Comments on: Terrifying Sleep Paralysis Experience

By: lilleth

lilleth — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:22:03 +0000

hi whitelock, i have the very same experience as you, alot of the time as i am falling asleep i get this extrememly wierd feeling as my sleep is deepening. it is a feeling of dread in my head chest and stomach its like my body or something is telling me to wake myslef up now or i am definatly going to have an experience of paralisys and whatever comes with that. it is very hard to wake myslef up sometimes its like i feel im drugged or under some influence i have shaken my head sat up walked about splashed my self with water anything to keep me awake and if that feeling doesnt go i will try and stay awake untill its daylight which may sound radiculas but i swear if its daylight it doesnt happen? sometimes when i get the sense or feeling that if i dnt wake up now or stop myself from falling asleep i also will be lost in whatever is going to hapen forever. i have spoken to friends about this who havnt experienced this and they find it very disturbing as like i do, this has been happeing to me for 15yrs+ although sometimes i have sensed its going to happen alot of times i have not, although bad stuff beyond my control has happened to me in my life i dnt know whether its because i carry whats happened to me subconciously which comes out in sleep paralisys? its not always the same i have 3 occuring experiences one more than the other two and it is always someone a man who is big in build and height and has a bald head shaven but i cnt see his face or features, i always sense that he wants me he wants to have me and he is very frustrated and angry that he cnt do what he wants to which i sense is attack me torture me then kill me, i hear him breath feel his breath hear him walk about, stand over me just staring at me, iv felt him kneel at my bed and climb on the bed and lay next to me also i have felt him move the covers and lay under them next to me just staring at me i can even smell him like a musky smell. i am quite open to anything and this could be my imagination gone wild i dnt know? but it could be something else? i beleive this because it is so real to me i know what i ahve experienced and what iv felt and saw with my own eyes. i have moved recently and its happened once in 6 months wich is good because the last two places i lived in it happened alot. i would love for it never to happen again. it is a very terrifying experience. anyway just thougth id tell you my experience. thanks : )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:52:03 +0000

i myself have suffered with sleep paralysis for a long time, i am 31 now and have been going through this for half my life. it is a horrible experience and it terrifies me. i seem to of had the same thing happen to me only several times has it been different. sometimes before i am dropping off to sleep i get this extrememly wierd feeling throughout my body and head its hard to describe all i can say is it is like my whole body from head to toe is tingling and i feel like i am falling, sometimes actually many times i have got up because i have this dreaded ear that something is going to happen. my experiences have always occured during the night, i will be woken very suddenly very frightened infact frightened is a mild word, my eyes are wide open i can see my room and eevrything in it but i am completely paralised and speechless aswell as that i am so terrified because i know i am not alone now i have had a few different things happen to me either i can just sense something or someone with me a male, not a very nice male and he is just watching me, i will hear footsteps and breathing sometimes i feel the bed move at my feet like he is kneeling at my feet and then very slowly he will proceed to crawl starting at my feet untill he is litterally over me i can feel him breathing and other times the cover is lifted slightly. i have even sometimes felt him under the covers and laying next to me, i get the feeling its sexual on his part but he just cnt do what he wants to do he is angry and very frustrated. other times he is with a female and they whisper and tell each other to shhh while they creep around me a couple of times iv heard them giggle. i cannot move i am terrified and it takes some outer strength when i can finally jump out of bed and turn the light on but nothings there? that is what i have mainly been through but several times i have had a different experience and its a little boy, my eyes open and theres a very small boy there he runs from one side of the bed to the other giggling but everytime he gets to the bedside tables he stops and bangs his head continuasly off the bedside table extremely fast he then stops looks at me and his head does this head shake that is so frightening as it is not normal the speed he does it at is fast he then runs from side to side repeating the sequence utnill i can jump up. i am screaming inside my head trying to move and wake up my partner. on few occasins my partner has woken up to see my body jolting whilest my eyes are open he says the expression on my face is horrific and very frightened. i now dnt sleep upstairs as often as i should i dnt sleep well as it has really scared me, its horrible iv been to the doctors been prescribed sleeping tablets but it doesnt stop i dnt take tablets now either as they were making me feel unwell and like a zombie. i have had some not so good things happen to me as a child, i have been taken adavntage of a few times but my parents either brushed it under the carpet and dnt talk about it and a couple they dnt know about. id liek to know if this has contributed to the sleep paralisys or is there something else going on?? i suffer with depression but i am not a person that is extremely unhappy its just whats happened in ym life thats made me depressed. please if anyone can help id be grateful. thanks. jo x

By: Bracket

Bracket — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:53:03 +0000

Thanks Sandi.

By: Sandi

Sandi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:59:39 +0000

I can tell you if it wasnt for peoples different outlooks on life then it would not be so much fun. I love it when i see Bracket commenting on stuff. Half the fun is seeing people go back and forth on some of these topics which enables me to see things from different perspectives. I love this site!!

By: Caretaker

Caretaker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:24:28 +0000

Hey Sandi, thank you for commenting. It can be frustrating when you know something for an absolute fact and you have someone trying to convince you otherwise. I dont have a problem with someone not believing me, but I do when they try to convince me that what I know for a fact is not a fact. Bracket’s OK though, I really enjoy our debates and discussions and there have been many.

By: Sandi

Sandi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:06:19 +0000

Hi everyone. Reading your story caretaker gave me he heebie jeebies. I enjoy reading the comments just as much as it is great to see all the different opinions- Hi Bracket!!! But your story reminds me of one that i experienced myself. Good controversy over the REM part. However my story also occured during the middle of the day (after the initial night experiences) which completely killed that option for me. Which leads me to believe more in it being a supernatural experience. I, like you and so many Caretaker know what i experienced was genuine and will never be able to convince everybody. thats ok though. I still love discussing it and seeing everyone elses strories too. God bless!!

By: trolldoll1681

trolldoll1681 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:34:56 +0000

i just found a movie called Nightmare. it stars halie duffy, from 2007. it has to do with sleep paralysis and a evil enity in visions.

By: Spoonerstguy

Spoonerstguy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:39:44 +0000

Ok this is so serious, I have about 3 episodes a month no joke, and it always happens as I’m falling asleep. It feels like I’m fading into unconsciousness and then I realize I’m fading away and at that same time it feels like pressure is being put on my mind or head and is pushing me down, and I literally fight it and try to struggle out of it but am not moving and all of a sudden I come out of it screeming a horrible sound and kicking and screaming. My wife says sometimes right before I come out of it she can hear me mumbling softly and flinching. Its scares me so bad man I’m afraid I won’t wake up from it sometimes if I don’t fight it. And the weird thing is before I realize what’s happening I can here the TV and everything around me but can’t move anything. I find this happening to me anywhere I might doze off at, I’m so frightened somethings gonna happen to me while I’m in paralysis and not be able to do anything about it. Anyone with any helpful thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I don’t know what else to do. Aaron

By: gabriel

gabriel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:49:06 +0000

Caretaker i have had almost the same experience as you,

while im typing this, the hair on my arms are standing.

i live in the philippines. It was a very hot afternoon that day, i felt rather sleepy so i decided to take a nap. i sprawled on my bed and drifted to sleep. Then i had this very strange dream that i was walking on a place with many skulls. What woke me up is when i walked in my dream, i felt like i fell on the edge of a mountain of skulls. Then i was shaken and i woke up. I stared up my ceiling and i know that i’m awake. I was very sweaty and i had this feeling that my whole body was heavy. I then tried to get up. But i cant. My arms felt heavy, i felt like i had no strength at all to lift my arms.. i rolled my arms and stared up the window and was surprised to see a dark shadow on the corner of my eyes.. I felt like i was fighting for my life and i thought i was going to die right there…

i tried to shout but no words came out of my mouth… 1 thought circled through my mind..
i said Jesus, jesus help me.. I managed to mumble Jesus, then i screamed on top of my lungs…

then i stood up.. i ran outside the house and it was already getting dark…
i was there for 5 hours on my room struggling with an unknown force..

i can never forget this experience…. Scariest Thing that happened to my life ever..

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:57:14 +0000

I’ve actually had this happen to me several times. I’ve waken up in the night, and couldn’t move. I could however, see, smell, hear, and feel. I felt like there was a pressure on my chest, and as hard as I tried to scream, nothing came out. I’ve seen things too. And had the feeling of pure terror. I was so scared about what I had experienced, until I did some research and figured out what it was. I believe your story, but what you’re experiencing is nto paranormal. It’s sometimes referred to as “Old Hag Syndrome”. Basically, when your body enters REM sleep, (the deepest stage of sleeping, also it’s when you dream) you motor funtions shut down, so if it’s a vivid dream, you can’t hurt yourself. Sometimes, when you wake up during REM you’re mind still thinks you’re in REM sleep. So you can’t move your body. Often, your mind also still thinks you’re dreaming, so you may see, hear, feel, and even smell things.

It’s possible what you felt may have been something paranormal, and It’s not my place to tell you if it was real or not, but please do some research on it. Many people want to believe what they have experienced is paranormal, but there’s really no since scaring yourself of something, if it has a logical explantion. Here’s some information on it from another paranormal website:
http://www.castleofspirits.com/sleepparalysis.html