Thread: Sleep Paralysis - Have you experienced it?

When I was young I got SP all the time. It scared me beyond belief back then. It's like you feel a presence and just know you cant move. Once I was on my stomach and some kind of tree monster with the face of a dead dog started strangling me in this state, I cant sleep on my stomach to this day and I'm 25. I spent years avoiding the felling of oncoming sp until i realised in an 8th grade science class that this state is the steeping stone to lucid dreams, so I spent years trying to no end to bring the state back. and I cant.

I just experienced it once in my life. It was spontaneous anyway.

I was lying on my bed with my eyes closed trying to sleep as I think we all here do. Suddenly, I felt like I wasn't really tired to sleep so I tried to stand up to turn the TV on, but I couldn't. Literally, I couldn't move. I didn't feel dizzy or hear something. I just can't move. I was really scared, but I calmed down and 'regained' control over my body.

I breathed a sigh and tried to sleep again, and without any transition I got paralysed. After a few minutes, I could move again to turn the TV on and after 10 minutes, finally sleep.

Honestly, it wasn't scary at all, but it freaked me out.

i only got SP once. I woke up for no reason in the night. and was going to try to turn over and go back to sleep but i couldnt. I couldnt move at all.I couldnt even feel my body, it was like i was completely numb, but i couldnt feel the numbness. Suddenly my dog comes running into my room and jumps on top of me and starts licking my face non stop. It sucked cause i had to concentrate real hard just to get anything to move. When i finally could move my arm i pushed him off of me. He just walked out of the room and i went back to sleep.

Yes, but only after I knew what it was. VERY strange things have happened but I was never scared. It was just pretty awe inspiring... I saw like ghostly transparent arms above me when I tried to move them and they responded like a laggy mouse. It was really cool! Then somehow I sank into the bed feet first and rolled myself into tape backwards. SPs and OBEs are strange... it makes me wonder why so if they are just dreams... or ARE they ?

I remember my first SP...

I was trying to WILD, and I fell unconcious for about a nanosecond, and suddenly I was sitting up halfway out of my body (OBE type thing) and I remember thinking 'oh shit' and slammed myself back into my body, in which commenced the feeling of SP. pins and needles racing through my limbs, could only move with the greatest force, and a feeling like the barrel of a pistol against my left temple (?). I endured all this for about five minutes, and slipped into a LD .. somehow..
Not really sure what the first part was about, but the latter of the paragraph was SP

I've experienced it a few times, and it's always scared the hell out of me.

I feel a shadow figure in the room, see him in the corner of my eye. Feeling or seeing the figure is what seems to trigger the SP for me. When it hits, I can hardly breathe, all i can to is suck in small breaths from time to time.

I decided to google, and found out that SP can lead to lucid dreams and OBEs. The next time I experienced SP, I tried to relax and will myself into a dream or OBE, but the feeling was too scary. All I could really think about was waking up.

I've only had one LD through WILD but I've never gone through complete sleep paralysis. I don't get how it can be scary.

Like many here I experienced it once, after a long hypnagogia experience. Since I'd read a lot about SP I didn't get scared, all the more so since, apart from the paralysis itself, the only weird thing was the living light spot on the wall that was looking at me. (-:

I only experienced it once and it was scary And dude they are so onvious.I mean u cant move and eweewew scary wont try that again lol!!!!

Sleep paralysis is a blessing if you want to WILD!! The only time I am successful at WILDing is when I wake up with sleep paralysis. The only time it scares me is when the blanket is over my face and it feels like I am going to suffocate and die. But other than that problem, I love sleep paralysis because it seems to be my only ticket to lucid dreaming!!

SP gives me the weirdest hallucinations... the times when I reached it I go so scared/freake out that I ruined my WILD xD better luck next time? plx?


it's quite a thrill though... like a rollercoaster... you regret it when you're at it, but when it finishes, you realise it was the coolest thing xD

I have a few times. It really freaks me out. For me, I get numbing and pressure that starts at the feet and moves it's way up. I also see shadows in the corner of the room that disappear when it stops. I've never tried to have OBE with them because I was always afraid that I might have a hard time getting back into my body. Are they necessary for LDing or are there ways to LD without them?

Originally Posted by whisperinggirl

I have a few times. It really freaks me out. For me, I get numbing and pressure that starts at the feet and moves it's way up. I also see shadows in the corner of the room that disappear when it stops. I've never tried to have OBE with them because I was always afraid that I might have a hard time getting back into my body. Are they necessary for LDing or are there ways to LD without them?

When Astral Projecting, its easy to get into your body. All you have to do is think about your physical body, then your back in it.

ive only had 1 sleep paralysis... kind of scary at the time because i just seen the fourth kind, probably about 3 days before this.... then i read online and found out it was just sleep paralysis

I've never had SP before, but I've heard that to get rid of it you just try to wriggle your toes and go from there. Or maybe getting out of it isn't a problem, I dunno. I want to experience it though, I don't think it would be that scary since I know what it is. I can imagine though if you didn't know how scary it could be, especcially if you don't know how long you're going to remain like that or why it's happening.

never experianced it but it sounds quite frightening

i had it a few weeks ago. I was staying home and trying to get rid of a headache, but it was like noon already so i was having a hard time sleeping. I decided to try to roll over but i couldn't. Right away i knew what it was and i got kinda excited because i always wanted to know what it was like. I started looking around for some shadow thing or whatever,(with my eyes) and all of sudden some black thing was at the foot of my bed, but it really freaked me out. I felt a really intense fear then and it kinda glided or walked up to me got real close to my face and faded away. It was really scary even though i knew exactly what was going on the whole time.

It is scary the first time because it can be hard to breathe or move or open your eyes, but it can be cool because I could see with my eye's closed. Another time that it happened I felt like I was sinking into the bed. It is a very interesting feeling.

I've only had SP once and that was right after having an ld. I woke up but I couldn't move. It was morning and pretty light out so it wasn't scary in that way, more of a nuisance because I wanted to get up and tell people about my LD but I couldn't move. It was actually kinda scary thinking I might never be able to move (there is actually a medical condition where a person can be trapped in the shell of their body, perfectly able to think as normal just not being able to move anything but their eyes, I think it is the result of a stroke damaging a certain part of the brain).

Also, I wouldn't really consider this SP, but one day I woke up and must have been sleeping on my wrist because my left hand was completely limp and I couldn't move it, I got out of bed and as I walked through my room I lifted it up with my right hand it it just immediately fell back down. I'm not really sure why this happened but it only lasted about 10 seconds.

I get sleep paralysis all the time. The most recent was this weekend. I was staying at my mother's house this weekend, sleeping in a guest room. Being in a strange place gave me really intense SP on and off all night.

I woke up on my back, and could see the Indian doctor from the TV show Heroes sitting in the shadows in the corner of my room. I knew right away I was in SP. I could not move, and was absolutely terrified despite my knowledge that it was a dream. The man across the room suddenly had a huge knife he was tossing from hand to hand. He was talking about why he was going to stab me to death, but his voice was muted like he was talking through a balloon.

I knew it was SP, so I tried to calm myself down and see where it went - maybe to a lucid dream. Nothing changed. It was like the scene kept repeating, and I kept getting pulled back and forth from paralysis to dream. This happened for what seemed like 30 minutes, with little snippets of dreams between.

I closed my eyes to ignore the visuals (hard to do when there's a dude with a huge knife talking in detail about how he's going to stab you to death). I was just listening to his voice, and decided I needed to tune that out also. I tried to listen for any other sound to focus on. I heard faint voices that got louder as I focused on them. It sounded like my girlfriend and her sister talking and giggling from inside my pillow. I focused on these sounds, and was snapped into a non lucid dream almost instantly.

I hate how it's always terrifying, even when I know exactly what is happening. I'm not logically scared. I just feel that chemical fear and adrenaline.

To Be honest, im not quite sure. I have attempted a WILD before, and felt my whole body go numb, but I'm not sure if its S.P.

No. Or if I have it wasn't unconfortable enough for me to notice it, as I have WILD'd before.

Sometimes when I take a nap at like 7, and wake up at 12, stay up for a little, then go back to sleep, I have sleep paralysis. I've had two before going to sleep. The second one was extremely freaky to me. It started and I said to myself "I've read that some can be scary." and sure enough, that little girl from the Ring appears in a doorway, coming closer. Luckily, it stopped.

I've had it when I was little ALOT, except it was when I woke up in the morning, absolutely dreading it. I couldnt breath, or move. Then I would move and take a BIG breath of air. I sometimes literally felt like suffocating.

~FR

Maaaaany times. Its not scary unless you're allowing it to be scary. Like trying to move or looking around in your room. I was scared to death before I found out what it was. All through my childhood I feared it. Now I love it instead, for inducing LDs. I simply do it on my side and immediately when Im in SP I imagine myself rolling downwards and falling. Otherwise my dream will just begin in my appartment. But if I fall I can end up anywhere.

Any ideas on getting rid of my fear of SP?