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Waking Up Scared

Posted on May 5, 2011

Growing up, I experienced many instances of sleep paralysis. I guess I thought it was normal, because I haven’t thought about it in a very long time. After reading about the instances here, I realized that I’ve definitely experienced sleep paralysis.

From the time I was very young, I would wake up at least once or twice a month in a state of extreme fear, unable to move. Most of the time I would wake up and even though I couldn’t open my eyes, I knew that I wasn’t alone in my room. I could feel the presence of something so evil and THERE that it’s presence was a physical thing. My heart would be beating fast and my eyes would be trying to open, but I couldn’t open them no matter how hard I tried.

Somehow, even though I couldn’t see, I could still “see” my room and the shadows that surrounded my bed. I could see something that was darker than the dark moving at the foot of my bed. And I always thought that if I couldn’t wake up SOON, then the blackness would reveal itself and I would really know what the boogeyman looked like.

And always, just at the point when I thought that my heart would freeze in fear and I would see some horrible thing, I would manage to sit up in bed with a scream locked behind my lips.

These experiences happened to me over and over in childhood. I guess they probably stopped in my late teens or early twenties. I actually still experience them now, but they are pretty rare. The last one was about 2 years ago and I snapped out of it pretty quickly.

I totally believe that the experiences are not just bad dreams. I know that the presence at the foot of my bed is real. I’m just not sure what it is. I know it’s evil and it would harm me if I didn’t wake up, it it had just a few more seconds to touch me.

Is this sleep paralysis? Or something else?

Sent in by Mary Perkins, Copyright 2011




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4 Responses to “Waking Up Scared”
  1. prettyma says:

    I’ve actually had the same things happen to me growing up….I remember telling my grandmother before she passed and she just told me it was “the devil riding my back”..I dunno what that means but yeah its pretty freaking scary and creepy. But I know when I put the LORDS name it it, everything would stop and I’d wake up

  2. Vonnie says:

    This is sleep paralysis. Some people have issues with it like this, but it isn’t the presence of Satan or some kind of Demon. And even if somehow it is, keep praying and keep moving on. (: He’s just trying to scare you, love.

  3. toni says:

    Thank you so much for your story hun. This is the first one that I have read that has even come close to the type of sleep paralysis I have experienced. Just like you I would be sleeping…and suddently wake up….i didnt feel fully awake tho… but with my eyes closed and not being able to move or open them. and like you even though my eyes were closed i could still see my room! everything in it…clothes on the floor everything, depending on which position i was sleeping in. i also felt a presence everytime but never saw one until i had the sleep paralysis while i was sleeping on the couch. same thing happened but this time a man was standing at the end of the couch in front of the wall..which again i was seeing with my eyes closed not being able to move or open my eyes. i normally got myself out of this by rocking back and forth. the time on the couch i could actually move my neck so i tried to jerk my head back and forth until i got my eyes open. its scary stuff hun. it happens to me every once in awhile now. not near as often as i used to have it. be safe and thank you so much again for your story <3

  4. scott davies says:

    i get this about 3 times a week and have had it for 2 years now, i get sleep paralasys a lot and like people have said i can see my room even though my eyes are closed and i cant move, … and i aslo have days where i will wake up from sleep with no recollection of my dream, i will bolt for my bedroom faster than i would normaly move, to open it because im in a state of terror and i feel like something evil is in my room, opening my door seems to be my safety becaue we leave the landing light on ive always wonderd though is it paranormal, is it something i ate before bed. is it stress induced or am i completly nuts

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