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Sleep paralysis is when your mind is awake, but your body is still asleep. It is a quite common phenomenon that troubles a lot of us.
The common features include a feeling of being paralyzed while lying in bed.
Usually, auditory and visual hallucinations also occur.
Some people see human-like figures and even creatures, and they will hear voices or other strange, unsettling sounds.
We asked people to share their true sleep paralysis stories – on Facebook, Reddit and also to send it on our email.
Here are the scariest 32 sleep paralysis stories we’ve got:
1. Footsteps in the hallway
“One night I woke up to what I thought was the sound of footsteps in my hallway. I was laying on my back, which immediately made me confused and a bit nervous because I never sleep on my back.
I tried to turn my head to see where the sound was coming from, but I couldn’t move at all.
The panic set in and I heard the source of the footsteps come into my room. Now, although I could not see the figure, I knew it was a home invader.
I could feel him standing on the opposite side of my bed, silently staring down on me.
He had some sort of weapon in his right hand, I believe it was a knife.
I swear my heart has never dropped and raced like that in my entire life. I kept trying and trying move or scream, but I was frozen in place. It felt like hours.”
– From gingeroblivion, Reddit
2. I could hear ”it” breathing
“I heard footsteps coming up the stairs of the attic (which ends up right beside my bed). I couldn’t see anyone coming up though.
Suddenly I realised I saw something in the corner of my peripheral vision, and I could hear it breathing. When I slowly rolled my eyes to the side I saw the small head of a white-faced troll grinning and staring at me.
I panicked and suddenly all the phones in the house started ringing. This ringing sound built and built louder and louder.
It scared me and I knew for sure that I had permanent tinnitus.
After this short moment which felt like a really long time I had enough strength to locate and lift my arm. This immediately stopped all the hallucinations and I woke up. Without tinnitus :)”
– From IthunnuhtI, Reddit
3. Inaudible whispers
“My mind woke up and my entire body, including my face, was under the covers and unable to move; I couldn’t see a thing.
I worried for a brief moment when I discovered I couldn’t move, at all. Then things got scarier.
I felt an enormous amount of pressure on my chest; I had the feeling as though this spirit (or whatever it was) had its face only inches away from my own.
If this wasn’t enough, I heard inaudible whispers in both ears and pounding on the wall adjacent to the bed.
I began to cry because that’s all I could physically do and in my mind, I was screaming as loud as I could, but nothing came out.
I began to struggle, but I finally burst awake, sat up immediately, still crying. The room was silent.”
From thisisnotmyusername3, Reddit
4. Babadook-ish dark mass
“To me, the paralyzes always happen in cycles. I always sleep on my side or on my stomach.
Recurring experience for me is feeling something evil floating over my bed, slowly coming down towards me. Even though I never see it directly, I somehow always feel/know it has this very wide grin on its face.
It may not sound very scary coming to think of it, but the fact that it’s always the same damn babadook-ish grinning dark mass, makes me feel super creeped out.”
– From Murkymidsummer, Reddit
5. Face to face with the dead body
“Back when I was hooked on FFXI I was playing way too much while neglecting my sleep. One evening I went to bed stressed.
I then spent a while tossing and turning in bed, upon turning to my right I was face to face with the dead body of an old man.
He had some kind of scaled reptilian skin. After around five seconds (which felt much longer) he started to vanish.
Then, I could feel some kind of omnipresence outside. It was super early in the morning, so it was turning light. However, the sky and natural light began to dim rapidly as this presence was making its way to my room.
I could feel it growing and growing as the window went pitch black – the pure evil darkness began to seep into my room.
So I jumped up and got the hell out of there. Splashed cold water over my face to stop all of this onslaught.”
– From DAFJ, Reddit
6. The man with the knife
“I feel I’m awake, but I feel groggy, and so incredibly tired it’s hard to move. Then, I realize that actually, I cannot move.
Simultaneously, I am also acutely aware that I am in imminent physical danger. I can see a shadow in the room, at the foot of my bed. It is a man with a very large knife.
I know I MUST move to save my life, but I cannot move. I hold my breath, as I cannot move, I, instead, try (intensely) to be as still as possible.
I will my heart to slow down, for fear he can even hear that inside my chest. He wouldn’t try to stab me if I’m ‘already dead’, right?
I stay this way, hardly breathing and drifting between awake and asleep and again… Eventually, the male shadow is gone and I finally feel I can let go and drift back, safely, into sleep.
When I do wake up, I’m almost always on my side…not on my back at all. “
From Sandy G., Facebook
7. Sleep paralysis loop
“I was lying in bed at night when I realized my body was rigidly locked in place. It was uncomfortable.
I tried moving around, but and then my body started rising off the bed. Just a few inches. A terrifying sensation… that woke me up. Such a relief. It was just a weird dream.
Suddenly I was rigid again and there was an eerie green glow outside my window… and then I woke up. That was disturbing.
I’d somehow been dreaming again, with no recollection of having fallen back asleep.
Suddenly I was even more rigidly locked up than before, floating so far off the bed I was almost at the ceiling, and the eerie green glow was brighter than before. I panicked… and woke up.
This time I was actually awake. Sleep paralysis within sleep paralysis within sleep paralysis. Dreaming of being exactly where I was (in my own bed at night) within the same dream within the same dream.”
– From bohemianish, Reddit
8. The little girl
“A few reoccurring characters are a banshee in my room screaming at me in some sort of demonic multi-voice.
A little girl that walks up to me and resets my sleep paralysis and puts me into nightmares. I’m usually up for the rest of the night if I get a visit from either of those two.
But I get them quite frequently while stressed. And they tend to stress me out for the next night so compounds itself.
Skeletons walking past my door. Dead people staring at me from my window. I don’t know why most of mine are centered around dead, rotting things.
But they are. I’m a 34 year old man I don’t know why little ghost girls scare me. “
– From grundalug, Reddit
9. Six arms grabbing my body
“I was sleeping in my bed, and woke up paralyzed. I looked at the wall of the hallway, where we have a painting.
It was slightly oblique (also it was a different painting). Then I see my brother’s arm that puts the painting in his natural position.
At the beginning it felt like a dream, then I said to myself “What the f*** is my brother doing here in the middle of the night?” and I realized that I was yet again in a sleep paralysis. And then…things got worse.
The painting changes, revealing the face of the Witch from The Wizard of Oz (i had a dream with her that night).
She isn’t really that scary looking, but holy fu*k, it was terrifying at that moment. She laughed, and she jumped out of the painting and came into my bed.
I just closed my eyes in complete terror and felt something like six arms grabbing my whole body. It stayed like this for 5 seconds before I managed to free me from that f******* nightmare.”
– From Kiuraz, Reddit
10. The demon from the dream in my room
” I am awake and unable to move.
My body is tingling all over and I am seriously panicking. I can’t move and I remember just trying to jump out of my body. “Just sit up,” I told myself.
As if I’m suddenly released I bolt upright and turn on the bed lamp. I see the demon from the dream standing on the side of the bed.
Naturally, I panic and scream. Wake up my boyfriend who is freaked out. Took me about two hours to fall back asleep.”
11. Decaying man on my bed
“It happened when I was about 12 years old and I was obsessed with Justin Bieber, so much that I had a poster of him next to my bed.
At the time I fell asleep sleeping sideways on my bed so that I was facing my mirror and I could see the poster next to me.
I woke up not being able to move and instead of seeing my Justin Bieber poster I saw a mangled, decaying man sitting on the edge of my bed staring at me…
I was so scared and all I could do was close my eyes and hope that it went away. I took the poster down after that night haha.”
– d. jansma, e-mail
12. The french kiss
“I was happily sleeping on my back when I woke up, except that I didn’t, at this point I hadn’t realised yet that It was an SP episode, so I opened my eyes, and then I couldn’t move, and then it clicked.
“Fuck, I’m not supposed to open my eyes”
Inmediately after that, a curvy female shadow figure with long hair appeared at the end of my bed. She didn’t even had glowy eyes or anything, just a pitch black silhouette. Like Mr Game and Watch, but in 3D and sexy.
Surprised, but not scared, because as I mentioned, I already knew that this could happen and In reality, I was safe in my bed in the real world.
“What a cute demon”
And after a few secconds of staying there, she, without emiting a sound, jumped on me, her shins over my knees and grabbed my wrists and hold them at the sides of my head, to prevent me from moving.
“Bitch I’m already paralyzed, what are you doing”
And she just french kissed me, with tongue, I felt everything.
“WHAT THE FFFFFUCK?”
And I woke up out of pure confusion. I couldn’t even let her finish, I was so surprised that I just woke up, I definitively wasn’t expecting that.
– From Zharken, Reddit
13. The tall slender figure
“In a not so recent episode I woke up in the middle of the night, unable to move, and saw a tall slender figure enter my room.
so far, it was an occurrence I am familiar with, as I have sleep paralysis on a semi monthly basis, but this time I watched as the figure crawled into big spoon position with me in my bed, got uncomfortably close to my ear and whispered
“Go back to sleep”
and then I jolted awake, no sign of anyone in my room.”
– From LaVey32, Reddit
14. Pressured from behind
“I was sleeping on my stomach which I never do. I felt the paralysis start to begin.
Then I kept feeling being held down and hard pressure near my a**, kinda like thrusting motion. Kept trying to push it away but kept feeling more and more pressure.
Then I woke up after my mind told me to wake up. After that, I just stayed awake and tried not to think about it.”
15. The black face
“I remember waking up for no reason whatsoever. No loud noise. No touching on my body that makes me wake up. Just complete silence.
I sat up just thinking to myself that maybe I was thirsty or had to piss. But something just felt very odd. A feeling I never had before.
I can’t even explain the feeling but certain people know the exact feeling I’m talking about.
If I had to put it into words, all I would say is pure dread.
I felt as if time simply didn’t exist. I almost felt like the entire world just stopped. It even felt like my clock was frozen in time.
I remember sitting up in a daze. As I sat up I turned my head to the left of me, looking out of my bedroom doorway.
As I peeked through I saw a man standing there just staring at me. He had to be around 7 feet tall not even joking here. This man wasn’t hollow looking at all. No ghostly look.
He looked like a human. Completely solid just standing there staring at me. I remember seeing the detail in the clothes and everything. He had on all black boots, kinda like docs.
Faded blue jeans and a huge puffy jacket. Very odd since it was the middle of summer and even at night it can still be warm even in CA. The jacket had a hood that was over his head.
The odd thing is that I could not see his face at all. Even with the dim blue light lighting him up. His face was just black. No facial features or anything.
Just a complete dark void where his face was suppose to be. As i sat there staring at him i was just frozen.
Not making a sound. I was washed over with this confusing feeling mixed with fear. I remember us just looking at each other for what seemed like minutes but was most likely only 30 sec.
As i was looking at him i just felt terrified.
I remember all of a sudden just knocking out. I was staring at him and then just slowly laid back down. Then nothing. Just KO’d instantly. Complete darkness.”
16. A zombie virus
“It’s not usually scary for me. Usually, I hear a really loud buzzing sound and my head feels like its vibrating, hahah. I had a weird SP/dream where I got infected with a zombie virus and had to get killed to save humanity.
So I had to lay down in a chamber and they turned on a machine that blasted radiation waves at my body.
I couldn’t move and felt this strange but somewhat nice force/static feeling and the whole time I was thinking, this doesn’t feel very painful for being radiated and burned alive. :D”
– From BlackCode9, Reddit
17. Face to face with an old woman
” I heard some kind of whisper very close to my ear. It was really fast-paced and gibberish.
When I opened my eyes to know what the f*ck that was I saw an old women hovering face to face about 1inch away of my face.
She had a pale old face, blacklip and two very very deep black eyes ( I’m not even sure if she had eyes in fact I think these were eyes sockets).
After what felt like an eternity of panic I woke up. I didn’t sleep again that night.”
– From SempiSenpai, Reddit
18. The naked murderer
“One day I woke up in the middle of the night and I immediately realized that I couldn’t move.
I could not talk either and quickly realized that I was experiencing sleep paralysis.
That’s when I saw a person standing in the corner of my room. I got really excited, not scared, just happy to finally experience it.
At some point I woke up and thought about how cool it was so I tried doing it again.
I was really tired and I don’t really remember what I did, but I managed to get sleep paralysis another time, only this time I kept slipping into a normal dream (if there is such a thing) and back into sleep paralysis.
I dreamt about a crazy naked murderer breaking into our house and when I was back in sleep paralysis I think I saw the murderer from my dream in the corner of my eye. Still, I was happy to experience it all.
I woke up again and tried getting into sleep paralysis again, managed to do it and this time I did actually get scared.
I remembered something I had read a few years ago about sleep paralysis, saying that a lot of people see the Hat Man standing in their room.
I don’t know why, but the thought of this really frightened me and I woke right back up from the paralysis.
Once I was awake again I got really mad at myself for not just staying in paralysis but I thought that I would just go back one more time.”
– From getoutofthewaylydia, Reddit
19. The people with no eyes
“Was sleeping next to my mum in a hotel room at the time, and I kept waking up between them and trying to wake her up to wake me up but I could barely move.
I kept drifting in and out of the dream state, where I didnt know what to do at all.
The first experience was when I floated to the ceiling of the room and saw my mum get ripped to pieces, screaming in agony as blood came pouring around the room.
The second experience was when I saw two people standing over me and cooing me, but they had no eyes and I couldn’t move, and didn’t know who they were.”
– From kirrans, Reddit
20. The shadow Mary
“I entered the sleep paralysis state and went into my normal panic.
My eyelids just barely open to see the haze of a shadow darting in and out of the doorway to stand right at the end of the couch by my feet.
When I woke up fully and my friends came home I had the name Mary stuck in my head.
I kept thinking that the shadows name was Mary or it was trying to tell me something about Mary.”
– From asianmfmike, Reddit
21. The teleportation shadow
“I got comfortable fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the night, I opened my eyes and looked around, it was all I could do.
I had never heard of sleep paralysis so I didn’t know what the hell was happening, and then I saw what looked like a shadow walking around, then teleporting around.
It teleported to me and leaned down its head right above my face, then it climbed on to my chest and I felt an immense pressure there. I assumed it all actually happened until I heard about sleep paralysis and that a lot of people had almost that exact experience.
For a long time me and my dad thought I had seen a ghost that day, but it was just my mind making things that would haunt my nightmares forever.
After climbing on my chest the shadow teleported my sister’s room first and then teleported out, walked into the bathroom.
Then turned into a dog and the dog was barking at me, but there was no sound, it was like someone had muted him, then he disappeared entirely and I never saw him again.
I then forced myself to slightly wiggle my toes and slowly try to move the rest and it worked and I got up.”
– From livingpieceofshit, Reddit
22. The loud whispering
“I was laying down in my bed when I heard some noises but just assumed it was my cat running around and didn’t really pay that much attention to it.
I also noticed that my window blind was a little open but just thought that I forgot to close it.
As I am trying to get up to close the blind I notice that my body is very heavy, I try again but I do not move at all.
At the same time the noise outside my room starts becoming louder and closer and it sounds like loads of people whispering but very loud.
I start getting really confused and kind of scared, thinking that I could be getting robbed.
I try to reach my phone to light up the room but I get reminded that I can’t move. At this time I start to get honestly very scared.
A few seconds later I hear the door latch and it slowly begins to open revealing a shadowy figure, I try asking who was there but my mouth does not respond.
I start to freak out and can hear my heart beating insanely fast, I want to scream but I can’t, the shadow slowly moves across the room getting near my bed, the whispers coming from the creature get louder and clearer.
I can almost distinguish what some of the voices are saying. The shadow bends over the bed and between all the whispers I clearly hear my father’s voice:
– Want some peanuts?
I get obnoxiously confused and suddenly I notice my room is completely dark, the door is shut and there’s complete silence.
I’m still scared as f*ck but somewhat relieved and I notice that I can move again, but I decide not to as that “thing” could still be around.”
– From Quetas83, Reddit
23.The Jumping man hallucinations
“I remember one instance that was shortly after watching Twin Peaks: The Return.
I was really obsessed with that show at the time and I was attempting to do a WILD one night.
I’m not entirely sure if it was sleep paralysis, but I had some faint hallucinations that reminded me of the Jumping man from Twin Peaks.
I kinda noped the f*ck out of that before the hallucinations got stronger and forced myself back awake.”
– From BonanzaBurger, Reddit
24. The skinny little girl with long hair
“I was sleeping by myself in my grandparent’s basement during some holiday.
I woke up in the middle of the night to some little girls voice saying my name over and over and saying “where are you?”.
Then I can hear her slowly walking down the stairs. It was a really old house, so I heard it creaking each time, and the voice was getting louder and louder.
Then I saw her silhouette standing in the doorway. She was this super skinny little girl with really long messy hair. She just stood there and stared at me for what felt like forever.
I was trying to do anything I could to get up or yell for someone, but I couldn’t move and I thought it was just from being so scared.
Finally, she lunged at me and right before she got to me, I woke up. Probably one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had.”
– From Stekl, Reddit
25. A man screaming in pain
“I had attempted to do a method of induced lucid dreaming where you wake up after 5 ish hours of sleep, then lay still and move your fingers like you’re playing a piano.
I sort of felt myself transition into a lucid dream, which I guess then turned to sleep paralysis.
I was unable to move, and then suddenly as I try to go back to sleep my entire body starts violently vibrating and I can’t see anything, and I hear what sounds like a man screaming in pain.
I instantly “woke up” from the sleep paralysis and jumped up in my bed.
Didn’t sleep the rest of the night because I just had an uneasy eerie feeling. “
– From ethanlaubmeier, Reddit
26. Horrifying whispers
“As I “realize” I’m awake I see that there are shadows moving on the wall opposite me in the basement.
I start getting freaked out and try to move myself but nothing happened.
I heard these deep horrifying whispers that sounded like they were getting closer and the shadows moved closer along the wall next to me.
The shadows moved to right above and beside my bed and the whispers were so loud it was like a train whistle.
I remember just shutting my eyes as hard as I could.”
– From cdoc06, Reddit
27. Unwanted “guest”
“I woke up sometime in the middle of the night and was trying to fall back asleep.
I felt a weird tickling sensation/vibration through my body. I couldn’t move at all but I could feel my body lying in bed. I know my eyes were closed and I was asleep but
I could see the room I was in via dream. I heard someone unlocking the front door of my house and then a few people started running around the floors and walls.
A sense of dread started filling me as the noises came closer but I stayed calm knowing it was just SP due to my remaining awareness. Eventually the noises went away.”
– From fallingquasar, Reddit
28. The man from my dream came in my room
“One night I have a dream that I went into the attack and there is a man up there wearing a hooded cloak.
I don’t remember the details of the dream, but I knew that I needed to get away from the man and I remember feeling very panicked.
Then I woke up but realized I couldn’t move.
I was laying on my side facing the wall and felt like the man from my dream was in my room, standing right behind me.
It was not a fun experience.”
– From cassadora, Reddit
29. Black energy twisting out of my stomach
“I’ve only experienced it once, but I was asleep on an air mattress in a room I normally don’t sleep on.
There was a fan above my head which had a calming sound I remember, but I also felt this black energy twisting out of my stomach and chest, it was above me looking down.
I couldn’t see it but I could feel it so I guess I was picturing it within my mind.
It filled me with dread and my entire body felt like lead (unintentional rhyme).”
– From apathetic666johnson, Reddit
30. Little boy coming to my face
“Once I fell asleep on my sofa and was in this scary place and this little boy who had been recurring in my dreams was there.
He had massive eyes and this little brown fringe and he turned all dark and weird and kept coming closer to my face until he strangled me and then I woke up it felt like it was happening.”
– From stagnantriver35, Reddit
31. My friend was choking
“By far the most terrifying instance was when I was in my college dorm.
It was dark in the scene, the only thing lighting the room was a thin sliver of light that came from the hallway through the bottom opening of the door.
I was sleeping in the scene and then woke up suddenly as if from a nightmare, I tried catching my breath and collect myself and go back to sleep.
Once I put my head down my heart sank when I heard sudden heavy breathing and I looked over at my roommate thinking it was him and put my head down again but it kept getting closer and louder.
In my uneasiness, I scanned the room with my eyes only to see a tall shadowy figure in the right corner and it began laughing hysterically in a distorted and demonic fashion.
I tried to scream and yell for my roommate but I had not to voice. A sudden force then laid me flat on my bed and no matter how much I tried to get up I couldn’t.
I peer over and watch the figure jump onto my roommate and literally and brutally tear him limb from limb, I tried to avert my gaze but it made me watch.
I can still remember the sound of my friend choking on his own blood as he was devoured alive.
Realizing this was likely a sleep paralysis experience I tried to collect myself and kept saying it’s almost over.
But the figure now looking at me slowly approaching my stiff body began touching my still face with its bloody wretched bony fingers, it licked my cheek and started screaming things in my ear while surrounding laughter crushed my body and before it could escalate it was over.”
– From ariveracre, Reddit
32. The space ship
“I sometimes experience sleep paralysis and I’m usually facing a wall or under blanket, so I don’t get much visuals but shadows from people behind me.
But what really gets me in the noise.
It sounds like the is a space ship or an airplane flying RIGHT next to me, in my bed.
The loudest thing I can coherently process, and throughout the duration of the sleep paralysis, it somehow gets LOUDER??
I don’t understand how I can physically hear these things as if they are external but my god does it feel real every time and very loud.”
– From GigaTrigger69, Reddit
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I would like to share the stories of my sleep paralysis. It went on for years. If you are still interested.
Thank you,
Jaime
Hi Jaime,
Sounds good, feel free to share your story here in the comment section or on our e-mail!
I don’t know if anyone else has had this before, but whenever I get sleep paralysis, I often don’t see anything, but can always hear it and feel a light pressure on my chest, not enough to make me stop breathing though. I had just woken up from an episode. It’s very rare and most of the time I just fall right back to sleep, but this time I was actually scared. This invisible thing was telling me things like ” you suck” ” your dumb” in a “chipmunk voice” I guess you could say, at first I didn’t know what it was saying, but after falling asleep again, I could hear it clearly. I also felt a pressure on my body, this is the 3rd time of having an episode with pressure on my body, normally I would just be paralyzed and wouldn’t normally hear, see and feel anything. I would just sorta be there on my bed, not being able to move. But it’s probably my fault, I slept so late and this normally happens when I change my sleeping patterns. Just wondering, does this sort of thing happen to anyone else??
It happens to a lot of people. Usually, it is individual and different for everyone. But if you want to transform this into a lucid dream, you can! Check out this article – http://luciddreamsociety.com/sleep-paralysis/
Please listen to me guys anyone who ever sees this this happens to me regular I’m a 16 year old boy whenever this happens I say “god and jesus please help me” and I instantly wake up whenever this happens just please try it I’m not even scared of it anymore
I was sleeping on my bed, me and my dog when i got sleep paralysis. I’m a 1000% sure my dog had it too. I couldn’t move and he couldn’t move but i could see! I didn’t see any shadow but I heard a deep voice laughter and he was also Saying mean things. I heard the word kill. I could finally move covered my face then started praying and asking for ones who were already deceased in my family to protect me and fight the demon away and everything went back to normal. Dog woke up looked at me with like a pale face and went back to sleep. I have these a lot 10x a year. Yesterday was by the far the scariest one.
This has to be the scariest sleep paralysis experience in my life. I was sleeping in a sleeping bag at my friends house. I hadn’t realized I feel a sleep. Later I heard an unfamiliar woman’s voice calling my name. I ignored her wanting to continue sleeping. For some reason this voice didn’t scare me at that moment, but the what’s scary is when my sleeping bag rapidly moved up and down. Right after I was being dragged across the floor unable to move or scream. I felt the ground and I heard the sound of myself being dragged across the floor. That shit was scary. And this happened when I was a fucking child.
The least scariest or not scary at all experience is when I’m being massaged by either a massaging chair or a hands on massage. It’s weird, but at least it isn’t scary.
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Okay, so about 3 years ago not when I was still in secondary school in my last year, my first ever sleep paralysis happened to me.
On this day for some reason I kept like sleeping through out the day, I remember waking up at around 7:45pm and falling back to sleep at 10pm. After I fell back asleep I remembered it was about 2:15am when I reawoke, but something had just felt odd this time. My room was pitch black, door closed and I was just lying straight in my bed but the weird thing was I was unable to move! Right so before I say anymore I just want to mention how because I fell back to sleep at 10pm I remebered I had chucked my cat (who was full on black) out of my room because I didn’t want him waking me up throughout the night to be let out so I just did it before I went back to sleep, anyway I remember laying in my bed dead stiff and all of a sudden I just see this black creature thing run from the top of my left shoulder run on me I could feel the pressure of it’s paws or whatever you want to call it, running on my body down to me feet, the thing was so really once I seen it come from my shoulder I quickly twitched and looked all at once. After that had happened literally straight after I was watching my right leg get lifted a little bit under my covers and I started to watch myself get dragged out of bed by nothing.. I thought I was screaming like hell when it was happening but once I hit the floor I opened my eyes and I was back in my bed, sketching thinking what the heck just happened! I turned my light on trying to find my cat???? But my door was closed no car in my room I wondered like if it was my car how would he get in so I checked my window and my windows was open enough for me not even a spider to get through so my cat surely wouldn’t of been able to get in through there. From then I was in able to sleep, panicking in my school lessons the next day telling my friends! I literally had a friend stay over for 2 weeks every day because I was terrified to stay on my own, at this point I was 16years old I’m not turning 20 this year, anyway 2 days after it had happened, (it was a Sunday) me and my friend were in my room on Sunday night, out of the blue my black cat had started to scratch at my bedroom door and the was the first ever time he had started to do that. I had my car for about 9 years at this point and not until 2 days after my sleep experience did he start to scratch at my door me and my friend were proper creeped out. And he had continued coming to my foot early hours in the morning and scratching it night after night, finally it had stoped after 2 weeks but till this day I still get creeped out! I had also suffered another experience last night, I literally just got to sleep it was 12:46am and my boyfriend was down stairs, my 9 month old was in her cot in her own room and I was in our room so out of the blue I could feel people touching my face on each side. When I opened my eyes straight away I couldn’t see the people’s faces but only their hand
It was 2 pairs of hands on each side of my face, one of the people were in white and the other in black! I tried to call for my boyfriend 3 times feeling as if I could scream his name but nothing was coming out…. this experience only lasted about 3minutes, way shorter time than my other experience but this is why I came on here today! To see if anyone had, had this experience happen to them.
My first ever sleep paralysis expierence was at 13 yo (1 year ago) and it was on a night where I had loads of homework because of end of the year projects and I remember distinctively I went to bed at 12:04 a.m. All of a sudden I woke up on my back which I never have, and felt an enormous amount of pressure on my chest. I tried to move but my body was frozen. All I could do was move my eyes ever so slightly. I used two pillows so I could the end of my bed. I’m not bullshitting but I swear I saw a clown with the hugest grin on his face with a fucking club. I wanted to scream but could barely BREATH. Just then it was fading and I woke up.
I have constant sleep paralysis including lucid dream which remain to get deeper and deeper to this day last night I came home from work around 11:30 pm I fell asleep and my wife woke me up at 4 am and I stayed up til 6 am when I fell asleep my room suddenly was bright and my body was paralyzed I tried moving my body and I couldn’t for a couple seconds shortly after I was able to get up fully but I got up like my arms had fallen asleep so I dragged my body till I got up and when I looked back at my bed I saw a demons face laying on my bed I was terrified and that’s when I woke up and I fell asleep again and the same thing happen two more times where I was asleep and couldn’t move but suddenly I was able to get up while I was still asleep but everything felt so real. The cause to my sleep paralysis is being exhausted and my ability to be able to move in my state of sleep paralysis and not wake up is due to the fact that I have so many I can do more then the usual.
Gerry Nieves
September 3rd 1984 born.
Sleep paralysis is a lead to out of body experience. But know this. It’s not easy at first.
You have to free your mind. Relax your body and sometimes you can move your arms, legs but it takes time.
Trying the out of body experience.
One time I pulled myself up to sit up. Looked back and saw myself. But the pressure and weight of the feeling was so heavy. I laid back down to my body
But my body felt so much pressure. It was very unpleasant and the feeling of it. Feeling the pressure. And the emotion it gave me.
Body was vibration so fast. So very fast. Like. Bee wings and the fuzzing. Also same time my body felt so much pressure. my vision and thoughts and feelings fading and fast. My thoughts stopped even though trying to just think about the event. It stopped a frozen thought of laying back down but couldn’t continue to relax and to think to relax and get up after it’s done, and blurry visions and only next thoughts was fear of death. This is it. But in great disbelief that no, it’s not happening here and now. I’m dead. Right in from of my eyes, the visualization of this thoughts that I didn’t do, It was automatic thoughts and fear and dead that wasn’t just my mind but went right to my eyes. Without any actual fear of what was happening. Same time my thoughts I was doing is to just get this event done and relax.
Felt like my body was being crushed by something on me. Like it was thousands of pounds. It all felt so fast that it very much shut me down but woke up quick after to be able to move again with the popping feelings slowed down and stopped and moving but as if body is slowly getting out out if its slow blood pressure sleeping state.
But in just to 30 seconds. I was normal but felt like I just got hit my a train and didn’t die. So fuzzy vision and popping noise still in my head but for several seconds.
First time this happened.
Just after it’s all finished and feeling normal. I heard noise. Knocks. Loud but from a distance. And a voice said.
She’s coming for you. But in a male voice.
The voice sounded like it was distant but close to my left side and echo but a single echo but deep pitch and very clear and long toned and fast toned same time. With the tone being high pitch.
I ignored it. Like I ignore all other scary things.
Luckily, I’ve never had a sleep paralysis experience quite as frightening as some of these. When I first started having them, I had never heard of sleep paralysis, which made the experience very terrifying, even though there weren’t demons or anything. I’ve had many since then. The most recent experience I’ve had shook me up a little. I first had a dream where I was talking to my best friend on a couch and saw someone out of the corner of my eye and it was her (the best friend that was also on the couch). Quickly, I look back at the couch and sure enough, she’s still there. So I look back to where I saw her double and she was gone. I was relieved for a second, only for her to reappear with an evil grin and a knife. As she walks towards me, she says “I’m going to slice your throat!” and as she reaches for my neck, I wake up. But I can’t move. I’m experiencing sleep paralysis. Luckily, at this point, I’m aware of the fact that I’m just experiencing sleep paralysis in the moment. But I can hear the same best friend, talking to herself in a sing-songy voice in the hallway outside of my bedroom. No one else is talking, just her. I don’t remember what all she says, except for when she says “come here, Phoebe!” who is my cat that died about a decade ago (and I’ve also seen her ghost in my house). This might not have been too scary if I hadn’t just woken up from a dream of that same person trying to kill me.
So I have had sleep paralysis one time before in college after I had pulled an all nighter and felt a strong evil presence trying to come through my bedroom wall but I couldn’t move. At the time I thought it was coming from my other roommates room because she was a super negative person and was a little off. So I just thought I was feeling her energy and was scared but didn’t think it was sleep paralysis. It’s been 2 years since then and I had another experience. The other night I had heard footsteps and someone talking in my hallway. I then heard and saw something open my door and walk in my room. It was a big black figure that didn’t look quite like a man but I also didn’t see it’s face. I felt a heavy pressure on my chest and couldn’t move but I decided to keep staring at the figure so I would at least know what he was doing and where he was in my room but he just stood still at the end of my bed watching me sleep. Then I woke up and my door was open but the figure was gone and it was silent. Then I had another one last night where I was sleeping but heard footsteps and someone trying to open my door again but I didn’t open my eyes and instead tried to relax my body and then I opened them and my door was shut and everything was fine for the rest of the night. I think This is all due to my anxiety and stress at the moment.
I have had plenty. One is where I woke up in the middle of the night and as I was going back to sleep. I turned to my side and a demon girl was staring at me. I couldn’t move at this time and she took out a dagger and shoved it into my stomach right where I was about to have a gallbladder surgery give or take a couple months later. Weird correlation. Another one is where I was in bed awoken by something. I looked at the time it was about 1:10 am or close enough, all of a sudden, I seen two dark figures pin my arms down and another dark silhouette of a man walked in and called me by my first full name. No one calls me by that name. It’s always the shorter version. Once it was over, I looked at the time and it was still the same time as before. Crazy. I studied sleep paralysis and usually the time changes on you since it’s all in the dream world. Mine never did dream world and real world time was the same. There’s other ones but I’ve had so many I can’t remember them all.
Unfortunately I experience “sleep paralysis” every year. The first time it happened to me was around the time when I was only about 6. I remember having a dream about spongebob and patrick on a pirate ship. Right before the dream had ended I was walking on a plank and then jumped off. As soon as that happened I woke up lying on my back and couldn’t move. I was terrified because I wasn’t able to open my eyes or my mouth, but at the same time I was fully conscious of being awake. My mom was sitting next to me in the bed with the light on while reading a book. I was trying to call out to her but my mouth was frozen(I couldn’t even make a sound).
I had a really tough time going to sleep in the dark because “sleep paralysis” kept happening to me very frequently in 2008 when I was 12. The only source of light I would depend on would be the tv and the sound coming from it. I woke up around 2:00am in bed on my stomach and could barely move and open my eyes. I go to sleep on my stomach like that to give myself some leverage to push on the bed. I tried to push myself off the bed for a while but then eventually gave up. I thought about how annoying it was and became more concerned about going back to sleep. As soon as I made that decision, it was as if I could hear a faint noise of demons moaning in my left ear with my other ear on the pillow. Man that s%*# seriously freaked me out and that’s when I instantly tried to get up.
An experience unlike any other I ever had in 2013 was so unreal. I woke up around 2 or 3:00am and couldn’t move, but fully conscious of being awake. Every now and then I would sleep on the edge of my bed. My eyes were barely open enough to see the light from my tv. I could feel my head and shoulders sinking into the bed very carefully like quick sand. I CAN’T emphasize to you enough of how perfectly smooth it was. Judging from the motion of how I was sinking it was like someone was sitting on the edge of the bed with my head between their legs.
In 2014 or 2015, I experienced a “sleep paralysis” within a “sleep paralysis. I don’t sleep on my back anymore because of what happened to me when I was 6. The dream that I was having felt so real that I truly believed that I was awake. When I desperately struggled to slide out of bed, my body became stuck to the side of it. I eventually was able to get off and I ran to my mom’s bedroom. When I bust through the door I woke up in my bed and couldn’t move due to “sleep paralysis”.
Im not sure if this was sleep paralysis so I need help with this one. I remember going to bed facing my door. First I dreamt i went to a fair alone and I got into my car and someone just grabbed me from the back seat and everything went black. Then I “woke up” it felt as if someone was spooning me and I heard them whispering something aggressively and it physically sent chills down my spine. Then i “woke up” again and this time I felt like I was actually awake. I ran downstairs screaming that i needed help and my parents came out. I started to tell them how I had a dream where I couldn’t wake up. I was so convinced this was real, and then the alarms to my house went off. I ran to hide underneath my table and saw my boyfriend running towards me with the creepiest look on his face and he grabbed me, and everything went black. Then the time came where I really thought I was awake.. ( Side note: I fell asleep on facetime with my boyfriend and I knew the whole time I was dreaming and that it wasn’t real and I had to wake up so I kept remembering “let him hear you somehow” or “get him right when you wake up”) So anyways I “woke up” again, and I saw him on the screen and I said “babe! babe! you have to help me!” and he moved the camera up to show his face and the scariest looking demon i have ever seen in my life was standing behind him and just grabbed him. After that scenario I finally got myself to wake up, but before then everytime i tried my eyes would just feel to heavy to open and when I finally got them open, it felt as if i used every muscle in my body to open my eyes. I’m not really sure why this happened or if this even sleep paralysis because i’ve never experienced something like this.. I just kept having creepy scenarios where I would keep “waking up” and bad things would happen and it would just repeat. Everything took place in my house and everything was the same. My house looked the same, my room looked the same. Nothing was different or slightly altered as a normal dream would be. Can you help me by giving me an explanation on what this is? Or what happened at least.
I’ve had sleep paralysis for years. Mine is much different (yet the same) as the other stories. It used to happen a few times or more a week. It always started around 2 am. It was always when I started drifting off to sleep. I’d get comfortable then my entire body would start to tingle. By the time the tingling sensation began, i was already paralyzed. Can’t move, can’t talk. I sleep in complete darkness for other paranormal reasons, so I have never seen a figure or heard noises. Doesn’t matter which position I was laying, i was locked in that position and I could feel some type of pressure on my chest. Every inch of energy felt like it was draining from my body. I would try to scream, i would pray, nothing worked. Then as fast as it happened, it stopped. I would then begin to have control over my body. But I always felt like i was being watched after a S.P. episode. Sometimes happening multiple times a night. My mom passed away when I was 22. ( this is relevant to a later happening) Now I’m a married mother and the sleep paralysis would still happen with my husband laying just inches from me, peacefully dreaming while I was silently screaming. And he never knew. I’ve had it for so long that I began to learn to control it somewhat. I don’t know if this is possible with other people or if I’m just the odd one but I’ve learned how to whisper and move my fingers during the episodes. I’ve prayed and prayed and prayed and it never helped. I remember one time it was happening and I tried to get it to stop, i finally whispered out a “fuck you” and it stopped. No joke. The last time it ever happened I just fell asleep and was woken up somehow to seeing my mom standing at the foot of my bed. She came to me, reached down to hug me, i never felt the actual hug but every time she reached down, my body would start tingling just like it would for the actual attacks. This happened 4 times but on the fourth time, the paralysis was released and when she was bending down to hug me, i reached up to hug her back. I could feel my mom in my arms. It was amazing. Then she disappeared. I haven’t had sleep paralysis since. It’s been about 2 years now. I’m 31. I woke up from that experience in tears calling out for my mom. Somehow, she stopped my attacks. For who has ever experienced S.P. they know this is the scariest thing.. I’ve been haunted since I was 12, attacked my an evil spirit for years and s.p. is the most terrifying experience of them all. Yes I’m very open to the paranormal, unfortunately. I have 100, of experiences.
I’ve had a couple of experiences with sleep paralysis. Both times this black thing would walk around my room, sometimes even moving around my things, for example I could hear all of my makeup brushes moving around and then I would hear footsteps of it walking around my bed. The first experience I actually woke up screaming for it to leave me alone. The second time I experienced this thing watching me, I felt like it was still watching me while I was awake and that I couldn’t move until I knew it was gone. Once I was finally able to move, my entire body was sore and I found my phone halfway across my room. I think I somehow still move around in my deep sleep but when I come out of that sleep, I experience sleep paralysis. Still creeps me out.
This happens a lot to me a cupple times a month I usly pray and it’s stops I got to where I can tell before I go to sleep if it was going to happen I’ll fill a current or sum kind of tingling through my body , not Everytime but if i fill it before or after the experience I don’t sleep intell the tingle is gon , becus it will keep hapaning thay are also in my dreams not just when I can’t move . But the first time I hurd the one I call the strong man speek instead of the old lady who usaly dus the talking ,, he told me ,I wasn’t strong enough, , so trying to hide my fear I used all my faith in God and thought as loud as I can becus my thinking seems to be the only thing that can’t stop,,I don’t have to be,, .for the last 6 or 7 months thay left me alone , it whas only the 2nd time I sed any thing back to thim other than my first experience wen I was a young teen didn’t know what thay where I just thought I was crazzy I’m 26 by the way ……but I just moved into a new house with my friend on the 1st of this month October 2019 and it’s hapend 2 times since I’ve bean here almost a theerd but I didn’t go to sleep . … My spellings probably not good so sorry about that . But if someone has or needs advice on how to fight back let me know in the comments I’ll save this page so can check now I know about the Lucid Dream Society . P.S there not just dreams and you weren’t alone in the room , trust your first instincts , fear , dread , danger and more fear ..
My friend Will’s cat ran across my bed. This is pretty much all that happened. I was laying on my stomach like a weirdo. I started drifting in and out of sleep but finally I was stuck. All I could do was move my eyes. That’s when i felt and saw a black cat whoosh across my bed. I think the cat belonged to Will.
I have had this the past few nights In a row. The first night I knew I was going to have it something told me I was. Suddenly I wake up unable to move I tried to scream and could not. I didn’t see anything but I heard loud music. The 2nd night (today)just had this like 30 min ago. I knew I was gonna have it once again . I went to sleep on my stomach barely sleep that way I was facing the corner so I couldn’t see my door . suddenly I’m unable to move I heard super loud whispering and screaming then hear my door open . I thought it was just my cat but it got on my bed and tickled me. I could move my legs so I started kicking it. I woke up and I was blind in one eye. I closed my eyes and heard we missed you. I started panicking and woke up
Last night I had a weird experience which scared me. I went to sleep in the spare bedroom as my husband was snoring very loudly. It is extremely hot at the moment and difficult to sleep. I must’ve fallen asleep on my back. I was “awake” and felt like someone or something was pushing me down on the bed. I could not move, I looked at the ceiling and there appeared to be white smoke circling against the ceiling. I called out to my husband, but no sound came out, I screamed for him, still no sound. I eventually managed to sit up and then went back to my room. I felt uneasy. I have experienced something like this before, but did not know what it was! After reading up on sleep paralysis, I now know what I experienced.
I had sleep paralysis for the first time today. I woke up and couldn’t move. My body was stuck. i tried moving my arms but couldn’t and I tried my hardest to sit up and managed to sit up a little bit, but suddenly my body was filled with electricity. felt like my head was humming and electricity was flowing through my body, so I laid back down. I was also hearing very weird noises. like a plane mixed with weird electronic noises. I was able to talk but all I ended up making were really weird noises. I didn’t see any figures or anything really scary but was shook up when I finally was able to move. i regularly lucid dream and this was a first for me. I’m 28 years old. I don’t want to go through this again. I’m just lucky I didn’t see any creepy figures but it was still a very bizarre and surreal experience.
I just had one right now, I still feel like I’m asleep.. I couldn’t wake up, but I could hear my siblings in the living room, I couldn’t move or speak, all of a sudden I felt someone beside me and they started to choke me, I felt the weigh of their hands, wrapped around my throat, it felt so real I’m not kidding you, it got to the point that I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t move i didn’t know what to do and then it stopped and I thought I got up to see who it was but there was no one and I was still laying down, I also felt like I was falling of the bed but I was in the middle? And then not even a second passed and I felt something grab my leg, then they were pinching my foot, and I felt like I was dangling of the bed with only being held by that thing pinching my foot, I felt it, it hurt so bad, and I heard my little brother laughing but my little brother is staying at my dads house so I got so freaked out. I kept falling in and out of sp and and when I thought I was awake I feel back into sp, finally I was able to wake myself up but I felt an immense amount of sleep, I felt so tired, let me tell that I woke up at 4 today and I went to sleep Around 8am that’s almost 9 hours of sleep! I work at night so that’s why I sleep late, but anyway why am is so tired when I got so much sleep? I got up and made sure I was awake because I still felt asleep, I saw my siblings and told them and now they’re all Freaked out, but that wasn’t the only time that happened, I have so many stories of sp, and probably worse then this one, but the feeling of being chocked was so real I can’t stop thinking about it.
So I have sleep paralysis often but this once it was most far the scariest I ever had so I went to bed around 12 pm and I suddenly woke around 3 am but as I tried to move I soon realized I could not move at all then as soon as I opened my eyes I felt an immense pressure on my chest and I also felt an evil presence in the room my body felt like it was floating above my bed being shook violently with harsh vibrations in my head and body and something choked me it felt as if I could not breathe but I managed to move my right arm and hit the wall but it still did not work I was stuck and being choked then I saw a tall black figure floating above me choking me saying something in a demonic voice but eventually I wiggled my toes and was released but I could not sleep for the rest of the night.
I was reading these stories because of something that happened the other night and one of the stories is exactly what happened to me I woke up in the middle of the night but something was wrong I felt evil and something in my mind saying dont get up dont move and all I felt was evil I was to scared to move I looked up and right there was a man staring at me he was in black had black boots Jean’s and a thick black coat with the hood over his face you couldn’t see his face he just stood there I was to afraid to move after what seem like forever I dosed off and when I woke back up I remember looking in that spot but he was gone if left me feeling like something evil was around me what does this mean
I’ll advise u to pray if u want to, cause when I do this I feel the presence go away or I wake up or I just feel safe.
I felt like I had just woken up but I was groggy. I was lying on my back and my body was completely under the covers. I felt heavy but I didn’t think this was weird at first because I often feel a bit heavy when I first wake up. I then felt like someone was slowly running their hands over my chest from above the covers, slowly making their way down my shoulders and my arms. I felt like they were placing a lot of pressure on my chest which made it more difficult to breathe. I also became aware that I couldn’t move. I had heard of sleep paralysis before so I was vaguely aware that this is what this was in the back of my head but I was still freaked out. The hands started making their way up, touching my face and eventually trying to wrap around my throat to choke me. I willed myself to struggle against them or to move but when I did this I felt like this thing was making this weird noise in my ears which sounded like a mixture of whispering and screaming and air rushing through my ears. It like went through my whole body. I then stopped and relaxed. I was more fully aware that this was sleep paralysis at this point. I soon woke up and was able to move.
If you are reading this I just want you to know that everything I’m about to say is 100% the honest to god truth. I honestly wish that I could actually explain this exactly how it happened and felt but, but the feeling of sleep paralysis is the most terrifying feeling in the world and for those that have had it to you will know exactly what I mean. So the first time that I had sp I was probably 5 years old.(I’m 22 now) but I didn’t learn what actually happened to me until I was about 16 and a friend told me over the phone about it. She described how she couldn’t move, talk, scream, etc. when she explained it I had cold chills from head to toe and I then understood that it has happened to me and I never knew what it was till that very moment. I have had several sp episodes Ever since I was about 15. The only other one I had before that was when I was 5. I would say the scariest one that happened was when I was 15. Me and my brother shared a room and we were both in the room in bed and it was super dark In the room. The only light was coming from a street light down the street through the crack of the blinds above my brothers bed.( he slept on right side of the room with his bed pushed all the way against the wall and I was on the left side of the room pushed up against that wall). Sorry to be so detailed but I need you to really try to imagine this because it was a life changing chilling experience. Ok so I remember laying in bed flat on my back and just out of nowhere I suddenly was awake staring up at the ceiling. It literally felt like my body was tingling/vibrating and I could hear what almost sounded like dryer full of tennis shoes. That’s the best way I can describe it and it frustrates me that I can’t just make you hear and feel what I felt so you actually know because me describing it is doing it no justice. Anyways as soon as I felt the tingling/vibrations and heard the loud knocking sounds I instantly began to feel the presence of something evil. It’s like the feeling something wanting to hurt you and it all happened so fast and out of nowhere. So I noticed that I couldn’t move, talk, scream, or anything. All I could do was move my eyes. So i know that my brother was on the other side of the room so I immediately turned my eyes as far as I could towards his bed and I could see the window above his bed and the top of his body underneath the blanket. Then it seemed like he slowly began to raise his head up and look at me from across the room and then lay it back down and then right back up. It was like he was looking to see if I was awake or if I was asleep and after that happened I felt that he was the evil presence in the room and after I had that thought he instantly sat straight up in his bad facing me. It was like he could hear what I was thinking and when he heard me realize he was evil he sat up. I began to try to say his name over and over again but it was so hard to even get the slightest sound out. That sent me in complete fucking panic mode. As he sat there looking at me sitting straight up in the bed he put his feet on the floor and he slid down out of his bed in such a creepy fucking way it’s giving me chills right now typing it. I could no longer see him that well but I knew he was on the floor crouched down. I could only see his head still staring at me. I was still doing everything I could to try to move and scream but still nothing. I was so fucking heavy it’s unreal. I felt him slowly began to crawl towards the end of my bed and he was whispering/giggling in a horrifying way. Then I felt him at my feet and he was grabbing the top of my sock acting like he was gonna pull it off but it was like it was intentionally to let me know he knows I can’t move and he’s about to get my ass. All I can remember saying was “Shad fucking stop dude forreal man fucking stop” but it wouldn’t come out loud even though I was trying with everything in my soul to just make a noise. I started to hear him say “I’m gonna get ya I’m gonna get ya followed with such a sinister laugh”. It felt like this would never end and I was in total fucking shock and worried I was gonna die. I can remember telling myself “you have to go get out of there and get mom” and I Kept trying to lift any body part I could. Finally somehow I was able to snap out of it after trying to wake up for what feels like 20 mins now. When I awoke I instantly turned to see if my brother was still in his bed or at the foot of my bed. Obviously he was in the bed. I got up and turned the lights on and I was honestly pissed at him even though he did nothing. I start to wake him up saying “man I know you ain’t fucking sleeping why were you fucking with me dude” he never really woke up he just told me to leave him alone and turn the light back off so I turned it out and stromed out the room to the living room. I sat up for about 4 hours after it happened because I didn’t wanna fall back asleep again. I finally passed out on the couch watching tv but as soon as I woke up and seen my mom I was in complete panic mode trying to explain to her what just happened. I remember just being able to tell that she had no clue what I was talking about and just sounded like a bad dream to her. so it upset me because if I could just show her someway somehow that it was far more than a “bad dream” I would do so. I have several more sp episodes since the one I just told you about. Most of them are pretty scary like forreal, but nothing could top the fear I felt that night. I like astral projection as well. And believe it or not the feeling of sleep paralysis is the beginning of the astral projection process. I’ve taught myself to levitate out of my body and straight up through the ceiling to where I’m floating over my house just looking at all the streets and other houses. If anyone has experienced anything similar to mine please comment back and let me know because I’m curious. This shit is serious and for the ones who have done it or do it frequently, You know this terrifying for the most part.
So I just woke up from a SP episode so I am writing this to explain what has happened on 2-3 occasions where I get sleep paralysis (out of the many occasions it has occurred to me.) I don’t know if this happens or has happened to anyone else, but I can literally tell when I’m about to get it because i am regularly dreaming and then in my dream I do something very stupid of me such as walking into the dark closet or screaming “COME GET ME STUPID MONSTER BI**H!” Then I’m usually in an episode of sleep paralysis after I do that. And I’m not joking. Weirdly, but also kind of creepily, this makes me feel like there is some type of energy, idk honestly.
Another thing I would like to mention is I absolutely never sleep on my back it’s so uncomfortable and yet I always get sleep paralysis sleeping on my side, so I’m starting to think this sleep on your back raises your chance thing is a myth to be honest with you.
For my first ever sleep paralysis story, and I remember it very clearly even being it was quite a few years ago, I was at home and my brother had a friend sleeping over and since I was the little one of course the friend got to sleep in my bed while I had to sleep in the living room sofa (mind you it’s right by my parents room so note this for the rest of the story.) The sofa is quite comfortable so I was expecting a peaceful night. I woke up, very calmly that night and I was on my side (facing the left.) I look and it’s nothing so I’m like oh I just woke up. But from the kitchen and into the living room (there is no door it’s an open entrance and it’s DIRECTLY in front of where I’m facing) walks in a very very tall woman in a white dress I couldn’t really see her face but what I DID notice is the sound there was like ringing in my ears I was so confused and at this point I was scared but not too concerned, but what concerned me was when the lady did not even walk up to me, instead she went to the counter and (IM NOT MAKING THIS UP) I literally saw her click on my iPad and start doing stuff on it and I could PHYSICALLY SEE the iPad light and it was so confusing and I didn’t know what sleep paralysis was or anything so I legitimately thought my life was over and at this point I’m crying, screaming even (without doing it obviously) and I didn’t know it was as simple as closing your eyes and waiting till that feeling you get when u know it’s over. I ran to my parents room SCREAMING hysterically told them the story they swore it was just a nightmare. Now my parents understood what it actually was as I’ve grown older and they’ve also experienced the same stuff they just assumed I had a bad dream.
I’m going to include this additional event that happened to me because it happened to me like twice now and it’s pretty creepy. One night I got my normal (monthly/bimonthly) sleep paralysis and I was so chill about it cause I was so used to it that I was just peacefully smiling sleeping. My eyes were closed, and my face was towards the wall so that made me feel even more comfortable about the situation cause I wouldn’t see anything regardless if my eyes were open. Now, my attitude changed instantly and I did not sleep for the rest of the night when I felt my covers being lowered, like literally pulled down and it was so cold in my room and it gave me absolute chills as I begged for the blanket to go back over me. I woke up and they legitimately were undone like it was not even just the SP that made it seem this way. Happened to me on a second occasion but nowadays I cover myself to the neck even if I’m super hot to avoid this because nothing makes u feel safer during SP then when the blanket is over your body than if it wasn’t tbh.
I have countless more stories but that’s just 2 to explain and me explaining what happens to me during them. Thank you for reading!
I have actually had sleep paralysis 6 times but only gonna share the two scariest one and my mom experience. This happened to me recently, I was staying up really late at nights binge watching anime and dumb stuff on youtube, remembered going to bed at sometime after 3 in the morning and I decided to sleep caused my eyes felt really heavy I laid on my bed on my back and didn’t know when I fell asleep and before I knew I woke to a dark shadowy creature on top of my body fondly me, I couldn’t move and I was so terrified I started calling on Jesus and then I woke up.
Another time when I was sleeping at my school dorm, I sleep at the top bunk of the bed. I was laying on the bed and I woke up and saw a woman tilting her head looking at me with the widest grin, it literally was from ear to ear, I remembered been really calm when I saw her only for a few seconds and i fell back to sleep instantly.
My mom experience when she young and stayed at a friends house, she remembered that everyone fell asleep on the bed and she didn’t wanted to wake them so she only place me on bed cause I was only a baby.
Her friend had a really high bed and they placed a extra mattress under the bed so she decided to sleep on it. She woke up to the smell of something dead and alcohol then felt her body been pushed from off the bed. when she could got up she took off the bed and slept somewhere else and left in the morning.
I don’t know but there was this one time where I went to bed at 10:00PM and I woke up like 5 hours later and I accidentally wiggled my finger maybe and I went into this dream where it was a clown type of setting and my mom said “somebody broke into our house” and then I start to run away in a slow motion type run and I see a killer with a knife chase me but I jump onto a block or something and he kills me and it ends I wake up in the position I start with. I was laying on my back and also what is much weird is that if I open up my arms I have weird and scary dreams. I have not been diagnosed with sleep paralysis at all. I will try to sleep on my back and see what happens but if I do see something scary like it the movie I’ll just have weird dreams. Everyday that I have my arms out like a Angel I have bad dreams. I think when these started was when I was seven years old. I think I do have sleep paralysis because there was this one time I had this dream where I was in the water just drowning I could feel the pressure on my chest it felt like I was about to die it only happened three times.
I was around 11 or 12 when this had happened, I remember that it was the day I moved unto a new home and I was sleeping on a mattress on my bedroom floor. Another thing you will need to know is that at this point of it being a new house, I had no bedroom curtains. This house was also behind a hospital and my mattress was nearer the window facing the wall that the light from the hospital could reflect on. I fell asleep probably around 10pm and woke up at about 1 or 2am. The first thing I did notice that I was layed on my back which I never do, as im always layed on my side. I then tried to turn over and noticed that I couldn’t move at all. The next thing I know is that I hear a knock on my bedroom window and i hear a low high pitched laugh. I then saw a shadow in the reflection on my wall ad it was some sort of clown figure. I layed there and tried to close my eyes as hard as possible. For what seemed like hours that this laughing and knocking was occuring, it was only a matter of minutes and I had fallen back to sleep.
I’ve once experienced what I consider to be the longest sleep paralysis I’ve ever encountered. It happened about 2-3 years ago, I had several sleep paralysis but it wasn’t as long and violent as that one night where I was scared to sleep in my room upstairs so I asked my big brother if it’s cool I sleep in his, which is downstairs. My brother didn’t actually come home that night cause he slept at his friend’s so I got the room all to myself. My brother’s room is even close to my parents so somehow I feel safe. I had trouble sleeping cause my mind was having these wild imaginations. I didn’t shut the light cause I was so scared but soon enough I managed to fall asleep and that’s when I started to feel like someone was crawling up on me. I felt my feet being pulled and there was a lot of pressure on my chest. I could still move my arms but as I did move it my arms were pinned side by side on my head. I wanted to open my eyes but couldn’t. I tried yelling but it barely escaped my mouth. I was fighting the thing on top of me and I remember my hands were forcefully being pushed far backwards more than it can as if it tried to break my hands. I kept on fighting it and even shouting out prayers in hopes it will leave me be. After what feels like hours, I slowly felt being released and I quickly open my eyes and that’s when I saw a very tall black figure slowly creeping away from me and then slowly walked out through the bedroom window. It had the looks of ‘see you soon’. It scarred me for several months. I didn’t dare to sleep at night and alone so I would take every naps I could get in daylight and I made sure someone was around me so in case I have the sleep paralysis again, someone would actually be there to really wake me up
I have recently started experiencing sleep paralysis. almost every night for 3 weeks now. the only time it happened before was when I was really sick w bird flu years ago.
For the 1st time tonight I had shadow figures present, standing around me. I tried to speak but only “mwaaa” came out.
A female figure clearly said “Help him he’s crying” and one shook me awake.
never heard of helpful shadow figures or female figures.