Anyone ever experience sleep paralysis?

[Ahpook]

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I watched the Barbara Hershey movie last night named "The Entity" which reminded me of an episode I had about 15 years ago. It hasn't happened since.

It's a strange feeling in that it didn't feel like a dream. I remember waking up fully conscious (It felt that way) and could not move any part of my body except my neck. Terrifying, right?

Well, next I started seeing a figure walking slowly down the hallway and pass by the bedroom door peering in. After a couple minutes it would go down the hallway in the opposite direction. All the while I am pinned to the bed. After what I guess was about 10 minutes I did fully wake up and had control again.

It was an extremely intense feeling. And don't get me wrong, it wasn't aliens visiting me or some ghosty shit. I've never been able to explain it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Many times...in my case it was always when I was exhausted for reasons having to do

with medication I took.

I would SWEAR TO GAWD that someone was in my room.

[JenniferJuniper]

2. Yep. Several times.

The first time I was in my 20's, sleeping on my stomach, and completely certain someone was standing over me with a knife ready to be plunged into my back.

The key is to try to focus on moving a finger. Get one finger moving and soon you'll be able to move your entire body.

[Ahpook]

6. Did it feel like a dream state to you?

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I felt fully awake. Matter of fact I was looking at my arms and legs and practically screaming at them to move. Please move!

It was terrible!

[JenniferJuniper]

12. I was awake, but paralyzed.

It's a real thing.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/295039.php

[Ahpook]

14. Interesting article

Thank you

I was on my back and can't remember if it was our annual busy streak at my job, but could have been.

While that was happening my wife was to the right of me and our dog was at the foot of the bed. I remember telling the dog to get up and take care of our intruder. No one budged! Maybe I didn't even say it out loud.

Crazy feeling!

[JenniferJuniper]

15. It is crazy

and it happened a few more times to me, but not in the last 15 years or so.

Fortunately, my mother had it happen to her a few times and had told me about it, so I was calmer than I probably would have been otherwise.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Yes and it's freaky as hell.

There is supposedly a physical reason for it -- something to do with your mind "waking up" before your body does, which is still immobilized from sleep. But I've read many accounts of people seeing things and feeling things when sleep paralysis happens to them, and those things are always scary as shit.

I've never actually seen anything, but I did "feel" once that someone was standing beside my bed. I've also awoken from bad dreams and found myself in sleep paralysis. It's just never good.

[Ahpook]

10. That's weird

Maybe that feeling of vulnerability conjures up the visions in your mind of a figure stalking?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

16. It could be... but honestly, it didn't feel that way to me.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that it felt more like the figure was somehow causing the paralysis.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Yes, I have had it. It can be scary. And yes, you can feel as if you're completely awake.

Your mind mostly is, maybe completely awake but your body is still in sleep paralysis.

It's sleep paralysis gone wrong that allows people to sleep walk.

[AJT]

4. I've had it. I decided that in order to tell whether I was really asleep I would try to turn on a

lamp and if I couldn't I was asleep. I would talk to myself and tell myself to wake up.

[TuxedoKat]

5. Yes

Only twice many years ago. The first time I didn’t know what it was. I couldn’t open my eyes and was on my back. It felt like something was pressing down on my chest really hard onto the mattress. It was very scary!!! Shortly after that I read about sleep paralysis and realized that is what that was. The second time it occurred I wasn’t scared and didn’t feel the chest pressure. The episodes only lasted a few minutes each. The second time was shorter I think. I just remember struggling really hard to move a foot or my hand.

[pnwest]

7. Yup - a few times, but all in just one home

where I lived, and one time included a long, intense vision of a ghost. This was late 80’s, has never happened since. I always jarred fully awake, like instantly awake, eyes popped wide open. I could move my head, nothing else. After the ghost, I said I don’t WANT to see anything and just kept my eyes closed and made myself go back to sleep.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

17. Yikes! I hope I never see anything like that!

It's happened to me in at least 5 different places including an old house in Scotland, where that same night my sister in another room woke up in the middle of the night, not sleep paralyzed, and thought she also saw a ghost by her bed.

I know there's a lot of controversy about ghosts but I'm a firm believer in them.

[Croney]

8. Yes, once, 50 years ago when I was 25, and I remember the horror of it.

I was asleep on the living room couch. I woke up; I couldn't move any part of my body. I thought I must be asleep and dreaming, but I wasn't. Somebody opened the front door and came in. I struggled to move. It was terrifying. I don't remember how I got out of it.

The thoughts that went through my mind...What if they think I'm dead, and bury me? Of course, a doctor would know I was alive, but in my panic I wasn't sure of that.

[Mike Nelson]

9. Yes...

... mine was due to being sexually abused. I could not move... people don't understand the shock and inability to do anything. You are paralyzed - like in a shell. Your description matches the feeling, and the nightmares afterward.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Used to get it now and then, but haven't for years. Same thing, sinister person in hall, can't move.

Terrifying. Also known as The Old Hag syndrome, as many would report a witch (succubus?) sitting on their chest and not letting them move.

Don't know if it's related, but I used to sleepwalk as a child, which I think is the opposite of sleep paralysis.

[Karadeniz]

18. This doesn't happen to me, but y'all are SCARING me!!! I just found a t.v.show called the ghost file

I think. Very well done, better than the other paranormal shows.

[Ahpook]

19. As has been mentioned

It's not ghosty! The entity is some weird part of it?

That with the paralysis is freaking scary as hell. I can't describe in words

[Laffy Kat]

20. Yes, it happened to me a lot when I was a child and it was always associated with...

Hallucinations. I've had it happened just a couple of times as an adult that I can remember and both times I had been exhausted before bed. Terrifying.