Fearless_Hyena

Happened to me again on Monday. For me, when it occurs it seems to have something to do with stress and/or lack of sleep. I had been up for a very long time and was very tired, so tired that I had trouble falling asleep! I was sleeping in a strange place (on the sofa). I woke up and was terrified, flat on my back and could not move. Fell back asleep after what seemed like an eternity of hell, and again it was non-specific but very frightening at the time. Scared the shit out of me!!!

lurkette

I have experienced this several times. I am also a beginning psychic and asked my teacher about this. She told me that it is when the soul leaves the body, to do whatever it is souls do when they travel, and the conscious self wakes up while the soul is gone. She said that the way to deal with it is to just remain calm and "tell" your soul to come on back. After she told me that, I have done it several times and it's always been an almost immediate fix.


somehow i've managed to log in as my sister. what the heck? anyhow, i'm not her.
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irseg

Nah, it's chemicals that your brain releases to paralyze your body to keep you from acting out your dreams. Sleep paralysis happens when you wake up too soon, and it goes away within 30 seconds or so once those chemicals dissipate. "Calling your spirit back" has nothing to do with it, or else there would be an awful lot of permanently paralyzed people out there who weren't so "enlightened".

Hedgehog

I get this whenever I sleep on my back. It even makes me stop breathing. I had surgery for sleep apnea, which corrected my snoring and removed any blockage I had in my sinuses, however, I have been observed that when I sleep on my back that my breathing gets shallower, and shallower, until I stop breathing altogether. No snoring, no blockage. My chest just stops rising.

What's worse is that the lack of oxygen wakes me up, but I'm paralyzed and can't turn over to breathe! It takes at least 10 seconds or more to be able to move and take a breath.

I don't even try to sleep on my back any more.

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Stan

This happened to me just 2 nights ago. After reading the thread about lucid dreaming. I was trying to lucid dream, and I fell asleep, but then in my dream, I "woke up" because I heard some noises (which may have been real), and I thought there was a robber/murderer type person in my room, in the dark. I was freakin out, trying real hard to wake up before he'd stab me in my sleep. Waking up from that state was pretty tough, takes immense concentration. Once you get a little bit of control, you wake up pretty quickly. I woke up lookin around my room for anything unusual, then went to sleep again after I felt everything was OK. I know this isn't true sleep paralysis, where your eyes are open and mind is awake, but body is still asleep. I think it's fun

ApexgriN

Stan: Those noises you heard are normal when entering a dream state while still aware. It's hard to ignore them and go with it, but getting stuck in that state can be extremely scary. It's common to lucid dreamers.

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HR186S

This happens to me alot. In fact it happened only a few hours ago, which is why i am here . Heres what happened.
Sometimes, just out of the blue, (probably once a month, maybe less) i get this feeling of exhaustion. Its night time, about 7-9pm and i just feel tired. Usually im a night person and stay awake till 3-4am. Well anyway, i go to my bed and either get in or lie on top. I slowly drift myself off to sleep, by breathing slowly and not moving an inch. I sleep on my back probably 90% of the time. Well anyway i get this feeling when im trying to sleep that my eyes are slowly opening, i notice this because light comes in and i start seeing my room. I picture this and then close my eyes again and the same thing happens. My eyes slowly open. At this point i have been lying still for quite a while. I could probably move if i wanted to, but i just stay still.
Now, i get these visions, in my eyes (or brain, i dont know) Now its probably just me moving my eyes around in my head, but i see swirling light, and try to follow it. This is usually accompanied by floods of energy starting in my head and moving through my body (This seems to relax me even more and feels awesome). Im all concious of all this happening, and try to get more of these "floods" happening. Usually moving my eyes around and staring down, up, sideways does it. This can sometime take a while, I'm just laying there motionless in a trance like state fully aware of what i'm doing.
Now sometimes i can enter a lucid dream state from this "trance" where i eventually fall asleep and start to dream. I think of things in my head and they appear in front of me. I can start flying sometimes too.
Or this can happen.
I am fully aware that i'm asleep, and i cant move my body. However this doesnt worry me. I start to fly but i cant see anything, only light (flickers of white lights, sort of like stars everywhere, moving) Ok so here i am floating around minding my own business enjoying myself. This is where it gets freaky. I start to hear voices. No visions (well nothing that looks like anything), just the blackness or space with the little lights everywhere. Most of these voices talk to me, in a normal voice. I know what theyre saying. They tell me where to go, where to float. Other voices however are dark and evil. They yell at me. I cannot picture anything, they just yell really loud, bursting into my head.
One of these dreams i had. I was sleeping at my ex's house and i floated off her bed, and well, after some trick flying about and enjoying myself I landed on the bed perfectly. In a loud, clear voice when i land i hear this.
"In One Year, I Will Come"
I absolutely shit myself, and try to wake myself up. I cannot move of course, so i picture myself getting up in my dream. I stumble out of bed, and walk across the corridor. I fall into the door of the opposite the room. (This is clear as day, well maybe a bit blurry around the edges.) And call out to my girlfriend at the time. Im trying to call her name but she is just sitting there on a chair on the pc. I can see her. I call, and call, and call. Finally i get woken up by her. She tells me she could here me murmering her name from the other room, and came over to see if i was alright.

The dream that just happened before however was slightly different. I got yelled at, to go to a certain place, if i wanted to continue. (This voice just pops in my head, without warning, no visual clues etc) This startles me and i wake myself up panic striken. I realise its a dream and fall asleep again. Almost instantly i feel myself float back to where i was before. I hear another voice, this time even louder, scream at me. He says something like... "You have to go here, so you've decided to huh? well i'm coming with you." This totally freaks me out because the same thing just happened, and BAM! it happened again. I try to wake myself up, and of course i cant move, panic stricken i cannot move, i use all my strength just to move my arm. I have the feeling that if i don't wake up I'll die. I move my arm, and open my eyes. My heart is pounding a million miles per hour, and im a little sweaty.

Other dreams i've had i picture myself looking at an image of my room, and sure enough when i wake myself up after a panic that i cant move, when i open my eyes its the exact same image.

This stuff has got me freaked out, the weirdest part is i know when it will happen, (When i get tired all of a sudden, and a strong urge to nap). I really wanted to continue that dream before, but these people yelling at me and warning me always freak me too much and i wake myself up. I want the courage to follow through for once!

By the way, nothing did come after 1 year, well at least i don't think it did....

I also get those random voices in my head when im trying to sleep. "Nah i think its this way" or "I dont think so" but these are voices of people i know. like my mother, brother, friends etc... The big booming voice in my dreams i dont know who it is... All i know is its evil, and damn scary.

babylon067

I have had these experiences for the past 10 or so years of my life, the first one I can remember was the worst.

I had a fever and then had a fever dream/halluciantion, all I remember was some unexplanible, I felt as if I was seeing a new color for the first time, my body and every possible fiber in the universe felt huge and miniscule at the same time, I awoke paralyzed watching eyes in the corner of the room, I'm not sure how long it lasted but I managed to stumble out of my bed and down the hall, where my dad walked out of the shadows (adding to the scare factor!) and asked me what had happened, apparently I said "there's a man in my room". He calmed me down, we drank some orange juice and I slept in the living room.

The second and only other major one happened about a year after, I was sleeping woke up and couldn't move for probably near a minute, I lost my ability to breath and my pain gained a huge pressure (I now know I have atsma (sp?) but that's been my only "attack") I ran into my parents room and finnaly normalized again.

I've probably had about 5 more attacks, mostly coupled with the aboved metion of feeling live you moving 1000 miles a hour of the bed, and then it's normal.

jwoody

In my original post I stated that 'nearly all attacks occur when the person is sleeping face-up'. Since then I have had an experience whilst sleeping on my side.

I was lying in bed, cocooned in my quilt, and it felt as though something crawled in behind me and it felt like... ever have a dog hump your leg? it was a bit like that but it was pounding on my back, butt and legs in equal measures, simultaneously, and for the first time for me, I felt I my chest was being compressed. During the paralysis I could hear a noise like helicopter blades very close to my ears. I would estimate the entire experience lasted for less than 30 seconds.

My eyes were open the whole time and I could clearly see my digital clock. The time was 4:21am.

ravenradiodj

I've had several HSP experiences, and they are indeed terrifying. If you've never experienced it, there is no way to fully describe the feeling. I usually sleep on my side, but there was at least one time when I "woke up" during a HSP episode and I was on my back. My eyes closed, I could nevertheless hear everything in the room, feel the sheets and blankets on my body, my wife lying next to me, etc. I knew I was "asleep", but I also felt mentally awake and alert. I could not move my body. I had a full-blown hallucination of a very large wolf lying in the bed, between my wife and I. I could smell its fur, feel and hear its breath, its weight on the mattress, etc. My left arm was deep inside its mouth, almost to the elbow, and it was slowly, calmly biting completely through my arm. Every one of my senses experienced this, and, at the same time, I knew I was asleep and hallucinating. I was utterly terrified, the knowledge that it wasn't real made no difference to my emotional response. With every ounce of strength and willpower I could gather, I began slowly moving my little finger against my wife's leg, trying to wake her up, so she could wake ME up and end the hallucination. As someone posted earlier, it took a herculean effort to be able to just move my little finger. Finally, she awakened with a start, which woke up me, and the entire hallucination peeled away, like a movie crossfading from one scene to another. I awakened, and everything in the room was exactly the same, except that the wolf was gone, and I was physically exhausted, and emotionally shaken. I've had several other HSPs, all quite different from this one, and each other. They're simply awful. Living with epilepsy must be very similar - a nightmare forever imminent, like death, a certainty that is sure to come, but without warning.

asudevil83

i've gotten this fealing quite a few times before, but generally just rationalized it as an INTENSE dream. the first few times it had happened it was always under the same circumstances...just getting too much sleep and waking up at 12 in the afternoon. to elaborate a little more i'll generally wake up just a little bit, usually right in the middle of a dream. i'll halfway upen my eyes, and try to move my arms but cant. the whole thing still feels like a dream, and i'll "fall back to sleep", wake up in the same position moments later and be fine.

asudevil83

i was just thinking about another time this happened, but i would call it more of the HSP, because it was VERY STRANGE. i was at school, just lounging around in our campus library and decided take a nap. for some reason i love taking naps in public places....i think it has to do with the noises and talking that i hear around me while i sleep that give me some crazy dreams sometimes. i rememer one instance where i was dreaming and in my dream i woke up at least 10 times. things were all hazy, but thats a different story.

anyways...i was taking a nap in some chairs and woke up and noticed that one of the couches that are used for studying/sleeping was free. so i got up and took it. these couches dont really have anything to support your head on, so ended up napping on my back with my head flat on the seat (not the most comfortable position.) i was in the middle of a weird dream (their were some people talking pretty loud on a balcony above me that was affecting my dream). in this dream i could hear people planning on fucking with me while i slept.

all of the sudden i get startled by what feels like a pillow hitting me square in the face. it truely honestly felt like someone smacked me in the face. i partially woke up, but was still in the dazed dream state, and could not move a muscle. it felt weird as fuck, because i fell asleep with my arms crossed, and it felt like i was in a coffin.

i could open my eyes, but everything was fuzzy. but i swear to god i could see a couple figures standing above me, looking down at me and pointing and laughing. i couldnt do anything, not even open my mouth. i closed my eyes again, and moments later i woke up woke up, laying in the same position that just seconds before i couldnt move. the only thing that was around me was the people on the floor above me talking and laughing about whatever.

i felt VERY weird, my whole body was tired as fuck, like i wasted all my energy trying to move but couldnt. i also had trouble with my balance, kinda walking a little clumsily. it was a feeling that you were dragged out of bed, where your body hasnt quite woken up all the way, and you really dont have complete control yet. i had only been asleep for an hour or so, but it felt like hours. overall it was a strange experience.

Drider_it

yet im still in my body.. i come wide awake.. its like this.. as i wake up there is utter silence.. i cant hear a thing.. my eyes are wide open yet im trying not to look around cuz i know there is something in my room.. its there tangable just outta my eyes site.. i focus on the frist thing that come to me when this happens and i dont shift my eyes.. slowly i gather my will.. focus it .. i mean i compress my will into a tangable ball of force and push with it.. then bam.. sound returns with the ability to move.. after i turned 18 i kept a loaded gun under my pillow.. see my parents drove trucks and was gone for weeks at a time my sister moved out got married at a young age.. i had the big old house to myself. Creeps me out to this day to even just type this much.

yet I know something was there.. it was the same thing everytime.. a prescence a terrible affinity that i could never see but could feel its power.. it would end the moment i could force myself to blink.. funny how the thought of a physical weapon could protect you from something that was metaphysical.

it ended the day i got married.. it started to happen and i dreamt i was in a cirlce filed.. hay grass knee high.. tall old growth trees all around.. it was night .. no moon yet you could see by the stars.. heh even stars..

after 20 or so min sitting there waiting something came outta the woods.. tall.. foreboding.. it never spoke i couldnt describe it except for a feeling of sadness and utter evil.. i told it i was done playing.. im done running.. i stood up.. that feeling griped me but i remember what i did that day with my partents.. and took a step. that step became a walk then a run.. i screamed.. i have never remember ever screaming in my dreams.. yet i did.. and knowing that unlocked a power ive always had.. controlling my dreams to a bit.

in my hands a broad sword appeared with crackling energy coarsing along its length.. i leaped at it and swung.. i woke up then to a sense of freedom ive never felt.. never has they happened since.. what ever it was was destroyed .. forever i hope.. i watch my three children now.. wondering if or when this will happen.. and ill be damn if it does and i sit back and laugh like my parents did.

heh.. well im good with words a bit so i let ya know in detail what it was like for me. I hated it... i dont want anyone to go through it even in a light mild way.. much less the hell i felt.. that was my original feeling

if ever a doc or phsyic tells me different.. *ka pow* just cuz you go to school and get your head full of info on how to deal with the human mind dont make you an athority on the human phsyic and the ability to judge another human being. I find it funny how when the human mind sees or hears something that is "alien" to its thinking it passes it off as scoff and that science can eventaully rule out the metaphysical.. bs i say bs.


which for all of use that feel drained.. emotional and physical are one in the same in my beliefs.. you used all the mental ability ot force your way outta that state of dreaming.. your body i promise locked up to help you somehow.. and when you finally woke up it relaxed and had to wait for the start up. wway i look at it.

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mkultra

Wow, so other people get this too. It only happens to me once in a long while, usually when I'm really stressed out and not sleeping well as I start to drift off if I'm on my back. The coughing trick the Dilbert1234567 mentioned is the only way I've been able to get out of it other than letting it go away on its own. I had a course in neurology (former biomedical engineering major, now in materials science) 2 years ago and its crazy all the wired feedback loops that can happen. We spent an entire chapter on neurological disorders, and some of them get pretty weird.

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I was having many episodes of sleep paralysis. In my case, however, when I gave up smoking marijuana, for me at least, they stopped.

killeena

The first time this happened to me, I was about 13, and it scared the shit outta me. I remember waking up, not being able to move, but my legs were straight up in the air. I also heard the loud buzzing sounds, and I could feel my eyeballs almost pulsating. At the time, I was convinced that Aliens were abducting me, so I was totally freaked out. I actually never completely knew exactly what it was until about a year ago (though i was pretty sure it wasn't aliens). It still happens every once in a while, always when I sleep on my back.

I think it has only happened once with hallucinations. I was at my Mom's house, sleeping on the couch, and I woke up paralyzed, and saw a ghost standing in the doorway. The house was known to have a ghost living in it (I am not sure what to believe as far as ghosts go. I have my doubts, but I could understand them being real all the same) , so I dunno wether it really was a ghost, or just a hallucination. Anyway, I didn't really care too much about the ghost, I was more concerned with getting back to sleep (Aliens could abduct me nowadays, and I would just tell them to fuck off and let me sleep).

Pretty scary stuff when you can't move, and you don't know what is going on though.

Lassus

Back when I was about 8, I remember going to bed just like any other night. However once I was asleep things got really messed up. In the dream( I think it was a dream) I was walking in my own house, except things were different (locations of things, colors ect) Then I headed down stairs to investigate a strange sound that I had heard. To my dismay I became paralyzed in the middle of the stair case. Then everything became so silent that it hurt, I try to get up to run.... Nothing, I cant move, nor breath. Then What appeared to be a demon of sorts (in the body of my cousin) materialized in front of me. It glanced at me like it was some kind of bird then pulled out a well decorated daggerish blade. Smirking it walked over then began to cut at my sides. Unable to move still I scream in my own mind. Then poof, he is gone.
I am still paralyzed, and my side burns as it drips. A few moments later I am able to move. The funny thing is, this time I was awake. I literally woke up unable to move, in the stair case. And yes my side had been lacerated.

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scrd0dark

i think i might have HSP...
about twice a week i wake up after the sensation of falling. it feels like someone is sitting on my chest and holding my arms above my head. i can also hear people talking like im not even there. sometimes i see shadows of people around my bed. the scariest time was when i saw something lift my shower towel that was hung over my door. im terrified to be alone in the dark. i've also formed a mild case of insomnia. im so scared to fall asleep sometimes because it feels like im just going to stop breathing. it physically hurts. i even wake up with bruises on my arms.
another weird thing is that my sister and i both have episodes at the same time, but in different rooms. she told me that she tries to kick and scream, but nothing works. when she finally gains control she's usually crying and comes into my room to wake me up.
this is the worst feeling in the world. any suggestions on how to make this go away? any other info????

joeshoe

I've experienced this a few times. I found the feeling to be similar to just before waking up or falling asleep, when your body is frozen for a second or less, except extended for a very long time. I figured it was simply the brain transferring muscle control back to the conscious mind.

That's pretty much what I feel when it happens. There's usually a high-pitched tone that's very grating, and incoherent voices, or memories of voices (don't worry I'm not crazy). Then it's like my conscious mind is awake, but my body is asleep. And I get very scared, not because of anything in particular, but just the feeling of being scared, as something terrible could happen.

It usually happens when I'm anxious when going to bed.

callumjames

Wow. It's great to know that many others have experienced the same thing. I am not alone.

I have had this "Sleep paralysis" happen to me about a dozen times. Each time it occurs it is very alluring but also very, very frightening. This first happened to me when I was 18, I am now 28. When it occurs I am always lying down and usually half asleep. I don't experience a loud buzzing noise as some of you do. When it occurs I have my eyes open and my body is completely paralysed from head to toe. I am fully aware of my surroundings. I also experience a sensation of something pulsating around my body, if i have the blanket over me it feels like the blanket wraps tight around my body and releases. This happens the whole time that I am paralysed. It feels very much like some kind of being or presence is wrapping itself around me. Whenever these experiences happen I am curious and want to go further to see what happens but I am too scared. I always end up making an attempt to move and break free from the paralysis.
All of my experiences have been like this except for one. One of them was frightening as hell. The usual paralysis occured with the presence pulsating around my body, but there was also another presence in the room. The other presence in the room may as well have been Satan himself. I could sense that it was an evil force. I could not physically see it but I felt it move towards me. It tried to get inside me, I could feel tremendous pressure on my head. This is the most frightening experience I have ever had in my life.
I myself believe in life after death. I believe that there is a spiritual realm. It is often taught that there are four dimensions, height, width, length and time. Some people claim that there is a fifth dimsension, the spiritual realm. I believe it and I think it contains Good forces and Evil forces. I believe there are spiritual forces that are vying for our souls. The bible actually teaches that there are angels and demons. The angels minister to us while the demons are trying to coerce us to commit evil.

Atropos4

I have had CSP experiances alot since we moved. Although I didn't know that's what it was until I read this thread. I just thought my limbs were alseep. I always try to get one of my arms to move first and then if I can I start rubbing my other arms and legs. LOL Now it sounds silly but I really just thought my limbs were asleep. I would ache afterwards too. It always happens in the middle of the night.

I think I have had a HSP experiance. We still lived in MI at the time and it was four or five years ago. I had gotten up and used the bathroom and crawled back into bed. I thought I was asleep but then I heard the most terrifying moaning and wailing. I couldn't move, at the time I thought I couldn't move because I was so scared but even when I tried to grab Alphaphi I couldn't. I couldn't say anything either except wimper. My eyes were wide open and I was looking at the doorway, I could see my cats sleeping on the bed even. When I paniced really bad I was finally able to move and I woke up Alphaphi. I was in such hysterics he went through the house to see if someone had broke in and then went outside to see if someone was playing a prank. Noone there. So I passed it off as a ghost.

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jwoody

Interesting. More circumstantial evidence of sleep paralysis affecting a gegraphical area.

I haven't had sleep paralysis in ages. Maybe the spook has moved elsewhere???

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macmanmike6100

Look, sleep paralysis is in no way caused or related to the paranormal. It's a completely normal function gone slightly awry. Why don't you walk around or drive your car when you're dreaming of doing it? Because your body is paralyzed, albeit temporarily. Check out <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html">Stanford</a> for proof.

Enough with the paranormal on this one...

jwoody

I already know what popular science says about sleep paralysis.

This forum is all about the blurred boundary between knowledge and and nonsense. Open up a little and admit that what you know is outweighed 1,000,000:1 by what you don't.

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beetle bailey

hmm. i have narcolepsy; have had it some thirty years or so [i'm 52]. one of the many symptoms of narcolepsy is hypnogogic paralysis. i'll have to re-read some of my literature about this, but sleep paralysis is a common thing for me. it's never been alarming to me, but has always been an interesting and sometimes amusing thing. i'll get back with morlotse [i've just discovered this thread]. narcolepsy is a very interesting disorder to have. LOTS of funny, bizarre, wierd shit.

more to follow...

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gotekix

I'm glad to see so many other people on this forum that get CSP and HSP. I've been getting them since I was about 10 years old. An episode of CSP or HSP happens to me maybe once every month, but during times of stress it could be about once a week. I've gotten pretty used to CSP, so when it happens I try so hard to move my finger or toe (kind of like the bride in Kill Bill wiggling her big toe haha) which will usually get me out of it. However, HSP still scares the shit out of me nearly every time.

During HSP I see crazy things and also feel immense pain. I once fell asleep on the couch on my stomach and saw this weird dark matter approaching me. I tried to scream but I couldn't. The dark matter demon thingy then attacked me and started to choke me for a good 10 to 15 seconds. I then woke up coughing and darted out of the living room.

Another time I was on a Greyound bus and I guess I started to fall asleep (I wasn't to aware of it because I hadn't willfully closed my eyes) when suddenly everything got dark outside of the bus got dark because we entered a tunnel. I saw each person on the bus turn into a demon and start talking in some unknown tongue. This lasted for about 2-3 minutes, in which I was scared shitless. Some of them were just staring at me which made me even more scared.

I've confronted aliens, vampires, demons, scary midgets, an 8 year old zulu child with a spear, cloaked beings, an 18th century parliament member with a powdered wig, and a kabuki masked person with a dagger. Sometimes they say weird things that don't really make much sense to me, other times they just stay silent. It still scares the living shit out of me when it happens because I'm powerless and everything seems so real. These episodes can last anywhere up to 10-15 minutes.

These occurances happen so often to me that I can sometimes control them. When I feel myself getting powerless, I focus really hard on a place I want to go or thing that I want to see then suddenly I'm there and I have full control of my surroundings, yet I can still feel things. It's sort of like lucid dreaming but I don't think it's exactly that. When I dream I don't feel things in the dream, I only see them, but when this happens I can. It's similar to being in the Matrix I guess, it's surreal and you can do whatever you want if you harness the power and focus your energy.

It's a gift when I can control it, but a terror when the hallucinations control me. By the way, it happens to me no matter which position I sleep in. Maybe someone has had similar experiences.

analog

Not to bring up something from 50 years ago... but how does a person choking you... with an axe... feel different than just a normal choking? And how do you gauge sex from the choking? Just curious.

jwoody

I can't speak for everyone here but, whenever I have a hallucinatory sleep paralysis experience, I can usually describe the physical appearance of the 'being' down to minute detail.

In my last experience there were two Arabic terrorist types wearing brown/khaki clothes, dogtooth check scarves, one of them had an AK47 and the other was carrying a pistol. Both had black beards, the one carrying the AK had a longer beard than the other.

For me, the scariest part about HSP is the realism of the hallucination.

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jjal

When it happens to me it is almost always when I decide to take a nap. So the solution for me is dont take naps. I have had it all, noises, seeing a figure stand at the foot of my bed, being suck in some kind of tunnel, to now leaving my body. After doing research I learned I certainly wasnt the only one, and over and over the advice is to stay calm. I also seen the advice of letting go. If you leave your body, enjoy it, you can see some amazing things. I dont freak out anymore. I keep myself calm. When I feel as if I've left my body I still cant allow myself to go any farther than my bedroom door. I get to the door and worry what if I go to far and cant get back to my body so I'll force myself to return. Its odd stuff, but now that I understand it better I find sometimes they can be amusing.

Plaid13

When i was in high school i had a ton of trouble sleeping normal between school and work and going out with friends till 2-3am every night of the week. got to the point where i was only sleeping 3-4 times a week and only a couple hours at a time. so when i was in school i would end up falling asleep with my eyes open frozen couldnt move couldnt really tell what was going on. just a blur of stuff happening couldnt move my eyes or anything. happened so often i got used to it. basicly its nothing to worry about just be happy your getting some sleep even if that sleep sucks.

ManWithAPlan

there is a very logical explanation for why people around the world report simular experiences with hallucinatory sleep paralysis.

One of the theory about dreams (most prominant in the REM sleep cycle) is that they are your mind's interpretation of random nerve stimuli... in other words, you see a redish sillhoutte while your eyes are closed because random stimuli are running from your optic nerve toyour brain and your mind interprets it as something familiar to you like a devil.

with this in mind, if you wake up paralyzed, a likely interpretation is that someone is holding you down (hence being straddled)

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crow_daw

I had never heard of this phenomenon until this thread, but now I realize that I've had an episode of it myself. I didn't know what the hell was going, but it didn't really freak me out either. I just laid there for a little bit, and it eventually wore off.

Nice to know what it was though.

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soul_wisdom

I too used to have these experiences and was as most frightened by the idea of someone holding me down as I felt the pressure and could not move my limbs. While surfing the net I found some sites describing OOBE's "Out of Body Experience" much the same as AARCHON links have referred to. After reading those sites I began to have the experience more and I'm not saying the sites influenced me either way but I eventually allowed the experience to just happen without judging either way what it actually WAS that was happening to me. I have since found the experience to be exactly what is normally described of as an Out of Body Experience. And after many years of having them now I find them a wonderful experience to enjoy and learn from.

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dlish

theres another thread floating round about this topic.





jwoody

arent terrorists everybodies worst nightmare? u sure it was HSP and not a dream that ure subconcious has conjured up based on your fears?

those damn ayrabs!

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mster

can anybody tell me what my experiences are??
i go to sleep at night. then at around 3 to 5 am time i feel a buzzing in my ear. it doesn't happen all the time. sometimes the buzzing floats into my hear. one time violently came to me.
i felt like i was awake, so i try to move but only to be paralysed.
i will tell you the most longest time and scary experience of this is when i was sleeping then i hears buzzing in ear. i ignore it and it gets louder and louder and louder, till i hear my whole head vibrate. then i feel my head lifting. i got so scared of the lifting and the noise i tried to move , but can't . at last i can move only to realise i was sleeping the whole time. but it seem so real that i thought i had awaken already. but no when i fully was able to break out of paralysis that was the only time i could open my eyes, i was so relieved. one time i was sleeping on my back another on my side. it doesn't matter. how i sleep . i usually start on my side but doesn't matter how i wake up when it happens. just once , i woke up on my side face looking at bottom of bedside when i struggled and fear crept in , when my eyes opened i saw bright flash of light. why i dunno, i search the net but i don't think aliens are the answer.
where can a get help

so_cal805

[QUOTE=babylon067]

my body and every possible fiber in the universe felt huge and miniscule at the same time

i've had this feeling too, it's so weird and very hard to explain. That feeling of largeness and smallness at the same time. I've had that feeling many of times before, while i'm sleeping, but for me, it has never been associated with the phenomena involved in this discussion, although i've also had a few of those experiences also. But my point is, I identify with the description you stated. There's got to be some meaning for it...

My quest for the TRUTH continues...

JStrider

geezers just had a sleep paralysis experience... just like 15 minutes ago....

i was dozing off and I started dreaming and I was aware of the fact that i was dreaming (wheres that lucid dream thread) so i decided i was gonna fly and started trying to fly... my dream body started to float up and then someone was holding me down saying i couldnt fly... then a girl I like a lot started telling him to leave me alone and i kept trying to float up and the guy kept holding me down pulling me by my arm

then all of a sudden i'm awake and I know someone just came into the room to cause trouble and is holding me down by my arm (which was dangling off the edge of the bed) and i try to call out to my roomate but cant move or call out or anything then finally i'm free again and able to move...

only the third time i remember experiencing the sleep paralysis... and only the second time i've had halucinations and been scared...

first time i can remember having a lucid dream... so its not all bad...

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Willravel

I don't know how I missed this thread before. I've had CSP and HSP on several different occasions each. I found that they are directly related to two things: 1) Stress. Physical or mental stress building over a long period of time can kinda throw me off every once in a while. 2) A fundamental disconnect. Several times I have felt a fundamental disconnect from reality. The first time was when my best friend was shot in the face, and the second was when I discovered that I was beginning to develop dissociative disorder. Both cases led to CSP and HSP respectively.

The first situation was very simple. I awoke early in the morning to find that I was motionless. I was completely unable to move. Unfortunately, I was unable to calm myself initially, so I really freaked. I was unable to move for what I believe was maybe 2-3 minutes. It took me a few hours to calm down and feel comfortable enough to go to sleep. I was disturbed, but simply chalked it up to stress and was able to control it later one

The second situation was a bit more freaky. I found out later that I was developing depersonalization disorder, but was able to head it off at the pass (why couldn't I get dissociative fugue?). Anyway, I was feeling a serious disconnect from reality and it was really starting to negatively effect my life. One evening I had drifted off to sleep in the most comfortable chair in the world, and I woke with a start to a very loud noise. I opened my eyes to see distortions in the room. There were dark spots here and there, and they moved slowly. The source of the noise seemed to be a slammed door, but I had left the door closed before sitting to read. I believed that I was having a religious experience at first (a strange first reaction), but it was only a sense, as I was completely terrified. As I tried to move, I found that I was as if bound. I felt pressure across my abdomen and neck. Since then I've not fallen asleep in the chair.

gotekix

I just had another stress induced episode of REM paralysis. It was weird because I didn't really see anything but I heard the most annoying ringing coming from my closet. It kept getting louder and louder until it jumped inside my body and I heard it ringing throughout my head. Lasted like 5 minutes, for which I couldn't move.