32 Responses to “Sleep Paralysis Scientific Explanation Or The Old Hag”

1. keyur on December 10th, 2007 4:45 pm

   Once I was sleeping in my house and after some time I felt that somebody is trying to shut my mouth and I was not able to speak a single word. But I spoke loudly to my god’s name with all my energy and I felt that the thing was disappeared.

   Are there really ghosts or bed spirits in this present world? If the answer is yes than I would like to know about some real incidents.

2. maria on December 23rd, 2007 1:29 am

   I think I’ve had this experience before but I don’t know if it was really SLEEP PARALYSIS…

   It was like a year ago & I don’t recall of it that much but I just remember waking up in the middle of the night and feeling that I was blue (as in the color) like I was out of breath or something. I couldn’t breathe for some seconds but then I took a deep breath & then I was fine again.

   Can someone tell me what happened to me?

3. sheri on January 5th, 2008 1:30 am

   I have woke unable to move and I been fully awake and felt a snake sensation moving up my back. It freaks me out to this day when I remember it! I also saw my ex-standing at the foot of our bed when we were still together and looked over and he was asleep.

4. ram on January 6th, 2008 7:27 am

   It happened to me several times, but I dont know if my experience can be called SLEEP PARALYSIS..

   Well the last time that S.P. happened to me was just a month ago.
   I know I’m awake but I cant move my body (including my head) and it feels like something SO HEAVY is on my head, I can breathe but i can feel the strong blew of the air..

   Can someone explain what happened to me?

5. Elizabeth on January 15th, 2008 10:14 pm

   I had this feeling everywhere, in my dreams/nightmares and when I woke up like yesterday 15/1/08 I had a dream that all weird stuff happend to me on Wendesday then someone told me that it was because of my father as soon as that someone said it her eyes turned into the skull eyes still staring at me, I got paralyzed by that time then my mom was next to me in my dream I tried to call her by : mam(a) ma(ma) my mam(a) !!! (it kinda felt as when your in the dentist and they paralyze your whole mouth to get a tooth out.

6. V on January 16th, 2008 4:06 pm

   It happened to me once, like two or three years ago, I was having what you could call a nightmare, I woke up because I knew that it was really urgent that I told my father what I dreamt, but when I tried to get up I realized I couldn’t move at all, not even my head. It lasted only a few seconds.

7. Judy on January 20th, 2008 2:42 am

   I cannot say for sure if we all experience would be in the same realm, as the rest of you described but here it is Many years ago I found myself waken from my sleep I do not really remember any kind of dream, I will even go as far to say I was wide awake, but I felt I was not alone in my room I felt very disturbed and for some reason I had a feeling of terror, I tried to scream out to my grand-Mother, here I was in my mind screaming my head off, but there was no sound, I then tried to move to flee my room, I was not able to move.It was like a state of Paralysis. I am not sure what to think of it.

   The next day I spoke to my grand mother about it, she had some weird name for it that I cannot remember it today. but I had never heard any body ever mention until today of any experience similar to it.

   I lived with my grand-Mother, so I know it was not brought on by that, and there was nothing new in my life that I had any worried off, so I cannot see it being any thing in my sub-conscience.

8. Rickie on January 24th, 2008 10:00 am

   This happened to my father when he was a around the age of 16. He said to me that he was sleeping on his back (facing the ceiling), with his arms folded. He woke up just to see a pale white face. He couldn’t make it out as he practically just woke up. He then tried to keep his eyes open but he was so scared he had to close them for a second. Whilst closing them he felt the movement of his toes and so he wiggled them around and he came out of paralysis. It also happened to my uncle but all he could see was an “alien” type figure in the corner of his room.

   -TrueStory-

9. starr on January 28th, 2008 2:25 pm

   i have suffered this my whole life as of this morning 1-28-08 i had another episode. i awoke totally unable to move i could only half open my eyes it felt as if “the hag” was pushing my face unable to breath i closed my eyes for a sec and when reopened i saw a purple eye of a woman also every time i closed my eyes i heard a sound like a ringing in my ears. i knew i was wide awake cause i saw my husband walk in the room and hope in the shower. as he walked by i screamed his name but so paralized nothing came out . like ive said before ive had this issue my whole life its very scary.feel free to share your stories

10. Believer on January 30th, 2008 5:13 pm

    Scientists like to justify sleep paralysis by pointing out that when you go to sleep, your brain disconnects all controls to the body so that you won’t act out your dream in real life and hurt yourself. When you wake up and can’t move, it’s because you woke up so fast, that your brain didn’t connect itself to your body.This can explain several instances…
    But not all.

11. Randy on February 7th, 2008 2:06 am

    I persinally have experienced sleep paralysis several times,in fact i did an experiment and found i could induce this condition on my self.

    It is a real medical condition so as far as i know it shouldn’t be concidered paranormal.

    But this is just my opinion.

12. lime on February 7th, 2008 5:19 pm

    sometimes i feel this s.p when i am almost sleep, but not completely. is the time when u are almost sleep but u ar still aware, i feel like i cannot move but i figth it unil i can sit down on my bed.

13. charity kimball on February 12th, 2008 7:21 am

    Well i wake up every morning to the feeling and thought of someone dead i dont have many nightmares or feel threatened and i remember all my dreams but cant understand why the very first thought is of someone who is dead and feels as if they are in my room.

14. tristan on February 27th, 2008 10:10 am

    sleep paralysis is caused by the sensors in your brain communicating as if your are in a dream state, however your receptors arent which is why you are awke yet your body is still in ’sleep’ mode causing you to see and feel creations that form, the same as in a dream, yet your mind is awake which makes it terifyingly feel more real. There are no ghosts involved unless one is in your brain receptors.

15. Jason on March 3rd, 2008 5:37 pm

    alot of these “bed ghosts” r caused by a loved one departed and is still attached 2 the loved ones heart and every time u go 2 bed it is letting u know that it is there 2 protect u and is not there 2 harm u.

16. Raven on March 6th, 2008 2:48 pm

    This has happened to me several times, and I am just 13. It’s like someone is trying to sufficate you for minutes on end, and your body feels extremely heavy and you can’t move. It is terrifying for me, but I seem to be getting used to it. This usually happens after I have a nightmare, and I sometimes don’t remember the dream, at all.
    Personally, I don’t believe it is Sleep Paralysis.

17. Pam on March 8th, 2008 11:27 pm

    I had this happen to me when I was 24 years old in my first apartment. This would happen to me several nights during the week. I never slept good. There was always a prescence in the room. I felt as if it were a man trying to take advantage of me. I would be asleep, and feel as if I were paralyzed. I would hear music from my stereo, and know in my mind that I turned it off. I would start to feel somthing trying to take over my soul I felt. It would wait until my most vulnerable moment when I would fall asleep. Sometimes it would be hours after falling asleep. I would use every ounce of energy that I could muster up to wake myself up. Some nights this would happen every time I would fall asleep. I was glad to be away from there when I moved.

18. Nobby on March 11th, 2008 7:58 pm

    I believe i had this happen to me, i was staying with my girlfriend at her house.
    Her grandma had just recently died i need to point out.
    Anyway, i “woke up” facing the left hand side of the bed looking at the window and felt a huge pressure on my body but for the life of me i couldn’t move or say anything!!
    I was screaming on the inside and then just like that it all stopped. the freeky thing is i believe it was her nan that was “sat” on me, i don’t know why i think that but i do.

19. Ivy Rothwell on March 12th, 2008 2:13 am

    I can relate with all these other comments. The first time i experienced s.p was right after i began goin out with an a now ex boyfriend almost ten years ago. I got it and i remember a little while after him telling me about it and he was from vietnam, he told me people back there beleived it was some sort of demon (i can’t remember the details) he told me it is more likely to occur while sleeping on your back.

    I seemed to get it off and on in the past years. most of the time i felt like i was able to leave my body for a second because it always made me want to scream for help or run away, i just always felt as though i wasn’t alone and whatever i felt was very eerie and scary. like it always came when i was most vunerable. I was a heroin addict off and on for the past ten years or so and i never got it before i was an addict. i’ve been clean for 2 years, now. but the last 3 months or so before i got clean it got almost unbarable.

    It got so intense i was afraid to fall asleep and i actually felt something there that was well…evil. every night my mother said id scream and moan in my sleep like i was truly terrified and thats just how i felt while sleeping. though after i got clean and as i became stronger inside they seemed to go away. i haven’t had it for almost a year maybe longer. also my mother began saying a prayer for me asking god to watch over me and protect me at night before she went to sleep and i began doing it too. and that’s when they really went away. pretty intense.

20. Brandee Berthel on March 14th, 2008 1:26 pm

    wow… seems like everyone has experienced this sleep parylysis thing…..Except me!!!! Now it makes me kinda wanna. To me it seems like an awesome experience, yet i would prolly be scared because i can’t move and stuff. But then when I move again it will be awesome and I would brag about it to every one!!!!!!!! lol.

21. Anonnymous on March 22nd, 2008 10:45 pm

    I’ve had this sleep blabla thingy happen to me and it is FREAKIN SCARY you dont want to go through this I repeat you dont EVER want to go through this!!!!

22. angela on April 2nd, 2008 12:05 am

    I have suffered from this disorder since I was 5 years old , and now its been 14 years and I still experience episodes of sleep paralysis 3 times a week and sometimes within an hour 4 episodes may happen in a row. It seems that I’m so tired I fall asleep again and within 5 minutes it happens again and again until I just decide to get up and stop trying to sleep because I’m afraid that I may not wake up again, even though I know it is harmless.

    The experiences I have are very frightening and I always feel like someone crushing my body and my chest it is very painful, and I feel short of breath, and also I see like the death like grim reaper, trying to kill me or something, I hate having to feel all these weird things !!! is there anything that could cure sleep paralysis?

23. anonymous on April 5th, 2008 7:14 pm

    This “condition” happens to me all the time. With each new episode I see and hear different things. I see everything from figures shrouded in black smoke, to a lady dressed in white. (coincedently this is the same lady that has been following me to each of my new residences since i was six years old and now i’m goign to be twenty-five) some may say that it’s just a repetive nightmare, but i always forget to mention the fact that i’ve seen her while i was wide awake in broad day light. Anyhow, the weird thing is that most people experience these things by themselves…but i have share three occasions where the person sleeping next to me had a “dream” about the same thing…i on the other hand got to see it during s.p. a quick example is when my girlfriendf had a dream about a little girl singing in her ear…and subsequently i was sleeping right next to her only to have an s.p. observing a little girl sitting next to me on the bed. If you think thats odd…you should see my dreams!

24. Angie on April 9th, 2008 9:58 am

    2 years ago when i was 13 i woke up on my stomache unable to move and i heard whispering right next to my bed. It was really freaky and i get scared that i might get that again…

25. Jessica on April 9th, 2008 8:28 pm

    I believe in magic. i dont know whether to believe in ghosts or the paranormal. ive never had any wierd experiances with ghosts, except for one time when i had a dream that my cousin died and i was chatting with his ghost. i worry that he might die and the dream was prophecizing it, but im not sure. all i want is the truth. could dreams really have anything to do with the real world? if so, is my cousin going to die? or was it just my imagination. i wish someone could just proove that ghosts do or dont exist

26. Angela S. on April 18th, 2008 4:18 pm

    About three years ago I was asleep in the middle of the day on my couch. I was taking a nap because had not slept well the night before. I experienced what I guess was sleep paralysis. I opened my eyes but could not move my head. I was facing my television, which was turned off, and I could see my reflection lying on the couch. I felt afraid because I couldn’t move and then I noticed that standing right beside the couch where my head was a child dressed in a yellow raincoat and hat. That sounds ridiculous I know, but I swear this didn’t feel at all like a dream. All I could do was watch it’s reflection in my TV screen and it never moved. It just stood there looking at me lying on the couch. When I could finally move, it was gone.

27. Becky on April 19th, 2008 1:48 am

    I get this now and then. When I get it I tend to have it happen several times in a week and then nothing for a while. After the first couple of times I figured out I could make it stop just by wiggling my toes and opening my eyes. I don’t really know if this works for anyone else though.

    Sometimes when it happens I can clearly hear people talking about things. Just normal things, like how the weather is or how someone is doing. It doesn’t make much sense to me.
    Sometimes after I open my eyes I’ll see some shadows in my room flicker, but then the shadows in my room always look like they’re moving around.

    One time I got really creeped out because when I got out of it my light was off and I went to sleep with it on.

    I had the opposite happen on another occasion but without sleep paralysis. I went to bed with the light off and woke up with it and feeling like I’d just gotten back in bed. Then I realized the bed was cold. (Like when you just get in it) I wonder if I was sleep walking…

28. Cam on April 20th, 2008 6:28 pm

    This has happened to me several times. I don’t believe it was anything paranormal, and I didn’t see anything in my room, I simply woke up and couldn’t move. The first time it happened I was slighlty scared, mostly because I couldn’t move. The later times, I simply went back to sleep. Sometimes, I would wake up and couldn’t move one part of my body, like an arm or a leg. Either way, I find it kind of relaxing. It helps you sleep after you wake up ion the middle of the night. I find the best method is not to fight it.

    Anyone who has seen anything after waking up like this has probably been in a sort of dream state where they haven’t fully awakened. It may feel like your wide awake, but we’ve all had dreams that feel like we’re awake, haven’t we?

29. Deon R Colvin on May 8th, 2008 6:39 pm

    I hope everyone’s doing good…but I just feel I have 2 start telling about my expieriences with the supernatural, There are only few people that I have ever told about it b/c they are the only people who understand what’s going on.

    I’m only going 2 tell one thing that has happen recently 4 now b/c I have alot that I could tell and you don’t wanna read all that.

    Well everything started when I was 13, I am 19 now. I started having dreams that seemed 2 turn into reality, or sleep paralysis. Now they say in scientific BS that it comes from lack of sleep but I disagree strongly b/c somehow the demons that attack me can actually hurt me if they are trying 2 do more than choke me.

    3 nights ago from me writing this…2 weeks ago I was sleep in my dorms and I felt this presence enter my room suddely and it was standing at the end of my bed. So I learned 2 deal with that problem…I turned over on my stomach b/c they usually attack you when you are sleep on your back. But this demon was different, it did something completely new. instead on leaving after a while it immediately crawled onto my bed and put its knee in my back. It was such a sharp pain I stopped breathing 4 about 10 seconds. It grabbed my 4head and leaned me back and whispered in my ear and excuse my french “your ASS is MINE…GOD cannot save you now”. At that moment I could not focus because I was in such pain and all kinds of thoughts went through my head, I couldn’t even think 2 pray and get this demon off me.

    But somewhere through all of that the lord gave a sign in all my thoughts that he was there…So I immediately began 2 pray 2 him. The demon was angered by me calling god in 2 stop him…so before the demon departed it screamed in my ear and said ” I will b back 4 you soon so don’t worry” then it hopped of me and went away.

    I now have gotten a kanji symbol tattoo on my arm which stands 4 “faith in god” with angel wings attached b/c he has saved me and looked after me no matter what I was going through. I am beginning 2 understand that what he has given me (I guess you could call it a spiritual power) has its advantages and disadvantages.

    What I meant by that is that I have something like a 6th sense…I can tell when bad things are going 2 happen sometimes….I can read how some people are w/o even knowing them…dreams are a major part in it also…and being able 2 pick up on spirits being around w/o a problem. Well that’s just a little bit of me but I’m pretty sure that some people will think I’m a liar lol…but honestly it doesn’t matter I am dealing with this but if something like this goes on in anyone else life like this, then I have a believer. If anyone wants feel free 2 comment or ask me a question if you have something you might wanna know (I am not a psychic so please dont ask a question like that because I wont be able 2 help lol). But thanks for reading maybe I will post more if anyone tells me their are interested in more of my experiences

30. wanda brannon on May 10th, 2008 3:13 am

    the first time i had this sleep paralysis i just had my baby/ it was real scarey and then off and on throughout the years i would have it happened alot and it was always real scarey like i would wake up and can’t feel my body at all or i would see dark shadows and hear voices shisper and feel a pressure on me suffacating me;

31. Vicki on May 19th, 2008 10:56 am

    I had the most horrible experience yesterday morning. I had already woken when my boyfriend left our flat to see his family and then I went back to bed for another sleep for an hour. My alarm went off after an hour and I snoozed it and in the next ten minutes of snoozing, I was totally awake but could not move or say anything. I Kept on getting a shiver down my spine as I felt as though my boyfriend was in the room. He closed the wardrobe door then walked towards the bed and then got into the bed next to me. I could feel the duvet moving and hear the creak of the floorboard and this was repeated three times and all the time I knew my boyfriend had gone so I knew that it was someone or something else mimicking this just to scare me. I tried to kick ‘it’ off my bed and was desperately trying to scream ‘get off me’ and I think I managed a yelp and a slight motion as I tried to kick out but I felt like I had been drugged. I finally managed to open and keep my eyes open and I was covered in sweat. I knew I had been awake when it was happening though - I just couldn’t move. A similar thing happened about a year ago when I felt I was being pushed into my bed by a force against my chest and I had to summon up enough strength to ask for angels to look after me as I felt it was an evil presence doing it to me like yesterday morning. Very creepy and very scary.

32. miriam martinez on May 20th, 2008 1:45 pm

    i too have experience sleep paralysis and never knew there was a name for such things. i have suffered from it all of my life. the last sleep paralysis i had was a few months ago while i was babysitting my grandsons. i was laying on my right side with my youngest grandson laying right next to me while my oldest grandson who is eight years old was sleeping at the bottom of the bed on his back. i was facing this door mirror just about to fall asleep when i saw my oldest grandson rise out of his body and come towards me bites me on my neck and goes back to his body. i could not move or even scream out but the most frightening thing was when i got up the next morning there was this big scratch on my neck in the same exact place
    where he had bitten me. scary……………… explain this.

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