About 12 years ago I had an experience with sleep paralysis. As far as I can recall it is the one and only time I have ever went through it.
I was in bed asleep and I woke up feeling a very heavy sense of terror. I mean I was freaked out, I felt so scared. I felt as though I had had a really bad nightmare but I could not remember anything about it. I know without any doubts whatsoever that I was completely awake. I lay there thinking, trying to figure out what my dream had been about when I noticed that some ‘thing’ was in the room with me. I somehow knew that it was over in the corner of the room but I couldn’t make it out. There was some light coming in form the window so I could see around the room but I couldn’t see what “it” was, all I could really see was a darkness. It wasn’t like a shadow with a certain shape, it was just darkness. When I say that I felt a very evil presence in that darkness I cannot exaggerate, it was bad.
Up until this time I was just laying there. I hadn’t tried to get up or move. But when I tried to raise my head up to look closer at the corner of the room I discovered that I could not move anything except for my eyes! There was a huge weight that started pressing down on me and it was getting difficult to even breathe. At that moment I became even more terrified. I struggled and pushed and then I thought if I could just speak the name of Jesus it would all go away. It took a lot of effort to get the word out. At first it was like I was yelling as loud as I could but no sound would come out. Finally I stuttered the name “Jesus” aloud and instantly the weight vanished and the entire room felt lighter. Just like that the ‘thing’ was over.
A strange thing about all this, and it could very well just be a coincidence, is that just a few days (or maybe it was a couple weeks I can recall for certain but it was definitely no longer than that) before this I was involved in the digging of a grave and we accidentally dug into an old grave that was unmarked.
I posted about this experience here – We Accidentally Dug Into Someone’s Grave!
As odd as it may seem I never really made the connection that my bout with sleep paralysis happened so soon after the cemetery thing until just recently. As I have said it could just be a coincidence, but I think it was more.
Written by the “CareTaker”, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com
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How you described that evil energy is what i also felt when i was attacked by an evil presence. You can’t really desribe the real terror you feel, it goes beyond words doesn’t it?
I don’t think you can put this down to scientific explanations, you were too awake and for quite a while. I feel like you on this too, i know what was in my room was real.
I think the digging of that grave might have had something to do with it. I wonder if the occupant of the grave had been into witchcraft. Just a thought that popped into my head and so i thought i’d put it down. I’ll pm you why that thought popped into my head. It has something to do with a post on the forum.
hey that’s kind of scarythathas happened to me but not as thathard. i did not choke but i felt something following me instead. like something that coulc actually hover.
Wow thats exactly what happened to me- i was only 3 at the time! its so scary isnt it
I have read in some places that sleep paralysis was just normal and nothing paranormal. I just dont believe that and I really think those that do believe it is just a normal thing probably havent really experienced it.
The Caretaker
I’ve had sleep paralysis many times and i really don’t see any supernatural connections to it.
Hey Bracket – Have you ever felt or sensed a presence in the room with you? How did you feel when you were going through it?
I cannot say for a fact what causes this phenomenon or even if it is always caused by the same thing. But I felt that something else was there very strongly – and this was before I had ever read about this sort of thing. I mean I didnt even know it was called sleep paralysis at the time and it was long before this website was ever even thought of.
Thanks for your comment
I know the feeling of trying to scream as loud as you can but nothing or no voice comes out coz i experienced it myself.. scary stuff Caretaker!!
Caretaker
Well i’d do what anybody else would do when you can’t move your body, i’d panic, and yes i would feel a presence but if you think about it if you’re paralyzed don’t you think you’d get a little paranoid?
I was in a panic and felt the presence before I even realized I was paralyzed
I wasnt asking what you “would do” I was asking what you did do as you said you had experienced this many times
Caretaker,
I enjoyed your story. I have had a lot of bad dreams, wake up sweating, rapid heart beat, etc. I’ve only had one experience with sleep paralysis, and that was less than a couple of months ago. (I’m in my fifties now, and I’m not given to wild imagination.) Most people report having something very heavy on the chest, an inability to move, and the keen sense of some sort of malevolent presence. My experience was not unlike that. Moreover, I had some trouble sorting out the “dream” from the “reality.” Truth is I’m not absolutely sure where one begins and the other ends. As dreams go, it rattled me a bit. jeff
Hey Jeff, Thanks for your comment. In my case I woke up and was just laying there thinking about my dream, trying to recall what had happened. That is a common thing for me to do as I had been into studying my dreams and even keeping a journal for a long time.
When I woke up I just thought I was having a bad dream and didn’t think anything “strange” was going on. I felt really terrified as though I had had a bad nightmare but I couldn’t recall anything about it. I have went through that sort of thing many times both before and after that night. I might wake up and feel like I had a really nice dream but at the same time not be able to remember anything about what it was. Or another time I will feel really confused and I know it was because of what I had dreamed but I could not recall a single detail about it. Many times, after I lay still and think about it parts of the dream will come back into my memory but other times I still cant recall what it was about.
I was laying there trying to recall my dream – as anyone who studies dreams probably knows you should try to remain still and you should not get up too quickly as those kinds of actions will make it more difficult to recall your dreams. Anyway, after a few moments of this I noticed that something was in the corner of the room. I couldn’t see what it was but somehow I knew it was there – all I could see was a darkness, its hard to describe.
It was only after I attempted raised up my head to try to see it better that I realized I was paralyzed. This was the only time I have ever had this happen to me and I am in my upper 40s now.
This is something i posted on another story about sleep paralysis.
“Actually sleep paralysis happens to everyone they just don’t remember it because they usually fall asleep again. The brain turns off the muscles so that your body doesn’t act out your dreams. While the brain is in REM sleep it sometimes wakes up but is still in a dream state. This is usually accompanied by a feeling of an entity being in the vicinity. It’s nothing supernatural.”
I read that before but I have a problem with this part “The brain turns off the muscles so that your body doesn’t act out your dreams.” I have never seen anyone who looked like they were paralyzed while they were sleeping and I have seen people (including children) move and toss and turn and even sleepwalk.
Again – I was not asleep when this happened. I realize that I cannot prove that to anyone but I know what I know
Caretaker
Thats because you’re only in REM sleep for a little over an hour. When people are moving around they aren’t in REM sleep.
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I have children, grandchildren, been married twice, have 15 aunts and uncles so lots of cousins and as far as I know none of them have ever experienced this. I have numerous friends who I have talked with and none of them have ever had this happen to them either. So if it is a normal thing that everyone goes through why isnt it more common among those I have known for decades?
Also, and I am assuming that either you do not believe me or maybe you think I was mistaken but what about this — I was fully awake and aware when this happened. I had been laying there trying to recall my dream and I was fully conscious. I was not in REM and I was not asleep. (err then why is this story called “sleep paralysis”? heck I dont know, I dont even know for sure exactly why this happened, I just know that I was not asleep. I am a grown man and I know myself and I certainly know when I am not asleep)
Like i said before “sleep paralysis happens to everyone they just don’t remember it because they usually fall asleep again”. Have you ever had somebody tell you that they told you something while you were half asleep and you remember nothing of the conversation? It’s something like that.
You could have fallen asleep without knowing it and woken up into sleep paralysis.
No I could not have – I was aware the entire time. I understand that speaking in general that could be a possibility but in this case it did not happen like that.
Man I respect you and I dont want to argue but it looks like neither one of us is going to convince the other. Actually it doesnt really matter to me if I can convince someone else of my experience anyway. I just dont want to sit here and have someone say I was asleep when I was not. You see I know what I experienced. Maybe your experiences were different, I dont know about that. But I do know about what I went through and you can tell me that I might have fallen back asleep or whatever but I know for a fact that I did not.
You say “sleep paralysis happens to everyone they just don’t remember it because they usually fall asleep again”. but that still does not explain why no one I know or have ever talked to over the years has ever experienced (or remembered it) this. I see stories online and in forums etc but no one I have ever talked to about it in my life – not a one.
To me it would seem that if that were true then there would still be a lot of people who remembered the experience.
Well it can be worse for different people. If you go to wikipedia it says they can be connected to migraines, narcolepsy, low melatonin and panic disorders.
On your first comment
Are you sure? Because you can fall asleep and not even know it especially since you were just lying there. I mean, thats how you fall asleep anyway.
This happens to me all the time. It happened to me on Tuesday night June 2, 2009. I know I fell asleep and I woke up afraid not terriried as I usually do. This time I could open my eyes just a little and I saw a lite. I normally can’t open my eyes and am so scared I don’t want to open my eyes and there is a terrifing persent in the room. I try to move and scream and cannot. It is the most horrifing thing to go through. When I finally wake up I don’t move for a few minutes. Then get up and put every light on in the house. It is very difficult for me to go back to sleep and I usually don’t.
But on Tuesday night 6/2/09 I did wake up and could not move but, I wasn’t terrified, scared not terrified. Like I said I was able to open my eyes just a little and saw a black thing and a light. I tried to move and scream but couldn’t. When I was able to move I just laid there, I knew something was still in the room. I then felt my maitress moving like someone was bouncing on the bed with their hands. I could see the bed moving and NO I was not asleep, but I wasn’t scared either and then it just stopped. Weird
Hi pab, thanks for the comment. Its always interesting to hear about others’ experiences and how it went for them.
If I had an experience like this that often I would be interested in studying it. Have you ever thought about setting up a video camera when you go to sleep? Or if you have a partner/spouse/friend they could help with the research and try to observe you going through this and maybe take photos and sound recordings?
Just a thought but if this happened to me that often I would definitely by curious and want to study it.
This has happen to me as well, aside from seeing figures walking around in my mothers old house, this scared me the most. I fell asleep on her couch while visiting, I woke up in the middle of the night and wasnt able to move. I felt as if there was something behind the couch, even though i couldnt move, i tried looking into the reflection of the tv. I couldnt make out anything, but i was horrified. I ended up falling back to sleep about 10 minutes later in the same position without moving.
:EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD I HAVE HAS VARIOUS EXPERIENCES WITH NIGHT TERRORS SOME WERE’NT EVEN AT NIGHT .MY MOTHER HAS HAD HER FAIR SHARE OF THE WORLD OF THE WIERD AS WELL.SO I GUESS THATS WHERE I INHEIRITED IT FROM AS A CHILD I FOUND OUT ONE OF MY OLDER BROTHERS HAD A BRUSH WITH A NIGHT TERROR THAT SLAPPED HIM SO HARD IT STUNG HIS FACE
AND KNOCKED HIM OVER. MY MOTHER SAID SOMETHING SLAPPED HER WHILE SLEEP. SHE THOUGHT FOR SOME STRANGE REASON IT WAS ONE OF US KIDS .WE WERE NOT AT HOME AND WOULD NOT HAVE DONE SUCH A THING.
ONE OF MY MANY EXPERIENCES WAS MORE OF A PLAYFUL HIT IN THE FACE LIKE A PILLOW OR A LOAF OF BREAD. I WAS TAKING A NAP ON THE SOFA IN THE LIVINGROOM WITH MY FACE TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE IT.AND DON’T ASK ME HOW BUT IT HIT ME SQUARE IN THE FACE .I ASKED MY MOM WHO WAS IN THE KITCHEN AT THE TIME FIXING DINNER OR SOMETHING.I WAS AROUND TEN OR ELEVEN AT THE TIME.
AND ANOTHER TIME IT WAS DAYTIME AND I WAS JUST WAKING UP AND MY FACE WAS COVERED (I SLEPT THAT WAY FOR FEAR OF BEING TOUCHED BY WHAT EVER IT WAS THAT HAD BEEN FOR YEARS)AND JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO STRETCH
IHAD THIS SUDDEN FEAR OF EVEN TAKING A BREATH.IT WAS LIKE I COULD SENSE
AN EVIL PRESENCE NEAR ME LITERALLY FCE TO FACE I KNEW IF I MOOVED SOMTHING WOULD HAPPEN I FELT LIKE IT WAS A SNAKE AND IT HISSED LIKE ONE TOO! MY EYES WERE COVERED BUT MY MOUTH WAS NOT,THATS WHY I WAS AFRAID TO MOVE OR EVEN BREATHE. UNTIL YOU’VE HAD BED COVERS TUGGED SEE INDENTATIONS NEXT TO YOU LIKE SOMEONE SITTING DOWN OR START GETTING DRAGGED OFF YOUR BED OR YOUR SHOULDERS ,NECK OR WHOLE BODY LAYED UPON DON’T EVER DOUBT NIGHT TERRORS. ALL YOU CAN DO IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UTTER A WORD IS PRAY LIKE CRAZY AND IT WILL STOP. I SPEAK FROM EXPERIENCE.
CT:DONT LET BRACKET GET TO YOU.
I remember having sleep paralysis many times. When these experiences do occur I sometimes feel an sense of sudden ‘delusion’; if you could call it that. What happens is that my body goes into the paralysis and my brain starts working overtime; it’s like a million thoughts are flying through my head at once.
One time, only my right leg was paralysed and it was dangling out of my bed. For some reason I just remember myself pulling it back into my bed.
But in terms of fear and terror, no, I do note feel these. I am not saying that others do not feel terror during these occurrences; it’s quite natural to be afraid, as these experiences are completely out of the ordinary.
The ’scientific’ explanation for sleep paralysis is that when we have our dreams, our body switches itself off, otherwise we’d be running into all sort’s of things. However, sometimes the body will ‘fall asleep’ before our minds do, giving a simple explanation for sleep paralysis.
Also, sleep paralysis experiences are usually accompanied by hallucinations and a feeling of terror.
Hello MZ.A and thanks for your comment. Bracket is fine, he is just expressing his own opinions about the phenomenon and doesn’t bother me a bit. Its always good to have someone to question you and try to get you and others to look at things from different angles.
ElQueLlora thanks – what I wonder when I read the “scientific explanation” is this – If we are paralyzed to avoind moving around in our dreams then why do people talk in their sleep and toos and turn while they are having active dreams? Why do people seepwalk? If our bodies were switched off how could things like that happen at all?
Caretaker
The answer to that is that they aren’t in REM sleep. When people talk or walk in their sleep they are in a very light dream and either going into or out of REM sleep.
So you are saying that sleep paralysis only occurs during REM? I know that is what you have read but I do not just go by what I read, I also go by what I experience, and although you will never believe me – I was NOT asleep when this happened
Also, if it is the purpose of SP to keep someone from moving about or acting out their dreams then it doesnt work very well.
Caretaker
Sleep paralysis happens BECAUSE of REM.
Maybe what happened to you wasn’t sleep paralysis.
Well it’s worked for us so far. Sometimes it may not work perfectly but if we didn’t have it we’d be dead.
BRACKET: W H A T E V E R !!!!
Mz.A
Mz A – It is OK, different people have their own ideas and opinions about things like this. If you read around on this site very much you will find that Bracket makes a lot of great comments and really tries to help people understand whats going on. I am not offended when someone doesnt see a thing the same way I do.
SINCE SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY KNOW SO MUCH ON THE SUBJECT AND THERE OF COURSE COULD BE ANOTHER ANSWER WHAT IS IT?BRACKET FEELS IT IS DUE TO REMS AND SAYS THAT WHAT I AND MANY OTHERS I’M SURE HAVE EXPERIENCED ARE HALUCINATIONS ALTHOUGH WE KNOW DIFFERENTLY.
HE SAYS IT MAY BE SOMETHING ELSE. OKAY , WHAT? (AND PLEEEZE SING A DIFFERENT SONG! THANK YOU.) AND BY THE WAY BRACKET I DON’T MEAN ANY DISRESPECT TO YOU, I’M LOOKING FOR MORE THAN ONE ANSWER IF THERE ARE ANY.
MZ.A
To be honest I do not feel like an expert on the subject of sleep paralysis at all, but I know what I went through and what happened to me. Perhaps it isnt the same with all people, I dont know. I just know that I wasn’t asleep and therefore I was not in REM. I do not believe that Sleep Paralysis is caused by REM. That is I do not believe that is the only cause of it. Who knows? Maybe there are several different phenomenon we are calling by the same name here.
I have read some about it and from what I gather even the “experts” disagree about what causes Sleep Paralysis. The REM connection is not a proven thing but only one of several theories. Personally I will stand by my own description of my personal experience but I would never reach out there and tell aother person that what happened to me and why is the same thing for them. How do I know what someone else has experienced?
There are several ongoing discussions about Sleep Paralysis in our paranormal forum at http://www.talkparanormal.com/forum-29.html Anyone interested in the subject can read about different experiences and viewpoints there.
MZ.A
I follow Occams Razor, the simplest explanation is probably the answer, and i think most people should also because if they don’t, every strange sound is a ghost, every sick person was bitten by a vampire and every dead cow is a victim of a chupacabra. I’m very open minded (if i wasn’t why would i be here?) but there are somethings that i lean towards one side over the other like the moon landing wasn’t a hoax and and sleep paralysis is caused by REM. Also, could you not have your comments be in all caps, it sounds like you’re screaming and i can’t take you seriously. If i remember right, Caretaker hates that too.
Also, when you say you know differently, i’ve had sleep paralysis too. The first time it happened i woke up terrified and couldn’t move i then saw a black entity slowly hover out of my open closet toward me. As soon as it got to me it disappeared. and i could move. Don’t you think if someone had an hallucination, they’d think it was real even though it wasn’t?
Caretaker
Yes some experts have different explanations of what it is but the one i mentioned is the most common one. Since you weren’t sleeping when it happened i don’t think it was sleep paralysis, and there are now so many things it could have been.
“the simplest explanation is probably the answer” I agree, that is the best way to look at things.
Whatever it was that happened to me happened after I had woke up and was laying there for a few minutes. I have said from the beginning that I was actually awake when it occured so maybe “sleep” paralysis might not be the best description of it. I dont know what the heck was going on with me.
Bracket did you read about what happened just before my experience? Me and another guy actually dug into someone’s grave. It was an accident but it was really a horrible experience. I dont know if there was any connection between the two events but if not it was a strange coincidence.
Bracket and Caretaker, first of all sorry for the caps .no i.m not yelling,i’m just a woman who is not very good at typing and who is finally coming into the Twenty first century a far as computers are concerned and for me is difficult trying to understand how touse them but hey i’m learning.I was using caps because it was faster and easier for me .i did’nt mean to give the wrong impression.sorry. I do understand what both of you are trying to tell me . I’ve done a bit of research over the years as well.Iseem to be sending mixed messages or somthing because neither of you are understanding me .Caretaker I was not saying i did not believe you okay because i agree with you 100% i just don’t believe that REM’s are the total answer but maybe some how part of it could accounted in some instances but not all as bracket was implying.i’m sure now that it wasmeant as a plausable answer not as a fact. My intentions were only to share a small part of my experiences with everyone not get any thing started so with this said i will make my exit with no further comments on this subject. Live well and be happy. God bless.
Caretaker
I was kind of wondering about that. If you were awake before it happened then it most likely wasn’t sleep paralysis so i was wondering what else it could be and one of the possible explanations was some kind of haunting.
It happened 20 years ago. That night my room was lit beacause I was too lazy to switch off the light. Eyes shut, waiting to go into sleep, I heard footsteps coming upstairs. It must be my father to check on me. Those lazy but stern footsteps in slippers one after another were crystal clear tapping on the wooden staircase floor. I prepared to jump up from my bed to give my father a surprise when he would reach my bed. Then I distinguished that the sound didn’t belong to my father. Who else would that be? A ghost? Would that be my deceased grandfather whom I’ve never met? Or just a male-ghost with menace? Then I remembered the corridor and staircase were actually fluffy carpeted. This certain to be a ghost encountering. At last, reaching the door, there was a pause, but without the sound of opening the door, the footsteps began pacing to my bedside and stop. It must be a ghost. But I had to face it. I started to jump up. Hell no! I couldn’t move. Relax. Breathe in and out slowly to pump up my energy. Half a minute passed. I let free all I’d got and jumped up and opened my eyes. Gee…… the sound as if water is coming out from my blocked ears. No one beside me. Only at that point did I start to actually hear the surrounding. The clock at 2. I had slept for a few hours already. This might be just hallucination. But later on my years, I experienced real facts that I knew there are ghosts and super men and gods! This gave me just some understanding of this world. (2009-7-22 the day the sun total eclipse’s belt crossing China stretching from Chongqing to Shanghai, these areas will have breaking news of disaster–the Sun represents positive energy, and we all live under the clockwork influence of stars, the unbalanced wavelength of rays and magnetic force imposed). Saying things that are controversial if even unproven definitely arouse challenging. Erected is a sign ‘Fierce Dog’, meaning the people inside don’t want to be disturbed, no matter there is a dog or not. If you mimic barking to irritate, certainly you are initiating a fight. Everyone has seen this kind of signs, but it is totally up to the individual how to interpret it. If there were more listeners than challengers, there wouldn’t have so much conflicts to begin with to start wars. A gigameg mind adaptability can accept even 1k tiny new input. To exist in this world, to all living or Dead things, I believe respect is the key word.
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I have experienced a similar phenomenon but it was not malevolent. The reason I stopped believing this is a super natural phenomenon is because I fell asleep one time and dreamt that my mother had woken me up to get blankets so I would not get a cold.Then I walked over picked up some blankets and fell back asleep. This part of the dream seemed very real. When I went back to sleep in the dream I felt electrical shocks through my body and could see a purple background with black dots floating around I thought this was a dream and tried to move but could not I could not even open my eyes. and when I woke I wondered who had taken the blankets off of me and asked my mother if she had even woken me up to get blankets in the first place to which she replied no. So maybe you believ you were awake whn really it was one of those dreams that feels real but you had no way of reassuring you’re self it was just a dream.
Hi, Caretaker, scarygirl here
Just jumped over from the forum to read this story. I had read it before, but I didn’t have time to comment on it.
That experience of yours sounds like it must have been terrifying for you. The only time I experienced sleep paralysis, there weren’t any visions, just that horrible sensation of not being able to move.
I don’t kow if accidentally digging up the grave had anything to do with it, but it’s my opinion you had an encounter with something evil. Science cannot explain away that gut feeling of abject terror………but that gut feeling is there for a reason. Thank you so much for sharing that story.
It happened to me about a month ago, it was horrible. I had a nightmare and “woke up” but couldn’t move. I could see a dark figure in the doorway and felt utterly terrified, I felt a bit of courage since I live at home with my mom and two siblings (and i share a room with my brother… and the bathroom light was on) so I fought the paralysis and managed to sit up. I felt quite groggy from sleep but tried to scream, my voice wouldn’t work so I used all my strength to start banging on the wall as hard as I could, only my right arm would work, and screamed for help in my mind. After a few seconds my mum walked across the landing to go to the toilet and the figure dissapeared. With the landing light on she saw me awake and told me to go back to sleep. I was too tired to object.
The scariest thing though, was that the next morning my mum couldn’t remember any of this and said she didn’t wake up last night! My eyes were half shut with sleep so I couldn’t see her properly, but I assumed it was my mum…. who else could it have been?
Or was it all just a dream? … somehow that makes it scarier!!!
i get used to this experiences so often it now bored me. My experiences are as scary as hell always. Feeling of exceedingly malevolent entities of great strength bound me cackling laughter, screams as if a horde of swines are being butchered, shadow presence, incoherent languages uttered by someone with demonic origin then speaking my name, weird lizards and reptiles, swarms of giant centipedes and spiders crawling all over, UFO buzzing sounds, old hags etc. One time i thought what if i just let it pass without fighting it, but then the creepiness become so intolerable i was force to move my pinky to break it. from then on the spell last even longer and more terrifying.
I sometimes i induce sleep paralysis because i like the indescribable terrifying experiences however it seems becoming more harder and harder to break through it… still manage to do so
one day/night i might not get lucky though.. haha… i love sleep paralysis
how do i induce sleep paralysis and how to make it creepier.
1. Stress-up, deprived your self from sleeping, etc (usual SP inducer)
2. when going to sleep just rest your body but keep your mind awake. think something creepy or horrible like some demonic entities are with you in the room, or try to visualize that you are dreaming and you are aware of it and you’ll do something like flying, sex, etc (lucid dreaming).
3. when you are dreaming be aware of it and always makes your dreams creepier so you would desired to wake up. When i wake up i’m almost always undergo sleep paralysis.
4. I’ll always leave the lights “on” so i can see the “entities” with me in the room more clearly. leave the windows closet open and expect some malevolent thing will come in/out during sleep paralysis. put demonic posters, lizard pets, horror toys in your room.
play a record of murmuring or scary screeches as background noise.
5. Beware though, sleep paralysis always gives me a terrible headache afterwards.
I have experienced sleep paralysis many times throughout my lifetime, I am now in my fifties. My experience is however a little different. I know that I’m asleep and dreaming and if I don’t wake up right away, I will be lost in this dream forever. I have to shake myself awake, which is very difficult to accomplish. Often the dream is not a bad one, I usually see many different faces. Don’t feel the evil presence, just the thought of not returning to my life and family is very scary. Maybe this is not sleep paralysis, but still very troubling. Usually happens when I can’t get to sleep right away.
I never woke up & felt that I was held down, but other similar things has happened. I’ve woke up & felt as though I’ve been hit hard buy somethin in my face. I also, woke up tryin to scream & couldn’t, I tried to scream because I seen a spirit of a little girl in the mirror at the foot of the bed, I haven’t figured out if I was dreaming or not, but I don’t remember goin to sleep. I’m not sure if, these are catergorized by the same thing, but I wish I knew what they are & more info about them.
When I was in collage I was dating a guy whom was according to my parents not a good in fluence on me. One day I was in my dorm and decided to take a nap. I thought I was dreaming and it was as if we were “snuggling” in bed during my dream, he was saying I love you and it felt as if his arms were around me in my dream, all of the sudden I felt a pressure in my chest and I was lying on my back instead of my side, It felt like something was literally trying to pull me down from beneath the bed to the floor, suddenly a blood red face with a devil like expression looked at me straight in the eyes whatever it was appeared to be wearing an old Indian head dress with old feathers, it said “you are going down to hell with me”, I could see all around the room but I could not move my arms legs or even get up I could not awaken from this bad dream or whatever it was for a few minutes, the room was just as it was when I finally could move after about 3-4 minutes I was terrified and immediately left my dorm to find comfort with my friends on campus.
happens to me all the time throughout my life. I am always able to forget about it until it happens again.