I’ve always experienced sleep paralysis. It started when I was a kid. I’d wake up, paralyzed, hearing unorganized noises, which make me imagine things. Most of the time when this happens, I want to go to my parents’ room. I see myself doing this and then I’m fine. After a while I wake up again paralyzed, realizing I really didn’t go to my parents’ room. This tortured me all throughout my entire schooling years. When I’m studying all night, I take a break at around 2:30, then wake up at 4 am. During 3 am I often feel like I’m being watched, strange noises, shadows moving about in my peripheral. I’d say I was quite delusional caused by my fear of 3 am. Case of the chicken and the egg. Prayer always makes it go away though. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it disappears quickly. Other times I feel like I’m fighting for my life that if I don’t pray hard enough, I’d slip away. I never made any noise whatsoever because I knew even a whisper of a prayer would work.
So anyway my first job was a night job, I slept during my break in the clinic. I woke up feeling like the room was closing in on me so I rushed out. Never slept there again. Some night I slept in the other sleeping quarters. Woke up paralyzed, it was really really noisy outside as if there was a party. When I woke up my first reaction was, I overslept! I thought I have slept for 5 hours. I logged in, I was 10 minutes early to log in after a supposed 1 hour break.
After some time everyone was sharing their experiences in the office. Paralysis, women trying to lure them in, kids wanting to play with them. One night we were all in the lobby sleeping. *John was moaning in his sleep. I moved him with my hand. He stopped. We all fell asleep again. Until I woke up, my eyes opened, and I saw the head of a kid with straight bangs and huge eyes looking straight. Next morning they all told me I was making the same sound *John was making.
Before this, we were transferred to another room. That’s where we slept. And we slept perfectly. We were a happy group. The sleep paralysis stopped. When we got transferred again, we couldn’t sleep in that room anymore. The sleep paralysis came back. I theorize it’s the negative energy that’s giving us nightmares. Everyone’s stressed in the office. But our group was a happy group. We were always laughing when we were in our old room. That’s probably why we never had nightmares in that room.
I’m now at my second job. Still nights. In the 5 months that I’ve been here, I haven’t experienced sleep paralysis. This is a home-type office. The family is a family friend and they’re a huge family. A huge happy family.
I don’t mock the idea of ghosts and its entire industry. I am scared of the dark and can’t stand watching scary movies.
Nevertheless, I reside to the sleep paralysis as highly scientific. The scary part of it all, I say they are hallucinations, imaginations, mixed in with our dreams’ ability to make us see and believe things that are unreal. I also believe that negative energy is to blame. Sort of how stress, something purely psychological, when becomes severe, turns into something physical, like cancer. Thoughts?
Sent in by Anna, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com
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HI Anna,
I find your story very interesting especially because your whole group at work had the same kinds of experiences. This is very strange. Did they also have the same type of things going on at home as you did? Perhaps there was something going on in that building…I just can’t imagine everyone having sleep paralysis and nightly nightmares all at one place. Maybe I am wrong??? I am not denying what you are saying. I am just confused. Perhaps someone can shed a little light on this for me.
anna—wow i dont know what to say.i’ve never had something like that happen to me.sounds awful.how come you could sleep in one room and not the other?maybe in that one room was someone nice that you couldnt see.i dont know.i know i say this but if one room makes you sleep you should put a camera in the other and see what happens.maybe there a reason why you cant sleep through the night.thanks for the story and let us know what happens.
I have only had sleep paralysis twice in my life and it is awful… I think there is a realm between being fully awake and being fully asleep where this paralysis occurres… some people just are able to fall into this realm a lot more often than others. I think illness/stress etc are all contributing factors too….
I cannot say with certainty, of course, but I would highly suggest reading this article and thinking about it’s implications before jumping to any conclusions about something be “evil” or even “supernatural”. I’m not saying I don’t believe in some cases of ghosts being real. But, remember, science has discovered a lot of reasons behind why people believe they’re haunted or having sleep paralysis/the old hag syndrome. They just aren’t well-publicized…Big shock. Do you think the American media wants everyone to know that their network’s “ghost hunter” and similar shows have serious flaws in them? I don’t think so.
“In September 2006 it was reported in Nature[2] that Shahar Arzy and colleagues of the University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, had unexpectedly reproduced an effect strongly reminiscent of the doppelgänger phenomenon via the electromagnetic stimulation of a patient’s brain. They applied focal electrical stimulation to a patient’s left temporoparietal junction while she lay flat on a bed. The patient immediately felt the presence of another person in her “extrapersonal space.” Other than epilepsy, for which the patient was being treated, she was psychologically fit.
The other person was described as young, of indeterminate sex, silent, motionless, and with a body posture identical to her own. The other person was located exactly behind her, almost touching and therefore within the bed on which the patient was lying.
A second electrical stimulation was applied with slightly more intensity, while the patient was sitting up with her arms folded. This time the patient felt the presence of a “man” who had his arms wrapped around her. She described the sensation as highly unpleasant and electrical stimulation was stopped.
Finally, when the patient was seated, electrical stimulation was applied while the patient was asked to perform a language test with a set of flash cards. On this occasion the patient reported the presence of a sitting person, displaced behind her and to the right. She said the presence was attempting to interfere with the test: “He wants to take the card; he doesn’t want me to read.” Again, the effect was disturbing and electrical stimulation was ceased.
Similar effects were found for different positions and postures when electrical stimulation exceeded 10 mA, at the left temporoparietal junction.
Arzy and his colleagues suggest that the left temporoparietal junction of the brain evokes the sensation of self image—body location, position, posture etc. When the left temporoparietal junction is disturbed, the sensation of self-attribution is broken and may be replaced by the sensation of a foreign presence or copy of oneself displaced nearby. This copy mirrors the real person’s body posture, location and position. Arzy and his colleagues suggest that the phenomenon they created is seen in certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, particularly when accompanied by paranoia, delusions of persecution and of alien control. Nevertheless, the effects reported are highly reminiscent of the doppelgänger phenomenon.[3] Accordingly, some reports of doppelgängers may well be due to failure of the left temporoparietal junction.”
Very interesting…one question though…what causes the failure to the left temporoparietal junction of the brain?
Thanks Liz, very interesting indeed.
i have had this happen to me twice in my life and i never want to have it again,it was so horrible that a while after some nights i was worrying it would happen,i was paralized and my eyes was open and i could think and that was about all i could do,i tried not to fight it,and at the time it seemed like i was lying there for ages in that state,when i go to bed now i pray i never get it again.
I had Sleep paralysis 3 times in a row once..I went to lay down. I kept waking up exaughested like tired as shit..i tryed to sleep 3 times it happens i fall into a sleep paralysis statte..Its terrifiying..one time i fell alseep on the side of my bed hanging my arm off, and it accured i saw a black demon walking towards me..they way i get out of sleep paralysis if I try to cuss or say bad things to it..in my head and ill wake up..well anyways It happens again the same way i slept i was in sleep paralysis idk fully but this time it happens later on in the dream. I thought i really woke up went to my fridge started to get a glass of milk when suddenly i was jerked into the counter then hit with a bat feeling totaly realy..I fell on the ground and thats when i went into paralysis or w.e felt numb couldnt move terrible things was happening it almost happens every night..and im only 15. But i know when it will happen. It wont if i leave the tv on loud. but if its quiet. theres a loud ringing bell in my ear that gets so dam loud that if i just sit there i instaly go into paralysis state or w.e..idk to much about thsi but its really freaky..and scary. It happens alot..and i sumtimes dont wanna sleep..i was once had a guy walk up to me and beat the shit out of me..omg it felt so real
Anna i had very simillar experiences.Except i had a fifteen min terror strike with out reason.And with prayer from the heart it would end.I had these panic attacks to many times a day.Thanx 4 ur story
I find sleep paralysis very interesting, i had it horribly bad when i was in high school. it started small around my sophmore year and escalated through out my junior and senior year. i thought i was insane, i was too afraid to tell anyone what was going on. like you said though praying seemed to help. i would even try to sleep to christian music (ineffective). but it seemed the most effective way to deal with it was to get blackout drunk, to where i wouldnt wake in the night. i remember going to school a train wreck, either tired because i was to scared to sleep, or hungover because i drank myself to sleep. after i saw the full blown hag on me the first time, i would try to keep my eyes closed, but it wouldnt work, a prayer would. then one dayi was watching a special on TV about explanations for hauntings and they explained it. but as i went my first year into college it started to receed, now three years later i rarely get it. and im glad, i wouldnt wish it on anyone.
Well my story is similar to your but when this happens, i haven’t went to sleep yet, just laying down and usually i hear strange noises for hours before it feels like some demonic force has sent their energy into me making me paralyzed, completely unable to move or talk and while this happens, i am terrified, hearing a LOUD humming sound and things violently trembling, the first time lasted about 30 mins, the second time which happened this morning around 3:15am this morning lasted 15mins and i prayed and prayed and surprisingly it worked, i was soon able to start moving. I have experienced hearing sounds and seeing shadows for quite several years but never something like this. I wish i was making this up but i’m not and i scared and don’t know what to do. It feels like theres a demonic spirit in my house targeting only me.
And for the record, i am not religious at all, so this would have to do with my spirituality.
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