Thread: Sleep Paralysis?

I've never had sleep paralysis but it sounds like you got a visit from the Hag. It's pretty normal I've heard although visualising it is a bit extreme. I think there are topics out there on this site about the Hag. It's a quite common side-effect of sleep paralysis. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you.

Originally Posted by goldney

I've never had sleep paralysis but it sounds like you got a visit from the Hag. It's pretty normal I've heard although visualising it is a bit extreme. I think there are topics out there on this site about the Hag. It's a quite common side-effect of sleep paralysis. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you.
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i appreciate the info. it was just so completely terrifying to me that i wasnt sure if it was something to ignore

I use to get really freaked out by SP....I SP all the time it just happens to me and I usually force my self to wake up....Until last night when I decided not to fight it anymore and experience it and I LD for the first time


My sister gets it all the time and she does not like it...so she prayed to God and asked him to stop it and she has never had it again...

Hey Classy,
I have a dream id like to share. About...three years ago...I had a dream where I woke up paralized. I was in that place between dreaming and waking and I could move my eyes (I guess) and when I looked down toward my feet I saw a man sitting on my legs. He was a pale, white lump of a thing. His face was just an impression, as if he was wearing a shrowd. He was sitting on the end of the bed, but the way he was sitting was impossible as his feet were angled into the bed, his back being on the edge of the bed. It looked like his legs were sunken into the bed. I FREAKED! I can't even tell you how scared I was!! I started to try and move, I tryed to kick and kick....I got so worked up but nothing. Finally, taking all my will, I screamed NO! as strongly as I could. I became free and began kicking at the thing. I was on a trip with my cousin, brother and brothers girl friend in two bed room. I was in the bed with my cousin. Immediately everyone woke up and I started shouting "Theres a man in the room!" Ok, so im awake now...and I can see this thing in the corner of the room still. SWEAR ON MY LIFE!! I was yelling, "hes right there, in the corner..." but no one else could see it. They tell me don't worry and all that, go back to sleep. So I try to sleep but I ended up watching that thing for at least and hour...it didn't go away, just stood there. Then I realized this was a test of sorts. I told it no, it had no power. After this I have had paralizing dreams, but instead of the weird thing I will see vortxes at the foot of the bed, and they aren't scary.

The DC or spirit I told off was actually a reacuring thing for me starting when I was very young (I wrote about it in my first post on the newbie board yesterday). I feel it is what Jung calls "the shadow" mine happened to steal my dream abilities and only recently have I gotten them back. The Hawaiians call this spirit the breath taker, or breath crusher as it apparenly sits on you, subdues you, and steals your power. Not to freak you out or anything!!

Just tell it No, it cannot hurt you. In the end will only make you a better dreamer.

-J

ya, ive had an experience very similar. i woke up and couldnt move, facing a wall. my sisters boyfriend was on vacation with us, and had been sleeping in the bed on the other side of the room a few days before, but then left for home early. still paralyzed, i started hearing a voice from across the room talking about killing babies and i realized it was his. i was awake enough to remember he had left, but it took a good 2 or three minutes for the paralysis to wear off. The whole time, he talked about some baby killing cult, and even though i knew he wasnt real i was scared like none other. needless to say i had a couple of bad nights of sleep after that.