Many of you may have experienced this horrible sensation but shrugged it off at one point and lost the memory in time. On the other hand, many of you may be like me, sitting up at 3:30AM because after the off-chance of going through two rounds of sleep paralysis, I'm too terrified and unnerved to try again.
Firstly, it's hard to explain this sensation as it's unique to many people. Some people hallucinate and visualize terrifying things such as demons, aliens, or even creatures. I personally have yet to see things on this magnitude, although I've experienced similar hallucinations.
I'll give you a vivid description of what exactly happens to me:
Scenario 1:
I'm very tired. I am just at that point where your eyes get heavy and you really feel like you are just going to melt into sleep rather than the conventional night of sleep where you sit in bed for about 10 minutes and then kick off. I can feel my eyes roll back into my head and even begin to hear voices and see bleak images while my eyes are closed. This usually is proceeded with a *red* sort of tint entering what I see in this dreamlike scenario. Once that entire image is covered in red, I feel a rumbling - almost like a plane taking off with a similar sound - in my ears. I force my eyes to open, and at last I'm sitting there in bed frantically scanning my room. On the odd occasion, I'll see a shadowy figure; however, I have read of hallucinations that would even terrify people who don't experience this sensation. However, all while doing this, you come to the incredibly terrifying realization that you cannot move or speak. Now when I say "move" or "speak," I mean pretty much trying to focus every ounce of my body towards lashing out in any way possible and screaming my lungs out. Instead, for about ten seconds, which seems like a lifetime, you're paralyzed short of being able to move your eyes and possibly even your mouth as you try to make out some sort of scream for help. I'm not entirely sure, but it may even be a slight case of sleep apnea where my breathing had stopped and for that reason I was not able to scream. But that never came to thought before when I experience it.
Scenario 2:
This situation is very similar to scenario 1, but with a slight difference in the trigger. Like tonight, I was able to get to sleep normally until I woke up to an alarm system going off a few miles off my house. About ten minutes after that, I was able to get back to sleep and had a dream in which I was in a warehouse (I guess it was related to the alarm) where I was frantically chasing someone around with another person at my side. At the end of the dream, I finally reach that person and surround them with my companion, only to find out as the person turns around, it was me. Now when you see yourself in your dream in the first-person point-of-view, usually you just get startled and wake up. Sometimes, this type of stuff triggers my experience which makes it all-the-more frightening. Other times, it may be that I picked up a piece of paper in my dream and tried to read it, and all of a sudden I go through the rumbling, "red" tint - almost like blood, force of wake-up, and inability to move.
On a historical side, it seems that people have felt this for several centuries. The earlier occurrences were contributed to "demons" sitting on people to force the inability to move. I personally make it out to be a supernatural experience many times it occurs. It honestly feels like someone is possessing you and you're being kicked out of your own body - like your soul is being ripped out and then finally put back in to control once more.
Now, I'm interested in hearing from you... have you ever had a similar experience? Felt something strange or saw something abnormal? Please share if you'd like as I personally believe that after reading several other stories across the web, I get a better personal understanding of my own condition.
Firstly, it's hard to explain this sensation as it's unique to many people. Some people hallucinate and visualize terrifying things such as demons, aliens, or even creatures. I personally have yet to see things on this magnitude, although I've experienced similar hallucinations.
I'll give you a vivid description of what exactly happens to me:
Scenario 1:
I'm very tired. I am just at that point where your eyes get heavy and you really feel like you are just going to melt into sleep rather than the conventional night of sleep where you sit in bed for about 10 minutes and then kick off. I can feel my eyes roll back into my head and even begin to hear voices and see bleak images while my eyes are closed. This usually is proceeded with a *red* sort of tint entering what I see in this dreamlike scenario. Once that entire image is covered in red, I feel a rumbling - almost like a plane taking off with a similar sound - in my ears. I force my eyes to open, and at last I'm sitting there in bed frantically scanning my room. On the odd occasion, I'll see a shadowy figure; however, I have read of hallucinations that would even terrify people who don't experience this sensation. However, all while doing this, you come to the incredibly terrifying realization that you cannot move or speak. Now when I say "move" or "speak," I mean pretty much trying to focus every ounce of my body towards lashing out in any way possible and screaming my lungs out. Instead, for about ten seconds, which seems like a lifetime, you're paralyzed short of being able to move your eyes and possibly even your mouth as you try to make out some sort of scream for help. I'm not entirely sure, but it may even be a slight case of sleep apnea where my breathing had stopped and for that reason I was not able to scream. But that never came to thought before when I experience it.
Scenario 2:
This situation is very similar to scenario 1, but with a slight difference in the trigger. Like tonight, I was able to get to sleep normally until I woke up to an alarm system going off a few miles off my house. About ten minutes after that, I was able to get back to sleep and had a dream in which I was in a warehouse (I guess it was related to the alarm) where I was frantically chasing someone around with another person at my side. At the end of the dream, I finally reach that person and surround them with my companion, only to find out as the person turns around, it was me. Now when you see yourself in your dream in the first-person point-of-view, usually you just get startled and wake up. Sometimes, this type of stuff triggers my experience which makes it all-the-more frightening. Other times, it may be that I picked up a piece of paper in my dream and tried to read it, and all of a sudden I go through the rumbling, "red" tint - almost like blood, force of wake-up, and inability to move.
On a historical side, it seems that people have felt this for several centuries. The earlier occurrences were contributed to "demons" sitting on people to force the inability to move. I personally make it out to be a supernatural experience many times it occurs. It honestly feels like someone is possessing you and you're being kicked out of your own body - like your soul is being ripped out and then finally put back in to control once more.
Now, I'm interested in hearing from you... have you ever had a similar experience? Felt something strange or saw something abnormal? Please share if you'd like as I personally believe that after reading several other stories across the web, I get a better personal understanding of my own condition.
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Of course this happened to be a few days after I had just seen inception as well (which made it even weirder). Never have I had this "sleep paralysis" that you have described though. These dreams were probably some of the coolest things I've ever experienced. What was said above is correct, you actually gain a conscious in your dream and are able to physically act. For me at least, I was contained in one area and unable to leave it...almost like there was no other existing space in my "dream world"- definitely a very interesting topic.
