My husband suffers from sleep paralysis. He says he kind of wakes up, always in a panic. He feels like someone/thing is watching him. He can't move or talk or even grunt to wake me up. He has to ride it out until he can finally roll over, cuddle me, and comfort himself. I got it once and it was terrifying. I thought there was a troll like creature at the foot of my bed but I couldn't see it. It only lasted a minite or two. I've read many people who suffer from it wake up and feel like something is watching them. A lot of people believe it's caused by alien encounters
My husband says sometimes it's better than others. Sometimes he comes out of it like "man I hate when that happens. Oh well." Other times he gets pretty scared
I’ve been experiencing it for the last year. I will actually dream that I wake up over and over and that there is someone in the house and coming up the stairs. The trick is to have a “test” to know whether what you are feeling is real. At first I would try to stand up and if I couldn’t then I knew I was dreaming but after a few times I started being able to stand up in the dream and then “wake up” lying down again.
Now my test is to scrunch my face up as hard as I can. For some reason when I that in a dream it will wake me up legitimately.
I mean I have lucid dreams all the time. I realize Im dreaming and can do crazy shit. I take a certain medication that, as a side effect, makes dreams last 10x longer than my sleep. When I wake up I can vividly account for every second of every hour of the dream. Even if I only slept for 5 minutes. I think this induces more cases of deja vu bc I have them all the time.
I've been having a shit ton of deja vu lately. Most recently it was reading about a cop killing an unarmed guy while I had basketball going off in the background. What made it spookier is that what triggered it was the fact I moved my computer sightly to the left so I could see the TV screen, and then it was a floater right down the middle on the right goal.... shit was trippy.
Like how ancient Greeks believed you discover your fatal flaw by listening to what sirens lured you in with.
I simply must know. Even if it's horrible and dangerous.
It's just awe full I'll be having a nightmare and try a pull myself out of it and I'll know I'm awake because I'll get one eye open but can't look around or move and then I slip back into the dream just to pill myself out again and still be stuck you can move you can't scream very scary first time it happened idk what it was and thought I was paralyzed for life!
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· 6 years ago
I had it once, and saw a giant shadowy bull standing outside my window. I lost my shit its scary
Watch "Dear David" on YouTube or twitter, I forgot the name of the person who, from a sleep paralysis episode, is now experiencing some crazy ghost stuff.
I like sleep paralysis. If you know what is happening it's not scary at all... at least for me.
Actually for me the most annoying part is when I can't walk or run while I'm lucid dreaming... I worked around that by making myself think I'm gliding around.
I constantly feel like there's something watching me when I'm in bed so I would absolutely hate sleep paralysis, kudos for anyone that has learned how to control it.
Now my test is to scrunch my face up as hard as I can. For some reason when I that in a dream it will wake me up legitimately.
You're not making it easy for me.
Like how ancient Greeks believed you discover your fatal flaw by listening to what sirens lured you in with.
I simply must know. Even if it's horrible and dangerous.
Actually for me the most annoying part is when I can't walk or run while I'm lucid dreaming... I worked around that by making myself think I'm gliding around.