Anyone Experienced Sleep Paralysis?

fmdog44

fmdog44

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I had this happen once a long time ago. Unable to move anything as this terrifying featureless manlike thing came closer and closer before I awoke.

What is the common scary symptoms of sleep paralysis?
  • Sleep paralysis has been found to affect just under eight percent of the general population. In addition to being awake but unable to move, common symptoms of sleep paralysis include: Visions, such as seeing a person or demon-like figure in the room. Feeling unable to breathe, or being suffocated.
 

No creature-like figures or anything, just not being able to come out of a sleep, and not being able to move, even though I was waking and aware.
 
I had a dream once where I was trapped in a cave and the whole time I was telling myself I knew it is a dream and I needed to wake up to end it, but I couldn't. Scary to say the least.
 

I had that experience 20-some years ago. I was asleep and suddenly opened my eyes and saw about a half-dozen smallish humanoid creatures touching my arms and legs but I couldn't feel it, and some of them were either laughing or scowling, I couldn't tell exactly. I was looking right at them but I couldn't move. The whole thing lasted about 10 seconds. Next thing I knew, it was morning and I was saying "Man, what a weird dream."

I rarely remember my dreams. Seriously, maybe 3 or 4 my whole life. Maybe I've never dreamed at all except for those few times.
 
Sometimes it takes a little while for my eyelids to catch up with the rest of my body. I'm fully awake and can move but can't open my eyes. I wonder, is that a kind of sleep paralysis? It can be a bit scary.
 
My sleep paralysis occurs when I am over tired and I am between sleep and awakeness. I cannot move nor feel as though I am breathing. Somehow, before I actually die or pass out, I am able to force movement and I come fully awake. Been quite awhile since I've experience it and hope it never returns. Too often when I was younger and working.
 
I can recall it happening twice. Once as a child, a scary creature was in the room with me - it moved it's hand towards me and I couldn't speak or move. I chalked it up to a bad dream. Again in my early thirties, I felt like I was pinned to the bed but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Most likely stress related.
 

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