Something Really Scary Happened Last Night

I remember sleeping, and I woke up from my dream. I saw light filtering from beneath my eyelids, and I wanted to get out of my bed to start my day, but I couldn't! I tried opening my eyes, but they remained shut. I began to panic, then something happened that sent my fear into overdrive. I felt the right side of my be slowly being lowered, as if someone was sitting in it. I heard no one come in, but I was positive someone was sitting on my bed. But I couldn't move! I couldn't even open my eyes! I was panicking in my own body. I tried to open my eyes one more time, really hard, and they flashed open. I jumper out of my bed and looked around. There was no one there. This freaked me out immensely to say the least! I've never had this happen to me before, until I started recording my dreams, and becoming interested in lucid dreams. Is my body trying to tell me something? If anybody knows what might of happened, please tell me. Thanks.

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis man. where, your body's still paralyzed from being asleep, but your brain is awake. And, you get some weird feelings when your body is being un-paralyzed. Yeah, it can be scary. First time it happened to me I thought I had died. Dont' worry, nothing serious.

My guess is that the "right side of my be slowly being lowered" thing was probably just because you were tired and you were imagining stuff, I often see things if I wake up and I'm super dooper tired.

And sleep paralysis is common so I wouldn't worry about that either. So basically, stay cool - 8)

a lot of the time, I feel somehow unfortunate to not have experienced sleep paralysis naturally (because I would take it as some indication that I would be proficient at inducing it intentionally), but stories like this make me realize that it can be quite frightening and learning to do it on purpose FIRST would be much better.

Don't worry about it my friend. The first time I experienced Sleep Paralysis I reacted exactly the same way. I thought my experience was completely unique, but I discovered it was quite common -

I hope you feel better about it now.

thats why it has the nickname old hag symdrome. most people feel someone sitting on them during sleep paralysis. i get mild SP in the monring a lot but i havbeonly experianced it majorly once. i know how it feels.

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thats why it has the nickname old hag symdrome. most people feel someone sitting on them during sleep paralysis. i get mild SP in the monring a lot but i havbeonly experianced it majorly once. i know how it feels.
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It's happened to me a few times, although not recently.

The last time it happened, I unintentionally dozed off while I was lying on my back during the daytime. I seemed to "awake" and see the room around me. My left arm was hanging off the bed, and a hideous little gnome started to crawl up it.

I was able to hurl it away, and then I woke up for real.

SP is frightening enough that I don't sleep on my back any more. That's when it usually happens to people.

Go here:

http://paranormal.about.com/library/.../aa112000a.htm

Thanks you gues for the answers. I feel relieved. I feel good that others have had it too. Thanks ^_^

The first time I experienced sleep paralysis wasn't so bad because I knew what it was. The only part that made it bad is that I was tying to move my neck off my throat; it was choking me. The fact that I was completely conscious but unable to move, well, it didn't scare me, since I knew what happened, but I was choking myself. I slowly just relaxed myself, and I was slowly able to move a little, and a little more with time.

I go through SP every night. It scared me alot, but I got used to it.

If you ever get SP and want it to go away, just wiggle your tounge. Or breathe as hard and as deep as you can.

when i first went though SP i wasn't too worried i didn't like though but i figured my muscles were still asleep so i wasn't to scared but the lowering of your right side seems freaky that hasn't happened to me before

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a lot of the time, I feel somehow unfortunate to not have experienced sleep paralysis naturally (because I would take it as some indication that I would be proficient at inducing it intentionally), but stories like this make me realize that it can be quite frightening and learning to do it on purpose FIRST would be much better.
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Same here. I had spontaneous scary ones through out my life and I myself am pretty good at inducing it (whenever I have the willpower at 5AM). BUT! With inducing it has come a much greater sense of control over the situation - I was quite afraid the first few times inducing it, but then it hit me - "I induced this myself, so I control my emotions". The spontaneous ones still scare me sometimes because they can get out of control. I'll usually wake up to mild/heavy vibrations with a rocking feeling and very loud hissing sound with other random noises and feelins... I don't mind when I start from the start and slowly get to this point, but just randomly becoming concious and becoming aware of this all at once is pretty scary.