May not believe me but I promise no lies. I go to sleep, it's just me and my little nephew in the room. I'm having a dream, and we are praying over this girl. She gets up and walk to me.

I start running because she looks scary then she gets on top of me. I try to fight her off so first thing came to mind was pointing my hands straight up to jab her in the private part underneath dress. When I did that, my hands bent like a dog wanting treats. (dog peddling position) Then I couldn't breathe, it's like a mask over my face. I'm screaming for help, and no one hear me. felt like I was going to die. screaming for 4-7 secs saying help help helpp

maybe I deserved to have my arms & hands bent for aiming at that part. lol

I open my eyes shaking heavily. I said I rebuke any negative spirits. I stop shaking and the negative energy went away I was feeling. I started crying because I was scared and played gospel music.

I know I sound insane, but I promise I experience this. please believe me. I experienced not breathing 1 time before that, but this was far worst. I experience more after but just wind crashing over my body and noise nothing intense fr,

the concept just sounded way to strange to me, i always viewed it as something people talked about to sound intresting.

last night i think i had it and was quite unnerving. its a bit hard to describe but the things that stood out to me was the extremely loud waterfall like sound. besides the sound i also felt an extreme tingle, a bit like the feeling like when your leg is sleeping but full body.

and ofcourse, not being able to move. it just was so f*cking unnerving. im almost afraid to go asleep again.

just needed this off my chest thankyou for reading.

I cannot find any info on my symptoms online.

So, I've had this before, started after I had my daughter 6 months ago. The past week it has been ever single night.

I'm sleeping, and while I'm asleep I start to have active thoughts and I somewhat wake up? I start thinking random thoughts and then I go "wait, am I awake? I was JUST sleeping?!" My eyes are closed the entire time, but I have control to open my eyes and move, though I usually don't because I'm exhausted and want to go back to sleep.

It's like my brain wakes up before my body does like sleep paralysis, but my body isn't paralyzed. I'm just really confused and tired 😭 anyone know what this could be?

Someone made a post 3-4 weeks ago, they mentioned they were able to talk during an episode. I had an episode last night, remembered their post and that I told them I would try to do it too, I tried to talk, and it did not work for me. I was able to mumble a little but not very loudly. No clear words. But it’s something I will try to do again in the future.

The other night I had SP experience combined with a nightmare, I knew I had to wake up but I couldn’t move ; couldn’t open my eyes and I yelled and cried in my dream and literally felt like I’m crying for real. I was pinching myself. But all of that was in my sleep and not real. Though it fell very much so. Then I felt a small jerk and woke up. I asked my partner if he heard me cry or scream and he said he didn’t.

So long story short. My kids father (29) just passed away last week and yesterday I and my daughter attented the burial. We weren't together for years but we always communicated when we did. So when I fell asleep after talking to my partner about everything since it was sitting heavy on me I was having no issues. But then all of the sudden felt this huge pressure being pushed down on me and I can see in the corner of my eye a shadow. I swear I stood up but of course that wasn't true. After a while of me fighting this I finally woke up. My heart wouldn't stop racing and I kept having this tingling sensation all throughout the back of my head on my left side, keep in mind I sleep facing down so this was very different for me to experience. Where I saw the shadow a couple of feet away I had his photo from the memorial. Has anyone experienced this after losing someone?

This will sound probably very boring to people on here but I have been woken up because I felt a finger. A singular finger, it was so weird. I was about to fall asleep, the pure brink of slumber, and I feel myself grab onto this finger behind me and it startles me. Obviously nothing is there once I'm awake but it felt so real, I checked that I didn't grab my own finger and I know I didn't because I had one hand on my neck and one holding my phone. I didn't feel any weight on my chest and I didnt physically see anything, it was like if someone were to put their finger inbetween my hand as I was about to fall asleep and I grabbed it. I know it was a finger too, I can feel the skin so vividly and I remember the way it like folded or wrinkled when I grabbed it.

Im not too sure what happened and I dont want to go down the route of "Oh it was a ghost" but that option seems the most plausible right now. Maybe has anyone kind of had a similar experience? I don't know this is the first time its happened.

Help much appreciated!

So I think I recently had sleep paralysis happen to me. Woke up well kinda my ears were ringing, my whole body felt weird and I couldn’t move, genuinely I thought I saw someone in my room. The ringing got louder and I went into a lucid nightmare, then after I came out of that nightmare the sleep paralysis happened again. After that there was another lucid nightmare then sleep paralysis, after that I went back into normal sleep. I’m not sure what to think about this, I mean I know sleep paralysis can happen to anyone and isn’t a big issue but is it supposed to last this long. It wasn’t a fun experience.

A couple of weeks ago, I had my first experience with sleep paralysis. I woke up early in the morning and felt like I couldn’t move. I didn’t think much of it, maybe it was just that cozy feeling under warm blankets keeping me still. My bedroom door makes a creaking sound when it opens or shuts, and shortly after waking, I heard it creaking as if someone were opening it slowly. But the thing is, I live alone and the door wasn’t moving.

Once the sound stopped, I heard somebody calling my name. My eyes stayed glued to the door. Who could be calling my name? I kept staring at the door, trying to make sense of it. Suddenly, I felt a whole-body jerk, and I was able to move. I didn’t feel scared in that moment, I just thought “that was weird”. I got out of bed, checked the house for any intruders, but it was empty. I thought maybe I was dreaming. But I knew I was fully awake. I came to the conclusion that I must have just experienced sleep paralysis for the first time. Strange experience.

This happened a couple hours ago and I’m scared to go back to sleep.

I was sleeping in a dark room with my dog, a sweet lil 10 year old jackweenie. I woke up from my sleep and felt/heard growling that didn’t quite sound like my dogs growls, it sounded much angrier. I realized I couldn’t move. Then “my dog” began to get very close to my head and menacingly whisper to me “you must pretend this is normal…(some other instructions I didn’t hear because I was scared out of my mind)”. And of course it felt terrifyingly real.

I woke up and my dog was a bit further from me looking at me. I love her so much so this really creeped me out. Just sharing this fucked up sleep paralysis episode. Has anyone else had SP episodes where the hallucination takes on the form of someone you love?

I've been lately mostly in the morning been having that feeling that I'm awak but can't move and sometimes even if I spend the night with someone like my friend or boyfriend I'm aware of my surroundings in my "dream" and I have a whole conversation and then I wake up confused because I thought it was real life but it was all a dream. Also last night I kept waking up I think I'm not even sure anymore but I'm aware of the room and can't move and I try to wake up and I can't! I hear voices. My man went to gym and I fell asleep as soon as he left and it happened! I was "awake" and saw a man come towards me and the bed and I couldn't move. After that I snapped out of it and woke up seeing my arm because I was laying on my back so my arm was positioned weird and it felt like I was trying so hard to wake up but I couldn't move and after that when my boyfriend came home and was getting ready in the bathroom I fell back asleep because he woke me up obviously by the light and as soon as I fell asleep I kept hearing like 5 people talking to me while I was "dreaming ". I also spent the light at my cousin this week and I had this thing where it felt like was talking to her and I would Wake up confused because I was dreaming and it felt so real that I was talking to her I was so confused in the morning if I did talk to her or it was a dream. I've been getting this a lot and I'm so confused if this is just sleep paralysis.

I have only had SP one time before. I was laying in bed, fell asleep, woke up, couldn’t move and felt a dark thing flying around the corners of my room. All the typical things. However, I’m pretty sure it just happened again but not in a way I’ve ever read or talked to anyone about before. I was having a dream and I don’t remember what happened exactly but it was something scary involving 3-4 women around me. I started to scream but it got quieter and quieter, like someone was lowering the volume on my voice. Then I was in my room floating above my bed sitting up slightly. Not my physical body, I don’t really know how to describe it. My mouth felt like it was being forced shut and I was just hanging above my bed. I looked out toward my living room and thought I saw or felt someone there. Tried to scream but it was like my mouth was glued shut. Then after I noticed it or them or whatever the fuck it was, it felt like I was being pushed back to lay down and I could almost feel myself connect back to my body? I woke up the way I fell asleep, laying on my stomach. Anyway I’m scared shitless right now and don’t think I’ll ever go to sleep again! Thanks for reading!

Was just talking to this about my siblings and we don’t know what to call it or find what it’s called. I’ve noticed it’s mostly happened during naps as well. While asleep it’ll be very vivid and mimic my current surroundings, in class people will mess with me or I will fall off my chair and people will say things they never did. In bed people will come into my room and do something to me as well. Every time I can feel myself moving my fingers toes and once I “snap out of it,” I fall back asleep and it continues like that for a bit until I eventually wake up and just feel weird. Any help appreciated i’m just curious :)

Most of this is from when I was a kid, but I still get it every now and again

A lot of people feel a sensation of pressure on their chest, like something is sitting on their chest, but I have only experienced this once.

Sometimes when I fell asleep, I felt like something was off, its sort of like predicting sleep paralysis right before I doze off, it's almost like a sensation of me slowly losing the ability to move, so sometimes I could stop myself from falling asleep. This was from when I was younger though.

Sometimes I can still control my eyelids, so I often just close them, but I can't actually look left or right.

Sometimes I see monsters but usually not, but I almost always have auditory hallucinations, like hearing people coughing, screaming, or other things.

All the time, when I try to speak to myself in my head, its as if the sound is put through a megaphone. My thoughts are painfully loud and amplified, like earrape. Idk why.

I have never had a recurring "sleep paralysis demon" but one time there was a mannequin in my room, wearing some striped clothes. Whenever I closed my eyes, when I opened them, the mannequin would move closer to me each time.

One experience I had is when I was watching a funny video before I fell asleep, so when I had sleep paralysis, I could still hear it which made it more bearable.

So last night I was sleeping and then around 3:30 am I woke up. I looked at my phone and then I saw that it was 3:33 exactly. I laughed to myself and was like that’s funny it’s the worst part of the night to wake up in because weird things happen in my experience. Well folks you shouldn’t think about those things when you are a victim of the mighty sleep paralysis.

As I was starting to drift into sleep my body was getting to REM before my mind, like it does with sleep paralysis I see a shadow. It for sure looked like a witch due to my own imagination running wild. My room has a bedroom then a 10 foot hallway and a bathroom. This shadow moved so fast. I kid you not this was the first time I broke sleep paralysis on the first time. Fight or flight kicked in. I probably was only able to break it since I was just barely drifting off.

Needless to say, the nightlight (22F) was turned on and I did in fact not sleep anymore. The tricky part is, I feel like if I have one episode of sleep paralysis, I’m going to have like six more. I didn’t want to risk any more witching hour visitations. Also will definitely be sleeping with a light on tonight.

Edit:

Also for the record, I usually get sleep paralysis with my eyes closed. So I always hate when it happens with my eyes open.

So today I had my monthly SP experience, I experience SP at least once a month but this isnt what I want to talk about rn. When Im about to have SP, I always am trapped in my sleep, something like waking up endlessly. I know I'm dreaming, but still I cant differentiate between real and fake. So today I felt like I was having some sort of panic attack followed by tachycardia, but couldnt move because of sleep paralysis. I cant remember if it was a drem or reality now. I just want to know if anyone has had an experience like this!!

Hey guys! so I've pretty much just woken up from i guess an episode of this?

I've struggled with it in the past and I've never really understood it. essentially, i wake up and my vision is stuck, i guess stuck wherever i was looking when i woke up, and i can feel myself move, i can grab things? hold my phone? try and check the time (this is sometimes an indicator to me that is not real as the time will just be random numbers if i can manage to see it).

from time to time in it i can sort of move my vision to different areas but then it'll be stuck again. when i do actually wake up i feel exhausted and just really low

Astral projection and sleep paralysis??

Hiiiii!

So I had kind of a weird thing happen last night that I didn’t even think it was possible and I still don’t 100% know if it actually happened or if it was a really intense dream. One thing I am 100% certain of is I did experience sleep paralysis.

So a little back story, I have been under an immense amount of stress (which could play a part in the sleep paralysis) my mom passed a away recently; less than 6 months ago and my long term 10.5 almost 11 years) relationship is ending.

On to what happened…first my dream was strange in an of itself, essentially I took my grandma to bed and was going to lay down with her and then she was trying to show me something and I told her I had to grab my glasses, well in the dream she was grabbing my arms so hard preventing me from seeing what she was trying to show me, even in my dreams I guess I have poor eyesight lol. Anyway i was conscious that I was dreaming and wasn’t able to wake my self up or move my body. In the past I’ve noticed trying to tap my fingers to my thumb helps a lot to get out of the sleep paralysis. Before I was fully able to move I opened my eyes and saw PEOPLE not one, not 2 but like 4 people standing in my door frame with WHITE faces and pitch black eyes, I have seen the top hat guy before, but this was way different and way scarier. So after I saw that I closed my eyes and tried to open them again and I couldnt.. I was trying to yell but I couldn’t. But I also was going in and out of the dream with my grandma. Now.. while I was going in and out of my dream with my grandma the “out” portion I was watching my self from outside my body… and unable to even move from the position I was in I was just standing over myself watching. I have astral projected before and I walked around my house watched my self sleep etc. and this was just way different. And then today, I have had crazy feelings of Deja Vu kind of?? It’s not normal Deja vu it feels like past memories but they aren’t mine or almost like a different version of my self. Like there’s two people’s memories in my head competing.. It started at work and then intensified when I got home to the point of making me feel sick. Idk if any of this even makes a lick of sense but I just need to know if anyone else has experienced this or something similar.

Does anyone feel or know of anyone that feels a floating sensation right before sleep paralysis? Right before it happens I feel my body become weightless and it feels like I’m free falling but very slowly. It’s a very interesting sensation and am wondering if this is a common occurrence.

I have trouble sleeping and I created a discord that is all about debating something different every night. I post a topic and then you guys debate it. If you want to join DM me and I'll send the link

Hey everyone just was gonna share my my recent SP happening Woke up sprawled rolled over on my shoulder and stomach looking off to my left seeing the wall and end table with a fizzy distorted visual impairment and a humming sound. It almost felt like the energy around me was pulsing and a presence just out of my vision. And I fell back asleep Then it once again started almost identical to what happened as I described except a higher humming. I heard/dreamt a loud clap and sprung awake. Thanks for reading y’all

I’ve noticed most people fall asleep then wake up paralyzed. I’ve experienced SP since I was very young and I’m always awake when it begins to happen. Anyone else experience the same?

My youngest memories consistened of nightmares from characters a child (or toddler) would enjoy like sock monkeys, sesame Street characters etc etc. I was prone to things hell even the Carfax! Even as a younger toddler I had nightmares of nightmares! Sleep paralysis! Then I was 9 those nightmares... No... I would wake up around 2 to 3 am screaming and crying from the dreams until I grew out of it.

so it happened to me just now i dont know if it was SP or something. i was trying to sleep while listening to podcasts then my suddenly podcast was stopped playing so i was like whatever im tired. i tried to sleep on other side was thinking about random things and my body was a little bit itchy then suddenly i felt paralyzed started to hearing some random screams when i tried to move the noises in my ears were getting louder and louder. so i tried so singing a song in my head it kinda worked then it went away and i opened my eyes. i dont know if it was nightmare or not. has anyone experienced this kind of stuff?

Last night I had a really good sleep paralysis episode. It started like how they usually do in my room unable to move telling myself wake up wake up wake up. Tried to wiggle my toes or do anything to just get out of it. I woke up falsely right back where I started. Instead of freaking out this time I was aware of my sleep paralysis and tried to do what some of you have suggested and think positive. I imagined a beam of light straight through the ceiling. I went to a place with beautiful colors and creatures I pet them and I could really feel their fur as if I was really there. It was extremely vivid and surreal. Then all of a sudden I felt like I was falling and woke up for real. The mind is wonderfully weird. This beats the sp demons for sure.

For a couple of years I’ve been having these weird dreams where I’m trying to wake up but can’t move. Sometimes if I try really hard I can move but I know that I don’t move in real life because when I wake up for real, I’m not in that position anymore.

Today new things happens in these weird dreams of mine. First it felt like someone was pulling on me, and I also got ringing in my ears. When the pulling stopped I started to soar, not high but I didn’t touch my mattress anymore, the ringing in my ears were still there.

I have been thinking about if it could be a sleep paralysis since it feels like I’m awake but I can’t move, but I’ve crossed that of the list since I actually can move sometimes if I try really hard.

I’m never actually scared in those dreams, more stressed about the fact that I need to wake up.

Does anyone know what these dreams mean? I have been trying to google it but I can’t find anything

So last night I had a weird nightmares where I couldn't move and felt as if someone was in my house I tried to scream but couldn't so I took all my strenghts and managed to get up from bed ( nightmare took place in the exact place I fell asleep) and I and took 2 steps only to fall right before touching the door(felt paralysed again ). I felt myself slowly suffocate and fall out of consciouness so I tried to scream for help and woke up. During the same night I had what seems like regular sleep paralysis where I saw a lady smiling at me and couldn't move , screamed and woke up.

This was my first time experiencing SP and since I never saw anyone talk about being able to move ( some fell out of bed) I wanted to be sure this wasn't some strange coincidence that seemed like SP.

Did anyone experience this before?

TLDR: Has anyone been able to move in sleep paralysis for a brief moment then fell and felt like they were dying?

I've read through a few posts on this thread but I haven't encountered the exact wording I'm looking for-- and I'm just wondering if anyone can relate to what I've felt? When I'm going through a sleep paralysis episode, I get the crazy vibrating sensation feeling everyone talks about-- but it's also been uncomfortable/painful for me. Like, I've had those shakes/vibrations but they also come with the sensation of someone digging their fingers in my ribs OR it's an unbearable ticklish sensation. Just me?

I was fast asleep right now having a really weird dream, I was in an Airbnb with my friend and I kept seeing this girl peek around the corner wearing jeans and a white t shirt. I told my friend “who is that” and she said “ bitch who” and all of a sudden I was awake in my bed but not able to move. I’ve suffered with sleep paralysis for years but this is one of the worst ones i’ve had. When I “woke up” the girl was standing there in the corner of my room and I realized it was me, my face and hands all bloody the figure started walking towards me and then it was gone and I felt a someone grip my sides really hard and then I was able to move again. I normally try not to read too much into it but I can’t find any answers online, does anyone know what that could mean? I am really freaking out lol, thanks xoxo.