Poll: Sleep Paralysis
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I had sleep paralysis for a while. Didn't see anything but it felt like I couldn't breath. apparently its because when you sleep the muscles in your chest relax so your lungs can't expand properly. You breath, but only very shallow in comparison to normal (so it feels like you aren't breathing)and since you're paralysed you can't consciously breath deeper.
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During the same period I used to get a nightmare in which I would be in my bed, awake under the covers and an invisible force would come into the room and pull me out of bed while I tried to hang on and then throw me around the ceiling of the room when it pulled me free. I'd claw my way back into bed and hide under the covers. It'd wait and then do it again.
Eventually I'd wake up, under the covers. It would usually take me a minute or so of cowering until I realised I was awake and it was a dream and I wasn't about to be ripped out of my bed and thrown around. It started to happen so much I began to wonder if it was actually happening and maybe it wasn't a dream.
I haven't had sleep paralysis since then and i know what was causing it, so hopefully it won't come back ever.
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During the same period I used to get a nightmare in which I would be in my bed, awake under the covers and an invisible force would come into the room and pull me out of bed while I tried to hang on and then throw me around the ceiling of the room when it pulled me free. I'd claw my way back into bed and hide under the covers. It'd wait and then do it again.
Eventually I'd wake up, under the covers. It would usually take me a minute or so of cowering until I realised I was awake and it was a dream and I wasn't about to be ripped out of my bed and thrown around. It started to happen so much I began to wonder if it was actually happening and maybe it wasn't a dream.
I haven't had sleep paralysis since then and i know what was causing it, so hopefully it won't come back ever.
I've never had sleep paralysis but I have had a lot of dreams that felt like it (for some reason, there always third person). Some would include me running away or atleast im trying to (eg. trying to escape from a gunman) and for some odd reason just before I die within the dream, I wake up, can't remember if I could move or not. Never seen a void man and if I did I would never remember it.
I think I had this one time as a very small child. It was during a midday nap and from what I remember, I thought the hat stand next to me was either my grandfather or what you referred to as a 'void man'. Can't believe how I still recall this quite vividly.
I cannot recall sleep paralysis, but every now and then, I will have a really vivid dream. I'll wake up and wonder if what happened in the dream really happened. That freaks me out a little bit.
Yeah I'm feeling that.Ryuzix said:
Actually I have amazing control over my dreams and I remember them vividly. Recently I actually managed to return to a dream I was woken from, I thought that was impossible.
I often have superpowers or godlike abilities, though I may not use them, I have actually destroyed things that made a bad dream. Only once have my powers failed me, when an enemy tried to trap me in a pirate themed sexverse. I had way to much fun swashbuckling.
What's with all the sleep phenomena related questions today? Have escapist members been watching too much john edward?
I've never experience sleep paralysis.
I've never experience sleep paralysis.
no its actually sleep apnea, your are right about REM though, but what he's discribing is sleep apnea. Also the older the person gets its likely to get worse, things like not breathing for several breaths kick in.Labyrinth said:
It happens quite often for myself. But I usually see objects in my field of vision morph into creatures. Scary scary creatures.
This one time I woke up in the middle of the night with sleep paralysis and my door was open. My eyes moved to it, then I proceeded to see a very dark creature. It had no eyes, a slit for a mouth, dog like teeth and it has a scaly effect. But it growls at me and starts towards me. At this point I shut my eyes really tight and pray for an easy passing. I prayed for a quick death.
Scariest thing I've seen during sleep paralysis.
This one time I woke up in the middle of the night with sleep paralysis and my door was open. My eyes moved to it, then I proceeded to see a very dark creature. It had no eyes, a slit for a mouth, dog like teeth and it has a scaly effect. But it growls at me and starts towards me. At this point I shut my eyes really tight and pray for an easy passing. I prayed for a quick death.
Scariest thing I've seen during sleep paralysis.
A waking dream can be odd, you're dreaming, but you're semi-aware you're dreaming, so if you try to control things too much the whole thing falls apart. It's not unusual for dreams to focus on you being in bed, since that is logically where you were last. Not that logic sustains itself in a dream state...they're so freaking weird sometimes...
Awake now. I had a dream, but don't remember it, & I didn't have sleep paralysis, so I don't have anything to add on that :/
But I did remember a really messed up dream I had once. I was being attacked by someone from the front, & wanted to raise my hands to defend myself, but I can't! It hurt to try to move them, & they felt like they were as heavy as lead.
When I woke up, I found out that my arms had slipped under my pillow, & were being weighed down by my head, stopping blood-flow & numbing them. It blew my mind that such a thing would affect my dream. I guess that must've meant that i was dreaming with SP off.
I believe I have a low tendency to get into SP, because even though I've had it at least 3 times that I could recall, I've also had MANY dreams a while back of fighting with people, & I'd wake up to myself punching the wall, kicking the wall, or hitting my head on my headboard, followed by a howl of pain :S
But I did remember a really messed up dream I had once. I was being attacked by someone from the front, & wanted to raise my hands to defend myself, but I can't! It hurt to try to move them, & they felt like they were as heavy as lead.
When I woke up, I found out that my arms had slipped under my pillow, & were being weighed down by my head, stopping blood-flow & numbing them. It blew my mind that such a thing would affect my dream. I guess that must've meant that i was dreaming with SP off.
I believe I have a low tendency to get into SP, because even though I've had it at least 3 times that I could recall, I've also had MANY dreams a while back of fighting with people, & I'd wake up to myself punching the wall, kicking the wall, or hitting my head on my headboard, followed by a howl of pain :S
here's a theory i just came up with about why it only happens on your back - its cos only in that position can your eyelids fall down without any motor control from your body, enabling some sensory stimulus (i say some, because focusing is tied to muscles) to be sent to the brain, which is still in the state slightly below that of waking up. (I know that there are like 4 distinct patterns of brain waves for people who are asleep, and I'm referring to the one closest to a waking person's brain waves). I'm fairly sure that its possible to recieve sensory information from almost all areas while asleep, as once when I fell out of a top bunk, I felt the wind going past me for a brief second before waking up somewhat abruptly -_-
This is likely to give you the shivers:scumofsociety said:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/...-we-see-during-sleep-paralysis.html#post39301
You really shouldn't hate it. It's natural to feel uncomfortable or even scared shitless when it happens to you, but now that there's an explanation for it, I'm looking forward to it happening to me again, so that I can try to explore it. It would be like lucid dreaming, where you know that you're dreaming & you control the world around you, except you're slightly awake, so MAYBE you can control what you see in the dream-infused real-world.bad rider said:
I remember someone telling me that you can only feel things in dreams that you have experienced whilst awake, thus you can't die in dreams. Unless you die in your sleep. Same if you dream that you're falling of a cliff, then just when you're about to hit the ground, you wake up on the floor, having fallen of your bed.
On SP though, I doubt I've experienced it. However, I do remember a similar incident when I was a kid, I woke up, sat up, looked at a painting across the room, and saw a monster resembling the Groke from Moomin, who was screaming at me. I, being extremly scared of the Groke in my younger years, screamed back.
Then I woke up, sat up and saw the painting of the serene bird. Then I ran to my parents. Fast.
On SP though, I doubt I've experienced it. However, I do remember a similar incident when I was a kid, I woke up, sat up, looked at a painting across the room, and saw a monster resembling the Groke from Moomin, who was screaming at me. I, being extremly scared of the Groke in my younger years, screamed back.
Then I woke up, sat up and saw the painting of the serene bird. Then I ran to my parents. Fast.
I got this every night for about a week. It's effing terrifying. Didn't see any shadow bloke though.
Yeah, every time I get it I'm on my back, facing up. I asked a doctor about it one time, she said it was a medical phenomenon that happens to loads of people. Scary.implodingMan said:
Although related in cause, the nightmares were definitely not sleep paralysis. There are common things that people dream about in certain situations, for example, having your teeth fall out in dreams (something else I've experienced repeatedly) is associated with feelings of losing control.PsykoDragon said:
