Last night, I was in a dream where my SO was being horrible and there were all of these people in the room feeding into it. All of a sudden, I had the realization that it was a dream and I audibly said “This is a dream, That means that I am in control, and all of you people need to leave.” Nothing happened but I could see a kind of mist around the edges of the walls and I was certain that I was dreaming. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and I physically threw all of the people out of the room. Then I started smelling a very small odor of burning, very similar to a forrest fire. I was like, “You can’t smell things in a dream so something in my house must be on fire, I better wake up.” I did what I do to wake up normally and forced my eyes open, and I woke up in a different bed but it still was not my bed. I realized very quickly and forced my eyes open again and was in my bed. There was no smell, and as I was about to slip into paralysis, I sat up and prevented it. I considered this a win but the smell was SO strong and it was so weird to have the false wake up in a different bed with a different spouse.

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It just happened to me again last night, my whole body started to feel numb and I knew what was happening so I instnalty tried to wake my girlfriend next to me by making any slight noise my body would let me make (all I can ever get out when this happens are kind of lile low hums is the best way I can describe it) and tried to move my body but all the while this was happening I just started to hear what sounded like a very loud horn or whistle which ended up turning into an almost loud noise of music, I also seen some form of face fastly approaching all the while I tried to wake up.

I think this is the worst one I've in my life the few times I had it happen.

Anyone know anything of what this could be going on? Anyone else hear these sounds when it happens?

So I’m not new to sleep paralysis and I am “raped” semi regularly in my episodes. At first it was terrifying, but over time I’ve learned that if I don’t fight it and I kind of just roll with it, it’s not as bad. This morning I had an episode after my husband left for work. I could feel everything, including the hair on his arms. He was actually really gentle. This time I guess I kind of asked him his name telepathically or whatever (obviously not talking for reals) and he said Andy. I don’t know any Andy’s and that is not a significant name for me, so that’s odd . But the creepy part is I asked him if he is the same entity that comes to me each time and he very quickly and firmly said “no”. Has anyone ever talked to there sleep paralysis in this way? Any other word responses that were a bit jarring.

I'm not big into mysticism or anything like that, but does anyone else hear an echoed small bell ringing right before it starts? I feel like pulsating blood fills my face and it increases until the release of pressure, and that's when I hear the bell. I also hear echoed whispers and distant voices during SP.

Listen. This is gonna sound insane I know. But I get sleep paralysis attacks,and I honestly look forward to it sometimes. Know why? I kid you not, it feels like I'm getting head. Very real sensations. On my LIFE I had to share this with it's SOMEBODY because it full on feels like I'm getting fingered. Feels awesome can't lie but it makes me wonder things. Can someone explain this?

I experience sleep paralysis pretty regularly, usually accompanied by non-threatening auditory hallucinations. But I was just thinking about this today and wondered if anyone had ever experienced something similar. This happened to me a few years ago. At the time I was struggling to adjust to a new graveyard shift job and my sleep schedule was extremely irregular.

I almost exclusively experience sleep paralysis during naps. Rarely do I get it falling asleep at night or waking up in the morning (unless i wake up and then go back to sleep.) I had woken up for work around 10p.m. and had to be there at 2am. I decided to take a short nap on the couch.

I went into sleep paralysis. I knew what it was, and even though I had the physical sensation of overwhelming anxiety, I kept telling myself it was harmless and tried to get out of it. I was having some really creepy auditory hallucinations, someone whistling, whispering, and one of those baby toy xylophones playing. It was kind of wigging me out because my lamp was on and it had a red light bulb in it so I was trying really hard to wake up.

I was very confused because I could partially move my body. Unfortunately I have TMJ disorder, and if you don't know what that is, the joints in my jaw lock up. Usually my jaw gets stuck closed overnight, although rarely it gets stuck open. I have to massage it and do some excersises until I can get the joint to work its way back into proper position. It hurts like a bitch

I guess I opened my mouth because I felt the pain in my jaw and my mouth was stuck open. I tried to grab my face in pain and to try and put my jaw back but all I could manage was these scary jerking motions.

I thought to myself if my husband woke up right then and came down into the living room he'd probably think I was having a seizure. I laid on my back which was arched and I could only jerk around, I bet my eyes were all crazy since I was technically asleep. I then started panicking and thinking "damn what if I am having a seizure" and then my jaw snapped shut and I woke up probably from the pain

Freaked me out more than the hallucinations

I’ve been getting it almost every night for a week or 2. I don’t hallucinate scary things, I’m usually still in my dream and can’t see my irl surroundings, but I still can’t move. And soemtning that is really traumatic to me is I’ll keep getting up in the dream but I know that I’m not actually getting up and I’m still paralyzed. So I’d try over and over trying to wake up. Or I’ll keep waking up from a dream and realize I’m still dreaming. And then finally when I actually wake up and am out of sleep paralysis, im gasping for air and in fear. And I’ve also had fears of derealization bc of not knowing if I’m still in a dream. Is there any tips? How do you stay calm when you can’t move? Thankfully I don’t hallucinate evil figures though. And this is in the 2nd rule that’s outlawed, but private message me if you have any info on g0d and j3sus related to sleep paralysis. Thanks

I've been getting sleep paralysis since I was 16. It's been happening again regularly. A few nights ago after quite a vivid and unsettling dream I opened my eyes to be experiencing an episode. I think I knew I was having it. After a few mins of trying to move/scream I felt like in had rolled out of my bed and onto the floor! After I "hit the floor" i was suddenly snapped back into my bed again where i slowly had to wake myself up for real.

I had another episode a few days later. When I opened my eyes i couldn't move but it felt like my duvet was slowly being pulled off me and onto the floor from the left side of my bed. It didn't last too long but was concerning nine the less.

Another episode I had that sticks in my mind was a few years ago. I was staying at my partners house. She was still awake and reading next to me with the light on. When I "awoke" I swear the room felt like it was vibrating violently and I could hear what I thought was an extremely low flying and large airplane flying right over the house. It was very loud. That made me snap awake for real in a huge panic asking wtf that was I'm glad she was there. She comforted me.

I can't recall ever seeing the shadow demon or any ghosts. Just some experiences like the ones I've mentioned. Sleep paralysis is a frightening yet facinating phenomena.

CW: creepy, scary. TLDR; I heard a voice talking in reverse loudly next to my face. First time this has happened. Anyone else?

Hello, this morning I experienced the worst sleep paralysis I’ve ever encountered. I usually get sleep paralysis when I’ve had too much caffeine or bad nerves. I think this was due to anxiety about a work related meeting later today. Early this morning I felt pressure on my chest but it was cold like a stethoscope accompanied with inability to move. I opened my eyes and the bedroom I share with my partner was dimly lit by early morning light. I couldn’t turn over but I moved my eyes to my right and saw my partner in bed sleeping next to me on his side facing away from me. I thought this was my usual sleep paralysis I sometimes get (usually a dark figure staring at me) but this time I saw nothing visually but I heard this odd whirring. Then a voice began speaking loudly close to my face. The speaking sounded like when you play someone’s recorded voice back in reverse and I was not able to understand. It was so loud I looked around the room with my eyes to see anything but there was nothing. I looked to my partner sleeping on his side, staring at him to see if he would wake up at this loud and odd voice. The cold pressure on my chest got heavier, I was terrified and just focusing on my partners back trying to move to grab him but I was of course paralyzed. The speaking stopped along with the pressure and I was free to grab my partner and roll over to bury myself in the covers. He says I woke him up and kept repeating “it’s talking to me” but he rolled over to face me and figured I was dreaming and went back to sleep. I don’t remember saying that to him at all. I couldn’t go back to sleep. I buried my face into my blankets and partners side. I was so scared and have never been in a paralysis that made such a vivid sounds. I’m not into mystic*sm and I’m chalking this up to the odd dinner I consumed the night before along with nerves about a work meeting. Plus sleeping on my back. It totally messed with my REM early morning sleep. I stayed awake since this happened and boy am I tired. Has anyone else experienced the loud voice talking in reverse?

I just had most abnormal experience of my life my life.My partner was driving back home it’s a two hour drive I tried sleeping along the car ride and my partner said I was sleeping but I felt like I wasn’t sleeping at all and was conscious the whole time you know when you you feel like you haven’t slept at all and your really tired any who I felt awake the whole ride and I felt extremely tired I can’t explain it i was scared to fall asleep the whole ride and had a bad feeling if I slept. So we eventually stop at this spot and I decide to take a nap in the car for for like another 20 minutes again I feel like I’m conscious although I felt like i was so tried I can’t even explain it I ended up waking up and I could see my soundings and everything and I knew where I was but I couldn’t move my body at all. Within that time I also had a dream all my teeth were rotting and falling out. What does this mean this was very scary ?PLEASE HELP!!

Anyone similar? Is this technically sleep paralysis if my brain is interpreting myself to be moving (after some pain and struggling)?

As in, my mind is awake and active, I know I’m in bed and have just been sleeping, but I’m trying to force myself to get up out of fear. My surroundings are exactly as I remember falling asleep in, but with very minor differences. Such as the coincidental placing of a mirror, my tv being on when it actually isn’t, me checking my phone to see that the text itself isn’t legible, or hearing and seeing (usually familiar) people walking past my window.

I’ve decided to make a post about it because I’ve gone through sporadic episodes of this happening upon taking a nap since I was 18, but it happened again, and now there seems to be pain and very minor residual unilateral numbness involved. Maybe this episode was more intense than usual. My old roommate once witnessed what I look like when it happens, and he said my eyes were open but rolled to the back of my head, and I was breathing/snoring loudly… it worried him and I suppose maybe it should worry me now?

FyI: sleep paralysis is something I’ve got used- at least i thought so. Ive had them for years now and they were always the same. Cant move, i try to scream or think im screaming, idk if i actually am, im panicked, strong auditory hallucinations (whispers/voices and/or a buzz/vibration that gets louder and closer until i can move again) and sometimes some visual stuff like shadows. This time tho ive had two in a row. The first one was pretty basic and i went back to sleep afterwards. The second one started out similarly but then got weirder. I literally felt my body moving sinking into the bed again and again and it literally like i was being sa’d. I know hallucinations are normal for sleep paralysis but this felt w a y realer than anything I have ever experienced and its still freaking me out.

I used to get sleep paralysis almost daily in my childhood bedroom. It got to the point where I learned how to get out of them whenever I wanted, or do a limited set of things (mostly mouth or whisper quietly). It went from it being something scary and anxiety inducing, to a casual but annoying experience where I’d lay there, look around my room, and leave anytime I wanted to.

I was of course tired of sleep paralysis and preferred not to have them, cause they made me lose sleep and it was an inconvenience as a university student, but I would sometimes make use of them sometimes out of boredom since I also struggled with insomnia.

I was wondering if this is common and if other people do this for fun.

I apologize for the weird post, I’m very sleep deprived.

so i suddenly woke up with my whole body shaking and i didn’t hear anything at all i was completely unable to move but i somehow picked up my finger and put it on my lip but it had no feel, i saw erens attack titan from aot, don’t know why i fucking saw that shit but i’m so glad it wasn’t a tall black guy choking me out.

Weird thing happened to me twice. A few weeks ago a few minutes after i started trying to go to sleep, i realize i can't move at all and i hear some voices and i visualize like red alarms kind of, then i wake up, also visualize scary faces and stuff, real scary stuff. js now a few minutes after i start trying to fall alseep my body goes pins and needles and i can't move anything again and i hear loud ringing tones this time and feel kind of a pressure in my throat kind of.

Does anyone have any idea what this could be or causes of this. please ask me any questions that might help, thank you so much 🙏

Basically, i was trying to induce myself to fall asleep and it was working, as I could feel myself gradually falling into sleep. But then, as per usual, i started hearing and seeing scary things in my head and woke up, not being able to breathe for a few seconds and seeing a 3-fingered hand on my face. Fuck that stuff dude, hate it.

I (24F) just woke up from a terrifying dream (idk if it totally counts as a dream) where I was in my bed awake, but I couldn't move or speak. I could only watch my bedroom door and listen to sounds made by a figure behind it (it was kinda like some angry moans).

The thing is, I feel like I'm well familiar with this figure as if it has been a part of my life for a long time, even though the only explicit memory I have of it is from a similar dream I had a couple weeks ago, where the figure was in my room and I was looking at it trying to scream at it to go away but I didn't make any sounds while it just stared at me.

Both times this was completely terrifying and I'm struggling to go back to sleep now. The first time I just brushed it off as a one off weird nightmare, but now I'm not sure.

Went out drinking and the night after I sometimes get SP but it's usually in the morning and I only seem to have it when waking up. I went to bed and got scared there was a ghost in my room( I live in student accommodation so not scary) and I often get scared easily. Anyways I had a small sleep paralysis and then I was lifted off the bed with my feet still on bed but my head rises. I got scared so started singing and thought scary thoughts were going to appear. After a small while I sand and then woke up. In the dream I knew it wasn't real and I knew I had my flatmates next door but I'm scared now I have SP whenever. I haven't had it for ages( maybe 7 weeks) and I don't want to go sleep. I'm dreading sleep. I'm also scared I'm possessed now and freaking out that was me becoming possessed and I'm evil or something bads happened. It just felt super weird. It didn't feel scary but wasn't pleasant. It did feel physically real. I've started taking NAC. Just under 2gs on first day today. Could this have caused it? Is this weird? It felt spiritual or just odd. I hate sleep now

For some context I’ve had sleep paralysis for a really long time, like since as long as I remember. I remember that at the beginning when I was a child it scared me but to be honest it was quite manageable. Like if I had watched a scary movie or I was stressed it would get it but I just learned to fall asleep if I did have it I’d maybe get it a couple times a month or so and my parents told me it was hereditary as both my dad and grandma suffered from it. However, when I turned 16 it worsened considerably and im now 21 and I don’t think I can manage it anymore. I think around that time it got way worse as I was maybe going through a very brief episode of psychosis then but tbh I’m not self diagnosing I don’t actually know what was going on with me and my memory was very hazy around that time but I remember that’s when I started getting sleep paralysis every night Almost every single night maybe several times I’ll have sleep paralysis and I’ll have the worst auditory hallucinations to go along with it. The hallucinations are always like the same word over and over like a record skipping and sometimes in my mind it’s like the same image being repeated over and over again. Like just now as I was trying to sleep it was a match with a black background lighting over and over again. It was super vivid as well like I feel like I could paint it. Or sometimes I feel as if there is a presence in the room or something trying to attack me. I’ve tried loads of things to help my sleep like having a consistent routine and having good sleep hygiene and not going on my phone before bed and it might make it better for a bit of time but it always comes back. The only time it’s ever gone away is if I drink or smoke weed. And after I tried psychedelics one time it went away for like 4 days (I thought I was cured !) but it eventually came back. My housemate thinks I might have like adhd or something and this is a way it manifests but I kinda feel like I’m exhausted especially cause it feels like a whole ordeal for me to try and even go to sleep now. I’m gonna book a doctors appointment for this but I was just wondering if anyone on here could maybe give me an insight and tell me I’m not going insane lol !

Idk what’s going on I can’t sleep anymore, the past three nights I’ve been mostly awake seeing things in my room and being horrified af, right now I’m awake too and I see things and feel things I can barely move and do t n ow what to do. I have school tomorrow too, to top it off. Does anyone have any advice

So i have been getting sleep paralysis regulary for past 3 years and today i had brand new weird experience. I woke up opened my eyes and could not move as always, then i felt something grabing my legs and it draged me out of my bed, at that moment i opened my eyes again and had sleep paralasys again i extremely slowly got up from the bed but everything was unconfortable my limbs moved so slowly and i felt weird sleepiness, at that moment i opened my eyes and had actual sleep paralysis for real. I moved my fingers untile i was able to move, it felt like someone fucked my brain and i felt my face tingling. Weird thing is that the first fake two times it did not felt like i was dreaming at all! It truly felt as if i woke up each time having sleep paralysis in my bed. Similary things happened before, but never to such extend.

I have been getting this same dream almost every week now. It always takes place on my bed and in the position that I am currently sleeping in. I try to avoid sleeping on my back because it seems to trigger nightmares and sleep paralysis. Here’s how the dream usually goes:

I’m feeling a presence that makes me think the place is haunted. So I try to make a break for it and leave but then the door slams shut and I can’t move. Then I start feeling frozen so I’m trying my best to bang my hand on something and flail my legs hoping someone will hear or see me and try to wake me up.

There were times when I tired to ignore it. It’s such an uncomfortable feeling that I end up panicking in my dream then forcing myself up. The pressure gets too much for me to act like it’s nothing and I feel like I’m going sucked into something bad.

Last night it was different. I was in the bathroom and the light emitting from the windows were dimming and the shower curtains were shifting slightly when there was no wind. I knew something was wrong so I tell myself “hell no” and leave but the door is closed. Again I’m trying hard to move to wake up since it is so uncomfortable.

Does anyone else experience this in their dreams? Starts off seemingly normal and then the paralysis takes over. What could it mean?

I believe I just had an sleep paralysis, I had some night when iam sleeping on a side I dream and the other I could hear normal and kinda of awake but not really but Today It wasn't Ususal I was dreaming all of my sleep , then at the last dream I heard someone beside me in the dream It was around 10 seconds then I woke up in real life and I couldn't really move for a while like 30 seconds and in the dream I couldn't even open my eyes what was that ?

Having sleep paralysis makes this movie feel realistic af

Since I was young I got occasional sleep paralysis, without hallucinations or the other scarier aspects, around once or twice a year. However for the last year now l've been getting them weekly, and now daily. I wake up fully unable to move, and my breathing tends to be strained or difficult. I know I am awake and fully conscious. It takes minutes for me to be able to move sometimes, and it is mentally exhausting having to fight and focus so much. Usually I start by trying to move my fingers and then once I can do that I try to extend my arm, and once l can do that l'm usually free. I can open and move my eyes, but I cannot speak, sometimes I can move my tongue and try to pry open my mouth to make breathing easier as well. My sleep schedule isn't the most consistent, but I try to sleep in a set time range, and compared to everyone I know I probably sleep the most (8-10 hrs). I'm just really tired and in a way i've started to dread going to bed because I know I have to wake up to this all over again. The worst part being is that I have to mentally force and fight out of it every time, if I just try to wait it out it won't go away. Has anyone experienced anything similar or is there any fix to this?

Hello, I (22M) am new to this subreddit, but what I gather is mostly people are afraid of sleep paralysis and/or are annoyed at how it interferes with their sleep. While I agree it can be annoying at times, I’ve come to the point where I actually kind of like these experiences. After dealing with them since I was 15, it no longer feels like I am going through some sort of hell. At first it did or at least very creepy with the type of hallucinations I got and sometimes I would wake up punching the air right as I felt an episode was about to occur. I almost even hit my ex girlfriend like that on accident while we were cuddling and I was dozing off lol.

Anyways, I have always been interested in psychedelics and in a way these experiences feel like what I believed LSD would be like from how they exaggerate its effects in movies and stuff. After dabbling in some LSD and Shrooms, I have an appreciation for sleep paralysis and how many visuals it can provide. I suppose what also helps is I learned early on that if I ever want it to end I can easily just wiggle my fingers or sleep face down if I want them to completely go away for the night. Once, I began to have this appreciation it became really easy to take control of them and part of my excitement to receive sleep paralysis is that it is essentially the first step into learning how to lucid dream.

I have been able to have some of the most amazing dreams of my life due to sleep paralysis and I feel lucky to be able to have these experiences that many people go lifetimes without. Hopefully, everyone realizes that at the end of the day you are in charge of your own experiences similarly to how that’s the case with psychedelics.

Have a wonderful day and night everyone!

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