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sweatpants
Profile Joined April 2006
United States940 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-08 02:31:50
January 08 2007 02:26 GMT
#21
Yea I think it happened to me the first time like a week ago and I thought to myself while it was happening, "finally!". But after like 5 minutes, all I did was like focus on like the fibers of my shoulder muscle and move my right shoulder up a little bit, and then it was all over. Kind of disappointing.

Edit: Just read the wiki, and yea, that totally happened to me
Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea
pr0n
Profile Joined September 2005
United States277 Posts
January 08 2007 02:45 GMT
#22
It's good to know I'm at the extreme end of the scale with it lasting for hours at times.

On a related note (from a link in that article), I also have lucid dreams every night, and I'd say at least a third if not half of my dreams are lucid. Sometimes it is just a conscious awareness that I am dreaming, leading me to do whatever I want knowing there are no consequences, and sometimes I have enough control to make people or objects appear or disappear, change my location, fly, etc., as I desire. Maybe that's why I like sleeping much more than most people.
Fallen
Profile Joined October 2005
Canada192 Posts
January 08 2007 03:03 GMT
#23
I talk while I sleep -- I can say the most funky shit you've ever heard.. it was disturbing the first few times someone told me what I said.. but now im just laughing about it
oh hay
j0ehoe
Profile Joined September 2006
United States2705 Posts
January 08 2007 03:14 GMT
#24
oh man ive had this before, it scared the living shit outta me. real weird. the only two things when dreaming that bother me more are dreams in which you die, or dreams where youre trying to hit someone and it seems like your arms are paper. those drive me nuts.

on a related note to dreams, i have a funny story. i live in my basement (its refirbished, has entrance to steps upstairs and a storm door outside). i went to bed and aparently my brother left the storm door open. i had a dream that i was in the woods somewhere doing something and woke up after dreaming that there were bugs or sometihng crawling all over me, on my chest, on my face.
i woke up all creeped out because it defintely felt like something was on me. i turned on my side n faced my couch then all the sudden i thought i saw something move. the moonlight kinda lit my room a bit and i saw it again. a motherfucking black cat was crawling along my couch and freaked me the fuck out. the thing turned around and hissed n i took the nearest object i could find (alarm clock) and threw it at it. the thing ran out. needless to say, i didnt sleep much the rest of the night (and for a good few days after -_-)
Only communists disconnect.
IAmOnAiur
Profile Joined January 2007
27 Posts
January 08 2007 03:37 GMT
#25
tie a string to your eyelid, then when you wake up and your eyes open a rock or something of the such falls on you
Awww look at the size of this package itll take forever to deliver, or we could dump it in a sewer and say we delivered it! No, thats to much work, lets burn it and say we dumped it in a sewer.
Joker and the Thief
Profile Joined December 2006
31 Posts
January 08 2007 04:30 GMT
#26
i sometimes have this. i don't hallucinate or anything. my mind is completely alert but my body is completely useless. i usually just sit and think "how long is this going to last".
there must be some kind of way out of here...
Lord.of.Nukes
Profile Joined December 2005
United Kingdom226 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-08 04:39:43
January 08 2007 04:35 GMT
#27
On January 08 2007 12:37 IAmOnAiur wrote:
tie a string to your eyelid, then when you wake up and your eyes open a rock or something of the such falls on you
Haha.

I've never suffered from sleep paralysis but reading the article on lucid dreaming; like pr0n, I have lucid dreams every night.

When you suffer from sleep paralysis, are you entirely aware that you're suffering from it, or is it something you don't realize until after it has finished?

Edit: I guess Joker and the Thief's reply answered that.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-08 06:15:45
January 08 2007 05:32 GMT
#28
I've had this happen to me when i was like 12 or 13 I was falling asleep then all the sudden this poster on my wall swung down (the thumb tack came out of the top). I was awaken with fear of a ghost and I couldn't move but I knew I had to get up. I stared at the wall for like a minute or 2 until finally I gathered the courage or snapped out of the delusion. I ran into the bathroom to splash water on my face and shit, I still don't know if was a ghost or I dreamt it all or what.

I've also been know to lucid dream on occasion and sometimes I can even wake myself up from a dream. My logic kicks in and shit doesn't make sense so much that my brain just goes wtf thats impossible and I force myself to wake up. Its crazy.

PS - I agree sleep paralysis is probably what 90% of ghost/alien sitings are from.


My old friend (RIP) used to get night terrors where he would be asleep and acting out his dreams with his eyes open sort of glazed over. One night he was like "red team go" into the couch cushion like it was a radio then he jumped up and ran into the kitchen sorta fell onto the sink pushed off and ran over slid under the table and muttered some shit into the chair leg like it was a walkie talkie and stayed there hiding. Then we tried to coax him back to bed because its bad to wake people up when they are having night terrors. we woke him up like 20 minutes later when he was laying down again and he didn't remember any of it.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
neSix
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1772 Posts
January 08 2007 05:49 GMT
#29
This sounds kind of fun / exciting actually... Do you have any tips on how to accomplish such a feat? I'm interested in trying it ^_^;

I live on the edge, rawr~
ZoDD
Profile Joined November 2005
Canada309 Posts
January 08 2007 05:55 GMT
#30
I had it before, maybe when i was 16-18 years old. the more you struggle to move, the more frustrating it is. Its like, the only thing you can do is blink and move your eyes.
smarr pee pee
ZaplinG
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3818 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-08 05:59:29
January 08 2007 05:56 GMT
#31
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We learned about this in art class last sem. in college. Was the first time I had heard about it.
Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free
Rayzorblade
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States1172 Posts
January 08 2007 05:57 GMT
#32
Wow timely topic.

Last night I think I might have experienced this. As I fell asleep I began to have strange a strange sensation as though I was slipping into a malevolent dream, but I was still aware of my body lying on my stomach on the bed. I tried to shake it off (mentally) to stop thinking about bad things and even tried to rationalize, "I shouldn't have eaten so late before bed," and eventually I fell asleep.

I don't know how long I was asleep, or if I was even asleep, but I kept seeing/feeling this dark presence hovering above and behind me alongside my bed. I tried to wake up (but I don't think I was asleep, more like staring into the dark) and I couldn't move. I kept feeling the presence coming closer and then I felt it press onto my back so I couldn't even get up.

Finally I mustered the willpower & courage to raise myself up and frantically started breathing.

The weirdest thing was when I raised myself up I had to contort my right arm around. It had been twisted behind my back like someone was holding me in the chicken wing or something, you know when you restrain someone. Fucking weird.
Pressure
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
7326 Posts
January 08 2007 05:58 GMT
#33
this happened to me once or twice this week and i just sat there on my bed O_o
DeadVessel
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States6269 Posts
January 08 2007 06:02 GMT
#34
that seems very disturbing (from naranjo's description, the ghosts, etc.) the closest thing i've ever had to that was when i had just woken up from a dream in which i had been running away from something and i couldn't move my legs for like half an hour.
nemY
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States3119 Posts
January 08 2007 06:04 GMT
#35
The thing that I hate the most about this is that it seems like after i fall asleep from this i'll wake up and it'll be sometime like 11am and i'll be, "WTF happened to my 7, 7:30, and 8am alarms?" I swear that shit wears you out.
nArAnjO
Profile Joined October 2002
Peru2571 Posts
January 08 2007 12:51 GMT
#36
The worst thing is the evil presence you feel (not all the time but sometimes).

Like 5 days ago i was with my girlfriend in a hotel, and i dreamed that we were on the same bed, she was getting herself over me and telling me she is gonna get sleep paralysis..., like if she was having the nightmare and telling me to help her because she couldn't move. And then in my dream her face would change into a scary old man, telling me that i will suffer paralysis and won't be able to move. After that i woke up having the paralysis, and I was also 100% sure my girlfriend was having one too (she wasn't having one tho) , and i felt this horribly dark presence all over the room even after after i woke up (I wasn't certain if i was really awake, i was just waiting for the usual "re-awakeness"). She was trying to calm me down but i just wanted to get the fuck out, and after waking up i kinda kept having my auditive and visual senses very very sharpened and hearing or seeing stuff (mostly hearing).

Anyway just felt an evil presence and could swear someone died there or whatever. Pretty weird.
Gandalf
Profile Joined August 2004
Pakistan1905 Posts
January 08 2007 13:05 GMT
#37
Yeah this has happened to me a few times, and for some reason it really scares me I dont have the auditory problems you mentioned though. Basically I am awake but very sleepy, and try as I might I cant move an inch. This one time I was lying on my stomach and scared shitless. It doesnt last long though. My estimate is 1-2 minutes, but it feels like a lifetime.

skyglow1
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
New Zealand3962 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-08 13:27:49
January 08 2007 13:12 GMT
#38
Btw in those 2 pictures where that thing is sitting on the chest, that comes from the fact that you can't control your breathing when you experience sleep paralysis so if you try to it feels like a pressure on your chest.

If I were you I would just wait it out every time it happens. The duration of it is normally only 1-2 mins and since you can move your eyes still its not that boring to be sitting there motionless for that period. If you start to see freaky shit and hear strange stuff just pay attention to it and keep in mind that its pretty cool your brain is able to generate those images/sounds even though its not real.
ZaplinG
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3818 Posts
January 08 2007 13:24 GMT
#39
The painter of those pictures suffered from sleep paralysis often, so he decided to paint a picture based off his own experiences of how it felt. They get more creepy the more I see them.
Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10829 Posts
January 08 2007 13:27 GMT
#40
On January 08 2007 08:22 ilovezil wrote:
i think it's called Ba Wi in korean (바위)...

basically, don't fight it. Just go back to sleep, it'll be fine~_~

actually, i think it's called 가위 (Ga Wi). i think the saying is "가위 눌렸어" (pressed by ga wi). the common meaning of the word is "scissors," but i think it's also the name some evil spirit.
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