Well here's my story, whenever I've told people they just think I'm nutty or was still asleep..

about 5 years ago I woke up in the middle of the night, not really sure of the time .. but i found myself unable to move. I obviously freak out and think "wtf is happening I can't move". At the end of my bed on the right hand side corner I saw a very tall shadowy figure, I wasn't able to make out the figure but as soon as I saw it I completely blacked out and remembered nothing else until I woke up again.

since then, this has happened at least 20-25 more times.. each time a little different

sometimes i can't open my eyes, other's i hear clicking sounds (which, i know, sounds VERY cliche), I've felt myself levitate off my bed.. a few times VERY high .. but i couldn't see & i was out of it being that it's very late at night, other times i feel myself slide off my bed onto the floor and slide across my bedroom floor .. but after all of these things i some how end up right back in my bed & waking up in the morning .. a few times I've had small but unexplained bruises and bumps .. i blame it on the fact that i bruise pretty easily =/

i don't really tell people the extent of my experiences but I've researched it myself and i know all about the sleep paralysis phenomenon and how it's explained by scientists .. and it's very believable so i just started blaming it on that

if you're not familiar with it you can visit this site: http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

but there are still some unexplained questions in my mind
why have I been SO interested and at the same time completely terrified by extraterrestrial since this first experience 5 years ago?

My Family have a history of Sleep Paralysis, and yeah the first few times it is very very frightening. A close to death as I recon you can keep.

The first couple of times I had to scream body awake, i'm sure you knwo the sensation.

Now I'll be really quick and jump in an tell you that NO YOU DIDN'T ASTRAL PROJECT and no you were not abducted by aliens. - I said that to beat the newby that will say you did.

The sensation is quite common with Paralysis - you will also get "weightlessness nasua" and the lack of never stimuless.

I find for me it is usually times of high stress that it happens. Speak to your father and see if he suffers from it as well.

As for the ET link. I myself (when i was younger) believe that it was caused by visitors. I had several very vivid and clear dreams, I know now that they were dreams, but at the time and suffering Paralysis it seemed and easier and more fantastic idea. I am 30 years old and have have maybe 30 or 40 brushes with Paralysis .. just try and remain calm. Putting yourself back into a dream can help. Just say to yourself.. Hmm i'm still dreaming. What would I like to dream about?


Mate, my only advice is

I get SP usually when I'm feeling too stressed.
It usually manifests when I think I'm awake while dreaming, then it becomes a repeat nightmare of re-waking and a reappearance of a dark-looming presence.
Quite annoying when it does happen. Lately I've been on Mirtazapine (I'm one of those perfectionist Tile-setters and sometimes its a battle with time and other jobs cramming together) the anti-depressant helps, haven't had one occur while on it.

I have had them often.

They seem to get less frequent as i get older.

They are very scary because you are basically wide awake while dreaming and paralysed.

Hello, Lissette.

Language is funny, and people say sleep paralysis for the combination of two or three things:

(1) something that happens to almost everyone who sleeps, typically three, four, or five times every night (or whenever dreamtime is), namely sleep paralysis - a disconnect of the voluntary musculature during light ("stage one") sleep, presumably to prevent us from "acting out" our dreams,

(2) a failure to release sleep paralysis promptly when woken up, which is a malfunction, but not really uncommon, and

(3 - optional) hypnopompic, waking up, hallucination, which in itself (along with the closely related hypnogogic, going to sleep, hallucination) is very common, with or without item 2.

There is also often some interaction between (2) and (3) when both occur, that the subject of the hallucination is an "explanation" of why your muscles are not responding to your wish to move them. "Somebody is sitting on my chest" is a simple and frequently heard "explanatory hallucination," and you can attest that more elaborate ones are certainly available.

If any of this really bothers you or interferes with your normal life, then you should consult a sleep disorder medical specialist. However, many people find satisfactory relief by exploiting the "poor quality" of the paralysis which does, after all, dispel itself and is in process of doing so when you become aware of it - it's just being lazy.

There is a good chance that some of your voluntary musculature is available to you - even if it is not the part you try to move at first. Smaller muscles seem especially likely to be available, things like the extremities, eyelids, lips, or tongue. Establishing that you can control those, maybe not fine muscle control but movement all the same, seems to release the paralysis (or kills time, and keeps the mind harmlessly occupied, until the paralysis releases of its own accord).

Click your heels, and you may well be back in Kansas... no wait, that's the problem - back in New York.

Hope that helps.

"There is a good chance that some of your voluntary musculature is available to you - even if it is not the part you try to move at first. Smaller muscles seem especially likely to be available, things like the extremities, eyelids, lips, or tongue. Establishing that you can control those, maybe not fine muscle control but movement all the same, seems to release the paralysis (or kills time, and keeps the mind harmlessly occupied, until the paralysis releases of its own accord)."


YES! i can usually move my tongue, i didn't mention that because i thought it sounded weird. but yeah thanks a lot.

I'll be fine it doesn't really bother me anymore, when i'd never heard of it it used to freak me out.

I have experienced sleep paralysis like 50 times, but in my case its just that "I" wake up before my body does. So the body is paralysed for 10 or so seconds and then after that I can move.

Forgot to add that I only see my room and whatever is around. Nothing else happens.

Oh yea this is so true. I tend to move the fingers of my hands and it helps to "awaken" my body faster to say it that way.

Don't worry you are not the only one that has exsperienced this. All i know is that it is scary as hell

once when i was 8

i opened my eyes and saw something on my feet. i sat up to hit it but as i did i stopped moving i freaked as it looked and hissed at me [while it jestured that]. i began to scream mom. the first got out but then my voice just stopped i screamed until my lungs gave out but nothin. it started leaving it glided across the wall thrpugh 5he cracks in the door. what freaked me out more was mom opened the door that second. i looked for it in the hall but no it was gone.

now when i get sp i just dont open my eyes and go to sleep

but ive noticed when woken for work ive been experoencing it lately.[lasts 10min] ive forced my body to get up and everything feels like lead. i noticed that while in this state of forced movement touch and coordination are down but you apply more strength than normal in muscles trying to compensate.

I have the same thing, it happens about 2 to 3 times a week and some nights it happens every time I fall asleep. I have too keep myself awake until I fall asleep naturally.
I have been worried about it recently, and that's one of the reasons why I joined this forum!

Its like I'm half awake and half asleep. Its very strange! I scream from the top of my lungs and no sound comes out. Its a very scary experienced and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I'll give you a tip Sleep with only one pillow. For some reason it helps me!

2 times a week?

You know this is incredibly high? Maybe we can work out whats going on here .. I have a few theories about what causes this Would you mind answering some questions?

Are you:

On any Anti Depressent or Anexity drug?
Stressed/Worried constantly?
Getting more then 6 hours of sleep every night?
Smoking Weed?
Aware of any family members they may also be experiencing this?

iv never expirienced it but i always think theres something more then the scientific theory, people almost never have any good expiriences, if a well known and trusted scientist decalared to the world that there was more to it and they have lied to us, how many people would panic.

i dont find sp weird but annoying since it takes so long to boot up your body when you forceit to move.
this is the order things come back "on"
movement clumsy
steady eyesight
hand eye coord
speech
smell/taste
balance and basic thought [me should eat now]
nerve/muscle control[work dbl time b4 this]
hunger pangs and thirst mean your body is almost ready
bladder yup if this is running so are you[to the lou ha ha]

i sp every night but just force this useless meatwagon to animate [god i could be dead one day and not even notice]
blood so heavy, air like water, thought like cbc when offair [oooh Canada[not right now]].

oddly enough ive only encountered 8 entities in my life 6 were [2yrs ago] when learning to walk like zombie man v2.5. i was headingto work and they flew/down across the road on differemt nights. the 1st was a room encounter at 8. i cant remember no 8 but im surr ive seen one more.

Hi
I'm curious, can you describe the clicking sounds?

I'm not on any drugs.
I am a paranoid person. I guess when I do go to bed. I do tend to worry about whats gonna happen the next day and I have noticed that the sleep paral increases when I am worried.
I get about 7-8 hours sleep every night.
Don't smoke weed or take any kind of drug for that matter.
I'm the only one that experiences this regularly, although it has happened to some family members before.

To be honest, when I talk about it before I go to bed it usually happens :/

I think I am pretty lucky because once I am in the sleep paral, I have learned how to get out of it It extremely hard for me to explain how I do it, but it works. Although it gives me a headache lol

i dont know if this what your talking about, but i think i have it too. like when i was 10, i kept having this nightmare repeatedly. I tried ot wake up, then i did and i heard my TV on in my room and i couldnt move, then went back to dream world. i "woke up" in my room, but i was still dreaming and couldnt move for crap. finally, it broke, and was finally awake. i had to punch myself to make sure!

i dont know if this what your talking about, but i think i have it too. like when i was 10, i kept having this nightmare repeatedly. I tried ot wake up, then i did and i heard my TV on in my room and i couldnt move, then went back to dream world. i "woke up" in my room, but i was still dreaming and couldnt move for crap. finally, it broke, and was finally awake. i had to punch myself to make sure!

Yeah i get sleep paralysis every single time i go to sleep facing upwards.......its weird your mind goes crazy and you see things that aren't really there.......i usually see shadows shifting shapes rapidly.....but i just know for a fact that its part of the sleep paralysis were the mind is still semi sleep and awake.......usually what i do is i just close my eyes and wait until the feeling goes away........i am quite used to it by now and i don't get scared anymore....... sometimes when i feel the first signs of sleep paralysis i sit down for a few seconds and go to sleep sideways or facing down.....and that way i never get sleep paralysis.........

Sometimes I fall into sleep paralysis when I have been lying in bed awake (but tired). I be lying there, thinking and suddenly fall into it! These sudden paralysis give me a headache and i usually get a glass a water or something after..
When I am in sleep paralysis, I usually get something tapping me on my foot or hand. Or something standing beside my bed or even things sat on top of me.

To get out of it, I try and move my fingers and I close my eyes as hard as I can (thats what gives me the headache). Once I am back to myself, for a few seconds everything seems to have slowed down and if I don't continue to move my body or open my eyes, I fall straight back into the paralysis. Its difficult to explain

Anways! Meh

i was also hit by a bad case of sp about a year ago. i had it for a few months and it happened liked all the time. i tired a lot of things to stop it. took sleeping pills, tired to meditate, tired to fight it, tired to just let it happen, tired to just move my little toe or just one part of my body, witch that does end it quicker but it doesnt stop it, i tired goin to bed earlier, becasue i heard not getin enough sleep can casue it, i tired to not have stress in my life. well the point is, nothing would work at all. then i found the freakin easyest thing in the world to end it all for me. its been about 9 months since my last fight with sp. all i had to do was, to just not lay on my back when i fell asleep. if i lay on my stomach or on my side, then i sleep just fine thoughout the nite and dont have any sp.
this is the first time ive read this post, and i really havent read or see anything about sp for months, haven't even thought about it. so its just kinda a weird thing that lastnite while i was laying in bed about to fall alseep, i though about sp, and i was wondering that if i still layed on my back if i would still get it. (ive just not fallen into the habbit of sleepin on my sides becuase i did it for so long to stop sp form happening.) so i havent fell asleep on my back for like 9 months, so lastnite i slept on my back just to see if sleeping on my sides or stomach was really what made it stop,(witch im like 99.9% positive it is, casue i tested it out a bounch of times once i figured it out.) and yes, sure enough, even after like 9 months of not having it, it happened once i slept on my back. now its also important to no that in the time that i was gettin it all time, that i didnt get it every single time i slept on my back, i got it like 3 times a week, 4 times on a really bad week. but ya i got it lastnite. i dunno i could have just gotten it bcasue i was thinking about it again for the first time, and it was kinda like the last thing that went threw my mind before a fell asleep. and i truly believe that the more you think about it the more likey it is to happen, so thats prolly a big reason why it happened, but who knows. i hope it doesnt happen tonite, casue i really hate it. but atleast for me i dont keep on dreamin, well in other words, i dont see any beings, or think im gettin pulled for the bed. i jsut cant talk or move and sometime feel like someone is behind me. i would freak out so bad if i was like a demon or something, i feel bad for the ppl who do. but anyways back to the point. i think that just the way you fall asleep can have affect on your sp. so i dunno, if your plaged by sp, just try the simplest thing, ley a different way. and i have found that if i get it and if i fall right back to sleep, most of the time it happens again. but ya, just try and sleep a diferent way. i really hope it doesnt happen tonite, now that im thinkin about it so much, haha. ill post about it if it does, but ill be sleeping on my side so, if im right, it shouldnt happen, lol.

Yeah, your probably right.. Although, it doesn't work for me.. I have tried different positions and I still get it.
I did hear somewhere that it is sometimes caused by lack of blood flow to your brain, meaning you cannot sleep fully. Ever since I heard that, I've been sleeping with one or two pillows (so my head isn't too far up) and it has reduced the SP slightly.

I also watched a TV program on sleeping disorders, and SP came up on there... Maybe I have a sleeping disorder?

I am just scared of hurting myself while I am in the SP. I might fall out of bed or something Whatever it is, I am going to have to learn to live with it.