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

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?

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:56:12 +0000

I’ve only ever experienced SP once and it terrified me, I’m sure I was waking up because it was daylight, my vision was all blurred (an example would be when you stand up too quick and you get funny colours that block your view?) but I could still see my room, just about, didn’t have any hallucinations or hear any noises, apart from hearing my screams in my head! Couldn’t move, felt like I’d been sown to the bed!! I calmed down a bit and I remember asking myself “WTF is going on?!” and to this day I still have a *lol* moment whenever I think back to it! Anyway I pretty much passed out after, I don’t know, 30 seconds? Returned back to sleep! But after it happened I googled it and have been googling it ever since, it may have scared me the first time but I kinda want to do it again and see what it’s like now that I know more about it. I’m weird.

By: May

May — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:29:26 +0000

I have been trying to figure out what has been happening to me in my sleep.. Sometimes when i am sleeping, or trying to drift off to sleep.. i have this strange sensation come over me, it feels like a im falling into darkness and then usually i find myself in the beggining of a bad dream. From here when i try and wake from this dream im caught is SP and i try and scream but nothing escapes my throat but a inaudible whimper.

I have learned to identify that this sensation will occur in a bad dream/ night terror, and its not about anything in particular, just this horrible feeling that makes me feel like im having an anxiety attack.

what is this sensation? and how can i make it stop?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:48:46 +0000

Here were my symptoms:

Vibrations/shakes
Got really warm
Could not move unless focused
Eyes flickering

I was also on my back.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:44:24 +0000

So Ive never had this until about 5 mins ago. It started when I was dreaming of a ghost in my house.. When I focused I snapped out and woke up. I did it about 3 more times and it scared the hell out of me. My questions are why did I just expierence it, and how do I explain that to my girlfriend without her thinking im crazy? Lol.

Thanks