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Now, I am totally skeptical of this sort of thing (though definitely less than I used to be). And I already know a bit about what science has to say regarding the topic of sleep paralysis. But this was very, very strange.
Anyways, I wake up last night in my hotel room to turn the AC off at 5 am.
I go back to sleep
at 6 am I hear a strange sound, like someone says "Ritchadooo!" in a funny voice.
I open my eyes and look in front of me and I see some creepy looking ghost/shrouded figure hovering over in front of me, and it slowly starts reaching down and grabs my ankle(I saw it, but didn't feel it)
it then straightens back up. meanwhile im like "woah, what is that, ok calm down, breathe, breathe, breathe, be calm" but I totally kind of started hyperventilating lol.
anyways, it goes like it's going to reach back down again but then I am not sure what happened, and suddenly I am awake.
and the whole room feels freezing ass cold, and I was soooo cold, even though I was under the sheets and blankets. I never get cold while I am sleeping, normally. Even when just under like 1 sheet. Also that room was like, seriously weirdly cold. I had to get up and turn the heater on and leave it on for like 45 minutes, just to warm it up a reasonable temperature. Then I went back to bed.
I have had sleep paralysis happen to me before, but not in a very long time. And I have always woken up tired and confused, but this time I awoke with my mind very clearly and I was very alert.
And my sleeping habits are very patternized, 7-8 hours every night at the same times.
That morning I got up and cried for a while, wasn't even sure why.
 
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Cocaine is a helluva drug
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Kinda sounds a 1408 moment. Are you sure you didn't dream it?
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Yeah I think that was just a natural dream/sleep_paralysis. In fact, I think getting scared by something while being paralyzed like that is common, but it's never happened to me. I think your mind was exaggerating how cold it was because of the circumstances, but you also may have simply overdid it with the AC.
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On September 01 2008 16:01 Ozarugold wrote:
Kinda sounds a 1408 moment. Are you sure you didn't dream it?
I don't know what a 1408 moment is.
Did I dream it?
I know the difference between dreaming and being fully awake, and this was neither.
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Reminds me of the lucid dream I had where I swear I thought I was getting attacked by a ghost. In the dream I *woke up* to the sight of a broom floating in mid air. It kept hitting me like someone was swinging it at me and I was scared shitless. Then I woke up *for real* to the sound of myself screaming rasply.
Fucking most terrifying experience of my life. It took me like an hour before I got the courage to get out of bed, and this was in the morning. I called my friend just so I'd have someoen to talk to as I went downstairs to the closet where we keep our broom/mop. AND IT WASN'T THERE. I was about to have a heart attack for a moment before I remembered my mom had been cleaning the bathroom upstairs last night with it, and it was still there.
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On September 01 2008 16:02 micronesia wrote:
I think your mind was exaggerating how cold it was because of the circumstances, but you also may have simply overdid it with the AC.
Yeah, I would think that too.. but normally I am sweaty when I wake up from sleeping, even if it is cold in the room I am sleeping in. And I was seriously like, wrapped up very tight, but my body was like freezing cold and bone dry.
I am a pretty levelheaded guy... I can't say for sure that my mind wasn't playing tricks on me because it was such a strange experience, but seriously I am pretty good about not exaggerating stuff like this.
and I turned the AC off an hour before I re-awoke, and the room didn't seem that cold then and it wasn't that cold outside.
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that's creepy, i would have kicked it's ass
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FUCK its for sure a ghost. Thank god its a hotel ghost and not your own house ;O!
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could be a dream, or just an example of some of the whacked out stuff that you can experience when sleeping or trying to sleep
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On September 01 2008 16:00 DanceCommander wrote:
Cocaine is a helluva drug
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On September 01 2008 16:12 mahnini wrote:
that's creepy, i would have kicked it's ass
LOLOL
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On September 01 2008 16:07 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2008 16:01 Ozarugold wrote:
Kinda sounds a 1408 moment. Are you sure you didn't dream it? I don't know what a 1408 moment is. Did I dream it? I know the difference between dreaming and being fully awake, and this was neither.
Ah, 1408 is a movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. It's pretty trippy and quite entertaining.
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visited by a ghost?
There's no ghosts.. It was just a dream. No need to cry XD
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On September 01 2008 16:39 Piste wrote:
visited by a ghost?
There's no ghosts.. It was just a dream. No need to cry XD
ok guys, case closed!
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1408 is the cell number of the ghost that was murdered... and came back to haunt YOU travis, YOU!!! great grandson of the man who murdered him!!
his name was Ritchadoo
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Or you could try finding out the history of the room you were given rent to(not from the hotel management, of course). 
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Wait so... you fell asleep, something happened, and then you woke up?
I think I know the answer.
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i think you witnessed your soul trying to leave your body
maybe u were dieing?
i'd be really concerned with this
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Fuck i got arnd 7 times sleep paralysis happen to me this year. Now its not as scary. But there was this time i heard a voice, it said " YOU MAY DIE NOW" , like wtf? And ur eyes are open but ur body cant move. I hate it when it happens. Usually i feel extremely comfortable and light, and my head hurts before i sleep and the sleep paralysis will happen when i sleep. And i always see this human-shaped silloute, like a shadow. It always happens at around 3 am, and i always awoken when it happens.
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1408
1 + 4 + 0 + 8
Room 1408 and floor 13 are not included in some American hotels because people are superstitious. I know this because I read some Stephen King books, where this is par for the course.
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On September 01 2008 17:59 HypnoticPoo wrote:
Fuck i got arnd 7 times sleep paralysis happen to me this year. Now its not as scary. But there was this time i heard a voice, it said " YOU MAY DIE NOW" , like wtf? And ur eyes are open but ur body cant move. I hate it when it happens. Usually i feel extremely comfortable and light, and my head hurts before i sleep and the sleep paralysis will happen when i sleep. And i always see this human-shaped silloute, like a shadow. It always happens at around 3 am, and i always awoken when it happens.
i think you should start changing your lifestyle
eat different food, exercise, try some relaxation techniques. Its a sign somethings wrong
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On September 01 2008 18:18 rottedchode wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2008 17:59 HypnoticPoo wrote:
Fuck i got arnd 7 times sleep paralysis happen to me this year. Now its not as scary. But there was this time i heard a voice, it said " YOU MAY DIE NOW" , like wtf? And ur eyes are open but ur body cant move. I hate it when it happens. Usually i feel extremely comfortable and light, and my head hurts before i sleep and the sleep paralysis will happen when i sleep. And i always see this human-shaped silloute, like a shadow. It always happens at around 3 am, and i always awoken when it happens. i think you should start changing your lifestyle eat different food, exercise, try some relaxation techniques. Its a sign somethings wrong
Haha you think? I guess its due to stress, quite stressed lately.
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it's actually kind of common to see a person standing by your bed or even sitting on top of you when you're under the effects of sleep paralysis, it's sometimes called Old Hag Syndrome or something like that
i'd give you a link but google turns up a bunch of paranormal websites and
well
you know
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Ghosts and spirits are for cowards.
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Now I don't want to sleep.
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It is 5:45 in the morning and I have just woken from another dream.
I was in a spaceship, I believe, with 3 other people. We were running from alien spiders. They were going to eat us. I have always had a fear of spiders.
One guy committed suicide. The other one died, by accident, somehow.
It was down to me and another, and we were trapped.
We began to have a conversation, I will start from when I can remember
Me: "... but I am afraid. what do I do?"
Other: "....But you chose this... there is nothing to be afraid of"
Then I know that the spiders are almost there. I hear a noise, and I wake up.
now it is like 2 minutes later and I am typing this. I left out a lot of the conversation, I wish I could remember it.
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and yes I know that sleep paralysis is not dreaming but I thought it was relevant.
back to bed I go, lol
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I had many cases of sleep paralysis, and before I found out it was actually a sleeping condition, I thought I was being attacked by Satan (no joke).
The first time I've ever experienced it, I was lying in my bed and heard glass breaking and my mom screaming, and a few seconds later I tried to move but couldn't. I don't remember how long it took me before I woke up, but I was terrified during the hallucinations.
Now, I know the exact feeling that rushes towards me before I become paralyzed and wake up at will when it comes.
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i hope this never happens to me >_>
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There is nothing "obvious" about it.
science and spirituality don't conflict unless you arbitrarily decide they do.
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On September 02 2008 01:16 travis wrote:
There is nothing "obvious" about it.
science and spirituality don't conflict unless you arbitrarily decide they do.
Well, scientists could monitor your brain waves while you sleep and infer what is happening (not the specifics, but the paralysis/terror part)
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Too much starcraft son, too much
OT: Well im really scared lol i dont wanna that happens to me O_O
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On September 02 2008 01:26 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2008 01:16 travis wrote:
There is nothing "obvious" about it.
science and spirituality don't conflict unless you arbitrarily decide they do. Well, scientists could monitor your brain waves while you sleep and infer what is happening (not the specifics, but the paralysis/terror part)
well yes, but clearly if something is happening to you there is going to be a scientific basis to it
but that doesn't change what is happening
and says absolutely nothing about the nature of the experience
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You don't have to resort to this you know. =\
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Seriously, I think I've had something like this.
I used to wake up frequently during the night and I would always get a drink of water or go to the bathroom before going back to bed. One night I was about to get a drink of water but SOMEBODY WAS FUCKING IN MY KITCHEN. I thought it was my dad and I was like "Dad?" He/she/it didn't say anything and I saw it pass by me and it sort of blended in with the darkness.
Fucking creepy as hell, I didn't expect shit like that to happen at ALL
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On September 02 2008 02:15 Equinox_kr wrote:
Seriously, I think I've had something like this.
I used to wake up frequently during the night and I would always get a drink of water or go to the bathroom before going back to bed. One night I was about to get a drink of water but SOMEBODY WAS FUCKING IN MY KITCHEN. I thought it was my dad and I was like "Dad?" He/she/it didn't say anything and I saw it pass by me and it sort of blended in with the darkness.
Fucking creepy as hell, I didn't expect shit like that to happen at ALL
Dark templar
Lucky he didn't cut you, son
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and it wasn't that scary guys
well it was pretty scary, during the moment ,and a little scary afterwards
but for me it seemed more profound than anything else. which is why i apply spiritual basis to it beyond the scientific explanation
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On September 02 2008 02:11 Thrill wrote:
You don't have to resort to this you know. =\
resort to what?
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On September 02 2008 02:17 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2008 02:15 Equinox_kr wrote:
Seriously, I think I've had something like this.
I used to wake up frequently during the night and I would always get a drink of water or go to the bathroom before going back to bed. One night I was about to get a drink of water but SOMEBODY WAS FUCKING IN MY KITCHEN. I thought it was my dad and I was like "Dad?" He/she/it didn't say anything and I saw it pass by me and it sort of blended in with the darkness.
Fucking creepy as hell, I didn't expect shit like that to happen at ALL Dark templar Lucky he didn't cut you, son
Musta been Raszagal if the dt was making a sandwich.
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why do you think it's spiritual? Sleep paralysis is really common and you've made it apparent throughout the topic you know about it so im really wondering why you'd put it down to something supernatural in some way
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On September 02 2008 02:21 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2008 02:17 Jibba wrote:On September 02 2008 02:15 Equinox_kr wrote:
Seriously, I think I've had something like this.
I used to wake up frequently during the night and I would always get a drink of water or go to the bathroom before going back to bed. One night I was about to get a drink of water but SOMEBODY WAS FUCKING IN MY KITCHEN. I thought it was my dad and I was like "Dad?" He/she/it didn't say anything and I saw it pass by me and it sort of blended in with the darkness.
Fucking creepy as hell, I didn't expect shit like that to happen at ALL Dark templar Lucky he didn't cut you, son Musta been Raszagal if the dt was making a sandwich.
Fuck
I had sandwich ingredients in my house?
FUCKFUCK
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On September 02 2008 02:31 Tropics wrote:
why do you think it's spiritual? Sleep paralysis is really common and you've made it apparent throughout the topic you know about it so im really wondering why you'd put it down to something supernatural in some way
because I think all of life is spiritual, and that science explains how[materially], but has nothing to say about why[spiritually]
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equinox your story is certainly scarier than mine, as you weren't under the effects of sleep paralysis
then again I have had similar things happen to me actually, while doing something just like getting water, while half awake
and I just ignored it lolol. I think it's happened when I was horribly horribly tired but got up to go to bathroom or get water or w/e
are you sure that you didn't dream it?
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I think ghosts exist and move amongst us. I personally have never been able to attribute some odd occurrence to a ghost or something but your story sounds damn trippy. Thanks for sharing with us.. kinda cool to hear about. I know you wouldn't just lie/make it up too.
Keep us informed if more happens! 
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you could've had a dream you didn't remember, and then had another dream and thought it was real
once, my dad died in one of my dreams and i thought it was real for a whole minute after i woke up
also, once, i dreamed my dropship got shut down and a hydralisk cut me in half (horizontally )and when i woke up i thought that i had no legs
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On September 01 2008 19:48 vGl-CoW wrote:
it's actually kind of common to see a person standing by your bed or even sitting on top of you when you're under the effects of sleep paralysis, it's sometimes called Old Hag Syndrome or something like that
i'd give you a link but google turns up a bunch of paranormal websites and
well
you know
Yes I experienced this a couple of times recently and it really isn't enjoyable at all ;;
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On September 02 2008 02:48 3 Lions wrote:
also, once, i dreamed my dropship got shut down and a hydralisk cut me in half (horizontally )and when i woke up i thought that i had no legs
lol, holy shit
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I have sleep paralysis like every second week or something but most people only have it once or twice in their lives. In nearly every culture it's referred to as "a ghost/demon sitting on you".
I personally believe some of it has to do with demons because I was dreaming once(i remember like the full dream no problem) and It was just a casual dream and then out of no where i said I rebuke it in the name of the Lord Jesus for no apparent reason(think the Holy Spirit was guiding me on this one) and then I was out of the dream but I still couldn't move and I was kinda awake in sleep paralysis and these 2 large heads were around my bed and then they were screaming and shaking then they disappeared and I woke up fully.
Also did your neck/throat area feel weird? like numb?
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It sounds like some of you guys have it quite often and then some of us including me have never had it, whys that?
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On September 02 2008 03:06 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2008 02:48 3 Lions wrote:
also, once, i dreamed my dropship got shut down and a hydralisk cut me in half (horizontally )and when i woke up i thought that i had no legs
lol, holy shit
hahaha, too much starcraft...... heyy waitaminute, hydras cut people in half?
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On September 02 2008 03:30 Aerox wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2008 03:06 travis wrote:On September 02 2008 02:48 3 Lions wrote:
also, once, i dreamed my dropship got shut down and a hydralisk cut me in half (horizontally )and when i woke up i thought that i had no legs
lol, holy shit hahaha, too much starcraft...... heyy waitaminute, hydras cut people in half?
ya they cut marines in half
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On September 02 2008 03:25 TechniQ.UK wrote:
Also did your neck/throat area feel weird? like numb?
No, I felt fine, though freeeeezing cold.
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A ghost is haunting you!! run for your life lol
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Well dunno if your a believer in ghosts but certainly almost all of the cases of "ghost experiences " always begins with a cold breeze or the room getting extremely cold , just do some search for ghost experiences and you'll see ;o
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When i was in elementary school i had a friend from canada that one day slept at his grandma's house. That night they were sleeping downstairs, and then they heard kids laughing and the sound of marbles hitting each other upstairs. So the grandma went up and checked it out, no one was there but mysteriously there were marbles laying around. Then when she went downstairs, she heard little boys laughing and playing basketball. So then she went up again to check it out, and a basketball was lying on the floor. So then she went w/e and went back to sleep downstairs, and then felt a tugging on her quilt, like it kept moving down as someone was dragging on it. THen she said something alone the lines of "fuck off, or leave me alone". And then there was no more.
The next morning she went upstairs again, and witnessed a pool of blood, later to find that it came from horses.
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errr what?
yangpan that story is really weird.
like, they tested the blood and it was horse blood?
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On September 02 2008 05:06 travis wrote:
errr what?
yangpan that story is really weird.
like, they tested the blood and it was horse blood?
yeah they tested it, and it came from a horse.
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I remember one time, I had a friend over and we were in the basement playing SNES (Super Mario World woot) and it was pretty late, like 2 AM. Anyways we couldn't beat this one level, I forget which but at that time it was impossible . So he was like "lets go play Chrono Trigger!". So we run upstairs to my room which was where it was at and before we get to my room we hear something. It was probably the most eerie sound ever. It was coming from my sisters room and I realized she was singing, but she was sleep singing. But i couldn't tell what she was singing, but it was something and it scared the shit out of me cause I was like ten at the time. Anyways I got the game and went back donestairs. The next morning at breakfast she was eating her cereal and she started singing the same melody and I asked her what she was singing and she said she honestly didn't know how she knew it. On another note, my cousins sleep with their eyes open and its hella creepy.
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^ ROFL wtf who sleeps with their eyes open?
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On September 02 2008 06:43 YanGpaN wrote:
^ ROFL wtf who sleeps with their eyes open?
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