This past week I have been having frequent cases of sleep paralysis.
For those who do not know, sleep paralysis is when the brain awakens from REM sleep but the body remains “asleep” (in paralysis). Sort of the reverse of sleep walking, which is when the body is ‘awake’ but the brain is asleep.
In short, you are fully conscious but unable to move. This can last a few seconds or a few minutes. However, eye movements are still possible. Individuals experiencing this often feel extreme panic as they try to reestablish the connection between mind and body.
This is something that I have experienced in the past and is common in my family but it has been happening more frequently lately. Sleep paralysis is also known to be accompanied by “terrifying hallucinations”. The individual may see vivid objects or entitys within his or her field of vision. This is where we get the term nightmare. The first time it happened this week I saw a black cat scratching at my face. The second time I saw a black faceless figure covering my mouth.
The exact cause of this seems to be difficult for science to explain. Some possible causes are irregular sleep patterns, stress or sudden environment changes.
Religious persons tend to believe this is caused by evil spirits. This is how the legends of Incubi and Succubi started. They are demons that visit their victims during the night, rendering them helpless, usually for sexual purposes. Unfortunately that did not happen to me. They are usually depicted as sitting on the chests of their victims, most likely because individuals experiencing sleep paralysis often report a weight on top of their body. This is not something I have been aware of yet.
Studies suggest that people experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their lives. Has this ever happened to you? What is your stance, scientific phenomena or evil spirit? I’m sure you know my opinion but tell me yours in the comments below.
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Hello everyone, 1st of all I would l would like to say thank you all for sharing your story & experiences! This gives us the courage to speak up and let others know that even though we are human beings with different feelings and different personalities & identities, after all we all go through a similar life experiences. As I read all the stories & comments, almost every single encounters that happened to you guys also happened to me in my life. I’m not Christian nor Catholic nor Buddhist etc. but I do believe there is a God for every other beliefs & religions that exist. Even though the Bible, Koran, Sutra’s doesn’t have 100% truth written in it, The truth is that God does exist and watching over us. We have our Gods, different Gods that is waiting for us to welcome us in their Kingdom of Heaven. I believe in the spiritual world. I believe above every religion and the messengers there is only 1 and only THE GOD whom created this earth…Jesus is the messenger of God, My God is the messenger of God, your God is also the messenger of God…There is no such thing as only 1 God for all of us…We are different people, with different race and different beliefs & religion. Everything has a meaning behind it. Everything happens for a reason! Science is not the only answer to life…Science is science, Faith is faith, and there are things in life that we will never understand and see it until we go there to see it after death. Your body might die but your soul never dies. Heaven and hell do exist! You don’t have to be religious, but just believe that there is a GOD that saves you from the darkness and the endless suffering, or There is a Hell that pulls you down to its darkness and torture you endlessly! Before I kind of gave up on God. I stopped believing God for what I was going through at the difficult years of my life. As a solution and relief I started partying heavily, drinking alcohol excessively, smoking like a chimney, sleeping with someone who I didn’t feel special about. Everything I was doing pulled me closer & closer to hell. I was pulled by demons and was following what they prepared for me at the time. Devils make you believe that this life you live, you have to live it to the fullest, don’t matter what will come later. Because we tend to say (Fuck it I’m gonna do it coz I’m only gonna live once)!…Hell NO. We do not live once. Our soul lives on and on and on!!! So to people whom are having this so-called Nightmare, Evil spirit whatever you call it, IT IS DEFINITELY A VISIT FROM THE BELOW WORLD! I was told by a Spirit from above about this. I experienced many magical and also grim things that you would not believe but also some Will believe because they went thought it. But anyways now that I’m connected to the Spiritual world, I have to cleanse my soul and let go of all my sins, never to repeat them again. In this way I become the Holy person, messenger of my God to help others. But as I am a human and young, sometimes it’s very hard to stay holy & refuse. I have many friends that likes to party and drink…therefore sometimes I ask for forgiveness and just go with the flow and go out with my friends and party. But after I always get the visit from below. Because when I do the bad things, I no longer have the Aura that protects me, basically I destroy my protection from God by refusing to stay in their protection by going with the devil’s side. If one try, faith will try for them. So I always end up getting visits from the demons. They try to take my soul. I’ve had sexual encounters, my hair had been pulled, my chest pressed down, claws scratching me, they tried to do many things to me…even possessing my body and speaking out of me, turning into the disguise of my loved ones to fool me, many things they have tried. But I’ve learnt to stay true to my Gods and get away from the Devil’s side. Now with my strong belief in my Gods and with the will to pull myself together I no longer get visits from them. But if I break my boundary and open the door – I WILL…
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The past two years I have been going through a spiritual battle with evil spirits. I was homecoming queen, prom queen, and class clown in high school and never had a mental illness. I’m not saying that to be cocky I am just saying it to state that I was living a normal life. Then a few years ago I started having these night time experiences where you were sleeping but you wake up and can feel something holding you down, you can’t speak, and you feel fear. All I could do was ask jesus to make it go away and after a few minutes it would. It scared me at Sometimes you can feel something swinging you around the room. I also have suffered from demonic dreams. Where I can feel the Enemy doing things to me sexually or other demonic things. I can feel his claws up in my private part. Or sometimes I can feel his claws in my back pulling me up off the bed. I have sinned and messed up a lot in life. I had an addiction with sex growing up and always lied to cover it up because I was involved super much at church and had always been very religious just had an addiction with sex and never had an encounter yet with Jesus and I believe I opened a door for evil spirits to come in. They have absolutely destroyed my life the past two years. I have never had a mental illness growing up and all a sudden when all this stuff started a couple years ago overnight my mind and my dreams were bombarded with evil thoughts and words and vulgur things and the demonic dreams started also. I was seeing demon faces in my pillows and bible verses moving around on my dry erase board in my room and things shifting around on my wall. This was while I was awake, not laying down or sleeping. I just want ya’ll to know I truly believe it is spiritual. Since this stuff has started something has made me feel mute, deadened, and dark inside every single day spiritually and I really believe it is the enemy and because I opened doors by sin to let him in or allow him access to mess with me. I had to leave college when all this stuff started because I was trying to fast to make it go away and was struggling with darkness and suicide. Two years later the nighttime experiences have gone away! So many people have been praying for me and I haven’t had one of those scary encounters in over a year! I am still struggling super bad just by feeling held down spiritually and sometimes have demonic dreams still but I also have dreams of God and the enemy fighting over me. And of God’s arms reaching down pulling me up and speaking to me. I have fasted, prayed, and read my bible and nothing has taken away this darkness that I feel yet! But some of the darkness has gone away like the nighttime experiences and most of the demonic dreams as well are gone. I just encourage whoever is reading this whether you believe in God or not just to say a prayer to him and ask him into your heart and set you free from the bondage and darkness you are experiencing and also for him to be your Savior so you never have to be held down by this darkness anymore!! Even if you are thinking I’m crazy and don’t believe this stuff is spiritual, it never hurts to try and pray. God could take away those experiences like he did for me! “The enemy has come to steal, kill, and destroy. And Jesus came to give life, and life more abundantly. “John 10:10. I am not healed yet and am still struggling with feeling this darkness inside but I continue to try and stay in the Word. God has already taken some of the darkness away. God says choose life or death, blessings or curses. Sometimes when we sin we open doors for curses. I believe being tormented in your sleep is one of these things and also everything else I am going through. I am not condemning any of you because I have been the biggest sinner of all and so messed up but there is hope! God will feel you with his holy spirit that will help you choose life in your decisions everyday! That way you can experience blessings. He wants what is best for you! “And has a hope and a future for you! One to give you the future you hope for!” Jeremiah 29:11. “He loves you and you are precious in his sight”Isaiah 43:4 I just encourage you if you are going through a dark time to ask God into your heart and for his holy spirit! And to get into his word to draw near to him!! I am going through a battle myself and people have spoken into my life that had been fasting for me that said one day I was going to talk to so many kids about God and what I had gone through because of the sinful choices I was making rampantly in my life. That I was going to be a miracle showing nothing is impossible for God. Feeling like I’m in darkness right now i get scared or wonder if God is going to leave me because I’ve sinned to much. But God’s word says he will never leave or forsake you! And that once he starts a good work in you he will be faithful to complete it! I have been filled with the holy spirit and have spoken in tongues so I KNOW that God is real. I have the undeniable evidence living inside of me and able to speak in his prayer language. If something is stirring your heart or if you wonder if God is even real or want out of the darkness…take time to say a prayer to him and ask him to come into your heart and take away any darkness you’re having to go through and that you want to go to heaven and experience life abundantly on earth right now! Being tormented in your sleep in not a fun thing to go through! I tell ya’ll what others have spoken into my life because Maybe one day if I get completely better and God restores me like his word promises he will do after we have suffered a little while…maybe he will use me to help other people that I see tonight are going through some of the same things I have been through! Whether you believe in God or whether youbelieve or don’t believe this is Spiritual, if you want it gone what could it hurt to try and pray to God to take it away?! What if there really is a God who is perfect and died for you and loves you! Someone who wants the best for you! How could you turn that down? Isn’t it worth a shot to call out to God! It may take time but I urge you to pray for it to go away and to have prayer warriors pray for you too like I have had pray for me. It has helped take the nighttime experiences away from me! And it can help you too! My name is Macey Martina Smith so if you want to add me on facebook we can become friends and see how everything is going in eachothers lives especially with these nighttime experiences! God bless you! You are precious to him and he loves you! Call on the name of the Lord and be saved! Romans 10:13
This has happened several times as through out and still is occasionally. Didnt know what it was. The first times I was just paralyzed with a feeling of a malevolent presence watching me.. Another the same, paralyzed except this time I had no fear or anything of that sort, after a few seconds, the best way i can describe is like little feet were walking on me, along my arm, not heavy but light weight instead. All through out there was no panick or fear like I said, just awareness. Not sure what to think of this since it wasnt anything evil atleast didnt feel like it. As for the latest sleep paralysis experience I had, I managed to go through with it w/o panicking and getting rid of that evil presence, demon, whatever the hell it was. Only difference is I knew what waz up. So it would be all on how you think of your current state.. When I woke up and found I couldnt move, scream or anything basically, I knew what it was and just as the slight hint of panic and evil vibes crept in I calmed myself and took control of my consciousness (eventhough i was paralyzed) Atleast in my case that worked for me. Gotta say during those few sec or min Im not sure.. no fear or ‘demon’ was present just immobility.
I actually had that happen to me once, though untill reading this I had no idea what it was. I awoke from what I can only assume was a nightmare, to extreme fear and the inability to move. Upon regaining movement a few seconds later (in what felt like a weird adrenaline rush) I imagine I looked somewhat like a fish out of water, because internally that was what I was trying to do with the realisation that I couldn’t move. After my initial extreame panic, I was in a state of fear followed by hours of inability to sleep and vomiting. I was fearful of the experiance. I didn’t know what it was or why it had happened.
(I should note, hypochondria runs in my family, then again perhaps Im not the only one who assumed the worst) Irrationally I lept to the conclusion I was having a stroke. I thought I was dying… Or something.
Glad to know it was something as simple as sleep paralysis, because I’ve always wondered. Phew.
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For the past 6 months I’ve been free of the dark figure prescence type stuff but lately have been having weird moments when somethings pressing down on my chest and I feel the pain. From the start, I remember everyone I’ve had they all use to be in succession every night. I know for a fact that if I sleep facing down I’ll end up having sometype of thing attacking me, I know I’ll go into sleep paralysis, if I sleep upwards I’ll get a short dream of something pressing down on me and I feel the pain so I sleep not facing the wall (facing the wall gets me worried because I don’t know what’s behind me)
Anyway for years when I slept in my brothers room I’d be up till god knows what hour not wanting to sleep, I’d also be in the possition facing down, off my pillow with my pillow next to me so I didn’t see anything but though I was scared of seeing something I’d end up getting paranoid about something being there and then it would happen. Some which I can remember are of something coming into my room, me hearing it and then it running out. Also an early experience I remember are of me being in bed and a black figure coming up to me and tickling me relentlessly, I’d shout for my mum and she’d say she’s coming but never did.
After days upon days of the same old thing weeks upon weeks I ended up getting very angry because I knew they were coming so I moved room, still I was experiencing them, things jumping on my bed, things hitting me scraching me. One day I got to my wits end and screamed “Fuck off dad” (My dad died when I was 4) and it went away, and since then I haven’t experienced any at all.
Although lately I have been having the one of actual dreams were I could see the people and they’d end up pressing down on my chest until I woke.
One things I know that cause sleep paralysis is sleeping face down, and also getting paranoid over it, if you get paranoid and worried or scared you’ll force yourself into the situation and then be locked in a vicious circle. In the end I lost me temper and told it to go away and now I’ve been fine.
Wow.. I to have this due to years of Insomnia… Never seen a cat but definitely the Shades of the human forms doing mostly violent or mischievous things . The worst I had seemed like Aeons of time had past it was as if I was watching a bibliography on my life and future.. and the Future is a big time fear of mine cos we all dont know what it holds. I’ve watched myself dieing as on old man alone in a home (wide awake) but could not move. As far as it being scientific or paranormal; I; in my opinion believe this to take both phenomenons on. One must understand it maybe genetics and this chemical imbalance in the body/mind and maybe the mutual spiritual connection with your inner you. Native Sumerians and many old world ways believe this to be true… Almost like an alchemy of the mind!
Yes, it has happened to me many times. I think that the only way to find out what it is is to test it. I am pretty sure that it is linked somehow with lucid dreams, somnambulism and out-of-body experience. But I can be wrong. I don’t think that it is linked with ‘demons’. Maybe with people in the skin of a ‘demon’.
the one and only time it happened to me i was in bed with my rabid wolf. i nodded out and i was on my back. next i woke but i couldnt move. i was aware of the tv being on and something stepped in front of the light of it. i couldnt open my eyes and i tried and tried. then i could feel the being bend over me as to be face to face with me. then a fear came over me that ive never felt in all my life. it wouldnt stop no matter how much i wanted it to. those five minutes felt like hours. when it was over and i was released i woke my rabid wolf and begged her to hold me. she wouldnt know of this for about an hour, for i was too afraid to talk.
No evil sprits. Most Everything I think can be explained scientificly. It is not some religious Phenomena. Just like when they said mosses turned water into blood, that is just caused from too much iron in the water, which would kill the fish and cause the so called plague of insects at the same time. A chain of events.
I have experienced this a lot of time and I don’t think its an evil spirit… but a scientific phenomena Idk. But the last time I went through this I felt someone on top of me covering my mouth, I tried to scream but couldn’t, and I saw a black shadow with horns at the end of my bed but I think that I saw him because I had just woken up. Anyway all I can say is that it was a very scary feeling not being able to move or scream.
I’ve never had it happen to me, but a friend I used to have would go through it. She told me the only time she didn’t was when she had people sleeping over in her room. She had described it as a pressure holding her down and she saw what looked like a black cloud of smoke that hung over her. When I tried to help her discover what it was, it turned out that whenever she had it happen, it would always be a sexual dream before she awoke which led her to believe it may have been the workings of an Incubi or Succubi.
I first experienced sleep paralysis about 7 or 8 years ago. Quite possibly one of the scariest moments of my life – not understanding why i couldn’t move, why i could feel the most awful pressence nearby and what was going to happen to me at that point. At this point i feel the need to let everyone know that i have a very open mind as to what may be causing these strange things to happen, be it medical or phenominal. Each explanation has its valid points for me. the reason i am trying to look deeper into this some years on is that last night i had my worst experience to date with 2 incidents occurring in the same night for tthe first time, and from what i read no-one else on the forum has had such a night. Anyway here goes. Last night around 2:40 am i had my regular incredibly strong pressure on my chest i couldn’t move and in the past i have even been pushed up my headboard and put in a seating position against my will and helpless to control it, however last night i was kept lay on my back completely paralysed as usual… it passed as usual within minuites. About ten minuites later i had for the first time what another person on here described as like an earthquake but only i was shaking almost fit like behavior. I felt rapid continuous hits to the back of my head and base of my back to which i now have bruising? This is a first for me to be actually left with pain afterwards although i could feel the hits at the time they didn’t hurt at all untill this morning. I also felt as if i was being lifted from my mattress you know a feeling of suspension. I know for a fact i was awake as my first incident allways leave me unable to fall back asleep. I have read numerous articles about incubus/subbucus which relate to a sexual encounter but have never experienced such findings. I have read that general sleep paralysis can be early signs of narcalepsy but find this hard to beleive as if anything i am deprived of sleep with my unstable sleep patterns. I would love to learn the meaning of all this but fear i won’t ever find what I’m looking for unless it all stops. So if anyone else knows something i don’t i would love to know.
I started experiencing “sleep paralysis” a few months ago. The first 2 episodes i was dreaming i was in another home/bed. I’ve probably had about 10 of these all together and the rest have occured in the bed in which i was sleeping. I feel awake and i can see the room around me. It’s dark, middle of the night and I cannot move whatsoever. My fiance has been sleeping next to me in almost all of these episodes..and out of fear i always try to call her name for help. However, I am never able to make a noise. There is always a dark shadowy evil presence. He is either walking around the room or standing directly next to me. Last night was the first time i remember having difficulty breathing, when i actually “woke” up i gasped for air. This has had me worried, was i really suffocating? If so this is no joke. I’ve read the scientific explanations…apparently our mind wakes up before the nerve signals are sent to us that enable us to move and function normally so therefor we become in a panic and hilucinate our subconcious fears. My question is why do most people experience an evil presence? Usually a being of some sense. Most people have bigger fears of things other then things paranormal…in fact people who don’t believe in the paranormal still have these encounters. I’m not discounting science’s explanation. However, i also am open to the possibility it could be something paranormal…..
I sat reading some of these encounters last night after my visitation, prob not the best thing to do whilst in a state of fear but I needed to do some research.. it had a been about 6 months since my last encounter, I have moved house but i feel this was a diff entity, not one that followed.. years ago i had worse things happen, like being pulled thru walls etc. anyway, last night it started as a dream where a shaman woman friend of mine and i were in the ‘otherworld’, we turned a cnr and i saw a demon, i told her ‘do NOT look at it’ but it was too late, she looked and it entered her body, suddenly, she/it turned to me and started being sexual, it wasnt her anymore, it had a demonic voice, started swearing at me calling me all kinda of names then had its gross tongue in my mouth and trying to have sex with me, i became aware i was on my bed in my room and asleep so i started trying to wake myself up by yelling out “call the police!’, for some reason…. i heard myself yelling and woke up. my cat was on full alert to something in the cnr of my room. i lit some incense, grabbed my crystals and placed them around the bed to protect me, then commanded it to leave, but i was so shaken i didnt feel fully in my power to deal w it properly. it was about 2.45am, i stayed awake til about 6 as i was too afraid to go back to sleep. I lit a white candle and stared into it, trying to firmly imagine a bubble of white light around myself and extended it to around my bed, then room, then house, then drifted back to sleep safely. best thing you can do is white light yourself & smudge yourself and the house with white sage, or grandfather sage, which i am sourcing first thing tomoro. when youre in the moment of fear its not easy to fight it, but once i did, i screamed at it to GO AWAY, and flung a ball of light at it and it went and i woke up, must remember to do that next tie and not let the fear take over…. safe sleeps everyone… x
I have had it happen to me. I woke up and could not move or speak. My mind was fine and inside I was kinda yelling but of course nothing came out of my mouth. I did feel like someone was trying to strangle me and they were sort of sitting or pushing on my chest but it was weird because even though I was laying down on my back and felt that pressure on my front chest area- I felt like the person/thing strangling me was behind me and reaching around and breathing in my ear at the same time. A hot deep throaty breath. I felt really hot and I know that I was in a panic. But I tried to calmly tell myself over and over that it was just a dream and that maybe I wasn’t even really awake and unable to move. I tried consciously to remain calm and somehow eventually I just must have fallen back to sleep and when I woke up again everything was fine. It has happened only about twice to me but both those times were pretty much the same. I didn’t really “see” anything but just had the sensation or feeling that something or someone was there wrapping their arms around my body pressing in on my chest and breathing heat on me while sort of paralyzing me to where I could neither move or speak. It was scary for sure.
I call these “coma dreams”. You are partially awake and are aware of your surroundings, can hear what is going on around you, but can not completely pull yourself out of it for a period of time. As somewhat of a control freak, these experiences are what my worst nightmares are made of. I have had several of these in my lifetime, none accompanied with hallucinations. Although perhaps the hallucinations would make the experience a bit more fun, and distract me from the panic of being trapped in my own body.
Yeah…to me it feels like being trapped in a dead body…paralysed, can’t make a sound, I can see, but everything looks a misty grey. No demons, guess I’m lucky….or not
Amazing though, how many people experience something like this…
Oh so it’s not just me? xD. It happened to me once but I hope it doesn’t happen again. I woke up but I couldn’t move my body, and I started hearing voices and I almost shit my pants, until I finally broke free.
I’ve actually experienced the night demons twice in my youth. Later in my adulthood, I remember my mother talking about the incubus/succubus legends, so I was finally able to put a name to it. She told me to never sleep on my back as I would be visited by one of these night demons for the sole purpose of having sexual intercourse. I honestly didn’t believe her and laughed it off until it happened one night. Call it what you will, but it was after that last encounter, that I remembered the other two I had had years before. I also have a lot of nightmares. I wish I knew why this was. Oh well.
oh snap. so there’s an actual body position that causes this? I’ve only experienced it once, but I remember that I was on my back too staring at the ceiling and out the door. Last time I’m sleeping facing upward….
i acually have experienced it 2 times as well,once like 6 months ago,and one just last night!!!! its really hard to explain the whole thing,Both times was someone or something doing sexual stuff to me,all i felt was my body moving up and down,and breathing all the over me,no one was there,it was like air doing all this to me.Last night i had my hair pulled,i know i was asleep,but i felt it all,and i wanted to move but i couldnt,all i did was yell for my mom,and i dont even live with her anymore lol,i dont know if it was a dream or something was really there,its very confusing!!!
As I read this the dog begins barking in the living room…where I sleep. Shit.
I have experienced this as well. It comes and it goes throughout my life; when it comes it stays for weeks on end night after night it pulls me through It’s doorway. The last “episode” I experienced was about 4 months ago and it lasted for 16 consecutive nights. The first night was nothing compared to the stretch of the last 4 nights. It would enter my room, grab me by my ankles, and pull me through the hallway into the living room. There it would spin me in circles so fast I could hardly see anything. While spinning, it was almost like I had a 3rd person view from directly above as if watching a movie but feeling all emotions. I was terrified but I could not scream or even speak at all. I felt a pressure within my chest and over my mouth, it was like having a muted voice. I remember feeling so helpless and I could never fight back against It. It could do anything it wanted to do to me, but it never became sexual in any manner. It was more like a power trip for It. The strange part was that I could never see It, I could only feel Its presence and I could feel everything that It was doing to me. I could see everything that was taking place except for Its shape or form. After the 12th night or so, it stopped pulling me out of bed and just started pushing and holding me down with a crushing force. I can remember when this happened I could physically feel a weight upon me, and again with a 3rd person point of view I was watching myself lying in bed on my left side while this demon had its claws around my right arm pushing down on me. I could not see It’s face for there was only blackness. While watching this happen it was like I was trapped behind a glass wall and I could not help myself or intervene with what was happening. I started to become so terrified to fall asleep I would stay awake in bed for hours sitting upright not allowing myself to lay down for I knew what would happen to me if I did. I was afraid of It, and It knew. On the second to last night It came for me, I actually awoke during the episode and flew upright in bed. I stopped to look around me but saw nothing out of the ordinary; however, I had this overwhelming feeling that I had to go and find something to protect me… to keep It from me. It felt almost like a life or death situation… fight or flight. I ran to my living room and grabbed a picture of my sister that passed away that was hanging on the wall and I placed it upon my night stand. When I fell back asleep, It could enter my room but It could not touch me and It was PISSED OFF! On the last night, I remember falling… falling… falling… falling down a endless black hole. It seemed as if I was falling for a very long time when all of a sudden I landed upon a floor made of stones… almost as if I were inside a castle. I remember the stone floor was very cold. Around me were stone walls, and in front of me were two victorian-style chairs with a small table in between them which had upon it a shiny black crystal ball that was hovering in mid-air. Appearing out of no-where were two “demons”. One was in male form, and one in female form. I remember their eyes were dark black as if all pupil and open very wide. They stared at me for a moment, and I remember asking them “why are you doing this to me”? The female form began to speak to me, while the other remained silent, intently staring at me with piercing black eyes splitting right through me. She said for me to not be afraid of Her, and then she said word for word: “We can take shape into anyone or anything”. Then she began to shape-shift in front of me, alternating her appearance at least a hundred times and quite fast… as if I was watching a flickering flame. Finally she took the appearance of my dead sister… but she was slightly different; beautiful long blonde hair, red lips, long sharp claws, black eyes, and sharp black teeth. She stared into my soul for a long period of time, deep within me, and I could feel nothing but freezing cold. Suddenly, I was falling… falling… falling upward or backward… back up through the dark hole I had fallen into in the beginning. I was back in my room lying in my bed alone, and I awoke. I sat straight up in bed and looked over at the picture I had placed near me the night before to protect me, and I remember having this feeling that I was lucky to be alive. This picture has not left my bed stand ever since that last night, and I will not move it. I don’t want It to come back; but like It said… It could take the shape of anyone or anything. It could be around and I may not know it, that is the most scary part of it all. Maybe It is just waiting for the right time to grab me again? I think that if it were around me that I might sense it… and I have had strange feelings or sensations from time to time since then. I know one thing for sure: when I told my husband about It, It became very angry with me and it would spin me faster and push down on me harder. It did not want to let me go, and It wanted me to Itself. It wanted me silent, as It would never allow me to speak or scream. What the fuck? Any thoughts?
First of all are u christian? Second i have not exactly had this experience but i had one experience where that I was lying down and fell asleep and had a nightmare then awoke and could not move i could only feel something looking at me and seeing a dark figure wanting me to come foward and give something but i was not sure what. And also i could feel something touching my arm i looked at my arm seen nothing but looked back at the demon like figure and thought to my self i looked this up on the internet before im suppose to try to pray so i did and i asked Jesus to make it go away then i opened my eyes and seen it again fading away then i could move again i did not panic for some reason i just thought to my self that was scary but then i just went back to sleep. Any way my point is that Jesus is are savior and he can only make them go away not a picture sorry. My main thought upon the demon female saying they can change into any form is true that is stated in the bible she was warning you but actually mainly trying to scare you don’t be scared. But the scary part to me is why the heck did she state to you “don’t be scared” that is the only weird part she was being nice?
Demons are evil they don’t care about us so i’m not sure on that one but just pray about it and please reply to me at wnscasey@yahoo.com and tell me more if anything else happens and I will try to help.
PS:hope i helped
When I read this, I thought… so maybe that’s what it was! I had an experience, once. I was half asleep when I felt someone get into bed with me. I remember thinking it was my boyfriend, but then I remembered that we weren’t together anymore. I was awake now! And I was terrified because I could feel someone/something spooning me and touching my breasts. (I’m not making this up) I couldn’t move… I couldn’t scream. My eyes were open… and I wanted to see who/what was in bed with me… but I felt like it wasn’t human, and the sight of it would kill me. I remember just lying there, hoping it would go away. And I guess it did, and I went back to sleep. What do you think?
This is very odd, ironic, yet interesting, that the author of this article experienced a cat scratching his face because this happened to me once. As I write this, I’m so struck by the experiences that I’m reading that tears are falling out of my eyes for some reason. Its like a staunch sureness that I KNOW for a fact this isn’t something scientific. There’s no way that a guy on the other side of the country can experience sleep paralysis, feel as he is in the same environment in which he fell asleep in when he arrives in the lucid dream, and experiences a cat scratching his face. There’s absolutely no scientific explanation for that.
The last time I got it, which was about half an hour ago, was the first time my parents were able to acknowledge I was getting it. I was trying to scream in my lucid dream, however, these screams were translated into moans in the actual world. My dad heard this, and as I woke up from the dream, he came out of his room saying “what was that noise”. He finally believes me that I get this. But now I’m asking myself, “how do I handle the situation with the person that comes and visits me”? He isn’t a pleasant person. He often makes me feel uncomfortable, tickles me in an uncomfortable way, its hard to breath, and like that, you are awake. The second to last time I got this, I was in my room. I wasn’t able to move my body enough to wake myself, thus I arrived in a lucid dream in my room. Since this has happened to me oh so many times, I grabbed a folding chair in my room and waited for whatever was coming, to come. Once it opened the door, I swung that chair like crazy at it and I woke up very very very fast. To those that experience it, turn your fear into anger. Grab a weapon when you arrive in the lucid dream and take out your anger on your visitor. I know thats harsh to say, but obviously you feel fearful for a reason right?
I have seen the demon and the faceless black figure over and over. It always happens at the same time of the day..early morning like 6:30am. It’s always after my husband has gone to work and I’m alone in my bed. It has never happened when he is there. I am awaken by a force on my chest..it won’t let me sit up and it is holding my eyes shut but I try to force them open. It feels evil but I’m not afraid. It’s like everytime it comes it lets me see a little more. I feel completely awake. Everything in the room is the same as when I shut my eyes..cups on end tables, clothes draped in certain places. This is no dream. I feel as though this entity is following me. It has happened in several differnt places and even different states. I have also seen myself as a ghostly figure and I knew it was an evil thing?? I don’t understand any of this. I was adopted and I met my biological mother 10 years ago. She told me about some similar things happening to her before I told her about my episodes. I have never been afraid which is what’s weird. I feel protected almost. I feel like this thing is with me all the time. I use to be a very compassionate person before this all started happening but now I dont feel much of anything. I have no remorse and go against the norm I guess u could say. Most would never think that from the outside looking in. I am 37, married with three teenage sons but for some reason look like I’m 23 and have a body like an eighteen yr old and things come very easy to me. Do I think this has something to do with it?? Yes. This all started 18 yrs ago..I have experienced fame, fortune and lived a life that most could only dream about and still am. I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this same thing. I’ve read several stories that are close but not to my extent. I talked to a priest when it all started. It begain with my first pregnancy and the was most prevalent during my seconde pregnancy. The priest told me that one of my children was going to lead mass amounts of people to god and that’s why the demon was coming. Here comes the weird part. My middle child is not 17. I do not go to church and have not raised my children that way. My 17 yr old has found god all by himself. He is the lead singer to a christian rock band and preaches to large amounts of teenagers and has a huge following. He recently tattood psalms 23 on his ribcage. He is no doubt a soilder for god. Then there’s me…so dark. What does this all mean.
My son, who’s 3, began having night terrors recently. I personally believe this phenomenon is a bit like astral projection, let’s call it “mental projection”. It can be a harbinger of any event (good/bad, doesn’t matter) I’ve had some success with reciting a mantra. Concentrating on the words of your own mantra may break up the fear, and the concentration you’re placing in the visual or auditory “hallucinations”. My thoughts
I too have experienced sleep paralysis. I think it’s awesome because I find it to be very interesting and different. I haven’t panicked during it, though. I rarely see anything and when I do, it is of some object in my room turning into something or doing things that are unusual. Lately, it has felt like I am going through an earthquake but the only thing shaking is me. lol & now I do start to hear noises. I just think that it’s because of the lack of sleep but I haven’t found anyone yet who has gone through it.
Wankers…. i have had sleep paralysis many times and yes it is frightening the first few times it happens. But people, there are no demons or bogeymen. Alot of you sound severly retarded. Serioulsy. its the 21st century isn’t it?
Yes this has happened to me i never really sleep well anyways. I am somewhere else and there is a man stabbing me over and over again. I feel it all the blood running , and even tho i am not speaking i can hear myself scream . Until finally he no more and its all ways the same man. Never seen him before in my life but a strange uneasiness says i will all in do time.I have been having them since i was 5 and yet again the man seems to never change but the vision change and never for the better. Its kind of funny i never told anyone this before and here i am letting it spill on a website hmmm not sure if that is good or bad but in all due reality i do not thing i would ever know.
This happened to me when I was really young. I just woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn’t move or say anything. I was a bit bothered by that because I didn’t know what was going. It was pitch black in my room and felt some kind of presence looking around in the darkness. I’ve had some really lucid nightmares and probably the reasons why I don’t sleep much anymore. I’ve heard that incubi/succubi could invade your dreams which I had in one account. I was floating in a black abyss and right across from me was this naked female with very pale skin with glowing red eyes screaming nothingness at me and I screamed at it back with force making it retreat into the darkness making me wake up from the nightmare. There are reasons why we should fear the dark but also embrace it at the same time.
I get that all the time. It’s very annoying. I think it happens to me because of lack of sleep.
I’ve never had visions before when it happens, but I force myself to move as quickly as I can because I panic, and I feel like if I don’t break the paralysis soon, something bad will happen.
I have always had these problems. Out of all the nightmares I’ve had these are the worst. I couldn’t move…or even breath. Then nightmares joined the suffication. There was nothing, but darkness and two blood red eyes leering at me. I got the sense that it was going to eat me. I urged my toddler body to move or scream or at least breath. Finally, my struggles woke me up. Of course I didn’t have a nightlight and so I just sat there, hoping that I would never sleep again. Thats not the only problems I’ve had with something weird. My family thought I was possesed because I talked in third person, I saw gruesome images all the time, I sleepwalked and I watched my family while they slept. Many of those have ceased, but every now and then I wake up whimpering from a forgotten dream. Some of the dreams come back with vengence, though. Actually I created a way to wake up.
1. you have to realize that you are dreaming
2. close your eyes and concentrate until your veins are ready to explde (the pain awakens you)
3. count very slowly, but with determination to ten
4. if it doesn’t work try, try, try again
I hope for those of you like me have been able o block out these things because the mind and soul can be controled.
I have had this happen to me once, and it was rather terrifying…at first. Then I started to realize that I DID have (and still do…) a paranormal being living in my home. I believe it is a Shadow Demon, for I did a rather ignorant thing a while back. I did a Sayonse (I am only 15, forgive my spelling) a few weeks ago with my friends because I wanted to speak with my Great-Grandmother who passed away. I did not close the circle the proper way, and that, in turn, led a Shadow Demon straight to me. So…I have had REM…but the Shadow Demon was holding me down.
My husband had I have both experienced and very often. This morning he experienced it 3 time the first two I was the to wake him up. The last he said he kept waking up inside of his dream only to find out he was still dreaming. Finally he actually woke up. Sometimes we have them at the same time. Buy we always hear the other person while sleeping. Which is great!! I hate when it happens. It has been something we as a couple have grown to get use to since it happens so often for us both. I only wish these dreams were full of happy visions instead of terrifying ones.
That’s kinda amazing stuff. It’s weird how sometimes random Internet surfing can get me in places like this, where really cool things can be found. I’ll be back
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this has never happened to me =( it has been an experience i have wished to have tho, like living through a rollover car accident didnt want that one as much but that one i actually got, 3 flips at 75 and walked away not even a scrape… here some advice relax dont panic and have a plan… in case it happens to you
yup, i had experienced with this. in my country, indonesia, it is called TINDI(H)EN. when it happened to me, of course i couldnt manage to move my body, as what you said, and i saw a black figure standing on the corner in my room but i didnt know what was that bcos i was so afraid. and sometimes when it happen to me i feel my body become so cold… i dont know, maybe because im so afraid of it.
u want to talk about demons in ur sleep imagine having seen them creep in the shadows fallowing u ur whole life having talked to them in dreams but not knowing what words were exchanged. i even have a picture were i was looking @ the camera facing the window n behind me on the other side of my room in the closet door peering out was a light i took the photo n put it on myspace then from their i saw the light behind me thinking their was a figure o an object reflecting light i edited it on myspace when i turned the brigghtness n contrast up in the photo it a was a hooded figure just barely peering thru the doorway standing their no eyes no face just a black figure in a cloak/hood it turns out what i saw was the top of the hood going over the dakness were the face should have been i still have this photo i still have deams with this and other things like it i dont know what they tell me all i kno is their watching waiting idk what for but i have my evidence n recolection of even waking up out of a dead sleep n standing right beside my bed it was their n a terrifying second i felt like i was dead n i blinked n opened my eyes to see nothing beside me…
my best friend tells me there are shadows that follow him i should ask him about the sleep thing
this had happend to me not to long ago…but i felt someone on top of my back and i couldnt move at all, olny my eyes moved with panic.. i tryed to move to turn my light on and when i did i felt released and i quickly looked up and had seen a black figure on my wall and then quickly vanished…but i honestly did not think someone would ever have the same experience as me
i’ve gone places while in sleep paralysis. Either there in my mind or in alternate realities. The best part is I can push myself to go to those places or times. And i can sense when a demon or someone is nearby and sometimes talk to them. I was with my friend and we saw a demon turn into a black orb and take off down the street into my house. My uncles, mom, grandma, friend, and I have seen it or felt it. Can anybody else do this too? I only know one other person strong enough to travel to outer realms
I’ve had something like this happen many times from childhood to adulthood. They aren’t as frequent, but I used to wake up in the middle of the night as a child surrounded by snakes, spiders, maggots.. etc. Thing was that I could still move though. My eyes would be wide open, and I could see my entire room including my grandmother sleeping next to me. I could move out of what I thought was there and lean over to wake my grandmother up. Of course, she thought I was nuts. Personally, I don’t know what causes it, but it’s made my life a little less dull in the long run.
This Happens to me all the time. I have seen black shadow demon like cats coming from my bedroom walls- to gargoyle things bothering me at night well i sleep. There is times where I can’t move a mussel and i’m paralyzed. I use to be scared, But not anymore. I just kinda learn to live with it. This has been going on since I was 21 I am now 30 years old. it is getting worse as i get older… I’m not sure why this happens… sometimes I think it’s real (Demons) some times I think not… (maybe since is right) I really don’t know…. it’s weird tho. thats for sure!
I am a victim of sleep paralysis all the time. One time quite recently I felt like someone, (or something,) was reaching into my right lung. When I woke up there was nothing there, yet I still felt a strange pressure on the right side of my abdomen.
This morning my experience was worse than it has ever been. I felt like the paralysis went on for nearly 10 minutes and every time I came out of it I fell right back into it. In the corner of my living room I could’ve sworn I saw an alien in a black cloak of some sort standing next a woman in some kind of red cloak with designs on it. My vision was blurry so I couldn’t really tell what her face looked like or what her hair color was. Again, when I awoke there was no one there. I’m not sure if this was a hallucination due to my fear of aliens or something that actually happened. Either way it’s a little peculiar that I never connected the two until this incident.
i’ve experience this for almost 2years. its actually the most scariest thing ever. ive dreamt it, ive woken up to it. ive felt myself get pulled out and they alway put me on the floor when it happens in my dream on the same spot.. then when i snapped out i always wake up back in my bed. everyone thinks im full of it..but i believein it. like i had it the other night and while i was dreaming i felt as if my soul moved to the floor while i was trying to snap out i could here my mom txtn on the bed while mybody was sleepn nxt her.. when i snapped out i woke up and i seeen my mom txtn so i know my soul was indeed not in me it was on the floor where i dreamt it but it felt so real. i told my mom when i got up but she doesnt take me seriously.. maybe someone on here can? please contact me. bcause ive delt with the not being able to move or talk, sometime i just feel like im being watched. i hate it. email: a_herrera121@yahoo.com
I’m taking psychology right now, and we went over this.
Sleep Paralysis is when you are actually asleep. It is a type of dream. You do not wake up at all during the entire experience. First, a piece of background so this makes sense. Your brain stores everything you see in non-accessible memory, far past your conscious, in your preconscious. This means Sleep Paralysis is actually your brain remembering exactly what your room looks like when you are asleep, and “displaying” it in your dream. However, Sleep Paralysis is scary because you have an unusual awareness of your body while you are asleep, yet you are unconscious and therefore incapable of moving.
Essentially, its being a teeny tiny bit more conscious than usual during sleep. Luckily, there are no negative physical side effects, and it doesn’t mean you have metal problems.
This happened to me a few times before. I was so scared because i couldn’t understand what was happening and I tried to scream but i couldn’t .At least i could move my eyes :O After a few seconds I was okay.
i think maybe its something we need to face that we push aside, and if its putting out lives on hold by not dealing with it, this is almost an unconcious effort by our conscience or something? sorry for the less-than-detailed response, i hope you know what i’m trying to get at here
I HAVE experienced sleep paralysis. It has happened to many times but has no real pattern to it, though I think I’ve found out why its happened. You mentioned scientists saying it could be a cause of stress or enviromental change. Those were the exact reasons I encountered S.P. It happened to me twice when I was going to a private school, which was the enviromental change going from living with my Dad to living at a private school and it happened the first night I was there. Its called Milton Hershey School by the way. This was 8th grade. I experienced it yet again towards the end of the same grade. And again during 9th grade when I was still there. As of August 2010 I do not attend there anymore. The earliest time I can remember encountering S.P. was as early as Elementary School which again was a cause of enviromental change, I moved from Pennsylvania to Florida and now Im back in PA. I remember the first time it happened, the night I woke up I opened my eyes but couldn’t move my body. I tried screaming but nothing came out except mumbles, and as I tried harder to scream it slowly went from mumbles to more understandable words. I never saw any type of figure or shadow my first time, It wasn’t until Milton Hershey School was when I encountered it yet again. I had the same problem like my first time but instead everything got black like having the lights off and staring into blackness for long enough that it seems like its getting darker. It happened again towards the end of the year. I woke up like I usually did and had the same problems. My head was faced towards a wall and as I tried gaining control of my body I saw writing on the walls, to this day I have yet to figure out what it says. I can still picture it but the letters are too dark to get a coherent message. If only I could experience it again.
P.S. I have experienced the heavy weight on my body once out of 3 times encountering Sleep Paralysis
I remember something, and I never knew what the hell it was, so I’m starting to think to myself, pondering the possibility that this is an explanation.
I remember once when I was a little kid, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the shadow of a ehhh, muderous Duck? coming from my kitchen, I screamed but no noise came out, screamed again and noise came out.
A few years I woke up in the middle of the night and saw what appeared to be a rotting woman’s face behind a wedding veil, inches from mine. But I distinctly remember twisting around after staring at it for nearly 30 seconds. Don’t remember falling back to sleep, but remember waking up.
And then theres something about a lizard man I remember very little about……lol
This is very interesting, a few times I’ve woken up seeing things around me, but I have other odd occurences in sleep as it is, I carry on conversations and have woken up attacking myself. Anyways, back to sleep paralysis. Ive seen this woman who stands over me, some black thing with green eyes sitting on my chest(i could feel that), and a little boy. Are they remnants of the dream still going through your mind?
I used to have this all the time, from when I was an early teen until now (although it’s much less often now: from a few times a week in my 20′s to a few times a year in my 40′s).
In my early experiences, I would suddenly start dreaming that I was awake and there was a figure (sometimes it was the ‘Blue Lady’ , other times a vague figure with extremely Long Fingers). I would try to move in the dream but would not be able to, and when it would touch me (a burning sensation) I would become fully awake, unable to move, and feel the sense of waiting menace, a faint roaring, and the irresistable feeling of falling backwards. The menace would fade as my ability to move returned.
When I moved to my current abode, the ‘Blue Lady’ was replaced by a smaller, dark haired lady whom I called ‘Yeth’ ( she always pretended to be my wife, and when I would ask her if she was, she’d answer ‘Yeth I am’).
Still, all these experiences would begin with a dream and end with the ‘character’ touching me (usually in the ribs).
Oddly, I’ve never had Sleep paralysis when my wife is in the house, only when she is away.
I had always supposed that these ‘attacks’ as I liked to call them were a side effect of my ‘Out of Body’ experiments (since those usually end in the same way, except without the feeling of fear and menace). I’m not sure that I ever believed them to be from an ‘external source’ (ie. demons or spirits or the like), but the fact that my devout christian wife seems to keep them away makes me suspicious.
It’s good to see others enjoy the same kinds of experiences, although I really feel for those of you (like Nicolette) who seem to have a terrible time of it.
Hi I guess this is what Im suffering from , a family friend told me that this is the case im in , I used to get this feeling every other day than I went to a therapist Cause at the time I didn’t know that its a sleeping disorder , I thought it’s the devils presence .. I shake and shiver and get goosebumps all over my body and then I always hear demon like voices or men laughing at me and I hear my own moms voice yelling my name , Meanwhile she is deep asleep … The first time I thought it was an earthquake and second time I saw my grandma 3rd time I saw 6 little girls playing in my room in a circle and laughing and 4th time I herd the devils laugh loud and clear and he was breathing really loudly and I herd banging and after that when I came out of the paralysis I yelled and fainted and my mom came and helped me and bought me back to consciousness & after 7 minutes later at 1:30 a.m we were watching t.v & I saw a green face with horns and a scary smile on the tc screen and I herd the same devil laugh but Im pretty sure I was hallucinating that part because my mom was seeing the regular movie while I was seeing something else … And now it has been about 1 month , a little less than a month actually that I have been kind of okay but every now and then I always get the paralysis , Does anyone know any cure to it ? please tell me , I have experienced sleep paralysis over 25 times now & I have to say it gets scarier and scarier
It is a purely neurological phenomena. Nothing to do with demons.
I don’t believe in god and, therefore, demons either.
It has happened to me during my teenage and early adult years.
I personally believe that it is caused by something that is troubling you psychologically. During all times that it happened to me, my mental state certainly wasn’t the soundest. Neither was my home life.
It stopped for two years and then it came back stronger than ever in 2005. That’s the year that I personally put a stop to it.
Over the years, before the sleep paralysis would happen, I developed a face to go with the feeling of terror that I would feel when this happened to me. It was a vague female face, most likely inspired by the countless horror movies, visual art, and novels that I have consumed over the years. I would always avoid confronting this woman and when I did, that’s when the sleep paralysis began.
I faced her and one night and instead of struggling to move my body, I relaxed myself mentally and physically. A few seconds later, I was able to move just fine. It hasn’t happened to me again since then.
i dont believe in god either but demons are real… everyone carries at least one im sure of it
I have had this happen to me a few times. But only when i fall asleep on my back. Its a werry creepy feeling. I feel like i am falling into the matress but a part of me is also floating up to the roof. I try to will myself to move the fingers on one hand. knowing i can waken myself that way.
I now make shure i dont fall asleep on my back!!
hey. yea it happened to me as well, i saw death standing next to my bed and little devils crawling all over me,,, creepy feeling
I was interested to read your story on sleep paralysis. I have encountered 2 such incidents in my lifetime thus far. The first one happened when living away from home for the first time at college when i was 18 living in rented accomodation. I awoke to find myself not being able to move. I felt a presence in the room, then behind me (I was on my side), then suddenly something grabbed my shoulders from behind and a voice said “i’m still here” and then I awoke or at least I thought I had. I was grabbed again from behind and hear the voice again repeat “I’m still here”. The shock jolted me awake again. I wasn’t sure now if I was actually awake yet or not but I lay there for at least 15 minutes before I willed myself to move. It took me a good hour or so to sleep again after that.
The second time was the day after I got back from a music festival about 9 years later. I woke up but couldn’t move, again I felt a presence in the room. I couldn’t see anything but I could feel hands on me and they moved down me towards my ankles and then proceeded to drag me off the bed. I remember ending up upsidedown against the wall with ny head between the bed and sidetable. I believe you could say a “succubus” may have been involved.
Wow yours seems evern worse than my case !
i suffered from frequent sleep paralysis. i remember the first time it happened, i saw a man with long, blonde hair in his face, so i couldn’t see his face. he was choking me, and i could see that all down his arms were open and bleeding gashes, and he was bleeding all over me. i couldn’t breath, couldn’t move. i also suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. auditory hallucinations. yay for the wonders and hells of the human mind! we are our worst enemies. and before we can do anything about the others, we must save ourselves.
Morgue I had Sleep Paralysis happen the other night. I distinctly looked at my clock it was 12:58am. now I know when trying to do Astral Projection often we end up in a sleep paralysis not filly attaining what we set out to do. Anyway I distinctly remember being awake my eyes open but i couldn’t move, by the time I could I looked at the clock and it said 4:30am. Now I found this odd because it had only seemed to me that only a few minutes had past not a few hours. Anyway that happened a few days ago thought I would share.
kinda like a visit from an incubus……ive been told its wild
Things have been happening to me on a frequent basis now. Last night I could have swore my dog, which always sleeps with my daughter, jumped up on me, she’s a Chihuahua not that heavy. Then my daughter seemed to lean across me, then my wife leaned over me and was saying something but I couldn’t hear her and I asked to repeat it several times, but I still couldn’t hear her. Finally I was yelling for my wife, I had fell asleep on the couch and everyone else was in bed. It seemed like my wife came beside me, but had short hair like she did when she was younger and actually hid her face by putting her hands in front of my face. Finally I set up, yelled for my wife and went to bed. The strange thing that always happens all the time is I can never see a face for one reason or another. This has gone from happening once a year to several times a week. Can anyone explain what’s going on with me?
Read my comment , worse happens to me and I have a chihuahua too and another time recently while he was sleeping next to me and I went into sleep paralysis My dog was starring at me and growling and making a very scary face and after I was able to move I saw that he was just sleeping normal like he always does.
I couldent help but ask this. I haven’t had sleep paralysis, (maybe once, but its a fuzzy memory) but I’ve had nights where ill wake up with parts of my body hurting, mostly my arms and my legs, and sometimes ill find long black hairs on my pajamas. There’s few rare moments that I can feel myself being held down and the room temprature is extremely cold, but when I open my eyes its gone. The room still seems cold but there’s no sign of anything but me in the room. Its creepy.
What scares me the most is that I dont know when its gonna happen, and when it does its scares me so bad. everytime sleep paralysis happens to me i am still layin in my bed and I see a dark shawdow-like figure with a monster like face covered partially by a black hooded robe standing in a corner of my room staring at me and when i see him he starts to run at me but does not attack. perhaps the attempt to attack is enough to leave me breathless.
OMG !! that’s so scary !
that happens to me too except a little different and i agree with you , you never know when it will happen and when it does it scares the heck out of me like no other
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I’ve had multiple encounters with sexual demons or appropriations . I’ve been trapped in “sleep paralysis” only three times . The first time I fell asleep dreaming in vibrant colors of pyramids and strange symbols … in a strange realm … then the “thing” had it’s way with me despite how much i struggled to move … The second time i called to the “incubus” to lay with me in my dreams … desiring so much to have the feeling again … that night it happened and it felt more real than any sex I’ve ever had . The last time it was self-evoked . . . I believe the most loved and respected Loa ” Erzulie ” not only gave me a vision of herself when these things began but also that a “god” from another dimension wants to pleasure me and himself sexually , and must think I’m attractive (which i am very grateful for ) . he can make me cum many times without a true physical touch … I have for so long been looking for someone to share these experiences . I want to know the names of the ones that make me cum … I want to meet them . They do such a better job than any flesh and blood , man or woman ever could . i love the idea of losing control to this being … i more than often wish it would not end …
I have had this happen to me many times. Everytime it’s happened I was able to open my eyes and make noise but was not able to move my mouth. Once it had happened while i was watching Sid and Nancy high on opium. I tried to call out for my friend that was there with me, but all he could hear was these whimpering noises but noticed my eyes were open.
Freaked the fuck out of him.
It’s good to know there’s other people with this paralysis.
Brap on……
I think I have experienced this. My case is not really weird. I remember in one of my “terrifying hallucinations” I saw a woman combing her hair in front of a mirror. I can’t remember if she was looking at me or not. My other experiences are common: I can’t move my body but my eyes are open(at least I think that).
I have a friend who has this experience very frequently. I visit his blog and he write about his sleep paralysis.
Well I think this topic it’s really interesting, and more interesting is what the persons tell us about his or her thoughts, what religious persons, the scientist, etc say about it. And yes, I agree with the person who said: “Though very interesting points and opinions and beliefs have been made in previous posts”
PD: Sorry for my bad english, and greetings from Peru
It’s happened quite a lot to me so far. I hate when it happens but I’m becoming used to it. I think it’s neither scientific or evil spirits… it’s just our subconcious playing tricks on us…. the dark shadowed figure is probably something/someone that was in our sleep and the image of said thing/person is carried into the hallucination…. maybe.
Though very interesting points and opinions and beliefs have been made in previous posts
Hi, it has happened to me too.
It’s like I am awake, but I’m paralyzed on the bed and I can’t open my eyes. It’s so scary. I always tried so hard to scream for someone in the room to hear me and wake me up but I couldn’t scream. At the same time, although I had my eyes closed, I could see the room and things in the room.
It has also happened to a friend of mine several times. She had the sames symptoms, she was paralyzed, but she always saw a black thing sitting on her chest.
yeah I try yelling to ! :/ It’s so hard or I always try to move my hand atleast
Morgue, my friend, you are dealing with demons. Someone close to me has had an experience almost identical to yours, minus the cat. Also, there were several of these tall figures. In time, it will only become more frequent and worse. A few months ago, this person was physically dragged from their car to a guardrail, which overlooked a cliff. Demons are attracted to negative energy, so if you are upset or angry about something, they will come back. Because our beliefs differ, I cannot tell you what we have done to get them away from us because I understand that you wouldn’t try them. Oh yes, I too experience things of the spirit world, but that is because I do believe in God and they are out to destroy me. It doesn’t matter if you believe in God or not, demons are real and they are deceivers. Even the US government knows of them, and there are documents to prove their existence. That is, if you believe that David Morehouse’s book, Psychic Warrior, is real. I do. His experiences hit too close to home. If his book is a lie, then I would have to say that it’s the best fictional story that I’ve ever read.
But anyway, in your case, I would suggest trying to stay positive. Don’t let them feed off of negativity. Demons hate us. They’ll make us believe that they care for us or even love us. I am currently working to rid myself of one who has done nothing good for me ever. I believe that it’s the same one who was with me during my darker days of old. From my studies, I have deduced that demons hate all humans. They use trickery to cause us to believe that they can give us powers. They can manipulate our minds as well as the minds of others, causing us to believe that we have the powers, but they are the ones who are causing things to happen. Like I said before, I do believe in God. How can I believe that demons are real without believing that God is real?
I’m not here to preach. I’m not here to judge either. Anyone who wants to discuss anything with me can reach me. You can believe my words or you can disregard them. I do not lie. Most people don’t agree with my beliefs, even most Christians don’t agree with my “theology”. I believe that I’ve been put in this world to become a spiritual warrior. I’m still in training, but I do recognize the presence of demons.
Let me ask you all this. How many here have ever caught a glimpse of a twinkling light (or several) in your peripheral vision? How about shifting shadows close by? Demons. Stay positive. Try not to let anger or fear into your mind over anything. And if you know that a demon is near, think of something hilarious and crack up laughing. They hate for us to laugh and they will eventually go away if we get ourselves caught up in a laughing fit.
Hope that helps and I also hope that my beliefs didn’t upset anyone.
Peace,
Scott
I found your blog interesting. I was sure what was happening to me was sleep paralysis, but I’m not so sure and like you said it just comes more often. From once every couple years to almost 2 or 3 times a week.
Thanks.
Bill
Hmm… that’s pretty creepy Morgue. Luckily that has never happened to me before although quite a few strange things have happened while I was asleep.. For example, a few nights ago I was over my friend’s house asleep and he said I kept repeating the word “Akuma” in my sleep… I looked it up on the internet and the really creepy part is that Akuma is japanese for devil
i’ve get sleep paralysis quite a few times a week most of the time i see my dead ex-military grandfather standing in my closet or a renaissance time looking wiccan woman watching me
I have had this happen my entire life…the occurences are normally far apart and always vary..sometimes I feel as if some demon is trying to take my soul..most times I try to scream for help and can’t…they have been so bad before that when i finally could control my body, I have fled from my bedroom and stayed awake, too terrified to fall asleep again…only one time I experienced the Succubi…I felt a hand reaching between my legs and it startled me, but that time was not scary
I believe it is demons, I dont believe there is a scientific explanation to be found!
This happened to me a few times as a teenager, and happens much more frequently now. I’ve had problems with nightmares since I was 5, and I’ve assumed its my mind attempting to escape from them too quickly, as I have to fall back asleep to awaken my body. I can tell there is another place where the nightmare is that is pulling me back like a magnet. The last time this happened was the first time I had a hallucination, I thought I kicked some furniture trying to awaken and heard my pet crushed to death under it. I was so distraught when I woke up later I actually went to tell my family what I had done, they told me she was fine, and asleep in her bed, I checked and she was. I’ve been very, very careful about how much sleep I get since then, I avoid naps over 15 minutes and make sure to be asleep by the early morning.
hi after reading the comments to this update i am sort of scared by this but my mate’s sister is spritual (off the chart) and i am sure that she has experienced this aswell.
she belives in demons and angels, she has had an eposode where she has stoped talking to her parents and brother and started to speak in anchint aribic and drew a sketch of the Incubus but the sketch wasnt compleated but it was just the outline she went to the church and showed it to a priest and he said that it was the incubus and he told her not to panic then told her an incubus may pursue sexual relations with a woman in order to father a child
after that she started to have sleep paralysis she would dream about the incubus every night for 2 months she fell pregnant on the last day of the 2nd month she new she could not have a child and no one stoped her from having an abortion she requested the same preist to witness this act and he did because he knew then that it was the incubus who impregnated her
I have experienced this too. very interesting subject. I have been reading up on this for quite some time now. The scientific explanation for this is really not a “proven” fact yet when it comes to the images people see. Here is a conclusion to an article on the subject ~
The origin of hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis is still not clear, but many neuroscientists supports that it has some connection to anxiety. So far, many studies on Sleep Paralysis and hallucinations have been done on neurobiological level, but there are many aspects and questions yet to be discovered, explained, or answered. Why do some people experience hallucination and others do not? Which factors determine the hallucinatory images that each victim sees or hears? Are they really hallucination or evil spirits? The hallucination during Sleep Paralysis remains mysterious.
What’s interesting to me is why are most of the hallucinations so very similar in being an evil presence, black shadow or evil face. Many people have mentioned being raped, choked and waking up with scratches on their bodies. So here is evidence that you can see – SCRATCHES most people only believe in what they can’t see but I think that is foolishness.
There may be chemical & physiological reasons that you are particularly susceptible to these sleep related incidents but I think it has more to do with the altered conscious state we experience during sleep that makes us all more vulnerable during sleep to a spiritual world.
Lets not be so closed minded. We need to consider all the options, not just focus on one explanation because we are afraid of the other possibility. After all, ignoring it doesn’t make it false or make it go away now does it?
Correction on the typo above- instead of …most people only believe in what they can’t see …I obviously meant…most people only believe in what they “can” see
Hi Morgue!! Finally I found somebody that gets this, I ´ve been experiencing this think, most of all lately.
Yesterday I was taking my beauty sleep, it was like 4 pm not too late, then I opened my eyes I was in my room ,suddenly something was grabbing me through the air, and pinching my nipples very hard.
I was so scared, but it´s something that im very used to, it´s like a demon that likes me and comes to seduce me but in a very bad way, sometimes i can hear his voice telling me am a slut.
It´s funny because later that night, after midnight, around 3 am something opened my drawer just like that! Even my dog was scared.
I have many experiences like this, and as I told you , its kind of normal, but ppl think am crazy and that this thing doesn´t exist.
There are ways to scare the demon….he can goes away if u scream or make a deep strong sound with ur mputh at the same time u woke up.
Sincerely yours,
Val
Kisses Morgue
Such a creepy feeling! I had it happen only once but if fucked me off. After that dream the feeling of not being to move is the only thing that gives me the creeps
It used to happen to me all the time as a teen. Luckly it hasn’t happened in
years. It’s a terrifying experience to say the least.
Yes I know of this. I didn’t want to post it on facebook. This has happened to me too many times. Allot of freaky stuff has happened to me Morgue. Bed shaking as I was held down.. and hearing squeeling and growling every time I’d fight saying Jesus help lol. Not sleep paralysis for me. Objects fricken flying at me and crashing through the air. It’s called possession. I do believe in it. Since I’ve been a victim. Until you’ve gone through it I’m sure you people won’t believe me. That’s fine and dandy. I hope it never happens to anyone else. I will note why they did this to me. My aunt Kim is a Jahovah’s Witness and she kept coming over making me study her bible.. They were pissed off! Especially after she said It’s the devils fault for her fucked up life. I told her if I were him or them. I’d come after her… People or religious leaders have no right putting there bullshit sucky life problems onto them. She said oh Ang the Devil has you in his grip. I said no one has me in there grip.
I said I face my demons .. maybe you should start instead of blaming everyone else. We have not talked in 6 yrs since that. She needed to hear it. And I was no longer being attacked. I told them I was sorry for letting her around me. She’s worse than any devil.. Trust me lol. People like her go around pissing off all the nature gods.. Or what they like to call devils and daemons. They are only starting a war they won’t ever win. I say respect all great and small. If you go around pointing fingers.. shit will happen to you.
Thanks Morgue for this post. Sorry I wrote so much! There’s much more that happened but too long and I’m sure you don’t wanna know.
May Yahweh watch over and protect you & may the light & love of Jesus wash over your soul
God Bless
Sweet. Love stuff like this
I guess no will really know what the hell goes on. The human mind and body are beyond any scientific explanation, in my book. There’s just too much we as humans can do. Most of us are just not open to the thought because we don’t consciously know how to use our full brain. Maybe you were tapping in to your powers ;D As for demons, I don’t believe in them…unless you’re talking about that little beast that lives in each and every one of us
okay, once i had realy interesting dreams. idk if that was sleeping paralyse, but …
i was dreaming about going to the doctor and waiting for the blood results, and at that time i started coughing and i couldn’t breathe. and that part is realy confused to me, but i remember that i opened my eyes for like 3 seconds and i was choking (then i fell asleep again). and i was dreaming again, i opened my eyes, sat on my bed and looking around my room. and because i don’t like dark much i wanted to turn on the light, and i saw myself lying on my bed, sleeping. i was just standing there and i was like: wtf?
then something wierd pulled me into the corner, and i was at the hospital. around me were my friends that i love the most, crying. one gave me a toy (which i realy got like 3 weeks after that dreams :S ). and i was telling people that i’m not dead (doctors were around me trying to re-alive me), i was touching myself, counting my fingers, all confused, almost screaming that i’m still alive. they didn’t hear me. and then i was at the darkest place i have ever seen. i was all alone, and i started to cry, thinking about my friends, people that i love and care about, my mistakes that i made in my life; and i saw the light (like a lot of people say that they saw the light when they almost died) and decided that there’s nothing worth living for me anymore. and when i was walking to that “light”, Chester (Bennington, Linkin Park’s singer, my idol, and hero – you’ll say that i’m a crazy fan, which is NOT true) grabbed my hand and said:” you see now? you always gave up. why? tell me one good reason? don’t you see that people love you? you would just left them like that?” … then he gave me whole life lesson about alcohol (which was getting the real problem for me), drugs, and he told me things about myself that i always knew, but i didn’t want to admit it. and while we were talking i heard my mom asking me about something that we were talking last night (reality not dreams), but i couldn’t answer to her, cuz i couldn’t move or open my eyes, and Chester was like: listen to me! not her!
later i have to say that i will be a better person and i will stop with alcohol,and after that he wished me good luck, and i was again in the hospital, where i woke up in front of my friends and they were all happy…
when i woke up i was soo scared, but this dreams also inspired me to do something with myself, that life is good if you want it to be.
idk if that was sleeping paralyse, but i have a lot of times psychic dreams about what will happen, and they always came true
lol i wrote a lot!
and sorry about my bad english :/
- TheBurningRed
My boyfriend experiences frequent sleep paralysis especially before we lived together. The fact that it happened more before makes me think it might stem from paranoia or vulnerability. He also had his unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic brother living with him at that time as well, so maybe it was some kind of transference between them. I’ll try to have him come visit your blog and comment his experience. Much love to ya.
If you want to stop them, setting forth a regular sleeping pattern, cutting intake of stimulants (like caffeine), and meditative practices should help. Of course, if you’re like me, and won’t do all those things, sleeping pills could help.
-Necrophiliac
In response to someones question, I am not sure how to stop them. Judging by the comments it seems quite a few people have experienced this! Or are my subscribers just a touch insane? Haha good.
Anyway, I find them to be inspirational.
-Morgue
I was recently raped by a demon… 50 times… it sounds insane but I was wide awake and taken advantage of. I know people who have been raped in their sleep by demons… it is possible. I believe this is what happens in sleep paralysis that a demon comes and harasses you. Of course there are other reasons but, I’ve seen far too much in my life to say every reason is scientific
Sleep paralysis has also been attributed to be the possible cause of the sensation of being abducted by aliens, as the visual and audible hallucinations accompanied by an inability to move describes the phenomenon very accurately. Problems with REM sleep can develop into brain chemistry imbalances, though, so be sure to get at least a couple nights of sleep in which the demons remain in your dreams, not on your face =]
-Intern “Necrophiliac”
Wow… So THAT’S what happens to me. I have had many strange things of that nature happen. I , however , have seen thee face of Death. . . Surreal. She smiled and danced before my eyes. Sleep Paralysis.. Hmm, makes alot of sense now. Thanks for thee enlightment dear Morgue. -Stain it RED.
I experienced it a few weeks ago in the morning (somentimes I sleep ’til 11am
. I felt a little robot under my bed moving and turning it and asking me “what do you want?” a few times. I couldn’t see it but I knew it was a robot. As you said my eyes where open but I couldn’t move, so I closed and opened them again and after a few seconds I was completely awake…it was really weird.
Morgue, I am very intrigued at this phenominon (sp?) and I will admit, i have had something very similar occur on many occasions. You see, my grandfather on my mothers side passed away when i was 7 years old, and since then I have been experiencing Sleep Paralysis. I ususally do not feel a weight on my chest, but once or twice I could not breathe. It felt as though i was being suffocated. My grandfather used to do unmentionable things to me when i was a child, so i believe the paranoia of him returning from the grave as a Night Daemon is the cause for these Paralysis episodes…If you have any suggestions on how to avoid this feeling please help!
-STAIN IT RED!-
1) Ok Morgen, I’ll be sure to cut my black cat Sebastian’s claws so when he cuddles up to you, or kisses you he won’t accidentally claw your face!
2) I’ve had Psychology of Dreamsm for my Spring ’10 semester, interesting that you brought this topic about. It could be “demons” within you you have to work out, but only you know what they are. I’ve only recall having this happen once or twice. Once from when I first drank alcohol when it seemed to do this same effect & when I was a kid, but only pick up on it dreaming or in the dream state. I couldn’t call it a type of astral projection but interesting if it’s something you could manipulate at your control.
@Beka R, though it could be a deeper psychologically seated dream, a sleep paralysis state (as I understand it) is more just a problem with continuity of the brain wave pattern associated with REM sleep, usually caused by the reasons Morgue mentioned in the blog. The hallucinations are generally just a realization of one’s deeper fears. The reasoning behind this is simply that, when one is in a state in which one is disabled contrary to one’s expected state, and then the brain is still in a malleable sleep state, the fear of inability to act calls out one’s deeper seated fears. It can be caused by previous trauma, phobias, etc. but sometimes it can just simply be whatever the person experiencing it finds to be truly frightening. Because a dream state is thought to be essentially a psychedelic state attributed to DMT release in the Pineal gland (see DMT – The Spirit molecule by Dr. Rick Straussman for more info, incidentally I’ve recently learned it is being made into a movie) it can often very closely resemble a psychedelically induced panic state, commonly known as a “Bad Trip”. Very interesting stuff =]
-Necrophiliac
I’ve had unregular sleep patterns my whole life. I know why. The part of the brain that was damaged at birth because I was born very early and have Cerebral Palsy. Is the part that makes the seratonin. So, that’s why I get up in the night, etc. Cuz, I don’t have enough saratonin. I also have anxiety and depression. Because of this. However, I’ve never had anything such as seeing black cats scratch me on the face or what not. I think I know why. I would stop breathing 20 times a day when I was a baby from Sleep Apnea. One time my mom and I wew up north and a funny moment in a movie we were watching happened and I started laughing and I was drinking pop at the time. When all of the sudden I stoped breathing for 15 seconds my mom told me that she thought she was gonna have to do CPR on me. She told me that I was turning all kinds of colors black,blue,purple,white. When I finally came to I thought I was dreaming. So I just layed there until I woke up. But then I realised that this wasn’t a dream. That it was real. So I stood up. I know why this happened. Because of my Cerebral Palsy my left side of my body isn’t as strong as my right side. So, I guess it was to much for my heart to take. So, that’s why I went into cardiac arest and stoped breathing. I’m not afraid. If it happens again. I won’t be afraid. Cuz, I know that He will be there to save my life from death. He was there to save my life from death all those times when I was a baby. As well as in the trailer. So, I know He’ll be there again for the millionith time to save me yet another time from death. As I always say: “Miracles Happen To Those Who Believe”
I have never had a sleep paralysis without being able to control my body. I have had experiences of me sitting still and getting into a deep trance, nearly paralyzing my physical self. In such cases I have visual and auditory hallucinations which’s description would be highly similar to the one in the article. I was at all times still fully awake and I could pull myself out of the trance, but the vivid hallucinations are more powerful than you would get with any kind of drug. And to think I only used my body for this… simply odd.
Has anyone else here had deep trance experiences involving extremely vivid and pleasant hallucinations?
:O dude i think this happend to me a few times before. I have memories of waking up but i couldn’t move and i’d try to shake myself cuz i’d be seeing somthing horrible in my room. but it was hard like i was stuck. ive seen a girl with black eyes hiding and watching me as well as tall forms. oh gosh this freaks me out now….. but at least i have a name for it?
I DON’T HAVE THAT HAPPEN BUT WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN YOU DON’T SLEEP INSTEAD YOUR BODY WILL ONLY MOVE WHEN YOUR IN A SPECIFIC VISION OR MEMORY OF A PASTLIFE AND YOU FEEL EVERYTHING THAT’S HAPPENING TO YOU ?