Have you experienced sleep paralysis and how was your experiences?

[Sebby Michelango]

Have you experienced sleep paralysis before and how was your experiences?

Explaining what it is.
Sleeping paralysis is something a few of us experience. You may experience it before you fall asleep or when you're going to wake up. It can takes from seconds to minutes. You are awake, but can still not move your body. You can't speak, move yourself and in some cases it's harder to breath (because a muscle is paralyzed). Some of them who experience sleeping paralysis hallucination difference things. They can see supernatural things when it's not there. It's not a mental illness. It's happening because the brain are slow. When you're dreaming, your body are paralyzed because you wouldn't be able to move yourself in sleep. You moves a lot in your dreams. When you have a sleeping paralysis, you wakes up, but in some cases still dreaming. The brain hasn't turned on your ability to move either. It's not dangerous and can't harm you, but it may be a creepy and scary experience.
(For more details, you can google it)

My experiences.
I have experienced it some times and it's crazy. The first time I experienced it I didn't know what it was. I thought it was weird when I couldn't move myself. I still dreamed, but was at the same time awake. It wasn't any normal day dreaming either, because I couldn't control it. I had a paranormal feeling. A pale faced guy with a knife stand in front of my. That was very creepy. But since he disappeared, I thought it was a dream and it wasn't anything dangerous. That experience happening several years ago.

Yesterday I had a sleeping paralysis too. I didn't see so many supernatural things this time. I knew that was a sleeping paralyzing that caused it, because I've read about it at TV2, a Norwegian internet news source. I couldn't move my body and I experienced several paralyzing. Because the body was in a relax mode and a muscle paralyzed, I experienced a heavy chest feeling. When you have a sleeping paralysis, you can still breath, but it's feels like you almost choke. For me it was like hanging. The only limbs I could move were my eyes and my tongue. It felt like something tightening my chest and neck...

- Have you experienced sleeping paralysis before?
- How was your experience?
- What did you see, feel, hear?
- How creepy was yours sleeping paralysis?

[Deborah]

I have had it a few times.  I don't remember exactly what I saw because it's been a while but it was very weird.  Like you describe I was unable to move at all.  While I was aware of being awake the reality of it felt different so I guess it's a state between sleep and wake.  I do remember having to concentrate very hard to regain physical control although it probably lasted only a few seconds.  It was not scary but it was very strange.


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[Kylo]

Once or twice. I didn't find it frightening. I just waited for it to end, although I'm not sure how long that was.

[whorton59]

I've been an RN for 22 years, and was an EMT right out of high school,  So I've always had an understanding of the ability to disconnect the brain from the body during sleep and the mechanisms involved.

I've experianced sleep paralysis several times over the years.  Usually it is not associated with any bizzare intrepretation of what was going on around me. . Generally, events on the television, and given that the wife likes the ID channel,  becoming aware in the middle of some sort of murder story is strange.

I usually enter the state semi awake.  Dreaming has just ended or is weining. As such, it is the awareness of needing to void, being thirsty or simular physiological manifastation.

Strangly, the first time it happened was in the early to mid 1970's  I was probably 15 ro 16 and remember coming to with the stereo playing Emerson, lake and palmers, "From the beginning"   Which to this day, still immediantly brings to mind that surrealistic moment.

[Joelene9]

  I had them. All I did was go back to sleep, then I awake with everything movable. I cured my falling dreams by "landing" on that last one. That was around age 17. Not a one since.

Joelene

[Stevie]

 I been having it since I was about 10 years old.   When I was a kid it scared the hell out of me, I would not be able to move and I thought someone or something was holding me down and trying to smother me. I get it infrequently now though sometimes it happens a couple a nights in a row, I still  feel disturbed after it happens even though I know what the supposed cause is.

[Ms Grace]

I get it every now and then - usually it's accompanied by a dream where I'm trying to do something fairly ordinary but just can't seem to move to do it. The dreams are more frustrating more than scary since they're not accompanied by nightmares I suppose.

The phenomenon is usually caused by the fact that the brain disengages from our motor functions when we dream, that's to stop us moving too much in our sleep and injuring ourselves. Obviously sometimes that doesn't happen since we might still move when dreaming. Also, we don't usually notice that it is happening because we're asleep - it's when we're awake enough but still dreaming and still with the motor functions uncoupled that it happens. I can imagine for some people, depending on the dream/nightmare it could be terrifying.

My most vivid moment - I was dreaming that I was at home, sitting in a bean bag in a darkened room. The only light was from the door into the room and I can see a rat coming in and moving along the wall towards me. I'm thinking "OMG a rat! I'm so going to catch that!" That's when I become aware that I can't move - being in the beanbag is like being buried in sand up to my neck, I  can't move a muscle. The rat is getting closer and I figure I'm going to have to summon up all my strength to hurl myself out of the beanbag - I count to three, and with a remarkable effort and a big yell I throw myself forward at the rat... and wake up as I yell in real life and have have thrown myself out of bed! No kidding I had launched out from under the covers and was half sprawled on the floor. And that's why our body tries to stop us from moving when we're asleep. I can only imagine how funny it must have looked to a casual observer.