Has anyone ever heard of "The Devil's Blanket"?

[dafatha00]

There is horror myth in which someone is sleeping and he/she suddenly wakes up unable to move and speak. The person knows he/she is wide awake but cannot do anything. Then a dark hooded figure appears in the room and laughs. Eventually everything returns to normal.

Supposedly, this happens only to Christians that have weak faith and are being tested. My friend was the first person to tell me this and said it has happened to him and his brothers several times. Last night, another friend told me the exact same story and that its happened to him before as well.

Normally, I am not one to believe in ghost stories but this one brushed upon my doubts.

Has this happened to anyone before?

 

[Stark]

No, but my wife got me some Devil's Spit BBQ sauce from Famous Dave's on her last trip to Dallas.

 

[StageLeft]

All your friends do drugs? I've never heard of this before.

 

[dafatha00]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
All your friends do drugs? I've never heard of this before.

No drugs.

 

[kh3443]

That has actually had happened to me before, several times if I might add. And yes I am Christian. I didn't think it was called "Devil's Blanket." My mom told me it was a sleeping disorder, where your mind is awake but your body is still sleeping. But one time when it happened to me I couldn't move but I could hear a lady's voice talking in some language that I couldn't understand. I swear I never touched drugs in my life.

 

[djheater]

The dark hooded figure is not part of the sleeping disorder.

 

[spp]

happened to me several times.... only when i am extremely tired thoguh.....

i was trying to wake up to study for the finals, but i could not open my eyes... and after i opened my eyes, i could not move my body.... after a few times i think it's actually kinda cool

 

[dafatha00]

Originally posted by: kh3443
That has actually had happened to me before, several times if I might add. And yes I am Christian. I didn't think it was called "Devil's Blanket." My mom told me it was a sleeping disorder, where your mind is awake but your body is still sleeping. But one time when it happened to me I couldn't move but I could hear a lady's voice talking in some language that I couldn't understand. I swear I never touched drugs in my life.

Actually I know what you're talking about. In fact, its happened to me before but its not what I was describing earlier. It seems like you're awake and you see your surroundings but you know you're asleep.

 

[Wallydraigle]

It's a fairly common sleep disorder sometimes called sleep paralysis. In the past it has been called "Old Hag Syndrome". Not all of the symptoms are always experienced, but they include paralysis, feeling a "presence" in the room, but not actually seeing anything, seeing an apparition, or other visual hallucinations. It has been reproduced in the lab using electrical stimulation to the brain.

 

[djheater]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/sleepparalysis990411.html
Like most things everyone can experience this... some people experience it intensely and chronically

 

[TGKGT]

This used to happen to me almost every night and i never know what it was until I saw about 5 minutes of it on the Discovery Channel. It is a pretty F... up feelin.

 

[vetteguy]

If you want to feel the waking-sleep part (without the paralysis), try this: as you're laying in bed trying to fall asleep, put both arms straight up, bent at the elbows (your elbows resting on the bed). As soon as you fall asleep, your arms will likely drop. If it's enough to wake you up, you will still be in the initial state of unconciousness, but awake enough to be aware of your surroundings. Sometimes you see some freaky stuff.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: vetteguy
If you want to feel the waking-sleep part (without the paralysis), try this: as you're laying in bed trying to fall asleep, put both arms straight up, bent at the elbows (your elbows resting on the bed). As soon as you fall asleep, your arms will likely drop. If it's enough to wake you up, you will still be in the initial state of unconciousness, but awake enough to be aware of your surroundings. Sometimes you see some freaky stuff.

please re-explain

 

[Legendary]

Whoa this happens to me all the time but I never knew what it was. Thanks.

 

[Jhill]

This happens to me. Seriously.
But there is no Dark hooked guy. I know i'm awake but I am paralized.

 

[yobarman]

this sounds cool... it'll prolly happen to me tonight because i'm reading about it.... but nah it's never happened to me before.

 

[fluxquantum]

yes that has happened to me on several occassions and it scared the crap out of me. i never saw a dark hooded figure though. it happens mostly when i am very tired though. when it does happen it's not a good feeling.

 

[Kev]

what causes this? i've never had it happen to me

 

[XMan]

For those of you have experienced this, do you ever feel as though your bed is tilting . . . and you are sliding toward the edge? :Q

 

[TCPpacket]

:Q

 

[alkemyst]

this has happened to me a couple times, one time a sort of nightmare woke me up. I was paralyzed and the same character was in my room it was very very real...wierd...as I came too it all faded away...I also could not talk.

 

[MichaelD]

Yeah, same here. Except when my eyes open, Martha Stewart is there. She is wearing a thong and lacy bra from Victoria's Secret, as she glues gold glitter onto pine cones being tacked onto a wire form for a Christmas Wreath.

I cannot move. She touches me. There. I tell her "no, Martha....the Beegoo Wax Man is watching..." She goes away.

I cannot understand this.



All of you are whacked in the head. The human mind is an incredibly complex machine with no moving parts. We've all had dreams that we'd bet our life were real. In dreams, you can see, hear, smell, taste, feel and even have a dream within a dream. You are all over-reacting to very normal brain activity.

"Devil's Blanket" my @ss...yet another scare tactic dreamt up by the Bible Toting Fundamentalists.

Puh-leese.

ps
I used to have those "bed tilting and me sliding off the edge" dreams all the time. I would fight the fall, becoming terrified. Years ago, I learned to control that dream by just realizing it was a dream. Now when I fall off, I can fly around in my dream. Unfortunately, I still cannot control "those dreams". Christie Brinkley ala 1986 or so is still not a reality.

 

[TGKGT]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Yeah, same here. Except when my eyes open, Martha Stewart is there. She is wearing a thong and lacy bra from Victoria's Secret, as she glues gold glitter onto pine cones being tacked onto a wire form for a Christmas Wreath.

I cannot move. She touches me. There. I tell her "no, Martha....the Beegoo Wax Man is watching..." She goes away.

I cannot understand this.



All of you are whacked in the head. The human mind is an incredibly complex machine with no moving parts. We've all had dreams that we'd bet our life were real. In dreams, you can see, hear, smell, taste, feel and even have a dream within a dream. You are all over-reacting to very normal brain activity.

"Devil's Blanket" my @ss...yet another scare tactic dreamt up by the Bible Toting Fundamentalists.

Puh-leese.

ps
I used to have those "bed tilting and me sliding off the edge" dreams all the time. I would fight the fall, becoming terrified. Years ago, I learned to control that dream by just realizing it was a dream. Now when I fall off, I can fly around in my dream. Unfortunately, I still cannot control "those dreams". Christie Brinkley ala 1986 or so is still not a reality.

The dream by it self is no beggie because then it will only be a normal scary dream (Nightmare) but the paralysis in effect makes it that much more f...up

 

The dark hooded guy is named Ralph. Nice guy actually, albeit a little misunderstood.

 

[Pacfanweb]

The old Devil's Blanket and other stories was simply made up to explain something that nobody could understand back then.