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Sleep Paralysis; just need to get this outta my systom
Topic Started: Sep 13 2004, 06:48 AM (840 Views)
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One time, I was sleeping on a couch in my aunt's house, and I sort of woke up, but not really. My eyes were open, and I could see my feet, as my head was tilted up on the arm of the couch, but I couldn't move. Not only couldn't I move my arms or legs, but I couldn't even blink or move my eyes from side to side. I tried to say something, but my mouth wouldn't move, and I don't even think I could breathe.

Then I heard a rushing sound in my ears, like the sound of a jet taking off, combined with the sound of being underwater(very difficult to describe, this description doesn't do it justice). Lots of things went through my mind, most prominent being the thought that I was dying. I wasn't really afraid, it was more like intense curiosity.

Then I started to see weird things at the edges of my vision, sortof like those annoying blobs that you see after you look at a bright light, only they were more like lightning flashes than blobs.

After a few moments, I felt a strange sense of acceleration, as though the whole house was being lifted into the air. A moment later, everything stopped suddenly, no jolt or movement, but I could move again. I was extremely cold, and was shivering uncontrollably. After awhile I calmed down and went back to sleep.

A few months later, I was watching a show on the discovery channel about dreams and sleeping, and it had a segment on sleep paralysis. The show described an experience very similar to the one I had.

Anyone else ever had an experience like this?
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Velcro Chicken
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:o

I had something almost exactly like this happen to me, I thought it was just me but apparently not...

I to woke up and couldent move, when I first woke up I couldent move or hear anything, then the noise I heard was kind of like some big loud creepy-like voice screaming in my ear and a huge chunk of metal hitting the ground or something. It is like you said hard to explain. At the edge of my vision is was kinda like you said, and kinda like the edges of a dream sequence on TV or something... Then I could move again but this time instead of not hearing anything I could hear people moving around the house and TVs on a such, I asked what that loud noise was and they said they never heard anything

=X
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Cool. Well, now you know you're not crazy. At least not in that aspect...
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Now that I know i'm not crazy in this aspect i'll add:

It also kinda felt like someone was there =X I dunno how to explain it really but seemed like somebody or something was watching me really closely, and then I felt like it was about to leave when I heard that noise, then I could move and it felt like it wasnt there anymore...
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Objection!!!
did i mention that he is crazy?? :rolleyes:
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I think it was my divine selection to rule the world! Woohoo!
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Sigfried
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Objection!!!
exactly <_<
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I didn't feel like I was being watched, but some of the people on the documentary I watched did. So you're still not crazy...about that.
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Know anything about why it happens?

Or have a link to a sight where I can look some stuffs up?
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Aindin
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sleep paralysis is actually a very common thing for people...there have psychological cases of them from across the board....what they really are is simply a strange limbo between being awake and asleep.....a lot of people report actually dreaming, waking up, being unable to move and seeing the surroundings, with the dream still going on....a woman had mentally gone insane by dreaming of a fire and suffering from sleep paralysis, seeing her bedroom on fire and being unable to move......it's really interesting stuff....it happened to me with children playing....that's what I saw...thought it was ghosts.....was totally wrong
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Everyone has sleep paralysis. The show I watched said that it was just a thing that happens to a person at a certain point in the sleep cycle. It's just to keep us from acting out our dreams in reality, I believe. It's just uncommon for a person to wake up during that stage, so they don't realize what happens. You could probably find out more by doing a google search for sleep paralysis.
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I did hear something once that when you get in a really really deep sleep that your body paralizes itself to stop you from hurting yourself in a dream or something like that 0_o
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Didn't I just say that? Well, if not, that's what I meant.
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Sigfried
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Objection!!!
forgot to mention that the mind gets really receptive to any external sensations when you are between the dream and the awareness
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last night i experienced what i believe was sleep paralysis, i was half concious and nodding in and out of a bad dream a good deal of the details escape me i can only remember fleeting bits and pieces but heres what i've got so far.

the location it happened on was a bridge thats very close to my house that goes over a small man made pond.

i was walking towards it and someone was angry with me or maybe more than one person i don't recall really, i was being very dismissive with them and was kinda pissed that they were bothering me *i have no idea who they are*

finally just as i began to walk over the bridge they started to rise from the water and screamed in chorus at me, it was one of the most horrible noises i've ever heard at that point i realized i was dreaming and attempted to wake up.

needless to day it was extremely hard, #1 i sleep with the T.V. on because noise relaxes me, i listened for it i heard nothing but the screaming.

#2 when i tried to move i couldn't my arms and legs were frozen and it was astoundingly difficult to open my eyes, breathing was hard to do as well
at that point i just felt very irritated at whatever it was and said:

"i didn't do anything to you, now leave me alone jeez.

at that point i woke up and could hear my surroundings again i was slightly panicked and had no idea what the hell was messing with me. for the meantime i'll pass it off as a nightmare but seriously being paralyzed like that is suprisingly frightning and hard to break out of...... i'm in no hurry to do it again.
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Wow, maybe it was something from the TV, sometimes dreams will pull noises from the consious world into your own.
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i've had that to one time
its so weird
most of the time my right arm is disabled <_<
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Objection!!!
i sleep like a log, so i cant have any sleep disorder <_<
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that happens to me too

the most of the time its both legs <_<
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it happens to me to its like my enitre nervous system shuts down for a little while i cant move i can hear i cant feel anything i hate it
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Yeah, I think that'd be sleep paralysis. It's like a built-in security system that keeps you from acting out your dreams in real life. It kicks in during a certain part of your sleep cycle, and you normally don't wake up in the middle of it. But when you do, its freaky.

BTW, why didn't you just use the other sleep paralysis thread?
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there was another?
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Yep, on the second page.
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'And suddenly a bright light appeared. A deep voice said: you, my twin sons, will become one'

...and the topics were merged...
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Hey Foster have you read anything on OoBE's (Out of Body Experience)? The rushing or roaring sound in your ears is characteristic of leaving your body... I once woke up in the top corner of my room looking down at my body. When my girlfriend at the time moved in the bed, suddenly I was sucked into my body and that roaring jet-like sound was very loud and yes, it was a sound like hearing a jet mixed with an underwater sound..

I opened my eyes and all the room seemed to be rushing at me very quickly from all sides, as if all the pieces of the room were far away and now quickly moving back into place. I realised I was back in my body and it was horrible because suddenly i could feel all the little pains and aches that we have become accustomed to. When you are free of your body you don't feel anything, so when you come back it's like wearing an itchy shirt (that's how I felt it anyways)

I didn't have sleep paralysis after that though.. possibly cos I wasn't technically asleep
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