Our WORST Sleep Paralysis Experiences
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I've been having sleep paralysis and the creepiest of all was that one time where i was sleeping in my room with the door open. Then i was like "fuck another sleep paralysis huh" then I heard my brother playing his guitar at the living room. I tried shouting for help cuz I've heard that this could be stop if someone atleast touch you or move your arms and legs. I was calling his name many times that suddenly I broke free. I went to the living room and I was so pissed off of him not answering. But when i got there he was actually not there then I checked the other room and saw him sleeping.
dude what the fuck
So, your sleep paralysis demon is you brother playing guitar. He must've not been good😂😂
Your dreaming before get into sleep paralysis.that guitar brothers is dream and mistook as real person because we half awake.
I've had three paralysis, the first one i ever had was strange. There's no ghost or demon. It was just me on the bed and i heard so many people talking in the next room, but i didn't understand what they were saying, like they were too far to be understandable, but. Close enough to be audible and everything was so bright like it was already morning and when i woke up it was still dark and i immediately go back to sleep.
The next one was straight up horror, my room was next to the balcony and it's a long balcony, wrapped around almost the entire house. Ghosts tons of them, skeletal-like with bits of flesh and raggedy clothes on them. 10-20 of them were crowding on my balcony, looking into my room, at me. I can feel them looking at me even though they literally had no eyes, only bones. Good thing i realized i was dreaming. Lucid Dreaming kicked in and i scream, "get out of my house" as i imagine my voice like a holy sonic, as it radiating outward, it flung all the ghosts away like a ragdoll and they all disintegrating into black smokes. That was my one and only time i ever experienced paralysis and lucid dreaming simultaneously. Even after all the ghosts were gone. I still can't move, so i stuck like that for quite a while before i eventually woke up.
The last one was same thing again, ghosts, but. This time right next to my bed, two of them bending over just to let their skeletal faces came into view. I struggled so much to move that i eventually moved, but. That was when it was getting weird. I woke up yes, but. As i look at the two ghosts still staring at the bed and as i look at the same direction the ghosts was looking at. I see myself still on the bed. It was like i was astral projecting like in the movies Doctor Strange, at that point it was no longer a paralysis. It was a full on dream. I wondered around for a while before another dream happened, cause everything became frozen as i was "astral projecting" like my neurons just straight up halt the dream cause they just didn't know what to do anymore.
@@TheBodiesInTheWaterBeckonsHoly fuck, that sound terrifying, the only time I had gotten sleep paralysis, my eyes were closed and I was face down on my bed and it felt like I was sinking into my bed
So Garnt is a monk with a nun stand. That's such a weird concept for a character that it would feel right at home in Jojo
Sleep paralysis is so surreal. It's like being trapped in cryosleep and time just speeds up around you. And you can do nothing about it until your body decides to unfreeze itself
I've often experience sleep-paralysis. When I'm lucid enough I do breathing exercises and that gets rid of the paralysis, but it is a struggle when your mind is half-asleep.
@@rodrigobahena2072 how bruh. You can't even control breathing, atleast not for me.
I just rapidly blink until I'm free
So like...Annie Leonhart
When we sleep our brain, in simple terms, disconnects the neurotransmitting to your body for movement. It does this to make sure when you sleep/dream you don't get up unaware pf your surroundings and able to hurt yourself. When someone sleepwalks this mechanism doesn't work. And when you experience sleepparalyis your consciousness returns neurological speaking, but your movement is still inhibited. Sometimes it's a very calm experience like Connor, just knowing you can't get up right now. Sometimes, because our brain likes to act smart sometimes in stupid situations, your brain tries to make sense of not being able to move while being conscious. And thus creates a reason you can't move, or motivation to get up. Hence sleepparalysis demons.
The first time I was 100% conviced someone was holding me down while laying on my stomach. I could feel an arm pressing on my neck. After that and knowing what it was, I started seeing strange stuff like a dude in a bunny costume. Nowadays I don't experience any... hallucinations? Is that the word?
Brains are weird.
Yeah, I would feel something pressing on my back and neck and I would see a shadowy figure next to me.
Once I got used to sleep paralysis, those hallucinations disappeared and it just became a nuisance more than terrifying. Just like waking up but not being able to get out of an uncomfortable position immediately, like "not this **** again".
I don't get the full disconnect since I know I move while I sleep and find myself in weird positions... I just can't stay still even asleep
I've only had sleep paralysis once, i could feel my sleep paralysis demon was laying right next to me but i couldn't move my head to look at it and could only see a hand waving in the corner of my vision kinda going like "hey over here! this way! look at me and be afraid! hey why aren't you looking!" and when i finally woke up i was like "damn my sleep paralysis demon is kinda cute ngl"
😂🤣🤣wth
Well, succubus is a demon too
Awwwwww it wanted to say hi!
I had experience sleep paralysis a couple of times in the past. Probably a few years ago. And the way Gart,Connor & joey described it is spot on. My mind was awake and my eyes were open but I can’t move my body.
2 years ago, I broke my back because I played Rugby and untill I got a surgery it was sleep paralysis non stop, because when I was moving in my sleep,my body was trying to imagine whats causing the pain and it generates what it thinks causing it, and all I saw is this shadowy figure just stabbing me over and over again, it was littered hell.
@@Dazumu is is odd I kinda wanna have sleep paralysis…?
@@modelchunk6258 Man, you're the type of bloke that would spend a night in a cemetery for a $5 bet. 😂
@@Dazumu NAH FAM CEMETERIES ARE SCARY AF!!
Maybe for 10$…
is it possible to have your mind awake but you can't open your eyes? I had that once like in 4 am while waking up from a dream I say it was in either December 2021 or January 2022
Fun (?) fact:
One of the side effects of your brain waking while your REM sleep cycle is still active is that it hyper stimulates the amygdala of your brain. Specifically, it stimulates the portion of the amygdala commonly known as the “fear center” of your brain. As a result, sleep paralysis patients sometimes experience 10/10 MAXIMUM STRENGTH fear response during the episode.
So….yeah. Imagine the MOST terrified you’ve ever been in your life and imagine that feeling sustained for sometimes up to 5 mins. Also, that intense fear response is what makes people hallucinate demons and shadowy figures, your brain is basically experiencing INTENSE fear with no obvious stimulus from the environment. So….your brain creates scary visions so that the fear response makes sense to what you’re seeing.
Dang thats interesting. Every time I have sleep paralysis I always fear somone is going to break in like freddie/jason. Haha makes sense as to why now!
Another "Fun (?) Fact":
A considerable amount of elderly people that died "while sleeping" actually died because of that, they bodies are not prepared to face something that frightening for that amount of time and dies in the process
@@Fellior we can’t even hope to die in our sleep now
Huh, my mom always told me if that whenever you have a sleep paralysis episode. You should actively fight it like wriggling, moving you hands, or doing something so you can wake up. Because you could die if you don't wake up during an episode. The worst ones are usually when I physically run out of breath, so yeah. Gotta wake up to not suffocate :D
That heightened fear response that makes you hallucinate is called an "Incubus Attack"
Funky name, right?
What an interesting conversation to start the day 👏
I hadn't had sleep paralysis until last year, but after the first time I've experienced it like 3 or 4 times. Each time has been slightly different, but the only constant has been that I'll be unable to breath correctly. It's really scary and it felt like I was about to die.
You've experienced it then. It happened to me today and i can tell you i had the unable to breathe part. One of my nostrils was blocked and that made it even scarier because i was thinking if i was in a bad enough position to not supply oxygen properly to my brain.
@@sudiptagogoi1431 I was the same, even with the blocked nose because I have allergies and they are on fire these days
Yeaahhh, it's not the best feeling to have..
Almost suffocate at that time really scary experience
Yeah I've been having sleep paralysis mine experiences are something choking me.
I once screamed and i remember how nothing came out but instead i was suffocating by the lack of air. I really thought i was gonna die
Flashbacks to the Gintama kanashibari scene. Sleep paralysis is just augmented reality dreams. You can't move because your brain doesn't want you to act out dreams in your sleep.
Basically. It's also closely tied to lucid dreaming, as intentionally trying to cause lucid dreaming is known to potentially cause episodes of sleep paralysis. There's even ways to turn SP into lucid dreams, albeit somewhat difficult due to the nature of SP.
In HS my mom would wake me up to feed the dogs breakfast and stuff as she heads off to work, then I'd go back to sleep for an hour or two before needing to get ready for school.
That 2 hour power nap was 8 times out of 10 Sleep Paralysis and I'd be terrified if I ever rolled over in my sleep because I'd be on my stomach and not able to see while I'm unable to move.
Makes sense, interrupted REM means you slip into it much quicker, but with a looming wakeup it also means that wakefulness is very easy to activate.
When sleep paralysis happens, your brain tries to explain in some way or another WHY your body can’t move, that’s why some people get disturbing images of demons, ghosts, etc. It’s your brain trying to make up a "reasonable" reason as to why you can’t move. In my case, I’m a pretty logical person so my brain just convinced me that I somehow became handicapped rather than the whole demon paralysis thing.
My brain just shows me the imagery around me before i slept so it's like my eyes are open (when they're actually not). And sometimes i hear this very loud vibrating noise which is annoying asf. It's like someone played a Skrillex dubstep drop (only the drop part) on repeat for 10,000x times. Gets so loud that i eventually can't hear my own thoughts. And when i do finally wakeup from this nightmare i would be covered in sweat from the panic lol.
Now it makes sense why i saw Darkrai because I playing pokemon alot when it happened to me.
I remember when in a lucid dream i fought the devil and lost he trew me off a building i woke up nauseus
Lucid dreaming can either be horrifying or straight up incredible. Having that feeling of being in control of your own dreams is such a surreal experience.
@@erichimmelheber it really is but i feel like im in danger whenever i lucid dream because i know everybody is fake,i pointed that out twice they immediately killed me.
As someone who suffers from somewhat common bouts of sleep paralysis, I felt this in my very soul.
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Had sleep paralysis everyday since i was little. Can agree.
I often got sleep paralysis when I was in university. The first time I experienced this was the only time I saw a sleep paralysis demon, it was crawling like an animal but is shaped like a human. Turns out that was a stray cat that somehow got inside my house (lol) but I remember palpitating and sweating so much that time.
Prolly sleep paralysis for us is a maintenance period at some point of time in our lifetime for our creators
So basically what sleep paralysis is, is you know when you are trying to fall asleep and you are like just on the verge of sleep and your consciousness is fading away. Sleep paralysis is essentially just this process happening backwards as you try to wake up. What causes the actual paralysis part is your brain getting stuck between the actual "waking up part" of waking up and your "dream world." which means basically your brain over lapses the wake up with the still asleep and dreaming and can't figure out which it actually is... causing your brain to be somewhat awake and your body asleep. (check reply section for the sleep "demon" part)
and as for the "demon part" it is still the fact your brain is "stuck" between awake and dreaming. So when someone experiences a "demon" while in paralysis their brain is more on the dreaming side therefor it produces a figure as it would in a dream. The reason why it is a scary creature projected is because the brain (which is still confused) kinda thinks that since they can't move they need to get out of that situation which the best way to do that is adrenalin!! so it puts you in a scary situation to get the adrenalin flowing which kinda "power boosts" the body to get it to respond.
I have sleep paralysis like once every two weeks and yeah it really sucks lol
I had Sleep Paralysis one time. It happened when i just cleaned up my room. Before, the room was used as a store room but then i decided to clean up and make it as my room because i always sleep in living room.
My first night sleeping in that room i got sleep paralysis.
I woke up because for some reason i felt hot and started sweating. Then i notice that my body felt really heavy and I can't move it. At corner of my eyes i saw a black figure approaching. I tried to call my brother but same thing i cant open my mouth.
As that not enough, he start strangling my neck and my body feel like it falling down in my bed. Kinda feel like u falling in quicksand. I started panicking but then i heard my neighbor's motorcycle (it sound fking loud btw) and instantly i can move my body and i sit up.
Drenched in sweat i see in the mirror and there a mark on my neck. Doesn't look like a finger or anything just a thick line idk wtf it is. There was only time i ever got sleep paralysis.
I've had sleep paralysis twice. Once was when i was a kid, luckily i was facing the wall so i didn't see anything but i could hear like traffic, cars moving, cans being kicked and also a little girl whispering stuff. Second time was right after my first husband died, i was unfortunately sitting straight up but my head was tilting to the side, i heard my husband singing and humming, he was sitting on my desk (note my desk is right next to my bed) and he was reading a book or newspaper while his other hand was on my head and he was also muttering things in between hums like "so adorable, cute, I'm sorry, don't worry, mine" when i woke up, i was bawling my eyes out
that's actually wholesome. May he still singing somewhere else.
Trash taste woke me up from a sleep paralysis once. I was in a liminal space and I couldn’t close my eyes. A shadowy figure was creeping in and then Joey/Conner laughed really loudly. Woke me up. Thanks trash taste.
Such a power move to already know what sleep paralysis is and be able to immediately realise when it happens and then just not be scared
I still remember experiencing a lot of sleep paralysis during my childhood.
I’ve had it twice. 1st time, I saw a light floating outside my bedroom window and I couldn’t move an inch no matter how hard I tried. I figured if I could move my big toe, like in Kill Bill, I could get the rest of my body to move and I was able to do it after a few minutes but I was so exhausted afterwards, I just passed out. Decided to look into it and even watched The Nightmare documentary.
The 2nd time, I “woke up” and saw one of those sleep paralysis demons standing over me with a grin on its face. It only took me about 5 seconds this time to wake my body up and my fight-or-flight kicked in and I lunged towards it. As soon as I touched it, it disappeared and I was completely awake. My heart was pounding so hard, it felt like I was having a heart attack.
That last episode was maybe 10 years ago. I haven’t had one since. Maybe I scared them off… 😅🤷🏻♂️
Just sleep in the evening you'll have one.
More like at 3 pm or so when the sun is out and it's kind of hot outside
I used to get in to sleep paralysis on command, and the top priority for me when I am at a sleep paralysis mode is to escape and wake up.
The trick for me to have sleep paralysis switch on is to lie face down and having my arms crossed in front of my chest.
The trick for me to wake up is to remember to breath.
I really hope I don't sound pretentious and for anyone who would try this, and got into sleep paralysis on command, remember how to breath when you're in the zone, it's fucking terrifying when it's the first time you've done it :)
Many got to see a terrifying entity but I, personally didn't experience this. I only got a flashbacks of my lifetime and the feel of dying or like my spirit is really separated on my body.
I went through a period of getting it fairly frequently. I found if I tried for like the biggest single movement I could (usually to start rolling over, but like you wanted to spin like a top, not just roll), and once I started feeling sensation from that move, it was like something unlocked a bit, and it got easier to move, etc)
Guess you didn't have a efficient one. I have had sleep paralysis almost every day (atleast thrice a week) since i can remember (i am 17 now). And even had two today and i can tell you that doesn't work for me, all i can manage to do (or imagine to do actually) is moving my fingers slightly till i can form a grip and then use my nails to push on my palm till it hurts so i can (hopefully) wake up.
I remember having horrible sleep paralysis constantly a few years back and I still don’t know why
So they do exist. I don’t think I’ll ever fall asleep again
great video to watch before sleeping
I had it once and had a blanket covering my face such that I could only BARELY see the room out of the corner of my eye, and yeah I saw a classic shadowy form that slowly and creepily approached like that scene with the Ringwraith in the first LOTR movie. Like I could feel it’s breath on my neck and the feeling that it was inches from my face.
I have had sleep paralysis demon before and the only thing I could say to the shadowy figure was, "who.... are..... you" before losing consciousness.
One of the scariest experience of my life
I had a phase in college where I got it really bad every day for like half a year. Going to sleep became a dreadful activity. "Will it happen again this time?". Eventually it went away. In hindsight I think there may have been something bigger going on with my mind. I'll never know.
yep i had a number of these happen to me as well it mostly happen when i'm stressed, the most recent one is me being in my bed but i'm a sleep but my i can see my room clearly like i'm dreaming about my room at the same time being in that room lol yeah it's confusing but this black ghost figure does one of two things if i dont get up to open the door which let him inside the room, or i wait a few seconds in the bed and he slowly opens the door on it's own which either way make my body shiver like it's freezing, but i hav been through the same scenario so many times that i know when i'm in that dream from real life so i try to shake my body to wake me up and 99% of the time it works. still a bit scary though 😱
Ive had sleep paralysis a couple times, but the most notable time was a month back. It wad 4pm and I was gonna take a nap. I remember being really tired to the point of I knew if I closed my eyes I would fall asleep immediately. I remember laying on my bed hugging my pillow and everything was normal until I started dreaming about going to heaven. Keep in mind I was fully conscious at this time. I’m a lucid dreamer so this wasn’t that weird. But when I started dreaming about going to heaven i felt super uneasy, so at first I tried just changing my dream by thinking of something else, but I literally couldn’t think of anything else at the time. Then I tried just waking myself up, and when that didn’t work I started panicking. I genuinely thought I was gonna die right then and there. It was the first time in my life I felt like I had no control over my body. I remember, I tried opening my eyes because then I could ground myself back to reality. But the more I struggled the more panicked I became. A very distinct feeling I had in that moment was that I felt my heart going a million miles an hour. It felt like my heart was gonna explode by how much faster it was beating. Thankfully I was able to control my breathing so into isn’t have a panic attack. After what felt like hours I finally managed to pull myself together and open my eyes to wake up. Now this was in the beginning of January and where I lived it was pretty chilly outside, but I remember my whole body was sweating and it felt like a furnace in my room. Crazy part is that that wasn’t even the end of it. That was like one of the 3 or 4 I experienced that day
When we become afraid thats when it become out of control. I believe the key is relax and calm
I've only ever had it happen twice. First time was pretty standard sleep paralysis episode. Second time was far more interesting, but each time wasn't too frightening. Probably a good thing too because my father used to have sleep paralysis episodes but he could get up and physically interact with with temporarily.
Seeing this got me rethinking about a time when I woke up and couldn’t move my legs, always thought it was just exhaustion of the muscles since I had been doing A LOT of walking and running around the previous day but I didn’t have any soreness so might’ve just been partial sleep paralysis…… crazy I never considered that.
so.. anyone know why sleep paralysis is scary looking? like seeing the ghosts? because i understand why not being able to move whilst being conscious is terrifying lol
It's mostly because of what you said AND also seeing something there you know isn't supposed to be. Like if you saw some random shadowy figure in the corner of your room and couldn't move I imagine most people would be screaming internally lol
I feel like its just a hallucination created from the stress of your mind waking up but your body paralyzed.
oh ok thank you both!!
I saw a shadow person once when I was wide awake. It was outside my bedroom door and scared the shit out of me.
I was 10 When it happened. I was playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater while waiting for my nan finish cooking dinner. I've seen people talking about seeing them while experiencing sleep paralysis and its made me feel slightly less crazy.
I had this weird experience where I dreamt I woke up and it was so real. I remember getting up and showering and all that. But when I went downstairs, the couch was on the wrong side of the room. And it's like my brain knew something was wrong and I had this forced awakening. That's the only way I can describe it, and then when I opened my eyes. I couldn't move at all, and it felt like there was something really heavy on my back pinning me down.
Garnt's stand, , special move !
Happens to me so often I'm just used to it. I just will myself to relax and I can move again. But yeah, it's pretty scary if you don't know what's happening. I'm pretty sure that's where all the stories of ghosts and demons and alien abductions come from.
Protip: wiggling your toes and fingers is the best way to end an episode of SP. The mind is trying to block big movements, but it can't really control smaller movements as well while doing that.
I suppose it's different for everyone. What's most important is DON'T PANIC!
It's kind of the same as being winded. Have you ever had that? Like punched in the guts and you can't breathe?
The best way to deal with that is just to relax and allow your autonomic system to resume control. It only takes a moment.
I find it's similar with sleep paralysis. If you just relax a moment, it goes away. If you try to fight it, it makes it worse.
@@MajorMalfunction
Yeah, but that's easier said than done. I mean, I've managed to subvert sleep paralysis induced hallucinations before, but it's not a set thing as yes the first thing to overcome is your own visceral fear.
@@fluidthought42 Whatever works for you, mate. As you say, you first have to realise what's happening. And then do what works for you.
Like I said, it happens to me so often I'm used to it. If I've got demons I just tell them to fuck off and roll over.
I've had too many sleep paralysis growing up to the point that I trained to jolt myself awake everytime it happens.
First Garnt is Jesus then there is a ghost above him...
I’ve had bouts of sleep paralysis before and usually I have to rock my body back and forth trying to get myself to move. It starts small and eventually ends with me jolting up and being thankful to be fully awake, cuz when you can’t move it’s really scary tbh
When I first had sleep paralysis when I was 13, like 2 decades ago, what I felt was some pressure moving from my back to my neck, like someone pressing their hands on me.
The "sleep paralysis demon" wasn't as clear as Garnt's, it was like a dark blob with sunken areas almost where eyes should be and no mouth.
Once I started getting used to sleep paralysis, there was no more presences, so I figured it was an extreme hallucination from the stress of being in the dark, unable to move. I stopped having sleep paralysis after my teen years.
It happens very often to me, sometimes I wake up with tears. I hate it, apparently that shit only lasts for a few minutes and sometimes even less but you feel like it's about 15. Nowdays I'm more used to it and they've stopped happening but still it sucks bad.
i’ve has sleep paralysis while my 4 am alarm was going off and i have never been more aggravated, annoyed, confused and angry in my whole life
Its funny because my family belives that a ghost is looking at you while sleeping when you experience sleep paralysis
I saw a sleep paralysis demon once, I was camping and woke up in the early hours staring at a shape behind a tree, and feeling scared as all hell that I couldn't move and I couldn't tell what I was looking at. I ended up going back to sleep.
When I was younger I had a nightmare about bees, being swarmed, them crawling over my eyes and obscuring my vision, the nightmare woke me up but for a couple seconds after waking I could still see the bees in front of my eyes, though they were frozen still in that moment rather than moving like they were in the nightmare.
Literally unable to sleep on my back because of this since I heard you are more prone to experience sleep paralysis in this position. I've been trying to change my sleeping position for years, but everytime I lay on my back at night I can't relax at all.
I experienced sleep paralysis many times. For me the worst and scariest part Is not the "demon" (which never happened to me) but the fact that a few times I also felt like I forgot how to breathe properly (and felt a tingling in my head as if I was about to pass out).
First time I had it was the most vivid. After I woke up, I remembered the episode of Mystery Hunters about it and thought "ohh, so that's what it feels like"
Tbh i have epilepsy so i am and have been on the verge on death but experiencing sleep paralysis was the scariest thing that happened to me
I had experience this several times, even seen the 'demon' several times, few years ago...not anymore though.
I only experienced sleep paralysis at my grandparents house, strange black shadow and all and they still live in the exact same house till this day ! The scariest one I remember experiencing was when I was back in middle school I ended up feeling my mind waking up but my whole body refused to move, and outta the corner of my right eye I saw a black shadow figure but it was thumping against the ground by my right side of the bed and I can hear the noise pretty clearly and I was panicking on the inside to move but just couldn't ! And the next thing I know, I'm fully awake; able to move around and the shadow is gone...... It for sure raised my anxiety tho, lmao
I have chronic sleep paralysis. Typically it happens as I fall asleep, but since I started taking a heavy dose of sleeping meds every night things are better now. Before the meds it was constant. I finally threw in the towel and went to the doctors when I had 12 episodes in one night.
It happened to me so many times. Sometimes it feels like I'm in the groundhog day. I felt like I have woken up, got out of the bed, just to realize after a few seconds gone by, I'm still on the bed. It feels weird. But never saw the demon.
I experienced sleep paralysis couple of times but the most recent one was when i was like pulled or my just body moved itself to avoid a falling water bottle(i sleep on floor and i put water above me just in case) i see it happen but my eyes were closed. I couldn't move after that happened thats when i realized i was in a sleep paralysis so tried to wake up a little bit but calmed down later on and just let it be and pray(some may not believe it but certainly calms your mind). After all that happened i woke up and just sit straight up and right after that i felt a hand touching my shoulder(touching i mean like when you touch to get someones attention) and i look back all i saw was a fucking wall. I got goosebumps when i realized that and even now thinking about it is giving me chills. Also pro tip dont fight it you will tire yourself out, youll wake up like you just done an intense workout without breaks.
I get multiple before but the one I can remember vividly was I “awake” from a woman bloody scream that sounded next door .i tried opening my eyes 👀 but nothing happening as I try to move the louder it got like she’s getting chopped up as I move more making me freak out .but the more I freaked out the louder this woman was screaming right to my ears to the point I can hear my eardrums vibrate painfully so I had to stop moving and try again .this went on for I believe ten mins and felt like trying to walk again after your foot fell asleep and to be careful how I “moved my body” because any big movement I wanted to do would be the woman screaming again .once I got functional I asked my sister who slept next to me if she heard me trying to call for help ,she couldn’t wake up since i couldn’t use my mouth
My brother always tells me the story of his sleep paralysis episode when he was a really young kid. And his frame of reference of monsters were Pixar/Disney characters. So his sleep paralysis demon was literally Mike Wazowski, from his sleeping perspective, peeking behind a staircase lol.
I've occasionally got it in either of my arms. I just pick it up, flop it around for a bit until it's awake again. And then I go to sleep to undo what I just did.
Stand User: Grant
Stand Name: Ghosto Nun
Abilities: Paralyzes the User
the thing is, all the things they said happened to me all of them at the same time, I was paralyzed, i cant move hear or speak but i can close and open my eyes, i could see a dark ominous shadow in front of my cabinet and it happened for 40 sec - 1 minute (thankfully). When i finally woke up, i did realized that the Dark Shadow was just my School Uniform i hanged to use for the next morning, it was such a terrifying experience, i was only 17-18 at the time too. That was an experience i dont wanna have again
I used to have that when I was a kid and I would always get super scared and like scream in my mind. It was horrible because I could feel the pressure of the blankets over me in my bed, and my brain would start panicking. It was kind of a horrible experience.
I’ve had and continue having sleep paralysis very frequently. I’m pretty sure it’s due to my terrible sleep schedule, sleep deprivation and the continuous change of the time I go to sleep. I don’t have trouble breathing and nor are my eyes open but my hearing/smell are working perfectly and I’m completely aware of my surroundings. The first 2-3 times I was scared asf and thought I had died. Now my reaction is just “not this shit again” and I just wait a few moments before I’m able to move.
I'm probably gonna have another sleep paralysis nightmare tonight since this idea resurfaced. Last time I had one, a freaken pterodactyl-like, possibly a long limb creature was sitting on my leg. The only way to escape such a nightmare was to scream softly in terror until someone wakes you up. If not, you'll probably just wake up after a few more minutes
I had a sleep paralysis before and it was my first time and i start panicking but i felt that anime moment when you cant move but the power of plot armor is so strong that it starts moving slowly
I experience the sleeping paralysis demons too. My first ever sleeping paralysis is that I was sleeping sideways and I can't move my body, and then I try to open my eyes but they were too damn heavy and I can't move my arms and legs despite being aware and awake. Then something whispered in my ear and then I feel like something is licking my ear while continuing to whisper and my whole body was shivering form goosebumps. It goes on for like three more mintues until I can move again and my body felt sore and I'm still shivering from that experience. Mind you I was sleeping top bunk in our room and I was alone that night.
I wished that happened to me, sounds very steamy.
I exclusively get sleep paralysis combined with nightmares, so when I wake up and can’t move my heart is pounding and it feels like I’ve been running.
I’ve always wanted to know how long it takes from my eyes opening to wiggling my fingers though, I’ve never had a clock to see.
I only had it once when I was like 13. I was sharing a room with my brother and we had a bunk bed, I was on the top bunk, and in our room we had a body mirror leaning up against the wall facing the bed, so I could see myself while I was on my bed. I used to listen to anime songs while I slept and I had a dream where I could hear the song that was playing within my dream (still remember it clearly, the dream was literally just a static visual novel scene of a public toilet in a park. The song that was playing was the first opening to Highschool DxD).
I woke up and tried to grab my phone to check the time, but I couldn't move my arm. I thought I just slept on my arm weird, whenever I had a dead arm I used to slam it on the bed frame because it felt really weird not feeling anything, so I tried to do that, but I couldn't move anything. Starting to freak out I shut my eyes really hard trying to get back to sleep, but after a few seconds I opened them again and saw a figure in mirror looking at me. Bricking it I shut my eyes again terrified I was going to die, but I opened my eyes again for some reason.
The figure was gone, but I saw something move on the otherside of my bedroom door (we used to keep the hallway light on because the street lights were dog ass). Again, shutting my eyes, then opening them again, I saw what was either the girl from The Ring or the girl from The Grudge crawling out of the body mirror. After it stood up, I shut my eyes again and after a few seconds, I realized I could move my arms. Pretty sure if I was paralyzed for any longer I would of genuinely shit my pants. Haven't had it since, pretty sure the reason I had it was because my sleep schedule was completely shot.
My sleep paralysis coincided with a dream of me drowning and it was the worst shit ever
I have to force myself really hard if I want to wake up knowing I have sleep paralysis, cus I hate the feeling of the creepiness of it
Sleep paralysis demons are just our Stands
While your sleep paralyzed your brain can start to make hallucinations
Damn Garnt lost his one chance to acquire a stand
I remember I had sleep paralysis once. At least I think it was, because I was kind of able to move. Two images kind of flashed in front of my eyes. A vintage, sandy looking background. Then, I was looking at my room, where there was a kind of shadowy figure forming. I was at the side of my bed, so I proceeded to, with all my power, try to fall off. Simply put, if I fell, I would wake up. If I wake up, I wouldn’t have to deal with this. Of course, that wasn’t enough.
I was back on the bed. This happened maybe 5 times until I woke up in a different position. Good to know I can cheat in my dreams.
Speaking of, is it possible to move during it, or was I experiencing something different?
I think I've had sleep paralysis then. I don't know how else to describe it, it was very brief, but I can remember that I was semi-awake middle of the night, not moving, feeling like I was kinda dreaming but not dreaming, then I kind of saw the floor of my room sliding open like a pit trap (was really dark so I think my mind just processed the darkness as some big pit and maybe filled in the rest through memory).
It felt SO FUCKING REAL, after like 2 seconds of pure terror I finally was able to get myself to move and literally jumped up onto the window sill off my bed and tried to bail out through the screen frame. Took me a solid 10 seconds to realize my floor was still there.
I used to have sleep paralysis almost daily for like 2 months at some point and it would always be the same experience. I would wake up on either of my sides and I could feel something laying behind me on my bed or standing behind me next to the bed, sometimes I could not only feel it, but hear strange whispers close to my ear but I could never make out what those whispers were saying. The first few times that happened to me, I was panicking so much, trying to move my arms, legs, jump out of the bed out of fear of dying, until I eventually got up with my whole body shivering and shaking, but then you get used to it and realize it's just another sleep paralysis and you start by trying to move your finger a little and then your hand and arm until you eventually wake up.
i also had an experience where i could hear a woman whispering in my ear and eventually i tried to make out what she was saying and it was just “whisper” over and over again lmaooo
I've only had it once and it was a scary demon. She was a pale ghost with long droopy black hair half-covering her face. At first I was terrified but then she said "If you don't want to die, leave now". And even though I couldn't move, my mind interpreted that as she was giving me a chance to escape and all I had to do was leave. Except I couldn't haha.
Death by snu snu
I saw simmilar figiure, i think it was a lady that looked like something out of "The Ring", it walked up with its hand reached up and when it was about to touch me i fazed out of the state i was in. That leads to me to conclusion it's all a neurological thing, and the things we experience are based on previous experiences we had, like watching a movie etc.
1:00 did conner just call joey jarry?
Connor had the gintama sleep paralyzis episode
I've had two times. Both involved spiders on the ceiling, slowly sliding down directly at my face. The second time was only one, but the first time. Me gusta. The ceiling was literally coated with the little buggers.
It was back in 2014 i experienced one of my first sleep paralysis. During that time i just recovered from an illness and started experiencing lots of sleep paralysis, so one morning i was kinda awake but not quite ( idk how to describe it), i saw a lot of dark hands squirming around me and touching me. I tried screaming out real loud but i couldn't. Luckily my brother must have heard me or something i remember him slapping me and waking me up.
I had sleep paralysis in the middle of a war war 2 dream
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I've had it a few times. One time I saw a skeletal angel fly around my room. Another I saw a hooded figure staring at me and another I saw a predator like active camo being standing over me. Most ghost sighting are probably sleep paralysis.
I once had sleep paralysis at the worst spot, I somehow turned myself over on the bed, so I was suffocating myself on the pillow, but I couldn't move, I used all my strength to move my body so I didn't die of suffocation
I used to have sleep paralysis once or twice a week since I was a kid. It’s slowed down now but I still have it once a month. I’ve seen a lot of scary shit but ive also learned how to control it to lucid dream. When they are scary, they are really fucking terrifying.
Basically it’s a miscommunication between your brain and body. Part of your brain says time to wake up! But the rest of it is still in dream mode. When you are in dream mode your brain paralyzes your body so you don’t act out your dreams. So you wake up basically in the middle of deep REM sleep but your body and most of your brain hasn’t caught up.
If you want to wake up from it easier, focus on moving a single part of your body. Focus on a single finger and then once it starts moving focus on the rest. After you’ve got a few things to move it will be much easier to sit up. If you try to struggle and move your whole body at once you’ll just be stuck.
My first experience of sleep paralysis turned out to be hilarious in retrospect.
I was in college and working on some intense projects. Probably got 2-4 hours of sleep per night for well over a week. One night I wake up unable to move and I see this shadowy demon looming over, pinning me down to the bed. And in all my sleep deprivation my first thought wasn't to panic or try to move, it was to curse the ever living hell out of that demon because how DARE it wake me up. I was going to get that full 4 hours of sleep or SO HELP ME, I'd send the demon back to hell myself.
The second that paralysis ended I was back out cold.
It's so weird but my first ever sleep paralysis was with Chucky, yeah, the doll lol. I was at the top bunk of a bunk bed and I just remember not being able to move or even open my eyes. I was awake and was trying to scream but I just couldn't. It was terrifying.
I saw 3 black shadows 2 at the door looking at me laughing with a knife and the other one in front me looked liked a huge snake form. I thought I was having a nightmare at first but nope I couldn't move my body I just had my eyes open. One of the worst feeling I have ever felt
the reason you're body is paralyzed is so that you don't physically reenact what you are doing in your dream (for example walking) in real life, and sleep paralysis is when you wake up while your body is still paralyzed.
I get sleep paralysis often, but not hallucinations almost like im being thrown around like on a rollercoaster, but im not moving lol
yea whats weird for me, i only got sleep paralysis if im like suddenly awaken or i slept on cold floor.
My worst experience with that, was when I was about to wake up and I started to see wasps on my neck, like 1 or two. They started going closer to my face and I started panicking, before they reached my chin I actually woke up and was losing it big times
The only time I have sleep paralysis is when I have too much caffeine too late in the day. Has happened about a dozen times, for me it’s just it sounds like someone is screaming in my ear and on my back. Never seen anything but I just trained myself to the point where it’s almost like lucid dreaming
I had sleep paralysis once, but I didn't have demons or anything. I was sleeping on the car on my way to a class with my sister, and I just suddenly felt like I woke up. I tried pushing myself up, but for some reason I couldn't remember how to move my body. So I started panicking and tried talking to my sister for help, but all that came out were puffs of air. So I kept huffing at her until I truly woke up. I could see her during the paralysis, but my eyes were apparently closed according to her. She could hear I was breathing heavily but didn't know why. It felt really weird.
I have had sleep paralysis, but I never knew it was sleep paraylsis until not too long ago. I always slept on my side, so I never had to deal with a demon or insane pressure on my chest, just the part that I couldn't move. I was awake and could coherently think and has vision, just no movement possible. I'd always say in my head, "Ok, I'm gonna move in 3...2...1... now!" and just couldn't. I never really cared about it because it was on a semi-frequent basis (like 1-2 times every two weeks) and the effects weren't terrible.
pro tip for coping with sleep paralysis:
during which, never open your eyes, then either relax to sleep, or wiggle your toes to go wake up
then when you wake up, get up. if you lay around you could be in for another 😎
if you wanna try something interesting, do exactly the opposite of what i said
edit: forgot the 😎
Yep… about 3-4 times I’ve had black smoky/shadowy figures hissing at me and making my skin sting like they were mad at me for something. And I would always hear a kind of mix between static in the background and the sound of the roar of an audience in a stadium..
But the first time was the creepiest. I could tell my body was falling asleep but my mind was awake but I couldn’t breathe.. so as I’m trying to wake up and fight the paralysis my eyes slowly open and there’s a black smoky hand on my chest holding me down and keeping me from breathing… so after freaking out and finally fighting the paralysis away (felt like i was literally taking a weight off my body for about 10 seconds) I sit up in bed look around and then lie back down to go back to sleep.. same thing happens all over again right as I fall “asleep”. I wake up and repeat everything one more time then finally go get some water and wonder what the hell is happening… finally I just go to sleep.
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