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[Camp Lo]

Haven't had it in a while, first time sucked though.

 

[Dead Prince]

i've been watching tv and laying on my side which almost crushed my lungs. lol

anyways. last night i noticed before going to bed or trying to i would doze off for a sec and stop breathing. anyways. in the middle of the night as i was sleeping. i "woke up" with a baby head that had black flowing hair laying on top of my head. i knew i wasnt in my room so i didn't freak out. grabbed it by the head and smashed it against the wall. since that didn't do anything the only way to wake up was to scream loud enough so my real self would make a noise and wake up which did work.

 

[NHarmonic.]

It regularly happens to me, i tend to get really anxious and desperate, trying to shout while you can only mumble...

It's really weird...

 

[BakedPigeon]

I occasionally get sleep paralysis and its horrific. Every time it happens to me, its almost like being in hell. I start to hear very loud noised and see things that are not really there, and I cant move of course.

It usually only happens while I am sleeping on my back. The only way I can stop it from happening is once I notice its going to happen, I get up and take a 5 minute walk, then go back to my bed. It works every time.

 

[SkepticalPanda]

Nightmare-fuel OP.

 

[Angry Grimace]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome sounds functionally like being in Hell.

 

[SuperSah]

Yeah, happened to me once. My body felt as if I shot through my bed into some abyss until I forced myself back up.

Worst feeling ever.

 

[The Smoking Bun]

What did the demon sitting on top of your chest look like? Was there a creepy horse?

 

[Suite Pee]

I've been fascinated with it ever since I first heard dredg's album El Cielo. Though I have many issues related to sleep, I don't believe I've ever experienced it myself.

 

[Dead Prince]

What did the demon sitting on top of your chest look like? Was there a creepy horse?

Just panic. and see what happens.

 

[Scuderia]

I've been getting it with an increasing frequency.

Seems to happen a lot when i sleep somewhere different, happens a lot when i fall to sleep at work, and happened in a hotel a few weeks ago.

I know what's happened straight away though, i keep my eyes closed because ain't nobody got time for demons and shit, and i force myself to take a sharp intake of breath which always brings me out of it.

Slightly off topic, my mum said she got up to go to the toilet a while back, and noticed my room door was open slightly, which it shouldn't be when i'm in bed. She thought it was strange that i wasn't there, so she opened it and took a look inside, said that i actually was in bed asleep, and that there was someone stood over me watching me sleep.

She only remembered that the next day, i hope it was a fucking dream.

 

[mariachi507]

I get this at least once a week sometimes multiple times a night. I saw the grim reaper three nights ago and once had a vision of a guy pointing a shotgun at me. Sometimes the thing in the vision will try to drag me and I can feel the wind blow against my face. At least now I can put a name to it.

 

[SolidusDave]

Had it only once as far as I can remember. Rather recently.

My version had that black shadow entity in it, coming closer and closer until it's over my bed while I couldn't move.

Couldn't snap out of it voluntary because it was so real. Normal nightmares usually have weird stuff going on / different places etc. so at one point you realize it's a dream. I wasn't even sure after waking up.


Though made me realize what happened to so many people claiming to have seen ghosts, alien abductions etc.

 

[LordEssdot]

Sleep paralysis is the worst, and I have it almost on a regular basis. It usually happens when I'm in some crappy lucid dream so I decide to wake myself up by jumping off a roof or something.... straight to sleep paralysis.

Last time I had it was the worst experience of my life, my lungs decided to fail me so I couldn't breathe at all. It wasn't until my roommate who was sleeping on the couch next to me decided to let out a huge fart that I snapped out of it.

I made sure to thank her for the flatulence that next morning.

 

[pseudomyxoma]

Holy shit, this happened to me as a kid, thought I just slept on everything wrong, later on I could move my hands and neck but my legs were completely useless for a good while.

 

[Extra Sauce]

OP that's nothing, imagine being paralyzed in your bed while you feel a dark, ominous presence standing next to you. Trying to scream for help but no sound is coming out of your mouth. That was my first experience with sleep paralysis. I didn't know what sleep paralysis even was at that point.

edit: Damn reading the thread and I realize that mysterious shadowy entity is a recurring theme. Guys what if it's a real living thing, and it's out to get us. Guys what are are going to do guys.

 

[Scuderia]

edit: Damn reading the thread and I realize that mysterious shadowy entity is a recurring theme. Guys what if it's a real living thing, and it's out to get us. Guys what are are going to do guys.

What if this motherfucker is always with us, but we can only see him in this strange state of mid-sleep right?

 

[Dead Prince]

OP that's nothing, imagine being paralyzed in your bed while you feel a dark, ominous presence standing next to you. Trying to scream for help but no sound is coming out of your mouth. That was my first experience with sleep paralysis. I didn't know what sleep paralysis even was at that point.

edit: Damn reading the thread and I realize that mysterious shadowy entity is a recurring theme. Guys what if it's a real living thing, and it's out to get us. Guys what are are going to do guys.

your shadow. a friend and an enemy.

 

[Omegasquash]

Been a long time...first time it was terrible, second time was kind of weird, and then it became more doable. Never saw anything, but damned if I didn't hear things.

 

[lawlohwhat]

The shadow screams and buzzes loudly in my ear. Bug people?

 

[Argonis]

Sleep paralysis has happened to me a couple time in last 3 to 4 years. I've never seen anything spooky but it's weird as shit not being able to move when you're fully conscious and your eyes are open. Funny thing is though is that I can feel the sleep paralysis coming on and am able to avoid it. I usually have this weird sensation before falling asleep (after waking up in the morning). There's this tingling sensation down my back followed by a feeling in my head I can't quite describe. I know the sleep paralysis will kick in if I try to go back to sleep so I get up and stay up to avoid it.

 

[fuzzylogic]

I might have had this a few times (probably not though, maybe just something similar). The first two times (years and years apart), I awoke but heard some horrible, real-sounding laughter right by my head. I don't remember being paralyzed though.

The third time happened a few months ago. It was a little disturbing. I woke up and had a gut-clenching feeling of dread. Then I heard a van pass my window. It came to a stop near my neighbor's mailbox. I heard a sliding side-door open and an indistinct voice speaking. Then my neighbor shouted "Oh my God," in a truly horrible, haunting tone of voice. A gun shot popped, the side-door slammed and the van tires screeched as it rocketed away.

I bolted up out of my bed and went to the window. I saw her body just lying there, next to the mailbox, partially hidden behind a tree trunk. I pulled away from the window. I paced briefly, unable to grasp if what I had seen could have been real. I returned and looked again. The body was still there. My breath caught in my chest, but I held my gaze. After about 5-10 seconds, my brain realized that the "body" was part of the tree that it was "behind." I was sweating, and shaken, but at least it hadn't been real--I even put on clothes and went outside to check. Obviously, everything was normal and fine.

I don't think any of these incidents were sleep paralysis, because I was able to move (unless I imagined that, like the OP). But I can sympathize a little bit at least. I believe I had that hallucination because I'd been thinking about a story (that I probably read on this forum) about a gang initiation, where gang members try to get you to pull over on the highway, then gun you down. So my imagination brought that horrible idea into my own neighborhood. It wasn't a bombastic, dramatic killing I hallucinated either; it's probably the most disturbing, realistic killing I've ever "witnessed." My mind's a jerk.

That got really long, sorry I hope you all here learn to cope with it, or it stops all together.

 

[Vilix]

Scary shit, isn't it? Never had it as an adult. But, when I was a child I dreaded going to sleep sometimes.

 

[Erehtih]

It's the worst. I thought death was coming.

 

[Lysander518]

This happened to me twice as a kid. Hasn't happened since. The first experience was probably the most scared I've ever been in my life. I still remeber it quite vividly.

 

[Evolution_1ne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome sounds functionally like being in Hell.

that's different, sleep paralysis is only temporary and only last for a few seconds (though it feels like an eternity)

 

[Grizzlyjin]

First time it happened, I thought I was dead. I must have been like 8 or 9. Then it happen again when I fell asleep in class during high school. I had completely forgotten about the first time by that point, I must have been laying there for about 5 minutes.

Probably experienced it about 8 times in my entire life. One really bad one was where I was in my bed and couldn't move and then this weird zombie-like woman was slowly walking towards the bed...but I couldn't move.

Locked In Syndrome freaks me the fuck out. Like...damn...

 

[SuicidalSteve]

I remember when I "wake up" I see the entire room warp outwards into infinity and I feel like I'm out of my body. Feeling a fuzzy moment also when thus happens. Is this similar?

 

[Popparoks]

This always happens to me randomly (excluding the demons and everything) and i always try to struggle out of it because i feel that would be it if i don't. should i get it checked out?

 

[Neo C.]

I believe I had it several times, but it doesn't seem so bad. Perhaps I missunderstand the concept of sleep paralysis though.

Once in a while I happen to wake up completely confused, the sense of cold and hot totally in disorder, while the heart beats fast and strangely. I could sit or walk, but the confusion just doesn't go away. Now that's scary.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

I think I experienced it a few months ago. It was the first and only time for me.

I was dreaming that I was on a train that was about to collide with another train head on. At the exact time of impact, my eyes opened and I had pins and needles over my entire body, but I couldn't move for a few seconds. Then the pins and needles and paralysis subsided and I was fully awake. I actually thought it was kind of cool because I figured it was just my brain trying to process a reaction to being in a train crash and getting confused and the pins and needles were like a BSOD.

 

[blame space]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sy7y54XAE

 

[gdt]

I really gotta stop reading about this shit right before bed. I've never had it and it sounds like it would scar me for life.

 

[ShadyLurker]

I've never had it in my life, but after reading this thread I'm kinda afraid to go to sleep tonight :/

 

[Patrickv27]

I can remember this happened to me but can't recall the details :

 

[NoTacos]

Fresh from last night's encounter. This is a copy of a text I sent to my friends retelling my dream sequence with full emotional context:

Omg. I just had the worst night terror of my life. There are 2 parts. First part I'm in my new apt and it seems a bit dark. Next thing I know I'm putting on one of those facial masks that you peel off but as I peel it off I start feeling this isn't right so I start to try to take it off but it's gotten all thick and gooey I try harder and it's starts to peel but now I notice its taking off the top layer of skin off my face the mask basically starts to melt my skin by I feel no pain I start to panic I try to get the mask off faster I try to peel it from the eyebrow up and a thick chunk of skin and meat basically flap open on my forehead I panic and push it back down onto my face I look around and hardcore legend mick foley is there and he's freaking out so I'm like wtf omg omg omg if he's freaking this has to be that bad part 2 I wake up for a split second and fall back into sleep again I'm in my new apt I walk through the entrance it's quiet no sounds or anything the room goes full greyscale suddenly I spot a long black haired girl sitting on my patio at a table and chair I don't recognize I'm already feeling like this is fucked up I start to back out all of a sudden this image of creepy little girl photo engulfs my vision she's staring at me big eyed big dirty teeth unnatural and giant mouth smile the creepy music from insidious start playing I'm panicking again wtf wtf wtf get me out of here cut to my room the most evil and intense music is playing now from the movie I'm in my bed but I can't move I'm just looking at the corner where my closet is everything is still greyscale but my vision has turned into something like a video camera electrical interference causes static to come across the screen horizontally. That's when I see it every time the static comes up a dark figure becomes clearer and clearer to see standing in the corner appearing through the static and disappearing once the static is gone holy fuck no no no no no no is that the girl from the table I don't fucking know don't come near me don't come near me. End sequence 2. I'm awake but not sure heart is beating like I just took full sprint for 30 minutes. The closet creaks oh wtf no there can't be more I don't want to dream anymore the windows rattle I can't stop breathing heavy and fast my body is rigid I slowly make it to the table lamp and turn it on fuck the closet creaked again there isn't a weapon anywhere near me the apt is dark and my baseball bats are in the closet outside I can't go there I slowly go to the closet I open it just a little please god don't let there be a hand that grabs mine I slide it all the way open I'm hesitant to look inside oh fuck I peek nothing there I look further in oh my god thank god I close the closet and sit on the edge of my bed. Hours slept: 2.

I'm inclined to believe that this was partially caused by sleep paralysis (end of dream sequence 2) and onset adult night terrors (sequence 1&2) nothing in the second sequence was nowhere near as graphic as me tearing my own face off but the feeling of pure dread and unruly images, one of which I thought followed me out of my dream was pretty fucked up.

TL;DR : part 1 I rip my face off as it melts part 2 an ominous figure follows me out of my night terror and is present in the room during sleep paralysis

 

[EsotericManiac]

sounds like you had 2 false awakening dreams, followed by what people call sleep paralysis, which occurs when your brain tells your body not to move, or shut down, because it doesn't want you acting out stuff while you are dreaming.

look into lucid dreaming. if you're coherent while you're dreaming, you won't get the fear you're talking about

 

[jdforge]

Not had this in a while. It's 2am here in the UK and I've just come through to the other side of 3 successive attacks.

I was briefly able to move for around 5-10 seconds between each episode. The final episode had extremely loud aural hallucinations of something slamming my front door, pounding up the stairs and busting my bedroom door wide open.

Scared the complete fuck out of me.