Thread: Sleep Paralysis!

I didn't know where to post this, but I'm so excited that I had my first sleep paralysis!

Ok, so, it was about 4:00 am... I was playing Solitaire on my Ipod nano and was feeling sort of drowsy (I just woke up about 20 minutes earlier after going to bed at 8:30 pm the previous day and was attempting to WILD).
Anyway, I was laying on my back in the supine position, and suddenly everything went dark. It felt like that moment when you are about to fall asleep and you jolt and wake up, except this time I jolted and got stuck in the dream state while awake...weird, right? Yeah, it turned out I was paralyzed. I quickly realized what was going on... and then it happened... the hallucinations!! It was great; I felt vibrations, pressure, heard footsteps and incomprehensible noises. Everything was black except for this light which I couldn't make out the source. Anyway, I sensed impending doom, it was awesome... impending doom, man!

Hopefully I can experience this again.

Can anyone relate?

maybe the light is the ipod hehe

my first few experiences with sp were very scary. i felt that there were things inthe room with me and i when i tried to screem i couldnt. now i recognize what is happening and it is not so bad.

when i WILD i dont get sleep paralisis. but i have had it before. i woke up in sleep paralisis once and my dog came into my room and started licking my lips lol I couldnt really feel the wetness of his licking, but i could feel the pressure of his tounge. It was gross it took me like a whole minute just to get my arms moving enough to push him off me! lol

i've had sleep paralysis a couple of times. one time, my mom barged into my room yelling (in my dream) at the top of her lungs and i froze with intense fear and couldnt move. i hate it.

lol at the threadstarters name. i'm new to LD, but one thing i want to try is playing counter strike in a LD. that would be so cool.

I would have thought this was astral catalepsy, where your body sort of wakes up but your spirit isn't fully in your body. But you make it seem pleasant, whereas astral catalepsy is an incredibly distressing and frightening experience from what I understand. So yeah, I don't know what you had.

I had Sleep Paralysis the other day after thinking about it and attempting to do DEILD (I've only had Sleep Paralysis once before in my life which I can remember which involved me trying to open my eyes and get up but not being able to and feeling an alien presence. Wasn't that scary though surprisingly).

Anyway, the other night I woke-up after a dream and remembered to stay still as instructed for DEILD. I felt that I was about to go into sleep paralysis and then I did! Well I felt vibrations and heard people talking, but I can't remember what they were saying now. I also thought that my dog was in my room but couldn't see her. I tried to make it into a dream I think and may've succeeded, I don't know what happened, I think perhaps I just woke-up. Anyway, it was over pretty quick, but I was well chuffed with it, and I wasn't scared at all, I just said to myself "the dog's not really there, it's just sleep paralysis".

Anyway, congrats on your Sleep Paralysis! Hope you have many more!