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Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep
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Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep
Hiro Takahashi
A person may wake up and find himself unable to move or speak as if he is frozen. He also may hear footsteps, see a ghost-like creature, or feel someone sitting on his chest. Throughout the history, people considered this phenomenon as work done by evil spirits. However, the modern science can explain the terrifying event as a Sleep Paralysis.
A Sleep Paralysis is possibly a hereditary disorder in which one experiences very frightening seconds or minutes of total body paralysis with little respiration and eye movements (1). A victim in this state feels awake, but he cannot move or speak (2). In addition to the immobility, the common symptoms include feeling choked or suffocated, hearing strange noises like footsteps and voices, seeing beings or dark shadows, and feeling an existance of someone in the room (1). Although these symptoms often direct the victims to believe in ghosts, mistransmission of neural signals in the brain causes Sleep Paralysis. When a person sleeps, his brain sends signals to inhibit any muscle contraction (3). If he comes into consciousness before the brain sends signals to activate muscle contraction, he cannot move his body, and consequently, become "paralyzed"(2).
In order to understand how a body becomes paralyzed while the person is awake, it is necessary to understand sleep cycles. In a mammalian sleep, the brain activity undergoes two different states called non-REM (NREM) sleep and REM sleep, which differ very much from wakefulness (3). NREM and REM sleep alternate cyclically through the night; in human, about 80 minutes of NREM sleep starts a night of sleep, about 10 minutes of REM sleep follows, and this 90 minute cycle is repeated about 3 to 6 times during the night (3). During NREM sleep, a body produces few movement, but the body has capability of tossing about in bed and producing some other motor events, such as sleepwalking and sleeptalking (3). The cardiac-muscle contraction and breathing occur at a uniform rate, and the eyes move slowly (2). During REM sleep, on the other hand, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure vary (3). The eyes move rapidly because most dreaming takes place in this period, and the sleeper probably "look" at the moving objects in a dream (2).
The brain's control over muscles during REM sleep points out that in this period, a body is normally in the state of total paralysis, called a "nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis" (3). Probably to prevent a person from "acting out" a dream, the brain sends signals to inhibit any muscle contractions (2). Although some peripheral muscles, such as the muscles of the fingers and face, still twitch, the large skeletal muscles become relaxed, or "paralyzed" as a result (3). Some evidence supports that the motor paralysis of REM sleep protect against the acting out of one's dreams. A patient who suffers from rare syndrome called REM Sleep Behavior Disorder lacks the normal nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis, and he acts out violent dreams during REM sleep, often with injurious consequences (4). For example, a 60-year-old surgeon dreamt that he was attacked "by criminals, terrorists, and monsters who always tried to kill [him]" and fighting against them in the nightmare, he was actually punching and kicking his wife who slept in the same bed (4).
A nonreciprocal flaccid paralysis during REM sleep is accomplished actively by postsynaptic inhibition of motorneurons (3). Although the exact process of motor inhibition is not clear, some neurotransmitters and hormones are known to generate the many components of REM sleep. Aministering physostigmine, an inhibitor of the catabolic enzyme, increases the concentration of acetylcholine within the neurons in the pons, making it possible to artificially generate and start REM sleep in the middle of NREM sleep (3). Carbachol, the cholinergic agonist, produces a period of REM sleep in cat when directly injected into the pontine tegmentum (3). The hormone melatonin, a "master hormone" (5) that mainly controls circadian rhythms, also seems to play an important role in enhancing the REM state; the level of melatonin secretion by the pineal gland reaches its lowest during REM sleep (5). Such neurotransmitters and hormones probably activate or inhibit the activity of second messengers, which then activate or inhibit the third messengers, and so on till the last messenger inhibit the synaptic transmission or cause hyperpolarization of the motorneurons. And if, for some reason, the nervous or endocrine system continues to release the neural inhibitors, a person may experience Sleep Paralysis as he enters awakefully into or awakens directly from REM period (2).
While the modern neuroscience can describe the state of Sleep Paralysis as some errors of the neural transmission in the brain during REM sleep, a person who has seen or heard ghost-like figures/voices may easily believe that eveil spirits fully controlled his entire body. However, the images or noises, which the victim believes that he has seen or heard, are most likely hallucinations; and hallucinations, too, can result from the brain activity. In the 1960's, the Canadian neurologist W. Penfield introduced that electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe can cause the auditory hallucinations in the wake state (5). The buzzing or ringing sounds in the ears and other auditory hallucinations are closely associated with the activity of the auditory cortex and involves the temporal lobe (5). During the early period of sleep paralysis, the activity of the temporal lobe increases significantly, sometimes inducing hallucinatory sense (5). Similarly, the visual cortex generates internal visual stimuli, causing the victim to "see" terrifying figures during the paralysis (5).
How an episode of Sleep Paralysis induces visual or auditory hallucinations is still not clear, but it seems to have a significant relationship with anxiety (5). For anxiety is a neurocognitive event closely related to both psychological and physical processes, the extreme anxiety or panic may cause the release of several different signal molecules that trigger all kinds of physical events (5). A person experiencing Sleep Paralysis feels mortal fear or extreme panic, and hence, the brain generates and releases internal visual or auditory stimuli, producing hallucinations.
Also, hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis may happen, for one keeps dreaming even after some parts of his brain wakes up directly from REM sleep. Since the nervous and endocrine systems continue to release the neural inhibitors which sustain the paralysis, it may be possible that those systems keep releasing the neural activators that stimulate dreaming. Thus, a person continues to "see" the images and "hear" the noises produced in the dream that he has just had in REM sleep from which he has awaken.
Understanding more neural concepts of Sleep Paralysis, some researchers now hypothesize that a very rare condition called Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) may closely relate to Sleep Paralysis (1). Upon the death, a SUNDS victim produces no body movement even though he experiences a myocardial infarction and strong breathing difficulties and should straggle in agony (5). The death may be caused by the extreme muscle atonia during Sleep Paralysis, which is so severe that even the cardiac muscles and the diaghragm paralyze (5).
Until I started researching on this subject, I have believed that the total paralysis of a body is due to an evil taking absolute control over the body. However, the interactions between neurons in the brain can explain this seemingly mysterious phenomenon in a scientific way. Although the explanation is not complete yet, for there are many unclear processes about Sleep Paralysis, the current hypothesis appears to reject the possibility of ghosts on this matter. Of course, it is impossible to completely disprove the existence of "spirits", "minds", or "God" affecting one's behavior. Nevertheless, like Sleep Paralysis and SUNDS, many or the mysterious conditions and behaviors which are only explained in supernatural terms probably result from brain.
WWW Sources
1)The Evil's of Sleep Paralysis
4)REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Neurologic Dissociative Sleep Disorder
5)Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis
Comments made prior to 2007
I have been trying to figure out what was going on in my sleep untill i read this.Now i am happy to know what my body was expeiencing. It's quite scary your first couple experiences of sleep paralysis but now i'm gonna stay calm when it is happening to me and try to get my own understanding of the experience ... Jeremy, 21 March 2006
I have had sleep paralyisis at least once per month for the last 8 years. I am 29 as of this writing. I just had the experience about 1 hour ago and thus has caused me to do reasearch about it on the net. I noticed that many Dr.'s contribute this to anxiety, stress and other factors. My question is ... why is there always an evil presence in that concious yet body is still asleep phase? Today I heard a loud static sound, and opened my eyes to a spider crawling all over my arm. When I prayed to God, or said His name (Jehovah) the spider would start to disappear. I finally went thru my mental prayer when I awoke. This leads me to believe that it is more of a spiritual occurence, because I never have positive images while in this paralized state. I know there are many things in which our ancestors thought it was demonic rather than scientific, only to find there was a scientific explanation. However, I think this is different and cannot be simply written off as "scientific". There is not enough proof to show that it is scientific.
About a month ago I had another episode of sleep paralysis and I saw a small presence in the room with me. It was dark, and I could not see it's face (I am getting chills typing about it right now). My question is, why is there always an evil presence not only associated with my episodes, but so many others I have read about? ... Abel, 24 August 2006
i was thinking it is evil who do that during night but now i find out why. I am suffering from sleep paralyze possibly every nigh spicily when i have dinar ... Salah Nasser, 28 January 2007
I used to have this sleeping disorder when I was a child. It has come back once or twice with adulthood, but otherwise, it is in the past. I used to, with great effort, move my hand to my face and pull an eye open, which would wake me up, but sometimes the struggle was too much and I would go on into a deeper sleep.
Since the brain can do this to me, can it also cause me to get migraines just as I am about to wake up?
It seems, as I have discovered, if I get less than 4 hours sleep a night, I do not get migraines. If I get 6 hours or more, it's about a 90% chance I will wake with a migraine. Later in the day, I get an hour or two nap and that is the routine as it works. Doctors just sort of treat the migraine and don't get into the sleep thing I have. I take MaxAult for the migraines when they do get me.
I woke one time, and just as I woke, I felt this white-hot needle going into my head... bingo. A migraine in 5 seconds. That is how they can occur. I wake with them otherwise. I figure it my brain doing things it shouldn't. I have a clean bill of health otherwise.
Thanks for your time. Have a good day ... Jay, 11 February 2007
I have a question, and hope someone out there has an answer, it has been months and I have thus far failed to find one. Has there ever been a record of anyone receiving the effects of sleep paralysis without having been asleep? The reason I ask this, is a while ago, having not slept in a few hours, I was sitting at my computer, and it seemed to have happened to me. Within seconds I was too tired to hold up my own head, and my breathing got very difficult. Then I began to feel a sort of dizziness as my limbs lost feeling, and dropped to my side. after this, the dizziness turned to near blindness. I could see, but nothing would focus, and everything I tried to look at seemed to dart around like a mosquito. By this time I had no feeling in my entire body, could move nothing without quite a bit of concentration, and I could barely breath. My mother heard me try and make out some kind of cry for help, and found me there spilled into my computer chair. She rolled me to my bed, and poured me into it. Within about 10-15 minutes I had regained everything I once had, but my sea legs did not ware off for another ten or so minutes. I went to the emergency soon after. I had an E.K.G. and a C.A.T. scan, with no results, and I piss less in a week then the amount of blood they took that night. After basically telling me I was lying, the doctor told me that my symptoms did not fit anything at all. What I do know, is I have been researching the issue ever since, and can only base my problem on Sleep Paralysis. All the symptoms match. And again, my question....Has there ever been a record of someone under the effects of sleep paralysis without ever having gone to sleep? I hope you can shed some sort of light on this subject, as it,...well, it freaked me the hell out, and no one has been able to answer me! Thank you for your time ... Mitchel Henderson, 7 December 2007
I used get this "evil paralysed me" feeling when i was paralysed and usually saw a ghost. i tried to shout or move but no sound escaped my mouth and couldn't move at all. it happened again yesterday and was almost convinced that ghosts/evil spirits were getting the better of me. But, me being a practical and logical guy, erjected this theory and started researching on this phenomenon. I came across this research paper on Sleep Paralysis. This greatly helped me in alleviating my fears. And next time i "see" a ghost during sleep paralyses, ill just laugh at it ;-) Thanks for the research ... Siddarth, 10 December 2007
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believing your dreams are reality?
this dose not really have to do with sleep paralysis, but usually when i sleep, i dream about certain event or people in history or the future and i start to believe that there true. i am in my teen years and i know that when my imagination is off the rocket, and now, i dont know if my mind is playing mind games on me or if whatever happening is really coming true. i think i lost reality in all sense. i dont really know if im really awake or i will get confused sometimes at school and think that i am actually dreaming. i know that i have anxiety and some depression, and i also have AS, aspergers. but how do i know if the coincidences in my life are or are not related with my dreams. i remember all the dreams that i have and sometimes i feel like i can tell the difference between my actual dreams and the dreams that i think are real. how do i know if its real or if its just my imagination? More or so, i dont even need to dream, sometimes i will just wonder off thinking about the certain thing
Just took a nap...
I am glad I found some information regarding this subject. I have just woken up from a short nap.Prior to taking this nap, I heard my brother come into the house. I had some strange dream which didnt make any sense. Anyways, after that I felt like something was right beside my bed.I thought maybe it was my brother who came in my room to notify me about something. Then, I heard some whistling and something stroke my body. I tried to scream but nothing would come out of my mouth.I could not move either. After that I woke up and looked beside my bed. Noone was there.I know this experience. It is not the first time that I have had it. This is probably the fifth time or so. I am glad to hear other peoples stories about it and know that I am not the only one who has these experiences.
I dont know much about sleep paralysis but I dont feel like it completely explains my situation(s).
Creepy
I am 20 years old and I had a sleep paralysis experience about a week ago. I was having trouble sleeping that night (I usually do) and it was 3:50 AM. I turned off the TV and rolled to my side and shut my eyes. It usually takes me at least a half hour to fall asleep but within a couple minutes I was in that limbo stage of being awake and aleep. I knew I was partially awake but started having images of a dream. This only went on for a minute or two when I woke up and the images stopped. I tried to roll over to my other side but couldn't; I was paralized. My eyes were also unable to open and the only movement I could make was breathing. It was very frightening to lie there for over five minutes and not be able to move a muscle. I tried with all my strength to move or open my eyes but it was impossible. Then I heard a whisper at the foot of my bed. It was a woman's voice that struggled to figure out my name and then distinctly whispered it. Whispers are hard to find the voice it belongs to, but I figured it was my mom. Being unable to move, I breathed very fast and heavily to show her I was awake and to have her help me. She didn't say anything else. Then I felt a warm sensation along my spine and was able to move a few seconds after that. My body didn't get all tingly like it does when your foot wakes up from being asleep; I was perfectly able to move. It was like someone just snapped their fingers to awake me from hypnosis. I looked at the clock and it was exactly 4:05 AM, which was only 15 minutes after I turned off the TV to go to sleep.
The next day I told my mom what happened and she said she was never in my room. Ever since then I can't fall asleep until after 4:05. Creepy.
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Hi, my name is ashley and I'm 17 years old, yeah, kinda young to have this problem. I have been having this problem for about 5 years now. It started out taking over my body and I couldn't move but it has turned into more than that. Just last night it happened and it scared me so bad that I had to research this. I'm so glad I found this site and I can finally write about what has happened. I had an expeirience once where I also thought my mother came in my room and was putting clothes up and looked right at me and my body was frozen. I could finaly only move my finger tips and I tried to get her to wake me up because I couldn't move, well I told her about this that same morning and she was never in my room. Everytime this happens I see a dark shadow but can never figure out what it is. I have had something mess with my feet but I would pray and then I could finally go to sleep with no problem. I need to know what this is thats bothering me. The issue last night was something was causing my eyes to stay shut and it was holding my shoulders still, I couldn't move, i tried fighting to get them open but they wouldn't come open and I tried fighting to move my arms but they wouldn't move. I was so scared I tried to get my phone and call someone but I couldn't get my arm across my body to do it. Somethings wrong and I want to know what this is. Thinks
sleep paralysis can be controlled!
Hi Ashley,
I just read your post on serendip's exchange and I just want to say "don't fear and stay in control".
Aparently this happens to alot of young prople, it started happening to me when I was around 13 or 14 and went on into my early 20's, I am now 31 and have no problems sleeping and don't fear any more. You are lucky you have the internet to turn to as I had no one and thought I was going insane...any how much to my long years of trauma and being scared of going to sleep I searched and searched for answers. You will find many scientific explanations for sleep paralysis, and all though they may be true it still doesn't explain the intense presence you feel while you are experiencing it. To make a long story short this is my explanation. Some of us humans have a more open phychic connection to the spirit world than others, some spirits don't find the light they are stuck here on earth and sometimes don't even realise it. Earth bound spirits are sad, lost and confused. This may sound strange but when you go to bed ask for protection from spirt, god or who ever it is that you feel protected by, even if its a grand parent who has past,,,then never sleep on your back as the front of you will make you vulnerble. Now if it does happen try to send it love! yes love, love is the highest vibrational emotion we humans can feel and that is what sends it away, but fear will always make it stronger. You can send it love by just saing I love you, you are loved. Once the presence has gone, talk to it out load as if you are talking to another human, let it know it can not come without your permision and that is never to come anywhere near you or your house ever again! I hope I'm not freaking you out but it wasn't until I laid down the rules that this thing ever went away.
That's the key thing that you know you have total control and be asertive but also be kind with love as thats really what the dark soul is looking for and very possibly you can tell it to look for white light and to say its ok to go to heaven.....this is sounding even more werid but its true, lost spirits just need human love and some counseling and once you realise this they wont bother you because you will have a higher understanding about it. Good luck and know that you are a strong magical human being full of strength and love and that you have COMPLETE control over this, that you are in charge and you lay down the rules! Direct the lost spirtit and always ask for white light protection. With any dark side of anything there is also a bright side and with lost spirts there is also protecting spirits, so now it's time for you to not feed the dark and research the magical side of this....always ask spirit for exactly what you want and always be specific, talk out loud and always say thankyou, there is a beautiful other world out there and you can tap into it when ever you want and once you do you will never feel alone and always feel protected. Your on a beautiful new journey... good luck
Actually age doesn't really
Actually age doesn't really matter. I used to have sleep paralysis as early as 6 years old. I used to wake up not being able move or scream. The more I struggled the worse the intensity. So being young and not know what else to do I prayed. I think it help me calm down which also help me "snap" out of it as well. I do believe that sleep paralysis is related to increased anxiety or stress. I went through great trauma when I was young and had unresolved issues but when I got older I went to counseling and take meds for my anxiety. I'm not saying that this what you should do but this what has worked for me. My sleep paralysis "disappearred" the same time I started takeing meds and counseling. I am also much happier in my life now. I still have stress and anxiety but I learned to deal with it better so it doesn't go out of control. You should also speak to your parents about because it is a very frightening thing to go through by yourself. It is real and you shouldn't be ashamed about it. I went through years suffering with sleep paralysis. It stopped when I was about 23. Thats a long time to go through something like that alone. Back then there wasn't very much info about this and I truly thought I was being haunted. So get help! The sooner the better. Next time it happens just try to stay calm and know that it won't last long. Hope this helps!
I have had this expereince
I have had this expereince alot as well as presence in room and that presence actually moving my ams and standing between my legs and all this light going everywhere. My guess is it's like an inccubi - alien to humans that are able to take advantage of time and space laws and enter into our dimensional space to do as they will. Often I get the feeling of waking up and the room is on an angle and I can feel I am half in half out so focus very hard on my body and tell it to wake up. Body is very heavy.
I got some healings done to remove implants and crystals so as to stop the beings who were intruding on my space from doing so.
As the soul/dreambody lies in our nervous system - the connector - when it begins to leave the body in dream state - and access another dimensional space the body goes into temporary paralysis because the soul/dreambody is still connected remotely (not disconnected as in death) eg: the nervous system's functions become suspended and we have an awareness of this because we are inhabiting our dreambody at the time - some people call it the bodymind.
Alien interference can also be a factor - they are capable of causing sleep paralysis in humans, walk through portals into rooms and interfere. Human mind control.
Definietly spirit related - definietly NOT all in your head.
I'm curious...?
It seems as though there are couple of things that still need to be understood. I greatly enjoyed your studies on this paralysis. I was still wondering why though it seems that its always a terrifying feeling everyone gets when this happens to them, and why it's that almost everyone says they experience spirits or entities at the same time. I'm glad that you have found out what is happening to our body's when it does happen but that does not explain what the person is going through when it does. I'm sure if you were able to talk to these people experiencing this paralysis they would probably have had experienced other times when they have had a "feeling" or "sense" that someone or something was near or about to happen. You see these people most likely have a gift they have not acknowledged or hide from. Maybe from a religious upbringing or maybe simply because they are afraid of what they do not know. When these experiences happen they need to be acknowledged and dealt with that's why it seems these visit become more frequent.
Very Respectfully,
Me
It sometimes makes you feel RANDY (atleast for females...)
So this happens to me a lot and it is annoying. I have gotten so used to it tho, that I now talk myself thru the waking up process.... I say OK... LETS GO... Move a finger,then a toe, now try and move a hand...good...now try turning over and keep jerking. while jerking you may begin to feel randy, feels real good but then you remember that you need to get up...so u ignore that insanely good sensation btwn ur legs and concentrate real hard and as soon as you feel that one sign of being awake, just jump up and walk around, because if you go back to sleep right away, its gonna happen again. If you want to go back to sleep, you can probably change your environment/room and it will help.
PEACE YA'LL!!!
whats wrong with me
i feel the same way, i can hear and see but i try to move my limbs but they are to heavy, i feel presence in the room i try to scream, to awaken i feel like i have to shake my head real hard, but dont fall back to sleep there because you get stuck again, sometimes if i go into a room w/say my son or husband it may stop but if not if there awake they see my body tremor!!!!!! this startd as a child but is so mucgh ore intense now. everyone says its stress, but it happens awake to i get an electric current thru my body and cant move.. im scared should i be worried
I think I have this too
This happens to me about two to three times a week for the past ten years or so and has grown past the annoying stage. I don't see ghost or eveil spirits but I hear noises, common noises that would happen in my house like my grandmother rearranging furniture up stairs or someone doing the dishes, or my brother throwing down his truck keys on the coffee table. I feel completely awake when this happens and I get the overwhelming FEAR over me, I feel like someone is watching me, hovering over me or trying to get me; mainly trying to get me and kill me. I try and move but nothing happens I get exhausted when I try and move my arms or legs, it's gotten to the point where I can't even move my eyes sometimes. My breathing slows down rapidly and I tell myself to move your hand and touch your ear but nothing happens, I scream but nothing comes out because I'm not actually screaming. Sometimes I sit straight up in bed and call out a family members name but I'm not actually sitting up in bed I'm still sleeping. It's getting to the point where I don't want to go to sleep anymore. For me to get a full nights sleep I have to drink "nightquill" to help me sleep and to not have this. I do believe in spirits and ghost but I think they play no role in my sleep disorder. I don't get mirgrains or headachs when I wake up. My question to you is this, how would I approach my doctor about this with out looking like a nutcase?
i just had one right now like
i just had one right now like right now, i it was wierd cuz i actually got up when i felt paralyzed,and i saw my self sitting down, maybe im being able to control it, dont know but its kind of like nothin to me now
I think youve had an "out of
I think youve had an "out of body experience". i dont really know anything about it but think it can be related to various disorders. you should go see someone about it
This happened to me this morning!!!!
Ok so I wake up this morning with great difficulty I feal very disorientated and it is hard to move I finaly gain the strength to get out of bed, walk down the hallway and into the living room. As soon as I reach the living room I begin to feel very heavy and colapse onto the ground like i instantly gained a thousand pounds, as soon as i colapsed I became conciously aware that i was still in my bed and that I had never actualy gotten out of bed and had only halucinated that i had been able to get up. Though I was now conciouse and awake, I still could not move my body. I struggled for a minuet or two and kept trying to move my arms, I first was able to move my fingers a little bit and after struggling was able to jerk my arm and then woke up. SCARY STUFF!!! I sleep on a temperpedic matress not sure if this has anything to do with it.. But i am worried of this happening again. Its happened to me before sadly the first time this happened i beleive was when I tried shrooms for the first time and drank along with taking them, I was young and dumb long story short I ate way to many shrooms and chased them with alcohol once the mushrooms fully hit me i passed out though was fully conciouse and awake though i couldnt move and just felt as if i was drifting further and further into either a coma, paralysis or the deepest sleep ive ever been in, I was able to fight it and wake up after struggling forever my mum came into my room and found me all messed up and me being still awake but paralysed tried to cry out for help, she helped me up and I was able to come to long enough to vomit my brains out. Not sure if that experiance with hulucinagenic mushrooms (its been a good 4 years since then as I am now 20 years old) is what started this sleep disorder for me.. hope i get rid of it, if i find a cure ill be sure to post back ;)
This usually happens to me 3
This usually happens to me 3 to 4 times a month. I'm 16, but it doesn't seem to be as bad as what other people are saying, i usually can't move(no ghosts etc.) But a couple nights ago i when it happened i heard a noise like some one was talking to me and was shaking me.I'm glad i found this and that there are other people who have it. Is there any medication for it?
comes and goes
i have seen the shadowy figures and evil faces during these episodes for over 20 years. I have noticed them more frequently after a night of heavy drinking, sleeping on my left side. I can tell the paralysis will happen when sleeping on my left side i get a spider web type feeling on my face so i will turn onto my right side and be ok. i have attributed these episodes to stress and never get them if i go to be at reasonable hour and not stressing about going to sleep
Lucid dreamer
The first time this happened to me was about a month ago. I went to bed like usual and i woke up in the middle of the night, i tried to lift my head to see what time it was but i couldn't, all i could see was my wall which was what i was facing i guess. I couldnt move my arms or my legs at all, i couldnt move anything except my eyes in their sockets. I heard my mom outside blow drying her hair to go to work i assume. I tried screaming out for her to hear me but i could only breathe out words, kinda like a whisper but less audible. i dont know how long this went on because i had no sense of time. i didnt see any "demons" or "ghosts", but the experience was terrorizing none the less. I finally woke up completely and went to my mom and asked her if she was blow drying her hair and she said she was about a minute ago.
Then it happened to me again about 3 hours ago. This is exactly what happened in full detail.
I was laying on my bed watching tv in the middle of the day and i felt perfectly fine and awake. Then ALL OF A SUDDEN (in the most literal sense) i felt this wave of exhaustion crash over me, i felt my muscles and my body just tire out, so i decided to take a nap, i grabbed the remote and muted my TV. Immediately when i closed my eyes, i could feel myself transition from awake to asleep. But i could still see everything sorta, my senses were not as sharp and Ive always had extremely lucid dreams so i knew immediately that i was dreaming. Then i tried moving about like i usually do when i have lucid dreams but i couldnt move. it felt like gravity increased and i couldnt move anything except my eyes. I could hear the TV (even tho i had muted it before falling asleep). i could hear my breathing sooo loudly in my ears. I tried moving my leg, i used ALL my strength trying to move my leg and it finally budged but it felt like it weighed like 1000 lbs. i tried moving it to wake myself up but it wasnt moving fast/hard enough. So i tried the same with my right arm, i got it to move but it also felt extremly heavy. i thought about it and then i lifted my arm in the air (which was extremely difficult to do) and i let it drop right on my face. I woke up in a shock and i KNEW i wasnt dreaming anymore. i could see perfectly, i could hear the AC. but after about 4 second of being awake i felt my eyes close and my body paralyze again, and i was in my dream again. i could tell it was my dream again, everything looked hazy and foggy and my senses werent sharp. so i tried the arm trick again and right when i hit my face i woke up and i immediately got up and got out of my room and it was over. My TV was also muted again.
After this experience, i feel my arm, leg and neck muscles are just extremely worn out from trying to move them. and i find it hard to breathe, i feel anxiety in the pits of my stomach, and truthfully, im just scared to fall asleep again :l i dont know what to do about this.
I had the same experience the
I had the same experience the first one occured in 1994 I was 21 yrs old and dreamt I lived in this low income apartment & there was a 2yr old baby standing in front of the refridgerator with a juice cup when I woke up I felt sick to my stomach and sorta felt like something tried to enter my body and NEVER forgot that dream until the year 2000 when I was sitting on my couch in that SAME apartment and my first & only child was standing in front of my fridge saying "juice" in the same exact onesie I had in my dream the whole episode clicked right then & there and I was stunned with goosebumps it was total dejavue!! That was 6 yrs after the dream. It was almost like "back to the future" I've had other episodes since & I panic because my own saliva starts to choke me & I can't swallow. I too am scared sometimes to go to sleep & almost never allow myself to lie down on my back. I started keeping a journal because I was scared they would come true cuz nobody wants to believe it. I thought i was the only one so I thought people would think I'm crazy.
im 17 years of age . i take
im 17 years of age . i take methadrone at weekend with friends (MCAT) ... Ever since this i started snorting the powdered substance i began to have these sleep paralysis symptoms. Best thing to do is just be patient and wait til its over , then have a wank or summmin ken fit like?
Sleep paralize strange stuff
ive been trying to get some sleep im 18 and i would try to sleep and these big bangs will happen in my house i would shrugg it off and say it was one of my house pets then i would try to get to sleep then it feels like something is watching me i become tottally paralized and very scared and it feels like something is touching my face with both there hands whats going on i dont focus on my breathing but i get scared and eventually the paralize goes away but im unable and too scared to go to sleep
To everyone who wishes to invoke the supernatural
This post is targeted towards those who feel the need to write off their sleep paralysis experiences as acts of a devil, a god, Christmas critters or any other intangible non-beings.
If you truly mean to say that your experience transcends the natural, that your sleep paralysis is brought on by the hand of spirits and magical creatures, I ask you to submit proof of your findings to a scientific journal or media outlet. Rest assured it will cause a great stir and will undoubtedly take the world by storm. What's that, you have no proof? Well, let me continue.
Entertaining these far-fetched notions just shows that you need to familiarize yourselves with the scientific method. First you observe something you wish to explain, i.e. your sleep paralysis. You then establish a hypothesis, in this case "Sleep paralysis is caused by the body's transition from wakefulness to REM sleep due to signals being sent from the brain to inhibit muscle contraction etc." This is something that can be tested, empirical observations can be made that allow us to either substantiate the claim or reject it, all based on actual evidence. Note that the claim need not be proved entirely (it more than often cannot be) to be regarded as the best explanation we have for that particular phenomenon. After all, ubiquitous gravity, the theory of electromagnetism and Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection are not proven conclusively, but they are accepted as fact by scientists much more intelligent than you and I as there is so much compelling supportive evidence and nothing substantial to contradict them. One day, I imagine we'll take the same position on sleep paralysis, should it be studied as extensively.
The problem with a hypothesis such as "Sleep paralysis is caused by the supernatural" is that it is entirely unverifiable. There is no way of testing it, and its consideration is not conducive to furthering the advancement of our technology, our knowledge of the observable universe or our overall mental health.
Yes, I've experienced sleep paralysis many times before, usually in the early morning or after returning to sleep after getting up for a while. It's vivid and terrifying, made all the more marvelous by the realization that these bizarre mental adventures probably aren't the result of exterior natural or supernatural forces, but rather by my very own twisted brain.
I have had a similar
I have had a similar experience a total of 7 times. the 7th being today. With my situation I can hear and see everything that is going on around me. But I cant move or talk to have someone near me help me. My mom also has had this experience, but it hasnt happened in over 20 years. I believe it is hereditary. She prayed whenever it happened to her, and it worked. But not for me. I also can not blink when this happens, and the only way to get rid of it is for me to go back to sleep, which is difficult because I can not blink. This is a very scary thing for me, and whenever it happens i dont sleep the next day, scared it may happen again. I am 22 years old. It began when I was 12. It has happened ever since I was 14 every year up until I was 19. Then it stopped. Now, unfortunately, it has happened again.
RE:To everyone who wishes to invoke the supernatural
I agree with you that is good to try to understand things from a scientific point of view, but not being able to prove the existence of god or evil spirits by science yet, does not make it necessarily false or true that they do not exist.
maybe i can help
well its nice to know what i get is a recgonisable occurance, but i haven't got this lately, but i do believe it is related to stress anxiety, seems as though its a unconscious deliberate mistake in neuron activity that it trying to alert you to the fact that something is wrong with your psychi. I used to get this if i feel alseep on my back with the light on palying guitar (those exact circumstances happen very often i can assure you) and it used to totally scare me, but the main thing to be aware of is if it happens to you, do panic and incur irratic breathing, this will only cause you to freak out totally. hope that helps.
What in the World is it??//
im new to this website one night i was layin on my side curb up and i couldnt move or talk but i could move my eyes and next thing that happen >whatever it was< had lift my body a little (it felt like to me) and and moved it 'like pushing my body so i can lay on my back and somehow i got my body back on its side and again it jerk my body back so i can lay on my back and then i test it again sayin "let me try this again ghosts cant hurt me" to see if i was crazy or not
guess wat it happen again 2 more times> couldn move, couldnt talk, i could move my eyes, but my hold body was lifted & rotate towards my back it felt like watever it was wasnt by itself it had a friend, family member, or something(who-knows). CAN SOMEONE tell me wat in the world could this be?/ Or a website for BODY MOVEMENTS its frecking me out
I have sleep paralysis
Ive had sleep paralysis since i can remember. At a young age i would wake up and could not move and as i got older i got the feeling of something evil in the same room as me. At age 19 i would see the evil presence as a dark shadow standing beside me and watching me and always with the feeling of something heavy on me. Im now 21 and have experienced a few hallucinations and am starting to hear noises sometimes. I know that when i pray to god and ask for help it seems to go away. Im now married to a man that also experiences the same thing and when we hear the other moan and can hear what sounds like a cry of help we know to wake eachother up. My mom asks me why i dont go to the doctor for this but im sure that if i did he would think im nuts. I do believe there is a scientific explanation to this and that part of it can also be something unatural. I do believe in god and i also believe the devil can take something thats natural and use it to scare us.
This has happened to me too but now my partner had it last night
Hi my name is Sarah I'm from Ireland.This has happened to me 4 times since I am 15 I am now 22. The last eppissoed happened Sunday night , I was woke up by a childs voice saying "wake up mommy there is a fire" I suddenly opened my eyes but I was totally paralyzed, I was trying very hard to keep my eyes opened but felt like my eyelids weighed a tonne and they kept shutting again but everytime I tried to open them I could see shadow figures moving around my bedroom, I tried to call my partener who was lying next to me but I'm sure nothing but mumbles came out of my mouth.I woke up then and turned the tv on as I was terrified to be in the dark I had no problem then with going back asleep. The next morning I told my partner about it and he said he saw something on tv the other day about that paralyzed sleep and that someone actually died from a cardiac arrest because of it...anyways the same thing happened to my partner last night and he has never expeirenced one before so I'm actually wondering is it my turn to have one tonight...
The freaky thing was the childs voice I have no kids but I did loose a baby about 4 years ago.
I'm really starting to think this is an evil spirit of some sort.
The probability that it was
The probability that it was an evil spirit, or that intangible beings such as spirits even exist, is so small as to be considered insignificant. The article gives a plausible scientific explanation that doesn't need to invoke the supernatural, what about it don't you agree with?
sleep paralysis
This has happened to me a few times and it is very terrifying although I've never actually seen anything I know somethings coming for me and its definitly a bad presence.It seems to only happen when I lay on my back.I know that it doesn't just happen when you're asleep because it just happened again and I had just went to bed.I can always feel it happening to me.As soon as I lay down I started feeling a tingling sensation all over my body.It's not like going to sleep.It actually feels like I'm being drawn back out of myself.Kind of like an out of body experiance.So I got up out of bed but I still feel that tingling sensation.Like whatever was going on is still happening or trying to happen.I can't shake it off.I feel there is a presence here just waiting for me to lay back.This goes way beyond science.Has this happened to anybody else out there?
a presence in my room...sleep paralysis??
Hi. I get the sleep paralysis thing. I am never scared though of it. Just a couple weeks ago I felt someone come in my room and walk around my matress. I know that no one in my house came in my room because my couch was pushed infront of my bedroom door that I put there because of things like this happening to me. The presence I felt started at my side by my face and walked down to my feet and up around to my other side to my face. I was trying to get up but couldnt. I felt them kiss my face and hold me down and hug me and still kissing me. I had just snoozed my alarm because I know I had to be at work. I ended up being late to work that day because I couldn't wake up and when I thought I woke up, I dreamed that I woke up and got ready for work but really didn't. This happens every once in a while and I wish their was a cure. I just don't like being late to work because of it...but these experiences don't scare me and is a result of stress. I also had another experience where I felt a presence and they massaged my feet and massaged my back and I was pain free from my tensed muscles and woke up rejuvinated and ready to go!!! Send me comments on your stories and findings. Do you have peaceful encounters?
I have experienced this in the past
It's been a long while since I have experienced sleep paralysis, but I thought I would add a comment in case it might help someone. In my teens (I'm 25 now) I would wake in the middle of the night and be unable to move and be very afraid. I could sense evil in my room, but I never saw anything. It would feel like someone was holding me down. The worst, or scariest encounter, for me was in the light of day, around 8am I would say, I had just woke up, and I was laying in bed. I felt the pressence in my room, and I couldn't move. A few seconds past, and then I felt fingertips run up my spine and land on my shoulder. I felt warm breath whisper in my ear and the raspy voice asked me, "Are you alone?". After it spoke, I was able to get up and run out of my room. It hasn't happened since, and I think I was about 17 when that happened. I know it can be very terrifying, and I'm not sure how to stop it from happening.
I am eighteen and I have had
I am eighteen and I have had two in the past year. Both of them were in my room, so I thought it was real. The first one wasn't as bad as the second one. In all my episodes there is antigravity, but things don't exactly float. I am lying in my bed, suffocated and paraplysed beyond control, yet my dreams are able to move me by Itself. My spine bends backwards until I fall under my bed. Ghostly whispers mixed with white noise and the sound of my alarm clock are heard. I have this really nasty feeling too like something evil is going to happen. Except, before something really evil happens I wake up. The second time, I woke up though and I was still seeing things. That time was so bad I had to mentally pray,"Heelpp!" I saw a dinosaur-dragon-thing that was pink with black stripes, but it wasn't that scary. Only IF you think it's real. I believe it is both scientific and spiritual. I was sleeping on my back which was unusual because I'm a side sleeper. Also, I woke up really early because of stress.
I Think I know Why
this happens to me on occasion differes from the average experiences i've read. I usually feel myself dying, slipping away, not being able to breath, move, totally paralized and just when im about to go i find the strength through God to wake up. I believe this comes from the unnatural. This isn't just science, as much as anyone wants to deny it theres a sense of power which we can not explain; beyond our control; a higher power like. Good & Bad.
I was always told i will become someone or do something great in my life and that the devil is at work to stop me! anyway possible. Whether it be distractions or direct alternatives that is the plan, i think that for most of you if not all of you:tis' the same.
Pray when faced with 'Sleep Paralysis'.
Ive just experienced another
Ive just experienced another episode of this "sleep paralysis" about 2 hours ago which led me to do some research. I can probably count the many times Ive had this sleep paralysis but this time was the worst of all. It felt as though I was half awake & trying to wake myself up. I remember trying to wake my wife up who was sleeping right next to me by trying so desperately to yell out to her but barely uttered the word "YO" Although it wasn't loud enough to wake my wife, I finally awakened completely after a few attempts to shake out of this trance or paralyzed like feeling. I always feel some sort of anxiety when this occurs. A feeling of physical harm coming my way as described by many of people here. I do have a sleeping problem or disorder along with anxiety, a minor case of ocd, & what I suspect is bipolar disorder which is probably what leads to this disorder.
Feeling of Complete Posession of Something Evil
Last night was the scariest and most terrifying night of my life. At 2am i woke up from an awful nightmare, and was completely covered in sweat. I was fully awake, so I thought when all of a sudden I felt SOMETHING completely seem to come into my body. My body felt hot- and somewhat unexplainable, and I physically could feel my whole body being lifted up into the air. I tried to open my eyes, and yell out to my boyfriend to grab me to pull me back down, but it seemed impossible!! After several attempts I was able to whisper his name a few times, and luckily he awoke. I felt so terrorized and feared for my life. He grabbed me and shook me a little, but the feeling remained even when i had fully awokened. That body overtaking which paralyzed me fully happed 4 other times last night, and even with prayer, continued to happen.. What is going on?? Can anyone help me?? I'm scared to death!!!
yelling
Just woke up myself. After not even ten minutes of sleep I am back in Lucid mode.
Since I was a little girl this has happened. I even have memories at super young of seeing pictures in my room move such as mouths moving and eyes. I used to sleep in bed with my mom just so she might hear me. I would scream and scream and all she could hear was a heavy breath, but she knew something was wrong. I would scratch at my eyes hit myself and all the while i am looking around in my room and actually not be moving a muscle. I started letting go and enjoying the feeling but its not always easy as they say there is a sense of dark and panic. Now I just try to concentrate on waking and jerking out of it. I also am manic, anxious, and also believe it has to do with even maybe a history of drugs (coke, mushrooms, alchohol n weed) Even tho these are not things I was doing at 6 years old haha. I dunno but when you stated calling out to your wife I had to let you know I have done the same. Even my husband now knows the signs. My New Years Resolution may to go see a specialist and learn how to have fun with it or stop it =). Thanks.
lets help
To tell you all the truth.
i've had this for like 2/3 years now.
i've been able to notice it, i've been testing it.
trying to keep moving my body, knock on things, but it never helped. but most of the time i do get out of it.
so i never bother looking it up on the net.
until an hour ago. while i was fast asleep, and saw my teddy bear on the desk(childhood thing). and it freaked me out. i got scared.
after that, it took quite some time finding this page.
so what i want to say is. lets spread the word.
who know how many ppl your helping out.
and i know they do appriciate it, because i would have.
Spread the word, and lets help!!!
no sleep paralysis: these are demonic attacks
Well, my first experience was when I was 22! I was in job corps in Kentucky! I was in room 6 with 6 girls, and 6 beds, etc! Well, it was during christmas, and I did not go home as my roommates did. Well, I fell asleep and all of a sudden my ears became deaf but at the same time I heard the ocean and it was loud. Then I heard someone walk in my room and they started breathing on me really hard! It felt so evil. I tried to look away, but it kept forcing me to stare into its darkness of a face! I know I was screaming but the ocean was so loud in my ears I could not hear myself scream! So I started praying and the next thing I know, my room door slammed and my light came on. I have experienced several of these attacks, even felt a spirit in my sleep 2nite and that's why I'm awake. I find myself setting my alarm to wake me up every ten minutes!
sleep paralysis??
happens to me as well especially sleeping on my back. waking up after 3am seeing black shadow coming closer until it reaches you and you freeze trying to yell and cant hear or do anything. i do have a problem sleeping in the dark sometimes. especially now. not sure if this had to do with anything but before i started sleep paralyzing, years back when in early high school i had a problem that half of my body was numb and kind of shut off. my left eye started closing by itself more and more each day and i had no control over it. i also had a headache that only my left part of the head was hurt. doctors didnt know what it was. i started praying one night until i seen a black shadow on top circling me until it came closer with a loud evil scream. then a bright white light came for a few seconds then dissapeared. i went back to sleep. when i woke up next morning i was fully healed. apparently i was born left handed since i used to write and do everything with my left hand, and since in Europe or where i was living people believed it was evil so they forced me to switch to right handed. maybe that has to do with something.
[ask] realizing sleep paralysis
hi, my name is atthar from indonesia. i experienced sleep paralysis for several times in 4 years. when the paralysis time occurred, i didnt able to move my body as explained, but i can hear and see objects, and i do able to realize that i experiencing sleep paralysis. when that realization happened i try to move my body and in a second the paralysis gone:)
my question is, can we realize that we are experiencing sleep paralysis when sleep paralysis occur?
Yes, I do the same when it is
Yes, I do the same when it is about to happen to me, I realise it and whish that it ends, and with a mind concentration it is done.
Seeing and feeling dark evil spirits
When I was 18yrs old I lived with my grandmother for a short time. That is when I had my first experience of laying down and NOT being fully asleep while being attacked my demons. I don’t care what anyone say’s, these are evil demons. As I lay there, my mind is just trying to rest and all of the sudden, I see these dark/black shadows come at me. I can hear and awful sound. I can feel the pressure of them on top of me. Then, the game begins. It is like they are trying to rip my soul to of me. My hart beats so fast as I am trying violently to get up. Although, I am unable to move or speak out, I always manage to end the fight when I pray and call out Gods name in my head.
I am 36 now and this has happened to me 6 times. I just had my last experience 3 weeks ago. It was the worse. Aside from what I have already stated, I felt my bed moving this time. I also saw a smaller white/gray image at the foot of my bed. As soon as I thought about my 2yr. Old son in the other room, the spirits left me and must have gone to bother him because he instantly started choking and crying. My husband has heard him and yelled at me to go get our son and bring him in our room. Little did my husband know what I was just dealing with. I was trying very hard to yell out my husbands name when I was being attacked but he didn’t wake.
I am so sick of this happening. I am almost glad that I am not alone. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.
So many similar stories is no
So many similar stories is no coincidence. God, angels and evil spirits are real, even though science cannot prove the existence of them.
I've had similar experiences and trust me you can surely feel the presence of bad spirit whether in sleep or not.
A humble suggestion :) when you go to sleep at night, kneel down at your bed and pray to God (in your mind only it does not need to be out loud) to keep you and protect you from any bad forces to disturb you or your home at night, so you can sleep peacefully at night.
Well I'm 18 and about an hour
Well I'm 18 and about an hour ago I experienced something that almost made me shit myself. I was sitting onthe couch playing wheel of fortune and I fell asleep, when woke up(I swear I was awake) I saw a shadow of aperson (complete outline of a torso and legs) leaning over me so I didn't see the face part but I was completely immoble- all I could think was what the hell is going on!! I heard a loud footsteps(like them walking on gravel) as iwas still immobile and the shadowy image stayedthere. It seemed like it lasted forever :/ I'm glad I found this website because I know maybe it's not just me being crazy :/
Sleep Paralysis
I myself used to get this every now and then..
I would wake up and find that I could not move or speak..
However I could move my eyes around..
I never saw any ghost like figures or anything odd..
Just paralysed.. feels really scary when it happens tho.
I hope people can find something to cure people of this happening when it happens cause it is scary..
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I got sleep paralysis like a few times now, and I only really got like an "evil precense" thing like once with it. But i get really annoyed because there's always this huge loud ringing/ vibrating sound like everywhere. I haven't tried to make any noise lol but i want to see what it feels like to not be able to make noise.. yeah. lol I think if you take it easy and know nothing bad's really going to happen, you wont get all hallucinating as much. I hadn't got it in a while but I just got it last night;; if you sleep on your back its way easier to get it. But, last night, so I knew I was getting it because of the ringing; But then apparently I could move.. but it was hard and in slow motion, and I came out of it for like a second and fell back into it. And I started like poking and slapping my face haha, but then right after I came out of it again, my hands were actaully down by my side and I realized I was only imagining I was moving. Yeah. It's not that bad except that dumb loud ringing.
The First time this happened
well the First time this sleep paralysis happened to me i woke and had lil demons crawling on my walls and ceiling i was flipping out thank god it wasnt real and that i knw wat it is now i though i was being haunted but it was weird to have my entire body just freeze up on me like that
scary things
it happend to me first when i was about 13/14 years old and my little brother and i decided to sleep in the room that no one has slept for a long time . and it was about 3 or so i fell asleep laying down face up, and i felt pressure on top of me , i tried to move , and i coulndt and i tried moving my hands . and i couldnt , talk or nothing , then i woke up scared to death ,
another time it happend to me when i was about 18 years old. and i fell asleep laying down face up and around 3 am or so i felt like i couldnt move , i tried screaming to my brother who was next door , i tried moving my arms . then i saw like a black shadow close to me , then i woke up and i screamed so loud and i was in the ground trying to get to my brothers room , but then i woke up and realized i dreamed that i woke up but i never did wake up , then when i finaly woke up i woke up saying i saw a ghost !!
another time it happend to me i was 20 years old and this was the scariest ever it happend three times in a row and it was around 3 am , so i feel asleep on my stomach and i felt i couldnt move like something was on top of me, and i couldnt move . and i woke up and i was on the ground trying to open my door , but i woke up and i dreamed again that i was awake but i realy wasnt awake. then i tried going back to sleep again. and then it happend to me again i was sleeping and i felt something on top of me , and i couldnt
move . i had my eyes open and was just looking around and i tried moving my arm n i felt like someone was there and i could actually feel arms grabbing my arms and some hands grabing my legs and i felt like i was falling back. their hands pulling me down. then i woke up so scared . and then tried once again falling alseep and then this was the scariest i felt something on top of me then i could finaly move my head it took for ever to move my head and i saw in the wall a tiny shadow on top of me . and i woke up so scared !!!
then 3 weeks later i went to my moms house and it happend once again 2 times in a row but it was just i couldnt move .
then a week after it happend again in my brothers house , and now im scared to fall asleep . ive been going to sleep like around 5 so scared to just even sleep . thinking its going to happen again . any night
Sleeping Paralysis (I don Beleive in the Scientific Reason)
hey guyss my name is Ramin and I live in Dubai, U.A.E. Its 4 am here and I just woke up again bcoz of sleeping paralysis. Its been 4 years now, Its happening to me all the time and it has affected me in a psychological way. I can never sleep in the dark, Im always terrified now. This Time I saw only a white head smiling in a scary manner and also hearing someone laughing. As soon I start praying mentally it goes. I have noticed when I sleep with my holy book the "QURAN" it never happened to me. This scientific explanation is totally nonsense because it really does not prove or make anything clear to me. This is something thing to do with evil spirits or bad Jins who enjoy bothering you during sleep. Some of you guys made a good point by saying how come everything is EVIL !!!! why is it that everything you see or hear is EVIL ? I don think this science explanation makes anything clear or will ever be able to cure it with some pill, loool. It just does not make sense to me. This must be settled through a religious matter.
So I know this isn't sleep
So I know this isn't sleep paralysis, but I've looked online over and over and can't seem to find any info. If you have thought over my description, some information would be great.
I have had the same "nightmare" once every couple of months since I was 4 years old (I will be turning 18 near the end of this month). Basically in my dream, I'm in a very dim lit room, a voice (I am not sure if it is female or male) orders me to carry something from one end to the other, continuously. If the item is heavy, I don't even know how to explain this but my teeth feel.. i dont know what to call it like.. light and i have no idea. weird, fuzzy-like, but if the item is light, my teeth feel heavy. The voice gets louder and faster if I don't pick up speed moving the items, however when I do pick up my pace the voice gets going faster and mumblier. This hurts my head and I become aware that I am dreaming. Trying to stop the voice going crazy I slow my speed moving the items except the voice gets slow, its almost like the voice gets angry begins pulling/pushing me faster across the room and back, and when I can't even take the dream I wake myself up. Except, when I wake up everything is still going on except that im awake. I don't see the items, i see my bed my surroundings, everything. I know am awake, yet the voice is still going, my head is throbbing, like there are too many thoughts. I can feel the dream in my teeth, that sounds so stupid, but its exactly how i say it is, i feel the drem in my teeth. Nothing calms this down, taking my mind off this makes my head weirder. I SOUND STUPID and CRAZY. But I have absolutely no idea what is going on. Im positive this doesnt make sense but there are no words to describe any of the feelings that happens in my head whileim sleeping through this "nightmare" and while i awake from the "nightmare".
I walked into a room where some guy had happened to be explaining this exact dream to his friends. He is not related to me, I never even met the guy, but he gets the same dream. He feels it in his teeth, has the same voice, and he doesn't know how to explain any of the feelings or sounds either.
Sometimes I'm afraid to go to bed, knowing this can and will happen again.