Anyone have any experiences. I decided to pist this because it has been troubling me for a while, and last night was the last straw. I awoke and wasn't able to move or speak, but i could see. I looked around and saw a "thing" I'm a believer of aliens but this doesnt add up. I tried to scream but all that came out was a whisper. Finally i started to "chant" get off of me, get off of me, and after a few seconds everything was over. This has happened many times before, but the story varies.

Opinions? Comments?

I often awake or seem to awake during sleep Paralysis. (sometimes I will be having a nightmare) and wake up unable to move, I will have a feeling of pure terror and have trouble breathing and am sure I'm dying. Sometimes I see shadows or movement but nothing definant. Sometimes I feel something bad is close by. I scream to myself in my head calm down its not real. Then I either feel myself pulled into a darkness in which it all happens over again untill/ or I just finally manage to pull myself out and fully wake. I have found if I dont get up and walk around, drink some water, or something at this point I just get pulled back in. Sleep Paralysis is very very scary to me.

What did this "thing" look like? Where you able to make it out?

The same happened to me several times, years ago. The first time it scared the Hell(O) out of me. The first time was when I saw the most. I believe that a sprit was trying to posses me. I was woken up from a deep sleep, and I was unable to move or speak, and I saw an outline of a figure hovering above me. He was dressed in clothing from the US civil war era. Needless to say when I saw this thing hovering above me, it scared me that much more, causing me to try to move and scream that much more. I finally woke up/ broke free, and was screaming at the top of my lungs when this happened. This happened about 3 more times, but never as sever as the first time. Once I moved out of the house I was leaving in at the time, it stopped.

This has happened to me too. Sometimes I'm dreaming events or feelings that are taking place in my physical location. Last time, my eyes were open and I could see my surroundings, but I was dreaming that someone was breaking into my house. When I finally woke up and was able to move, I was halfway into the living room with a weapon before I realized it was a dream.

It's a very disconcerting feeling to be aware but not have control of your body.

I have had something a little different happen to me. I think that it may be another form of sleep paralysis. On several occasions just as I am about to fall asleep, I can hear my name being called in a low raspy voice. This causes me to immediately snap awake, but I am unable to move right away. Although I have never seen anything when this happens, I am almost certain that there is an older man lurking around my room.

This used to happen to me when I was young except I didn't know it was called sleep paralysis until now. I made a post about my experience a couple hours ago. I would have these "dreams" id say when I was between the ages of 4-7. I would sit up in my bed and see people around me in like a restaurant or cafe. They would all be going about their business and not notice me ( I can't remember if they noticed me or not but I think they didnt). Everything would be in black and white and the people would be dressed in 1920s-1930s era clothing. I remember in this "dream" I think and many times when I had "nightmares" I would wake up and try to call for my mom but I couldnt say anything the sounds just wouldnt come out of my mouth. I would have to try to yell for a few minutes before any sounds came out. In the dream that I refered to above I wouldn't be able to wake myself. I would just sit in bed or what I thought was my bed and be surrounded by strangers. It was very frightening for me because I was so young and of course being a little kid it naturally frightened me to be in a place by myself surrounded by strangers and unable to call for help. As far as astral projection goes I'm not sure if I was or not. I guess it was just intense sleep paralysis....well I guess I just answered my own question from my other topic that I posted with this one.

Wow I just read a few more posts from this topic and I was suprised to see many similiarities between your experiences and mine. I've heard of sleep paralysis but I didn't really understand or associate it with my experience until now. It seems like many of you had the same helpless feeling I had where I couldnt speak or call for help. Once I woke up I would scream very loudly for my mom or dad. They always assumed I was having a nightmare.

You know how little kids often have nightmares. Well maybe all little kids have these types of "nightmares" but once you start to mature you stop having these type of "dreams". That's why adults always dismiss them as nightmares or bad dreams because adults dont have these types of dreams and I don't know about you guys but once I got into my teens I started having fewer and fewer dreams. I can maybe only recall 20 dreams in the past 8 years or so of my life ( I'm 18). I think I need to look into sleep paralysis a lot further because how I see it right now it's a phenomena that we don't understand causing us to lose the ability once we mature. Of course there are the people who can astral project there entire life. Is astral projection and sleep paralysis connected?

It was is funny that you meation "astral projection", I use to try that around the same time, I started having my sleep paralysis, but I never thought they were connected in any way. Maybe they are?

I absoutely hate sleep paralysis. I'm so lucky I rarely have it...it's without a doubt one of the most terrfying things that can happen to you when the dreams are disturbing enough...

i have worse things happen to me when im awake! dreams are always relaxing and "comfy"!

i have opend my eyes and not been able to move before, guess thats sp.

You guys are all freakin me out.

i was just reading your experience,and i COULD NOT BELIEVE how the same it resembles mine!!!!!!!! a few yrs back...i was in bed,alone...my door slightly ajar,the bathrm light had cascade its warmth into my bedrm,just towards the blinded window.that evening,i was up quite late,thinking on things,finally was sleepy enuff to retire to my bed.during the night,i awoke,cause it felt like something was a top of me,something quite heavy,something that i could not push off,as i opened my eyes,i felt pinned down,and i saw nothing atop.i tried to move,but could not.i turned my head towards the lighted wall,the window area,and what i saw,SCARED THE CRAP outta me!whatever this thing was,it was huge!a top o f me...i saw its lizard looking spikes protruding outta its back,and i was scared!!!!i could hear a slight breathing it was making in my ear!i kept saying,"get off of me,get off of me"...you can not have my soul,you cant!!!!hmmm i dont know why i said that part,you can not have my soul!!odd isnt it?anyways,it left!i was terrified and i still can see to this day the spikey things casting a shadow on my wall as i turned my head.i could only turnmy head,nothing else...........strange,isnt it?

Also had similar experiences before, though its been a while since it happened luckily Never seen anything though, but i have felt that someone was watching, heard different voices, and been touched.
I never really believed in demons and stuff like that, but after feelings someone sitting on my back, and a few days later grab my leg, i thought i was being possesed, haunted or going insain hehe. But after i found out about SP, it did not bother me much when it happened, except for the first few seconds, where i am usually terrified hehe.

Some info about sleep paralysis, and some about hypnagogia which is related to SP.

Hi my psychosis I found your message in the other thread directing me to here.

All I can say is your SP experiences are a mirror image to mine! I do as well find the 'fix' is to get up and have something to eat and drink to stop the repeated episodes.

For the first time ever when i had an episode the other week I was able to stop it and wake up before the paraylsis set in. I was maybe just lucky that I was aware enough of the trademark sensations happening and was able to really fight it and stop it fully setting in.

However what was interesting was the min I relaxed and let myself fall back to sleep it started to happen again, I noted that I was falling to sleep extremely quickly, far to quickly really but with awarness. I wasn't experiencing any halluncinations or dreams just the sensations at this stage. To fix it I ended up having to get up and get something to drink and eat and then I was able to fall alseep normally and stay alseep normally.

I find this incredibly interesting on my part in researching and experimenting 'live' with it. It suggests there is a pre stage to SP that can occur even with a close to fully woken awarness and that food and drink has deffinatly got something to do with it. I'm aware of cataplexy which is similar to SP but only narcoleptics experience in their fully woken state......

Anyway, I'm convinced now. Sugar levels??? anyone got any other suggestions for the bodies/mind reaction to the food and drink part? I think it warrents some attention and focus, what other reasons would allow food and drink to be a fix for this?

This has happened to me, but only when I am about to fall asleep. It's unnerving, I can feel my body slowing begin to paralyse from my feet up my legs etc. But I don't see anything evil or anything.

1) If you don't mind can you tell me your age. (It has nothing to do with being a smart ass I am just curious about age in relation to paranomal (alien) activity.

2) How long would you say you were laying there before you were able to move?

Usually sleep paralysis will only last for a few minutes. You will either go back to sleep of completely wake up.

If in any case you lay there and aren't able to move for say,... an hour, then it's probably not sleep paralysis. It's probably something else.

Excellent post. This is exactly why I post the links to and inform people of SP. I know it's a huge running joke, but I think it helps people a lot.

I think the problem is, how the nature of sleep paralysis has had to evolve in recent years to explain away people’s experiences.
Who remembers when sleep paralysis was nice and simple; you woke up, couldn’t move and that’s it. No mystery whatsoever.

Well there was always the pressure and the feeling of an evil presence.

I see what you mean though.

I want to be prepared for all this so enlighten me...

-First off I would really, really like to know why their is a big scary figure lurking beside the person. This is called Sleep Paralysis yes given, BUT, wheres the definition of the being/entity/alien whatever?

-Why does this happen, and does it happen to people more receptive to spirits or just any one of us?

If this is occuring so much that even the peeps who are usually skeptic to other things such as psychics and that sort of phenomenon, than why is it no one knows what and/or who this thing is?

Are you comparing it to any other thread?

It's random can happen to anyone.

Editing some typos.

Well, the evil presence is for me where things go slightly pair-shaped for sleep paralysis.

In 1997-ish maybe 1998, I woke up, to find myself, floating above my bed in a standing position. I felt an evil presence and looked up to see a hooded figure. Instinctively I began to fight it. It disappeared and I fell hard on my bed. Strange experience.
Naturally I concluded it must’ve been sleep paralysis and at the time I was satisfied with this explanation.
However, in light of recent-ish events, I’m not so sure.
I'm not too happy describing the hooded figure as ‘evil’ because I’ve always considered this a subjective term. But a sense of malice just doesn’t seem to describe it so I’ll settle for evil.

btw This experience encouraged me to research the subject of sleep paralysis and other odd sleep disorders which proved invaluable for later events.



"At The Foot Of The Bed"©1997
Jeff westover

Exactly! I'm glad to see someone else say it!

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QUOTE However what was interesting was the min I relaxed and let myself fall back to sleep it started to happen again, I noted that I was falling to sleep extremely quickly, far to quickly really but with awarness. END QUOTE. Yes thats what I meant exactaly about if I dont get up and eat or something I will fall right back into it. Sometimes When I dont get up fast enough I can even feel myself being drawn back in, and if I wait to long to fight it I will get overwellmed and find I cant back out just yet and I will end up with a nightmare then try to fight my way out again. Thank God this doesnt happen to often.

I've experienced sp many times. In my early teens it would occur nearly every night. Every so often it would occur several times in one night. It can be truly terrifying and back then I didn't even know what it was and that there is a scientific explaination for it. I thought I was either going crazy or something was haunting my room. I felt so relieved when I learned it was neither and that other people were experiencing the same things I did. I hate the feeling of it...I mean you really feel like you're being attacked and you can't move no matter how many times you keep telling yourself to. I'd look at my alarm clock and only a few minutes would have passed but it felt like so much longer. I always sensed something evil in the room with me but I avoided looking directly at it. A few times I think I saw a dark figure by the side of my bed. I once looked and saw an old creepy looking woman in my doorway staring at me ...that had to be my most frightening and weirdest experience. I think for me it was all stress related. I was very depressed and suffering from a lot of anxiety during that time in my life. Over the years sp became less intense and occurred less and less. Now I haven't experienced it in over a year. Ever since that night with the old woman I have to sleep with my door closed lol. I know it was a hallucination, but still just that image of something standing in my doorway really freaks me out.

Hi,

Can you give a bit more in-depth description of the old lady. Was her back bent forward? Was she wearing a cloak? What did her hair look-like? the shape of her face?anything along those lines.

^Well I'm afraid I cant remember every little detail. For one thing it happened like 5-6 years ago and I only remember seeing her just right before I snapped out of it and was able to move. I do remember that she was wearing a white gown, her face was really wrinkled, she had long white hair, and she was either fairly short or hunched over. She was staring at me with this creepiest ticked off look on her face. It scared the hell out of me, I was afraid to sleep in my room for weeks. I know now that it wasn’t real though…all a hallucination. Probably just something I picked up from a scary movie or something and imagined it being there during my experience. I'm sure a lot of people have had much more frightening experiences. I've read accounts on this and on other sites of the imagined entity actually coming over and sitting on the bed or on the person's chest. I don't know if I'd be able to handle that.
I'm just glad that creepy old bat didn't make it past my doorway lol.

Cheers, thanks for taking the time to answer my question.