Has anyone ever experienced sleep paralysis?
609787
Yes, it's called a hypnogogic experience, and it's very realistic and scary.
89660
It's called sleep paralysis.
721517
I have a couple of times. Once because my friend fainted and we couldent get him to wake up, once because my friend almost got shot by this psycho and once when I was like five years old becuase I thought it was fake. Random but yeah.
122394
nice question!\nwell. i've had mixed experiances..\ni've actually had some really bad nightmares regarding my family members and loved ones.. not just once but a few no. of times n that too not just for a single person.. (strange is'nt it!)\nthankfully.. nothing wierd has actually happened.. to any1 of them.  \n\nbut i hv also had an experiance similar to urs.. \nnot too serius like an accident.. he just got fired!
472535
Not personally but I know about it\n\nSleep Paralysis (SP) is a common medical condition and usually tagged nowdays as a Sleeping Disorder.\nThe symptoms can sometimes include complete to partial paralysis of arms, legs and upper torso, a tight or heavy pressure on your chest sometimes with a choking sensation and almost always experienced as you are about to fall into sleep or just come out of sleep.\nThe most remarkable symptoms of SP are the accompanying audio and/or visual hallucinations often causing extreme terror and panic in it's sufferers, who more often than not mistakenly believe they are being visited by aliens, malevolent beings and other evil presences. \n\nResearch shows that SP is linked with REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. When in REM sleep you are usually dreaming, your body does not act out your dreams as you will hurt either yourself, or someone else, so evolution has worked its merry little way of getting your brain to switch off your muscles (so to speak) and relax you while dreaming, essentially paralyzing you to a degree
1025531
No, but I touched an electric fence with a piece of metal, and I think I had an out of body experience.  It was crazy!
866861
Yes. I've done that alot... But it's usually where i dream about it and then it happens the next day. I have a lot of Deja Vu moments and i also have insomnia sometimes. It really kinda freaks me out when i have Deja Vu twice..
789417
Yes i have. I was about, 5ish. (Im 13 now) My family moved in with my granmother when we moved from Michigan. I had a bad dream or something and I went to my parents room. (I'd never done it before) My mom just rolled over and told me to go back to bed. On the way back to my room, I saw a flicker at the corner of my eye. Looking directly at it, I saw nothing. Changing tactics, I looked out of the side of my eye.  A old man was standing there, watching me. Scared out of my wits, I asked, "Who are you?" He looks at me and smiles then disappears into thin air. The next morning, I told my grandmother what had happened. She cried and told me " That was your Grandfather, he was just being your gardian angel, Torrie."  From then on, I got up every night, watching for him but he never came back.
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it's called sleep paralysis.\n\nSleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).
861328
Yes I have. I didn't know it until many years later, but here's what happened. When I was 12, I broke my arm right in the elbow joint. I had to undergo surgery. I remember seeing myself laying on the table and the doctor standing over me, working on my arm. I remember trying to look over him to see what he was doing. When I saw my own blood, I got scared and went into the hallway! I saw my mom and dad sitting in the waiting room. Dad was reading the newspaper, and mom was doing a crossword puzzle! That's all I really remembered, but I never told anybody about this because I just thought it was a dream! Then, many years later, it just came up in conversation one day. When I described what I'd seen, my mom and dad just looked at each other in amazement! They couldn't believe I'd seen exactly what they were doing! So that's when we knew it was more than just a dream. I've heard this is not that unusual for people when going under aneshesia. But I've never met anyone else that had this happen to them.
834839
When I was 16 years old I woke up from a dream feeling frightened and I saw an apparition like you describe straightening up as if it had been bending over me. I tried to move but I couldn't and it walked into the other room and I heard a rustling noise that I thought was some papers on the table in that room. I was straining to move. I thought maybe it was my cousin who had the room next to mine up on the third story of the Victorian house I was living in. Suddenly I jerked free and I got up and walked into the other room but no one was there. A room led off from that room into a storage room that had a hatch that was open to the summer night sky. As I thought about the rustling noise I wondered if instead of it being papers maybe the noise was some creature with wings flying off. I shut the hatch and went back to bed wondering what the heck had happened. I couldn't tell you what you are seeing. I just relate my story because it sounds somewhat similar to what you describe.
982743
I've been in more than one. My family members are "ghost senstives" especially me and my mother. I saw the ghost of a little boy of about 6 years old and a mans shadow in a hat and I was hit on the leg in this one house in Pensacola and at another place there was the scent of lavendar perfume and I had a mirror hanging on the left wall that fell twice for no reason and both times it landed on the video case of the exorcist so I moved the mirror set to the other side of the room along with the video rack and once again the mirror fell and cracked the case for the exorcist tape. I took the hint and threw the tape out and the mirror did not fall again after that. When I saw the landlord I asked him if someone had died in the place and he told me no but then a neighbor had heard my story and she told me that an elderly woman had a heart attack out on the walkway and they brought her into the house where she died.  I see images and shadows in the older homes that I've lived in. There was this place that was almost a hundred years old that had sat empty for three years before we moved in and from day one there was an evil prescence felt and my mother was more attune that I was. The focus was in the attic. I always felt a darkness there and my mother said she'd looked up the stairs one day and saw a man sitting in a wheelchair just watching her and she closed the door. Then she said that she saw a woman come through the closed attic door and go around the corner and disappear. That was it for me and I made a cross and placed it over the attic door and my nightmares stopped as well as my mothers. My sister saw a head in the closet and in the dresser drawer.  That house was the worst of all and I was glad when we moved out of it!!
73173
Oddly enough yes, but it freaked me out soo bad that by the time I could even mention it I failed to remember if anything freaky was going on in my life or in the house at that time.  What happened...\nMy girlfriend was staying over, we were in bed, all lights out.  I saw a young boy pass by the microwave(the clock was not visible when he passed) and disappear at the door to the living room.  He passed completely through the kitchen, approx. 10ft or so.  There was no one in my house it could have been, and to confirmed that I was not just merely hallucinating, right after the image vanished my girlfriend asked, "Did you see that?"  That all it took!  I was freaked out and freaked out a the mentioning of it for years.
616612
Yea one day I was lying in bed. I was about 11 years old. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a ghost standing beside my tv. I was so scared. But since i knew that someone had died in the house I just covered my head for about ten seconds and lokked again and it was gone.
1137733
I've seen "things" out of the corner of my eye.  Once I was sitting alone in a hospital room (I wasn't the patient, so I wasn't on anything) and someone whispered my name in my ear.  It was very distinct, felt the breath on the exhale, in my left ear.  It was surprising since I was alone watching the Simpsons, but not scary.\nMy brother lived in a haunted house.  If anyone said he was lying when he told them (he was very proud of it), the TV would turn on and flip through all the channels faster than you could on a remote and then shut off.
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Sounds like sleep a lucid dream with sleep paralysis, they are fairly uncommon and among most of those who experience them they doesn't even know or realize that it was really a dream but often confuse them into other part of their experiences. \n\nI have had extensive experience with lucid dreams with sleep paralysis. even to a point where i could control them myself and bring them on myself to self imposed self learned hypnosis sleep which i figured out how to do by the age of 9, i had my first lucid dreams and sleep paralysis at the age of 5 which was a bit scary at first but as soon i realized it actually was a dream and not real I found out one could control what one wanted to see and do.\n\nlucid dreams are quite interesting as a sleep phenomena as they could be just as lifelike and real feeling as real awake life, they contain all parts of the consciousness, all senses like smell, touch, pain, pleasure, balance, sound, taste and often also a feeling of presence of other entities like the man in black of your experience, often the mind creates or ad to the dreams in order for them to make more since as our mind often have problems coping with as real as life like dreams and experiences that doesn't fit in according to that.\n\nI wouldn't worry to much about similiar experiences in the future, but when you do you could try to gently test if you have the ability to control their events or not, studies in this field show that only as few as 10% of thouse that experience lucid dreams with sleep paralysis can control their dreamscape.\n\nand no I have never been on any kinds of drugs or even been drunk ever in my life.
298181
A couple of years ago I went through a period which lasted around 3 months where, every night just after falling asleep, I would feel unable to breathe, I could feel my heart beating faster and faster and I would be trying to scream to wake myself up but I couldn't move or make a sound. I would consciously know that I was asleep and I knew that I needed to wake up but there was nothing I could do. In the worst instances, about 5 times, I was sure I was going to die. Then after what seemed like a long time I would manage to yell and my husband would wake me up, in reality I'm sure it was probably only a couple of minutes. In the end I would try to keep myself awake as long as possible because I was too scared to sleep. I can't exactly recall when or why it stopped happening so regularly, it still happens to me very occasionally, maybe once or twice a year. The best way I can describe it is like having a panic attack in my sleep. I've never technically had it diagnosed at sleep paralysis but after reading up a lot about it on the internet since it started happening I'm pretty sure that this is my problem. I'm not sure if this is what you were after but I hope it helps.