Someone bring up sleeping paralysis on other thread so it finally got me curious enough since he say that many people may have that experience. So I am hoping to get some info or discuss experience.

I have experienced phenomona while sleep paralysis few time. But two most scary experience I have is following:

When I was about 3 I just lose my hearring so my parents were really worried about me becuause I lose all memory and cant really walk well or sit up or anything and I would often try and often get hurt badly and still get up and make it worse. So they place me between them and one night I felt someone sitting on my back and it was so hard for me to breath and I still cant really roll or anything and whatever was sitting on my back was actually pounding on my back hard with something that feel like point of boot. I can only see veil or badly worn out black/brown dress part covering really slender deformed legs along my sides and long poorly taken care of shredded black hair covering back of my head but nothing else. I still remeber EVERY details clearly and it took me LONG time to get over my fear and still wake up to check around EVERY time I wake up in middle night. Anyway something was pounding on my back and I was screaming and crying for about 15 min before either my mom or dad wake up and pick me up and I was unable to sleep until next afternoon. That is probably what lead me to have serious sleeping problem through most of elementary scool.

Second one was more recently, I was about 16 maybe 15, I was laying on my bed (which was a futon, I cant sleep on bed cause my ability to pick up vibrate is so senstive that springs keep me up) pretty much asleep. However for some reason I wake up and was shaking really hard cause it was so cold and I was able to see everything in my room I was staring at ceiling which is very unusual because I usually sleep on my tummy. That is when I know something was wrong so I try o move my arms and manage to move them only a bit and suddenly I felt force pull futon mattress up but didnt see it and it some how turn me onto my tummy (could just be my body actually move but not feeling it) and I am not type that get scare easily and even if I get scare I dont scream. Suddenly I start to see vague sight of some kind of really skinny pale humanoid that was about 7 feet tall but face wasnt like alien at all but body was. So I finally decide it is time to let out a scream and when I try really hard I was not even able to feel any vibrate in my thoart and I am SURE I pass out from sheer fear because that was last thing I remeber. The next morning my mom found me laying across bed (instead of upright) with blanket on my legs which is not normal since I keep my head cover with blanket to avoid light from bothering me. As she wake me up, I suddenly ask her if she heard anything last night and she didnt even know what I was talking about . so I just didnt talk about it but it keep me up for few weeks.

I am sure first experience was Bed or Sleeping hag/witch but I am not so sure about second but it was scary enough to make me try to scream whcih is very abnormal. Probably I was abandoned but I am not the type who REALLY believe I was abandoned or anything, I am prett sure it was something with sleeping paralysis or bed hag. Maybe someone can figure out this things.

Sleep paralysis is a very normal state of the body, right before you fall asleep your body will feel paralysed, so that you wont get out of bed and start making the movements that you make in your dream. So that you wont get hurt.
Everybody has this, no thing to worry about.
Sounds like you had some out of body experiences(OOBE). All the things you describe are symptons. If you do some research and surf the web, you will find tons of information on this subject.
All these things are very natural and really nothing to worry about !! Chill out

funny i shuld see this thread, as i had an episode of sleep paralysis two nights ago, was very weird, luckily enough no aliens came in to take me away

although it took me about 5mins to will myself to move.

Sleep paralysis happens to everybody every night.

First off greychupa i remember that avatar fromt he first anime movie i've ever seen, totoro or something, but anyway from what i udnerstand i've only had sleep paralysis once, i was very yound, about 8 or 9 sleeping at my grandfathers house and i woke up that morning and i couldnt move, i remember there was only a short amount of focused sight throughout my whole vision, kind of felt like i was asleep, but i wasnt..i shut my eyes and opened them and i was fine! At the time i thought it was a ghost but now i think its sleep paralysis

Hi

I had some 'night terror' episodes ages ago and they are truley terrifying. I wont bore you with it again as I have already detailed it on this forum.

I also posted a thread called 'The Entity' about people who believe they are stalked and attacked on an almost nightly basis by some kind of spirit.

Here's a ikkle snippet ~

'Marks’ attacks have been so horrifyingly real to him that his relationship with is fiancé has suffered as a result. But don’t worry ‘cos here’s Dr Cheyne to drum up another explanation.

“Sexual assaults are not common but they certainly do occur. Our dreams have a sexual content because our sexual organs and sexual areas of the brain are still being activated. So it’s not surprising that the combination of sex and fear leads to the sexual assault scenario”.
BUT how does this account for the fact that Marks’ bedroom, where the assaults allegedly took place, once belonged to his elder brother, and he underwent similar experiences, unbeknownst to Mark?
“A couple of years before this happened my brother was staying in that bedroom. I started to tell him what had happened to me in that room and he said that he had very similar experiences, such as being strangled and feeling a presence in there”
“Is it just a coincidence that these attacks took place in the same bedroom?”

Hufford discovered that whilst Sleep Paralysis (SP) could account for people who felt pressure on their chest, it could not account for those who felt it on other parts of their body.
“It’s common during SP for people to report pressure on the chest. This could be caused by the paralysis of the voluntary muscles involved in breathing. But sometimes this pressure is felt another places. I’ve heard people say they’ve felt their head being pushed into the bed. Others say that pressure on their feet has caused them to believe that their legs would break. I would like these explanations, if we’re going to buy them, to really line up with the data. So far, these don’t”

Hammy x x x

I had a sleep paralysis (spelling?) on Sunday morning last week. It was 6.06am, and I tried to move, and I couldn't. I got up, and went back to bed later after reading UM, and at 11.06, I had it again. By this time, I was not amused, and I fell asleep again, and at 12.06, I had it once more. By this time, after the last episode, I decided to listen to music, and the music sounded quite odd, it was "The Show" by Girls Aloud. I am worried about doing mysel' a mischief when I try to get up. I am worried in case I tear something. Thats what I am scared of. But, I didn't have the "old hag", just not being able to move.

I'll listen to Jamelia then! No, seriously, I haven't had another episode (yet). I'll wake up tommorow with SP, and i'll have to miss school! I wish!

I didn't even know that was the name for it, just thought it was called a 'nightmare' lol but I get this quite alot. And it's really freaky. I've had it just as I was going to sleep, and just before I wake up (or, rather, it tends to WAKE me up) and most of the time, I actually am conscious when I feel as though my soul has actually jumped back into my body. After that, it's like being trapped inside your body. The 'dreams' I have with it though are either nightmarish, or of a spiritual nature, sometimes on a completely different plane, and it's usually what I'm seeing before I get 'trapped' that scares me the most. I've even had one where I was recieving my last rites, and as I was awake and couldn't move my body (my eyes were open) I could feel the Holy water on my forehead, and it like burned...very weird. In most of these dreams I can feel my soul going back into my body. I've even been warned about stuff, that eerily ends up happening, but the way it gets shown more scares me than warns me. I have to say I don't think they are *just* nightmares.

I also get another weird thing when I sleep, especially of late, I can SEE into another room, while I'm still asleep. As in, in one case, I'd been asleep for hours, and I had my pet hermit crabs outside. While still in a sleeplike state (my eyes were still closed), yet conscious, I saw my father outside looking at the tank (the outside area is a separate area of the house, you can't hear from out there, nor is it visible). I woke up right then, and as I did, he came inside the door, and had, in fact been outside at the tank (the tank's not normally out there). It's like I saw him out there, while I was alseep, like an out-of-body thing. When I get like this, my body doesn't move at all, not like the sleep paralysis, you CAN control it, but for some reason, you can feel your soul moving, but your body doesn't move a muscle, and it has this strange stiff feeling. It's as though your not even connected to it. In these cases though, my eyes, so far, are closed. With the sleep paralysis, the eyes are usually closed too.

Just another wierd experience to add lol

Ashley

The first time I ever experienced sleep paralysis, I felt like gravity had increased manyfold and I was being pulled down into the couch that I was sleeping on, while a cat was scampering back and forth across the room and over me, bouncing off the walls and so forth. Maybe the real cat in the room really *was* doing this, because the cat was sort of crazy. I didn't feel frightened by this experience, just annoyed at the stupid cat and being unable to get up.

Anyway, for years after that, whenever I experienced sleep paralysis, I always had the same dream - of being very heavy and sinking into the bed with this stupid cat running around the room.