wow.. never spoke with anyone that experienced similar things.. it's more serious, imo, than most take it.
For those of you that get sleep paralysis
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wow.. never spoke with anyone that experienced similar things.. it's more serious, imo, than most take it.
I get that same thing where i use all my energy to get out a faint grunt. But, according to others, I don't make any noise in reality. Also, like Chrisbro, the only times I've gotten it is during naps in the afternoon. I think it's more random for me than it is stress related because I can't think of any possible stress, especially the second time it happened.
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I am not kidding and am not being dramatic when I say this is serious stuff.
I'm shocked there are two people on one small board experiencing this. Call me and I will give you chapter and verse on what is going on.
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addictionary
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This is the exact same type of method for me to break out of a strongly imprisoning sleep paralysis experience. It usually happens consecutively with a nightmare. For a common example for my sleep paralysis experiences -which I used to have all the time as far as I can remember- I am on a daily habit at home. Probably with my wife and maybe some other people too, not too much. We may be sleeping too.
Then a disturbing sound comes from the other end of the house. This is usually the living room. You see, I used to be a really scared little guy when I was a child, especially from supernatural ideas that were being used to scare little children. These fairy tale notions to me were led by the concept of "Witch". Funny, I know, but what can you say, I was just a kid. I think the facial curves of my beloved grandmother had to do much with this fear of mine. I loved her regardless when I was awake. She is my second mom. She looked after me while my mother had to work. But in my nightmares, a witch with the face of hers used to climb inside my sheet up to the point I tucked and start tickling me with her long nails and bony fingers. But since I'm grown up now, my subconscious concerns tend to slide towards the safety of my beloved ones led by my wife since I do not have kids yet. Hence a thief image is what I see when I reach the living room. But the best part is this. The scared little kid used to ran away from all the fears he had, the ME now just goes berserk and runs to the living room to counter all of the heavy pressure coming from the fears in his mind to reach the room and just jump onto the threat that is close to his beloved and as he does that, a deafening ROAR comes out of his mouth that is so identical to a lion's roar that you would feel like you are in Jumanji if you have heard. But it turns out it was just me snoaring as I wake up to hear my own snoar, or more like snROAARRR.
Then I realize that I cannot move my limbs or I can merely breathe, like I am a mind of its own imprisoned in a cell cage of human body that I have no power upon. I force myself out of it so hard that sometimes I feel like my brain will explode out of amazing pressure. The I snROAR again.
Well you cannot blame me for trying hard to defeat my fixations of childhood. At least now I have the ability to snoar the living crap out of my enemies.
Archie Moses
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I thought I made a thread on this so bump.
It's interesting reading my first post because now I associate two experiences I had (I shared them in the longest thread ever) when I was 19 and 22 to sleep paralysis, although they were a little different. I think those experiences were different mainly because at the time, I did not know what sleep paralysis was.
The part where I say I never experienced hallucinations during sleep paralysis has changed for me too, unfortunately. I was visited by the night hag last year. Lol Although it was a dream, it was very real and disturbing to me. Those I shared the experience with heard me describe her as a witch. I never knew of the "night hag" until earlier today after reading Red's post.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag
After reading about the hag and having my experience of the witch, it's kinda creepy tbh. I know it's not real, but holy **** does it seem real and the fear you get is as real as it gets.
To briefly describe what happened in my episode of sleep paralysis, here's what happened. I was in a pretty crappy hotel in Prescott, AZ (my boss booked it and didn't realize it looked like a place for serial killers.). I went to bed like any other ordinary night. I suddenly awoke to loud a repetitive banging on my hotel door. It got louder and faster until the door broke down. I knew I was having sleep paralysis when it started, I just couldn't stop the madness that happened from playing out like I have done many times before. Anyway, there was a witch looking bitch with black, long curly hair in the door way. I don't remember anything else about what she looked like. Wind started violently blowing and this witch bitch started swimming through the floor towards my bed. She eventually made it to the end of the bed and reached her creepy *** arm up under the covers. I remember not being able to move and about losing my **** at this point. Her hand would slap down and reach for my feet. She kept missing and after each miss, she would slide back down into the floor as if the floor was water. She finally got a hold of me and tried to drag me off the bed. I remember the force of her pull and her tugging hard, but I only slowly being moved towards the end of the bed.
Out of sheer panic and desperation I tried something that ended it. I kept saying in my head - in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave. I probably said it close to 5 times. The next thing I remember was waking up in the morning.
Yes, I know this was not real. Yes, it seems very real (in a dream like state) while happening and the emotions are overwhelming. Sleep paralysis is a trip. You can imagine how I feel now knowing the night hag visits many. Creepy, dudes. ****ing creepy.
It's interesting reading my first post because now I associate two experiences I had (I shared them in the longest thread ever) when I was 19 and 22 to sleep paralysis, although they were a little different. I think those experiences were different mainly because at the time, I did not know what sleep paralysis was.
The part where I say I never experienced hallucinations during sleep paralysis has changed for me too, unfortunately. I was visited by the night hag last year. Lol Although it was a dream, it was very real and disturbing to me. Those I shared the experience with heard me describe her as a witch. I never knew of the "night hag" until earlier today after reading Red's post.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag
After reading about the hag and having my experience of the witch, it's kinda creepy tbh. I know it's not real, but holy **** does it seem real and the fear you get is as real as it gets.
To briefly describe what happened in my episode of sleep paralysis, here's what happened. I was in a pretty crappy hotel in Prescott, AZ (my boss booked it and didn't realize it looked like a place for serial killers.). I went to bed like any other ordinary night. I suddenly awoke to loud a repetitive banging on my hotel door. It got louder and faster until the door broke down. I knew I was having sleep paralysis when it started, I just couldn't stop the madness that happened from playing out like I have done many times before. Anyway, there was a witch looking bitch with black, long curly hair in the door way. I don't remember anything else about what she looked like. Wind started violently blowing and this witch bitch started swimming through the floor towards my bed. She eventually made it to the end of the bed and reached her creepy *** arm up under the covers. I remember not being able to move and about losing my **** at this point. Her hand would slap down and reach for my feet. She kept missing and after each miss, she would slide back down into the floor as if the floor was water. She finally got a hold of me and tried to drag me off the bed. I remember the force of her pull and her tugging hard, but I only slowly being moved towards the end of the bed.
Out of sheer panic and desperation I tried something that ended it. I kept saying in my head - in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave. I probably said it close to 5 times. The next thing I remember was waking up in the morning.
Yes, I know this was not real. Yes, it seems very real (in a dream like state) while happening and the emotions are overwhelming. Sleep paralysis is a trip. You can imagine how I feel now knowing the night hag visits many. Creepy, dudes. ****ing creepy.
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Red
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@Archie Moses, glad my comment in the longest thread introduced you to the old hag component of sleep paralysis. I'll offer some further thoughts based on my own experience, and describe a couple of those experiences.
I never experienced the old hag, as far as I can remember, but very often I would feel that there was a malevolent entity in my bedroom. Pure evil. It would create a sense of dread to the nth degree. In the other thread I mentioned that sleep paralysis produced a level of terror that was indescribable, and that's what I was talking about, the terror was produced by the sense of an evil presence. I don't think it's possible for a human being to experience a fear that's greater then that. It's why I said I hated sleep paralysis.
The only time I decided not to fight it, not to try and break free, I stopped breathing altogether. I was convinced I was going to die, and resumed fighting for my life. It's always the most intense mental battle imaginable to break free from SP. A battle like no other, IMO.
I mentioned in the longest thread that it must have started in my childhood, and it was not an old hag sitting on my chest, but an elephant. I can just remember my parents rushing into my bedroom one night because I was screaming out for help.
But it was about age 14 or 15 that I had what is still one of the most unusual experiences, which I assume was SP, but for years I thought it was very real, and, to be honest, I still don't know, because it was different then all the terrifying examples of SP that plagued me through my 20's and 30's. I kept a notebook for my dreams and nocturnal experiences, and that one as a teenager went like this: I became conscious of the fact that I was suspended above my bed, by a beam of light that was striking me in the chest. This beam emerged from a diffuse ball of light floating outside my bedroom window. A voice, in my head, said, in a very firm way, like an order, "you will not tell anyone", and I was lowered to the bed. I fell asleep. The next morning, it was the first thing on my mind and I went to the window and wondered "was that a UFO? What the hell was that?".
I took that command "you will not tell anyone" very, very seriously. What would happen to me if I told anyone? I felt like I had woke up in the middle of something that I was not supposed to know had happened. Like what had happened before I was conscious of being paralyzed and held above my bed by that beam? So, as you can imagine, since I was interested in UFOs from a young age, I wondered along those lines. Remarkably, years later I was to marry a woman who had the most remarkable close encounter experience I ever heard, and about the same time, but that's another story, lol.
Anyway, eventually I came to realize that experience must have been SP, but, to be honest, I will always wonder.
Now, here's another experience that causes wonder to me. I was in the grip of SP, but this time my girlfriend, now my wife, was in the bed with me. I saw the silhouette of a woman floating above me. She extended her hand and sent a bolt of energy into me. It was very painful and electrical in nature. I broke free, and woke up. My wife was very agitated. What happened, she asked me. She then told me that I was lying on my back perfectly still, but that the whole bed was vibrating so violently, that she thought she was going to be thrown on the floor! That was the first, and only time, that I realized SP might actually involve some kind of psychic energy that could affect matter.
Anyway, in general, as I mentioned in the longest thread, partial out of body experiences were very common for me during SP. I know SP is a medical condition, and has a scientific explanation, but I am not convinced that seeing and feeling my "spirit legs" rising up toward the ceiling, seeing what seemed to be my spirit trying to leave my body during SP was not actually real. As anyone who has the experience can attest, when it happens, it's as real as real can be, and the terror can be off the charts...
I never experienced the old hag, as far as I can remember, but very often I would feel that there was a malevolent entity in my bedroom. Pure evil. It would create a sense of dread to the nth degree. In the other thread I mentioned that sleep paralysis produced a level of terror that was indescribable, and that's what I was talking about, the terror was produced by the sense of an evil presence. I don't think it's possible for a human being to experience a fear that's greater then that. It's why I said I hated sleep paralysis.
The only time I decided not to fight it, not to try and break free, I stopped breathing altogether. I was convinced I was going to die, and resumed fighting for my life. It's always the most intense mental battle imaginable to break free from SP. A battle like no other, IMO.
I mentioned in the longest thread that it must have started in my childhood, and it was not an old hag sitting on my chest, but an elephant. I can just remember my parents rushing into my bedroom one night because I was screaming out for help.
But it was about age 14 or 15 that I had what is still one of the most unusual experiences, which I assume was SP, but for years I thought it was very real, and, to be honest, I still don't know, because it was different then all the terrifying examples of SP that plagued me through my 20's and 30's. I kept a notebook for my dreams and nocturnal experiences, and that one as a teenager went like this: I became conscious of the fact that I was suspended above my bed, by a beam of light that was striking me in the chest. This beam emerged from a diffuse ball of light floating outside my bedroom window. A voice, in my head, said, in a very firm way, like an order, "you will not tell anyone", and I was lowered to the bed. I fell asleep. The next morning, it was the first thing on my mind and I went to the window and wondered "was that a UFO? What the hell was that?".
I took that command "you will not tell anyone" very, very seriously. What would happen to me if I told anyone? I felt like I had woke up in the middle of something that I was not supposed to know had happened. Like what had happened before I was conscious of being paralyzed and held above my bed by that beam? So, as you can imagine, since I was interested in UFOs from a young age, I wondered along those lines. Remarkably, years later I was to marry a woman who had the most remarkable close encounter experience I ever heard, and about the same time, but that's another story, lol.
Anyway, eventually I came to realize that experience must have been SP, but, to be honest, I will always wonder.
Now, here's another experience that causes wonder to me. I was in the grip of SP, but this time my girlfriend, now my wife, was in the bed with me. I saw the silhouette of a woman floating above me. She extended her hand and sent a bolt of energy into me. It was very painful and electrical in nature. I broke free, and woke up. My wife was very agitated. What happened, she asked me. She then told me that I was lying on my back perfectly still, but that the whole bed was vibrating so violently, that she thought she was going to be thrown on the floor! That was the first, and only time, that I realized SP might actually involve some kind of psychic energy that could affect matter.
Anyway, in general, as I mentioned in the longest thread, partial out of body experiences were very common for me during SP. I know SP is a medical condition, and has a scientific explanation, but I am not convinced that seeing and feeling my "spirit legs" rising up toward the ceiling, seeing what seemed to be my spirit trying to leave my body during SP was not actually real. As anyone who has the experience can attest, when it happens, it's as real as real can be, and the terror can be off the charts...
hmm, I don't have anything near this dramatic. I have had a few episodes where I wake up in the middle of the night and cannot move for several seconds. The first time was a bit terrifying, but even then I didn't think I was permanently paralyzed or anything. Since then I just wait it out.
I don't have any experiences of feeling paralyzed in the face of monsters, witches and such. But I avoid horror movies and books, so perhaps my imagination isn't vivid enough for those types of dreams.
I don't have any experiences of feeling paralyzed in the face of monsters, witches and such. But I avoid horror movies and books, so perhaps my imagination isn't vivid enough for those types of dreams.
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I have woken up a few times unable to move or speak and have felt hands around my throat choking me. It sucked.
I've heard some interesting stories, but never experienced it like has been described.
It does make me think of this a bit though.
There is probably something that ties all of these things together somehow.
It does make me think of this a bit though.
There is probably something that ties all of these things together somehow.
Red
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It's a very rare occurance for me now. I have heard that it mostly affects people in their younger years, and I guess that was true in my own case. But, last December, I had what seemed to be the most intense episode in my personal experience. And seriously, I can understand why such an experience would generate beliefs in demonic forces. It's clear I was not fully asleep, because I'm attempting to get my wife's attention, I'm aware of her words and actions, etc. These are never just bad dreams, but this was just ridiculous in its intensity.
I have a close friend who has an interest in unusual human experience, so the next morning I sent him a note describing it as best I could. Copied and pasted below, with my wife's name x'd out.
"Were it not horrific beyond words to ever describe, I'd wish for you to experience what I experienced last nite, because it must be the only way to really know what it's like.
For the first time in years, I was forced to do battle with demonic forces while asleep. It did not seem like sleep paralysis, which is as rare these days as hen's teeth. That faded out years ago now. Rather, this might be the origin of the term "night terrors". It arrived in the form of either a wolf or a wolf-being. We did battle for perhaps 10-15 minutes, an eternity. It had both my hands in its mouth and we were nose to nose at times. I wear a full face mask for sleep apnea, meaning my mouth and nose is within the mask.
I knew that the only way out was to break out of sleep. I managed to literally howl, trying to be heard by *** in the other room, and I was howling at the wolf-being at the same time, as he roared at me. So hard to get sound to come out, harder still to be heard with a hard plastic mask covering my mouth.
Eventually, I could hear *** banging on my wall with her fist from the other room. I had finally awoken her. But I needed her to come into my room and shake me awake. "Awwwooooo!!" I moaned. "what's the matter!?" she's crying out. Still not just coming into my room to help me. Meanwhile the battle between me and the wolf-demon rages on. Finally, I get up and go into her room. Then, I'm howling again, it was a false awakening! Finally, I break out of it for real. My in-breaths are so strong, I am actually sucking the face mask flush with my face. I could have easily had a heart attack under such circumstances. I rip the mask off, and yell "please ***, please help me!" She comes into the room at last, and I am by then lying on my side, hyperventilating and shaking in terror. What a ******* battle!! Most intense experience beating back a demonic force I have ever experienced.
Not the first time, though it's a rare thing for me. Not a typical sleep paralysis, but rather a form of psychic warfare that involves an intensity of terror and battle for survival that has to be experienced to be understood. Hope I sleep sounder tonite!"
I have a close friend who has an interest in unusual human experience, so the next morning I sent him a note describing it as best I could. Copied and pasted below, with my wife's name x'd out.
"Were it not horrific beyond words to ever describe, I'd wish for you to experience what I experienced last nite, because it must be the only way to really know what it's like.
For the first time in years, I was forced to do battle with demonic forces while asleep. It did not seem like sleep paralysis, which is as rare these days as hen's teeth. That faded out years ago now. Rather, this might be the origin of the term "night terrors". It arrived in the form of either a wolf or a wolf-being. We did battle for perhaps 10-15 minutes, an eternity. It had both my hands in its mouth and we were nose to nose at times. I wear a full face mask for sleep apnea, meaning my mouth and nose is within the mask.
I knew that the only way out was to break out of sleep. I managed to literally howl, trying to be heard by *** in the other room, and I was howling at the wolf-being at the same time, as he roared at me. So hard to get sound to come out, harder still to be heard with a hard plastic mask covering my mouth.
Eventually, I could hear *** banging on my wall with her fist from the other room. I had finally awoken her. But I needed her to come into my room and shake me awake. "Awwwooooo!!" I moaned. "what's the matter!?" she's crying out. Still not just coming into my room to help me. Meanwhile the battle between me and the wolf-demon rages on. Finally, I get up and go into her room. Then, I'm howling again, it was a false awakening! Finally, I break out of it for real. My in-breaths are so strong, I am actually sucking the face mask flush with my face. I could have easily had a heart attack under such circumstances. I rip the mask off, and yell "please ***, please help me!" She comes into the room at last, and I am by then lying on my side, hyperventilating and shaking in terror. What a ******* battle!! Most intense experience beating back a demonic force I have ever experienced.
Not the first time, though it's a rare thing for me. Not a typical sleep paralysis, but rather a form of psychic warfare that involves an intensity of terror and battle for survival that has to be experienced to be understood. Hope I sleep sounder tonite!"
Archie Moses
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@Red I'm interested in hearing your wife's close encounter experience if you'd be willing to share.
Although I'm a firm believer in science and I'm not into paranormal stories (for truth, at least) I have spent extensive time researching aliens and UFOs. Just by probability alone, I know there is other life out there in the ether. I'm not going to say "I know" we've been visited by ETs and UFOs, but I wouldn't be surprised to the slightest degree if it's the truth. There are so many credible, first person sources and unexplainable things that have happened throughout history for me to bury my head in the sand and ignore. Truth is, I'll probably never know, but the topic has always interested me.