Comments on: How does it feel to experience Sleep Paralysis?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:16:25 +0000

Just tell yourself that nothing bad will happen then ride it out. Believe.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:13:01 +0000

Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. There are many of us who experience sleep paralysis on a nightly basis, although some of us will learn how to control it and mitigate its effect.

My best advice to you would be to stay calm and never let the thought of an “intruder” overpower you. Once you learn to control your thoughts you can use sleep paralysis to launch into a lucid dream or make it stop. Also, watch out for prescription drugs… you might want to try medical marijuana (cannabis indica strains) if your state has a legal medical marijuana program. The side effects are far fewer and less taxing on the body than those related to prescription drugs like Clonozepam (Klonopin in the USA). But don’t take my word for it. Do your own research!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:47:34 +0000

I am reading all of this for the first time and three months ago I would have asked you all what you were smoking. I have been experiencing what everyone describes as SP for two plus months now. I actually went to my doctor last week in hopes of finding out what was wrong with me. She did not give me a name for what I was describing but did ask if I was under an unusual amount of stress. She prescribed Klonopin to put me into REM sleep faster and asked that I take it one hour prior to falling asleep. I explained to her that almost EVERY night I experiene what most would call a nightmare. I couldn’t explain it any other way…….
My experience is a buzzing feeling throughout my body but I feel as though I am awake. My body will then begin to levitate off of whatever surface I am sleeping on. I will then begin gently spinning back and forth until I am lowered back down. It happens so frequently that even today napping on the couch it started right as I fell asleep. I could hear the television clearly and knew that I was on the couch but thought I was still awake waiting to fall asleep. It doesn’t matter where I sleep I am aware of the room I am in as it happens.
I have learned to enjoy the levitation but what follows is what sent me to the doctor. I will become paralyzed as everyone else describes, when I hear someone enter my house. It usually starts with the sound of the front door closing, then footsteps getting closer to the room I am sleeping in. This is enough to start the panic because I feel like I’m awake and am frozen to the bed/couch. I can see my wife sleeping next to me but cannot speak to wake her up. I have learned (if this makes sense) to start shaking my head violently back and forth in order to wake myself up. I have actually gone through this process several times in one session, each time thinking that I have successfully woke myself up only to hear the footsteps gettin closer. On one occasion after falling asleep on the couch the intruder came in the back door and placed the barrel of a gun to my forehead. This time I felt as though I had awaken from deep sleep but could not shake the “grog” and was glued to the couch.
I was standing in the bathroom earlier, wondering if it was going to happen again tonight. I wasn’t able to get the prescription filled and being the weekend I started to worry about it happening again. It was then that I decided to try to search the internet for answers. I started typing “feeling of levitation while” when the search bar finished the sentence for me. I was more than a little suprised that there was actually a name for what I was experiencing. I must say that I am a little relieved to know that I’m not alone………
I would like to talk with others who are having the same experience and you may post my email address if your site approves.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:17 +0000

Last night i had it for the first time

I had vibrations around my body ( almost orgasmic )
And my eyes were flickering alot and i felt like struggling to keep my eyes closed.
And my heart was beating really fast

It was the most amazing sensation but i got too excited and opened my eyes too quickly and i woke up.

Any tips on how to stay calm during it?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:04:17 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience Sharee.

Knowing whether it will happen more frequently now that you have “recognized what is actually happening” is difficult. However, I will state that I am a firm believer in knowledge and its power to change brain function. What this means is that since you now are familiar with sleep paralysis you will be able to study it more and learn some techniques on how to control it when it does happen, thus minimizing the negative effects it might possibly have on you.

I have been experiencing sleep paralysis for over 20 years and I get it maybe twice per year now, where each instance only lasts a few seconds and is not scary at all. What I have done to minimize the occurrence of sleep paralysis has mainly been to adopt a better sleep schedule. I don’t drink alcohol and try to be in bed by midnight and wake up by 8-9. Nine hours of sleep is ideal. Stress also pays a big role in the occurrence of sleep paralysis so I’ve found ways to minimize the stress in my life, such as doing exercise (like yoga), meditation, utilizing alternative ways of thinking (like not getting angry over trivial matters), as well as moving to a calmer city.

So in the rare case that I do experience sleep paralysis it is on my own accord and usually a pleasant experience since I never let it frighten me and inversely using it to launch a lucid dream of some sort.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

By: Sharee

Sharee — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:24:40 +0000

I first experienced this 4years ago while staying at a friends house.. I woke up to a little boy about 6years old running up and down the side of the bed staring at me wanting to play, I was paralyzed watching him, tried to call out but could not operate my voice. I finally got feeling after about 10minutes and went and slept on the couch.
I then experienced it again 1 year and 21days ago while I was travelling near Noosa. I was camping in my swag and I woke up to a man trying to unzip my swag, my entire body was paralyzed again and i was petrified. I tried to scream over and over for about 5minutes then heard a cry out and it was like I woke myself up by screaming.
The third time was tonight which brings me to this site, I knew it was happening before it started but it was so different… I was in and out of the bodies of two people a women and young girl and something bad was about to happen, I woke up when the husband was behind me then fell back asleep then woke up again two more times. My eyes were so unbelievably heavy that I rolled over and semi fell into sleep when a male spirit was lying behind me tickling my feet, poking my legs and then spoke in my ear to see if I was awake. I then woke again and fought for a good half hour to keep my eyes open as they felt like a kilo each.
I decided to get my phone and google ‘heavy body dreams’ and this sleep paralysis came up.
It is the scariest thing I have ever experienced… especially the last two episodes. Will this become more frequent or less now that my mind has recognised what is actually happening?

By: ANDY

ANDY — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:55:38 +0000

The experience is quite freaky, but i am amazed that no one wrote why it happens? – I can only say that this is natural and is experienced by almost everybody the reason being-it is a type of complete mis-match of mind and body act-many times our mind wakes up slightly faster than the body which a type of mismatch between our mind and body may be because the part of the brain which is controling the movements of the body is still not in action. so,from next time please enjoy it.

By: Elena

Elena — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:04:16 +0000

last night i read about lucid dreaming. i found it to be very interesting and i wanted to attempt it. i read that you may hear strange noises an become paralyzed. i kept waking up in the middle of the night and then falling back to sleep seconds after. i woke up once again at 9:00 am and thought, “i don’t want to have a lucid dream.” i closed my eyes and became unconcious. moments later, i heard strange noises like faint whisperings and hisses. i’m a very paranoid person and those noises caused me to panic. then suddenly i heard a man saying, “do not panic. you are beginning a lucid dream.” he kept saying that 3 times. i found that ridiculous since i hadnt read anything about hearing someone say you are having a lucid dream. it was all darkness but i felt hazy. i also felt like i was being held down and like there was a massive weight on my torso. it was hard to breathe. i read that i had to remind myself that nothing was real. i tried imagining someone i wanted to see, but it was just darkness and there were small, colorful orb-like lights. could it be that i almost had a lucid dream? or was it all just a normal dream, if i was dreaming at all?

By: isaac

isaac — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:47:41 +0000

I’ve only experienced it if I’m extremely sleep deprived. That being said, my SP experiences are unusual. I do not have multiple sensations during them, nor do the episodes vary in the least. They are always the same.

This whole phenomenon is crazy! It’s like all civilized reason goes up into a puff of smoke the moment we turn out the lights. Sure, I acknowledge and accept the scientific theories on the subject, but still–why must we have this? Do animals ever experience SP?

By: jay

jay — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:58:10 +0000

Do you think that sleep paralysis only happens when people are getting the appropriate amount of sleep?

I usually encounter sleep paralysis when I go to sleep at a reasonable hour. The screaming I hear I can deal with but the tingling kinda creeps me out. However whenever I stay up until late (around 2 or 3 am) and then go to sleep I never get sleep paralysis. Is there a correspondence to how deeply or lightly one sleeps and sleep paralysis?