Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?

[Veronika_p]

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, fully aware that you're in your bedroom, but you can't move your body or even scream. You try to call for help, but nothing comes out. And the worst part? You feel like something is there with you, watching you, but you can't do anything about it. 😨

I find sleep paralysis both fascinating and terrifying. Some people describe seeing dark figures, feeling someone sitting on their chest, or sensing an invisible presence in the room. The experience can feel so real that you start questioning what you just witnessed.

I remember being so frightened by the thought of it that I prayed about it. I just wanted to feel safe and at peace again. 🙏 But it still makes me wonder how something happening while we're asleep can feel that terrifying!

So, have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?

[ChiTown33]

Only once. Ironically it happened while i was lucid dreaming. I know that sounds like a contradiction of sorts. Here's what i mean. I fell asleep i knew i was dreaming and i didn't want to be sleeping so i tried to wake myself up when i tried i couldn't. I wasn't panicing or anything at that point. But i tried harder. I could feel my eyes closed i couldn't open them. So then i got this stupid idea that if i yelled i'd wake up. I could physically feel my throat straining but no sound would come out (at least not in my dream). I do wish i had a recording of me asleep while this was happening because i'd like to know if i was making sounds. The weird part is this is when my dream became a nightmare when i'd try to scream, screams came from all around me. But not from me.

This is the first and only time i've ever experienced this. I classify it as sleep paralysis because i could feel myself physically lying there but i couldn't move or wake myself up. It seemed to go on forever. I'm glad i've never had that happen again.

[Sunrising]

I haven't experienced sleep paralysis.

But I would suggest making sure your home is as secure as it can be, with an alarm for if anyone breaks into your home, so no intruders can come into your room silently.

Perhaps something like this might happen when someone is over tired, so I would make sure I'm receiving enough sleep.

[7Phoenix7]

I have experienced it so much in my life that it doesn’t even scare me anymore… lol I just let it pass.

And with most of my vivid nightmares I usually know that I’m dreaming, and I start to control what’s happening.

[NoDecision]

It is just nature's way of protecting you so that you don't act out your dream while you are having it.

[WhitneySnow]

That’s interesting!

[Veronika_p]

Wow 😲 seriously?

[NoDecision]

Yes. I was dreaming that I was kicking at some dogs who were trying to get my cat and I kicked the wall next to my bed. That definitely woke me up! 😴😳😖

[WhitneySnow]

Interesting! I feel out of bed during a dream once

[WhitneySnow]

Fell

[NoDecision]

@WhitneySnow Fell or was kicked out of? 😅😆

[WhitneySnow]

Fell 😂. I dreamed I was having sex.

[Levin]

Well yeah, something like that.

I just felt surrounded by some green energy and there some some odd creature on my chest.

However, it's fairly easy. You are still the witness consciousness so you just observe it without buying into it. Then you wake up.

Meditation comes in handy...

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, MANY times. I HATE it! I astral projected many times. And once I saw a shadow person on my wall, and another time there was a succubus in my bed. It terrified me so much, I refused to sleep in my bed for 2 weeks.

[Alex-Snow]

Not a real paralysis so-to-speak but sometimes waking up from a deep sleep I'm sometimes unable to move for a bit until my brain wakes up. Does that make any sense?

[Veronika_p]

That's sleep paralysis

[ohsheeT]

I have a couple of times when I was younger I mean I even thought I was awake and I couldn't even scream I tried

[Interstate]

I can't say I have. I have experienced disorientation right after waking up, but not sleep paralysis.

[SamIam96]

When I was a kid I'd wake up from nightmares trying to scream but nothing came out. It hasn't happened since.

[Simslover92]

Yes. I wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy. It's scary af.

[NathanDavis]

yes, for the first time... was in recent years

not fun, I don't recommend it... lol

[Shiprex]

It does sound terrifying and I have never experienced this I think because I do not sleep too deeply.

[Staximus]

Yes, a few times. It’s pretty scary but I don’t know why you’re so frightened by something that you have never experienced

[Veronika_p]

I have experienced it and it's scary 🥺

[Staximus]

Oh sorry, the way you wrote about it sounded like you had not. I don’t know whether it’s your brain waking up before your body or being stuck in between the sleeping and waking state, kind of like sleepwalking. If you change when I was a kid it happened and I couldn’t move. I never saw anything weird during sleep paralysis. One time when I thought I was having sleep apnea I did see something. I could still move but it felt like I was being suffocated. I looked up and saw a skull face looking down at me on this movie poster of Clint Eastwood on the wall. I took a deep breath and started breathing again, closed my eyes, shook my head, and looked back up at the poster. The skull face was still there instead of Clint Eastwood’s. l didn’t know if it was one of the ghosts in my 100 year old house or me hallucinating and I got mad and told the skull face out loud “fuck off!” And rolled over and went back to sleep hahaha

[AgentG111]

To a degree yes. Waking up from a bad dream or nightmare per say.

[DryGermanGuy]

Once, as a child. It was really weird.

[lilBigPotato]

Nope.

[WhitneySnow]

I have

[jahaims]

Yeah

[Paige2006]

No I haven't