YASPT: Yet Another Sleep Paralysis Thread... but scarier this time...

[Wyndru]

Wow, this is nuts. I didn't know so many people experienced this.

Based on some of the descriptions in the thread, I'm having a hard time understanding what the difference between a nightmare and SP is. Are they same? Is it just a semi-conscious nightmare?

I'm so happy I don't remember dreams, when I'm asleep I'm out.

 

[clamum]

I get this every so often, maybe a couple times a year, though lately it seems less than that. I can't move or open my eyes but it feels like the Devil himself is standing beside my bed. I try like hell to open my eyes in an attempt to stare him down, or move my arms to punch him in the face, but I can't. Although once I was able to throw a punch and that woke me up, lol.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Wow, this is nuts. I didn't know so many people experienced this.

Based on some of the descriptions in the thread, I'm having a hard time understanding what the difference between a nightmare and SP is. Are they same? Is it just a semi-conscious nightmare?

I'm so happy I don't remember dreams, when I'm asleep I'm out.

A nightmare is just a really scary dream.

With SP, you're awake, but your body is still in a paralyzed mode. Your body normally goes into a semi-paralyzed state when you are a sleep for safety reasons like not acting our your dreams (so I've been told). During this time, for one reason or another, you begin to see and experience very scary things.

I've had SP moments in the past, but haven't had one in a few years. The first one I've ever had (over 15 years ago) was the most terrifying experience I can remember. The ones after that, while still scary, weren't as bad b/c I knew what was going on and could actually count to 3 and jerk my body to wake myself up (it takes a lot of mental will to get myself to do it though).

I normally find that the SP moments happened when I was sleeping on my back. But when I sleep on my side, it doesn't happen. Very weird. So if I feel a SP coming up, I quickly turn to my side and sleep that way.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I get this every so often, maybe a couple times a year, though lately it seems less than that. I can't move or open my eyes but it feels like the Devil himself is standing beside my bed. I try like hell to open my eyes in an attempt to stare him down, or move my arms to punch him in the face, but I can't. Although once I was able to throw a punch and that woke me up, lol.

When I had my SP moments, I remembered having my eyes open, but then again, that could have been part of the dream or whatever.

But it definitely feels so real and I keep telling myself to shout and scream for help but I have no voice.

 

[Mermaidman]

On the rare occasions that I experience SP, it happens shortly after I go to bed. Used to freak me out, but nowadays, when I sense an episode about to start, I just go along for the ride instead of trying to fight it.

Those of you who have had SP know what I'm talking about. The experience, once you learn that it's harmless, is actually pretty cool. :thumbsup:

 

[Jeff7]

Not sure if this was sleep paralysis, or just a really odd dream:
It felt like I was in the proper room, rather than some unfamiliar place, but I couldn't move - and there was the figure of a person, just standing in the doorway. I couldn't move, couldn't talk, couldn't even move my head to get a better look.
But I also eventually got to the stage of "loudly" thinking, "WAKE UP WAKE UP!"

And then eventually I did, and the figure had astonishingly vanished.


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[sigurros81]

 

[Baked]

You don't have control over your mind.

 

[dank69]

Probably just a bit of alien anal probing.