I decided to add a cute picture as the banner to balance this post up a bit as the content may not be as cute.
Two nights ago I had my first sleep paralysis in a long time, it was kinda weird but not as scary or insane as some others who may have experienced it before. If you're not aware of what it is, it can shortly be described as not being able to move or speak just before you are about to fall asleep or wake up, the only thing you can do really is move your eyes.
I was about to fall asleep when I suddenly hear this button clicking right behind me. I was sleeping on my stomach turned to the left side and I had my laptop on the night table behind me, as soon as I heard the noise I opened my eyes. There was no light being emitted from the laptop so clearly this was not my roommate being snoopy and trying to access my laptop but I could clearly hear the sounds of the touch pad of the laptop. It was so surreal, I wanted to turn around and check what the hell was happening but I couldn't move, that's when I realized what was going on.
I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times in the past and some of those times have been pretty rough, especially as a kid when you're not really sure what the fuck is going on since there is hallucination involved. It usually doesn't last long and due to my experience with it before I didn't care about it as much this time since I knew it would be over soon. I was still interested to see if my mind would try and play more tricks on me so I kept looking around without being able to move my head to see if there were any other hallucinations than the touch pad sound. There was nothing, kinda boring I thought. Maybe my mind knows that if something more were to happen I'd be able to know for sure that it's just another sleep paralysis so it was trying to be as subtle as possible to freak me out, haha. That's what I was actually thinking of while this was going on. It was kinda boring I couldn't turn around to see, in my mind I was expecting to turn around and see myself sit on the edge of the bed using the laptop as I do most of the day - now that would've been freaky!
After a few minutes it was over and the noise stopped, a little annoyed I fell asleep and that was the end of that.
I've heard people have some crazy hallucinations during their sleep paralysis' though, is it weird that I'd think that would be kinda fun? I used to sport lucid dreaming back in the day when I used to take a nap for a couple hours after school as I found out that was the easiest time to go lucid. It could be that because of that and realizing when I was dreaming is what makes me realize when I'm hallucinating due to sleep paralysis, not that it happens that often.
Anyone else experienced any crazy hallucinations or sleep paralysis? What's your story?
This used to happen to me all the time and it was just about always coupled with the same hallucination, a completely black "shadow man" approaching my bed or getting in the bed with me.
The first time this happened to me was in my teens. I was home alone. I woke up but didn't open my eyes at first because I felt a presence in my room. I cracked my eyes and saw a black figure walking across my room. Of course this scared the shit out of me because I knew no one was home but me. My mind raced as I thought about who it could be, how they'd gotten in, why the house alarm hadn't beeped, and in the couple of seconds while I was thinking about this the black figure climbed in the bed with me. I could feel the mattress depress and shuffle and everything.
Now I was really panicking. I didn't know if this person was going to stab me in the back, attack me, I had no clue what was going on, but I knew I had to act. I've been involved in martial arts for most of my youth and I had a sword at the foot of my bed, but in that moment if felt like it might as well have been miles away as it felt like I was going to be pounced on any second. So I figured I hit whoever it was first to give myself time to grab the sword then hopefully fight for my life before I was killed. So I spun around striking with all my strength into an empty bed.
Soooooo yea, this was a totally traumatizing experience, and it was months before I was able to sleep well again. I didn't hear about sleep paralysis until more than a decade later as an adult and I thought it had to be a ghost or demon, and I hadn't even before believed in anything like that, but that experience made me a believer.
Over the years, this happened several more times, but I sort of got used to it, and found a hack that if I fell asleep with the TV on it didn't happen, but umm yea...cute cats :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Damn, lol. Now I kinda wish I hadn't read the comments until a few more nights of normal sleep. :D
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Lol. Usually I read people can't force themselves awake in this state, but you seem to have managed it pretty easily with practiced motor control.
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Actually that was one of the other hacks I learned. If I tried to move normally I’d be stuck, but when I flail violently I learned I could “break the spell”.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Woww, note taken. Become a savage cat and ravage the paralysis!
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I use to lucid dream often when I was a kid, (obviously I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time). Its weird how you can realize things like that when you get older and look back on life.
When I was about 9 years old I use to have vivid recurring lucid dreams about transformer like beings traveling across the galaxy. I loved it even though it felt so crazy! As I got older I slowly stopped using my imagination and the lucid dreams started to fade into a distant memory. Maybe there is a connection between the imagination and lucid dreaming? Idk. In any case I havent thought about it in a long time until you mentioned it in this post, then it was like BOOM so many memories came rushing back! Thanks for that ;)
But I have never experienced sleep paralysis, doesn't sound great to be honest! lol..
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I experienced sleep paralysis couple years ago while traveling in a van. We were coming back to South Finland from a skiing center in the North, where we spent the Labours day holiday partying hard. I was having such a horrible hangover and sleep deprivation, so I tried to get some sleep in the car but ended up only dozing and having this "seizure".
It made me panic, since I didn't understand what was happening, but thought that I was all of a sudden permanently paralysed without doing anything. I remember that I tried to yell "I can't breath, I can't breath" while being unable to move my legs or turn. And it felt like it lasted several minutes, although it didn't probably take more than 10-20 seconds. I was so relieved when it stopped, but also too afraid to tell any of my friends what happened before googling if that was some serious symptom of something. Anyway, I think it had something to do with drinking too much and not sleeping enough.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It happened to me once when i was trying to wake up.
I couldn’t move and it was frightening and lasted for about 10-15 seconds and this was enough to scare the shit out of me. I didn’t have any hallucination but read some people can have them.
I was reading about this and learnt: sleep paralysis happens when parts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep occur when we’re awake.
REM is a stage of sleep when the brain is very active and dreams often occur. The body is unable to move, apart from the eyes and muscles used in breathing, possibly to stop us acting out our dreams and hurting ourselves.
Posted using Partiko iOS
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I only recently heard this even exists. It sounds scary, but then, if you know what is is and that is happening from time to time, it will take some of the anxiety away and then, yes, why not have an interesting experience to go with it? As long as you can hallucinate while knowing you are it can be a lot of fun to see what your brain can do with your memories, fantasies, input from your environment.
But, well, there's stuff that can help you get there in any time and place you choose ;-)
I don't have a story like this, but one time I took some anti-nausea medication because of a long bus ride (I always got sick) and at some point I felt like I was hovering above my own body looking at myself being bored in the bus :')
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I've only had sleep paralysis once, thank the Gods, because it was terrible. I have PTSD and it was a reliving of what gave me the PTSD in the first place, in a place where that could have legitimately been happening again (whereas if it happened now I would know that I was alone in my apartment). Never again, please and thank you.
I've tried lucid dreaming techniques but so far haven't been able to accomplish that.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Scary as it may be, with sleep paralysis you're indeed really close to lucid dreaming, which is awesome! I've been trying to get to that for awhile now, it's been years since my last lucid dream :-/
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Really interesting idea. A very long time ago (when I was routinely getting one or two hours less sleep than I needed) I used to have bouts of sleep paralysis. I suspect it is partially waking up but your body really needs more sleep.
I studied Tibetan Dream Yoga for a bit and tried with that to do lucid dreaming. Never managed to succeed. But the idea that skill with that would allow one to at least know when one was experiencing sleep paralysis is intriguing.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I know perfectly well what you are talking about, I too have experienced many times sleep paralysis and it is a terrifying experience. I remember that the first time I experienced it was barely a 20-year-old girl and it scared me so much that I suffered from insomnia because I was afraid of falling asleep. At that time I was taken to a village witch and she said that it was an evil spirit that had fallen in love with me and that she was not going to leave until she got her job! I remember that at that time I read a lot about incubus, a kind of evil demon that sits on top of people while they sleep. Later on, I understood that there was a scientific reason for what I was feeling and that it was what we call sleep paralysis. Although I have time that I don't feel it, thank God, every time I hear about it, a cold air crosses my back.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I was watching "The Haunting of Hill house" sometime back, one of the characters, Nellie has sleep paralysis. It's quite scary to imagine going through it.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Only once in my life this happened to me and I do hope that is was the first and the last time. I kept seeing a black shadow moving on the right side of my bed.
I was scared shitless.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I had similar issue
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I haven't. But I can vaguely imagine how unsettling it would feel to experience it. It lasted for minutes? Does it usually last that long? Are you sure? How long did it last the previous time?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It did feel like it lasted for a couple minutes at least, and to be honest I've never had "sound" hallunications in the past either so this was a first for me. Other times it has been more about shadows moving and seeing some not so fun things happening in your dark bedroom. :D
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I have woken up in the middle of the night startled by a flash of light (most likely a branch blocking one of the streetlights for a brief moment or something like that) or a sudden noise. But to imagine being paralyzed on top of that for a couple of minutes does not sound like a picnic. :D
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
it looks like you're not the only one))
I came to visit my parents. put her son to sleep, he slept so sweetly. I wanted to get up already and hear that my mother says something to me. I open my eyes and see that mom is not around at all. and from the moment I put my son to bed it took about 1 hour) it seemed to me that I closed my eyes for 1 minute. then I asked mom if she told me something, she said no. she left almost immediately when my son and I fell asleep)))))
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Sleep paralysis is not an uncommon phenomenon, and 'scary' for most who experience it.
As far as the 'clicking' sounds you're hearing??? I'm most interested in 'that'; because I've been experiencing the same/similar sound lately, and have not been able to pinpoint the source. It is possibly coming from my phone across the room, as I have everything else turned off...???
Maybe it's the Steemit police eavesdropping on our snoring???
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
lol, I'm 99% sure the clicking sound was the same as the touchpad on my laptop, I'm guessing from hearing it daily it made it to the hallucinations.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Perhaps not a "hallucination" brother...A visitor from another dimension...???
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to hell. I get this about once a month. Sometimes I get it a few times a month. You don't know how deeply a human can experience fear and dread until you've had a full blown sleep paralysis episode.
It is been going on for me since around age 14 or 15 I'd say. I'd love to know why it happens . . .
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Damn, that sounds bad :( I wonder if practicing becoming lucid would help you out in any way to make the hallucinations not as dreadful and put you more in control of them.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I've been having numerous times of sleep paralysis in the past few years. During the sleep paralysis moments, I've noticed that I can actually control my dreams in latter progression (that's how I learnt lucid dreaming thanks to the sleep paralysis)
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I used to have it couple of times during my school days. Now, I want to meet the demon myself but it does not happen anymore. Alas, I lost the company. :D
For those who don't understand the core, here is a pic for you:
By the way, did the demon during sleep paralysis looked like Dr Craig Satoshi Wright?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
lol I didn't see anything this time around, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him appear. :P
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I had this happen to me twice, the first time was scary as fuck, once it was over I still didn't move a muscle until I fell asleep again because I was so scared lol
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
omfg....You just wrote a post about the scariest shit in the world. This is one of my biggest fears. Even death doesn't bother me so much. Its fucking weird, why some people have to go through this hellish tortute and others are fine. I never experienced sleep paralysis, however I'm so scared that it can happen some day....If this would happen to me I would be scary to go sleep next day. I feel sorry for you and all people that have to experience this. At least u know how it works so u don't panic . But as u said I heared some people had really insane paralysis. I hope It won't happen to me in future and I hope It will stop happening to others.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I'm. About to sleep. I enjoy almost all experiences. I used to freak out when I was a kid as well. I screamed with no sound, I couldn't move or breathe. It was horrible. Nowadays, however, I haven't had sleep paralyses. I also have a very long dream diary that I maintain with discipline in order to remember my dreams better. Hopefully more lucid dreams will come.
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hey acid. Never heard of this before. Curious to find out more though. I wander what would trigger it or is it something simple like stress.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I also have some experience about this kind of things.May be it's a nightmare.It's like i am very afraid of something i am trying to shout and move but i couldn't.That's very scarry.It's very weird.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Some people like to call it the Sleep Paralysis Demon Mora which is like an ancient species that comes haunts you and sits on your lungs, which obviously is a more disturbing way of putting this matter.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I had sleep paralysis but only on dream, i couldn't do anything and a murderer ran towards me. Scary shit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
everyone looks weak like that cat today, because the price of STEEM is falling ..
hope to stable return STEEM prices to welcome the future 😊
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yeah, I've had these a few times. One incident I remember well was - the way I could best describe it - being raped by a demon; I felt a presence of an evil entity and a pressure down under... right there. I don't think I opened my eyes though, but that was probably for the best.
Freaking spooky...
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
So cute cat. Cats looks more cute when sleep. I love cat so much. Looks this cat is sleeping so comfortable.
Posted using Partiko iOS
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hi @acidyo!
Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 7.953 which ranks you at #32 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has not changed in the last three days.
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 290 contributions, your post is ranked at #2. Congratulations!
Evaluation of your UA score:
Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Cute cat completely in relax mood. Photo with
Very good article.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Its feel like funny when you fell in sleep paralysis. I also want to share a incident. Few years ago when i was sleeping at night with my mother i saw a dream of snake. That was so furious for me becoz i already so much scared with snake.
That night i feel that a snake is sitting just near to me and trying to bite me. I want to run away that snake but i was unable to move my hands, or any moment of my body as it was a dream.
I tried so much hard to run away that snake but every time i feel like paralysed. I just got so much terrified that i start crying and screaming so loudly for help. Then my mother wake up and ask me what happens?
I told her that there is a snake near me, just run away him. She get angry with me becos of my screem and said where is snake? Finally i wake up of my sleep paralysis but until I am just feeling that snake in real and check that it was really a dream or in real.
That was so terrifing moment for me. Next day my mom tell everyone about this and all make so much fun of me. I also feel it funny😋 . But i pray that i don't dream like that again.
Thanks @acidyo for giving apportuinity for sharing such a incidence.😊😊
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You got a 70.50% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @acidyo!
@ocdb is a non-profit bidbot for whitelisted Steemians, current max bid is 20 SBD and the respective amount in Steem.
Check our website https://thegoodwhales.io/ for the whitelist, queue and delegation info. Join our Discord channel for more information.
If you like what @ocd does, consider voting for ocd-witness through SteemConnect or on the Steemit Witnesses page. :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Try not to resist it next time. When you keep you eyes closed and wait a little you might have an intense sensation of "floating" out of your body. I payed with this many times and experienced amazing lucid states. It's like a lucid dream but way more intense. You can manifest things and even people by will, you can fly, change your environment and many other things. I was trying to achieve trough sleep paralysis an out-of-body experience but whenever I opened my eyes the magic was over. So I kept my eyes closed and floated outside, only I couldn't see my surroundings so my mind created a dream-reality of my place from where these short but intense adventures started.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit