I've had a horrible fever for almost 4 days straight, and generally have felt horrible. As fevers are known to, I've experienced weird dreams every time I've fallen asleep. Tonight I has SP, but it was extremely odd. Every time i have sp the "demon" is always my mom. Or rather something pretending to be her I imagine. In it, it always tries to hurt me, or give off a horrible sense of dread. But tonight it was weird. I realized I was having SP while I had it, which is new because usually my brain doesn't catch on so fast, and my mom was right next to me. Seemingly she was stroking my head, and she was saying something I could not hear, I normally would of felt afraid, whether it was SP or even my real mom, but the words seemed comforting for some reason. I woke up soon after, and just started balling, and I have no idea why!! It just felt extremely overwhelming in a way I cannot explain. Anyways super weird!! At least I didn't wake up afraid I guess haha.

I've been having sleep paralysis on and off my whole life sometimes I have no sleep paralysis for almost a long time like a few months or a few years.
And then I'll have sleep paralysis almost every single night for a few months to almost a year.
And this is a collection that I wrote down since I was very young.
I don't really believe in the Supernatural or that dreams always mean something my dad was into that kind of stuff though and I am religious.
So I always have a dream journal that is right a few sentences about my dreams.
What I like and then like about my dream and that's it.
If I had sleep paralysis I would include it then if I hallucinated or not.
The first time I had sleep paralysis was when I was about 13 I was sleeping in my bunk bed this is important, I woke up from a dream or because I had a cramp in my leg.
After I got back into bed I instantly fell asleep and then I was like lucid dreaming I was awake and above me was the mattress and bits of blankets from my bunk bed.
For some reason there was an eel that came out of the bunk bed I was staring at me it wasn't malicious more mysterious.
Than for some reason it wasn't a contest of who could move their limbs or whistle the fastest.
For some reason the ill couldn't move very well either just like I was having my sleep paralysis.
And then I won I managed to blow air at it it looked ignored and then just went back into its hole.
After that I would have sleep paralysis but I would not hallucinate I would have episodes on and off.
I would just be either falling asleep or getting up in the morning.
If I didn't get up right away and chose to be slicing sleep for 5 more minutes.
I would immediately fall asleep and I'd feel like I was being electrocuted or my body was shaking and something was pulling me down.
It's very hard to move anything.
And that's all I remember eventually I'd be able to force myself to wake up.
I just finished like 3 months ago having another episode of sleep paralysis though I did have sleep paralysis a few weeks ago.
So for a while I would not hallucinate at all just like mentioned earlier.
Then I had a dream I was talking with my dad about my childhood dog the golden retriever part German Shepherd she died a couple months before.
And then I said to my dad Hey look it's our dog like what are you talking about the dog is dead.
And at first I was playing with my dog the dog was all happy then it just turned into like a werewolf.
Her eyes became yellow and she was growing at me Seattle canines pointed at me she was hissing.
And the color racing chains she looked more wolf-like and only had fur at the tip of the hairs that were pointing out she was a darker yellow.
And she just jumped on me and I'm saying dad help the dog is attacking me.
He's like son stop this nonsense the dog is dead.
Eventually I give up trying to push her off me and I start praying and that's finally when he pulls her off me.
And says son what's going on the dog is dead.
That's when I woke up.
Another time I had a small hallucination I didn't see anything but I was having just a really hard time getting out of my sleep paralysis and I felt like I was having a hard time breathing.
I started praying after I was finished my prayer.
This cross appears from the floor the Sun Signs behind it and I immediately wake up.
Other times images of crosses appeared in my sleep paralysis.
No sleeping at my mom's house where there's a light above my bed it wasn't on but it's one of those lamps that's like a bull hanging from the ceiling if that makes sense.
All of a sudden the light goes on and these things that looks like Pixies from Harry Potter except they're colored scheme is only something I can describe gamer led light keyboard and they have jack-o-lantern you know when you see jack-o'-lanterns and that's the kind of face they had.
But they're trying to break out of the lamp and one of them manages to break out of the lamp and search flying down towards me leaving a trail of green behind it.
I'm fighting hard to get up to get out of bed and praying then the cross comes in the Light Signs them away and I wake up.
Another time I had sleep paralysis I was in my bedroom the closet was open.
I see something that looks like sap 096 or the rake.
It's looking at me that's its mouth open in a circle can't like when the grudge kills people.
Then it's trying really hard to push the Closet open then once it gets the Closet open.
It's banging itself in mid air like it's trying to get through a barrier.
Then once it's out the closet it's Galloping at me feeling its arms towards me it has yellow eyes.
Eventually it does manage to jump on me I'm trying to push it off I start praying and after what seems like a few minutes the cross comes and pulls it away into the air.
The cross is like a weird purple is brown I can't really describe it.
Then this is the scariest sleep paralysis I had yet.
My sister was my brother's room talking in our apartment you can hear everything.
I wake up I realize I'm having sleep paralysis natural I get up.
But then I start hearing Whispering near me I can't make it out but it's a boy and a girl talking and they seem amused by me.
Eventually I feel that they're placing their hands on my face but doesn't feel like someone's fingers and it's very warm.
They're trying to force my eyes closed eventually start trying to wrestle break out the gaps but I can only move my eyes and not my hands fingers or legs.
Eventually though I did wake up.
Then this is the most recent I don't happen only 4 about 4 weeks ago.
I just had this weird dream i'm in my hometown but it's in the future and because of that it's like a metropolis, there's skyscrapers everywhere smaller businesses are now extremely huge.
For example the church is no longer at church but a cathedral.
And one of the parks isn't just an ordinary Park anymore but a landmark to some sort of disaster that happened.
The rental I end up in one of my old neighborhood and our caterpillars the size of meter sticks.
Like really long rulers that you see in school I know nothing about measurements.
And I have to go through the park which is full of caterpillars some are real and some are fake.
And everyone is telling me not to be scared of the caterpillars saying they're friendly and then start putting them like cats they say just don't step on them they're poisonous.
I'm trying to make it through the park and I'm almost done I accidentally step on my caterpillar and it bites me.
I wake up in the hospital but it's an 1800 style Hospital one of the old women the person who was talking to me about the caterpillars is really angry.
I say who are you she pulls out a needle and some tube of medication and I yell and I wake up.
Another thing to mention is that I suffer from auditor or hallucinations and illusions on and off my life.
I called him Illusions because I know they're fake and I can ignore them and they'll go away eventually.
Sometimes I just hear from noises that aren't there auditory hallucinations.
They're always there no matter what they're just more likely to appear when I'm stressed.
Even today I still get them I just go through episodes where I get more illusions they're more likely to overwhelm me.
Anyways despite the fact that I wake up I still see that old woman like she's actually there in my room.
And she looks like she's mad and she's cursing at me and she's happy that she killed me.
After to make sure that I'm not Jimmy I go up to the woman and bump my head in the wall oh I was just hallucinating.
I turn on the light and then light on on my bed I needed he fell asleep.
My body starts you know shaking and then the door opens.
I don't know why for what reason but it's Slender Man he's in my room.
He looks at me and after a while he decides to start pulling his tentacles towards me.
You know I'm actively trying to get out of bed I don't want his tentacles to touch my skin.
But like me who's having a hard time moving he's having a hard time extending his tentacles he barely has enough time to get them out and completely in tie me up I guess is how you'd say it.
After a a few seconds of struggling and praying he disappears.
And that was the last time I had sleep paralysis for now.
For me it helps to keep track of my dreams I don't believe in that dreams are useless in that they're just something your brain does because you're sleeping, but I don't also believe that they can tell the future or whatever.
I just think that they bring out what you feel in your subconscious about certain situations going on in your life to an extent.
Like search you have a dream you could write it down and think oh it's maybe because of this because this is currently happening in my life you might be right to an extent but it's not the biggest deal in the world.
But then again there was that roman I think? guy who painted a red cross on his shield and one because he had a dream that he would win if he did that.
And once I did have a dream where I started high school and I was able to accurately know where everyone's lockers would be but that's just a coincidence.
I wouldn't count on it if you have fun writing your dreams down and trying to make connections good for you
I know I didn't post this immediately but it's only recently I got to Reddit and then thought to look up to see if there was a sleep paralysis subreddit.
So yeah thank you for reading this if you did and I hope this entertains you or helps you if you're suffering from cypresses and have hallucinations like I do.

I had my first, and only, sleep paralysis experience two weeks ago while travelling. I ‘woke up’ in my hotel room (laying on my back with my hands on my chest), opened my eyes, and realized that I could not move my mouth to speak or move my body. I figured it was sleep paralysis since I had read about it once. I observed a roughly 7 foot tall shadow somewhat like an enderman walking around my bed, then stopping on my right side to face me. The shadow disappeared. I then felt and heard a hot, wet, shallow, raspy breath (extremely realistic and clear) on my left shoulder and neck. I could feel, but not see, what I percieved to be an evil and sexual presence behind my left shoulder, that was doing the breathing. I was not afraid at all, and out of curiosity ‘welcomed’ the breathing as it did not feel unpleasant and distracted me from the stifling heat of my room (the breathing felt perverse, but I didn’t care for some reason). I was then able to redirect the hot breath as I pleased over my upper body, seemingly in collaboration with the invisible presence. I moved it around as I felt my body was really warm and it seemed to help cool me down (the breath was moist). Eventually, the breathing returned to my left neck area, and remained there. This whole episode lasted around 3 minutes. Throughout, I could hear a humming like an air-con, although the air-con was off. I did not feel afraid during this experience.

After 2-3 minutes, the breathing stopped and I began moving my fingers, then my entire body stopped being paralyzed. I immediately reached for my neck and shoulders to ‘wipe off’ the breath, however they were completely dry and my skin was a normal temperature.

It felt extremely realistic and I am somewhat bothered by it now, although at the time I was too tired and not in the right mental state to care. Has anyone had similar experiences? Apparently visions like the hat man, and incubi and succubi, are quite common, which I find unnerving since it seems unlikely that people would independently have the same Hallucinations. However, I have never heard of anyone experiencing the breathing thing? Any input is strongly appreciated!

Hey all. Just needed to let this out. Got out of a sleep paralysis 10 minutes ago….

I have had sleep paralysis before maybe 2 years ago. It was like a “typical?” Sleep paralysis story I guess, I’ve heard of one like it before. I was sleeping, woke up frozen, saw a dark demon sillouhette at the end of my bed. Freaked out. Started wiggling my toes like I had previously read online to help get my body to move and then jumped out of the paralysis, turned on the lights and went back to sleep.

This. Was. Different…it started off as a nice dream. I ?woke up and realised I couldn’t move. I remember trying my hardest to yell “DAD! DAD!” I felt my mouth moving but for the life of me nothing would come out. I was looking around my room. No visible demon. I felt myself get out of bed go to the door and yell out dad but then reality hit and I looped back in my bed unable to move. This looped a few times. Then whenever I tried to move again my body was in PAIN. Actual pain. Like the more I tried to get up the more I was struggling like I was fighting something off of me and my whole body/my skin was would get in more and more pain. This looped too.

I also felt my self slide/fall off the bed and then loop back in my same position in bed.

Then I remember trying to go on my phone and say “hey siri, call dad now” I remember getting my phone and saying it but then I’d realise I hadn’t moved at all. This looped too…

Then I remember grabbing my laptop so I could watch something that would calm me down but my laptop screen was completely transparent and I could only look through it. This looped too…

Then I heard my dad come down the stairs open the door and shout my name over and over again. Like he was terrified of what he was looking at. I looked to my doors direction and I was scream crying “DAD! DAD HELP ME!” But nothing would come out and then I’d loop back to realising I was in bed alone unable to move. This happened a few times too…..

I finally snapped out of it, my cat is by my side like nothings ever happened. I got my laptop, put on a show and am trying to calm myself down now.

Felt like this nightmare went on forever….

*edit: just did some research, found out this is called “False Awakening” / “False awakening with loops”

God. That felt like hell. Wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone. Going to try stay up until the sun comes out bc I don’t want to experience that again

So I was sleeping and I noticed all the lights were off I couldn’t open any doors. I couldn’t turn on any lights . I’ve been having dreams like this, since I was young, but I felt haunted. It was always have the same house and my grandmas house in the dream. No I’ve been working on Reiki since I was a kid(Just a little background info.) I had my girlfriend in the room in real life and in the dream . All I thought about was getting to her and protecting her. It felt so haunted in the room as I’ve felt in waking life as-well. I was walking around but I couldn’t yell something had my girlfriend but I couldn’t speak and no lights would turn on. Suddenly something held me down and had like a strap against my forehead holding me in place . Using my energy And my reiki I said fuck this you’re not going to hurt us !! I started pulling its energy off of it, it felt like I was killing it like it was in pain I started wrapping it’s energies around my wrist it hurt so bad I could feel it. I look at my wrist on my dream and it was swollen I had to take the energy off that I just put on. I woke up and it still hurt I could still feel the remnants of it on my wrist as I woke up. Did I really beat my demon that’s been coming to me since I was a child ??

It is only the second time something like this has happened - both times I became aware that I was dreaming and then couldn’t wake up.

The first time I was very much still in a lucid dream state, trying to find my way out of the dream world. It took a while for the panic to set in but I ended up thrashing and screaming trying to wake up. I must have managed to move my real body just enough to bring awareness back and pull me out of the dream state.

Last night though, when I realised I was asleep, the dream world slipped away and it was more like sleep paralysis but with my eyes closed. I focused really hard on moving my fingers. I managed to do this but my arm felt like when you’ve been sleeping on it - really heavy with pins and needles - and I was still stuck asleep. My husband was asleep next to me so I was trying to kick my foot onto him while saying “help me, I am stuck please wake me up” in a very slow and struggling gasp. Next thing I felt his hands on my body, tapping me and holding face. I woke up and felt a huge amount of relief. I was facing away from him so rolled over to say thank you but my husband was sound asleep…

When I told him about it this morning he said he definitely didn’t wake me up and actually had a really solid nights sleep (brag). Makes me wonder who or what helped wake me up, and if it was my husband in some non-physical shape or form.

I went to bed earlier than usual because of the long, tiring day of work I had. I woke up at exactly 4 a.m. It is difficult for me to go back to sleep, therefore, I stayed awake and scrolled through social media. After about an hour - an hour and a half. I was able to go back to sleep. During this sleep at around 6 a.m, I felt pressure relieve off of my bed. (I didn’t think much of it because my cat will sometimes get up and leave the bed in the middle of the night, but I was confused. I didn’t take my cat to bed with me and I had shut my door, so there was no way whatever came off my bed was my cat.) Continuing, whatever had got off my bed, left my room and I could HEAR my door creak shut again. For context, the way my room is set up and the way I have my bed positioned, I can’t see the door unless I lean towards the foot of the bed. This is when my eyes grew wide and I had froze because you know that feeling when you’re laying on your side and your S.O joins the bed and joins you to lay right behind you, putting a hand on your should and scooting closer to you? Sort of in the way of trying to initiate fun time? Well, that is exactly what I felt, but since I knew I was alone, I tried to yell “No, Stop, Help Me” but it was like I couldn’t open my mouth to talk or that no audible words were coming out of my mouth. I don’t know if the reason I was frozen in place and only trying to speak is from sleep paralysis?? Lastly, the most chilling part of this whole experience was that whatever had come up behind me, whispered in my ear “give it to me, (stated my first name)” I’m 20, soon to be 21, and never have had sleep paralysis. Is what I just experienced sleep paralysis? Is it something sinister? Please help.

So last night I had my first experience with SP (sleep paralysis) and it was pretty crazy, so I “woke up” on my side the bed and I seen this dark figure in the fetal position, “he” then proceeded to stand up and he was atleast 8 feet tall maybe even bigger, I was pretty stunned at first but from family members and story’s I knew it was just an episode, I was pretty creeped out but I kept my cool, I closed my eyes only to “wake up” again, this time he was at the foot of my bed staring at me, he then tilted his head back and his mouth opened wide, like his chin was in his chest, I closed my eyes again and he was gone but it was the same exact “wake up” as the last 2, I could move my hands and would wake up my gf, I would tell her I just had a SP episode and I walked to the front to share my experience with my mom, only to find out it was a false awaking and I was once again in my bed, same thing I woke up my girlfriend and got up, went tell my brother about it, I was telling him how crazy it made me feel and when I looked out the front window I was telling him “bro this got me so messed up it seems like the back yard is the front yard” my gf responded saying “no I see it too?” I woke up again back in my bed, same thing I woke up my girlfriend telling her how crazy it was, we went drove all the way to a friends house and I’m telling them like “man I had the craziest episode of SP” and explained to them how I kept waking up going about my day sharing my experience only to wake up in my bed again, and sure enough I WAKE UP IN MY BED AGAIN, at this point I was pretty freaked out, more than what I was of the figure I seen from the first 2 “wake ups”, I woke up my girlfriend again, this time I was actually awake ((crazy part is that I would wake up in the same exact spot as I did when I actually woke up)), I was so unaware at this point I didn’t even know if I was actually awake, I asked my gf “are we awake frfr” she was like “yea wats wrong” I was like feeling my face and everything at this point, I told her everything and she was scared about the figure I seen but I was freaking out cuz I really thought I was dead reliving my last moments over and over, we cuddled up said a prayer and went back to bed only to have yet another false awakening this time I couldn’t move at all, no visuals tho, I closed my eyes and jumped out of bed, checked my clock it was like 3:56 I had my alarm set for 4 for work so I just got ready for work, on my break I called my girlfriend and asked her if ever woke her up last night because I was so lost at this point, she said yea the one time and we prayed. Anyways that was my first experience and it was crazyy I had like 6 false wakings back to back I really thought I was dead reliving my last moments

6 months ago i experienced my first sleep paralysis luckly after it i wrote every detail on my diary, started well and finished horribly. If i’m not wrong it was like 2 a.m and i was watching some youtube videos trying to get me tired to go to sleep, but after 20/30 mins i just give up and forced me to sleep so i turned my phone off , and i after a good 10 mins i started sleeping. The experience starts with me in a gamerish pink room on a fluffy black bed with this half naked emo femboy kissing each other on the neck and on the chest area and after i while we start having really hot passionate soft vanilla sex . good. after a while i wake up ( another dream) in my room and start thinking about the dream when suddenly i started to feel the most UNIMAGINABLE REALISTIC PAIN I EVER FELT IN A DREAM, scared i ran in my bathroom trying to figure out why they hurt in front of the mirror . ok every teeth in my mouth is falling, the sink i just stained in blood with some of my teeth falling into the sink hole, panicking i try to call my parents even tho i have no teeth:” Dad !Mom! My teeth fell in the sink! Im bleeding!” they wake up and they try to calming down as it’s not a big deal. Dad:”nah it’s ok” Mom” don’t worry u will grown them back” I don’t know why but as soon my mother spoke i just said to myself :” maybe i should got sleep” so i just went to bed. I wake up again and i check immediately on my teeth they were there so i try to proof my mother that my teeth fell , so i bring her to the sink where there were some teeth in it, after checking the sink i see 4 swollen soft teeth big like a ball my mother says :”ok” i respond back with “ok what” followed by me shaking her arm then i wake up with in my hand an arm of this wood mannequin with ,instead of the head ,a weird map globe (that i have in my room) next to my bed , panicked again i try getting up of my bed and for 2 second i repeatedly get up and teleporting back to my bed for like 10 times and i could see every frame of my body movement , i was so shocked and confused that i panicking more than ever, after it i wake up in reality already hyperventilating having a sleep paralysis i couldn’t move a single muscle only my eyes were fully open trying to look my arounds, i was crazy hyperventilating so i focused and fixed my breathing, after some seconds everything passed i got up and went to the bathroom as fast as i can and stayed up all night.

I’ve had a couple episodes now that started when I was 21 so within the past year and a half, but last night was different. My friend that also experiences SP tells me to just keep my eyes shut so i don’t hallucinate which I also seem to remember even when it’s happening so, that’s what i did last night. During this episode I dreamt that i pushed my face into my bed when it was happening and I felt like I was sinking into and through my bed and the back up and over the top of my bed and onto the floor, during this I was just hearing some tune in the form of beeping. It all started with a dream that really scared me and then I felt myself sink into it. Normally, I’ve just been able to shake my head when I feel it coming on which I did when it first happened last night but when it happened again it was too strong to push off. Eventually I was able to wake myself :/.

It started off as sleep paralysis. I fell asleep on my back, and i could feel myself falling into the paralysis. I was sleeping, but my mind was awake with the heavy feeling on my chest. The room was dark, but i could make out items that weren't really there in my room. I was then able to move, but I had seen dark shadows along the wall. In this "dream," i started to feel heavy. When I had woken up, the blanket was over my face. I sat up, and my room was bright. The sun was shining in. Idk to this day if it was an out of body experience. But has anyone else experienced this?

As a boy, 16 years old, i experienced an unexpected sleep paralysis. It makes more sense now that I’ve done more research that with my insomnia and sleep deprivation that it’d happen to me. It was in this pattern that I’ve had a random sleep schedule for the past 3 weeks. I’d sleep at 5 AM, then 3 AM, and one time even at 7 AM. This would result to nearly a few hours of sleep or maybe even less. So anyways, the SP. This happened this morning, actually. I’m not aware of what time. I remember having a nightmare, and i was on top of a pole where there was a drop far below. I fell. As I hit the ground, i “woke up.” Everything was still black. All I could see was a flipping process of black static and a camera view of the top of my head to my feet. I could hear a LOUD ROARING static in both of my ears. And i mean LOUD. I’ve done some research on this before, so I almost immediately knew what was possibly going on. I only had one thought while this was happening. “DONT OPEN YOUR EYES.” But even then, i didn’t even know if I could open them anyway. I didn’t know if they were open, at that. I tried moving as much as I could, but i wasn’t even aware if my body was mine. I couldn’t feel it. I could feel my head, however. I tried moving that the most I could. It felt like a rock weighing me down. I made no progress. After a moment of that, i think it stopped and i fell back asleep. I cant remember that part clearly. I think it was still happening, just pacified.

All I could remember is that it stopped and i thought I woke up, but it immediately snapped back.

It happened again after it stopped for nothing but less than a moment.

I heard the static immediately fade in to consume my ears, i saw a black static, and i began to hear myself breathing rapidly. I felt and heard my breathing loudly, but i wasn’t actually breathing. My throat wasn’t working. At this moment, i knew EXACTLY what was happening, and i had 2 objectives this time.

1. “Don’t open your eyes, Ryan.”
2. Get your phone. (I was sleeping otp with my gf)

So I was seeing where my phone was without actually seeing it, and i knew it’s location, but i couldn’t move to get it. I wanted to scream out for my gf, but i couldn’t even think to attempt doing so. At that point, something NEW happened. A voice came from the phone. It was a yell. A constant, non-stop, same patterned “wobbly voice” that wouldn’t stop yelling as it was pretending to take my gf’s place. This lasted for about 25 seconds before stopping, and i cant remember how I got up from that.

All I know is that i woke up with my hand shaking and i was sticky-sweaty all around.

Another induced episode and I'm so disappointed to be awake again lol. I was reading and also looking at pictures on tumblr and listening to music it was very engaging it might help that I'm probs in the spectrum. I drift off to sleep and find myself in an amalgamation of every house I've ever lived in. It's like a maze. I have to use the bathroom to brush my teeth but the way is crowded as if my house is a bed and breakfast and when i finally get to the bathroom it's being used by a guest styling her hair. She doesn't mind me so i go in. I am done quickly, skipping flossing and mouthwash. Back in my room it's dark, no lights no windows. The hall is not as crowded as before. I put my toothbrush on a dresser and realize i didn't use mine or even take mine in the first place, it must belong to that girl who was styling her hair. I am so shook in many ways bc I'm a clean freak and I have a fear of not knowing what I'm doing so i wonder what led me to use hers or not even bring mine to begin with. Now there's guests beckoning me to come out with them they wanna rage and get lit and shit. As my mind goes back and forth between my actions past present and future like that, a hazy static encroaching magnetism materializes on the ceiling in the corner and i feel like Dorothy getting sucked up a tornado. Only i woke up here in reality lol. It's def sp because i realized what song i was listening to in reality and remembered where i was but wanted to finish my train of thought about the toothbrush so badly i guess i must've remembered or thought that i could recall my thought processes more accurately while asleep because im more grounded in a way. The magnetism is pulling me up. In reality i can't move or breath and i try to say "no stop" as if that will make the magnetism go away but i end up waking up with a dry mouth and tight throat with that fuzzy strangulation feeling

Another induced episode and I'm so disappointed to be awake again lol. I was reading and also looking at pictures on tumblr and listening to music it was very engaging it might help that I'm probs in the spectrum. I drift off to sleep and find myself in an amalgamation of every house I've ever lived in. It's like a maze. I have to use the bathroom to brush my teeth but the way is crowded as if my house is a bed and breakfast and when i finally get to the bathroom it's being used by a guest styling her hair. She doesn't mind me so i go in. I am done quickly, skipping flossing and mouthwash. Back in my room it's dark, no lights no windows. The hall is not as crowded as before. I put my toothbrush on a dresser and realize i didn't use mine or even take mine in the first place, it must belong to that girl who was styling her hair. I am so shook in many ways bc I'm a clean freak and I have a fear of not knowing what I'm doing so i wonder what led me to use hers or not even bring mine to begin with. Now there's guests beckoning me to come out with them they wanna rage and get lit and shit. As my mind goes back and forth between my actions past present and future like that, a hazy static encroaching magnetism materializes on the ceiling in the corner and i feel like Dorothy getting sucked up a tornado. Only i woke up here in reality lol. It's def sp because i realized what song i was listening to in reality and remembered where i was but wanted to finish my train of thought about the toothbrush so badly i guess i must've remembered or thought that i could recall my thought processes more accurately while asleep because im more grounded in a way. The magnetism is pulling me up. In reality i can't move or breath and i try to say "no stop" as if that will make the magnetism go away but i end up waking up with a dry mouth and tight throat with that fuzzy strangulation feeling

I have sleep paralysis here and there and have been able to know the feeling of when it is occurring and have learnt that whatever I am seeing is not real and just in my head. Not to say that it isn’t scary as shit when it happens but I have started experimenting a bit when it happens such as trying to see how long I can stay there and watch whatever is in my room (mostly just a black figure that is like an old TV buffer screen). Most times I have lucid dreams I start off in my bed then get up and just do whatever. Last night i had sleep paralysis but could get up and just look at the creature. I had multiple of these in a row and they restarted with the same position every time with the same creature. One of them the creature was on me but I just stared at it until I remembered I could move in the last cycle so I got up and kind of pushed it back but I couldn’t really feel anything. Moving isn’t like normal, I have to put as much effort as I can to move but I can still manage it. On one cycle I managed to get out my bedroom door and walk out my front door to get outside. This is when my vision started fading and I could see myself going back to the position I was in at the start of every cycle and feel myself being pulled back into the room with that creature. I googled about why I would be able to move in my sleep paralysis but nothing is coming up. Has anyone else had anything like this?

The first time I ever had sleep paralysis, I was about 13 or 14. My family and I were camping. My parents stayed in this big canvassed tent while my little sister and I stayed in a camping van. During the paralysis, I was exactly where we were in the van. My eyes were open, and I thought I slept in the same positio for too long, causing my body to be sore, but it was really sleep paralysis. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I could only see out the window that was directly in front of my face. When I looked out the window, I saw a dark figure, lanky arms and legs. Looked like he hadn’t eaten in an eternity. Son of a bitch was all bones. And he had this black, tattered pinstriped suit. If you’d call it that. It looked like he ran it through a paper shredder. And the top hat. He had on a top hat. I couldn’t see much of his face. But I remember his face being long. Abnormally long. I was screaming for help, but nothing was coming out. Or so I thought.

My saving grace was my sisters hand on my shoulder, shaking me, desperately trying to wake me up. According to her, my eyes were open, wide open, and I was almost whining. She said I wouldn’t take my eyes off the window. But that she couldn’t see anything outside. I remember gathering as much strength as I could, to say “can’t.. move…” To which my sister quickly acted and ran to get my parents in the tent next to us. Obviously everything was okay. My sister said my face was pale, terrified. I finally came to, and when I was able to I broke down into the biggest sobfest you could possibly imagine. Rightfully so.

Fast forward to about… an hour ago. I had another “Thing.” I’m grown now—28. Almost 29. I’m living two hours away from the place I used to live, with my best friend. I’ve had a lot of shit going on in my life so saying I’ve been stressed is the biggest understatement of the century. I’ve not been sleeping as I should. I get a few hours a night. Max, I think I’ve gotten five hours or so. And those days happen rarely.

So I’m in bed. My eyes open. Can’t move. I didn’t mean to fall asleep, and the only reason I say that is because my closet door was open. I never leave it open. Gives me major anxiety. But ya girl had some Smokey smoke. I didn’t even think twice. Until I woke up. At the foot of my bed, I saw my momma. She died about six years ago. But I quickly realized this thing was not my momma. Because her face was grey. Her cheeks were hollowed out. Her eyes were just gone. I’ve seen her before as my sleep paralysis demon, but what she had is something I will never ever forget. In one of her hands, was my nephews stuffy that I got him for his very first birthday. Only it was covered in blood. In the other hand, the gun she used to kill herself. And I remember when I looked at her, she tilted her head to the side. And just smiled.

How do I go back to sleep after this…?

I always have an episode whenever I sleep on my back I just woke up from one, lasted two minutes of partial immobility then extreme muscle contraction of my upper body when I snapped out of my immobility. I also heard a demonic coming from my windows that's right behind me like it was trying to possess me.

I get very less sleep due to my hectic college schedule and clinical rotations, i am a medical student from India. The things that i have observed are as follows:

1. Its always around 2 - 4 am at night.

2. Mostly happens when i am lying on my stomach and i feel like someone is sitting on my back.

3. I get an image of a creature similar to a gray alien and someone calling me in a whispered voice. This happens before my paralysis triggered.

4 . I get more than one episodes of sleep paralysis at a time. They happen just one i snap my self from the other.

5. I know how to come out of sleep paralysis. I just force myself out of it by snapping my head the other side if its stuck on the left or right side. This stops the sleep paralysis, but another episode can follow after i snap out of one. Its extremely exhausting and it ruins my day.

6 . I have been bitten on my upper back and i feel like someone is digging their teeth on my back while i am paralyzed.

If someone can help me why does this happens with me , I'll be grateful as i am extremely exhausted but not at all scared.

I've had sleep paralysis almost everyday when I was a child. It got to the point where I didn't want to sleep at all. I was going through a lot as a kid so I'm pretty sure that was the cause of it. But the dreams I've had was pretty scary. I've seen a scary dinosaur on me as I'm laying down In bed roaring around, I've seen a black creepy like figure crawl around my wall, I've seen my creepy glass doll talk to me.. the nightmares I've also had was scary as can be.. but one of the scariest thing I've been through honestly was this creepy black figure, like he was a demon, couldn't see him though.. whenever I had a nightmare he would show up.. and I would know when he'll show up.. this figure didn't just pop up in one dream.. he showed up in many of my dreams.. all different but the feeling was the same. I remember wanting to scream but couldn't, my scream was really disoriented, everything was slow motion. I remember trying to leave but it was like he was sucking me in with him somewhere. I called him my personal demon.. because I actually believed for the longest of time I was getting haunted.. I haven't seen him since I was a child though.. thank god.. because I literally can still feel the way I felt as a child whenever he would visit me.. I still experience sleep paralysis Here and there but it isn't as scary as it was when I was a kid. I do lucid dream as well, and those are usually nice. Anyways.. has anyone ever experienced something like that? Where you kept seeing the same creepy figure in different dreams throughout your childhood? Or is it just me lol.

I had both sp experience as well as demonic experiences while awake throughout my life. I no longer struggle with any of those things, because of one big change I made to my life. I can't tell anyone what it is because I'll be labeled a fear monger or a nut case, but I'll give you a hint: I didn't start taking psychiatric medication.

I have heard the testimonials of others coincidence with my experience of not having to deal with this stuff anymore, and I never started telling people about my personal experiences UNTILL I found a solution, because I felt that unless you have a solution, your stories just scare people needlessly.

I would like to hear from anyone who agrees or disagrees with my actions. I only ask that we keep things respectful, and that you don't accuse me. I understand that people who don't share my views hearts are in likely still the right place for being upset by my words, but I don't think it's right that there is so much gatekeeping when it comes to people sharing what worked for them.

So I get this paralysis all throughout my life and I used to just wake up and supper sometimes alone, or lie there helplessly, feeling like the demons are getting me, the darkness above that’s evil, or the spider that’s all dark and black and the size of a ceiling fan. It’s always super dark too, like even if the room is slightly lit, it’s not in this form of torture. Yet everything is in tact the doors are in the correct place, I am always where I wake up when I’m in this state. Even afterwards it’s something creepy still there. Shadows will move, make shapes, I can see the evil in it, even when I’m fully awake sitting up. I have mastered communicating to my partner when this is going on, and it’s whatever I’m saying internally that I can get out enough to speak to her to help. She ends up waking me and making sure I sit up. Obviously I try not to sleep on back, but I guess I do anyway sometimes. Two nights ago I was laying there and it came back hard. This lady of darkness grabbed my arm and made her dark way to my throat. I spoke to her in this, and told her she’s not going to be able to hurt me bc I am going to control her, and she’ll never be back again. She had me crippled but my words were ripping her away, I said a short prayer and she screamed at me and I let out this furious scream and she disappeared I started to mumble for help while it was all going on, it was intense and seemed so fast, then the wifey woke me. Last night I was having some issues sleeping, chose the couch bc I wanted to be alone, it happened again. I was in the same realm, but nothing, the evil was gone, no dark woman, nothing diving down my throat so I can’t breathe, it was like they left but the scene stayed the same. I fought to move myself, and somehow I got to roll myself off the couch and wake up. Way too much, I hope that someone can relate.

Before I start with todays sleep paralysis, I have to talk about yesterday’s as well (3.25.23). I am trying to figure out why I’m having them aka what I might be stressed about..p.s. not good with grammar but tried read at your own discretion.

3.25.23: it was after 3am because my partner wakes up during that time to get ready for work, so I do our usual routine. I get the 3 little doggies outside for their business and I feed them and we all snuggle back in bed. I also secretly like that they snuggle right next to me and not just at the foot of the bed because when I do have sleep paralysis I know I’m not alone. So we’re all asleep and it’s happening, my sleep paralysis kicks in …but it’s totally different this time too. So I recently started having like static voices when I do get sleep paralysis.. but last time my eyes were open and I knew I was in a room, however, this time they weren’t. My eyes were closed (knew they where closed), couldn’t move but heard the static voices, I was then actually dreaming and for some reason in my dream I said, “oh this is a dream,” so I came out of the dream and tried to open my eyes but couldn’t. Then I started to feel tingling Sensation starting from my head to my shoulders, which honestly felt good, so I didn’t fight that because it felt like a message technique, not like a hurting tingly sensation. Then I’m able to open my eyes, but can’t move and I see a black silhouette of a person wearing a top hat. Of course I don’t know how the person looks like because it’s just a silhouette, but they’re right next to me. So of course, I freak out and I’m screaming yelling; yelling for our roommate/friend to wake me up and of course you’re just paralyzed cause it’s sleep paralysis. I wasn’t doing shit, but then I was able to get up and fully move my body.

3.26.23: So we had our usual morning routine except my partner had to go into work earlier around 1 am because the alarms went off, so off to work he went. Then he finally came back home, 4 hours later, and we went to sleep. Before going back to sleep, I put some ear plugs in because I wanted to have a good rest and my partner snores a lot. I’m just a light sleeper in general; noise, movement, if the lights turn on, I’m awake. Which know that I think about it, it’s why I have sleep paralysis because I don’t always put my ear plugs in , maybe I’m just really tired …hmm. Anyways, i put my earplugs in before falling asleep, then I was having a dream that my life was flashing in a time line; it was almost like I was being shown how I got here today, why I have this certain job, and why I am who I am today. Very strange cause it started from just different eras in life and it gave me a sense as to why I care about things and people; even though people get on my nerves (I’m very introverted). I then feel like I’m having sleep paralysis and next thing I knew it my boyfriend wakes me up and he’s ask, “are you okay,” while his hands were comforting my arms, I reply with yes, while gasping for air, and for a split second I thought I was in, the here and now ..at that time I was in our reality, but when I looked around, I saw we were in a dinner with black and white checker board floors and seating in red seats. That’s when I got out of the chair because I didn’t remember going there or how I even got there. I stood there looking around and he’s just staring at me, along with everyone standing still. I finally snapped from my sleep , but I can’t move. I think my eyes were trying to open because I could see the room at time then I couldn’t. So while my eyes were to trying to open in between that time, I could almost see a white silhouette coming in and out of my body, it honestly looked like my arm. As crazy as it sounds, looked as if what you see in movies, when a soul comes out of your body. So that was happening. Then finally my eyes just decide to close and not open but I can feel like something was sniffing right by my ear. I could hear it despite me having ear plugs in and could feel the breath/air move my hair, and the warmth. So I 100% thought, “ awe my doggie is trying to wake me up,” so I start giggling. That’s when my partner is lightly shaking my arm to wake me up and asked “are you okay”, and I replied with yes. I looked next to me where I felt the breathing and there was no doggie in site, they’re either on his side or by the foot the bed.

First and only time ever experienced ... terrifying Upon waking large black claws around my ankles and wrists, holding me down. I was trying to scream for help but could not get the words out.. Like I couldn't beeathe. After I broke free at 2:30 am I said F@@& this sh.... got up shaken to the bone. I know there was paranormal involved- I was in rehab, where the energy is raw and the residents are vulnerable. I feel we were trapped there with this spirit.

I’ve “suffered” from it myself, though it’s really quite a normal and beautiful and good thing once we let go of the fear or any negativity associated with it, and learn to deal with it. I was excited when I found this subreddit just now, yet I don’t like the description due to the keyword “suffer.” Simply, “experience” would be better if anything. It is not always suffering, if at all. At least for me nowadays. Peace be with you! :) bless!

p.s. maybe as well as anything you “suffer” from possibly becomes worse when you give in to or restate it as “suffering” more often than is necessary or at all.

I occasionally have sleep paralysis and I knew I was gonna have one today because I had a upset stomach last night and couldn’t sleep because of it. so usually if I lack sleep, I know I’m going to have sleep paralysis. so I’m in my nephews room sleeping and it’s daylight outside and then boom I am in/having my sleep paralysis, but it was different this time. I don’t know if it’s because it’s daylight. majority of the time when I do have sleep paralysis, which is at night , it feels like somebody’s touching me all over my body and it’s unsettling but nobody’s there, not no shadow man or old hag, which I have seen but I just have the sensation of being violated majority of the time. Right now, as I’m typing this waking up from the sleep paralysis so sorry if grammar is off, I still had the sensation of something wanting to touch me, but it didn’t happen instead all I could hear was voices everywhere And these voices were not my own voice in my head and I also couldn’t see anybody. I was just nothing but voices randomly. From crying babies to men to women.. I can kind of describe it, as when you’re changing the radio station in a car and you just hear all the different types of voices… I just never had this happen to me before, again I just heard a whole bunch of voices out of nowhere, and it not being my own internal voice. It was Very different but not as scary to my past sleep paralysis, so I was a little intrigued. So while I’m hearing all these voices, I can clearly see the room and nobody’s in the room and of course I’m having sleep paralysis so I can’t move, and I was trying to focus on at least one voice, but I couldn’t. “Everybody” was talking all at the same time, and the one that scared me was when I heard a child that said no mommy like she was about to get an ass beating or something, it was scary. once I heard that, then I feel like all the voices were beginning to be negative like..it wasn’t just normal talking, it was getting darker I don’t know how to describe it, I guess the only way to describe it, is the sensation or the environment started to feel negative even though I’m in a well lit room. that’s when I wanted to wake up. I’ll try to share more of my sleep paralysis right when I wake up like I did today and I know a lot of people say it’s spiritual or it’s because you’re stressed out but either way It just feel really real in the moment.

I was lying on my couch sleeping when, from a distance, I heard my boyfriends keys enter the door lock. I hear the door open. He's on the phone with coworkers, and he comes over to the couch asking a vague question of non importance to this story. I heard him but didn't answer because I was just waking up. He assumes I'm deeply sleeping and goes to the kitchen to make dinner. This is when I open my eyes and sit up. Only to quickly realize I haven't actually moved.....strange, but I guess I'm just really tired and need another second to wake up. Listening to my boyfriend discuss work and watching the shadow of him walking around the kitchen. I once again reach my arm up to move the blanket and move my other arm behind me to sit up, only to have my reality bounce backwards to being lying back in the same position unable to move. For the next 30 minutes, I place all of my strength and effort into trying to sit up every way I can. Then it hits me.......I've died. I've died, and my boyfriend doesn't realize yet. I start crying out in my head, "babe," with a pause.....a little louder "babe".....this goes on until I am screaming "help me". My boyfriend asks, "babe, are you ok?" I started crying out 'help me', screaming,"Please help me. " He wanders out of the couch and stares down at me, saying,"Are you ok?" I keep pushing myself to say,"Help me. " But I am steadily running out of energy, thinking to myself this is it. I'm not breathing, and he's just realized. He reaches down, touches my foot, and I can finally move. He asks me if I'm ok. He said that my eyes were open, watching him. My mouth was moving, but I was speaking gibberish. My body now aches from the effort of being stuck for 30 minutes, desperately trying to escape, and I am mentally bewildered by the experience.

I’m having sleep paralysis i guess from birth idk but i can trace my first episode way back when i was in kindergarten they were that serious i used to see a witch/a female ghost it didn’t used to move though but i could clearly see her unlikely the common black shadow thing staring at us when i was around 13-14 i had this experience woke up in the middle of night and there’s a room(my parent’s ) just opposite to my room and the hallway has red night bulb so i could hear sounds of smashing things shattering glass and quarrel from that room I thought my parents were fighting it lasted for a while and suddenly there was a silence ,a heavy scary silence and then i see a black outline of woman walking in the hallway in midst of red light background slowly walking toward my room I thought it was my mum she wanted to leave the room and wanted to sleep in my bed i used to sleep alone so I tried to ask what happened I heard sound of glass shattering is everything okay but I couldn’t speak and i realised couldn’t even lift a finger now that figure which crossed the door of my room started climbing the wall and going towards roof i was shitting in my ass and in a blink she was just above me on the roof and in just next second she was right next to me hanging from the roof her face right next to mine her open hair resting on my face i could feel those hair on my face sent shiver’s down my spine i could see a little bit of her face through her hair ,thank god i woke up just in time and on waking up first thing i did was touched my face to look for her hair and I couldn’t sleep that night as i was a kid i had no idea about this and used to think of it as a nightmare

I just woke up from my paralysis and it started differently from the usual I opened my eyes to a black and white version of my room even tho I have rgb everywhere and my door was opened while it was close in reality . When I have a paralysis I always close my eyes until I can move. This times every time I opened my eyes the colors I could see were different same scenery with different color overlay with each color a different feeling of dread as if through that door someone was waiting. After having three visions I was able to move but I had no strength left and was violently shakiness trying to reach my light switch to bring myself out of this state I fell on my bed multiple time trying to turn the lights on.

This open eyed dream might have been influenced by the webtoon I was reading