Have you ever woke up to find yourself completely paralyzed, unable even to scream? This strange phenomenon does happen to a lot of people.
Since history began there have been reports of people who had awakened from a nightmarish sleep only to find themselves unable to move or even make a sound. Typically the person will feel like they had just had a very bad nightmare, but they will not be able to remember what it was about. You just have this feeling of terror and helplessness. Sleep paralysis generally lasts only a few seconds. though it may seem like much longer to the person experiencing it.
I have personally experienced sleep paralysis and I am sure that many of you have either had this happen to you or you know of someone else who went through it.
Modern science calls this condition sleep paralysis and tries to offer a logical explanation of how it happens. The old timers said that sleep paralysis was caused by a paranormal entity they called The Old Hag.
A very good friend of mine has written a very nice introduction to the phenomenon of Sleep Paralysis as well as a background of what is known as The Old Hag or The Night Hag.
Sleep Paralysis And The Old Hag Legends
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Sleep hag is SCARY feeling, had this feeling almost everyday for the past week.
Yesterday I woke up and couldn’t move anything and felt someone pushing me down, and I had a mini dream of trying to grab my cell phone and turning
on the light. After the event was over I realized that I never touch my cell phone. Since I couldn’t move anything, I tired to spit at the ghost or whatever it was, but that failed.
I’ve been getting very little sleep this past week so maybe thats why I’m feeling this. It only happens when I’m sleeping and laying on my back. I really don’t know what to do. I tried sleeping side way but find myself laying on my back.
I HAD FELT THIS THING..THE OLD HAD IF YOU WILL AND THE TERROR WAS REAL FOR I HAD JUST WOKE UP BECASUE MY NEIGHBOR WAS KNOCKING AT MY DOOR. I TRIED TO GET UP AND ANSWER THE DOOR BUT COULDN’T MOVE.
I WAS AT A POINT IN MY LIFE WHERE I JUST COULDN’T SEEM TO CARE IF I LIVED OR DIED, I WAS ON MY WAY TO DRINKING MY SELF TO DEATH AT THE AGE OF27 AND SOMETIMES WISHED I WOULD NEVER WAKE UP.
UNTIL THIS HAPPENED.
I KNEW THAT IT WAS A FEMALE , I COULD FEEL THE FEMININE FEATURES OF HEAR BODY AS SHE LAY AT MY SIDE SOFTLY LAUGHING. . I WAS COMPLETLY PARALYZED AND SCREAMING IN MY HEAD FOR MY NEIGHBOR TO HELP ME BUT NO SOUND WOULD COME OUT AND FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS, I KNEW I WAS CRYING BUT NO TEARS WOULD FALL. I COULDN’T EVEN FEEL MY HEART BEAT.
THEN SHE MOVED TO SIT, WHICH FELT TO ME ALMOST CROSSLEGGED LIKE UPON MY CHEST. i COULD STILL HEAR MY NIEGHBOUR AT THE DOOR. i TRIED SO HARD TO SCREAM BUT MY BODY FELT LOCKED DOWNAD AND COMPLETLY INCASED IN CEMENT.
I WAS AT THE POINT WHERE I KNEW THAT SHE WAS NO LONGER ALLOWING ME TO BREATHE.
THEN SHE SOFTLY WHISPERED TO ME IN MY LEFT EAR “SO LITTLE ONE, YOU HAVE NO WILL LEFT AND WISH TO DIE? I AM GIVING YOU THIS CHOICE NOW….DO YOU WISH TO LIVE…DECIDE”
I SCREAMED OVER AND OVER AGAIN A HUNDRED TIMES “I WANT TO LIVE..IWANT TO LIVE”
AND SHE GRACIOUSLY ALLOWED ME TO. THE MINUTE I WAS FREE FROM THE PARALYZATION I WAS IN, I WENT TO THE KITCHEN AND POURED EVERY OUNCE OF ALCOHOL I HAD AND EVER SO QUICKLY STARTED TO LIVE MY LIFE AS IF IT WAS MY FIRST. WITH GRADITUDE AND HOPE.
I’ve suffered from SP and HH for about a year now, yet of this morning I had the worst episode……most times it’s being unable to shout and move……but the one this morning was truly terrifying. i still had SP but i felt the sheets just at my feet being dragged aggressivly and was being pulled from off the bed, dreading i was about to be flung off my bed…it just carried on. (and even i knew my bed isn’t that big.) i was fully concious and shouting out for my mum.
i have had SP and HH every night, and i have found a solution i use myself…….instead of shouting someones name out……talk instead. i did that for the first time ever this morning. even though my mum heard mumbling. She came in just as i was about to have my second episode…..just the sound of her walking from her bedroom was enough to bring me back……….she was about to shake me to wake up……but i was pale and as wide awake as i am now.
i must say…..i’m yet to see the hag
seriously…..try talking.
I’ve experienced this several times over the last 10 years, I’m now 29. My mind is awake, my eyes are wide open, but I can’t move. I can only move my eyes. Usually right upon waking up I see a tall dark non human like thing. It looks more like a dark shadow and it always appears to be leaving my room. I try everything in my power to move or wiggle some fingers, but nothing works. I try to scream for help, but I only manage to get low moans out. What I find really strange is that I’ve never heard of the Old Hag or dark shadows stories. How do scientists prove that this is just Sleep Paralysis and not something else. I’m not superstitious and I’ve never seen anything like the thing I see. I also sometime hear noises of people speaking a language unlike any I have ever heard. Then one day I saw a documentary of people speaking in “Tounges” and I swear it sounds just like what I hear sometimes. It’s so freaking scary. It was different voices men, women, children, people screaming, crying, it was just so loud and unbearable. I’m so scared to sleep sometimes.
On a visit to my mothers cousin in NYC in 2004. I stayed at her apartment in Brooklyn. I slept on the pull out bed in the living room. At aproximatly 5:30am I awoke to hear the recycling guys at work (and talking to each other)outside the apartment block. I was lying on my stomach with the left side of my face on the pillow, kind of in the recovery position, facing the window. I could only open my eyes just enough to see the window and the sun light outside. At that I felt a presence behind my head and then whispering started into my right ear. The whispering was menacing and so fast that I couldnt make out the words. I felt very anxiuos and my heart was beating alot faster. I tried to move my head and body but I could not move at all. The whispering continued and the only thing I could think of doing was to say the Our Father prayer in my head. I said the Our Father really in my head concentrating on the words and trying to blank out the whispering in my ear. When I finished saying the Our father for the second time, the whispering stopped and I became surprisingly relaxed and also got all my movement back. This was the first and only time I have ever had this experience. I hope It does not happen again.
Michael
Ireland
Jenifer from Colorado
Im 33 have 2 boys and happily married! I cant tell you how relived I’am to hear how many people have ex-perienced this!
My experiences started at a young age 3:00 in the morning 9 yrs old laying in bed I woke up looked at the clock and couldnt move total paralysis my eyes could move and the most intense of evil I have ever known! I’ve always prayed,gone to church but was to embaressed to say what has happened!
many years go buy 1-4 episodes a year then I broke down told a friends mom who told to me recite the Lords prayer, its funny because I can hear my self saying go away or leave me alone but when it came to anything Biblical the thoughts didnt come!
As I got older I wasnt as afraid I was mad now I can feel when it is going to happen, not going to lie sometimes its like a alternate state,things feel sense look the same but different almost like you have a sense of awarness and feel things spirits ghost what ever you want to call it!
My recomendations to all of you pray the Lords Prayer before bed,dont be afraid let it know it has no power and the Lord will prevail!
I’m from Tonga(a Pacific Island) and am a believer in this phenomenon! Our island is also familiar with this experience and I too have experienced it a number of times. Each time it happens, I am way past sleeping and am fully awake yet helpless and aware of a force sitting on my chest. Our island is Christian and we would get it off by shouting in our head ” Jesus help me live!” Sounds ridiculous but it works! Ðo not let it feel your fear but rebuke it in the name of God afterwards!
this happened to me only once it was HORRIBLE, i felt useless, i trie screaming for help even though my mom was next to me she did not notice, i felt as if i were sinking in darkness and someone was pushing me down and i was just falling and falling deeper into darkness
Well this one time I was falling asleep and i can always tell when i’m going to have one of these SP,my ears ring and i try to wake up,then My mind is so awake at this time my eyes are closed and boom! I feel heavy in my chest, I feel like someone is holding my legs down and I can’t breath, and it last for a long time,and then i remember to say Gods name and that i am not affraid and then it releases me…
I just wonder how a doctor/scientist would explain so many people having the same “evil” experience… Everything I read says “Sleep Paralysis”. What does it mean when this happens to you? Why you? And what do they want? And who are they? This has happened to me several times, and i always feel or see the “evil presence”, it is either the dark shadows, a scary looking man, someone squeezing an organ inside my body (very painful), my bed moving in wave motions, etc., and everytime the heaviness of someone sitting on me, can hear whats really going on, can see everything but cannot move or speak. And everytime I feel as though i should pray… Its strange because I’m not really religious, but when this happens I get the feeling that I should pray or think of white light to push out the black shadows. I would much rather think this was S.P. but hearing so many people having the same “scary” experiences really makes me want to know why me? Why only certain people? And what brings them in?
I had one time that i was a sleep and i woke up but i could not see!!!
MY EYES WERE LOCKED DOWN!! LIKE SOMEONE WAS SHUTTING THEM DOWN,
I TRIED 2 OPEN THEM WITH MY VINGERS BUT I COULDNT MOVE!!!…MY WHOLE BODY WAS PARALYZED….
thank god for my mom she openend the door,,and put on the lights
she heard me scream but i didn’t!!!
she was like ‘are you ok’? your scream woke up all of the neighborhood…
and then i could see and move!!
until this day i still don’t know what happened….
Happened to me once. It was so cool. I woke up, unable to move at all with the distinct impression that I had heard someone break in downstairs. I couldn’t even lift my head. I felt helpless, and knew that this thing was coming upstairs. I then tried to shout out.
I know I was awake because I then heard my own voice. I couldn’t make proper words. My throat and mouth and tongue were paralysed. I was trying to sound menacing to the unknown intruder who I felt was getting nearer and nearer, and was attempting to say, “F*** off, you c***!”. But it came out just as horrible mumblings. I could only move my eyes, and could see my room quite clearly around me, again I knew I was awake. This was not a normal dream. I felt like the thing was now at my door and had stopped there looking at me. I couldn’t quite see that far beyond my feet to the door frame as I couldn’t lift my head. Again I tried to call out, to alert my parents or scare it or something but, despite my trying to shout as loud as I could, it came out as incoherant, dull moaning.
Then I just suddenly came to myself and “woke up”. I knew instantly that it was a waking dream, or “SP”. But I totally got the intensity of experiencing what classical authors had interpreted as a visit from the succubus, or Old Hag.
The fact that all of those who experience this have the same sensation (paralysis with some threatening person drawing nearer and nearer, more often than not in the shape of an old woman) facinates me and is, I believe, a reminder of the fact that in our evolution, we have not changed all that much from the times when we were all much more closely related. Our dreams are even the same.
I’m 20 and s.p is something that had only happened twice in my life until last October 08′ when I had a near death experience. There after I’ve been extremely hypersensitive to emotions put off by people around me, aka- vibes (chills, burst of warmth, cold, tingling sensations throughout your body for and extended amount of time), and unseen entities (which show up as orbs in pictures). I’ve even been with a number of friends who have seen and felt spiritual entities good and bad in my home and else where around the city I live in.
As for me, I am on no medications, have no medical diagnosis’s, and do no drugs- I used to smoke pot, but quit, because everytime I started to get high after my n.d.e it would literally feel like a gateway to hell was being opened and I always felt like bad energy was trying to possess me (messed up I know!), my friends would even comment on the awful vibe in the room.
But getting back to the subject, I’ve been experiencing s.p. about 3 times a week since October 08′, and once I actually felt myself floating out of my body before I fully woke myself up. I’ve currently came to the conclusion that s.p is a result of your mind consciously waking up before you body does. Just as stated scientifically your body goes in to paralysis so you don’t act out your dreams. So I figured this makes valid sense.
Although, what science can’t prove is the onset of this. When you’re dreaming how often are you acting with free will, and dictating the outcome of your dreams, almost never right?? With s.p you often have a lucid dream upon waking and do have the choice to fully wake up and come out of it or continue to endure the experience trying to grasp and understanding for it. I’ve been perplexed by the idea that maybe is some form of an entity good or bad trying to contact me in and out of dreaming states. Or is it the chance to literally disconnect your mind from your body?
As stated in an above post it is possible to self-induce a state of sleep paralysis, but would that be only possible because of the presences surrounding you? I know that I’ve only been able to induce the feeling when I’ve known there were vibes around me.
Honestly I don’t think that sleep paralysis is necessarily a bad thing, you just have to learn how to control it, as well as develop your own understanding of why its happening to you. If you haven’t accepted your own spirituality in life, then the happening of this event may seem very unnerving to you. Although, if you believe (in whatever religion you adopt) you may find the answers to your questions.
I know all of this obviously makes me sound literally crazy for those that haven’t been through it.. but honestly with the way things are going in the world today, I think it would be a mistake to let today’s social norms of society try to crush the reality of spiritual happenings. Because honestly, hasn’t only realized how more and more supernatural things have been reported in the last couple years?? There’s a reason for all of this.
I had it happen it is not cool just couldn’t move ever time i fell asleep vampires bit me on the same shoulder like 20 times in a row i fell back a sleep i learned better i believe you all its not cool.
related subject I have had two seizers the second one i was staring at my clock everything started to shake and i was on my side and something pushed me on my back then i fell arms reach arond me and pull me down though i wasn’t moving i felt it was evil but only like they were doing there job i came out of it and sat up in the dark scared and could not even run to the light i was like 17 or 18 a guy for pete sake ive seen stuff and been close to GOD < real GOD is real mircles do happen ye of little faith it said and ask and ye shall receive it does not mean it will happen in 2 seconds it might take like 2 years but will happen
i heard a spirit at guess what a cematery with a friend so i know it was real he heard at the same time and we both turned around before we left we saw light blue orbs in the sky way up in space and i say a red comet with a wave tail freak huh also heard a voice in a cave once put my arm in a worm hole or something of the sort not lieing i put my arm in a brown floating cloud of like smoke i guess and it tryied to pull me in no drugs no alcohol these things happen and when you want to see them just look for them like i bet you did not know that demons may have had you wright your s.p. stuff or led you to the page about ghost in all the time that demon have been around do you seriously think that not one sound just like you and may in fact talk for you but trick you into think you are doing it and you think you are i think its called sicology or something seeing thing hearing thing may in fact be demons ghost spirits we don’t make the rule who said we did.
we just beileve that they are not real its like being with ghost all your life and saying they don’t exist if there is no proof it still doesn’t mean weird crazy can happen all thing are possible though god the bible says it and i beileve it.
Hi there,
I see alot of people questioning how science can just explain away something of this nature. Now I just want to let everyone know. I am a believer in the paranormal, and my experiances is what lead me to become a professional paranormal investigator on Trueghost.com. Sleep paralysis is a a sleep disorder. What happens is during REM (rapid eye movement) a chemical in your body triggers you to wake up….however your body is still deep in the “dream state” where your body is paralized. This is because our body excreates a chemical to paralize us after a certain point of sleep has been reached. This chemical is meant to protect you from acting out your dreams, or hurting yourself. Which is why some people sleep walk, or have fits because their body lacks this chemical.
Now in accordance with the paralization comes an intense fear of impending danger…or a feeling of a presence in the room. This is because your mind isnt fully awake, nor asleep….this causes hallucinations of MANY things. you name, Ive heard it. People report seeing aliens, demons, shadows, an old hag and even hearing evil laughter and ghostly voices. HOW can you hear voices if no one is making them?….your ear drums have tiny vibrations during sleep and dreaming. When you are hearing anything in your dream….thats because your ear drums are vibrating making out sounds or voices. Its all natural.
Sleep disorders have alot to do with chemical imbalances in your brain….and the big one….STRESS. People who are high stress have this problem more than other people in general. Trust me this is a disorder….if you don’t believe the facts than take it from someone who has sleep paralysis regularly….ME!! Thats right…I have had sleep paralysis my whole life since the age of 9 and i’m now 24. When I was younger i thought it was paranormal, and now that I have spent a lot of time researching it I conciously know when I am haveing it. So I have become very good at convincing my body during my sleep disorder to relax and it then slowly wakes up. Sometimes I drift back to sleep and other times I wake up. When I was little I would experiance that un describable fear, hear evil voices and laughter….and even feel a wheight on my chest that was so heavy I thought I would be crushed. It is scary but if you look into it, you may be able to conciously help yourself reduce the rate it happens at. As for my other experiances that lead me to be a investigator….those were in a full wakeing state at all hours of the day….lol.
I was sleeping in a room with my sister and her boyfriend.
They were on the other side of the room, and I was on my side. Something shook me out of my sleep, and it scared me to death. I was sleeping on my right side, left arm wrapped over and under my body, My right arm wrapped around going up. My knees were bent in like a fedal position. I tried to sit up and started to feel pain all over the parts I moved. If I went to move my right arm it would nudge then feel like it was being burned. After a few moments I tried to push myself up only to get my neck craned and fell back.
So I tried to cry for mom couldn’t talk. Nothing came out. So I started shiving my body again and it started to break up from whatever the hell it was pushing me into a ball. I went back to bed because it started to hurt to much. Then I woke up again not long and started crying for mom. Came out like “M…o….o..i….m.” Dry, slow and quiet.
My soon to be bro in law heard me crying but he knows I talk in my sleep, so didn’t think much about it.
Bout a year later I had a dream about this old hag who was outside my now dead, demented, cloudy, bodies floating in the water, I walked up to her because she was the only thing that seemed living in the world besides me. She then pointed to the river where this middle aged man who had half his flesh RIPPED off and body demented and colored moldy. “Don’t scream, or you shall disturb them.” She said. I did scream. It was horrible! And the body disapeared from the water and was behind me, towering over. “I’ll be watching you.”
I was in my partners house at the time and felt really tired during the day ( as it turned out I was in the early stages of pregnancy ) but no-one else was in the house. I fell asleep and after a while I heard somebody calling my name I tried to answer them but couldnt get any words out of my mouth or move my body. I thought I was dying. I could see around the room but for some strange reason I thought that my eyes were closed. So with all my strength I tried to get my right hand up to push up my eyelid. I knew I had a hold of my eyelid but it felt like it didnt so I started squeezing. When I eventually came around out of it I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror and my eye was black and blue from where I had been squeezing it. I lost my baby soon after that so maybe it was someone trying to tell me something?
Recently I was in my friends apt and I had another experience but this one was different. I woke up to the sound of my friends voice but I knew in my heart and soul that he was in work. So I looked over to the door of the bedroom and he was standing there but when I looked at his face it was all disfigured like smudged, It sounds so weird but it was really terriffying.
I would not wish these episodes on even my worst enemy. They are horrible.
yea i figured i wasnt the only one who went through all this weird things. I have been expirencing this for the past year and a half or so. And they seem to get worst. I cant breathe i cant talk, i feel someone is choking me ive even felt being raped. eyes slightly open, saw a dark shadow on top of me. Everytime i want to scream but since im so used to it that i know no one will hear. i pray in my head but one time i prayed it didnt work, all i can feel is the presence get angry and choke me even stronger. the more i prayed the more angry he got then he finally gave up and i finally woke up. AWAKE i was and yet i was quiet thinking, playing it back in my head what had just happened…i literally cried myseld to sleep that night. WTF? scary!. its weird ive even heard chanting or talking in my ears or close to me, i dont know but what ever it was, seems to alwasy freak me out. And when i know im about to go in to these weird episodes my ears being to pop on and off on and off my body beings to tremble, (seizure type) my ears hurt with all the popping. My grandma came from my country to visit and i told her about my situation that she would pray in my room every night and when she was here i didnt expirence anything but onces she left, it came back. i call them “it” becuase i know its something. i used to convince myself its due to stress and lack of sleep and abnormal sleeping cycles, BUT this is more then that. i know, i believe its out of the ordianry thing…i think all this is sooooo weird, but since its happend so much. ive gotten used to it. that sometime i wonder, am i gonna have one tonight? thats my story ppl. please believe.
hello there
i have had this all my life and to this day I sleep with my bible under my pillow this has helped me a lot. When I do not have my bible under my pillow I feel all sorts of things. One time i was sleeping with knees up and I felt something poking me on my knee and I woke up and there was no one. In this episode I did not feel like I could not move or scream I was just sleeping.
I assure everyone here, all these night terrors are absolutely nothing to do with ghosts. They are all a product of the human body, a machine far more mysterious, far stranger than ghosties, ghoulies and long-leggity beasties could dream of being, and, moreover, a machine that, for all its intricacies, still has a few design flaws.
Sleep paralysis, feeling like you’re being poked, feeling a presence in the room – all normal. When the body and mind are shutting down – shit goes down! It’s one powerful, complex machine. Truth is, we all have sleep paralysis, every night – it kicks in just as we switch off and power down. The body goes into hibernation and several key parts are switched off, like movement, for both lower energy consumption, and our own safety.
Not being able to move during sleep is a logical evolutionary solution to the problem of dreaming: In a dream, your mind is happily working away while you’re asleep, telling you, “wow, you’re running through the forest, there’s, like, a massive, fuck-off bear-monster chasing you – better run harder”, but, unlike when we’re awake, in sleep the mind cannot control our function, because movement is switched off. So that way, we don’t, in our sleep, jump out of bed, run across the room, and smash straight through the upper storey windo, screaming some guff about a bear-monster… unless you are a sleep walker, which is a condition caused by you not having the oh so useful and beneficial sleep paralysis.
Problem is, the body is awesome, but not perfect. Just like we almost all suffer from bad backs when we got old, because the skeleton of a Great Ape is not really fully designed to walk upright, which takes its toll, some of us unfortunately wake up during sleep with our healthy sleep paralysis still switched on. The mind, meanwhile, is still in dream land. So panic sets in; you’re not thinking straight; you can’t move. Bad times. I’ve had it once; to be honest, because I knew it was fake, I quite enjoyed it, despite thinking an intruder was going to kill me (see my post a little higher up)!
But, it’s far easier for us to believe that there’s a ghost touching our knee, or demons sitting on us. “The body couldn’t be at fault, could it?” But think about it, all those ghost stories, all those shadows in the corner of the room, all those things we catch out of the corner of our eye, moving. 99% are at night. At night, not only is it dark, but the mind, something wilder and weirder than the supernatural, is powering down. Would you score as highly in a maths exam at midnight as you would at midday? No. Because the brain works in cycles, with greater performance at different moments every day. At night it’s not all that trustworthy. If it’s an American mind, it’s not trustworthy at all. (I’m joking, please don’t all get stressy)
I don’t know if ghosts exist. What I cansay is that sleep paralysis, and all associated night terrors, are not proof that they do in the slightest.
I have woken up once in midair….HELP?
You guys are so lucky. That is not what happened to me. On Friday the 13 it kept on happening to me from 12:00 to 12:03. I woke up after a nightmare , staring at the wall. I tried to scream, but all i heard was air moving around. Then i went to sleep. Again i woke up and saw my cloc moved over somewhere else. I could not move, so i was unable to see where it went. Then i went to sleep. Again it came, but this time, i could not move, but i could scream. Because the clock was on me!!!! It was so scary, And i dont know what happend. Oh, and i saw a figure in the conner of my eye looking at me with those creepy eyes that glow in the dark. It is weird to belive that it all happend is three minutes. TRUE STORY
Another one encountered to me. I woe up from a nightmare. And boy i felt like i was in hell. Everything in my body was dry. I wanted to get up and get a glass of water but then once i treid to get up< i fell on the ground. Luckly i hade sheets on so i did not fell much pain. But unluckly, I hit my book shelf and books fell on my like crazy!!!!!! My sences came back Because i went to sleep again. When i finnaly got pout of that mess, while i was cleaning it up, the first book i grabbed was “crashing into books at midnight” That freaked me out. TRUE STORY
I have had two significant experiences. Once when I was about 18 and the other when I was about 22. In the first, I was watching TV and suddenly could not move a single muscle. I could, however, move my eyes. It was really very, very scary. The most scary feeling I have ever had…ever. I was having a hard time breathing. I could sense a presence in the room with me at the time and it was making a strange shuffling sound on the floor. I was afraid to look at it and the next thing I know, (I know this is going to sound crazy), I am no longer in my body. I am looking down on my body on my bed and I am somewhere near the ceiling. Here’s the craziest part. I go through the ceiling and find myself in this round room that is dimly lit. There are windows around and it is kind of dark outside. It looks like there are curtains on the windows but I am not for sure. There is a “podium” in the middle of the room and I am moving toward it. I place my hands on the podium and begin falling – like into a bottomless pit that is so dark I can feel it. I keep falling and falling and in my mind, I call out to Jesus and immediately, I mean IMMEDIATELY – I am back in my body on my bed and can move. I ran into the living room to tell my dad but he just shrugged it off as a bad dream. I was not asleep.
The next time it happened when I was in college. I was again watching TV and it happened – I couldn’t move. Same song, second verse. Except this time, I could hear lots of little feet shuffling around behind me (there is a wall behind me!). They are very close and I hear lots and lots of little “whisperings” that are downright evil and FREAKING ME OUT!! I am scared spitless and in my mind scream out to Jesus and the episode immediately ends.
I believe that the scientists do not have this diagnosis cornered. I believe that there is a spiritual dimension that is unseen and at times, we are opened up to it for some reason or another. For me, it is more reason to believe in God.
My teacher had an experience while in Japan.(she was a flight attendant and she was in a hotel.)She went to sleep and woke up and felt like something was in the room with her on the other bed.Then it got closer and closer and was on top of her.Then she thought in her head “leave me alone…i will pray for your soul just please don’t scare me” then the thing went away and she prayed.In the morning she found out that the room she was in was haunted because the other flight attendants told her.Thats it.
In 2007 at the age of 13 i was dreaming that, my older brother and i were walking and then we ended up by the stop sign by my house. from there on, my brother was gone from the dream and at the stop sign, there was a old man in brown standing. i saw him right when i was about to enter my house. but i ignored him. i went downstairs (where i was actually sleeping) to go sleep. (in the same bed). there the old man was in the same room. (in there room, there’s two beds and i was on the far left.) on the right side of the bed, i could see the old man’s half body only. (cause it looked like he was standing right through the bed) so i made hand movements, showing him the way out. and i even said “go away, you don’t belong here” (i was tired supposly, so i just didn’t really care what this old man would do) he just stood there, and suddenly he kind of like walked/floated his way toward me, and he covered my mouth (it looked like he did it really gental) but when he had his hand over my mouth, it felt like 20pds. i used both hands to pull his hand away, i think i tried screaming but i was so tired and it was so heavy. i thought it was strange, because i could still move my hands. but since i was tired since i used most of my strength to pull his hand away, i ended up knocking out. and this was all a dream, but im pretty sure the old man was with me that night.
Last night i woke up and i couldnt open my eyes, couldnt move my body, but i could hear weird foot prints. And it felt as it someone was lying in my bed with me, and they were squishing my arm. It was weird, but it felt like someone was at the foot of my bed touching my toes and looking at me, i tried soo hard to yell and i couldnt. It was def the scaryest thing that ahs ever happened to me. I was so afraid to go back to sleep, so i stayed awake the rest of the night.
Im glad im not the only one who has experienced it, its scary, i woke one night on my back with my head facing the door way i cold see clearly but cold not move, i was so scared because i knew or it felt like someone was in my house headin towards my room, i tried to yell to my girlfriend but could only make mubbling noises, i stayed like that for what felt like a minute or so, realizing i could do nothing i closed my eyes and went back to sleep and woke up alive and fine, it was the wierdest sensation ever.
I HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE, BUT IT HAPPENS TO ME WHEN IM SLEEPING AND I FEEL THAT SOMETHING HEAVY IS ON TOP OF ME AND I FEEL LIKE IS A SHADOW, AND IS SUFFICATES ME AND I CANT BREATH.AND IN MY DREAM I TRY TO WEAK UP BUT I CANT SO I TRY TO PRAY AND THEN I FINALLY WAKE UP,BUT WHEN I WAKE UP I FEELL LIKE IT HAPPEND FOR REAL I FEEL LIKE I CANT BREATH LIKE MY DREAM
This has happened to me also, my mother said “the hag” was riding me she said that it happened to a lot of members of her family back in the day. I felt like something was holding me down and I could not move or yelled I said a silent prayer and it went away but the strange thing was I was not scared.
This happenes to me all the time im 13 years old and i wake up 2 or 3 times a night and
feel like my bodies tingling and i can’t move or talk ive never seen any one or herd anything besides what sounded like my eardrums busting and running water if some one could tell me what i can do to make this thing go away can u please do so
HMMMMM… I HAD ONE OF THESE EXPERIENCE A WHILE AGO AND I T WAS DIFFERENT I WAS IN A TOILET AND I WAS SCREAMING BUT NO VOICE CAME OUT AND THEN I WOKE UP ? COULD ANYONE EXPLAIN THI S?
scientist seem to have an answer for everything!!What about god? When i was 19 i had a paranormal experience i was sleeping at a friends house, when we were sharing the same bed and the fan was on cause it was hot out. Something of a black shadow entered the room and came to my side of the bed. Floated above me and came down on top of me and i couldnt move. It felt like i was paralyzed and i couldnt move but i could still hear the fan running. I was trying to call out to my friend but no sound would come out. I was terrified. After it let me go i sat up quickly and she woke up and i told her what happened. After that i couldnt sleep without the light on for months. Before any of this i used to have dreams about me going to hell. And what hell was like. So now i turned to god. It’s the only way.
i belibe in sleep paralysis because it happene to me ones you feel that you can,t move end that you can,t breath i don,t know what causes this but it scary
I’m not sure if what I experienced was this, but it was really scary. I usually fall asleep fairly easily. But a few months ago I was feeling kind of strange, like there was an evil presence. I “fell asleep” on my back, and “woke up”, with a wierd feeling going through me. The reason I use quotes is because I’m not really sure of if I was sleeping, i felt like that feeling you get after you get really high. Like that muggy feeling. Anyways, I was hot and shaking, like hot shivers. I looked up on the ceiling and there was a body laying above me, looking at me. It was like a black shadow. I flipped it off, until I realized I couldn’t move that well. Something was moving my arms now, and I knew it was the shadow. I couldn’t talk, but I was trying, like the words wouldn’t come out. Like I didn’t have the strength. I was fading in and out of reality, it seemed.. in and out of consiousness. (sp?) Finally I broke out of the hold, and rolled over and fell asleep.
Within the same week, it happened again. Exactly the same, except this time it was a face at the end of my bed…I don’t really remember what it looked like, but when I saw it, it was like I zoomed in on it – really fast, I can’t even explain it foreal. and my facial expression must have been pretty out there… I had the hot, shivering feeling again until I snapped out of it.
btw this isn’t bullshit, it’s what I felt. I’d like to think I was imagining it, but it seemed so real. What the rest of you have explained is totally different from what I experienced.
About three or four times a month I wake up not being able to move or breathe. I feel as if someone is holding me down and not wanting me to get up or say anyhting, or even breathe. And me being a very reglious person I’m scared that it ould be something other than sleep paralysis. I would love some answers becasue me being a high school student I need my sleep, and since its been happening my grades have been slipping and I’ve been EXTREMELY tired. My teachers have been asking questions and I don’t have the answers and their starting to get suspicious, and asking me all these questions. Im just worried and would love some answers.
hi hey sup im just wondering how does one get sp i want to see what it is like 1 time plz some 1 tell me it my birthday plz tell me!
I have been experiencing this feeling for over 19 years now. The first time it happened to me, I was so terrified and was trying to resist, but my effort was all in vain. I cannot speak or utter a word, unable to move. The only thing I can do is repeat the 23rd. Psalms in my mind.
It is like a force, a pressure, a heavy weight, like I am trapped within my own body, like I am paralyze. It was not until I begin talking about my experience that I discovered that it happen to many people, so it was a kind of relief to know that.
Some people say that it is when the spirit leaves the body for a while, but the spirit only leaves the body when you are dead, not when you are alive. I am not sure it is the same as out of body experience, but it is the most frightening feeling in the “World”. a child would be afraid to sleep alone and would never leave their mothers side.
Just last week, a different feeling happen to me, I felt someone holding my ankles, it released me, then happened again and again and again. I got extremely angry and called my boyfriend in the night and turn on my other side. I then left my radio on, but could not find a gospel channel.
Something is just mystrious and horrifying.
I believe that it is some kind of a Spirit, or Ghost if you will, no one wants to hear that, but what else can it be. It obviously can see us, but we cannot see it.
I was sleeping one night, and having a nightmare as i usually do and when i woke up i could not move. I could not even open my eyes. My breating was slow and uneven and i would not shake it for at least 30 seconds. It has happened to me multiple times and it scares me.
Does anyone have and ideas to what could be going on, i have rosary beads on every door and window in my room yet i still feel unsafe when i cant wake up.
Make no mistake, I have been a practicing magician for many years and have much experience with enities, many, no longer of this world. I can tell you with absolute certainty that just as you find good and bad people in life, they also exist in death.
Like some psycopaths or evil living people, there are many, many evil spirits that lurk around us every day. Night is the easiest time for the ‘old hags’ to attack you because your consciousness is temporarily away from the body on astral visitations. They know this and use this time to attack you.
Sleep paralysis is a real medical condition, it is a result of chemicals in your blood parayzing you at night when you sleep so that you don’t act out your dreams, its there to protect you while you dream. people with sleepwalking disorders lack some of this chemical. However, in the psychic realm, when you are attacked, your mind quickly becomes aware of it and returns to the body. Your consciousness is again present but, your body is still under the influence of the neuromuscular blocking chemical that allows you to move, so… in a sense both medical science AND psychic mystycism are correct.
paranormal lore tells you what is happening, science explains how it happens. And if you want to avoid being attacked, there are many psycic self defence techniques you can use before you sleep. I personally like Franz Bardon and Dion Fortune, they are both well worth a read.
Good luck friends
4 yrs ago I experienced this situation if anyone out there can possibly explain why, please tell me.
In the same yr that this had happened I had 3 deaths in my family (great-grandma, aunt and my unborn child) also my ex had a death in his family (his grandma – whom despised me). My ex and I broke up and bout couple months later I was laying in bed on my stomach bout to fall asleep when I felt something like a cat walking up my legs and then pawing on my butt to get comfy, when I try to turn my head to see what is going on, I cant move, it feels like something is holding me down, I try to scream for my kids I know my mouth is open but nothings coming out. I slowly move my eyes toward my bedroom door cuz I cant lift my head and all of sudden I see this white light get brighter and then it stops I can move again and the light disappears. I never slept in that bdrm again as a matter of fact I have moved and never had the problem again.
Some people say I had a witch riding me or the spirit of the one whom didnt like me was trying to take my happiness and the white light was my great- grandma or my aunt protecting me. Can anyone please help, I just want the real reason.
i have expirence this before, i was in my bed sleeping, then i woke up, i couldnt breathe felt like i was gettin choked, by someone, but i couldnt see anybody choking me, i couldnt move eihter, i couldnt talk, tried screamming but my mouth was close shut, then another time was kinda more scary same all stuff that happen to me in the other incident but this time i felt like i was being lift up form my bed like, like i was floating up, this happen to me maybe bout 2-3 years ago, havent experience any since then, and it only happen to me a couple of times, it still a weird, but somewhat interesting experince kinda wanting to have it again so i could observe it
It’s weird ive had this thing going on. Im asleep and all of a sudden i feel as if something very heavy is on top of me. I try to move i try to talk or yell but i cant i fight hard to move but i still cant at times i can move my fingers alil but not really. After that happens this feeling as if im falling starts. I fall and fall and never reach an end. Ive had this thing going on for awhile its happend to me more than once idk what it is but its scary. When this usually happens i say a prayer and it goes away!
Look I’ve been dealing with this problem for a while. Best advice I can give is to get angry. Don’t get scared use everything you’ve got to get pissed off, turn your fear into rage and wiggle your body.
I had the dream where the old hag is strangling me and I can’t breathe. My body is rendered into a paralyzed state. I can’t wait to one day dream of strangling her.
Anyone see/feel these things before or waking from sleep?
-Blue lights rotating in circles when your eyes are closed?
-Closed eye hallucinations before you fall asleep or open your eyes from dreams?
-Lucid Dreams, where you’re flying and in control of wherever you go?
-Dreams of familiar people surrounding and talking to you frequently.
-Dreams that feel like you are awake, and you think you are awake, but you’re still sleeping and you can’t wake up right away?
-Someone talking in your ear?
-A loud bang before you wake up?
-Feeling like your tripping out once you come out of a lucid dream?
-Idol commentary..
Yeah, this is all stuff I’ve dealt with in the last 6 months. lol.
I know most medical practitioners would diagnose this as schizophrenic symptoms.
But then again, its seems like all doctors are looking to do is throw people prescriptions to make their money now days.
& too be expected, I’ve noticed that good and bad presences definitely affect how good or bad the dream experience is. Is anyone on this thread hypertensive, because when you are, it changes the whole way you go about life, that’s for sure.
wow I didn’t know that this was so common! I really thought I was the only one. Well I was about 16,17 when it first happened. I was sleeping and all of a sudden I feel something trying to pull like my soul up towards the ceiling. It was so strong and all I can do is try to hold on and squeeze my body tight to stay on my bed. Then out of nowhere this huge super bright white light rushes in IT WAS SERIOUSLY BLINDING!! All I could do was pray because I couldn’t move or talk although I did try to scream. Well then the light left and I woke up in shock. I do believe that the blinding light was an angel. I thing something evil was trying to take me. Before that I was have dreams of the devil chasing me and I would run and finally be at the feet of God and then woke up. At that time my faith was weak because my grandma had died. But now I pray everyday and it doesn’t happen anymore.
Yea Its nice to know this is a common experience. I was around the same age when I strted experiencing sleep paralysis..feels like a heavy electricity is pulling your entire body down. You hear the sound of loud current waves almost like an electrical field is surrounding you you can feel it vabrating your entire body. Very scary..had to teach myself to move my finger or toes to wake up from it. Only one night I had a scary experience. Heard a womans voice(probably in her 30s)she said my name..(I froze completely) asked me if I wanted to go with her..I said no, I wanna Know what my life is gonna be like..and I woke up..Never experienced sleep paralysis again after that.
hey!can someone explain this to me…
I experienced sleep paralysis twice..the first one I just felt that my body can’t moved and felt that someone was on top of me then after that its gone and I went back to sleep…but the second time……..I felt that someone is on top of me and I couldnt move…I try to scream but nothings coming out from my mouth,,,and on top of that… I opened my eyes and saw a face figure right inront of my face…
I can’t remember the face clearly..it’s black and white and the face is like an angry face…I think its a man….and I didnt experienced it again since then..its around 2006- or in 2007…in our old house here in Canada…..
though I experienced a ghost before..I’m not sure if its a real ghost..it’s a dark dark shadow…infront of a window with a light coming through…
oh I fogot I was around 13- 14 years old that time…
the discription of what I experienced is a lil bit the same to Jin’s story