Thread: Why such an evil during SP?

Originally Posted by andrei

If you are sure that Demons are just an imagination of your brain then put some solt under your pillow and your brain will be sure that it is protected from demons. Try to trick your brain too if it trys to trick you.

I don't think it works that way. . .

so every one seems to experience this? any one knows why this happens?

usually when i get SP i just close my eyes and breath till i fall asleep again. but worst SP i panicked, i had a really funny hallucination of a friend;s face hanging in mid air in my room at first, so i kept looking at it but then i felt some thing touching me on my shoulder, my bed sheet was moving, and some white thing came into my room i try to scream and it came near me and put his hand around my throat i woke up at that moment thankfully

I saw zombies crowding around me once...I about 7 years old, and had a fever. They were just lookin at me though...didn't try to eat me *I dont' think* lol

I've only experienced an SP once in my life over 2 decades ago and I think and it was the most interesting hallucination I ever had. I think I was about 11 or 12 and I had just fallen asleep after reading some fantasy novel that had a bunch of undead horses on the cover art.

Well, I somehow woke up to find myself paralyzed in bed, but in the hallucination/dream I was sort of buried in these open graves in about 4 feet of water. It was nighttime in my dream and I could clearly see am army of undead horses with skeletal soldiers galloping over my little plot of grave. I could see my bedroom ceiling and walls through my hallucinated images and when I realized I could breath fine in my underwater grave I knew I was having some sort of strange dream. To my side I could glimpse my brother sleeping in his bed on the other side of the room. I think I may have tried to call out to him, but of course I couldn't.

Interestingly I wasn't scared, didn't feel any "evil presences" (I didn't find the undead horses evil, they were actually pretty cool I thought, especially since they somehow managed to not fall into any of the many open graves underwater), no weights, etc. Just the odd sensation of not being able to move and breathing underwater. I think I could also hear my parents speaking in the other room but I remember thinking it must have been an auditory hallucination or something since they should have been in bed.

The whole thing maybe lasted 5 minutes or longer and I think my family were also lying in other open graves around me but i couldn't move to see them.

In the end I fell back asleep and woke up the next day thinking it was the most interesting and cool experience. This was years before I discovered lucid dreaming books at the library, or knew what sleep paralysis was. I still find SP a fascinating phenomenon, but unfortunately I haven't really experienced anything like what I did as a kid again.

Actually I've had a non-evil SP. I was lying there and I saw a boat floating across my wall, my wall is white and I saw the boat make ripples. It wasn't scary at all. I've also seen grey aliens standing at my side and large heads screaming at me. These used to scare me as a kid, but now that I know what they are I just tell myself its nothing to worry or be scared about and they go away.

Originally Posted by Over9001

Actually I've had a non-evil SP. I was lying there and I saw a boat floating across my wall, my wall is white and I saw the boat make ripples. It wasn't scary at all.

Did you feel paralyzed at that moment?

I've also seen grey aliens standing at my side and large heads screaming at me.

Ouch!

@Arutad

Yes to the question about the boat. I've been having sleep paralysis since I was about 4 or 5. I can remember my first one my eyes were open and I looked at my mom across the room on another bed, somehow I had a toy or something I think in my hands and I managed to move my hands. I threw (more like shotput) the toy up and it landed on my moms face. She thought I did it on purpose and hit me for it.

As for the aliens it happened only once. I was like 13. There were two of them. It was day time I think and it scared me very much. The screaming heads were often from when I was like 7 till 10 or so. After a while I taught myself not to be scared and just let them scream all they want. It eventually went away.

well, on the question of why often times there is great fear associated with SP, this is what i've been able to gather from various sources.
When we are falling asleep, the fear center of our brains is particularly active (this makes sense, since when we are sleeping- and especially when we are in SP- we are particularly vulnerable to outside threats). During SP, it is common for HI to start, so our minds are getting sensory data from the real world and the dream world. Our mind doesn't really know what to make of everything, so it invents something. Also, there is a tendency for the human mind to experience Pareidolia, which is a psycological phenomena where the mind attempts to take random sensory data and form a familar pattern out of it. This explains why we can see shapes in clouds or hear voices in white noise, its just our brains trying to make patterns out of random stimuli. This could be why many of the HI you experience is attributed to ghosts or demons.
Anyways, I hope that this helps!

I was about 4 when I had eye surgery to correct my crossed eyes I had. Afterward they had to seal my eyes shut for some days I think though I managed to open them before I should've. I'm wondering if having surgery at such a young age played a part in this.

Originally Posted by Over9001

@Arutad

Yes to the question about the boat. I've been having sleep paralysis since I was about 4 or 5. I can remember my first one my eyes were open and I looked at my mom across the room on another bed, somehow I had a toy or something I think in my hands and I managed to move my hands. I threw (more like shotput) the toy up and it landed on my moms face. She thought I did it on purpose and hit me for it.

This is very strange that you managed to move your hands during SP.

Maybe it was not SP then. I can report moving my body during SP, too, but I'm still unsure that it was SP. Or maybe I dreamed about having moved it, there was nobody to check.

In your case, did you mom remember that you threw a toy at her face, after the experience? She ever mentioned it after that? Forgive my doubts, but usually it's considered to be impossible to move during SP, only eyes and lungs are supposed to be able to move as far as I know.

As for the aliens it happened only once. I was like 13. There were two of them. It was day time I think and it scared me very much. The screaming heads were often from when I was like 7 till 10 or so. After a while I taught myself not to be scared and just let them scream all they want. It eventually went away.

You could start writing horror books

@Arutad

I just asked her and she doesn't remember. I'm not sure what it was, but I couldn't move my body until I eventually forced myself to do so. I remember just lying on the bed unable to move, but I was looking at my mom and she said something I don't remember. I think I forced myself out of it and ended up throwing a toy at her face unintentionally. This happened all the time when I was just a kid. My eyes would be open with no dreaming, but I couldn't move so I would tell myself to move my hands or feet. This sometimes took several minutes. It was easier to move my feet than my hands, but once I moved them I would exit the paralysis. Other times, but fewer I would have this happen with dreams mostly the screaming heads. They would make the loudest roars ever.

Thanx for actually asking her if she remembers, I like such a serious attitude! Unfortunately, if it happened in your childhood, then she might as well forgotten that, and it doesn't mean that it never happened.

Originally Posted by Over9001

My eyes would be open with no dreaming, but I couldn't move so I would tell myself to move my hands or feet. This sometimes took several minutes. It was easier to move my feet than my hands, but once I moved them I would exit the paralysis.

Exactly what used to happen to me... I could move my hands, trying desperately to exit that state, and would eventually succeed. No fear during such states too, only puzzlement why I can't move normally and attempts to sit up on the bed.

But technically you aren't supposed to move so much during SP. And you're supposed to fear!

youve got to realize its all in your head and none of these things will actually hurt you.
you have nothing to fear but fear itself.