to see where it lead. It was like riding a roller coaster. When it faded, I found that I could close my eyes and instantly enter the dream world. I could open my eyes and be awake, or close my eyes and be in a dream (a much nicer house than mine). Lucid dreaming is fun.

So I guess this stuff is just dreaming while awake. I wonder if DMT is anything like this.

 

[nekkid]

Not so much recently, but when I was a kid I had 'episodes' where I'd be in bed and I'd suddenly start to feel an overwhelming feeling of anxiety and what I can only describe as "business" or "rushing" going on around me. I'd also have he feeling of getting smaller in my surroundings.

I liken it to feeling like I'm lying next to a train track as one rushes past a few inches from my head, but I know I'm in my room and things aren't moving.

 

[Windam]

I have sleep paralysis all the time. I'm basically over it. I just makes sure I can breathe until it's over. None of that shit is real.

Sane here. Used to be horrifying, now it's just annoying.

 

[Cave Johnson]

I used to have an abusive demon figure, now it evolved into psychedelic shapes shooting at my eyes.

 

[ferrasvansen]

Happened to me twice in a row in 2013, was terrifying and I felt like someone was holding me down and looking down at me. Took me a few weeks to get over what happened, felt 100% like something was with me in the bedroom. Thankfully has not happened since, though I did have a semi episode a few weeks ago, but came out of it sharply but a bit shaken still.

 

[DudeWithNoName]

Welcome to the club. Just don't let a group of them stand around you, that's how they burn your soul.

Jesus christ

 

[Koozek]

There was a very interesting thread a while ago with many shared experiences:
http://neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1359010

 

[wedca]

You can avoid this altogether by checking under the bed and in the closet before going to sleep.

 

[The_White_Rose]

Happened two times in my teens. I perceived a black shadowy figure sitting on top of me and holding me down.

 

[dakini]

I've only had this happen to me once and it was when I was recovering from surgery and had a high fever. Terrible feeling of not being able to move. Luckily I didn't have the feeling of someone being in the room.

I haven't had it since.

 

[Metalgus]

You guys are scaring the shit out of me!

 

[hughesta]

the secret to getting out of sleep paralysis for me has been to pull a kill bill and just try wriggling my toes for a while

 

[cromofo]

When my sister told me about sleep paralysis I started researching and had it myself a few days later.

I've had it numerous times since then but I'm used to it. Still sucks.

Why couldn't it be a naked hot girl sitting on my chest instead of a demon ffs.

 

[itchyass86]

Nooooohhhh!!! Fuck you! That shit is seriously eating my soul!

 

[Sub_Level]

This is caused by aliens beaming down and running their close-proxitmity scanners on us specimens.

People who get abducted are the exception not the rule. Most of their knowledge about us comes from passive obersvation and scenarios like what the op is descri

 

[LiK]

I think I've only ever had it twice but I don't believe I ever experienced another presence. It's definitely scary and makes you feel like you might die.

Also, fuck that pic.

 

[Kurt Angle]

that's the closest i'll get to having someone next to me in bed

feelsbadman.jpeg

 

[The real Butters]

Well I got spooked. Was reading the comments and scrolling and wham, demon face. Did not expect that.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Yeah I get this, not sure I've felt a presence other than a crushing weight on my body. Which, combined with my claustrophobia makes this terrifying for me. I can't move, I can't speak, I'm screaming for help, from anyone but nothing comes out, just got to ride it out until I pass out or until the paralysis "turns off" and then I'll sit bolt upright soaked in sweat, I mean soaked, through the sheets and the mattress. I'll have to change my clothes and put some towels down before I can try go back to sleep. The missus sleeps through it.

 

[John Caboose]

Being betrayed by your own body/brain sucks.

 

[Dusk Golem]

I'm fortunate I've never experienced this, but I have watched a couple interesting documentaries on the subject.

I find it fascinating presences and seeing figures is so common between so many people with sleep paralysis. Between feeling a presence to seeing the shadows of people and some severe cases seeing nightmarish beings in the room with them. It's all psychological but it being so widespread is fascinsting.

 

[old]

Happened to me a few times. Scary shit.

 

[Kimawolf]

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

 

[Angel_DvA]

There was no presence, just your mind working too much because of the fear you felted at this instant, that's all, all is in the brain.

 

[Dusk Golem]

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

It's fascinating what old horror stories came of sleep paralysis in different cultures. I recall one region thought it was demons stealing their life force, another thought it was a type of succubus. It's such a real feeling phenomena that's horrific and feels like somethings there so it has been the source of numerous myths and urban legeds in the past.

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

Happened to me and I saw what looked like the alien from Signs. Pretty freaky. I haven't had sleep paralysis in awhile which I'm happy about.

 

[show me your skeleton]

Buy a cat and make sure he spend nighttime with you at bed. Consider him as a housekeeper. If the cat reacts to the presence, it's time to change house.

my girlfriend's first/most vivid paralysis experience involved our cat.

 

[TheOohChild]

I watched the documentary on Netflix about sleep paralysis on Sunday. I could just barely force myself to fall asleep the night I watched it, and I was still feeling a bit of the paranoia the next few nights. Fuck sleep paralysis and fuck documentaries.

 

[snitsky]

I get them once in a while, usually when I try to have a 20 minute nap on lunch break at work. I've never had a hallucination thankfully, just takes a few minutes until I can move or open my eyes.

 

[cheebdragonite]

Had an episode or two, especially with footstep sounds outside of my room. It really helps if you sleep on your side instead of your back.

 

[Conkersbadfurday]

I used to get it a lot. I'd see shadow people. Some were nice, some were not. I haven't had it since I moved out of my parents house though, and truth be told, next time they're away on vacation I might sleep over in my old bedroom to see if the shadow people are still there.

 

[Anteater]

I get it a lot, it became annoying at some point because I need to force myself to get up and take a "break" from sleeping, else I'd be in some shitty sleep paralysis loop, annoying. Sometimes it's interesting because looking at a translucent figure floating above me tapping on my shoulder is fascinating, but some days I'm too tired and my brain decided to be a jackass and show me some silent hill shit. Several times I hallucinated spiders, cockroaches and shit and they made me jump, had to search the bed to make sure I was just hallucinating lol

 

[GDGF]

Haven't had an episode in a while, actually. Had multiple episodes a night when I was a kid, but when I reached my 20's it became an occasional thing.

To tell you the truth I kind of miss it lol

 

[maxxpower]

Is there an explanation for why the creepy shit happens with sleep paralysis? Like why can't it be something happy?

 

[Anteater]

Is there an explanation for why the creepy shit happens with sleep paralysis? Like why can't it be something happy?

I think it's just the case the brain is trying to dream and the imaginary overlaps with reality, but you're consciously staring at things that shouldn't be there which scares you, and probably the reason why it sometimes turn into something creepy.

The brain probably just dream of a lot of random things and they're probably all really weird shit.

 

[FairXchange]

It started when I woke up in the morning at 9 AM this past Tuesday suddenly I felt very heavy I couldn't move my body even if I tried really hard to do so I also tried to talk to my mother (she is in the other room) but I couldn't say a single word I started to become anxious and I did my best to move or scream but it was worthless I felt extremely tired and my eyes we´re closing very fast, that's when I felt a presence in my room right next to me but I couldn't move my head to see it I really felt something or someone with me (I know it was just my mind playing with me)

I was not scared I was just uncomfortable after a little bit the presence seated on my bed right around my arm and that's when I blacked out, after 4 hours I woke up and was covered in sweat

it was a horrible experience and the last time something like this happened to me was years ago, I wanted to share this with you to see what do you think about it thanks

Every time I have sleep paralysis, I think that something is there. I force myself awake and see it was a pile of clothes, the door, nothing, etc.

I used to get it a lot. I'd see shadow people. Some were nice, some were not. I haven't had it since I moved out of my parents house though, and truth be told, next time they're away on vacation I might sleep over in my old bedroom to see if the shadow people are still there.

I believe that this is the 'real' sleep paralysis. If you're not seeing shadow people walking around, you're just half awake and your brain is freaking you out.