Thread: The "Old Hag"

I have never experienced this but my girlfriend does regularly.

Try searching for posts or googling SP (sleep paralysis), Iron rope, old hag e.t.c

I've seen this topic a few times so I'm sure you'll find some useful info.

IIRC, you aren't meant to actually see an old hag. The 'old hag' is just the feeling of a person touching you whilst you're paralysed (during sleep paralysis) that was historically thought to be a succubus.

No. Some people do see people. She is called the old hag because the first recorded case of this, she took on the apparence of an old hag, who sat on a man's chest, and kept him from breathing or moving.

-sloth

i had this once, i heard something walking around in my room

That's a normal sign of SP.

yea,but it was real freaky.

Beyond freaky for me... terrifying is more like it.
I've had dreams with her in them since I was a little little kid.
She always looks the same: Dark shawl or robe with a hood, dirty
greasy snarled long gray hair, bluish-gray horribly wrinkled skin,
and yellowish eyes.

She radiates absolute menace and ill-will, and leaves me chilled
and goose-bumpy even on a hot summer night.

She usually appears in my own bedroom, either coming out of a closet
or standing at the foot of my bed watching me. She never speaks, and
she has only touched me once, with the tip of her finger, and it was like
getting an electrical shock that woke me up.

Are chills and goosebumps a typical manifestation of SP?

When I was younger I always thought she was a witch.
As I got older I wondered if she was a psychological manifestation
of some sort of repressed misogynistic tendency....

Tock

I know its normal to see stuff in SP, but not the same thing over and over again,and feeling somthing like an elrictrical shock doesnt seem normal either.ive had SP a few times and know what it feels like,but then again u souldnt trust me im a newbie.