Sleep Paralysis and dreams

Anyone ever experience Sleep paralysis? I just did, I think it was my third time but this was the first time I ever had the Hallucination factor. Needless to say I'm not going back to sleep any time soon.

anyone else ever have this or just a case of really bad nightmares.

edited 19th Mar '11 3:03:14 AM by Vyctorian

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Sleep paralysis sounds awful!

But on the other extreme of the spectrum, I am a chronic sleepwalker. Last year, I punched out a second-storey window and tried to climb out while screaming hysterically (despite still being asleep), and was only woken by a guy in the street below shouting to me to stay there while he called the police, because he thought I was being attacked in my apartment. There was blood everywhere. Turns out my father did exactly the same thing when he was my age - but he actually managed to climb out, and fell into someone's open garbage bin at 3 in the morning like something from a terrible sitcom.

I know that wasn't quite what you were asking for, but it's still a story about sleep going horribly wrong. Scientists say that sleep is an evolutionary screw-up, and I am inclined to agree.

edited 19th Mar '11 3:09:54 AM by Yuval

My sleep paralysis Involved a shadow demon and a Catapult Nightmare and the screaming for help but nobody hearing me or more my mouth wouldn't move. I Also I didn't hear the sound normally associated with SP. I was scary as shit so scary that during it and after it I actually prayed. I am an atheist. I was was also part within a dream cause when it happened I was with my friends in his room under his blankets but IRL I was in my bed.

Also the more I think about it the more it looked less like a demon and more the Anti-Spiral.

edited 19th Mar '11 3:40:10 AM by Vyctorian

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Yep. Thankfully I was studying how to lucid dream at the time, so I didn't freak out or anything — I knew what was going on. Hell, half the time it was the goal of the whole thing. Even more thankfully, despite the paralysis it never went into a full paranoia mode for me, so I don't see it as that scary.

Also, if you ever need to stop sleep paralysis, start by wiggling your finger and toes around. Doing that tends to be simpler than trying to move a whole limb or talk, and once your body realizes what's going on, the paralysis should switch off on its own.

On nightmares, I've had a lot of really, really horrifying ones over the years. Enough that I've become a bit numb to them at this point. Still really disturbing though, especially the ones where someone is trying to kill me, or someone I know goes through some Body Horror and dies. Usually have to give up on sleep and get up, after something like that.

edited 19th Mar '11 4:14:52 AM by Dec

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I get the paralysis part quite frequently, actually. Waking up but not yet able to move my limbs. I do not however experience the associated panics.

Catapult Nightmare happens more than I care to admit. I'm an (mild) arachnaphobe and nightmares involving spiders and or their fangs will have me sitting straight up in bed, or me getting out of bed very fast scrambling for the lightswitch, panting.

Like it was made up of black, squiggly lines?

I use to have night terrors as a kid, and though you normally don't remember them, I have a few details here and there. There were two things I usually thought about during them. One was stairs, or more specifically the way stairs meet the surface they're attached to. Scary. Two is drops of water causing ripples in water, but with a bullseye shape.... Even describing it makes me feel crazy.

I wondering it's slightly appropriate that I was putting off writing a story about nightmares when this happened.

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Now that I think about it, I've had that happen I think, always during waking up though. Vaguely I recall a specific event, in which I wanted to go to the bathroom in my dream. Upon doing so I felt me wet myself despite watching me pee into a toilet. I then realized I was wetting myself irl while still dreaming.

Then my eyes snapped open.

It happened too quick for any kind of panic to set in. It's happened other times, but that is the only specific example. (It is also the only time I've ever wet the bed.)

edited 19th Mar '11 5:04:06 AM by CommandoDude

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Most people theorize most alien, ghost, and demonic encounters that involve sleep are a results of paralysis. I've heard of cases of people feeling like they've been lifted into space ships or ripped from there beds and dragged down there stairs Paranormal Activity Style only to awaken in their bed.

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I get sleep paralysis all the time, although I've only hallucinated a couple times. Creepiest time was when I imagined seeing a thin white face peeking in my bedroom door, kinda like a Grey.

I had sleep paralysis once, because my brain woke up before my body did.

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I was lucky to be in a mixed sleep state and to have my blanket over my face so I saw things third person for a moment but was still in control, I couldn't majorly move, but I could feel my muscles tensing as I tried to break free.

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I've had a few times, and it's uniformly horrible. Once I hallucinated eldritch blue writing across the wall of my room and I KNEW somebody who meant me ill was just off to my left, approaching me, but I couldn't turn my head to look.

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I've never experienced sleep paralysis, but I have the hallucinations fairly frequently. They usually take the form of seeing something crawling on a wall or flying near the ceiling of my room. Spiders are a recurring motif, but fortunately I'm not afraid of spiders and the only time I found it at all alarming was when THERE WAS A HUGE TARANTULA AT THE FOOT OF MY BED. I kept seeing it even as I achieved total (physical) wakefulness, threw my comforter over it, and ran to the far side of the room in order to wait for it to make the next move. When nothing happened, I went over and pulled the comforter back and there was nothing there, and then the cause-and-effect circuits in my brain switched on and went "And just how would a huge tarantula have gotten in here to begin with, Ms. Smartypants? We were hallucinating again."

Stuff what I do.

I've had it once and it scared the living fuck out of me. Some man was standing over me and tried to grab me. So I thought anyway. When I could move he was gone and I was busy damn near having a panic attack. I cried and named this mystery man Fred thinking he was our apartment ghost.

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After this I dropped like 1000 words in that story I'm suppose to be writing, incidentally It's interesting how the different culture treat SP: [1]

edited 19th Mar '11 11:42:45 AM by Vyctorian

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Not to double post but:

This has got me paranoid now, I've irrationally reacted three times to normal occurrences. First two times were(most likely) bird flying past my window and mistaking them as shadow people. And the third time was when I opened my door to see a bottle hit the floor and roll across the other room, which really freaked me out but was most likely caused by the vibration of me opening my door or the fact that it was sealed empty bottle in rather humid and warm room which could easily have cause a pressure build up. Need this to say mind mind is currently convinced it's origins are supernatural even though I know it's not.

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Just remember: this world of ours, is the real world. No Truth in Television here, eh?

I've had sleep paralysis. Scared the shit out of me. If I were to best describe the apparition that visited me, it looked like Haru from Devil Survivor◊.

Of course, when I came to, I instantly googled what had happened because I am very skeptical of paranormal sightings. Turns out there was a logical explanation.

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That.... scared the shit out of you? I wish THAT would visit me at night.

Happened to a friend of mine during a camping trip we took. He woke up, but couldn't move or talk. Freaked out, tried to scream. That's when he regained control of his body and I lost hearing in my left ear for a short while. It took till morning to get him to calm down and he scheduled an appointment with his family physician the next day. That was his first and ,as far as I know, only time being sleep paralyzed.

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When you wake up and a ghostly woman is standing on top of you it's going to scare the shit out of you. Doesn't matter what she looks like.

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It's happened to me twice. First time I woke up, tried to move, and couldn't. Then I was like "Oh right, I remember reading about this. What a pain. Hopefully it'll go away soon."

The second time wasn't much different.

I guess I'm just boring like that.

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I've only just today realized that I experience sleep paralysis a lot. I first experienced it in fifth grade, when I was taking a test. I fell asleep, and I woke up and wrote down the answer to one question, then fell asleep again. I later woke up for real and found the spot beneath the answer to be blank.

That's actually what most of my sleep paralysis was like for a few years, as I was rarely ever that tired outside of school. But lately, I've been waking up, bending over the bed and grabbing my glasses, even putting them on... only to wake up without them on. Stuff like that. This morning, I did both that and I got my laptop from the side of my bed, and I did that twice before seriously waking up.

It's not really scaring me; it's just making me slowly lose my perception of reality. Though there was one time when I woke up to see the silhouette of a girl in my room, running full-speed towards me. I got up instantly, frightened, to find no one there.

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