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I have been drifting in and out of sleep for the last couple of hours, was lying kind of half on my side half on my back and felt awake. All of a sudden I could hear talking in my ear, almost like a TV was on nearby. Then the talking turned to loud static. I tried to move and absolutely couldn't. I tried calling my husband's name and could hear myself barely whispering it, like my voice had gone. Got totally freaked out but I had heard of sleep paralysis before. So I took a few slow breaths and tried to move again, even harder. Still couldn't move an inch. Strangest feeling ever. Then I heard what sounded like sheets rustling on the other side of the bed and felt relief thinking it was my husband coming to bed. Said his name and was actually able to get it out this time but very quietly. No answer. Got totally freaked out, but was finally able to break free and move. Turned on a light to find no one and nothing there. Like wtf dude.
FP edit: holy shit, never made front page before, been so enthralled in reading everybody's stories I didn't even realize! Thanks guys, send more experience stories if you want. For tonight, hope everyone sleeps tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!
Denamic
I've experienced it hundreds of times. You can learn to dispel that terror and become aware of what's happening. It's fascinating.
Oliwuff
I get an episode every time I sleep on my back looking up in the ceiling, try sleeping on your side, improved it for me.
Scarpachi
Had it happen to me once, worst part I could see a dark outline of a person standing at the side of the bed looking down at me.
roro2
I have sleep paralysis at least once a week, you learn how to cope . If you don’t get scared , scary things can’t happen so try to relax!
BobsonDugnutt
I had 2 back-to-back dreams/sleep paralysis like that this week. Both times it looked like someone was standing outside my bedroom door.
BlueDragon7849
The worst experience with SP I had was like 7 years ago when I was trying to induce lucid dreaming. I was paralyzed while I saw this (1)
BlueDragon7849
(2) shadow figure from across the room start moving towards me. I started yelling for my parents until they came in, and it was gone
MissPeabody
I used to have this so often that after a while I would just give in and lay there. It always happens when I’m really tired.
bmacaroni101
This happened to me when I was a kid. Woke up to something hitting my bed. when I went to yell I couldn't and I was unable to move 1/2
bmacaroni101
After a few minutes passed I eventually just decided to close my eyes and try to sleep. Woke up in the morning just fine. Scary though. 2/2
ReverseTrapTsukasa
Sleep paralysis: The condition of the body where the emergency brakes are locked until a minute or two after the engine was started because
ReverseTrapTsukasa
it thought it was nearly in an accident while the engine was off.
zerochills
The most scary part is not inability to move but getting overwhelming fear that there's a some kind of dark presence.
Iste1111
I've had several encounters for the past year, mostly it happends when I'm sleeping on my back. I have been strangled, sit on. 1/2
Iste1111
But the time it really freaked me out was when when someone close to me was there. Hope it was a one time thing!
DeeYer
Terrified me as a child. Now when it happens it's more of an annoyance am I'm like, "well fuck here we go again".
Link55588
I must be a masochist. This has happened a few times to me and each time I thought it was awesome, spooky as duck, but awesome
Jrex42
It was terrifying the first few times, but now I find it more intriguing. But of course now I don’t get it anymore :/
MegatronPewPew
Yeah a few times this happened while I was on tramadol for my back. Literally thought aliens were afoot.
sendmeyourfrenchies
It happens to me semi regularly, especially during a nap. I either go back asleep or I make a concerted effort to kick my feet and wake up.
Kozoku808
Your minds imagination goes into overdrive usually when in that state, Hence the 'hallucinations'. I get it at least a cpl times a month.
onecatperdoughnut
Recommendation. Don't fall asleep on your back. Happens 100% of the time when I do that. It's the reason I sleep on my side now.
FamilyWitch
Ditto.
talarde
I dont think I get sp but sometimes taking a power nap being half asleep half awake is the best rushed feeling ever. Until you sleep fall
moonrosestarr3000
I have sleep apnea and without my CPAP this happens on a regular basis. It's horrifying. So many nightmares.
ringwood
I was diagnosed with narcolepsy because I was suffering from sleep paralysis almost every night. If it happens more frequently, go to a
ringwood
Sleep clinic just in case. Sleep paralysis happens to everyone but frequency is uncommon.
sgtwhiskeyjack
I felt an evil presence in the room. It ran up my leg and sat on my chest. It started to choke me. I couldn't breathe and started panicking.
sgtwhiskeyjack
Then the paralysis broke and I was awake. The next week I had a nightmare and woke up. A few seconds later I had the sensation and sound of
sgtwhiskeyjack
My throat getting bitten/chomped.
vfxcookingsaab
Wait till you experience a hypnic jerk. Laying in bed all cozy, drifting off to magical relaxed sleep land and then WHAM! You wake up!
TeachKindness
So many times! Usually follows an anxiety attack prior to sleeping. Bodies are weird.
AthenaLeeChar
I had a dream I was running through huge concrete pillars away from myself, I sort of fell off a cliff but I fell up? Woke to me (1/2)
AthenaLeeChar
Hyperventilating as I hit the 'ground'. Only time I've ever hyperventilated in my sleep and it scared the shit out of me
EdgardVazquez
I've never experienced this, but I don't want to, so I always sleep facing down, el muerto doesn't hop on you if you are facing down
Pichulinx
That’s where you’re kiddo
Pichulinx
Wrong, sorry
EdgardVazquez
Why am I wrong?
ClickityDoucheBabaGanoosh
That happened to me once about 10 years ago. Never knew it was a thing. Totally thought I had died. Holy shit is it a freaky experience.
HoeBabies
you get used to it, everyone i know who experienced it a lot says the same, sometimes i get lazy and let it drag for a while then wake up
FreaK0800
I do have it, but it's very rare. As soon as it happens, i just try to move my foot. After about 10 seconds the foot moves and i'm free!
MerToo
yeah i thought i was having a stroke or something and couldn't reach the light or call out for help. Fucking terrifying.
diabolischereintopf
Had it once on a train, traveling with a couple of friends at night. In my dream this omnious person slowly but surely made it's way 1/
diabolischereintopf
towards where I sat, it was basically a figure composed of shadowy wisps. And I just couldn't move. I tried to shout for help, but it 2/
diabolischereintopf
was like trying to move through mud, according to one friend I faintly started to whisper, he was worried an started to nudge me
diabolischereintopf
Incedently my shadowy friend decided to reach with its "hand" towards me the same time in my hallucination. My fight or flight instinct 4/
diabolischereintopf
went into overdrive and against all the invisible weight holding me back I was able to make a fist. Oh so slowly it started to make its way
ObnoxiousCommenter
Protip: If you're having thoughts or experiencing consciousness, you're not dead.
Jrex42
Dying is a process though, with different levels of consciousness throughout.
thisishowwedo
This is more accurate. I get sleep paralysis and it feels like systems are shutting down. You feel 9 out of the 10 stages towards death
Nubasaur
username is spot on.
ClickityDoucheBabaGanoosh
I didn’t know what the hell was happening. For a minute I thought I had died but my brain hadn’t totally shut off yet. It’s beyond freaky.
Cornislife
The last thing I remembered was a big red ball that flew out of a giant zipper after it unzipped. The ball had wings, there was /
Cornislife
Bright light behind it. The ball sounded like a huge carpenter bee. Then I woke up. Pale white, getting CPR, and a bunch of IVs on me.
ksh2657
Wait till you see a scary face with red glowing eyes coming towards with a knife. I can never forget that.
CassandraMarie
Mine is a shadow man in a black hat and trench coat
LuckyFoxx
So creepy! you just described the same man I’ve seen dozens of times too! Black Shadow man with a black hat and coat.
CassandraMarie
I hate it so much.
ksh2657
I guess maybe similar things happen with kids and hence they get scared in their bedrooms around bedtime. 1/2
ksh2657
And adults only feel this way during sleep paralysis. Who knows?! 2/2
PostmortalCoprophagia
Mine is a shadow woman without a face. She slowly crawled towards me, sat on my chest and choked me. Heart racing, sweating. Fun times :)
Nubasaur
you guys are so lucky, this sounds fucking awesome.
PostmortalCoprophagia
Nah. I thought I died and I have troubles falling asleep since then.
onepinksheep
Yeah, not really. I can watch the scariest horror movies and not be moved, but sleep paralysis always gets to me. The fear is part of it.
onepinksheep
It's an irrational fear that comes out of nowhere; it's not even really focused on the "monster".
rafizard
Best I can say is that I have had a massive reduction in my experiences by improving my comfort as I sleep.
epoke
Best I had was reducing stress by moving away from a toxic work environment. 500 miles away.
acidcrawl
I used to have this happen all the time until I got treated for sleep apnea. Now that I use a CPAP it never happens.
KisforKookie
For me, it's pulling all nighters. If I go to sleep extremely exhausted, it increases the likelihood of an episode.
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DoubleSunMoonMoon
Try the wolf sleep cycle, where you sleep in half hour bursts throughout the day and never have REM sleep or dreams
Beardologist
I would love to know. I've never been able to make rhyme nor reason of triggers. Never had an attack when drunk tho...
Elonth
i also made sure to cover my eyes as a slept. While it reduces some of the terror the apparitions didn't like it and they got physical.
SirReginaldDukeOfChutney
Well that’s terrifying.
zged
Could you elaborate for those of us who never experienced this?
Elonth
elaborated under @iatetoomuchpiazza's "what" comment.
Elonth
Elaboration under @Iatetoomuchpizza "What." comment.
cosonfused
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Iatetoomuchpizza
What.
Elonth
oh you didn't know that could happen? So you aren't in any physical danger but they can talk to you and "inflict" pain. i haven't (1/2)
Elonth
woken up with marks or anything. One of the worst times was after i just started covering my face. I decided the episodes would be less (2/?
Elonth
terrifying if i did it kid style and covered my head in my blanket (earlier that night i had had a few episodes). Now to preface this (3/?)
Rebeltrooper1
The first time I experienced this I was 8 and I was sure that I felt hands holding me, I couldn't even breath.
kste7
Yep, you were being fucked by an incubus. Soz.
thegreenbyte
This was how mine was...I felt like I was being held down.
ArmedandOverclocked
Same. felt like there was a weight on me, and every noise freaked me out. Eventually i figured the pressure was the "dead weight" of my body
Rebeltrooper1
Did you manage to open your eyes? Bc I did once and regretted for life.
thegreenbyte
I did! I cried, no movement or talking just tears. Not cool.
Rebeltrooper1
In my first time I couldn't even breath
ohthatwordbumsmeout
I had heard before of people seeing shadowy figures, amongst other things, and was really glad afterwards I had all my lights turned off
Rebeltrooper1
It's true, j saw some "shadows" figures they were walking out of my bedroom, I know they weren't real but i got scared as hell that day.
gnarlyfartz
Story time
JohnSmithterms
The first few times were terrifying for me. But I eventually realised my body was paralysed and I was lucid dreaming. Now when it 1/?
FromMatterSpace
It can happen to me multiple times a day, sometimes within minutes of each other and I am completely awake, just can't move.
JohnSmithterms
Happens I can controll the dream. It's still creepy but I got used to it. Sometimes I am entirely awake and it takes a few mins to move. 2/2
AquaLeaderArchie
I tried to control a dream a few times, it didn't worm
ThisGuyHere
I used to have night terrors as a kid and sleep paralysis as a teen. After college I was really good at lucid dreaming. Never connected them
Elonth
The reverse happened to me. I taught myself how to Lucid dream as a kid. when i got older and depressed i used it as an escape and got (1/?)
Elonth
i curbed my addiction and stopped doing it. Which in turn made me lose control of my dreams and so i gained sleep paralysis/night terrors.
ferret100
Yah, me too. I recognise it for what it is, don't get so freaked out anymore. Your body does wake itself up.
lynncelebrateslife
When that happened to me a couple of times I taught myself to wake up because I wasn't able to control the dreams. Exhausting as fuck!
MattleOTR
Same, it can nearly be fun at times, but only until you slip into that dark spot and either wake up shivering or fall into the dream
AzzyBedlam
At this point I've been alone so long that it doesn't even matter. "I can't move, someone's holding me down. This is almost like 1/2
AzzyBedlam
cuddling. This is nice. Goodnight, constantly-screaming eyeless Asian girl. Sweet dreams." 2/2
Plusheen
"constantly-screaming eyeless Asian girl"...yup, now she's gonna be paying me a visit.
DimmestLemming
SomeAngelDude
I The first time I had sleep paralasys, i was physically exhausted but mentally alert, so I just laid down into bed and was instantly 1/?
SomeAngelDude
thrown into sleep paralasys. I had read about people having sleep paralasys before, so at first I wasn't afraid, but then the voices 2/?
SomeAngelDude
started talking to me in words I couldn't understand, and then my syperstitious ass started beliving in the stories of midnight sleep- 3/?
Intelletc
AzzyBedlam
Well now I'm just aroused.