Sleep Paralysis

[faisalhussein394]

I use to have sleep paralysis but only one of them turn out to be scary.

It was 4 years ago when I see a black figure with white eyes in a pitch-black room and its presence prevented me from moving not even an inch and what's worse I can feel its grip on my neck lifting me and strangling me until it let me go after 10-12 seconds and that's the moment I woke up, all covered in sweat and have a hard time to breathe.

It was terrifying but it is the last, what about you?

Do you have scary sleep paralysis?

[CAOMouse]

Yeah, sometime I do, but I didn't see any demon, lol
Is it common for people to see a demon?

[faisalhussein394]

Only a few of them have encountered a black figure during paralysis.

Some say it is caused by over drinking, an over dose of pills, or eating bad sushi. XD

I only follow up such true horror sleeping paralysis from a youtube channel such as Mr.Ballen, and Mr.Nightmare.

There is more about it in Mr.Nightmare's videos.

Mr. Nightmare

Mr.ballen is more of a true crime stories.

MrBallen

[Iris-Grimoire]

I've had them a couple times in my life - don't recommend it, but thankfully only once I got a shadow creature. Absolutely still have it on my mind, I saw it tear off my windows like it was nothing and approach. Usually it's just panic from not being able to move though, thankfully...?

I don't remember anything in particular that caused them, but they usually happen in summer months.

[Hipiticus]

I went through this once. I saw a shadow man teleporting all around my room while staring at me. I couldn't see it's eyes. I just closed my eyes and tried to force myself to move, after some time i was finally able to move my pinky and then went back to normal. I heard you can get it depending on how you sleep. I think it happens when you sleep on your back.

[faisalhussein394]

Looks like it's very common to encounter this once, thank god.

[faisalhussein394]

Exactly what happen to me when I sleep on my back. Good thing it happens one time for everyone.

[Ghost_Queen]

I haven't had a sleep paralysis occurrence but there was this one time I had a nightmare of someone trying to drag me out bed but couldn't. I wake up to find the sheets on the floor, me halfway on the bed with a handprint on my knee. I asked and nobody entered my room, the handprint looked like it was going to bruise but it disappeared hours later.

[Stargazer31]

I've never had sleep paralysis, but apparently it's where the legends about Incubi and Succubi come from

[faisalhussein394]

Paranormal activity, maybe.

Someone else encountered the same experience as you but different. She was sleeping in a camp with her partners and in her dream, some figure that looks humanoid place a ring shaped thorn on top of her head like some Jesus figure and she starts to feel so much pain as if the thorns are piercing deep in her head until she screamed so hard she woke up.

What's worse is that when her colleagues point flashlight on her face, her entire face is getting covered in blood, they found out that she's bleeding on the top of her head. She's fine, she went to the hospital and recovered but the doctor said that the top of her head were bitten real hard by a fox during her sleep. Reality could manipulate our dreams when something is happening without our awareness.

I found this story on one of Mr.Ballen's videos. I can't tell which because some of his videos has multiple stories to tell.

[faisalhussein394]

Incubi and Succubi

I get what you mean, we think it's some form of demon interference but I think it's just some hallucination, illusions, something that isn't real because it only happens when we can't move our bodies after we wake up from our sleep.

[Quinvert]

First time it happend to me, I felt my bed being pushed to the wall several times and I was dead certain it was paranormal activity, as I had no idea that sleep paralysis existed. Since then I had it a few times, last time being visual, but luckily it wasn't a scary experience as it was just someone waddling with a foldable room divider(I could only see the hands haha).

[faisalhussein394]

Funny, I too got my bed shaken to the wall for some unknown reason and I thought it was just me. It's still happening to this day.

[SchmuckDuck]

I used to get sleep paralysis a lot a few years ago (no idea why tbh). I don't anymore for some reason and not gonna lie as terrifying as it is I kinda wanna experience it again. I wanna see if I can realize its just a hallucination and not real.

One time I was having sleep paralysis and my bed was by my window. I felt and saw a hand reach into my window and grab my leg but then I snapped out of it.

[faisalhussein394]

I bet that hand is long and skinny.

[BrianBrennon]

From my teens to my early 20’s I would frequently get sleep paralysis. I would occasionally get the black figure, but often worse looking demonic figures. Most of the time I wouldn’t see the figure, I would just feel them pull the sheets off of my bed and start to shake me. Fear of these paralysis dreams would cause me to avoid sleep. But eventually I saw a documentary on sleep paralysis and realized this was what was happening to me. Knowing it was a common condition helped me not to be afraid and I even learned that if you’re aware that is happening to you during the dream, you can learn to control what is happening.

[AxemanRifflord]

I had a nightmare where I was chased by something that looked like this:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_BOnuASkUys/VYIXYFNPzlI/AAAAAAAAJt4/VFoKCb1dS7w/s1600/Martian%2BManhunter1.jpg

It was chasing me around my neighborhood. Eventually it caught me. Lifted up my arm and stabbed me in the armpit. When it let go, my arm fell on the side of my bed. It was like the dream world melted away around me.

Also, I was paralyzed for a short while.

[NickRowler]

I used to get sleep paralysis all the time when I used to sleep on my stomach. I think it was caused by my airways being blocked and my brain telling me I need to wake up. It was annoying because you can't move and you worry you might suffocate. Tho I don't get it anymore because I sleep on my side and prop a pillow up to avoid rolling over onto my stomach.

There is such a thing as hypnagogic hallucinations which can sometimes feel like someone is touching you when you are half awake.

[faisalhussein394]

Thank goodness it was just a dream.

[faisalhussein394]

That's great news for you to adapt.