EPTThis has only ever happened to me once. I can't think of anything I did to lead up to it - I'm sure I wasn't getting a lot of sleep at the time, but that's pretty typical. But it was a shitty enough experience that I dreaded going to bed every night for at least the first few weeks afterwards. Good times.
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Flaccid
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This has only ever happened to me once. I can't think of anything I did to lead up to it - I'm sure I wasn't getting a lot of sleep at the time, but that's pretty typical. But it was a shitty enough experience that I dreaded going to bed every night for at least the first few weeks afterwards. Good times. | ||
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Vansetsu
United States1454 Posts
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apalemorning
Canada509 Posts
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bartus88
Netherlands491 Posts
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stolensheep
United Kingdom306 Posts
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
Hundreds. But that's because I often use WILD for Lucid Dreaming. Once you know what it is it isn't scary at all and is actually a great chance to enter into a lucid dream. \\[QUOTE][B]On [/QUOTE] Whoaa can you elaborate more on that please? | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
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dartoo
India2889 Posts
On November 14 2011 23:59 Waxangel wrote: I guess a lot of people find this scary, but personally it just strikes me as annoying? From what I hear, with some people it's frequently combined with nightmares of someone (ghost, monster, whatever) sitting on them or holding them down, which intensifies the experience... so I could see that being fucking scary. Yes this exactly, I used to get these when I was around 14-15, and I used to have a lot of dreams and nightmares (it was turbulent period..teens).Whenever this happened it was normally after a horrible nightmare about some stupid daemon, like the kind of stuff you find in doom, but just a ton more scary. I also remember at times my face would be shoved so hard into the pillow that I couldnt breathe and I would thin I was going to die lol. I think it's just the person waking up with your eyes, but not waking up mentally for some reason., atleast thats how it felt. And when you regain your senses it gets back to normal. | ||
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NeonFox
2373 Posts
On November 15 2011 01:38 dartoo wrote: Yes this exactly, I used to get these when I was around 14-15, and I used to have a lot of dreams and nightmares (it was turbulent period..teens).Whenever this happened it was normally after a horrible nightmare about some stupid daemon, like the kind of stuff you find in doom, but just a ton more scary. I also remember at times my face would be shoved so hard into the pillow that I couldnt breathe and I would thin I was going to die lol. I think it's just the person waking up with your eyes, but not waking up mentally for some reason., atleast thats how it felt. And when you regain your senses it gets back to normal. Where I live it's called "being raped by the devil" lol, and it's more your brain waking up before your body, you are conscious but can't control you body. | ||
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Obstikal
616 Posts
They are usually like 20-30seconds long it seems. I'm glad that I never hallucinated before I researched it I would've freaked out as a child lol... | ||
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VaultDweller
Romania132 Posts
On November 15 2011 00:52 Flaccid wrote: Haha, you didn't mention the best part - that it can be coupled with hallucinations. Like you're awake but still dreaming. And you can't move. So you see something like Vego from Ghostbusters II bursting from your ceiling and you get to lay there and watch it like a dumbass. That is indeed the "best" part. I've had this happen to me 3 times, once when I was maybe around 10 or 12, I couldn't move but I was able to open my eyes and I was seeing a freaking snake right next to me so I was thinking "the snake paralyzed me and now I'm going to die". Stupid kid. The other 2 "incidents" happened a few months ago and both times it felt like someone was sitting on me. I do freak out, complete paralysis is one of my worst fears so it kinda sucks having to face it, even if reason tells me what it is and that it will pass in a few seconds, some part always wonders "but what if it doesn't?" | ||
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brachester
Australia1786 Posts
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MeriaDoKk
Chile1726 Posts
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On November 14 2011 23:59 Waxangel wrote: I guess a lot of people find this scary, but personally it just strikes me as annoying? From what I hear, with some people it's frequently combined with nightmares of someone (ghost, monster, whatever) sitting on them or holding them down, which intensifies the experience... so I could see that being fucking scary. I think they are called hallucinations, not nightmares. They don't feel like dreams at all and it takes some time to realize that they didn't actually happen. For me it used to be a stranger entering my room and watching me. When I could move I actually had to get up to check no one was there. People have suggested that many people who claim they were abducted by aliens actually suffered sleep paralysis with hallucinations. This doesn't surprise me at all and if it happened to me I'm 100% sure I would have thought it was real. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On November 14 2011 23:59 Waxangel wrote: I guess a lot of people find this scary, but personally it just strikes me as annoying? From what I hear, with some people it's frequently combined with nightmares of someone (ghost, monster, whatever) sitting on them or holding them down, which intensifies the experience... so I could see that being fucking scary. More than annoying for some people, can be very disruptive to sleep. One time I did have it combine with a dream and it was freaky. I was in bed my old room in my parents' house at night, but it was lighter than it should have been. Like a really bright full moon or a light with a slightly blue hue was shining in through the window. I found I was unable to move, and began "levitating" out of bed, the covers falling away. I tried to yell but couldn't move or utter any words. After floating a few feet into the air and a few feet to the side of the bed, I began to sink, not falling like I would with gravity but as though something was just letting me sink slowly toward the floor. When I touched the floor the wierdest part was my body started to pass through the floor and it felt so strange. The only way I can describe it was that it FELT like I was passing through solid matter, if that makes any sense at all. Once I got up to my arms, I woke up in a completely dark room in the middle and at about 1:30 in the morning completely able to move. Very, very strange experience. After that I fully understand why "alien abductees" become so convinced that they have been abducted, when in fact they are likely suffering from a sleep disorder such as this. It felt completely real, every part of it. Had I not woken up when I did, I might be so confident that something paranormal didn't happen to me... | ||
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HackBenjamin
Canada1094 Posts
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AmericanUmlaut
Germany2577 Posts
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IndoorSpawningPool
United States99 Posts
I have no idea why it happens so much but one way I have found to make it happen less is to go to sleep on my side (I usually dont move around when I am asleep) Edit: I have never had them from nightmares... 75% of the time I am dreaming that I am walking around in my house. | ||
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Tweleve
United States644 Posts
Shit is fucking scary and if you don't get your shit together quick it can be a really horrible experience | ||
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