Before I start, I just want to say first that if you have any comments or anything that might help me deal with this, please don’t hold back. I’ve been dealing with this for as far as I can remember, and when it happens, I can’t sleep for a few day after because I’m so freaked out!
The first “encounter” that I can remember having with this was back when I was maybe 11 or 12. I decided I was going to take a nap before going out to eat with my parents. I left my light on and my radio on and I was drifting off to sleep, when I heard my radio get louder. But it didn’t sound like the radio… it sounded like evil talking and evil laughter. I tried to get up, but I felt paralyzed. Then I felt like I was being suffocated. I was definitely awake but I couldn’t move. I couldn’t open my eyes no matter how hard I tried. I tried concentrating on moving one part of my body to get out of it! I finally got out of being paralyzed, and was wide awake breathing heavily and shaking. I got out of my bed and walked around so I wouldn’t go back to sleep. For some reason, I didn’t tell my parents that this had happened. I guess I thought they’d think I was crazy if I mentioned evil talking and laughter.
I had several other encounters of this happening throughout the years, but it was more mild than the first one. It would mainly be me paralyzed, hearing things around me, etc.
When I got to college, I majored in Behavioral Science/Psychology. I started to experience more of the “sleep paralysis” more frequently than before, so I asked my Psychology teacher if he had ever heard of anything like this. He said that it sounded like Sleep Paralysis, but this can also be due to stress. He told me to stop taking naps during the day to see if maybe the problem will stop. I took his advice and stopped taking naps and the “encounters” did go away… but not for long.
I came home to visit my family and found out that my mother and my sister also have the same problem as me. My sister hasn’t had any major problems, but my mothers stories were very interesting. When my mother was visiting her parents in South Alabama, she slept in the Twin Bedroom. (I would just like to mention that I hated sleeping at my grandparents house because I knew that their place was haunted!) That night, she heard giggling and then her bed began to shake, like someone was jumping up and down on it. She felt something tug on her hair, another tug, then another tug, then giggling, then more jumping. My mother couldn’t move. To keep me from being frightened by her story, she told me it was nothing to worry about, that it was just some angels having a little fun. But that still didn’t ease my nerves.
She told me another story that had happened right when my older brother was born. She and my brother were sleeping on the pullout couch in the living room of my grandparents house and my mother woke up feeling very cold. When she looked to the corner of the room, she saw a dark figure. My mother called out to it saying “Hello?! Who’s there?” and the dark figure just stared at her. My mother reached over to turn the light on and looked in the corner and the dark figure started to fade away. So my mother turned all the lights on in the house and stayed up playing Solitaire until my Grandfather woke up and said “what the hell are all these lights doing on?” ha ha ha.
But anyway, the point of telling that last story is it seems my mother is a little bit sensitive, and I think I might have inherited it. She used to say that the ghosts seem to pick on her when we used to visit my Grandparents, and that I shouldn’t worry about it. But of course I did anyway.
When my mother told me that she would experience times of being paralyzed, I felt a little bit better. She said that it would often feel like someone is grabbing her legs and holding her down so she can’t get up. And I could definitely relate to that except not only did I feel like I was being pressed down, I also felt suffocated.
My sister wrote a paper about it in college and she discovered that a way to get out of this paralyzed state is to try and concentrate on moving one finger. And once you’re able to move your finger, take a chance to come out of it. I took that advice to heart so whenever I was in my paralyzed state, I concentrated on moving one finger and I would come out of it.
I’m 26 years old now, and still have the “encounters.” There’s one more I’d like to share with you all that just happened about a month ago and it’s the scariest “encounter” I’ve ever had. You may not think it’s scary, but people that experience this can relate.
I was just about to wake up and get ready for work. I closed my eyes and could still hear the TV, since I turned the volume up a bit to remind me not to go back to sleep. Unfortunately, I drifted into my paralyzed state. It’s really hard to describe what it’s like being this way. The only way I can describe it is it’s like you’re fully awake and you can hear and see things going on around you, but you can’t move. I began to get frightened,and started to panic as I was in this state but I heard something that made me stop panicking and try to listen.
I heard someone come through my bedroom door (keep in mind, that I live by myself), walk around to the other side of the bed, sit down on my bed, then lie down next to me. I literally felt the bed sink down like someone was sitting on it and I literally heard the springs in the bed as the mattress moved down. “They” rolled over on their side and were extremely close to me. I resumed panicking and concentrated on moving one finger. I got out of the paralyzed state and looked around and there was nothing there, but a strange sense in the air, but unfortunately, my eye lids were too heavy and I fell back into the paralyzed state. Once again, the same thing happened. I heard someone come into my room, walk around to the other side of the bed, sit down on my bed, then lie down next to me. I knew what was coming next. “They” were going to roll over and be extremely close to me. I predicted right, only this time, “They” got right in my ear and started whispering erratically. I couldn’t understand what it was saying because I was concentrating more on moving one finger to come out of it. Once I got out of the paralyzed state, I immediately got out of my bed and walked around for a minute.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? I told my Therapist and Psychiatrist (which I am seeing for ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety Disorder) and they weren’t able to give me any information about it. I really think there’s more to it than just Sleep Paralysis. Sometimes these paralyzed states happen when I’m not stressed so I don’t think it’s stressed related. Any help on this matter would be great. Thanks for reading my story!
Sent in by “Tree Top”, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com
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Hello, i totally understand what you mean, i have now had several experiences of this happening to me in my life a weird sensation of being unable to move and usually the duvet / Bed cover becoming tight aswell. i have also had an occasion where i actually managed to partially open my eyes and could see a blurred figure / shape passing around the end of my bed. Do you get a warm sensation thats comes from your feet and passes through the whole of your body? G
I have this happen to me also, when i wake up i can’t move when i try to move i just can’t, i’ll try to yell but i can’t speak, it’s like someone is holding my body down, then covering my mouth.
This happened to me to, a few times, during the day and also the night.
I was sleeping in my bed, with the tv on. then suddenly i woke up, my eyes are open, i can hear the tv but also hear a louder noise in my ear, like a screaching noise, i can also hear my brothers talking outside my room( the door wasn’t close). i try the move, but my body wouldnt move, i try so hard that it starts to hurt, so i start panicking, my body starts to sweat, cannot breathe properly. The scary part was that i can see a blurry black figure lying on top of me. Now i start to close my eyes, and pray to buddha (I’m buddhist) and it went away.
Pretty scary experience.
hey there
i have been experiencing similar thing for the past 2 years. and it always happens whenever i take an afternoon nap.its like im sleepin and i cant turn around .ie. i cant change position, as if something is holding me down. and the scariest part is that i dont even know whether im sleeping or im awake coz the surrounding in my dream is exactly the same one in which im really in .the bed,the mirror every damn thing!!!
you see i have an anxiety problem so my doctor told me that such things happen when your trying to run away from your problems ( your subconscious mind is trying to hold you back).but i think that is not the real reason.
so you see you are not the only one with such kind of problem. and the thing which G mentioned about the warm feeling starting from the feet and passing through the whole body well that happens to me too. and its damn scary
well take care and good luck and if u find a cure for this problem then please do tell me.
wow thats nuts, i have the exact same problem…i was ditching work 1 day, but my mom stayed home, so my friend said icould sleep in his garage if i wanted to, but i had to stay quiet…it was about 8am, his garage was pitch black cuz i kept the lights off, and i slept on his couch (i slept so my back was facing the door..and what felt like 15-20mins later…i started hearing voices….alotta whispers, they were saying “is he awake” “is he moving” “whats he doing” etc. and i would get louder n louder by the second, my body knew everything that was happening, my ears and brain were working, but i couldnt open my eyes or lk move anything…i tried moving my head,,nd it felt lk it wasnt moving at all if anything..nd i started panicing so i tried opening my eyes,,,no luck there…it just eventually wore off a few minutes later…freaaky rite? yeah idk i havent had this problem alot sincve then but it still happens every once ina while..idk why tho
I think a lot of people have gone threw something like this atleast once in their life. I too have had it. and I too believe it is not caused by stress. People say that because they dont know what else to make of it. i will pray for you and hope that this thing will never attack you in a worse way.
I just wanted to share with you that I have experienced that so called sleep paralysis. I was around 11 or 12 and it happened for about 2yrs off an on only when i would take naps during the day . I could hear people taking and it seemed like my eyes were half way opened and it was too blurry for me to see but i two could see people in my room walking around and taking. I of course would freak out and try to to move or scream but i couldnt even open my mouth. So i learned if you just ignore what you are hearing and relax and quicky try to move it sometimes work if you concentrate hard and long enough. Im 26 now and i dont think ive had any since then which im grateful. Another thing that would like to share have you ever had a dream during your naps where your in your house and suddenly something starts chashing you and you start running to your bed(the one your actually sleeping in and once you get on the bed you wake up. I guess you can say it feels like your soul walks around while your sleeping and you dont even realize it crazy!!! I dont think at the age of 11 i was stressed or suffered from anxiety. Why does this happen i dont know but i wish i knew!!!
ive heard of this before by a some what famous and known phsycic Sylvia Brown..im sure some of you have heard of her..she claims when this happens your body is between wat she calls ‘ the other side ‘ and our world. ur in a state of sleep and bein wide awake..although i cant remember wat she that causes it..although i kno she has books about this and other weird things
hello my name is renesmee and this may sound crazy to you but i have got the gift to see the dead. i understand what u are going through and i know at times these things can be really scary. how do i know other than seeing the dead i have had some incounters like the other day im sitting on the edge of my bed listing to music when all of a sudden this head comes from under my bed looks up at me smiles werily and goes back under the bed. i also want to say i have a few things that might help end what u are going through. maby you should try talking to the spirits but i warn you of 2 things be nice to them and somtimes they dont like what you say and they can get physical. trust me i know i have had to get three stiches in my right arm before. and you could also try holey water but it dose not always work. or maby you are bringing these encounters on yourself because maby there is somthing wrong with your spirt guids which are spirits that follow you around all the time and they controll most of your emotions.
hey its renesmee agin and i was readdind the other coments and i just want to say to C. that those voices you are hearing are your spirit guides they do laeve you every know and then apecily when your alsleep. it sounds like to me your spirit guides were talking to each other masking sure you were ok. and dont worry it happens every know and then
i used to suffer from sleep paralysis and i talked to several doctors as well as my psychology professor about it. hallucinations and delusions such as the ones you are mentioning here (suffocation, dark figures, voices) are a common part of sleep paralysis. it is almost like a panic attack, an impending sense of doom, accompanied with distorted perceptions of reality. doctors suggest this happens because the brain is still working in somewhat of a dreamlike state and it is almost like a lucid dream. the buzzing that one person mentioned is also commonly mentioned by sufferers of sleep paralysis. although stress can cause sleep paralysis, irregular sleep patterns as well as sleeping in certain positions and lifestyle changes can cause sleep paralysis. i hope this helps.
same here; people have different opinions regarding this; but does anyone know the answer to this? if whether it is a spirit or just a sleep paralysis or a mental state. In my situation its been occuring like a year as I could remember. The feeling of some things gonna show up, you cant move; you cant shout or even if you talk, the words that you utter are not that what you want to say or couldnt be heard clearly… You can hear sounds around you but its like your becoming deaf or something or someone is irrationally whispering or murmuring to you; sometimes clear or short sometimes creepy… It happens to me in our house, day or night.
I knoO hoOw u feel.. I have adhd, anxiety n bipoOlar disoOrder n depressioOn proOblem…
I been in yoO situatioOn aloOt oOf tymes… it proOb. Keeps happening cuz maybe soOmeoOne very cloOse toO yoOu has died… if it happens again ask them.. Why dey keep qoOinq after u and see what they say.
Ok please i need help…..sometimes at night i would wake up i would be wide awake and hear voices in my head saying we got her she’s ours and i would feel like somethin heavy is gonna kill me this goes on for 20 minutes until i wake up go to the bathrrom and stay there util my mom hears me please an anyone tell me what this is!!!!please hurry
and o one particular night i heard a baby crying while i was calming down and people sayin things i can’t make out what it was but if anyone can relate to this please reply back
I don’t know about the paralysis thing. It seems like all this time you’ve been fighting whatever that is within you or around you that puts you in this state. Everything happens for a reason. Next time you experience this….let it happen. Maybe this is happening to you for a very good reason. Do not assume that whatever you see or hear is necessarily evil or going to harm you.
Personally, I am constantly haunted by this feeling of DeJeavu. Every day I do things or experience events that I somehow feel I have already experienced or seen. On a few occasions I’ve been jolted awake by flashing visions and dream like images. Whatever little I can remember from these dreams have seemed to occur the very next day. In one dream my mother and I were driving back home from the store when we were t-boned by a pick up truck. The very next day my mother and I were t-boned by a pick up truck.
I don’t fight whatever this is anymore. I try to accept it. Whatever I see, wherever I go, whatever I do…..it feels like I’ve already experienced it.
the same thing happens to me. I am 10 years old and for as long as i can remember, i have been paralyzed in my sleep and i cant move when i wake up. i have been tracked and i have a special disease that i can not be treated for. i just saw a mouse run under me . i dont think it was a real mouse
I too have had sleep paralysis many many times when I was growing up. I can relate to all your stories except the voices. I don’t think I have ever heard whispering or any voices. I used to just feel the terror of not being able to move and I was wide awake. It seemed it occurred when I was over tired, and it happened more when I slept in the afternoons. I also did the small finger movement and just concentrated on that until I woke myself up. I took a class in parapsychology and was informed by a psychic guest who came to give a lecture that when you feel the sleep paralysis it may be your soul wanting to do an “out of body” excursion and I was told not to fear it ( which is very difficult), but rather to go along with it. Well, I followed the advice and learned not to fear it and they have went away ( knock on wood). I have not had one of these episodes in many many years. However, as I mentioned I did not hear voices and that would have made the experience more terrifying for me.
Hello. First off i would like to inform you that the murmering and blurry bodies are not angels or spirit guides. It’s the devil. I have experience these type of things all of my life, and i’ve tried several things to try to explain it. From Doctors to Medicine to Church and yes even Voodoo. The last experience i had was in my room 3 weeks ago laying flat on my stomach in bed. it felt as if tho something was holding my upper body (shoulders) and face down into my pillows. I tried to scream and kick and move but i could not. and concentrating isnt easy when you cant breathe. I started praying but it only seemed like it got worse and it felt like my shoulder was being ripped off. i started screaming JESUS!!! in my mind and all of a sudden it all ended. Unfortunately my shoulder was popped out of place no bullshit. It was twisted behind my back when i woke up. i was screaming and crying and woke everyone up in the house. So my mom took me to see a (Witch) who does spells in Alabama and she gave me a box with some liquid a curse wriiten on paper a bible and some red peppers to put under my bed and i havent seen or heard anything since. Just dont sleep with your back to the cieling. Its said that the Devil rides your back and tortures your soul when your sleeping
You have to fight it. Its hard to move and your totally concious of whats happening but your in a state of paralasis. However You can break free of the demons and fight them off with two main things. Faith is a sheild and Prayer is a weapon. The Devils are only strong when your faith is weak. When you take control back you have to fight off the demons. I used to wake up swinging not literally but spiritually metaphysically.
I dont have those dreams anymore thank GOD. They will try to test you sometimes and it takes alot of energy. somtimes you feel like just giving up and laying there waiting for it to go away. And prayer is essentail during the battle time but you have to fight also requires strenght of faith.
After I would feel drained of energy but satisfied of taking back control and breaking free. I would feel soar like I was tased with electricty but thats the cost of battleing for your spiritual freedom.
Trust GOD the ONE and ONLY
thanks to all who replied! i haven’t had an encounter since that one time, thank GOD! but some of the things yall have said are really interesting and i’ll look into it. after i submitted this story, i remembered some other things that have happened to me in the past that are similar to some of yalls stories. so it’s actually been going on since before i was 11…maybe even 7. I don’t lie on my back at all since that’s when the attacks mainly happen. i only sleep on my side. but that last encounter happened when i was lying on my side so of course i panicked about the way i would sleep now! haha the story about not lying on your stomach frightened me so now i have no idea what position i should sleep in! haha but if anyone else has any stories that has to do with this particular one, please don’t hold back. i’m actually happy to see that there are other people out there that have the same problem; however sad that it’s actually happening to other people as well.
As for letting it happen, i don’t think i can do that. when it does happen, all i can think to do is panic and find a way to get out of it. it’s really hard for someone like me to relax when something frightening happens, especially if it happens more than once. i can certainly try, but i’m beyond scared of what might happen if i let it do what it wants to do.
Tree Top,
That I can remember i have never had what happened to you happen to me but it has occured in my family a lot! Its happened to my father, sister in law brother and many more. this is our belief, when you wake up and can’t move at all its a ghost sitting on you. Yes, it sounds wierd but its true, one way you can move again is if you pray in your head and the spirit will leave but if it does not that means its a evil spirit so you have to cuss it out…tell it to get off of you and so and so on…=]
I think this happened to me for the first time in my life a couple of mornings ago. I have had it happen in dream state, but never when i have awoke and my eyes are open.
What happened was, i woke up and couldn’t move at all, all around my vision was a haziness, but i could not see any shape of a thing or a shadow, so im pretty certain there was nothing causing it. I didn’t feel any pressure on my chest like some claim, it was just total paralysis like you have said. The reason i got drawn to your story is, well i don’t normally sleep in the daytime, but i have been having some pretty late nights lately which have meant i’ve needed sleep until nearly lunchtime. I would say my sleep paralysis was about 9 am – 10 am, but i dont know for absolute certain.
Also, i do remember feeling like the bed was very slightly shaking or vibrating, but after i came out of the paralysis it wasn’t doing this anymore. It was hardly worth mentioning the shaking until you said it in this story, but this did happen to me also.
I have felt myself do that as well and I have to work so hard to pull myself out and usually it is with wiggling a finger. I just figured that out by myself. I just figured I was really tired. But something inside me said I was slipping into a different state that was different than sleeping. I never felt anyone near me like that. That would scare me. But I have definitely felt people next to me and felt a knee on a bed and things like that.
I think I inherited from my mom and her family a sense of knowing. We have no witches or anything – just people more emotionally connected and feeling – most of us go through periods of depression and anxiety later in the life. A lot of them drink or smoke a lot but live forever for whatever reason usually. But I have a story I should post about my mom but being in my 30s – I have a lot now. But this post is about YOU sorry – I can say that the issue is – it is scary but it is in a lot of ways an intangible thing – that 6th sense and it is there. You can pretend it isnt but it is. It is reality and if we accept it – then it becomes less scary I think. Its been that way your whole life wherever you go – there are spirits around you.
hi treetop….and everyone else…
first off… i just want to say that I have experience what you all have mention…more then once in my lifetime….and it is pretty scary…but after awhile i know how to deal w/ it…and it hasn’t happen since…
in my culture( i’m hmong btw.) we believe that when you have that incident happen… you’re being topple over by a ghost. it’s a lonely (horny) ghost and they just want to come and sleep w/ you or more likely rape you.
sometimes it depends on the place of location where it happen…it might be because the location/environment is haunted…if not…whenever an incident does happen like that… think back to your previous days…did you go out somewhere…maybe to the lake… or woods/forest… and something might of follow you home…
the best way to avoid it is…to not sleep alone…cause when you’re single and sleeping alone that’s when they can overpower you… either that or else have a talisman w/ you or around your bed…to void off the bad spirits…
i hope this helps…
I have have experienced this “sleep paralysis” several times. It all started with my first pregnancy. It always happens in the morning early after my husband leaves for work. I am always alone in the bed. It has gotten worse as time goes on. I have seen dark figures in my doorway to my bedroom and also seen a demon in my bed lying right beside me. I usually can’t open my eyes when this happens but i could during those two instances like it wanted me to see it. When i think about it to much i start thinking i’m just crazy. My children are teenagers now and this hasn’t happened for many years but it happened during all my pregnancies and it has always made me feel like this presence had something to do with my children somehow which scares me to death. My children were all in a terrible accident when they were young with my mother. the car was hit by a mack truck and the back seat was smashed to the front seat. The jaws of life was sent to get them out. By the looks of the car it looked like no one could have survived. When I got to the ER the doctor and the nurses had the strangest looks on their faces. I thought something was terribly wrong. They looked puzzled. They took me back to see my children. There wasn’t a scratch on any of them except for my oldest son. He had a very large cut on his thigh in the shape of a perfect cross. I know what happened to me was not a dream. No one has the same dream over and over again for several years and you can’t feel things in your dreams. I felt the presense sit on my feet, lay ontop of me and it showed itself to me twice. I will never forget it for all my life. I just wish I knew what all of it means.
Thatt’s Soo weiird ii hearr noiises att niite n ii cannyy gett upp ? ;’(
Sweet i thought i was da only one haha
i been on dis 1nce but its a thing u cant 4get lol
i was sleepin on night and heard something i oepened my eyelids halfway n cdnt open em ny more i saw this black shadow staring at me i cdnt move but then i was half asleep cause i only just half opened my eyes when isaw this shadow i freaked out and all the paralisis went away and my eyes opened heaps
i was like wtf lol freaky thing to encounter id say it was like last year as 14yrs old then.
seems to happen alot near them ages.
well nyway theres my story
i have been having the same thing happening to me.. go i went on line to do some reseach to see if there were any stories i could relate to but your stories were very close to mine and i could see them.. but i have Esp and that means i can read minds and predict what will happend but i see these things happening to me and i try to prevent it but it always try to find a way and seek up on me… i am only 14 years old and i have been told by my mother that her sister aunt macy that she had the same thing i tryed talking to her but she never wants so talk to me because of my esp and thinks im one of ‘them’ but my mom belives me so i am trying to get as help as i can but i really need help from someone who is going thu the same thing….
…. i had wrote a story about the other things that had happend to me so hopefuly you can read it if it get published… i called The Unknown…..so i hope you enjoy it if you eever read it….
this used to happen to my Grandma in their old house, she says she would feel something heavy and when she looked all she could see was a blurry black figure sitting on her. One night when i was at her place a similar thing happened to me but i could not open my eyes.It all stopped when my grandparents moved out of that house.
Hello. I, too, have had experiences like this. It’s so tough to explain, though mine weren’t nearly as frightening as yours. Sometimes, I feel something touch me and just last night my bed started moving (with me on it!) I only went out to the living room and got back on the internet to help calm my nerves. I did some research, and it said that silver helps and that ghosts can’t travel over or through water. A lot of people just think I’m crazy, except for my sister because she’s actually seen them, I’ve only felt them.
Our culture doesn’t provide us with many answers to these paranormal experiences because we’re mainly a Christian/ secular culture. So it is seen as “nonsense”. But if you delve into the spiritual beliefs in the eastern world, as I did, you’ll find much more information about these beings; we in america call them “ghosts”or “demons”or “feelings of being watched”, but what they really are, are beings that live in a dimension that is among us but most people are unable to pick up on it. Sometimes these beings, which have also been named “genies”, imitate a person they used to observe, like a person who live there a hundred years ago, and so we think it’s that person’s soul. Or they may embody forms or people and re-enact some event… But in reality they are made of heat waves, can take any form and be either evil or not evil. Something interesting? They have counscious minds and know the difference of right and wrong. But how intelligent they are is still being argued.
King Solomon had hundreds of these beings working for him as slaves. (I think this can only be done using ancient magic)
Sometimes they harass us, like whispering our names or pushing us into our beds making it so we can’t move, as well as many other strange actions that may even become aggressive or dangerous. They may be testing us to see how strongly we can resist?
Don’t be afraid, they only use your fear to their advantage. The only thing they run from, or in extreme cases can be be destroyed by, is prayers to God, ***not Jesus or Virgin Mary***, but to the ‘Lord God that Rules over the heavens and the worlds’. For some reason they fear God more than anything.
I hopen this information helps.
Hi there. I’ve been expexiencing sleep paralysis many times since i was a kid ( i am now 35). I noticed, the more i get worried bout it, then it happens often. So don’t worry about it, try to get relax, and pray before you sleep. U have to learn, which one is ‘a real sleep paralysis that usually coming from our stress, or something that we are worried about” , and which one is “a supernatural thing”. your sister was right, try to move your finger when it happened, or try to say a pray or a word loudly. When u met a ghost or an evil creature. Dont let it intimidating u. Shows no fear. Even fight against it when needed. Pray to God and trust God will help you. Ask God to protect you from evil power from the creature that He create. God will help you. As long as you believe. It works, really. I was attacked by a evil thing in my room. My whole family could heard its voices, groaned loudly. My dad tried to helped me, but couldnt get inside my room, coz it was locked. That time i knew only me and God could help me myself. I prayed to God to help, as i tried to hit him and made it put its hand out of my legs. Thank God, it worked. That hairy thing ran and scream hit the door and my dad said it hit him then ran away.
Oh, and about voices, i sometimes hear voices even in the middle of the day or in the crowd. Just dont be scared. Ignored it as long as it doesnt attack you.
Wow! Am I glad I found this! I thought I was going crazy!!! I live in a haunted house and we have always had weird things happening here but we just deal with it. BUT! When I moved in to my new husbands house 7 years ago the ‘SP’ started. It happened about 6 or 7 times then stopped for about 2 1/2 years until this morning.
Previously, after my husband would get up to get ready for work or even after he went to work I would be dozing in and out. I would scoot over to his side of the bed and it usually happened on his side. I would physically feel what felt like a person sit up against me and then the blankets would yank down and pin me to the bed! Once, I was on my side, it sat in the ‘C’ shape of my body, yanked the blankets tight then it laid its hot face up against mine and blew out this HOT breath, which I could feel run across my face, with a LOW moaning sigh that sounded like it came from the pits of HELL! Like the others on here, I cant scream, move or do anything. If the blankets didnt pull tight then I might believe this theory about SP but I think that is ca-ca. Just a term that psychitrist have put on it because they dont have a clue what is going on. I believe it is demonic! Nothing like that is good if it makes you feel like that.
This morning I woke up at 2:30 a.m. and couldnt go back to sleep. I sat up and watched tv until 6 then laid back down when my husband got up. Now, keep in mind it has been 2 1/2 years since this has happened. I literally felt one finger poke the side of my breast 3 times. I thought it was my husband trying to wake me because I felt it sit on my bed! Then I went to push ‘his’ hand away and there was nothing there. Next thing I know I can FEEL a hand and arm slide up my arm in a caress and in a second hug me TIGHT then the blankets pulled tight again! I tried to get up but couldnt move, Tried to yell for help, tried to say the name of Jesus but it sounded like my mouth was sewn shut or I had WAY too much gum in my mouth. I finally could think the name of Jesus but it took a bit to put the word together, and it let up a little. Then I started repeating the name over and over in my mind and it disappeared. I got up and ran to the dining room to my husband who was clueless anything was going on! I was freaking out!
I dont like this at all!
Please let me know what you think.
DeLeeta I have had very similar experiences. I would say the best way to describe the noise that starts in my ear as similar to a record playing backwards. It is not the sound of something friendly. Although I have never had the blankets pulled in a tight manor, i feel like someone is sitting and even jumping on the bed. After this, i cannot move which at times is followed by a feeling like i cannot breathe: Like the breath literally is taken from my mouth. It is a terrifying feeling. These experiences usually happen after I am in a place where i allow myself to be voulnerable; a funeral, a hospital where there is death or sick people… Some of us are more likely to pick up spirits. These sprits use us to feed for our energy. In our house we ritually burn sage or “smudge.” It is an old method of house cleaning that has worked for us. You can get it either outside and dry it depending on where you live or pick some up, i know they sell it at whole foods. We smudge weekly or when we are getting feelings. Finally, when you are paralized try and keep a focused mind and concentrate on the fact that you are alive, they are not. You have the power and dont let them take it from you. When you can live through this terrible experience without loosing sleep worrying if it will happen again tonight, you have won and slowly the experiences will become less frequent. Burn sage and good luck. Be strong.
i have experienced the same thing and i never take nap during the day…dont no for some reason sleeping during the day makes me really dizzy….so i try to avoid sleeping during the day as much as i can….it alwys happens to me during the night. I have noticed that it mostly happens to me when my room is totaly black when my night light is not on….its scares the hell out of me.
that “sleep paralyisis” happend to me about 20 mins ago.!
I’m 14 years old, and well its been going on a lot in my life, it happends every now and then
But this time it really freaked me out!, so I looked it up on google as “sleeping, then can’t move” n this story came out, n its really similar to mine.
Today I slept at 1:30 am and woke up at 6:20, I was really tired and bored so I started walking around my house, then I got bored so I came back to my room, n I kept hearing water dripping n there’s no water near my room. So then I got kinda freaked out but ignored it, i. Was really tired. So then I kept falling asleep but waking up n I looked up..n when I changed positions I turned to the left n closed my eyes, suddently I felt it hard to breathe but I could hear everything around me, even the water drip which got louder, I tried to open my eyes n I kinda did but only alittle n I saw everything was white…n I swear I felt dead. N idk..I started paniquing and moving really hard..well trying. N wen I came out of the stage I fofound it really hard to breathe n my heartbeat was going really fast. I felt really scared, I don’t ever want it too happend again.
Try the sage burning seriously… it really helps !
The majority of people apparently grow out of experiencing sleep paralysis or just go through a phase, the unlucky ones don’t like us.
I have the same problem… usualy when lying on my stomach, I will then wake up, at least i think I am, then a guy will come busting through the door with a knife trying to kill me.. same as a figure above you that wouldnt let you move..sometimes you would get yourself shot and see yourseltf bleeding and you cant wake up still feeling it. I even wondered why some dreams I get shot and I would just wake up. this is different. you feel fear and pain and all you can do is force yourself to move and wake up. finally I snap out,again, thinking im awake, I would get out of bed just to find out that im being attacked again. i think this wake-up-and-dream-again state will repeat for 3 times until I actually wake-up.
I checked wiki and study shows this happens twice in one lifetime. I even lost count on how many I had.. LOL… Maybe I’m special… I would have these attacks usually weekends when at home, atleast two attacks per sleep max 4 and at least once and max two per week.. I dont experince this in my boarding house. just at home… Recently experienced it once outside of home. I think this is just a sleeping problem.. but its really scary, you wake up and feel normal again.. panics attack three to four, morning.. One thing I noticed was, when was dreaming, i checked the clock and its 3am.. I woke up and and it was the right time.. weird..
I have had sleep paralysis for years, but only found out the name of it about 2 month ago. I never talked to anyone about it for fear of sounding crazy. For the past 2 or 3 months it’s been happening a couple times a week, sometimes even multiple times a night. I wake up paralyzed with some type of evil presence moving around my bed. I can’t tell if it’s just observing me or causing it to happen. The evil being isn’t always there when I have SP. Thank God! Nothing has ever attacked me, but when I feel threatened, I scream, in my mind, at it & that seems to work. A few nights ago I was laying in bed & I could hear someone coming through the hallway and there was talking but it sounded really strange, I thought it was my husband coming to bed so I was about to move over in the bed, only to find that I couldn’t move and of course, I was in sleep paralysis. I just decided that I wasn’t going to struggle and I must of fallen back to sleep because thats the last thing I remember.
I’VE STOPPED TELLING FRIENDS & FAMILY ABOUT THIS, SINCE THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO THEM.. I’VE EXPERIENCED THIS THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I BELIEVE SINCE I WAS 8 OR 10 YRS OLD., AND EVERYWHERE I HAVE LIVED. THIS ONLY HAPPENS DURING THE DAY WHEN I “NAP”, NEVER AT NIGHT, IF IT DID, I THINK I WOULD BE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT. I AM USUALLY ON MY SIDE AND AWARE AND KNOW THAT I AM AWAKE !!!, BUT I CANNOT MOVE. SINCE THIS HAS HAPPENED TO BE MANY MANY TIMES, I AM ALREADY EXPECTING THIS STRONG PRESENCE BEHIND ME, AND SURE ENOUGH, IT IS THERE!!! , SOMETIMES IT IS TALKING LOUDLY ,OR I HEAR OTHER LOUD VOICES, OR A “METALLIC LIKE” CRACKLING SOUND , RIGHT IN MY EAR.!!!! SOMETIMES I CAN FEEL IT SITTING ON MY BED. I TRY WITH ALL MY MIGHT TO MOVE JUST A FINGER , BUT IT TAKES INCREDIBLE STRENGTH JUST TO MOVE. I FEEL THAT IT IS TRYING TO PULL ME INTO A DEEP SLEEP. I HAVE ALSO TRIED HAVING A FAMILY MEMBER OR MY PET’S “NAP” WITH ME, BUT THIS “BEING” IS SMART BECAUSE IT ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I AM ALONE.. I DO NOT FEEL INTIMIDATED OR FRIGHTENED ANYMORE WHEN I EXPERIENCE THIS ….IT IS A PART OF MY LIFE AND I HAVE ACCEPTED IT…………..
I first had this a few months ago, at the age of seventeen. I was in my school library, doing nothing for a spare class, when I fell asleep sitting up in a chair. I didnt know what it was at the time, but Sleep Paralysis took over me then, and unbearable pressure pressed me back into my seat. All at once i became hyper aware. Aware of the struggle to breathe, aware of the kids walking past me in the library, aware at how dead and lifeless my body felt. I couldnt open my eyes at all, could barely breathe. I couldnt move a single part of my body. As the pressure increased, I suddenly got the feeling that if I let this take me under, I would die. Once i felt that, I struggled like i never had before. I concentrated on jiggling my finger, concentrated on bouncing my leg, anything, any movement that would lessen the pressure on me. Finally, the pressure lessened fractionally as I moved my finger more and more, and then, it just suddenly left. I snapped out of the S.P., gasping for breath. I got a few weird looks, but I didn’t care. I was just glad to be alive. This has happened to me a few times after that, and I always sleep in a position where it is easy to jerk myself awake. For example, my arm resting on the edge of the bed, so even when S.P. hits, the most miniscule movement will send my arm over the edge of the bed, and that movement will wake me up.
For some reason, I didn’t see any figures, hear any noises, or have an out of body experience. All I know is that whenever it happens to me, I get the distinct feeling that If i let this thing win, if I give in to the S.P., then I will surely be no more. It is a terrifying thought. Luckily, I haven’t had it happen in a while. I pray it never happens again.
Just sleep paralysis. Don’t fight it. Just remind yourself your in paralysis state and go back to sleep. I do it all the time. I’ll hear my kids and there suppose to be at school. I’ll hear loud thuds. Once I heard really loud breathing behind my lazy boy. Once I finally got out of paralysis state I looked at the TV and what I was hearing was hot air balloons on Sun Rise Earth. It was hilarious. I have also slipped into paralysis state and my husband happened to walk in the room. He noticed I was struggling so he watched me for a second that shook my shoulder. Sometimes it feels like your being watched or that something is holding you down. All it really is is your mind playing tricks on you. I have come to accept sleep paralysis as a norm. Don’t worry so much about.
I think I have solution for this problem! It helped me and to my fiance that I live with him.
i didnt read your whole story but i know what your dealing with. I cant sleep b/c of it I dont believe nor want to believe in all this stuff people say is wrong’but. I’ve had the same problems with waking up and not being able to move (face down in my pillow) at the age of about 14 or 15. The diff. is I cant remember what saved me from that I had no prob telling my parents things at that time. It happened to me again a week ago and I’m going to ask my mom about the time it happened before. The thing that stopped it this time was my cell phone ringing during my nap.I dont talk about this to many people ur the first and like I said this was real so I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
YES, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH….I AM CURIOUS WHY THIS SO CALLED “S.P.” ONLY HAPPENDS DURING THE DAY FOR ME WHEN I “NAP”…..AT TIMES MY FACE IS ON MY PILLOW AND I TRY WITH ALL MY MIGHT TO MOVE BECAUSE I CANNOT BREATH….I NEVER, NEVER EXPERIENCE THIS” S.P.”, OR STRANGE OCCURENCES AT NIGHT WHEN I SLEEP…….DURING THE DAY WHEN I DOZE OFF, I AM FULLY AWARE AND CAN HEAR LOUD VOICES OF PEOPLE TALKING , OR SOMETHING SITTING ON MY BED……AT TIMES I HEAR RADIO STATIONS BLASTING, BUT CANNOT PLACE WHAT IT IS SAYING OR COMING FROM……..I DO NOT FEEL INTIMADATED ANYMORE , EVEN WHEN I SENSE A “PRESENCE” BREATHING BEHIND MY NECK……OF COURSE ANY PERSON FEELS HELPLESS WHEN YOU CANNOT CONTROL IT OR MOVE…..I AM A VERY STRONG SPIRITED INDIVIDUAL…..I DO NOT KNOW WHY MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY DO NOT EXPERIENCE THIS……I AM RELIEVED TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE EXPERIENCING THIS …….JUST A NOTE —–WHEN I DO “NAP” IN THE DAY, IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHEN I HAVE MY BACK AGAINST A COUCH OR A CORNER,….”IT” DOES NOT CREEP UP BEHIND ME…..GOOD LUCK AND I HOPE MY INFO IS HELPFUL……BE STRONG!!!!
WoW!! IM 16 ! but umm.. my sister who is 14 tells me this happens to her all the time.. we go to a christian church in racine WI, and my sister tells me that screamin “Jesus” in yur mind releases the spirits off yu. And yes i said spirits. These arent angels. if yu read the bible. it talk about how in the beggining angels “the son of God” were sleepin with women “the daughters of man”. and the children they had were becoming Giants “Half angel half man”but anyways as it was told God locked up all the angels that were doin this.. and sent all the women her doin ths to hell. So what happened to the Giants when they died? well since they were half breed they roam the earth in spirit form as “nephilim spirits” if im not makin since please google “nephilim spirits” but these spirits try to find a host “a Human” and when they do.. they believe there God… Such as lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z. Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Noploian, Adlof Hitler.. it all makes sense jus look it up. but the next tim yu feel like somethings holding yu down and tryna get in yu. ask jesus to help yu. even if yur not christian jus try it.
Something really weird happen to me this morning… I was sound asleep and my 6 mo old son was lyin beside me, but all at once my face went down in my pillow, i couldnt move, i couldnt see,breath or hear anything it just felt like somebody was sitting on me, pushing my face into my pillow, fianlly the pressure release and then it did it again,,, but only they i could doo is feel… and i felt myself shaking really bad, and also my son was shaking, the whole bed was… anyhow it stop i got up and i had sweat pouring off of me and then my body was freezing cold. i than i went to get my phone to call my mom, and it was 3:00 in the morning … anyhow i need to know what happen to me…
the paralyzed feeling has happened to me before as well, sometimes when i’m just starting to wake up, sometimes before i’ve even really fallen asleep. i remember once i fell into that state, and really felt like there was this evil presence forcing me down. and even though i came out of it, it just happened again when i laid back down. i was so freaked out. but that paralyzed feeling, along with feeling pinned down and even perceiving evil forces – they are all real symptoms the condition called sleep paralysis. obviously your mother’s experience is pretty extreme – maybe the house really is haunted
but to be sure, despite the feeling that you are really awake, you are actually in a certain stage of sleep, and visions and reality can get confused – another major symptom of sleep paralysis is suffering hallucinations, often terrifying, and certainly seeming real. they’ve conducted studies on people who often experience this, while they were experiencing it, and found that the brain is just hallucinating. i know that despite what i say, you’ll have your own opinions on the subject. but just remember that if it happens and is really upsetting, trying to move your finger, head, or speaking are the best ways to get out of it. and i haven’t had one of these episodes in over a year now, so maybe they’ll just go away altogether!
here is some exciting wikipedia info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis – hope it helps!
this often happened to me when i was 18 up to 21 sleep- paralysis as soon as i moved a finger everything came back all movement , since my son turned 16 he told me he was suffering the same thing exept he said something was holding him down and suffocating him. i thought the same thing as most people sleep paralysis untill two nights ago when i slept in my sons room i felt as if someone was whispering in my ear which woke me up i could not at first move but then managed to turn my head enough to see a small black head crazy eyes laughing manicaly and he was laying on my back pressing up and down, i am a twenty two stone man and managed to turn on my back trapping him below me by this time i had fully awoke and felt him under me for at three minutes his movements grew weaker untill it disappeared. it was a lot different from the sleep paralysis i had as a kid.
This too, happened to me when i was sixteen thru twenty-two. I lived in the house where my grandfather passed away, I saw him slowly die due to natural causes. There were a couple of times that i would wake up to feeling paralized, couldn’t move or talk but just move my eyes. i was so scared i started crying and no one heard me, they were sleeping. The thing that helped me was praying “the our father” and asking in JESUS NAME to release me and let me be and I was freed. I also had encounters with dark spirits watching me(shadow of man images)this happened a few times. Although we had our house prayed for and blessed with holy water, they were still there. I also lived in a house where a woman died a few years ago and we would see her spirit roaming about in the house. this was my first encounter with ghost it was very scary, l,ater we moved. I also had an uncle that fought with an actual demond it was crazy. A friend was also possesed by a demond playing the ouiga board by himself, it later killed him. Although i had encountered these strange things and heard of them, I haven’t experienced anything out of this world for a while. I have gotten closer to God and learned to be more prayerful which has helped alot. BE NOT WEAK MINDED BUT PRAYERFUL AND TRUST IN GOD.
I have had this happen to me many times before. I actually felt like it was kind of comforting at first. Like it was a good force keeping me safe. Just recently a friend of mine began to tell me she felt something like this, I stopped her mid-story and I was able to tell her exactly what she felt. She told me she had looked it up and that it was a bad spirit. I then talked to some other people in my family who also seem to have an unusual amount of contact with unexplainable things. They said they or their partners have had the same thing happen to them and they got rid of it by actually fighting the thing, the spirit, and killing it. One snapped its neck the other stabbed it. I personally do not see how this is possible because for me it is not in a dream like state and I cannot see anything, but recently I began fighting the feeling and breaking out of the paralysis.
Still I do not really feel an evil presence, though that does not necessarily mean there isn’t one. Sometimes I say the Lords Prayer. Last night it happened to me again. I broke out of the paralysis and swear I saw a shorter white blobish humanoid figure a few feet away that would not go away. I kept closing my eyes and opening them again but it was still there. I eventually just decided to go back to sleep. Guess the point I am trying to make is that while it may be a bad spirit it might be something good. I have faith in God, a higher spiritual power, and believe I can defeat anything evil because he is on my side. So I do not have any fear of such things. Hope this helps.
i am tryly so sorry that you have to go through this god is with you just pray, when my first experience happened i ddint know what to do i was so scared and stayed up almost 3 mths it was like i had insomnia. it was like i slowly drifted into them but there has to be a paranormal reason for this to.
I finally found like experiences. ihave been dealing with this for many years…I asked a priest and he did suggest trying to move a finger. I really thought I was crazy.Now I know I am not…Thank God.
I had a really bad one this morning…trying to wake up… i usually try to awake the person next to me …but I can’t and I am like… why can’t anyone hear me… I invoke Jesus and God and it finally goes away.
The best advise I can give is to not let this get a hold of you!!! Alway s know that you are the one in control.. This took me many years to get here, and even thhen I sometimes moe than scared get very frustrated.
Hope this helps.
Your story reminds me of my sister!
i feel bad for you and am so sorry that this is happeninq to you!
well this hasnt happened to me but it did happen to my sister….she is older than me and well she told me her story i do believe her and well we did a research on it and when we found a picture that looked like a demon sittinq on top of you we both got scare and she said that wen that was happeninq to her that she couldn move or even talk and well wen she came out of it she wanted to cry and well i felt so bad for her…she is a very sweet girl…i became more interested in the paranormal phenomena… i would like to experience somethinq but again!
ok i have the same problem but the thing is it only happens at my parents house and alot ….most of the times it jus feels like im awake and cant open my eyes and its jus liek a horrible feeling and sound and i try to like shake to fully wake up or kick my self off my bed or couch were ever i might be sleepin and one time i knew my sis was in the room awake so i tryed to call out her name but i cudnt say it only make the k sound liek kuhh idk why and i told her about the dream and she was liek uhmm yu were makin tht noise..
another time around wen this first started happenin wen i was real young like 12 i thought i was awake in my room layin on my bed like my eyes were open and then it felt liek something eles was controllin my arms and put them over my face and held them ther and i cudnt breath and i woke up by shootin up sweatin and breathin heavy. one time i pulled my self out of it ther was a black shadow over me .. another i was jus pullin out of it my eyes barley open i seen a real tiny white bright light in front of my face and a whisper everything will be fine now or sumthin liek tht its hard to remember … and its wierd wen i pull out of it at times and im about to nod off like im not sleepin at all yet jus noddin i feel like im being pulled back in (me and my sister call it the pullie dream) its like your been pulled down like your be-ing idk how to explain it other then tht but anyway my sister experiences it from time to time still at my parents house and a cuple months ago a firend was sleepin over and i was awake and he randumly woke up sweatin breathin heavy and was liek wtf i felt like i was awake layin her and then a black shadow was chokin me and she and i was jus tryn like get out of it idk and then i told him the same stuff happens to me and my sister and he freaked out and would never sleep over again and ive had very crazy vivid dreams of shadowy figures killin me and my sister had a dream of litteraly being sucked into my room from her room but wht i think it is ,, is like spirts/demons or a ghost if yu wanna say tht messes wit yur reality in a way idk but yeah since i moved out of my house recently i havnt had them pullie dreams but ive been experienceing alot noises / shadows in the mirror babie crying and followin something with his finger and wen i turned the light on he stop cryin but idk if w.e it was at my parents house followed me but stuff still happens ther it actually got worse like they told me the other day the heard glass break outa no were and they were liek wtf where did tht come from and lookin arund and then thhey foudn ther lil peper grinder in the dishwaser when it was in a closed cabinit in the first place …wierd … and the dogs sometimes randumly stair at a spot for a while and sometimes run out of the room and i find them tryna hide behind sumthing shakin i had a spititual guy come over and he did this wierd thing wit a candle in the dark to kind like make it reveal if something was ther and he said yeah i feel something and was speffically my room (real wierd) and when he was feelin arudn hes like its in here its behind yu and b4 he said tht i had liek goosebumps kind on my back and then he said its over ther now and behidn my cuzin who was ther with me a darkness was around him like idk even tho the lights were out it got darker for a second in the room especially aroudn him at tht second it was wierd and then we turnd the lgiht on and something knocked off of my dresser …i am not b.s.ing you this really happens and my sister and i thought we were the only ones tht happend to pleaseee write backk!@
but i reallly would apppriciate it alot if you would write back or something
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