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Hey guys, I know theres been countless threads about this but I just want to share my experiences. I actually woke up from one now, and want to share it when it's fresh in my head.
I only had 3 experiences total, and they were all in this year; 2 in January, and one just now. All of them started off with hearing a high pitch sound. I've noticed that it happens right after I realize it's a dream. In fact, I didn't have a lucid dream for a really really long time. I did a lot of research beforehand so I "tried" not to get freaked out, but it gets me everytime.
My first experience was the scariest. I heard the high-pitched noise as I "woke up" from my dream. I tried to move my left arm but it wouldn't move at all. I thought I fell asleep on my arm (cuts off blood circulation so I can't move it) but when I tried to move my right one, I knew that I was in sleep paralysis. I tried to move with all my energy and it actually felt like I was moving, but I realized that i wasn't even budging. I even tried to yell, I can hear my voice (in my head i guess) but I knew no one else could hear. I remember reading about seeing stuff and hallucinating so I just started to look around, but I saw nothing and was very relived. Then all of a sudden it felt like my head and whole body was twisting to the left, the high pitched sound got louder, and I heard someone whispering in my ear in gibberish which freaked the hell out of me. Then I really woke up and everything was okay.
My second time wasn't too bad. Again, it started with the high pitched sound and realized I was in sleep paralysis. At first I was going crazy trying to make myself move again, but didn't happen. I tried to breathe really loudly, and I heard myself but I'm not sure if I was actually doing it. After a few seconds, I just gave up and had no intention to move. For some weird reason, it felt so relaxing... then a few seconds after that, I just woke up.
The experience I just had now was different...
I got it again hearing the highpitched noise and looked around. I saw the ceiling and it seemed like it was moving and I saw black spots everywhere. I had a feeling I was going to see something so I closed my eyes (if it wasn't already closed). That feeling described earlier where my felt like it was twisting, it was going crazy. I felt like I was being pulled or twisted by something. Then I heard someone whistling...I don't know if it was part of this paralysis or if it was actaully someone outside because I had my window open so I'm not exactly sure. After I heard the whistling, it scared the hell out of me. I was going crazy trying to get out of it, but unlucky, it took a while before I woke up. I woke up and now I'm here writing this thread.
It seems like I have my eyes open because I can see exactly as I would while I'm awake but are they open? or is it all part of my memory?
P.S. Is there a way to get out of it without having to wait?
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Shit that's some very weird/interesting experiences man. Do those paralysis always last for only a few sec? Or do you totally have no notion of time while experiencing one?
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On February 15 2007 06:48 Jumpingworm wrote:
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Shit that's some very weird/interesting experiences man. Do those paralysis always last for only a few sec? Or do you totally have no notion of time while experiencing one?
Well, I'm too busy being freaked out by everything so I don't know lol. Realistically, I think it's about a minute, but it feels a lot longer tho.
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If happens to me quite often but frequency varies a lot. Sometimes I don't experience this for a few months, but when I do it can be a few times in a very short period.
Last time was in December, I was coming back from a party a bit wasted, and went to bed in the early morning. I woke up in that fashion about 3 times before I really fell asleep.
It's quite unpleasing and scary at first but I got used to it over the years.
I have absolutely no idea what causes it.
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damn, although it probably sucks for you who have it all the time, I'd really like to experience it sometime:p sounds fascinating.. maybe it's just me and my grotesqueness(if that's a word)
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Belgium6774 Posts
When I have this, I'm usually sleeping on my stomach
freaks me out because I'm afraid I cant breathe properly, only thing I can still control is breathe through my nose
I can only wake up by hearing a 'real' sound or I just close my eyes (not sure if they're open in the first place) and try to go back to sleep
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so this isnt lucid dreaming huh? i read a lot about lucid dreaming tho, i want to experience it and all but i hear its hard =P
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United States24755 Posts
Reminds me a bit of something that used to happen to me occasionally: I'd think I woke up and be looking around my room, but when I closed my eyes I could still see my room. I guess it was just a little aardvark recurring dream. Didn't really freak me out, just confused me a bit until I was fully up.
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i love when this happens to me.
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lucid dreaming must rock, i mean going to sleep is boring enough but to be able to do watever in a dream sweet!
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hmmm somewhat related.
probably for the last week or so, my sleep schedule has been completely fucked. one night ill feel dead ass tired and go to bed before 11. the next night ill be up til 2-3 am. however, no matter when i sleep, ive been finding myself waking up every 45 minutes to an hour and not being able to fall back asleep for a few minutes. and every time i have fucking crazy dreams. its like i dont get sound sleep, im always dreaming.
last nite one of them was me walking around in my neighborhood. i met some little girl who was supposed to be this child with super natural powers, she could sense when something bad was gonna happen. im walking down my street and all the sudden she says run...and a fucking car comes crashign into where i was standing. then 3 more. and other cars start blowing up. then theres helicopters in the air shooting at me and fucking the armys after me.
its been only a week, so im hoping it will pass. my friend offered to toss me some valium xannys or sleeping pills if i want. if it keeps happening ima go to the dr., but in the mean time, WTF?
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Crazy stuff yo. I woke up the other day with the EXACT same thing. My arms felt like they were asleep and I was trying to lift my head or open my eyes, but they kept just fluttering - it was so odd because I could see through them a little. I heard gibberish and voices just like you did and it terrified me so much that I even tried to cry out, "Oh God," which ended up being a strangled sound in my throat.
When I stopped struggling I even "felt" myself float up from my body - like when you watch a movie and someone dies, you see their soul sit up right out of their body. It was like that. I was so terrified that I tried "reaching" out to pull myself back into my body, then stopped struggling. I remember thinking: "I'm having a lucid dream!"
All of a sudden I opened my eyes - in fact, they just shot open, and I sat up.
Definitely weird shit yo.
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On February 15 2007 06:20 danmooj1 wrote:
It seems like I have my eyes open because I can see exactly as I would while I'm awake but are open? or is it all part of my memory?
P.S. Is there a way to get out of it without having to wait?
You could in fact have your eyes open, because at that point in your brain's function, it is open to hallucinations (auditory, visual, etc.). Its very similar to lucid dreaming. I have never had sleep paralysis, but I have read you can train yourself to turn them into a more pleasant dream (in the same way to would normally lucid dreaming), so I'd try that if it happens again.
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everyone on this site has this fucking sleep paralysis but me. im kind of jealous.
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Germany1305 Posts
happemd to me like once a year, but quiet scarry since you are awake but cannot move at all. But I don't have to wait (i never tried) i just move with all force, still nothing happens, but this brings up slight panic and adrenaline and that allows me to move again.
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when I'm awake like I am now, I kind of look forward to it because I want to experiment with it, but while it happens, I want to get out of it asap. Nullmind pm'ed me saying that trying to move my toes like how i would clench my fist will get me out of it faster, so the next time i'll try that.
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i got sleep paralysis once (btw, i didnt even know i slept, and this all happened until the morning when i woke up)
i was sleeping over this hyungs house, and while watching some people play some ps2 game, i fell asleep. in my sleep before the pressure thing happened, i dreamt that the hyung was telling me about something in the revelations book of the bible, to be careful of satan or something like that. after this, i fell asleep in my dream and suddenly i heard this deep voice (it pretty much sounded like diablo's voice when you enter his place to fight him) and the pressure on the chest started. it was pretty much like everyone else's here, (like i couldnt get up, tried really hard to resist and open eyes). i kind of did open one of my eyes, and im sure i saw some hooded thing with red eyes. Then ninjas, thousands of them jk
the lucid dream before the paralysis was so real to me that i was like in denial that it never happened in real life
i wasnt even into d2 -_-;;
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On February 15 2007 11:15 j0ehoe wrote:
hmmm somewhat related.
probably for the last week or so, my sleep schedule has been completely fucked. one night ill feel dead ass tired and go to bed before 11. the next night ill be up til 2-3 am. however, no matter when i sleep, ive been finding myself waking up every 45 minutes to an hour and not being able to fall back asleep for a few minutes. and every time i have fucking crazy dreams. its like i dont get sound sleep, im always dreaming.
last nite one of them was me walking around in my neighborhood. i met some little girl who was supposed to be this child with super natural powers, she could sense when something bad was gonna happen. im walking down my street and all the sudden she says run...and a fucking car comes crashign into where i was standing. then 3 more. and other cars start blowing up. then theres helicopters in the air shooting at me and fucking the armys after me.
its been only a week, so im hoping it will pass. my friend offered to toss me some valium xannys or sleeping pills if i want. if it keeps happening ima go to the dr., but in the mean time, WTF?
i wish i had cool dreams
my dreams are mostly me being something i was doing recently or something random like that
One time I was harry potter, playing pool with my wand ( was reading the book night before )
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When i find myself in those type of situations i just pray to god and wake up
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