Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep

I have had sleep paralysis before. Last time I had it, I hallucinated during SP for the first time. I felt the presence of a laughing girl. It creeps me out.

I was having problems sleeping being awake at the time im aware of my train of thoughts, i can hear my partner having his shower even.
at that point i felt it happen, at the time i am able to move and open my eyes, but was too chicken too as i didnt want to see anything. there was no noise present besides the shower running and my own train of thoughts telling me to keep calm. I have had it before but it was always connected with sleeping whether it be deep or a restless sleep however this time i have no explaination as im awake.
the feeling was the same, this sence of pressure on me, it comes in a force that your whole body can feel something like a strong gust of wind blowing at you.
it comes stronger and stronger in wave like patterns there was 3 distinctive waves that hit me the first was really painful the second i was prepared for, the third was the most painful, i could feel the pressure mostly on my stomach and neck area.

i told myself to stay calm and not to open my eyes no matter what as the shower water stopped the expereince ended as well. my partner came into the room then i had the balls to open my eyes.when it stoped i have no experience of continueing pain and before the expereince there was no pain either.
i was NEVER even asleep or close to it, i was not drosy when i opened my eyes, just shock as i cant explain this or link it to REM sleep!!!

its comforting to know that there is an explaination for SP but this time how do i explain this?........

i have alot of expereinces that link me to believe that maybe SP is linked to reasons beyong this world maybe?........

i hope this doesnt happen again it happens to me maybe 2 times a year or not at all its rare.

Im 24 yrs now when i was 6 i saw my first spirit (ghost) through out my lifetime i will see a few more after that. but i do not claim to see them on a regular basis but on random accations, one time me and another person saw something at the same time.
and i do see them in broad day light too, never spoken or been spoken to by them before THANK GOD!!!

so to me there is alot that cant be explained and maybe this SP i expereince is one of them.

I'm 14 years old and this first thing happened to me a year ago when i woke up and couldnt move my body at all, i started to panic and such, i looked it up and really didnt have any more problems...until recently. Recently before i fall asleep this wierd feeling comes over me, i can move a bit and ward it off but if i let it overcome me my body starts to like shut down and not move, i can try to move my muslces and maybe i could break free. However this one time i let it continue and i felt real scared and eventually my eyes started having almost a seizure or something, like they were moving back and forth. Must be sypmtoms of REM sleep taking place before im asleep. I keep telling my parents but they dont believe me and they wont even take the time to look it up because they keep thinking that this is rediculous, but im glad to see that people other than me have this terrifying disorder, although i wish none of us had it. I guess i will just have to learn to cope with the terrors of Sleep Paralysis.

I'm 22 and have had SP since I was 7. for years I had no idea what was going on. I can remember night after night of extreme fear and terror, something creeping over me, blotchy clouds, evil laughs, weight on my body, strange sounds like rining and people's voices. I would try so hard to call out to my parents but my voice couldn't work. I really thought death had come to get me. I would lie awake all night until I felt safe enough to go into my parents and curl up at the end of their bed. I only recently discovered the name for this and am so greatful for this. I am currently working on a spiritual writting piece about SP. Having SP has really shaped me as a person. I mean it takes great strength to deal with this. after eight years of having this i have finally gathered the strength to talk back when I'm in this state. I normally mumble "go away, leave me alone" and that does the trick, but it takes so much strength to do this. I also listen to music at night and have a hypnosis tape that I use. I also always have a stuffed animal (at college) and my dog (at home) on the outside of my bed when I sleep. I can't sleep unless something is protecting me. I know that their are triggers for SP, mine are paranormal things (go figure that i'm fasinated by that topic anyway). I have had SP for so long now that I know when i wake up in the morning if I will have one at night. I also don't sleep on my back ever, but this does not always work. mostly i get SP a few times a month.

My Experience of Sleep Paralyzes
I am just going to go through the different steps of my experience

Episode 1: year 2008
Time:between 5:00 am - 6:30 am: It happened Right before i woke up

Step 1:Eyes was open i could see everything around me i was aware of everything around me
but i couldn't move not move an inch not even a finger or toe, also the feeling of someone
pressing against my head was there.

Step 2:I tried saying words but i couldn't, It was like i couldn't say anything out loud
but only in my mind.

step 3:I`m not sure if i fell back asleep for 2-4sec but within a short period of time
i saw what i`ll say was an half wolf half human looking beast running towards me like it was
just about to attack.(i still couldn't move or call out for help)

step 4:Right before that beast reached close to me, i got my hands to move
and i used my left hand to push my self up(my upper body) and raised my right hand to
guard my head from being hit.(after that bit off movement i got to guard my self
i still couldn't move afterwords )

Step 5: 3 Circular bright lights appeared between my self and the beast {[(they were just
hovering right in front of me as if was protecting me from that beast thing)}

Step 5: as soon as those three lights appeared the beast stopped,turned and stared running
in the other direction.the lights started moving in the same direction as the beast.

step 6:Now with one hand holding up my upper body and the other guarding my head, I kept Forcing
my self trying to move then suddenly i forced and forced and it was like breaking free from
some unbelievable power that was holding me down.

I still cant understand how i was able move to defend my self during my attack
(i knew i did move because when i came out of being Paralysis i was in the same
defensive position guarding my self)

i have had four episode total
MY most recent and worst one was 25/02/2009 some ware between 2:00-3:00 am

I had "Sleep Paralysis" or an encounter of some sort about 10 years ago. I still remember it vividly. I was asleep in the attic room in my parents house. It was in the early hours of the morning when I was awoken by the most evil of entities pinning me down to my bed whilst I was lying on my back. It appeared to be holding my arms and had a dark outline resembling some sort of cloaked being. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, and I panicked. After a few seconds of struggle, I managed to shake this thing off. It seemed to disappear in the wall to my right. I sat up in bed gasping for breath trying to work out what it was. I looked at my clock and it said 3.45am. At that point, exactly the same thing happened - and I was once again pinned down by this thing. Again, I struggled until eventually I threw this thing off and it disappeared once again. I just ran down the stairs and straight into my brother's room. I was so upset by it, I didn't go into the room or sleep in it for 2 weeks. Even then it was a big effort to ignore what went on. A few years later my friend told me that my "symptons" were pointing to sleep paralysis. Reading some of these reports, they certainly do - but I'm still not 100% sure it is scientific. I haven't had it since, and wouldn't want to go through it again. A horrible nasty experience. One question though - why does everyone's experience of this event have an evil undertone?

i am 22 now and used to have really bad night terrors but they stop when i was 16 and now out of no were i have been having sp it was just once and awhile and now its every night and some times it only last a few mins but some times it seems like it last for hours. i have tried everything meds and all and nothing seems to help i dont sleep on my back i dont know how to get rid of it. i just want one night of sleep. its been so long i can function anymore. so if any one knows something i dont that i can try let me know or if any one sp this bad somehting at least so i know i am not the only one who has sp every night

My name is Matthew, I am 29 years of age, married, and naturally have shared in the misfortune of experiencing the darkness we are all here to investigate.

I woke up not more than 15 minutes ago from another such of theses events. My last occurred Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 and at that time I made an entry in my journal. I have planned to make another at the current time, but for now I would like to share the entry from my last experience. It is rather lengthy and is personal, but I think presently I am so filled with gratitude for surviving the last such event that I would surrender something as personal as a journal entry with you. Without further adieu, my entry:

“In the now tangible I sit looking and listening. I see solid objects that I can touch, that I can heft, that I can feel. I hear, I hear crickets now, I hear light classical music; I hear the hum of the computer and the dogs breathing. It’s 2:30 in the morning and I am safe, but only a short time ago I wasn’t. You see, a short time ago I was lying in bed only inches from my spouse, who never even knew of my danger. All at once, from a state of sleep I woke up. My mind came out of its state of rest, it woke up. The “it” I call is my mind but more specifically I mean to say my spirit. I believe they are one and the same. Not the gray matter of the actual physical brain but the power behind it that motions it to thought.
“All at once it was thinking you see, reasoning but with no response from my body. Yes, that terrifying feeling. My limbs did not respond, my head did not turn as I commanded. So I lay in bed a live spirit, a living soul bound to a flesh, non responsive coffin. I could see a live shot, a perfect image of the room before me, I could hear the sound of the electronic waves we have playing. I could hear the sound of the ceiling fan above me. Then that feeling came over me. All at once, so fast it came; the feeling that someone was in the room. I couldn’t turn to see but it was not a good person, it was not a being of light, but rather darkness. This person, this being was there to do harm, but I couldn’t turn to physically defend myself. But wait, it wasn’t physical at all and it [was] not alone. This was not a single being of darkness. In my inability to physically assess the persons I used another sensing ability which, with out looking could tell me how many persons were in the room and where they were.
“I felt, sensed, the room and where they were. I felt, sensed, Jessica laying behind me, she was facing up. The two dogs, I felt, or send them rather, under the bed. I then sensed the person of darkness by the closet. Around him, yes it was male, there were more. They all whispered. They mocked everything, the sound of the waves, the way I laid in bed, Jessica, everything. The period of awareness that I maintained was not very long before he found me. You noticed I said “found me,” that is because I believe in my ignorance, my being in that sate of awareness somehow summoned the creature. He was able to find me, or lock onto my signal and use it as a way to find me. He knew that I was in that state; he knew I knew he was there. [He] seems he ruled over the others, or was somehow stronger, or smarter than them. The longer I remained in this state the darker the room seemed to become until I sensed there were dozens of them. They filled the room around him, each new arrival finding a place to situate themselves without regard to the floor.
“Some swirled about behind me, some by the window I was turned facing, some by the night stand. As each new creature came into the room they brought with them their voice. They were all so angry, so full of hate. The feeling was so magnified, so intense, with dread fear lest they somehow take me I realized I still could not command my body. I could not leave, I was helpless.
“I was alone to face them all. No one not even Jessica could help me fight them. I realized then that it was a fight. They did not enjoy my company nor I theirs. We were mortal enemies. They know it and I know it. I am at the disadvantage though, I am not used to this bodiless state and they are. Each of them has been in this state for a very long time and I but a few number of minutes. I am, and was out numbered. It seemed that a state of panic filled me. Quickly I tried to focus, focus on words to cry out for help. Of course no words came out of the mouth of my body but words did come from the mouth of my spirit. I called out, hearing it myself as they heard it. They mocked me. So powerful was the darkness, so many became the voices. Language did not seem to matter we were not bound or limited by that. A lot of them meant to do me harm and they, each of them, spoke in their tongue. Some of theme couldn’t even form intelligent words all they could bring themselves to do is make growling or snarling noises. Others could only vibrate, like the base from a speaker; they could vibrate this feeling of darkness that would fill the room with each pulse they would release. Each would spread its darkness with the power it possessed.
“As I struggled to find a way from this they joyed, for what ever portion of joy they could experience, at my expense. I thought to pray. Pray to God to pull me out of this terrible state. I couldn’t pray so powerful was the darkness now. I couldn’t remember how to pray. I was panicking. I never panic. I am good with emergencies, that is my job, that is what I am good at. But this, how can you begin to prepare? How can you plan for this? How can you exercise the power of your spirit in this state when you don’t even know the first thing about it? They live in that world, and have been there so long, they rule, that is their playground. They have dominion there. At this point I remembered one of them, he felt familiar. I had felt him before as a child. The experience came back to me in a flash. He had done this very same thing to me in my youth. Though the duration and intensity was nowhere near this, I had tasted of his presence once before but, was protected more from him than I was at this point.
“So, there I lay helpless to the room of darkness not able now to pray and fearing they might have the end of me, when my mind grabbed, as it were, a song. A single song out of the whirling panic of my soul. So I sang it, I sang it, all of it. My mind remembered every word, every note. I belted it out like a trumpet. The song rang out through the darkness and penetrated it. The sound of my voice singing this song made them more angry. But as I sang my pitch was matched. The tones were louder and I realized some of them were singing it with me. Were they really helping me? Were they too trying to call out for help, for deliverance from this darkness? Then I kept singing, but a little quieter so I could hear them. Their voices were strong and they know how to sing really well. But wait, those weren’t the right words. They, some of them started out singing with me but then began to change the words to make fun of me. They were not singing to help me or themselves. They were singing to mock me and the One my song was crying out to. “The song I sang was Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing…[I included the words here in my original entry] as I sang this song their anger rose but they began to fade. The darkness began to lift; my song, my only prayer I could utter, was heard and I was spared from their darkness. My body was release to my charge once again and I could command it to motion.
“Oh, how grateful I was. I quickly rolled off the bed and to my knees I dropped. I thanked god with all my heart. Thanked him for sparing me from the darkness and granting me protection from it. I thanked him for my body, thanked him for the power I’ve been granted over it.
“What an amazing gift we’ve been given! What glorious protection from the darkness! How can I, in all my fear, panic and weakness be seen as something of worth to rescue? How truly grateful I am, from the bottom of my soul, to God for His tender mercies. For His grace and compassion on such a weak servant. How can I begin to repay for sparing me? Not only for the protection from this one experience, but for daily protection. Protection when I don’t know it, protection and guidance. How wonderful a Father! How kind and thoughtful He is indeed. I owe him everything I have. I owe him everything I am. I know of my own strength I am nothing. I could not deal with even a room full of darkness let alone a whole host, no, army of them!
“I see now that it is His strength, His power and His light that keeps them bound. When my chance came to fight with darkness I was overcome by it. I was drowning in their darkness. I only had the strength to beg, beg for His mercy.
“This world is real and very familiar to us. The things we touch, the laws of nature we are bound to live by. But there is another one and it is inhabited by creatures that would feed upon us all. They are here with us on earth, we just can’t see them with the naked eye of our bodies (thank Heaven). Should your chance ever come to face those demons of darkness do not fight, do not try to fight, rather, pray. Pray for your life, pray for your soul. Pray that He might spare you like He spared me for the darkness is too strong; their power is greater than you think. It is very real, it is very scary. I don’t want to imagine what would happen if I were left alone to face the darkness. I know God lives, I know Christ is…greater than us all and He lives! I was safer than I knew, I was saved this morning from a terrible fight. I will never forget this. I will never forget. Amen.”

I understand that our time here on this earth is limited. We, all of us, are here for a purpose. I believe that each of us is a son or daughter of our Heavenly Father and we are all given experiences that are for our learning and growth during this probationary period we find ourselves in.

As, I’m sure you can read, my disposition is one that would relish in lengthy communication, so for the sake of your time I’ll conclude now by sharing one last thought. I understand what I am opening myself up to by posting on a public form such as this, but all the same am doing so because I believe that I have been born during this time and granted exposure to this world and all the curious workings of its many sides to better myself and those around me. I have a firm testimony in our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. I say “the Christ” because Christ is His surname which by definition means the only begotten of the Father. I share you my solemn testimony that He lives! He loves us and desires greatly for us all to return to live with Him and the Father again after this life. I also would like to share with you my testimony of the truthfulness of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ on the earth. I leave you my testimony that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God and that he restored the church on the earth in this dispensation; and this I do in the name of our elder brother and Son of the Father, even Jesus the Christ, Amen.

I would very much like to provide support to any of you seeking support or assistance during your time of concern about your experience with what science has labeled “Sleep Paralysis”.

I AM SO HAPPY THAT I COULD FIND OUT THE REAL TRUTH IM 13 NOW,AND ITS HAPPENED TO ME ABOUT 3 TIMES. ONE DAY I WOKE UP FROM A DREAM AND I COULD VARIFY THAT I WAS IN MY BED,AND I TRIED TO GET OUT MY BED BUT I COULDEN'T MOVE AT ALL,BY WHOLE BODY WOULD SHAKE ALITTLE,AND I EYES WOULD MOVE,AND BACILY I COULDEN'T MOVE. WHEN I WAS 12,I COULDEN'T SEE WHAT IT WAS SINCE IT WAS INVISABLE,BUT SOMETHING PICKED ME UP AND I WAS ACTUALLY FLYING.IT SCARED ME.THANKS 4 FINDING OUT ABOUT IT.

I have been having sp occurrences for probably about the last two years or so. Although, I cannot say I have ever hallucinated. When it happens to me I usually feel awake, but I cannot move my body AT ALL no matter how hard I try. Also, when I go into sp I find it extremely difficult to breath almost as if I am suffocating. As anyone reading this probably knows...this can be very scary. I have noticed that for the most part sp only happens to me when I am awake for maybe an hour or two and then try to go back to sleep. This happens because I will go to my early morning classes and then come back and try to fall asleep, and that's when it usually occurs. It also happens to me, sometimes, when I try to sleep in a car. I find trying to avoid doing those two things (for me at least) helps prevent my sp from happening.

i have had these sp occurrences many times .i dont beleive sciences explanation for them as they would literally have to attach probes to your brain and then monitor you in your sleep,and i dont see them doing that.but thinking about it ,i beleive it is a near death experience.people whe report nde's usually report seeing spirits.it is also a fact that the majority of natural deaths,other than those attributed to natural traumas such as a heart attack or stroke,are in our sleep.and these almost always occur in the dead of the night,between 1am and 4am,aka the witching hour,and for those of you about to lambast me for beleiving in witchery,demons,spirits/ghosts let me just say i beleive in the bible and you cant belive in one and not the other as the bible clearly tells you of them.it is also interesting to note that they occur most often when a person is sleeping face up,the exact position that the majority of people worldwide are laid to rest in.lastly if we were to beleive sciences explanation of it as being a hallucination,then explain why all of these hallucinations are of spirits?wouldnt an hallucination be more random?never heard of any who woke from one of these and claimed to see pink elephants on their chest or any other type of random hallucinations,its always spirits.

So, I started this a few weeks maybe a month or two ago. I have had sleeping problems since I was a little girl, been off and on sleeping my whole life. I took myself off of them and then these started happening a few months later... I wake up in the middle of the night usually around the same time. I get nervous but I'm not sure I'm scared. I can't talk or move and sometimes it is hard to breath. I open my eyes and see black on the top part of my vision is all black but I can see everything else. Sometimes I feel frightened but mostly after. Lastnight I started to pray when it happened.. It lasted a little while but the stronger my prayer got the more movement i got...

Yah I feel better readin everything bout sleep paralysis an knowing so many people deal wit it. I'm so used to it by now. All I do is tryto move my leg or arm an once I'm able to then it goes away. My dad an bro also suffer from it an it's so annoying wen my mom sits there an says were being "attacked " by a demon SO ANNOYING but ikno it's not true haha thanks to scientist people :) I jus wish I knew if there was some kind of cure for it

Sleep paralysis is associated with sleep deprivation. The average adult need 7.5 hours of sleep and the average child needs 8 to 9 hours of sleep in order to perform at their peak. If you frequently stay up late and get up early you will eventually experience sleep paralysis. To put it simply Sleep paralysis occurs when the synapsess (part of the brain that controls movement) does not return from its rem sleep state. During rem sleep the synapsess is shut off to allow the body to recover however if you require more sleep it will sometimes stay disconnected. The consciousness awakes simply because it is used to waking up at certain time because you have trained it to awake regardless of the sleep you have given it. The hallucinations that you may see are caused by rem sleep simultaneously occurring with the real world. In a sense you are able to see a dream with a real world backdrop. In order to reawaken your synapsess you need to do one of two things. Above all stay calm though I understand how scary it can be. You can either allow the dream to finish which will then allow you to regain total body control or you can focus on moving a small body part that requires little energy back and forward. Once you are capable of moving a small body part it will cause a cascade effect throughout the body resulting in total body movement. I hope this helps. By the way I too suffer from sleep paralysis. I'm a video game developer and never get enough sleep!.

i've had this since i was 14. or at least that's the earliest that i can remember. i remember talking about the "shadow" with my brother. it scared the crap out of both of us. and then, i scared my lil sister with these ideas. and then, i scared my husband. and all the while my mother said i was crazy. so i finally learned about this, and i'm sooooo happy. although, i did figure out on my own that it happened when i slept on my back. and i learned that if i told myself to do something, i would eventually get out of it, like scream for help. i would lay there and think to myself, come on, say it, say it, you can say it, move it, say it. sometimes the command was as simple as rolling over. and when i got my body to roll over even slightly, it was gone.
anyway, to all those young ones who had it, i know it's scary, but try to learn the little things that can make it easier to live with. my husband reminds me every night to roll over.
o, and i firmly believe that some people have had this experience, but have not told anyone. if you would like to ease other people's suffering, pass this information along. it can help someone think they're not crazy or possessed.

Well, the first time I experienced this, I dreamed that I was a spirit traveling down a "ghost town" if you will. I saw a few people, who I knew were also deceased, some struggling with their new "spirit" bodies. I felt like I was in a strange, but familiar neighborhood. Anyway, all the people that I saw from a distance looked like white mists, but the closer I got to these people, the clearer their images became. I have to say this for humor's sake - in the dream I asked some deceased people "Why are you so white; they grinned but didn't answer me. Anyway, when I started waking up, the first thing I heard was my heart beat, very loud and clear. It was as if my heart was restarting itself. The next thing I noticed is that I felt like a force was pressing my entire body down into my bed, and I noticed that the pressure was making it hard for me to breathe. (this happened about 2 months ago). Since then, it has happened about three or more times. I usually can hear myself praying in my sleep, praising God. It doesn't let up right away. Today it happened again. I just got married last Saturday (1/24/09). I figured since I now have my husband by my side it wouldn't happen any more. Well, it happened again this morning. This time, I was asleep on my stomach & I was able to lift my left leg from the knee down, and slam it on the bed a few times, then I then started trying to yell - fighting very viciously. I heard my voice although muffled. My husband was asleep, but I heard him make a noise in response to me slamming my foot on the bed. I wasn't as scared this time, because I was so busy fighting. The last 2 times this happened, I could hear loud "white noise". I also felt like there was a presence in the room, urging me to just go back to sleep, but I'm such a fighter, that I refused to fall back asleep in that state. I refuse to submit to an enemy! I do notice that when my Bible is near me, and open, it does NOT happen. I can't help but believe that I'm going to WIN this battle with the Grace of God. Just as suddenly as it started happening, it can stop!

I remember my dad tellin me that he use to feel things at night and couldnt move... i thought he wuz juz sayin tha to scare me... but i have read that it is genetic n now been happenin to me for tha past 4 years.

i cant say ive seen anything.. cuz once the lights go off.. there are so many shadows every where.. so even if they were there i didnt pay much attention. There was a day tho i fell asleep in my moms room and i heard a little girls voice saying if i had a pencil?? an then she started to say it faster and the voice got higher.. i right away woke up but couldnt move at all. i was on my stomach an had my head on my arms. i was still able to move my eyes. i looked at the time it was 6:22pm i then started to see the lights flash on and off. once i snappd out of it i immediatly got up and it was 6:23. so i know i was not dreaming.... since then i been hearing a lot of things at night sounds like a deep devil voice and i hear a lot of buzzing and static.

another one that i would never forget... i woke up in the middle of the night. not able to move.. i was being held to tight then i decided to scream for help!! i was surprised because i was able to scream and heard myself screaming. i was crying an yellin out for my mom to help me. i then heard her say.. shut up! n i started to cry even more an kept yelling for help.. then i heard her say shut the fuck up bitch!!! i was still crying but did not say anything.. a couple minutes later.. once it let me go i ran to my moms room and said didnt you hear me screaming!!! she said yea i heard you.. you scrame SHUT UP!! really loud.. an i said no i didnt!! i kept calling out for you to come and help me an you were tellin me to shut up!! but i guesz i was not yellin the things i thought i was/.

I had the most terrifying dream a short while ago, around 6am... i could not go back to sleep after it, i just jumped on the internet trying to find some answers...
In my dream, i was in the bathroom, washing my hands and face in the basin, when i suddenly collapsed on the tiled floor and could feel a case of hyperventilation coming on (my hands were curved frozen in one position and i couldnt move them, and my face too)... i recovered slowly, and when i finally got up, i looked in the mirror, and watched as my eyes went small, black and beady and i felt my brain was about to burst out of my head! I felt like my whole head was going to burst actually! I remember saying 'God no, please, i don't wanna die now!' but then i woke up at that exact moment, and swore i could steal feel my whole head tightening.. then i developed a mild headache, which i still have now as i am typing this ... it was utterly terrifying, i have never had any dreams like this before. I felt like i was trying to force something (demon??) to not possess me, but i couldn't stop it, and that when it finally entered me, my dream was stopped (by me awakening) ... It's not possible to be possessed by anything these days is it?? I was fine today, i've always been fine, but this has really scared me. I'm scared to go back to sleep now in case the dream continues. I don't understand it, i've never had any awful dreams like this before ... can anyone help me make sense of this???

The first SP episode I can remember having was around the age of 13/14. I felt that there was an evil presence in the room and I could hear it rasping but couldn't wake up. The next time it happened I heard my little sisters footsteps, my bedroom door opening and closing and then the weight of her sitting at the foot of my bed. The time after that the same thing but this time it was my stepbrother (who had died when he was 8 and I was 12). Both these times weren't scary as I felt they were protecting me. Whether it was a dream/hallucination or my brothers ghost and sisters astral body visiting me who knows.

From the age of 18-20 I was single and living in a very large, dark and depressing house. This was when I started having SP episodes very frequently. Almost every night. I would feel an evil presence and would try to wake up/move/scream etc but couldn't. My body would be vibrating/buzzing with energy and I would eventually wake up feeling groggy. It totally freaked me out and I would be too scared to go to sleep most nights. It used to happen around 2am or 3am.

I was working with a psychic medium at this point of time and he said that I had something that evil spirits wanted and so it was them trying to take it from me. He told me to pick a positive affirmation and to repeat it in my head whenever it happened. I still don’t know whether I believe about the spirits part but the affirmation used to help. I now believe that panicking is what makes it worse and that’s why people who pray etc always find that it helps because it calms them down. After I moved out of that house the episodes slowed down to a minimum. Old housemates later on all said that they felt really sad/depressed when they lived there but were fine again once they moved out. I lived in a few rooms in that house but the room that I had the most experiences in had its windows nailed shut. The reason being that a previous housemate had done it because she would always find them wide open when she knew she had left them shut.

I am now married and only have these episodes once in a blue moon. They only happen when I am by myself and have slept in or napping. This supports my theory that fear play a part as I never have them when I’m sleeping next to my husband. When it happens now I just relax and tell myself that I am fine and nothing can harm me. The feeling of other presences still occurs sometimes but it is almost always comforting (children babbling or singing). Whether this is paranormal or just my brain playing tricks on me I will probably never know.

Hope this helps someone.

Im only 20 and this happens moe then i like. At first i thought maybee i numbed my body from sleeping on due to the fact that it was my arm alot. After a while my body started to just stop amd i get paranoid. I looked up this issue cause just know i never went to sleep i was looking at my wall and it happened. I was paralized but awake i never fell asleep. now for this to be a sleep pralysis i would assume you would of had to fall asleep and during this time all i her is Spanish. Granted im a latin but i dont know a ounce of spanish which is wierd because what ever i think of seems to be translated to spanish. to get out of this state i tell my body to move and try to move i twitch alot during this phase but like this im out of it in 10 sec if any one know y i expericed this with out sleeping plz email me thank you+

I'm 29yrs old and a healthy lady! I've has this sleep disorder since i was 15yrs old, and I would to know when your body goes into that state is it at the same time every time? Because with me ever since the age of 15 til this day it happens at 12am and I don't even fall asleep I go straight into the terror and the voice noises and screaming are over whelming. I can't move speak, I can only look around and I feel like someone is holding me down! and I don't know as the years go by It's getting stronger and stronger and I feel like someone what to enter in and take over. I just went through it and decided to research and stubble upon this site........I will not sleep I'd rather be sleep deprived than experiencing sleep paralysis if that what it truly is! When I was 15yrs old I'd wake up and hear a song playing mind you it was a horror song and I would hear someone or thing drag themselves to my room in the hallway but never saw anything, as I got older it would come and go but when it happens the only thing that get rid of it is praying why? and why does the experience have to be so traumatizing and evil? when I was 17 I fell asleep in my living room and I heard a noise it was humming and all of a sudden I could not move it took all my strength to move my pinkie finger and the thing I felt it release me and the humming went into the master room bedroom can I get a explanation for that! I so tried of this it's making me live in fear and I can't sleep and tonight I was trying to sleep and it happened again and this time it was stronger and I could hear hundreds of screams and whatever was holding me down I could feel that it was stronger the holder and I felt like was going to die!!!!! So If there is anyone out there even you Mr. Doctor Please shed some light I don;t believe that it's sleep paralysis!!!!

sometimes i get sleep paralysis at night. i see a thief is stealing in front of me but i cant do anything except mumbling.this is suffocating. is there any remedy for this?

I've had SP since I was 7-8 years old. At first I would wake up to see or hear things calling my name in the night. Then it started happening in the morning/afternoon when family was in the room with me. My family was very annoyed by my actions because the voices would only say/sing my name repeatedly but only I could hear them. Then by the time I was 10 The voices stopped but then I started to experience the paralysis where my entire body was stuck to the bed. Most of the time it felt as if someone or something was laying on top of me. I could open my eyes but I was scared of seeing something scary. This continued once every few months until I turned 20. I am a sleep walker.(I never left the house or ate but I have changed clothes many times.) Now I am 22 and things are more intense. I am not hearing voices but I often wake up jerking, struggling to breath, and my tongue moves around quickly. It feels as if I'm having a seizure and not a SP episode. I usually close my eyes tight, pray and breathe deeply to make it stop. My cousin also suffers from this problem but not as bad as me. I plan to have a sleep test soon to better diagnose my problems. Are there any meds to decrease the episodes??
-P.s. I've noticed when I take cold medicine that makes me drowsy my SP is most likely to be " out of body" or it causes me to sleep walk, fight and/or talk during my sleep.
My attacks happen when I am sleeping on my back or side.

I'm currently 21 years old, but when I was 18 I also had a daunting experience of sleep paralysis. They occur regularly for me, but that was definitely the scariest of them all. In the middle of the night, I jerked awake as I felt a forbidding force moving my body across the bed. As I fought aggressively, I felt my fingertips moving across the headboard's wooden bars and my head sliding down the edge of my bed. I was confused and scared, trying to call out to my parents (couldn't find my voice) as some sort of negative aura was trying to take me away. I didn't actually have the brain thought that this was the devil or a demon, only that it felt really bad. Felt 5 minutes go by til I surrendered, thinking 'man, he got me' and I closed my eyes and woke up sweating profusely. My diagnosis is that this is genetic, my mom (SP: hears footsteps), my dad (SP:sees rabid animals), and my sister (SP: sees man in her room) all have sleep paralysis.