/x/ - Paranormal

>>12181

its possible to induce it if you lay down and when you feel like turning over dont you will enter REM and when you want out stop breathing and you will wake up quickly but watch out it can be extremely scary at first

if you want to kinda "dream" about something even sex just focus on that one thing and dont have ANY dark thoughts

>>12197

I have heard about some really freaky sleep paralysis, but I haven't had none like that.

It could have been either a false awakening or a really hardcore sleep paralysis. They are often hard to discern, to be honest; the main difference is that false awakenings usually don't come with paralysis.

>be me

>be sleepin

>jolt awake

>cant move n shit

>minds telling me "you gotta go you gotta go"

>"its coming"

>eventually get the strength to roll onto my side

>immediately pass out and go back to sleep

>same thing happens an hour or so later

I dont scare easy but I was legitimately afraid to sleep after that

Just posted this in the dreams thread but I guess it's relevant here because that's probably what it was.

>Be 16

>Having trouble sleeping for a few nights

>I keep waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, no matter what was covering me

>Not stressed and not having nightmares, so I think nothing of it

>After about a week I wake up after a nightmare where a shiny demon was sitting on me and I was unable to move

>Unable to move upon waking

>I look over as far as my eyes can and see shiny demon just sitting on me, like from dream

>Suddenly start shaking more and more as if I were under a jackhammer

>Shaking stops and I fall asleep

I stopped waking up in the middle of the night after that, still have no idea what happened.

My only experiences with sleep paralysis (that I remember) are where I feel the searing pains of hell all over my body and the horrible buzzing sound of a thousand wasps and have a complete and total sense of hopelessness and fear until finally after the longest time I manage to wrench myself out of the infinitely strong paralysis that binds me. Other than that it has been pretty meh.

>be me

>have a bad dream about some spooky shit

>can't really remember what, something supernatural, befitting of /x/

>i die towards the end and wake up

>my eyes are open now but i can't move

>trying my best to move

>the room is tilting like there's someone outside tipping over my house

>dark silhouettes everywhere in my room clouding me

>try to scream for my mum in the next room (I was pretty young) but i can't make a sound

>one gets to me

>wake up

That was the most absolutely terrified I have been in my life. I forgot about 30 seconds afterwards though and got a drink and went to bed. Spooky sleep paralysis isn't really that bad.

Are there any ways of preventing sleep paralysis? It's one of my greatest fears, I've never experienced it and hope I never have to.

>>13250

Best I've heard is to avoid sleeping on your back. Supposed to be healthier on your side. Doesn't mess with your spinal cord which is probably the reason it happens.

I had my 2nd paralysis last night. Nothing as spooky but pretty fucking terrifying to me.

>had a nightmare about grayliens

>really, really afraid of grayliens

>all I can remember is something about ascending or them helping us

>I refused vehemently and something happened that made my heart pound really hard

>shit legitimately felt like it would burst

>open up eyes and look in my room

>can barely see the graylien figure

>start screaming my dogs name

>start he comes up to me

>her whole face is disfigured

>bites at me

>jolt up

My first experience was anti-climactic. I just woke up and realized I was paralyzed so I closed my eyes and started screaming out my family members names. Eventually it wore off.

Shit is the worst experience.

>be me

>about 6 or 7

>watch a show about aliens

>get scared shitless (because I was 6)

>I would fall asleep with the blanket over my head

>I would have dreams of me choking

>wake up

>hard to breath

>can't move my arms or legs

>scared shitless

>eventually somehow either get myself to move or calm down and fall asleep

>scared Me shitless

>I felt like someone was watching me

This really wasn't sleep paralysis, but I did have a dream where the girl I was crushing on was riding me hard. It felt so real; it was dark, but I could make out her form and feel her skin and hair. I almost think it was a succubus, but I know that I just really wanted to fuck her, so my mind played tricks on me. I woke up bucking my hips.

This happened to me some time ago.

Sleep paralysis happened to me a few times.

The last time it happened I was awake, couldn't move, open my mouth or eyes.

I was stuck there.

I felt something in the room. And I had felt this…thing move towards my bed towards the feet and I had felt it touch me. It started moving its way up the bed.

I tried to call Jesus Christ to help me. It was the thing that triggered my mouth to open and start saying his name constantly. The thing that was on me immediately retreated and I was able to move again.

I had never been that terrified in my life. And I have been through some scary shit in my life.

It was a very very strange experience, that I don't wish to repeat and it hasn't.

>be in sleep paralysis

>voice starts talking to me

>sounds the voice sounds has a static sound to it

>talks to me for a few minutes i can't remember most of the conversation but at the end of it the voice told me to kill myself and that a little girl will come and show me how to do it if anyone is interested i have a few more sleep paralysis stories that might be worth sharing

>>13417

I would like to hear them,if is that ok with you Anon.

Not sure if actually sleep paralysis, but gonna share anyway fuck it

>staying in friends apartment while doing month semester at nearby college

>sleep in second floor bedroom

>first incident, hear footsteps running up the stairs, wake up

>was I dreaming or did the footsteps wake me up?

>2nd incident, I'm on the bed, can't move other than turning my head

>walls and ceiling start shrinking inward

>wake up breathing hard

>3rd incident, trapped on bed again, see closet door slamming open and closed

>4th incident, trapped on bed, turn head to door

>hear the footsteps run up the stairs and then something slams into the door

>door bulges inward like it's going to bust open

>every time the room looks the same like picture perfect as it is irl

>every time I'm pinned on the bed, can't move limbs

>final incident, trapped on bed again, but this time everything looks foggy

>hear my mom's voice say my name

>feel weight on the bed, like someone leaning over me

>I say "mom?" can't be my mom, I must be dreaming

>feel someone kiss my forehead, feel their "body" above me

>must have said mom out loud and woke myself up

the whole thing fucked me up and I guess it must have been stress from the college class

>be jobless college student

>fall asleep around 12am

>for about a week I got woken up around 3:30am

>on the 7th day wake up around 3:30 am with what I saw to be an imp like creature on my chest and trying to choke me

>finally get to say leave me the hell alone

>never had anything mess with me after that

>>12181

I had, for most of my life (I'm 17, had it until I was about 14 or 15), insomnia, when I turned 10/11 it got worse, way worse, my parents said I've had it ever since I was born and I don't remember a time when I didn't have it, but I feel like it got worse after the first decade.

Sleep deprivation is a shit thing you know? Fucks with your mind in ways none quite understand.

They got worse exactly on the night of my birthday (my b-day is 30th april, it was on the night of 29-30), during which I had a nightmare in which I was terrified, which was unusual, until then I had proud myself on always keeping my cool during nightmares. When I woke up I spent what it felt like an eternity of laying in my bed, motionless, praying (I was a devoted catholic back then), I felt like something unnatural hovered me, whispered as it flew past me, it wasn't sleep paralisys yet, I was just too terrified to move.

The reason I brought it up is because after that, shit got really worse, I started being terrified of the dark (until then, I loved the dark, ever since I had overcome that fear in my early childhood), I turned on every single light-emiting thing in my room, every lamp, every lightbulb, even my tv, to keep dark at bay, I was afraid to close my eyes, so for 3 nights I slept about 2-4 hours, maybe a little more, per night, until my mom caught me and made me turn off most lights, leaving only one on.

My sleep got a little better, by which I mean I started sleeping more, but still not enough to avoid sleep deprivation, which only got worse.

My nightmares were constant and at one point I started having common sleep paralysis and even halucinations (at least i hope they were hallucinations) outside it.

The first was, surpringly, during the day, on one morning, I had time to kill so I decided to lie on my bed, daydreaming, eventually the daydream turned, progressively, into an actual dream, I realised I couldn't open my eyes, only once or twice during the whole thing (as in opening my physical eyes, not the dream eyes), very forcefully and very briefly, other than that I was stuck dreaming, it wasn't an unpleasant dream, it started as a wet dream and then into a darker one in which the woman I was lusting for led me into hell (as in, we both strolled right in), at one point I started getting chills (even before the dream started to get dark), strange chills, I can only describe it as screams literally running up your spin, I could hear them and I could feel them, eventually I woke up, unable to move for a while, I tried to scream for my granpa, I managed to once or twice, with no success, after than I managed to let out a few incomprehensible moans and then I could not, eventually I could move again.

It happened again sometime later, and again and again, until it was common. Eventually, I was so used to it that I could gather enough strength/willpower/whatever to set myself free, specially if I had fallen asleep listening to music and if when I get into that state the music is stilll playing (I listened to a lot of metal back then, still do, but at that point it was basically just metal and little more, and that shit gets you really pumped for anything)

Eventually it stopped, after becoming progressively rarer.

I still remember some pretty freaky/spooky moments from it, this one time, I woke up with my back turned to the door of my room and I could hear a very loud banging on the door, like whatever wanted to get in REALLY wanted to get in, at some point I remember thinking "just do it, get this over with" and eventually I felt like the door was open and whatever was trying to get it could, and I felt/heard (I couldn't see anything because my back were turned to it) that thing rushing torwards me then moments before actually touching me… desintegrating, respawning back at the doorway, doing nothing but giving me an immense chill on my back, and repeating the process… over and over….

Sometimes I miss it, helps with lucid dreaming, sometimes I don't.

>>15998

Forgot to add something about shadow people.

I had never heard of them, ever. Here's how I found out about them (sorry if I'm being a bit dramatic, I love writing and sometimes I get carried away and can't help but fancy up the narration, but it's only in style I swear, the content is as unadulterated as my mind allows):

>My aunt and uncle invite me to spend a while at the beach with them and their twin children, the apartment only left enough room for me to sleep on the couch, so I did

>Wake up for a strange, but in no way scary or spooky dream, just weird

>Sit on couch, pondering about it

>Hear and see one of my shows sliding a few inches on the ground next to my couch from the corner of my sight

>Turn imediately

>See a shadow crouching next to me, arm reaching out to my face, I could the warmth of the hand just inches away from my face and it was a human sillouete, a shadow, fading away into nothing before my eyes (I don't know how quickly it faded away, all of this felt so sudden and fast but also felt like forever)

It was the height of the Slenderman's fame, so that's where my thoughts drifted to, but I realized it couldn't be it, there were no stories relating to it that describe my encounter and I remembered how I had seen similar shadows before, but never so close, always creeping behind something

>Grab my cellphone and imediately google "shadow people", it seemed like the simplest thing to type that could lead to some information, I didn't actually think they were called that, I honestly expect something fancier but it was better like this, made it easier to researh,

I would have another simillar encounter some time after where I woke up and there was one of them on top of me (imagine the cowgirl position where a girl sits on your crotch facing you, imagine that girl is a shadow and it's sitting on your legs, closer to your feet), I woke up, saw this and imediately started kicking franticly, in a panic, then I calmed down and realised it was gone.

I don't recall any other similar encounters after that.

I confess that sometimes, when I'm really lonely, I kind of miss them, other times I'm glad they are gone.

Fortunately, I've since started my love life and my mind's been busy with other things so I rarely thing about it

I've experienced it many times as a child.

Through invisible forces to shadows whispering in the far left corner of the ceiling. In the dream being unable  to move being hoisted in the air with an unbreakable force around my neck. I opened my mouth but couldn't scream.

I wake up immobile for several minutes. Then all goes back to normal.

And more

>>16127

>and more

More what?

I've never experienced anything sitting on me or blood on the walls or ghosts and shit, but now that I think about it, I've always resisted looking around out of fear.

It usually starts after waking up a little too early and then attempting to fall back to sleep. Normally I would fall asleep again no hassle. But every once in a while, I can feel my mind slipping into this weird state. The only way I know how to describe it is these unusual vibrations start kicking in and I can't move. When I feel it coming on I try to resist being pulled under and fight it off with frequent success. The few times I've given myself over to it I've heard weird shit, but nothing I couldn't attribute to dream sounds.

I've read before that for OBE type stuff, imagining yourself driving or running really fast, or to imagine yourself spinning to ease into the process of leaving the body or something? I had dreams where both of these things happened. I wasn't even trying to cause it, it was just dreams. Next thing I know I'm deep in the middle of some vibrations.

I never look around when these vibrations start. Shit freaks me out, even though nothing explicitly weird has happened yet. I'm afraid of what I might see.

>>12816

sometimes i wake up drenched in sweat, but it only really happens when i sleep on my back and i think i have sleep apnea. maybe something about not being able to breathe well makes my body start sweating a lot for some reason

>>13325

>its for imaging your ass while u sleep

what does that mean?

>>16196

I didn't realize how incomplete my life was before I had this in .webm form.

>mfw I get sleep paralysis everyday that I got used to it.

Its really nothing paranormal.

I used to see a white female figure most of the time, and one time I was being strangled by it and I can hear a laughing voice.

Turns out you see things when you're scared. When I got used to it, I stopped hallucinating those stuffs and my sleep paralysis would stop eventually.

I even learned a neat trick while I'm on sleep paralysis state, I focus a vibration on my gential area and the feeling is so pleasurable. I'm being weird right now sorry.

>>16319

Neat I'll keep that in mind

>>12197

Nyquil does it have ephidrene? ephidrene causes me to have very bizzare vivid nightmares.

I have sleep paralysis once every 2 weeks or so… Its not that scary, you just cant move anything. For me it just makes me really mad that i cant move but noting spoopy happens.

>>17768

Same here. I've had sleep paralysis pretty much since I was 5. If I fall asleep in a car or a bus or whatever, I'd say there's a 95% chance I get sleep paralysis. I've pretty much learned to pull myself out of it (it´s not cash at all to wake up 30 kms away from where you were supposed to get off the bus), but all I've ever experienced while paralyzed is hallucinating someone noticed I was paralyzed and waking me up. I was completely sure I was not paralyzed for half an hour.

>>12207

the 'nature' will vary from person to person.

It was sleep paralysis. of the 'night terror' variety.

>>13227

>>13327

>>12816

>>12810

>be me

>be me

>be me

Is this why /x/ is dead?

>>12252

the phenomenon is caused by the same chemical process.

it's like how you have a shit ton of dmt fags talk about "machine elves", or dph users talking about spiders, shadow people and smoking hallucinated cigarettes.

the chemical processes involved in sleep paralysis behave the same across individuals, so they hallucinate similar things.

>>12237

I never had a problem till a couple of nights ago.

>usually get sleep paralysis if I sleep on my back

>everytime it happened I think aw shit let me just wiggle my foot till I can move.

>becomes a routine so im not afraid of it

>I recently moved to a university and get paralyzed.

>think aw shit let me just move my foot

>I can open my eyes barely but still cant move and I see that the room looks identical to my old room.

>I can sense that my brother walked in but is staying out of eye sight.

>Just know he is standing there.

>I move my feet enough to get out of bed but then minutes later I realize i'm still in bed.

>Wake up three different times

I think that paralysis makes you vulnerable to the supernatural and I never had problems with it before. Some of these guys are just unlucky.

I had sleep paralysis when i was 11 and it is the only time in my life ive been truly terrified. I had no idea what was happening, all i knew was i couldnt move.

The way i was sleeping i was facing my bedroom door. I have always been interested in aliens so had read stories when i was 11. I hallucinated an alien walking through my door and getting closer. If you imagine a classic grey, thats what it was. I was trying to scream but obviously couldnt, when i snapped out of it i screamed and woke my parents up. They didnt believe me.

I'll post mine.. This is about the third time this month. Or.. Last month..

>be me three days ago

>laying in missile position on back

>dozing off

>feel the typical presence in room

>sit up to look around room

>room is dark, but I can see just enough to make out silhouettes

>nothing is in the room, feeling safer, lay back down on my left side in a fetal position

>"fall asleep "

>suddenly feel pressure on my right side, pressure of someone laying on me

>freak out, wat do

>can logically think, unlike dreams, knew what was going on because this isn't the first time

>hoping it'll leave soon

>after about 5 seconds of spookiness

>whatever is on me starts inhaling. >The inhaling is persistent, no pauses

>freaking out, try moving

>as time goes on, feel weaker, like my soul was being sucked out

>I can't fucking move or yell

>uttering squeals

>decide to stop trying and burst open

>i stop moving

>still feeling weaker

>push with all I might, all I see is my arm moving out ward

>wake up in same fetal position, my arm never moved

Saw a green mist-like alien hovering over me

>>12181

>Be 12

>Bunk bed

>Bottom bunk

>4:00am

>Explosion sound from somewhere in the house

>Eyes open immediately

>Face infused with mattress above me

>Screaming

>I start screaming while seeing this

>Mom runs in

>as soon as light is on the face is gone

>Go into bathroom

>Shaving cream can had exploded

>>12483

couches have always felt better to me. i have not a good dream in sssooooo long.

i miss those days

I experienced sleep paralysis once in my life and it was quite scary personally but not an exciting story.

I was on my bed just laying on my back and thinking with my eyes closed one afternoon. I wasn't tired mentally but maybe my body was tired. I never noticed a shift in my thinking it was all very clear and normal, just the normal thought process of a teenage kid.

After maybe 20 minutes I realized I was kind of thirsty so I wanted to get up and get some water. When I tried to move and open my eyes…nothing happened. I just couldn't do it. This all happened within the span of a few seconds but I tried again and again to move any part of my body and open my eyes. Nothing worked. I started to panic and tried even harder to move. That's when my eyes flew open and my arm jerked to the side.

It was one of the weirdest experiences of my life.

I can absolutely see how someone who was maybe further asleep mentally or just thinking about weird things could think they see shadow people or aliens or whatever holding them down.

If you've never experienced this before it's best not to try or want to.

Losing all control of your body but trying your fucking hardest to move your unresponsive limbs is not a fun way to spend an afternoon.

>>12181

I had a couple of months where it happened repeatedly. The worst part is that you know it isn't real and there's nothing to be afraid of, but because you're still partially unconscious you can't move, which tells your brain to be very scared.

>>12181

It's funny you should mention this because it just happened to me yesterday when napping. I had a really unpleasant dream. I don't remember many details; I just remember sequences it wasn't exactly a nightmare but the mood of it was really unsettling. The final scene woke me up and I was laying in my bed really bothered that I couldn't move my arm. Shortly after that I felt a tremendous gust blowing around me, it was forceful enough to elevate my bed sheets and I found myself confused and terrified. I had shut my window before I went to bed because my room had been quite cold. The force seemed to be coming from the other side of my room too. Eventually I managed to move and I wasn't sure what to make of the experience.

There was another time when I woke up in the morning at my apartment in college. I lived in a place that was home to a lot of insects and naturally spiders as well. When I woke up I saw a large spider not far from my bed, which was not elevated from the ground. I couldn't move for some time though, so I found myself staring at it quite disturbed. It got closer to me and eventually I was able to force movement and moved to the next room.

Last Christmas season I was staying at my mothers law office and couldn't move for some time after waking and I was hearing some voices when I was alone in the building. At the time I was going through withdrawals as I have a downer chemical dependency, and I figured that's just what caused it.

As I understand it's a normal thing and most people experience it infrequently.

I was about 14-15, and I remember sleeping in my room in the basement, the rest of the fam upstairs and I had my doors shut.

My room is a room inside if a large basement mind you, so I'm basically in my own little home.

But I remember I had the door locked and I woke up, and for some reason my curtains were up and I could see the sky from my bed but I was frozen. I was just crying, like I've never cried this hard before. I could feel just through the air pressure (really good at listening and hearing if people come behind me) just some type of presence and as I stared ahead I felt it just right behind me.

I felt like a baby, just crying and I couldn't move. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

I'm not sure if this counts as sleep paralysis, but Ill share one of the worst experiences I've had with the phenomenon.

A few years back, when I still lived with my parents, I was sleeping in my bed. I woke in the night, and when I tried to get up, I found that I could not move. Every inch of my body felt very heavy, as if I were made of lead. I focused on my fingers and toes, trying to wiggle them, no dice. Panic began to set in, and I tried to scream, but was unable to. Nothing, I was fucking stuck.

To my horror, the mattress began giving way beneath me. I was literally sinking into it. I tried to scream, fight, blink, anything, and nothing worked. The sides of the mattress grew higher around me, impossibly high, until my ceiling was only a small circle above me.

And then I woke up.

"Thank god," I thought. It was only a nightmare, but I'm safe now.

I tried to get up, and I couldn't.

Before I could even process what was happening, I felt an emptiness below me, and I fell. A void had opened up beneath me and I was plummeting into black, empty nothingness.

And then I woke again. I lost track of how many times. Every time was the same, as soon as I realized that I was not truly awake the world would give away beneath me and I would fall. It felt as if time had no meaning, it could have been minutes or years as far as I knew.

Finally, I woke up. I flicked on my light and grabbed my phone. I wanted to talk to someone, wanted to make sure that I was finally awake. I wanted comfort as well, so I dialed my boyfriend. After only a few rings, he answered.

"Anon?" It was so relieving to hear his voice that I blurted out the whole story, almost in tears. I was so happy to have the light on, to be sitting up, to be able to move and speak.

"Are you o-kayyyyy?" Halfway through the word okay, his voice warped. It fucking changed. It wasn't him.

I was still in bed, in the dark, and I couldn't move. My heart dropped, and so did I.

I don't know how many times that I went through that awful loop, but when I finslly did break free I left the bed, called my boyfriend and kept him on the phone for an hour. It was two a.m. He was still in high school at the time, so his dad was pissed, but fuck it. I pinched my self repeatedly while asking if he was sure I was awake. I was afraid to go to sleep for a week after that.

That isn't the only time I've dealt with sleep paralysis, but it was the worst. Still gives me a nasty feeling when I think about it.

I experienced sleep paralysis once, and I really felt like there was some thing watching me next to my feet, in the space between my bed and my bookshelf, but I didn't panic and just went back to sleep.

>About 2 years ago

>Sleeping in my bed on my left side, facing the wall

>Suddenly I'm "awake"

>See the wall of my bedroom lit by the sun, but I feel my eyelids closed

>"What the fuck?"

>Try to move but I can't

>Notice that something is under the left side of my chest, pressing it

>Like a branch or a pipe

>Think that my arm might have ended under me while I was asleep

>My left arm is on the pillow and the right one over the bedsheets

>The pressure increases

>Sense a presence behind me

>And then I hear some kind of "voice" at my back

>It sounds very fast and unintelligible

>Like if someone was clicking with his tongue and hissing

>The pressure keeps increasing and starts to hurt

>The "voice" sounds louder with each second

>Feel the presence getting closer to me

>Panic mode activated, still can't move or scream

>Whatever is making the clicks and hisses is now practically next to my ear

>Louder and closer than before

>Body completely paralyzed

>"Shit, shit, shit, shit"

>I wake up

>Looking directly at the wall, everything is as I saw it seconds before

>The voice is gone

>So shocked that I can't move for a moment

>Slowly turn around

>Nothing behind me, my bedroom is empty

>The pressure feeling on my left side lasted for about 10 more minutes

And that's pretty much it, nothing happened again (or at least I don't remember). I believe that it was sleep paralysis. If by some extremely low chance it was real, and I had something in my room, I would not go to sleep again.

I've only experienced sleep paralysis once or twice, which was a year or two ago after working some long hours from a job and had to wake up incredibly early.

Was a weird dream that started where I was working in an building. I was crawling on the ground through an L-shaped hall lined with offices; walls were bare gray bricks. windows were smashed, paper sheets strewn all over the place, some fluttering from the ceiling. Lights were blinking on and off.

There was screaming off in the distance around the bend. I panicked and starting to make my way into an open air vent that was next to me. I suddenly felt myself fall and I found myself in a room that looked like a concert hall.

My fall had been broken by a few dozen people dressed in office clothes, lying crumpled in a heap. On the stage was a figure that looked like they were drenched head to toe in oozing red paint. They slowly lifted their arms up and out like a cape, letting out an incredibly loud and very real sounding womans screech that woke me up. Even though I was out of the dream and found myself in my bed, the scream persisted for a good 20 seconds, and I was starting to doubt if the sound was still a part of the dream or if someone was in trouble outside.

Not really spooky, but it was unnerving.

>2 months ago

>parents and I moved into big new house

>no electricity yet

>picked a small cozy room at the corner of the house while parents slept at the other corner

>room was pitch black, locked door before going to bed

>wake up at night to hear loud banging on door and someone furiously turning the knob, trying to break in

>I was mortified, couldn't move a muscle all I could do was stare at the direction of the door and wonder what was on the other side

>continues for a few minutes but it seemed like an hour

>tulpa comes out of nowhere and snaps me out of it, tells me I was having a nightmare

>I try to explain how it was so real and my eyes were open all the time so I wasn't dreaming

>she tells me shit like this happens and cuddles me back to sleep

>>12181tbh ive had it happen many times but ive never seen anything

Glad you brought this up homosexual op.

maybe its "not a physiological thing" at all, maybe its a dimensional leap.

>seeing without eyes.

>same place you are in (bedroom)

>shadow people

>in some cases (flying)

I could move into my house during sleep paralysis, see a clone of my house, it's not the same house, maybe it is.

This subject fascinates me, it happened to me many times, less frequent now, but its horrifying yet amazing experience.

>>22010

>>It sounds very fast and unintelligible

I had this while awake, all I recognize is the tone, sometimes angry some times panicky,but the speech itself is too fast to understand.

I get sleep paralysis when I'm falling asleep, not waking up. Usually it's common stuff like hearing angry whispers, bugs crawling on me, something sitting on my feet, etc. But I had one experience that was weird as fuck

>laying in bed

>limbs start seizing up, can't move, can't open eyes.

>ohboyherewego.jpg

>brace myself for spooks, try to snap myself out of it but can't

>start seeing streaks of gold

>like someone's painting with a calligraphy brush on the inside of my eyelids

>body starts tingling

>manage to open my eyes, but still can't move. nothing weird in my room, but still seeing streaks of gold.

>hardcore tingling. almost feels like my whole body is vibrating

>suddenly, start feeling waves of pleasure.

>like nothing I've ever felt before. completely indescribable. the closest I have to compare it to is an orgasm but it's still a completely different sensation. plus, it's constant and all over my body.

>golden streaks keep going across my vision. also seeing flashes of white light, like there's a strobelight in my room somewhere.

>start hearing a low hum, like a deep base.

>pleasure gets more intense. steady pleasure from before but now there's extreme spikes in time with the golden streaks

>humming gets louder.

>pleasure gets so intense I feel like I'm going to die.

>vibrations are so intense I'm half convinced an earthquake is hitting.

>lose all sense of time. feels like this has been happening for hours, maybe days.

>humming starts to vary in pitch. sounds like a very slow chant

>suddenly snap out of it

>bolt upright. feel totally normal and awake, albeit kind of disoriented.

>go get a snack and try to figure out wtf just happened.

Nothing like it's happened since. But about once a week I'll feel my bed vibrating while I'm falling asleep.

I got sleep paralysis once. Honestly I was scared to shit from it. Very short.

>had a huge panic attack one day

>next two months had bad insomnia

>anxiety worsened

>at one point I couldnt sleep for two days

>finally went to bed but I was paranoid af for no reason

>all of a sudden I felt completely paralyzed and couldnt move my mouth

>a shadow like entity, literally looked like a shadow, no form to it but it did have arms and hands

>shadow creeps over me as I panick intensely inside

>try to scream for help but all I could do is barely move my mouth

>lasted only 10 seconds and snapped out of it

I still have insomnia and I have learned to control my anxiety. I used to be really paranoid of the dark when I was a young kid and once I had that initial panick attack that started everything I became super paranoid again after 10 years. I was 20 at the time

>>22360

by the way i didnt fall asleep and woke up and was paralyzed, it happened once I laid down. Maybe 5 minutes into me laying down I became paralyzed.

I've experience sleep paralysis a few times but much unlike everyone else, i never saw felt or heard anything scary while it was happening. Which is good i guess haha i would not want to see some scary ass shadow.

Anyways it happens once when i came home from school, i was really tired so i went straight to bed. I was laying on my stomach asleep when i suddenly woke up feeling like i couldn't breathe, as if someone was sitting on top of me (i recognize the feeling cause my cousins used to do that shit to fuck with me as a kid since i was claustrophobic lol) eventually after feeling like i was running out of air i woke up.

The only other time i can remember is when i was skipping school as a sophmore. What i would do is i would pretend like i'm walking out to wait for the school bus but i would really walk to the backyard then inside the playhouse they had for my sister. Luckily it was still dark at the time in the am so the windows were still dark and my parents couldnt see me. I would usually wait there until 7 which was only about 30 mins so i was good.

Anyways i ended up falling asleep while waiting one day, i woke up at around 8 and realized i fell asleep, everything looked really hazy so i knew it was sleep paralysis. Imagine a foggy day, but the fog being black, thats what it looked like. Anyways i tried to get up but quickly realized it was sleep paralysis so i went back to sleep and woke up a second later.

I wasn't really scared when it happened, which makes me feel good lol but it hasn't happened in a few years so i'm alright.

I've had it happen a couple of times before. Both times, it happened when I woke up, and could not move any part of my body. I did not see anything supernatural though, it was just like the part of my brain that controls movement did not wake up as fast as my conscious mind, or something. It only lasted a couple of minutes, and then I was able to move my arm.

>>12213

Holy fuck man

>>12483

Nice ass

I'm finally at that point in my life where it's getting more… Pronounced.

I haven't had any of the harsh negative experiences, but the Oneiroi seem antagonistic at times.

I've laid on my side and felt a pressure on my shoulder as something like an animal gurgled in my ear, then again something similar that breathed in my ear.

As I began reading more into sleep paralysis the next night something laid on my side and whispered bullshit.

"First flag" and some mention of "hooks." My ear hurt for a few minutes afterwards, almost like tinnitus.

Today I was dreaming, not paralyzed, yet still feel stuck in bed. No pressure or dread. A voice like Norm McDonald's calls out to me from the shadows claiming to be a ghost or some shit, and saying 'they' dislike me because I'm of the living.

I call him a fucking liar, commend him for keeping up appearances so well, and have a vision as if recalling a memory of reading a book, and recall a personal phrase of power & significance so I uttered it, and it began to shut the spectre out.

Lastly, I claimed he was just an Oneiroi and then felt like I had woke up, but was still asleep. I saw a vision though like a single large eye I was looking through had opened.

I walked around my room, had trouble moving like I was experiencing oxygen depletion and loss of muscle control, I turn on the light- still dark because light switches typically don't work when I'm dreaming. Then I wake up.

I posted something on the Creepypasta wiki that is actually similar to this:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Something%27s_Not_Right

Sleep Paralysis is terrible…

>be me tired af after watching some gore vids

>fall asleep as fast as a bullet

>hear heavy breathing in my left ear

>seems like I couldn't open my eyes

>start whimpering at the thought of Someone is trying to kill me in my sleep

>manage to open eyes and look to the right of me and I feel spit splatter on my face

>try to scream but all that comes out is soundless air

>start crying and start thinking that I'm taped down to bed by murderer

>I manage to fully lift up my arm, than my legs, than my head

>look at the door

>see a man walk from my sisters room to my closet

>my parents face when I run downstairs and grab their gun while waking them up

(the spit was my own spit mixed with sweat)

yes it happens rarely, but as i have become stronger and a better man, it has discontinued.

They used to poke me, just poke me, with fingers. dont know why, i didnt like it.

I've had the paralysis a few times but always found it more interesting than anything else. There was one time that was pretty fucking strange though.

>wake up suddenly

>can't move

>"just sleep paralysis, nothing to worry about"

>start hearing voices like people are crowded around just out of sight.

>no language I've ever heard but sounds like an argument

>try to flail around or at least turn my head but still paralyzed.

>hear shouts. voices are still arguing but sound angry and more urgent.

>eventually give up and decide to try to go back to sleep instead but voices shout in my ear and startle me awake every time.

>eventually start dreaming again but everything is wrong.

>go with it anyway just to hide but suddenly feel what feels like a massive hand grabbing my head and pulling back.

>try to fight it but get pulled back into my room with the unintelligible arguing voices.

>finally get angry and stop trying to escape.

>sleep paralysis stops and I flip around to see what looks like the upper half of a bald human made entirely out of what looked like smoke.

>mistman throws it's arms up in what looks like suprise and quickly dissipates.

>no more sleep tonight

>wake up

>think that I'm still dreaming because I can't move and I feel lethargic

>formless shadows are floating over my head, sort of "dripping" tendrils

>they look sort of like shadow jellyfish

>tall, shadowy silhouettes of people are standing at the foot of my bed

>have that "hair on the back of the neck" feeling and know that they're probably behind me, too, since my bed was just a mattress with the side against a wall

>lie there staring at them for a while, feeling my heart beating itself crazy

>completely unable to move

>eventually drift back to a dreamless sleep and wake up in the morning

>On sofa going to sleep

>Feel control from body slipping away

>I knew what it was

>Didn't panic, instead tried to sleep

>Hear screams

>Fuckthatshitohmygod.png

>Panic

>Screams get louder

>Finally can move

>Shoot the fuck up

>Calm self down

>Feel control slipping again

>Fall down onto sofa

>More screams this time

>This goes on for 5 minutes straight

>Thinking, 'just fucking mooooveee!!!

>Shoot up

>Lose control AGAIN

>Deafening screams

>Almost accept it and just lie there

>Realize my finger is moving and i'm not doing it

>BOLT THE SHIT UP

>FUCK THIS

>Move at light speed and put on shoes and jacket

>Take a walk

>Feel like legs will give way

>Walk home

>Fall into bed

>No screams

I haven't experienced anything like this before or after? what happened to me?

>>25300

idk why i put a question mark on that first on there

>dreaming

>shot through left eye by murderer in dream

>left eye opens, I'm awake but no, I'm still dreaming with the right eye

>watch my wall in the middle of the night and the murderer in my dream go on about whatever he's doing simultaneously for almost two hours

he fucking cooked and ate a meal while my corpse cooled in the corner

>>12197

>walls covered with blood and shit it looks something from silent hill

>meat hooks hanging from the ceiling

>bugs and shit all over me

>large shadowy figure over me

Your house sounds like shit. Maybe you should move. And get a new roomate

Is it just me or whenever before I am having sleep paralysis I hear loud ringing in my ears getting louder and louder until I become paralyzed?

>>27993

>like hallucinations, in the waking world.

yes can confirm this

it sounds a bit like rushing trains coming to you

I had sleep paralysis twice.

The first time being kind of boring. Nothing happened, i just couldnt move and just fell back asleep.

Second time, is the most frieghting experience i have so far. It felt like someone was watching me so i cracked open my eyes (i think i was dreaming mainly so maybe i imagined the whole thing but it felt so real) and saw myself standing by the foot of the bed, but in different attire.. My face was kind of blocked by the shadow from the shades and i was wearing sleep shorts and a tank top. The "imagined" me touched me, my leg. I freaked out and noped the fuck out, like literally i stretched and forced myself out of sleep paralysis.

>>12181

>Be me, 9 or 10 years old.

>Love trains and railroads. (Still do)

>Lying in bed.

>House we live in always gave me the creeps.

>See strange shadow figures

>One night I have sleep paralysis

>Room is pitch black, yet I can see the shadow of a hand gripping my mouth as I try to scream but cannot make a sound

>Wake up

>Several weeks later have sleep paralysis again

>This time I don't scream and neither do I feel terror

>I'm simply in a state of absolute paralysis

>Room is pitch black but I clearly see a shadow person standing in the corner of the room

>The shadow person speaks to me and I clearly hear its words

>He says: "You want a railroad? You're going to have one."

>Fast forward nearly twenty years later.

>Building a high speed railroad

I experienced sleep paralysis twice about 2 years ago right before christmas, those were the first and (so far) last times.

The first time I woke up lying on my back because I felt puffs of wind blowing over my face. I opened my eyes and saw nothing, which was really weird since I have a skylight and it was a full moon out. The "wind" got faster and the darkness slowly inched away from my face until I could make out the silhouette of a human made out of darkness. Now I realized it'd basically been rubbing noses with me while panting all over my face and was straddling me (It wasn't obvious at first because its breath had no smell, no warmth) so I started freaking the fuck out. I'd read about sleep paralysis years ago on /x/ but never expected to actually experience it. I kept trying to scream but only managed wheezing and rasping sounds. The figure then slowly got off me and kneeled next to the bed, observing me. We spent several minutes just looking at each other until I finally regained enough strength to speak. The first word I managed to say was "No", which made the figure tilt its head to the side. After that I managed to croak out "Leave" and the figure straightened back up before dissolving into wisps of smoke. At this point I'd regained full mobility so I shakily got out of bed, had a glass of water then fell back asleep.

Three nights later, I woke up in the middle of the night again except this time I was sleeping on my side. I was hearing footsteps in the hallway outside and figured it was my grandmother (Who I was living with at the time) going to the bathroom or something. I tried to roll over but couldn't and opened my eyes. from my position I could see the door to my room had opened and the same shadowy figure was standing in the doorway. By now I'd read up on this. "It's okay, it can't hurt me" I thought to myself while trying to calm down and wiggle my hands and feet to regain mobility, and I was able to breathe normally (Because I was lying on my side?). The shadowy figure slowly walked across the room and around my bed, stopping behind me. It stood there for a while before I could feel and hear the bed shift and creak as it "got in" with me. I felt a large "hand" (Like its breath, it was just… Off. It was neither hot nor cold, nor did it feel like any particular material. It was just "there". It had all the usual fingers at least.) come to rest on my shoulder. It just laid there holding me for some time. Then it removed its hand from my shoulder and placed it on my back, except the hand had shrunk down to the size of a toddlers. It put its other (also tiny) hand on my back as well. And then another, and another, and another… Once it had eight or so hands on my back, they all started slowly dragging downwards in this weird caress/massage that was repeated over and over. I started shivering partially because this was really fucking creepy and partially because it actually felt pretty nice. After what felt like an eternity of ghost baby massaging it abruptly stopped. I could move and turned around to find my bed empty again, so I went back to sleep.

I asked my grandmother if she'd experienced anything similar later on and she said that kind of thing happened to her "all the time, it's just Grandpa visiting."

Only after writing it all up do I see how oddly erotic it all seems.

Sure hope that wasn't ol' gramps…

>>30261

I think it was your anima. Your feminine side that's normally unconscious. From your description she sounds nice…

Not related to sleep paralysis but I saw a "shadow person" right after waking up today, said person quickly went into a door that was in the middle of the room.

Pretty spooky tbh

>>30261

Try fucking it.

>>30270

Why didn't you follow it into the portal?

>be me

>trying to sleep

>not quite asleep yet

>try to roll over, take a deep breath, open eyes, etc

>can't

>realize it's sleep paralysis

>get scared

>spend the next couple minutes forcing my finger to wiggle

>then get arm to move

>come out of sleep paralysis and hyperventilate

Happens every so often, but never on purpose. I hate the feeling of not being able to move.

>>30273

Because the door closed the moment the shadow went inside.

If the door stayed for a while I would probably peek inside

>>30280

All I need to get sleep paralysis is to sleep on my back.

>>30261

That's weird, I thought sleep paralysis was only possible if you sleep on your back. But then again, nobody really understands how sleep paralysis works. For example, your chances of experiencing it increase if you think about it before falling asleep. Some people start experiencing it only after having heard of it.

I've had it fairly often, I can force it by sleeping in a specific way but I never do it intentionally since its more annoying then anything else since half the time it ends up being a repeating cycle where you drift in and out before you can adjust your position. But the interesting bits

>classic witch on the chest, usually just sitting there like a smug asshole. Rare for me though

>mutiple dog like creatures barking fucking around in the room

>some kind of Cthulhu type being below the abyss of the floor making unheard sounds

>shadow people at foot the bed, rare though

It makes for some interesting experiences, a technique I've learned to get out of it ASAP is to just focus on wiggling your toes. It will break you out of the cycle pretty quickly. I've read that people can die by enduing themselves in these states but its hard to say if its legitimate (I mean how you would you know ) or just propaganda to get people to not abuse it for their own benefit.

Also some people in this thread are straight up getting fucked by succubi. Protect yourself from that shit. Keep dream journals you faggots.

>>30289

>mutiple dog like creatures barking fucking around in the room

That would be really annoying.

>some kind of Cthulhu type being below the abyss of the floor making unheard sounds

This on the other hand, is one of the most interesting nightmares/visions I've ever heard.

>Protect yourself from that shit. Keep dream journals you faggots.

On the contrary, keeping a dream journal is only going to increase the chance of experiencing sleep paralysis. It's a really good method for that! I don't see how it's going to protect anyone from being harrassed by succubi.

>>30289

I could certainly imagine panic from experiencing sleep paralysis triggering an asthma/heart attack pr a stroke in weak or otherwise frail individuals.

Then there's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_arrhythmic_death_syndrome

>Bumping a two year old thread.

Only on fucking /x/.

>>12181

>4/11/15

Holy shit. So, I've had this happen to me once, when I was a mere 7 year old. And when you're that young, seeing an amorphous black figure inb4 Leslie Jones slither around the walls and fuck with the shadows in your room was some seriously spoopy shit. Took a break from Newgrounds after that. Went fishing that morning because I had to. Never had I been more quiet.

>>30297

Lost a coworker from my last job due to asphyxiation in his sleep. This makes more sense than what was told. I could only imagine the terror he went through in his final moments.

>>30298

Leave it to Ayys and Tulpas to bring /x/ back to life.

>>30340

>Lost a coworker from my last job due to asphyxiation in his sleep.

Was he overweight? Fat people tend to suffer from sleep apnea.

>>30348

Chubby veteran but but no means not fat.

He was in his 40s too. Seemed a bit young for the apnea meme.

>>25058

Aaaand sure enough it got deleted. The only surprise is that it wasn't LOLSKELETONS who did it. Fuck Creepypasta wiki.

You don't need sleep paralysis to see shadow people. I've never had sleep paralysis, sounds awful tbh

I've had a fair few episodes.

I don't get the full seeing shit episodes, but I do have fairly frequent (1-2 times a month) where I try to fall asleep, then awake consciously, unable to move/speak and can barely think, almost like only my primal instincts are working, and I just feel a presense, or feel like something is out of place, like a noise not being there but should be, like traffic or animals.

I'm convinced it's just my brain sorting out shit and being confused that it's aware but the body is still asleep.

I don't think it's anything /x/ related, but I'm not really a /x/ kind of guy, only conspiracies I believe in are the gubment ones.

>>30724

I never had sleep paralysis until I saw a documentary about it, then I started experiencing it… Maybe you shouldn't have read this thread

>>30745

I'm not so sure that it's the same for everyone. I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times but I've never seen a shadow man or an angel/demon.

>>30745

I think the DMT elves are just similar shapes that everyone experiences due to how the DMT interacts with the mind.

A lot of DMT users only identify the elves when shown images of objects. They just single out the picture of elves as the shapes everyone sees are similar to elves.

Most of the cases of DMT users properly interacting/hearing/seeing the elves is on subsequent trips, once they're used to the shapes caused by the DMT, so they kind of make it up in their head.

Also, first time DMT users who see elves are likely just people who read about the elves and DMT then decided to use it, so they're biased to seeing it.

>>30745

People see the same things because the things are objectively real. Current scientific 'explanations' for SP are laughable if you pick them apart for a second.

Apparently your body falls asleep but your mind stays awake? Your body can't 'fall asleep'- sleep is purely a brain function. The fact scientists peddle this BS line is astounding. Perhaps because a comfortable lie is better than an unknown truth.

There's some weird guys out there that practise SP and believe you can become like those entities people see, in fact their entire practises are based on it and they thus regard the entities as teachers or even gods.

Read some of their stuff on here after an anon posted it here on /x/ a year ago, but they've since deleted a lot of stuff. There's a book out soon it seems:

https://drakoncovenantblog.wordpress.com/

>>30741

Tell me anon, how is your body being asleep any different to your brain being asleep? Are there thus two types of sleep? Bodily sleep and mental sleep

No, sleep is sleep.

>>30794

Not sure if troll or just stupid

The scariest one I ever had?

Starts off pretty innocent. You know when you're dead tired, and constantly drifting between being asleep and being awake? You're constantly moving around in bed, trying to get comfortable, and thinking about how you want to finally fall asleep. Then I realized that I cannot move. I was stuck. My brain starts panicking, and I'm trying to force my body to move.

Then I hear something. Some low-tune humming, buzzing noise. Combine white noise with the buzzing of insects. It started getting louder and louder, and it seemed to come from all directions around me. It was everywhere. It was in my head. Getting louder and louder. The only thing I can see properly from my bed is the door to my room. It's slightly open, just enough for some light to come in. The light slowly turns grey as the noise becomes stronger, as if something's devouring all the color from the area.

Then I see it. A giant floating ball of darkness, slowly pushing through the door and devouring all color around it. Everything it drains the color off starts looking wet and oily, as if someone smeared a whole can of grease all over it. The ball slowly approaches me, while the noise becomes so loud I can't even think straight. I can't turn around, I can only scream silently, hoping someone - anyone - will come in and help me. As the sphere comes nearer, I notice that it's not just pure darkness - it's made of countless bugs, devouring each other, all covered in the same oily substance. And the worst thing, it's constantly growing. What started as a small sphere mere centimeters in width, is now as big as my TV. And still growing.

I don't remember how it disappeared. I remember that it came above my legs, and that around that time I finally got control of my body back. I jerked up, screaming my head off, and the bugs were gone. Everything was back to normal. My legs though, they started cramping up since that day. They constantly feel heavier and stiff.

And I've been seeing some of those bugs in all my dreams since then. Doesn't matter what it is. Solving some puzzle words? Open a drawer to get a pen, find an oil-covered bug inside. Going out with some friends? The entire wall is covered with that grease, and only I can see it. The moment I notice it though, the dream suddenly takes a shift to a horror story.

>>12516

I bet it sucks not being able to lucid dream, eh, buddy?

>>12181

I have one. Not too spooky to a reader but I thought I was going to die.

>>Be me. 28 years old. Legit insomniac. Not an attention seeking snowflake. Day 3 no sleep. Had taken unison type sleeping pills the night before with zero sleep.

>>Try melatonin. Sleep for about 3 hours. Vivid dreams of being chased by mafia type guys with machine guns. The dream gets stuck on repeat. I run away only to find myself back where I started. I'm fully aware that I'm dreaming and I force myself awake. Feel drowsy as Fuck. Turn on tv.

>>Watch am talk show for about 5 minutes. Start dreaming the exact dream again. My eyes are open. I'm not asleep. I'm still watching tv. How is this possible? Commence freakout. Try to get up. Paralysis. Internally screaming and trying to move while still in 2 different worlds. I can still see the tv and follow along. I'm still running from gangsters.

>>FORCE myself out of bed. Reach for phone to call 911. Can't find it. Collapse in floor. Starting screaming for help but i know I'm only groaning. Manage to gain control enough to move adequately. Still running from gangsters. Fully capable of visually following both storylines without interference.

>>Live ¼ mile from hospital. Run there barefooted wearing only boxers. Don't think I'll make it. Run into first building I see. Administrative nurses around. Everyone is scared of me. I fall to the floor crying and begging for help. Nurse helps me up and moves me into a empty hallway. "Anon, you have to tell me what drugs you're on so we can help you!" No drugs! "Are you hallucinating?" Yes. I'm not sure if you're real either. "Anon, I have to show you something…"

>>She grabs a makeup type mirror. "Look, Anon" My eyes are solid black. Not one pixel of white to be seen. Begin bawling and collapse to the floor. I gave up. Both with the nurse and with the gangsters. She put me in a wheelchair and pushed me across the parking lot to the ER.

>>Gangster scene is becoming blurry. It's paused. They're there but nobody is chasing me. I'm laying in the ER as a doctor asks me questions. I'm answering but I'm not there. I'm floating over my body watching everything unfold. They take blood samples. No drugs… "We're sorry anon, we thought you were high…Here's something to calm you down and put you to sleep" Heavy dose of Ativan injection. Lights out….

>>Wake up in my bed. "Shew it was all a terrible dream…." Girlfriend runs in crying. "OMG, are you ok? Holy shit. It was real. She proceeds to tell me that I had been in and out of consciousness for a couple hours since she picked me up from the ER. (She was my emergency contact and had to leave work)

>>I don't know what happened but I'm still not convinced I didn't momentarily die or transcend into the 5th dimension. Interestingly, NOTHING scares me now. I don't fear death nor do I have much emotion at all. I've never fully recovered. It's been 4 years and I'm still not sure if I'm really alive…

>>30876

I guess as a follow-up I should tell you I was admitted to a mental hospital. Brain MRIs and sleep clinics. Told I'm a parasomniac. (Pretty much a bullshit term for we don't know). Given full authority over what meds I want for sleeping. I took 30mg of Belsomra and 3 mg klonopin about 4 hours ago. I've got a feeling tonight might get interesting…

Never really experienced sleep paralysis and got a few questions about the one time I might've had it or some /x/ shenanigans.

When I awoke one morning I couldn't turn off my side, and it felt like I was being held into my mattress, like something was holding and pushing down on my shoulder. I saw a figure in the mirror over my bed, nothing detailed just black and humanoid. I didn't just blink and suddenly everything was normal, but it did vanish quickly with no marks.

Was I just dreaming /x/, or do you guys thing the house spookster finally made its "appearance"?

>>30876

>>30877

Did anything happen, Mr. Anderson? I think that chronic lack of sleep has probably left you with brain damage, what did the brain MRIs show?

>>30902

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me. It can take various forms. One time I woke up paralysed and suddenly an invisible entity grabbed the sheets and pulled them over my face, trying to smother me. I panicked and tried to fight back, and a few seconds later I woke up for real.

>>12497

I just watched it and I didn't like that the movie was more about a thoughtform than actual shadow people. Then that CDC bitch with her "muh placebo" just made me angry. I saw a shadow person and I was far from thinking about anything paranormal. The directing and pace was good.

Youtube has better stuff but related videos just led me to Christian videos for whatever reason.

>>12181

Sleep paralysis story was too boring for me. I woke up, couldn't move, just laid there and looked at the ceiling. The fact that I couldn't move is what scared me. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary, I was just freaking out in my mind. Then all of a sudden I could move again.

Second story: lucid dreaming (not long after the first incident). I was having a dream where I was flying around in a space ship being chased. I was getting my ass kicked, missiles and whatnot blasting me. All of a sudden I woke up but was still in the dream. So I said, "fuck this", turned the ship around and started whooping on their asses. Eventually I completely woke up with a smile on my face. That was, without a doubt, the most satisfying dream I've ever had because I actually took control.

Third story: exploding head syndrome. I had been on modafinil for a few days and after it wore off I became extremely tired and went to bed, fell asleep. All of a sudden I heard a loud fucking explosion, like a bomb going off. It woke me right up. I was disoriented, sweating and yelled, "what the fuck!!!". I looked around, checked outside the window. Asked my gf if she heard anything.

Nothing. It sounded so real so I had to look it up. Apparently it's also related to sleep paralysis, something I hadn't experienced since I was a teenager, and this happened in my mid-30's.

What I do wonder is if sleep paralysis is related to orthostatic hypotension. I always had problems with low blood pressure when I lay down. It actually caused me to gash my chin up when I got up too quickly and passed out, I also almost fell through a glass door.

But maybe you guys can tell me whether they're related. If you have experienced sleep paralysis or lucid dreaming, do me a favor and check your blood pressure while you're sitting up vs laying down.

>>30956

I hear loud explosions right next to my fucking ear all the time when I'm dozing off to sleep. I also visualize intense fire via hypnogogic imagery. What's up with that shit?

>>31131

There's something called 'exploding head syndrome', google it.

I never get to see spookies during sleep paralysis. I get it fairly often and I can force it if I want, but once I try to open my eyes it goes away almost immediately and everything I see with my eyes shut is basically normal hypnogogia. The only thing out of the ordinary that I hear or feel is the "wah-wah" distortion and shifty gravity.

Any tips?

>>34425

Try seeding your subconscious mind with images of what you want to see. If you want to see werewolves, look at a lot of werewolf pictures over an extended period of time. Think about them before going to sleep, try to imagine what they would look like if they were standing right in front of you, etc.

>>19087

Why would you want to do that though

>wake up

>only thing I can move are my eyes

>trying to move my arms feels like i'm lifting 45lb plates off of them

>legs too

>try to scream

>weak, whiny choking noise escapes me

>I struggle to break free of this unseen grasp until I accidentally fling myself out of bed

That's how it always goes. Probably just scarier this way.

>>36092

>Arms feel like I'm lifting 45lb plates off of them

Do you even lift, bro? How are you going to combat esoteric and eldritch horrors from beyond if you can't even lift 1pl8?

Got it once only.

>see things lurking around in the corners just out of sight

>try to get up

>can't

>body feels like it's encased in cement

>try to force it but fail

>really force it

>feel something tear in my right arm and it suddenly goes cold like it was dipped in water

>cold feeling washes over me

>slowly get up

>feel completely exhausted and dizzy

>dark creatures still hopping around looking at me from the corners

>approach one but it slinks away under the crack in the door

>turn back to the bed

>see myself there

>suddenly accelerate rapidly towards my body and slam awake

Not sure what those creatures were. They were just little round monkey-like things walking on their knuckles with yellow eyes. Nothing stood out about them other than their silhouette and eyes. They barely came halfway up my shin but they were really hunched over. I thought their bodies were covered in wisps of hair but they could have been made of smoke for all I could tell.

Outer body experience was neat though I haven't had anything like it before or since.

>>36096

Only if I broke through skeletonmode.

>>36129

Strange, I had something similar happen to me recently. I woke up to see a snake crawling down my window curtain towards my wife and baby. I think normally I would have had sleep paralysis and I would have been stuck; however my instinct to protect my family won out, so I brute forced my way out of paralysis, got up, and ran to the window while yelling to my wife to get my baby away from the window so I could kill the fucker or die trying. I got to the window and threw the shutters up to find my opponent, only to discover that the snake didn't exist. Pretty cool to have a hallucination like that.

>>36166

I wonder if snakes themselves have a meaning to it? Comparing our happenings, both had a normal setting for ourselves, only to be interrupted by snakes that foretell of possible dangers. Reading through some of the other posts it sounds like snakes (or another cursed animal) is seen, heard, or felt during these times.

>>36118

Lemures are desribed as similar to what you saw, ignore D&D portrayals of them as blobs of flesh. They're lesser devils/negative entities.

>>12810

Anon just go to the toilet before bed.

>>36129

Then who was snek?

Sorry I am reddit

>watch suicidemouse.avi

>it's nowhere near as scary as it was when I was 12,

>try to sleep

>I can't move at all

>heart rate jumps and I hear those screams again

>eyes are closed but I can see that warped part where it's all smudged as shit

>wake up sweaty and itchy like every time I wake up from a vivid dream

Ouch

So how do you know if the fear you feel because of sleep paralysis is your own paranoia or actual paranormal shit?

Does feeling pain in a dream count as paralysis? If so I've had that.

>>36250

>So how do you know if the fear you feel because of sleep paralysis is your own paranoia or actual paranormal shit?

well if you open your eyes while you're still paralyzed it's like seeing the world while you're on the edge of consciousness while hallucinating, everything is a bit fuzzy and black, like you stood up really fast or bleeding out.

>>36286

>Does feeling pain in a dream count as paralysis? If so I've had that.

no.

>all these batshit crazy stories

wew. Hard to tell which are real and which are bullshit.

here's my story

>be me

>15

>sleeping in super comfy bed on back

>wake up suddenly

>unable to move

>see strange shadow figure

>freak the fuck out

>can't breath

>try screaming

>oshiticantscream.jpg

>start praying to God and Jesus in my mind and eventually "anything please help me"

>figure is sort of moving back and forth, not really doing anything

>start wiggling fingers/toes, just trying to do anything

>finally start regaining my ability to move

>suddenly able to move

>jump up, turn on lights, run out of room

>google the shit out of what happened

>find wiki page

>read it

>makessense.jpg

>start sleeping on stomach to avoid more problems.

second time:

>wake up

>ohfuckmenotagain.png

>close eyes and just focus on trying to move

>be okay

I didn't have any more experiences for several years until a head injury which was scary asf.

>be me

>nearly die from TBI

>develop insomnia and paranoia

>haven't slept in a week

>still working a manual labor job so extremely tired/fatigued

>still unable to sleep for some reason

>take a bunch of benadryl and melatonin to try and knock me out

>lie down

>instantly unable to control breathing, body starts to become paralyzed

>try to fight it, rolling/squirming around on bed

>close eyes

>literally looks like someone is drawing squiggly lines on my eyes, red background and black squiggly lines everywhere

>still fighting it

>headaches, pains all over

>finally completely paralyzed

>start seeing bugs and shit crawling all over the place

>panic attack (obviously)

>start hearing my subconscious talking in weird ass voices

>literally hear fucking goofy, as in the fucking character from the fucking disney channel narrating my own fucking thoughts a quarter of a second before I think it

>tfw my subconscious is literally goofy

>well, gawrsh

Next day:

>still incredibly sleep deprived

>start hallucinating, seeing faces, hearing voices a shit

>go inpatient trying to tell doctor something is wrong I think it's related to my TBI and worried I'm having seizures a shit

>lolfuckoff.png

I wound up telling them I was suicidal just so they would provide some form of treatment. Went to the loony bin where they knocked me out with a cocktail of drugs.

I've since been given confirmed diagnoses of PTSD from my time in security and anxiety disorder. During this period I started having panic attacks all the time, like 3-4 times a day. Now I'm down to maybe once a week if I'm super stressed, and 1 every few months if I'm doing good. I try to avoid sleep deprivation whenever possible.

While I was inpatient they had a bible in a common room I picked up/started reading. I felt a bit tired one day and decided to lay down after reading a few pages from the Bible, again I was paralyzed. I was filled up with warmth and heard the words "I will never leave you again". I like to think it was God speaking to me, but occam's razor would suggest that it was simply the comforting/relaxed environment I was in during my 'waking dream', having the sun shining in my eyes and it being warm as opposed to the cold room I normally sleep must have prevented a panicked state of mind. I believe schizophrenics suffer from a related condition, sleep paralysis is 'waking while dreaming', schizophrenia is 'dreaming while awake'. I have experienced both sleep paralysis, and sleep deprivation induced hallucinations, they're not that different. I'm sure as science improves in the areas of sleep/thought/consciousness we'll be able to better understand just how to combat this issue along with psychological issues. In the meantime all you can do is force yourself to keep calm and try to think logically about the shit you're experiencing.

I've had several sleep paralysis "sessions" brought on by poor sleep pathology and being overly tired. I can tell you that, while it's not exactly a pleasant experience, I've never had the nightmarish experiences others have. No scary shadow dudes. No twisted alien room invaders. No monsters.

Usually it's just me awake but kind of not, and not being able to move. It sucks and then it's over.

One time I was sitting in my chair anbd fell asleep, then "awoke" to be stuck but my dream was like superimposed over reality, like a double exposed photograph (if you're old enough to know what that is).

Another time I "awoke" on my back in bed, but for some odd reason my right arm was free! So I spent the next minute waving it back and forth wildly, rocking my otherwise frozen body in place.

That's about it.

>>36685

Next time, hold your breath. Your brain will go into panic mode and wake you up much faster. And remember, it's just your subconscious. Dreams respond to your emotional state, which is understandably pretty fucked when you "awake" into sleep paralysis, not really understanding what it is. That's why you see scary things.

So just remember, you're fine. SP isn't part of some weird, dangerous disorder. It's not going to last forever, your body is paralyzed EVERY night, and that's a good thing. You're just not normally conscious of it. Be calm, and remembe rit actually passes MUCH faster than it feels. MOst of the time you won't even be like that a whole minute though it can feel a lot longer.

I don't know if I could call this sleep paralysis because I snapped out of it, but this happened recently.

>be falling asleep

>hand on bed next to me

>start feeling like the bed is moving around

>like some person and I have my hand on their chest

>moving up and down like breathing

>wake up out of fright

>close my eyes

>happens again

>but no more fright

>feel comforted somehow

>be me

>be in that state between sleep and wakeness

>my mom usually enters my room to give me money for school

>mom looks awfully weird this time tho

>remember she already gave me my money

>ask her "what's wrong, what happened?"

>notice she just comes nearer to the bed smiling awkwardly

>she says "special mission" or something similar, can't quite remember

>realize I can't fucking move

>whatever is impersonating my mom kisses me and sucks some kind of energy from me

>pass out in the dream

>wake up in real life completely soaked in sweat

I wish I never had to go through that experience again. It's been the third time in the last year already

>>13250

There are a lot factors going on with sleep paralyzis that you're practically bound to have one in your lifetime. What I've found best is to realize that it is just that, sleep paralysis and it will be over soon. As soon as you gain conscience of the fact that it won't hurt you, the hallucinations stop but you're stuck on a black limbo until you regain control. Moving your fingers individually has helped me the most to recover quickly from one. Don't be afraid, if you believe in some good deity or higher power pray to it for safety, it'l make you feel better.

We shouldn't be scared of the dead, they can't harm us. Be afraid of the living.

>>12181

Not sure if it was sleep paralysis but one time when I was sleeping in my living room sofa I woke up looking at my mirror and couldn't move my eyes, I felt a reflection of something or someone looking back at me from the bottom corner of the mirror.

It only lasted a few seconds bu then moved my eyes and didn't see anything and could move.

This is the only thing that has happened to me that is remotely similar to sleep paralysis.. I think.

>>12181

Most people find it scary, for me it's so weird it borders on funny.

>Be me

>Be falling asleep

>Hear that stupid "HIYYAH" noise you hear in cheesy kong-fu movies

>OUT OF NOWHERE I'M KICKED IN THE SIDE BY A FUCKING NINJA

>I can feel my body moving after being struck

>It was just a weird hallucination

I told a friend about this experience of mine, and he said it might be sleep paralysis.

>Be me

>Pretty straight forward dream, talking to people and trying to work

>Typical dream after working a double shift

>Only thing is, is that the devil is always standing a few feet away from me

>doesn't talk to me. Just waits.

>When I woke up my tongue felt swollen and I couldn't breath.

Next night

>Same setting. Arguing with a friend of mine.

>I don't see him, but I feel him approach me

>Wake up to chest pains and a sore tongue

>>12181

Go without sleeping for a night, and then go to a library and sleep in one of their chairs. This gives me sleep paralysis 100% of the time.

I've had so many run ins with this in the past but it was never very bad. Induced it with heavy opiate use. Always the same. Wake up mentally, open eyes, look around, but can't lift a limb despite trying to.

Maybe I can move a finger but only a little. Sometimes starting small lets me work up to moving a larger limb which can jump me out of bed, but usually give up rather quickly.

Sometimes I'll notice my breathing is very slow and I try to change the pace but I have zero control over this too. That can cause panic but no change in breathing. Can't talk, sometimes can let out a moan when trying to yell.

Usually give up and go back to bed regardless of these experiences.

Rarely I would stare into space, into my ceiling, bathroom, closet. Something might catch my eye and I start hallucinating. It's all based on what an object would most likely resemble then my brain plays with it from there. I've seen cats and people for sure. Once I saw a cat and moved my fingers, then limbs, then snap out of it, I look back and see I was looking at a suitcase in my closet that just looked like a cat from that angle.

That kind of stupid stuff was my experience.

>>19087

>if you can touch them…

You will wake up.

Come on. Wake up. We are waiting for you.

You need to wake up now.

Wake up

The night a schoolmate committed suicide a shadow person came into my room and gave me a kiss that woke me up. Sucked the air out of my lungs. I jumped up and went to open the bedroom door and it was stuck fast (there was nothing wrong with the door prior to this, it was like someone was on the other side holding the door shut)

I found out the next day he had laid his head on the road and let a car run over it.

>>38509

Do you ever have dreams/visions of others like that? Maybe not suicide, but of them doing something and finding out that they've done it?

>>12181

This happens to me all of the time. The freakiest shit happens when you have what is called a type 2 false awakening though, which is related neurologically but very different in experience. It's when you wake up in your room over again but you are still asleep. The first time i had sleep paralysis was as a kid, and i let out a silent scream as i saw a writhing mass of snakes in my closet.

The most interesting/terrifying dream i have ever had was a type 2, so i'll recount it.

I fell asleep in my beothers condo only to seemingly wake up. I walked out of the condo to go to work and noticed something very strange. His condo was an orange trapezoidgon, attched to a larger one with a thin line of windows. I walk inside to an atrium with light filtering from above, and see a man with black hair at a reception desk. He waves me through to the back, and i see a door. I go through it and there is a road in the desert with a military wrangler. I start to drive down the road, and vines grow out of the ground, stopping the car. The pierce and go inside me and i wake up.

I go outside and see the same scene, i go in the atrium again and the man waves me through again, saying, im sure ill see you again.

Im killed by a bear on the road.

Then a swarm of birds.

Then monstuous snakes.

Then a fog that chokes me.

Then acid falling from the sky.

Then a swarm of giant ants.

Then fucking dinosaurs.

After being killed by shadows that blotted out the sun, i snap at the receptionist when he gives his quip, tell him to fuck off and that i am going to kick his ass. He stands up and tries to force me through the back door. In the struggle i grab his face. It slips off. It's a fucking alien.

I wake up for real, drenched in sweat. Saw things out of the corners of my eyes on the way to work.

Sleep paralysis is quite unusual but it's harmless when you understand the way that the strange stimuli can precipitate a fear spiral.

You're in a state of lucid sleep, mental imagery merges with whatever residual impressions are present in your mind around the time of falling asleep or awakening. You'll start to hear noises and feel odd sensations, vibrations, pressure, stroking which are not real. The trick is to realise that in being afraid you'll only make your fear stronger and this will cause your mind to generate more frightening imagery which, in turn, makes you more afraid.

If you can master your fear you can turn it into a controlled dreaming experience but it is very fragile and difficult to maintain for any period of time.

>Be me

>Couple years ago, came back to my country, new house, mostly empty.

>Fall sleep

>Wake up

>Can't move

>Baphomet is floating in the right corner of my room.

>There, floating, looking at me intensely.

>Feel the urge to escape, can't move

>Decide to confront him, try to move forward instead.

>Start feeling the pressure of a thousand tons keeping me glued to my bed.

>Goes on like that for a couple hours.

>Eventually able to move, roll to my side, cry myself to sleep.

>>39248

Someone plz explain this to me :( It still makes me feel awful every time I remember it

>>39248

>>39249

That's a typical sleep paralysis experience, except for the unusually long duration. Are you sure you were paralysed for 2 hours? Normally it lasts a few seconds or a minute at most.

>>39248

>Baphomet

Why the fuck was an Arab floating around in your room?

>>39256

Just another day in Britbongistan.

thank you for everyone posting in this thread, this was a lot of fun to read

i guess i have a pretty similar story to everyone else

>fall asleep

>wake up and cant move but staring at the wall

>giant spider with about 5 foot leg span on the wall across from my bed

>not a specific species but like a shadow spider with the body shape of a black widow

>realize it cant be real and close my eyes, begrudgingly fall back asleep

>repeat every day for 4 or 5 days every night that week at the exact same time then never have it happen again.

the only weird part was having the same creature on the wall waking me up at the exact same time each night, i dont believe in demons or ghosts or anything, in hindsight it was around dawn so maybe a beam of light was sneaking through my window and waking me up from an otherwise peaceful sleep.

>>12181

I use to get sleep paralysis quite a lot, at least once a month it felt like. I sleep on my side so I never saw something sp00k but I was pretty use to the feeling of something on me.

I know a bunch of metaphys fags will scream it's demons/entities and they can if they want. My advice is to just stay calm. I don't fully understand the science behind it but if you panic during SP it just makes whatever you're hallucinating worse. It's like a feedback loop I guess, you panic and your brain creates even worse things.

If you really can't cope with whatever is going on one time I got pissed about the feeling of my face being touched and I was able to wake myself up by breathing aggressively out of my nose.

That was probably the closest to a lucid dream I ever had too because I was eventually able to take action in the dream and give this generic looking pale figure a few good punches to the face before eventually I was awake and realizing I was punching my couch. Weirdly I only feel asleep for 15-20 minutes.

I've heard if you have sleep paralysis you can use that to gateway to a lucid dream. You have to try to stay awake and have your eyes open in the SP but relax at the same time, if you see anything in your room just ignore it. I've never had a chance to try.

>btfo your sleep paralysis monsters like a chad

I've had it happen to me in normal sleep, and I have unintentionally induced the state during lucid dreaming (which I don't recommend) using Buddhist lucid dreaming techniques.

It is a very strange dream state, almost as if the fear centers of your brain take completely over for a bit. Not fun, and people who don't have a solid meditation discipline behind them will find it terrifying and profoundly disorienting.

>this happen about a week ago and im just gona copy paste the whole thing from my original post on (gasp sorry) reddit im a lazy fucker and thats that.

this just happened, so im still shaken up and writing this to help me calm down. this was the first really scary dream i had. i am 35

it started out with me play a game, it was very cheerful and sort of (kid style art) video game, on a lush green river, and a bunch of people were playing as well (anonymously) i stopped playing because i did not like and when i did i was at home (not a perfect representation though) and a close family friend was in the house and i was with my mom this close family friend was in another room as was talking with my mom and me and constantly throw out weird insults at me, when one of the people i was playing invited me to their house to finish the game(it was not over the phone but hey dreams don't have make sense) so now im at my friends house and the first thing that strikes me is that it was a far more accurate version of my house except everything was kind of run down and neglected. and they said we are continuing the game. this part of the dream was very surreal, it started with one of them offering me a wager of what look like the little bazooka Joe bubble gum candies, with one stack of 3 and next to it just a single one, and ask which one i preferred and i wasn't sure what they were so i said, "i guess the one is worth 3x as much as the others, and everyone laughed, and then i was walking though a garden of sorts and at the end of the path was hand cart/trolly with a bunch of cactus in pots on and on the ground around it as i walked past it one of the larger cacti started to heave, and i was look closer and closer and then i was on the floor of the house was in, with one of the people i was playing with saying again and again "its my turn" and each time they said it i felt a terrible pain in my wrist and pulled a large nail(like the kind you hammer not fingernails) this happened 3 time and then i said i did not want to play anymore, when on top of the credenza in the living room caught on fire,(it was still the run down version of the house and everything there was a commotion and it seems like only that one plant was on fire and not spread, then it finally started to spread and i pour water all over it, which put it out but also hit some exposed wires killing the power, so everyone i went to the fuse box to reset the fuse but some one was blocking me and some kind of argument was going on between me and it, and then i was back in the original house, and they my mom was asking me to do some meinal chores that i was went and did, and that the next bits are very hazy but somehow i was back at the house with my friends except there were more and it took on the appearance a kind of rave party or what ever it was dark with flashing lights, and i was basically standing in what i guess you would call a conga line with a whole bunch of people and when the person in front of me turned around with a big smile and said "i love this game" and i got a feeling of deza vu, next thing i knew i was in my bed and i could not move, and there was a voice of a child saying again and again "he is going to kill you" and i had no idea if it meant someone was coming for me or if it was for me, and i get up out of bed and walk to the door with my mom screaming and pleading "don't go out there" i open the door anyway and see a small child standing at the other end of the next room and i start to approach the child, think that this kid could not possibly kill me, and that maybe the voice meant i was going to kill him, when i was right in front of him, he said something to me that i could not hear and i turn around and the room i came out of was pitch black with a very short skinny man in a grey suit standing in the door way, and he began to chant/sing "family man family man" doing an odd hop from one foot to the other with both knees bent, each time he stopped he would repeat the line, and then he took out a knife nearly as long as him self and began chanting and then the hopping faster and faster till he was a blur when he move closer and closer becoming more of a blur and finally when was right in front of me he stab be in the stomach and i woke up.

and it was the first time i ever woke up from a dream unable to move and unsure if i was a wake. there were alot of other little disturbing things in the dream that i can't recall and its already kind of a jumble but i had leave my house and sit on the street for a bit just to make sure it was done.

>>42261

Holly fuck, that was creepy

Two stories, both pretty fucked up, TL;DR is I think I got myself haunted by an incubus by being to much of a sexual degenerate.

I'm a pretty huge metalhead, and back when I was around 18 after I got out of my fedora phase I got this crazy idea in my head that some Heavy Metal music was sort of like magic, it was this link/communication line between us and the spiritual realm. One day I stumble on the album The Return… by Bathory, and it's the weirdest, most evil thing I've ever heard. I had this deep sense that I had found something really, really special. Night after night I listened to it, over and over, trying to immerse myself in the evil. To really UNDERSTAND evil. That was my goal, I think.

One night, I begin to dream. My mother and I (who is dead IRL btw) are standing in this sort of ultimate wilderness, a bizarre frozen, snow-covered swamp in a pine forest. As creatures leap out of the frozen wilderness, I stoically defend my mother, but I slowly become possessed by a disturbing sense that the biggest monster in this wilderness is me. A cold realization grips my heart as I realize I am at least as big a threat to my mother as these monsters are, if not greater.

Suddenly I awake. I can hear demonic creatures giggling around my bedside. Atop me, a half-male, half-female demon, black as shadow, is anally raping me. I don't feel anything, but I have a deep sense that this creature is intimately attached to me, like some kind of perverse sister. I then wake up again, for real this time. I am possessed by a deep desire to look myself in the mirror, but as I walk into the bathroom, I am terrified: I don't know if I will see myself or some inhuman monster in the mirror.

Second story. I've been drifting in and out of consciousness the whole night, and each time I awake, the same shadow demon is anally raping me. My body is twisted and contorted within itself, almost like I am fucking myseIf, eternally devouring my own body sexually. I fall asleep, for the last time that night.

I am dreaming. I am browsing a porn site, but all the girls are horrifying, old and ugly. They are raping the men, who have no desire to have sex with them. Suddenly I see something odd. Something shockingly beautiful: an amazing piece of artwork of a virgin girl, perhaps twelve years old, standing with a basket in her hands in a beautiful fall forest. I am shocked that something so beautiful and pure is on a website like this. Suddenly, the painting comes to life: a huge, gelatinous black blob grows behind the girl, high as the trees, and devours her. I have a sense that the blob has devoured and violated her, and created something utterly perverse. And out from the rapidly growing blob speeds a creature, a tiny, disgusting, black little creature, covered in head to toe in soot and rotten leaves. A poem echoed through my head, brilliantly describing the blackness that was this creature, but I cannot remember it. But the line, "Born out of Hell, from the depths of Gomorrah" seems to fit him pretty well in retrospect.

He was an ambassador of the demonic, that much I knew. He ran throughout the earth, corrupting and deceiving all he encountered, twisting them and turning them into soft, jelly things. But when I met him, despite my apparent enslavement to these creatures, I declared my defiance. I called him a disgusting messenger of hell and declared: "A new day is dawning! And you, shall have no part in it!" But while the horizon was red, I had misread the sky: the sun was setting, not rising. Knowing he could not corrupt me, he instead conjured demons in the forest, and all I could do was flee, fighting them off when I could. One last strange thing happened: I encountered a human who was enslaved to the demons. I demanded how he could work for these creatures, who wanted to slaughter us. He turned to me and said: "Anon, they don't want to kill us. They just want to replace us."

I then woke up.

I have been very anti-sexual degeneracy ever since then. I have not seen any demonic creatures since.

>>39862

I've never been scared by any such experience until after it was over. It's almost like I am being intentionally. shown things.

>>16319

I find it highly unsettling how a shadowy female figure who gleefully attacks in our sleep is an incredibly common theme.

>Spirits in total are ideals subjected on the world in form of you conscious

>Close eyes and for a moment after a period of time these manifest

>See car gingerbread man with eyeballs googy about

>then a hand wobbles like a snake up on the left of it in the pitch black in my minds eyes

>Get freakout

>Back to the black

Damnit I want more but my primal fears pop out and fucks it up

I used to get it when I was in the military. I always figured the barracks were haunted or something.

I could hear and just barely see whatever it was beside me, but I couldn't move to turn on the light or call for help. Real scary shit.

>>12181

I do, and it's super boring. I believe people who say they've experienced weird things because one time I fell asleep with my eyes open and I saw my bedroom with the dream kind of superimposed over it, and it even interacted with objects in the room from time to time.

Having said that, I've never experienced anything unpleasant during SP. Well, at least not less pleasant than finding yourself stuck. It's not fun. It's sort of like pot in that time feels much slower than it actually is. You're usually only in that state for like 30ish seconds, but it can feel like minutes. Holding your breath speeds up the "release" because your body panics and wakes you up all the way in a hurry to fix it.

One time I woke up paralyzed on my back but I had one arm free, so I spent my time waving it back and forth hard enough to rock my body around. That's pretty much the weirdest thing I've ever had happen during SP.

>>42383

Nope. Not haunted. SP tends to happen most often when you sleep on your back and when you're over tired. Over tired is pretty much the life's motto of the army.

>Barely awake

>Body feels like it's absolutely made of lead, cannot move, cannot open my eyes

>Feel absolutely helpless and exposed

>Start lightly panicking, trying to force my eyes open or get any sort of movement at all

>Think I'm moving my head, but I have to pour my heart and soul into it to get any sensation of movement at all

>The moment I stop my head goes back down

>Try six or seven more times to raise my head and/or close my eyes, get nothing

>Limbs still lead

>Give up after ten or twenty seconds and return to sleep almost instantly

There you go, it was very unpleasant but also over quickly. Think it's happened twice in my life.

I Used a be a junky back in the day. Shooting heroin and wild shit… there was a few times where in the evening on days I got high and I went to sleep I would wake up in the middle of the night with sleep paralysis but I was not alone in the room. I remember about 3 occasions where there were deamons in the room with me. One time it was on top of me and hurting me and I physically woke up in pain… I no longer shoot heroin.

>>12181

Once during the middle of the night 20 years ago. I saw a shadowy figure who barely humanoid in form. Then it looked like it was changing shape and it took on the form of what I feared most at the time, which was ET, the Extra Terrestrial with a glowing red chest and everything. I've never slept on my back since then.

>>42633

I'm glad you're clean now, anon.

>>42634

I would be very interested to hear a scientific explanation for why sleeping on your back increases the chances of experiencing sleep paralysis.

>>42639

Put a hand over your hearth while sleeping on your back, nightmares guaranted and dont try pharaoh position ever.

>>42641

Pharaoh position?

>>42805

Check hand position of mummies.

Why is it that this video's the only one that causes sleep paralysis and nightmares?

>>42806

Why not try it?

Sleep paralysis happens before REM dreaming is over, so you aren't fully conscious and still dreaming somewhat. That's why you see spooky shit.

when i was a child, a huge storm outside the house woke me up in the middle of the night. i heard strong winds tear off the roof and rain started pouring on me and my room as i was sure i was about to die, petrified in my bed.

it took me a few years to realize i had experienced sleep paralysis. later, for a period of a couple of years, probably due to stress, i had numerous sleep paralysis incidents, so much so that i could tell what was going on and actually enjoy the experiences. the big tell sleep paralysis was coming up was an intense electric buzzy sound tearing my brain, like a very intense and squishy 303. this clue would trigger me to kick into lucid dreaming, and while there were still bad scenarios like strangers approaching my bed in silence and there was physical discomfort, i knew what was going on was unreal so i thoroughly enjoyed the otherworldliness of the sensations and tried to extend as much as possible the trip.

i had a brief one last week actually, that one was much less enjoyable though, the spirit of my deceased mother let me know she wanted to visit me but she was thoroughly dissapointed in how i was running my house. that message was probably for the best as it motivated to take care of some long neglected business this week.

It happens to me at least once a month. I always feel like there is someone or something in my house. I can think, but cannot move. I struggle to get my limbs moving, but it takes time. I try to call out for my dog, but I can only muster a whisper. I often hear footsteps or other noises, when I do get control I usually wind up swinging at the air. Though, if I realize that I am having sleep paralysis, I snap out of it at once. It usually occurs when you wake up during REM sleep. Your body is paralyzed to prevent flailing while dreaming.

>>12197

>Wake up in Silent Hill

>Rust everywhere

>Blood

>Monsters

>The TV flickers

>"Dangit, Bobby"

>>43133

>replying to a 3-year-old post

My weirdest sleep paralysis experience

>be me

>10 or 11 I cant remember

>wake up

>feel like someone is standing on my chest

>can't move

>look around

>fucking gnomes on my dresser

>little pointy hat cunts

>My room is right next to the bathroom

>hear the water turn on

>the gnomes start laughing

>freaking the fuck out

>wait for what feels like hours

>finally able to move

>water wasnt on

>no paranormal shit

>>12181

I will post my stuff.

Sleep paralysis has happened to me countless times. It usually happens when I am very very tired. The occurences I remember are always full of fear. You can't move, can't breath. You think you're screaming but realise there is no air leaving your lungs and you try as hard as you can to scream but all you get is maybe a croak.

One time that sticks out the most. I heard something in the kitchen banging around. When I realised I heard something pounding footsteps came down the hallway toward my bedroom. The kind of footsteps of your angry abusive father. Nothing was there. But I heard the sound of my comouter monitor being pulled off the desk and the cord hitting the ground and being dragged away. But nothing moved. I closed my eyes and opened them and a scalpal was floating in front of my face, rotating like someone was showing it to me. That's all I remember of that one.

Lots of other times I woke up and couldnt do anything and went back to sleep.

>>44226

I often had sleep paralysis.

There have been scary ones but also ones that were quick and harmless.

I once slept at my brother's couch while he was playing destiny. When i woke up i couldn't get up, i was paralysed.

I tried my hardest to scream and move but nothing would come, all i managed to see was a little bit of the tv.

When i snapped out of it seconds later i asked if he recognized something, he said no.

The scariest one i had was at home in my bed.

I woke up in the middle of the night.

When i opened my eyes and tried to move and couldn't, that's when i knew i was paralysed.

I tried my best mentally to not be afraid because i knew what'll happen but it's incredible hard to stay calm.

I told myself not to open my eyes but i always fail.

Next thing i saw was something coming closer from my left side and doing a specific sound that we all know.

When i locked my eyes on the creature, i saw that it was the bitch from the grudge movie.

She directly stared in my eyes coming closer and closer while having her mouth as much open as possible.

All i did was look at her and scream as much as i can till i snapped out of it.

I than ran out of the room.

literally only happens if you sleep on your back. maybe access to the eyes and open face has something to do with it.

When I was 14 I saw a shadow person. Never had sleep paralysis and I wasn't even in bed. Being me as a teenager being awake the entire night and decide to get some chips from the kitchen. When coming back my parents door is open and I saw something crouching in front of their bed. I look and I see a shadow crouching then it gets up and looks at me. It's outline looks like a person with a trench coat and a hat to match it's outfit. Then it's eyes open and all I see is red. Realize I've been standing there for half an hour and there is nothing there. I feel nothing and then subconsciously goes back to my room and realize what happened.

>>44213

did they steal your underwear

Does anyone recall witnessing the transition between sleeping and waking? I would sometimes feel sensations like vibrations, pins, needles, and numbness in my body, along with feeling a pressure in my head getting higher and a high pitched static getting louder and louder, until I pass out.

One time, I had a dream that there was a UFO outside my window. I could somehow feel my body in the dream, and I thought to myself "wow, something is wrong with my body; it's all sedated and stuff". I went up to the window and I wake up on my bed, but while I was gradually tapering from the head pressure and bodily sensations for several seconds.

I still can't tell if it was real, or if I was in some sedated state. Usually my dreams have stuff before or after, but not this time. Just me waking up, seeing something alarming, and going up to the window.

>>44872

had it on belly once. i think it has to do with tiredness tbh

>>12181

I love to hate on this subject but one time I was napping with my hands aimed up instead of at my sides and at one point felt clinching around my wrists and throat, couldn't move even though I was trying, and heard whispering about how powerless I was.

>>13416

Just found out, my moms boyfriend (Shitbag) had a skinwalker crawling onto his bed like this one night. Dude pulled the covers over his head and kept saying "I'm covered in the blood of the lamb" until he went to sleep. Dudes fine, never happened again. Fucking hates skinwalker videos though.

>>12253

Since you seem to know, what djinn would take the form of a fox, or at least be associated w them?

>>25898

I tried WILD last night as a result of this post and experienced sleep paralysis for the first time I can remember beyond just weight of limbs. Heard someone call my name then tap my arm from behind my back before I could move. It wasn't spooky, just annoying because I wanted to lucid dream not wake up. I got it on another try but couldnt control my dream for shit.

>>43135

>y-you can't necropost!

Ha-ha, faggot.

I had sleep paralysis about my boss once. He's a fat man and a tall one at that so significantly larger than I am. He was wearing this yellow shirt covered in football logos and stood at the front of my bed with a beanie on. i remember physically yelling at him for breaking into my house before he pulls the blanket off of me while saying "it's game time".

>>36685

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Diphenhydramine

>According to user reports, diphenhydramine has a non-linear dose-response, meaning the effects do not correspond directly with the dose. Lower doses produce a body high effect, while higher doses produce a state of delirium in which the user sees and hears fully-formed, extremely convincing hallucinations. Doses between these two extremes are uncomfortable and dysphoric. Diphenhydramine is frequently reported to produce significant nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load"). Most users who try diphenhydramine typically do not report positive effects and do not wish to repeat the experience.

>The toxicity of recreational diphenhydramine use has not been studied. Anecdotal reports suggest that heavy use may cause persisting hallucinations and cognitive and memory impairments. It is highly advised to use harm reduction practices if using this substance.

Reposting in the right thread just so I don't look any dumber than I do.

>>51165

>body load

Sometimes when I'm in bed I will get this sensation that my limbs are out of proportion, that they are huge and distant but I (I being whatever "core" of my being is experiencing this shit) is about to be crushed by my own limbs, bringing on panic and some nausea.

Is that similar to body load? I've never heard of the term before tonight.

I always put the sensation down to some problem with my inner ear (I am very wobbly and get dizzy/nauseous very easily) or fucked up proprioception.

>>51167

Body load meaning your body feeling heavier than normal, like gravity got raised a fuckton. It also hurts to move.

Imagine having sleep paralysis and seeing this at the foot of your bed just breakin it down and you cant do anything about it like you hear the music in the background and everything bruh

>end of my dream

>wake up, check time on phone

>11:27

>no PM, no AM, just 11:27

>head over to the door

>die of fright and wake up again

>open the door, manage to get down to the bathroom to shower before I "slip", or just sink to the floor, facing the bathroom ceiling

>third awakening

>everything is normal, and the hallway outside my room is also normal, save for a few changes

>it appears to be christmas, though the hallway is structured differently than it is in reality, with some new rooms and the such

>my cousin's over, in a marching band uniform with some friends as well

>as I wash my hands in the bathroom, I remark how odd and dream-like it is

>I woke up then again for real, able to move

I remember sharing this before, but doesn't it at least count as some form of astral projection?

>>12197

Yup, that's Diphenhydramine alright.

>>51241

Something similiar hapened to me like week before. I got into that state after realising I dream during dreaming. I was happy because I thought lucid dreaming starts, but instead I started traveling through some black and red tunnel. After a while I heard some kind of laught, then at the end of the tunnel I heard the same voice saying something, but I didnt understood. It got me to that mix of sleep paralysis and/or astral travel. I was paralysed but from time to time it was like I got from my body and traveled through my home and suddenly returned back to my body. I was scarred that I will stay in that loop for eternity at the moment. Also it was some kind of dream, because for example I saw my mother in kitchen in dream but after breaking from sleep paralysis and waking up I went to ask my mother and she claims she was in living room the whole time

I remember when I was on my way back to New Zealand after having spent about a month in the Louisiana bush as part of a military exercise. We were waiting for our 'chalk' to board the plane back to Hawaii and then a few days later, back to NZ. We had to get up early in the morning to move all the equipment then drive to the airport, so needless to say I was a little tired. I rest my on the ground for a few moments and briefly fell asleep. It was only a few minutes then my mind woke and became conscious, however my body didn't want to move an inch. I started to panic and reach out to my mates who were sitting on the seats right next to me but couldn't do anything. After about 30 seconds or so I came to and told my buddies what happened. Never happened before until then and hasn't happened since. Didn't see any dark figures or anything but that shit alone scared me.

Yes. For the last 4 days I’ve had progressively worse dreams. I should preface this by saying that I (at times) am able to lucid dream. Or, in other words, consciously control my dream at will while in the dream state. I can push beyond what seems to be an impenetrable maze, either by flying away (most common) or by waking myself up in an attempt to go back to sleep in a different dream state.

For the last 4 days, however, I have had the exact same dream in different settings. The common link is a demonic “ogre” like creature, similar looking to a large orc/troll like creature with very small wings. His body mass relative to wing size is laughable and he cannot fly. In the dream, I’m locked inside of a massive mansion or castle, where I find myself crawling or hiding in the walls/ceilings/air ducts, avoiding detection from it. It’s constantly discovering me throughout my dream and I’m forced to contort through small passage ways to escape it.

Last night was the first time it physically touched me. In the dream, I was hiding in the walls and I could hear it breathing right on the other side. It scratched a large cut into the wall just so I could see one of its eyes looking at me. When it made eye contact with me, I tried to wake myself up but was unsuccessful. I was paralyzed in my dream, but I was fully aware that I was dreaming. I was having internal dialogue with myself while dreaming, having a small panic attack that I was unable to get out.

Unsuccessful in my attempt to escape the dream or the creature, it began slowly driving its long finger through the wall directly towards my chest. It eventually stabbed through my sternum, and into my chest. I remember feeling the pressure in my conscious state, but was unable to do anything in my dream state. I could feel it physically. I got very cold and passed out.

I then woke up in a different room of my house, without my clothes on- with both of my dogs staring at me. I told my wife about all of this and she seemed concerned but also dismissed how fearful I was of this experience. I am actually scared of this dream and I can’t seem to prevent it from happening. I am going to try some sleep meds tonight. I am exhausted. I’ve had headaches all week from what I think is a lack of sleep.

Ok