I’ve been browsing and reading through many experiences others have posted here about sleep paralysis, but couldn’t find one similar to mine. I’d like to share my own experience with whoever is interested. This also never happened again since, and I hope it does not, as it was a very frightening experience.
One night I decided that my own bedroom is too cold to sleep in, especially because there is a balcony connected directly to my room, so I decided to sleep in the living room, on the leather couch where I’d be able to conserve my body heat better.
I woke up, or rather I became conscious and aware that I was no longer dreaming. For a few moments I had to question myself where the loud noises of birds twittering away was coming from, or even if it was real. Their loud twittering sounded like there was a tree or bush filled with them, and twittering rather loudly, so much that I felt too irritated to keep sleeping. But when I tried to open my eyes, I just couldn’t. I can still remember wanting so badly to open them, to move my head, to twitch slightly even a finger or limb but I couldn’t. I also felt a heavy and firm weight above my chest. Almost like there was some person sitting on me, just enough to keep me from getting up. Why I couldn’t move the rest of me, and couldn’t open my eyes, I don’t know. I also tried to say something, like “Get off of me, whatever you are,” but I couldn’t even say a single word. I also found it impossible to even swallow. I also felt it then that my difficulty breathing was also coming from something trying to strangle me. It was so heavy and terrifying I thought I might really die from it. But then as I became more and more aware and awake, and trying to find my consciousness from all this scare, I started questioning whether this was some similar evil spirit or demon that I heard about from time to time.
I guess this is when I really found my focus and did what I automatically and instinctively do when I feel afraid or threatened. I started trying to pray the Our Father with all my heart, and even this was very difficult. I don’t know how this even makes sense but it felt like the heaviness on my chest, the heaviness wrapped firmly around my throat was actually trying to prevent me from even saying the prayer in my mind. I kept at it though, because the fear only kept pushing me on to focus. Finally the heaviness started to lessen and I could breathe again, I heard myself saying “In the name of my savior Jesus Christ, I demand you to get off of me!” I remember how scared I was and my legs still feel kind of weak from the memory. But I do also remember that when I found my voice again I could whisper as hard as I can “.. get off, off of me!!”
The twittering died away too, and when I looked at the digital clock directly across the living room from me, it said some time after 3 am.
I am Christian, and I am not saying this is the only way to wake up and what not when feeling threatened by an evil presence, but this is simply what I did. And in complete honesty, my reaction was by instinct, something that I might even say a knee-jerk kind of reaction.
Thanks for reading.
Sent in by Helen, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com
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it worked, so use this if it ever happens again, hopefully it won’t!
I know what that is like. It is terrifying. I would awaken to the feeling of like small cats on the bed or something. I knew what it was. The next thing I would feel would be the downward force of about 350 pounds of pressure. I was able to open my eyes though. On night I put up a fight and when I was able to get up I had broken blood vessels in my eyes and was later diagnosed with a hyatius hernia. I think you did the right thing by praying. Struggeling sometimes you hurt your self. If it continues i hope you seek and find help.
Lee I.
Ive wrote in a few sleep paralyaia things coz ive had it an awful lot. I woke up in my first flat I lived in with my 1st boyfriend, I also couldnt move and right in my ear,i could heard birds twittering like you said, like i was in a tree with a thousand bloody birds in it, it wasnt a nice sound:( I kept getting very luid dreams though, I would wake up, my boyfrnd walkin in from work, askin why was he back so early, and normalish conversation, eventually i got used to it and would say, ‘you’re not really here are you’ and he would say’no, you’re dreaming about me coming home’ lol …and once i woke up to find my gran and aunt sitting on the chairs next to my bed, I was a little surprised to see them but nothing I though really weird, we were chatting away but something started to feel ‘not right’ my gran started to laugh at something I said, the laugh slowly rose to a maniacal, scary as sh*t laugh. soon as my brain knew it had tricked me yet again with a different ploy, i woke up. my aunt and gran thought it was quite funny, but yeah, scary too lol, bless em;)
I’ve had something kind of like this before, I was younger, maybe 9 or 10. I remember the dream I had… I t was that I was in my 2nd grade classroom and I faintly remembered worrying about a test or something, and then suddenly the room was partially flooded and everyone else was floating on umbrellas through the flooding room, including my 2nd grade teacher, and I was just standing in the water. I woke up and I could open my eyes, but I don’t remember being able to look around much. I also remember trying to say something, call for my parents, but I couldn’t. Breathing seemed difficult too. I couldn’t move my arms or legs or anything. Slowly I felt like a tingling sensation come over me and I can move again and I get out of bed and go to the living room where my parents were still awake and telling them what happened, then they led me back to my bed and they prayed with me and i went back to sleep alright and it never happened again. It was terrifying, though.
I just had an experience no more then 5 mins ago- freaky as he’ll. I was having a dream about- well it’s kind of hard to explain but it ended with me talking to myself in a mirror but my image was a dark grey monster… I wanna say a big wolf or something, I could only see my face though. I was talking to my reflection amd it was as of I was talking to someone else, like a different persona and I asked it “what did I eat?” and the figure said “thought we weren’t gonna talk about that” and I continued to say “as long as it wasn’t a person… A person I love or know or care about” then it grinned kind of evil like. This is when it happened- all of a sudden I was home layn in my bed I couldn’t move- nothing. I began to freak out a bit amd normal instinct I tried to open my eyes and as if someone/something knew I was trying to open my eyes to see what was going on I felt this pressure on my biddy and I couldn’t barely breath and began to weeze rather loudly as I tried to take deep breaths and I got my eyes to open very very little just enough to see something move towards my bed ( which I’m sure will remain to be the most terrifying moment of my life) at that moment since I couldn’t move or breath and was scared I closed my eyes and told myself I’d be ok and nothing was there and and little by little I regain control of my body, first my finger tips then the rest- after gathering courage I ran to the light and yeah immediately grabbed my phone to look up WTF just happened…… Everyone seems to go straight to religious aspect and say its bad spirits or demons but could it also maybe be some sort of abduction method? (yes aliens).
Briian – here is just such a story that connects sleep paralysis with aliens – Sleep Paralysis and Alien Encounter