Sleep paralysis- anybody else experience this?

[casavant]

Weird stuff. You start to drift off, then you kinda wake up but you can't move anything. You just have to lay there and wait until your body kicks in all the way. The shitty part is that it's usually accompanied by a feeling of terror. Being only half awake, sometimes you think something's standing over you or you just have this sense of a malevolent presence. I've woken up where I couldn't move and it looked like something was coming out of my closet or there was someone standing at the foot of my bed and I couldn't move a muscle. A couple of times, I've felt a pressure on my body like something was laying on me. Can't move, can't make a sound. Sometimes, there's a weird buzzing in my ears too. This used to happen to me just once in a while, but now I can almost count on it when I try to go to sleep. It sucks. They say that a lot of ghost stories and alien abduction stories are actually a case of sleep paralysis. You can read up on it on the 'net. It's weird shit. I hate it. Does this happen to anyone else?

 

[TC2]

thats probably a dream, I've had the same one multiple times and I thought it was real too. Its is scary as shit though.

 

[casavant]

It's not a dream. I used to think that too. When you're eyes are open from the time it's happening until the time you can move, it's not a dream.

Here's a link:

http://www.castleofspirits.com/sleep.html

 

[casavant]

Damn near every one of those symptoms they listed, I have experienced at one time or another. I'm a pretty solid-minded dude, but it's scary as shit when that stuff happens. I close my closet door now, because I've sworn something was coming out of there one too many times. Thinking something "evil" is standing at the foot of your bed and not being able to move or make a sound and feeling like you can't breathe right is a bitch too.

 

[TC2]

I know what your saying and I thought for a long time that it was real, but its not. Its just a very vivid dream.

Your eyes are open and you cannot move your body, In my dream If I concentrated really hard I could move my head a little, but extremely extremely slow.

 

[Nathan]

I think you're gay and that's what's really going on here. I feel you need to address it and that this is what your subconscious is trying to tell you. It's saying to you, "Casavant, it's totally time for some serious man sex. Get to it already." There you go. Don't thank me, that's what friends are for.

 

[TC2]

Damn near every one of those symptoms they listed, I have experienced at one time or another. I'm a pretty solid-minded dude, but it's scary as shit when that stuff happens. I close my closet door now, because I've sworn something was coming out of there one too many times. Thinking something "evil" is standing at the foot of your bed and not being able to move or make a sound and feeling like you can't breathe right is a bitch too.

It is strange that alot of people have the exact same type of dream. I did have they feeling that someone/something was present,but I never saw anything.

They really strange thing is that the dream seemed to last alot longer than any other dream.

 

[Delinquent]

Yep I had the first one in a long time last night. I also feel like I'm spinning incredibly fast. One time it happened, I could see my clock on my ceiling then it slowing came back to it's position beside me. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with feeeling trapped in real life ie: relationship, school, or all around stress about something

 

[casavant]

I know what your saying and I thought for a long time that it was real, but its not. Its just a very vivid dream.

Your eyes are open and you cannot move your body, In my dream If I concentrated really hard I could move my head a little, but extremely extremely slow.

It's scientifically documented dude. You're right in that you're still in somewhat of a dream state, but read the links. I wouldn't post on this and risk looking like some kind of dumbfuck if I hadn't read up on it first.

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

 

[casavant]

Yep I had the first one in a long time last night. I also feel like I'm spinning incredibly fast. One time it happened, I could see my clock on my ceiling then it slowing came back to it's position beside me. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with feeeling trapped in real life ie: relationship, school, or all around stress about something

You may be right- I've felt pretty stressed this week and down about things in general and it's been really bad.

 

[casavant]

http://nc.essortment.com/paralysissleep_rauu.html

Well fuck it, that link won't work. Anyway, do a search on Lycos or something- there's about a gazillion sites dedicated to the subject that are written by legit researchers, not just thirty year old virgins with the entire X-files series on tape.

 

[Doktor Bollix]

I hate that shit. You are totally frozen and can't move a muscle. I only get it if I've been up all night and try to catch a few zzz during the day. Sleep deprivation does a lot of wierd things though. I always hear conversations outside the door but of course there is nobody there.

 

[casavant]

I hate that shit. You are totally frozen and can't move a muscle. I only get it if I've been up all night and try to catch a few zzz during the day. Sleep deprivation does a lot of wierd things though. I always hear conversations outside the door but of course there is nobody there.

Do you ever get that real creepy feeling like there's someone in the room? Man, I hate that. I have to get up sometimes and walk around before I can go back to sleep normally, otherwise it'll keep happening again and again. That's what happened last night. I took a bunch of melotonin- wonder if that had anything to do with it.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

You start to drift off, then you kinda wake up but you can't move anything. You just have to lay there and wait until your body kicks in all the way. The shitty part is that it's usually accompanied by a feeling of terror.

Dude.. that actually happens to me every once in a while... how wierd is that??

 

[casavant]

I think you're gay and that's what's really going on here. I feel you need to address it and that this is what your subconscious is trying to tell you. It's saying to you, "Casavant, it's totally time for some serious man sex. Get to it already." There you go. Don't thank me, that's what friends are for.

I thought we had already established this, Nathan, but you said that you were going to have to let the redness and swelling go down before we went at it again. Naughty, naughty.

 

[big4life]

I used to have some of those symptoms, but not recently.

 

[WODIN]

I've had this happen a couple times cas. I wouldn't sweat it. What I really hate is waking up with a numb arm. That shit hurts.

 

[Code]

I get this a lot.
But it's always accompanied by a dream that someone is coming into my room.

And then I wake up, unable to sit up and check things out.

 

[casavant]

I've had this happen a couple times cas. I wouldn't sweat it. What I really hate is waking up with a numb arm. That shit hurts.

I'm not worried about it, other than that it interferes with my sleep and it's like having a real bad nightmare while you're awake and can't move. I'll know what's going on most of the time, but that creepy feeling is still there. It's hard to make rational thought overpower everything else when you're only half awake.

 

[HappyScrappy]

most of the time I'm just too lazy to move around.

 

[casavant]

I get this a lot.
But it's always accompanied by a dream that someone is coming into my room.

And then I wake up, unable to sit up and check things out.

Man, one of the weirdest times, I woke up and had this buzzing in my ears and felt this pressure on my body, starting by my legs and making it's way up toward my face, like a small puppy scamering around. My comforter was bunched up near my head, so it was blocking my view of my feet. When the thing seemed like it was on my upper chest and just about to peek over the covers at me, it went away, the buzzing stopped, and I could move again. Crazy stuff.

 

[HappyScrappy]

duh, you were being visited by aliens.
or angels.
or both.

 

[TheStromba]

This happens to me once or twice a year and it is TERRIFYING. I am semi-concious and paralized. IT is NOT a dream. I have to enter a long feeling of falling before I snap out of it.


Usually when I can finally get up, A cool wet towel around my neck does the trick. (don't know why it works but it does)

 

[Island Son]

Happens once or twice in a year, every few years.
I've learned to snap myself out of the mild form.
I focus on a single finger until I can make it move. Then gradually I can move 2 fingers, hand, wrist, arm then suddenly my whole body twitches and I'm awake. That only works on the mild form, the more severe form I can only get out of by falling all the way asleep.

Wooo, now I'm all freaked out, living alone again.
Time for bed.

 

[Code]

Man, one of the weirdest times, I woke up and had this buzzing in my ears and felt this pressure on my body, starting by my legs and making it's way up toward my face, like a small puppy scamering around. My comforter was bunched up near my head, so it was blocking my view of my feet. When the thing seemed like it was on my upper chest and just about to peek over the covers at me, it went away, the buzzing stopped, and I could move again. Crazy stuff.

You should read up on alien visits...
seriously.
The title escapes me, but it's one of the first nonfiction (sorta) alien books.

 

[vinylgroover]

It happens to me too. When i wake up, i find a bit of dribble down the side of my mouth and on the pillow as well, wtf is that.

Casavant, is there a proper medical term ascribed to it so that we can sue someone for it?

 

[Code]

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

Note the part about working out too close to bed time....

 

[HappyScrappy]

You should read up on alien visits...
seriously.
The title escapes me, but it's one of the first nonfiction (sorta) alien books.

oh come on.
well, if you do read up on it - also read these books:

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich

and

The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan

 

[Prometheus]

Thinking something "evil" is standing at the foot of your bed and not being able to move or make a sound and feeling like you can't breathe right is a bitch too.

Interesting so many have had the same experience - it happened to me as well, only once when I was a teenager - I was lying on my side facing the wall, and a human-form shadow appeared on the wall, getting bigger - I could see the shadow but I couldn't move a muscle to look back at what was causing it.

anyway it was terrifying - I couldn't sleep the rest of the night, and slept with a light on for a while. I'm still not 100% sure it was a dream...

 

[casavant]

Good to see so many others have had this happen. Strange stuff indeed.

 

[Obnoxious White Guy]

this happens to me alot...usually when i'm backpacking...i will think i hear something outside the tent (usually a grizzly, even though i'm in the southeast)...i will open my eyes but can't move...totally freaky....so helpless....kinda like what it must feel like to be frackal on a daily basis...

 

[danielson]

what happens to me a lot is i;ll be sleeping and i;ll dream something is gonna happen that needs me to move (like a bus coming straight towards me), and as i go to move i suddenly wake up and my body is about to initiate the move. its really funny if it happens on public transport it freaks the SHIT out of the person next to me