Sleep Paralysis

[lRhyss]

Does anyone get this? I used to never get it, but over the last 4-5 months I get it really, really frequently and it's not nice :(

[Chris]

I've had it in the past, mostly when I was younger. It is pretty scary. :(

[lawrawrrr]

I've had it a few times, first couple it really freaked me out but I kinda like it when it happens now! Very interesting stuff.

[buttons]

never have and don't think i ever want to!!

[Stephen]

if i wake up then have a nap shortly after while lying on my back ill get it
ssris with benzos used to give me crazy sleep paralysis.. used to wake up from it then close my eyes again and instantly get sucked into an even worse one but I'm not on ssris now so hardly get it

alot of people like it because its an easy gateway to lucid dreaming
everytime I got sp I used to just imagine being somewhere else then all of a sudden the sp would fade and I'd be completely lucid in the place I imagined

[Jssy]

I get it and have been hooked onto machines at a sleep specialist because of it. I get it a few times a week pretty bad. A doctor told me when I first started getting it at 13 that its not common but its not rare either. You can take sleeping tablets for it, but the issue is sleeping tablets can make the sleep paralysis worse :/ But doctors keep trying to drill in to me that its only hallucinations connected to your REM sleep count and to wriggle your toes and fingers to make your brain realise that you are actually awake. It happens because of hormones in your brain. Our bodies automatically paralyze when we are asleep so we don't act out our dreams. The worst I got I saw an old hag on top of me and she was twisting her way into my stomach and I've also had sexual ones where I've been raped.

[lRhyss]

I get it and have been hooked onto machines at a sleep specialist because of it. I get it a few times a week pretty bad. A doctor told me when I first started getting it at 13 that its not common but its not rare either. You can take sleeping tablets for it, but the issue is sleeping tablets can make the sleep paralysis worse :/ But doctors keep trying to drill in to me that its only hallucinations connected to your REM sleep count and to wriggle your toes and fingers to make your brain realise that you are actually awake. It happens because of hormones in your brain. Our bodies automatically paralyze when we are asleep so we don't act out our dreams. The worst I got I saw an old hag on top of me and she was twisting her way into my stomach and I've also had sexual ones where I've been raped.
I've had the hag one, that one is terrifying :'(

I've had ones where I've literally been dragged off my bed by a black figure, I get the dragging sensation and everything, it's really ******* horrid. (This one happens frequently)

Although the worst one I've had is seeing a fully white figure (Slender man without clothes essentially) crawling towards me, and then jumping on me and going for my face with claws, I usually snap out of it around there... Literally only started getting the last one since I moved house, so I was wondering, can different surroundings effect the hallucinations?

[Lewis]

Does anyone get this? I used to never get it, but over the last 4-5 months I get it really, really frequently and it's not nice :(

Yes, I used to always get it. Sometimes in the morning I liked putting my head into my arms; as soon as I did that I was paralyzed. I also woke up paralyzed in bed, in the middle of the night or when I normally woke up. The worst part was sometimes I end up putting my head in weird places where it's hard to breathe and I got paralyzed like that, truly awful. I never got used to it :(. It happened more than twice a day/night normally, once if I was lucky.

After about a year of this, it just eventually stopped... although I've started getting it occasionally again :(. Luckily I never heard any sounds or saw any visions of anything during it, or feeling as if someone pulling me or dragging me. That'd make it lots worse.

[Stephen]

its the sounds that scare me the most

never forget the time it felt like someone was holding my neck down and i heard a kid in the background saying "stop it daddy" in some creepy ghostly voice

[Lewis]

its the sounds that scare me the most

never forget the time it felt like someone was holding my neck down and i heard a kid in the background saying "stop it daddy" in some creepy ghostly voice

thank god i never heard sounds or had visions while i had it

i'd have died of a heart attack without being able to move

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I get it and have been hooked onto machines at a sleep specialist because of it. I get it a few times a week pretty bad. A doctor told me when I first started getting it at 13 that its not common but its not rare either. You can take sleeping tablets for it, but the issue is sleeping tablets can make the sleep paralysis worse :/ But doctors keep trying to drill in to me that its only hallucinations connected to your REM sleep count and to wriggle your toes and fingers to make your brain realise that you are actually awake. It happens because of hormones in your brain. Our bodies automatically paralyze when we are asleep so we don't act out our dreams. The worst I got I saw an old hag on top of me and she was twisting her way into my stomach and I've also had sexual ones where I've been raped.

what the hell...

you cant wiggle your fingers or toes, all you can do is move your eyes and breathe. nothing else... or at least for me anyway.

[Jurv]

yes!! i used to get it quite a lot but it hasn't happened for years now it's so ******* weird

[Jssy]

its the sounds that scare me the most

never forget the time it felt like someone was holding my neck down and i heard a kid in the background saying "stop it daddy" in some creepy ghostly voice
I hate the sounds, it sounds silly but I can feel when its going to happen I hear all these weird swishy sounds and thats when I open my eyes but can only move my eyes and nothing else

[lRhyss]

The only time I've had sound is when I saw one of the people I live with in my room saying "Rhyss, the house is on fire, hurry up"

Jssy, I get it about 2-3 times a week, would you recommend seeing someone about it? Or will it just stop? :(

[dbgtz]

I used to get it a fair amount of time, but judging by others experiences I got off quite lucky. Thankfully I do not get it anymore.

[Jssy]

The only time I've had sound is when I saw one of the people I live with in my room saying "Rhyss, the house is on fire, hurry up"

@Jssy (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=59399), I get it about 2-3 times a week, would you recommend seeing someone about it? Or will it just stop? :(
Tbh from my experience theres not much point, I went to a sleep specialist and there is no cure for it and basically got told most people just grow out of it, its actually got better since I moved house strangely. I always thought my old house was haunted haha

[Stephen]

best you can do is try and learn to turn them into lucid dreams

also try not to sleep on your back

[Sharon]

what didnt even know ppl could dream stuff that bad... what. bit naive on stuff like that n just assume every1 dreams normal **** like getting with the boy they like ;l

nah thats scary i couldnt cope with anythin like all of you have described, i have had weird experiences where someones like pushed me in a dream or somethin n itll wake me up and ill like shake at the thought as if thats actually happened but that is as worse as its ever been. if a dream starts to get scary n i dont like where its going i can wake myself up n stop the dream too

[God]

Omg, I've done some reading about sleep paralysis, ****** up **** I gotta say. Idk I think it happened once when I was young. I remember not being able to breath or move, and I tried to call for my mother, yet no words came out. I shiver at the thought of this happening to myself.

[Nick]

I think i've had this a few times when I was younger like I will be in a dream then come out of it but then it felt like I was being lifted not falling and I tried screaming but it didn't work. The only recent one i'd say would be I was in bed looking out the doorway in the middle of the night and all I could see was black figures walking past and looked like they might have come in my room I can't really remember but I was trying to pull out of it but I couldn't :(

[Matt]

Thankfully I've never experienced anything serious. I think I tried speaking or yelling to get someone's attention when I woke up and nothing came out but that must've been years and years ago. I googled it as some stories of it sound pretty scary!

[Drew]

I've never experienced anything like that before, but it sounds really scary :(

[Reality]

I found this so common when I was younger and I still get it frequently.
The inability to actually move kills (not physically) because it feels like you should be able to do it. Speech also scares me because I previoulsy lost my voice the next day after experiancing it and thought that was the problem, but it wasnt *few*.

[_HeyyItsHannah_]

Never experienced this.... Wow... Sounds scary.. Hope it goes away!! God bless you guys for coping with it, I don't think I could ever cope with it.. Sounds scary

[Empired]

I get it and have been hooked onto machines at a sleep specialist because of it. I get it a few times a week pretty bad. A doctor told me when I first started getting it at 13 that its not common but its not rare either. You can take sleeping tablets for it, but the issue is sleeping tablets can make the sleep paralysis worse :/ But doctors keep trying to drill in to me that its only hallucinations connected to your REM sleep count and to wriggle your toes and fingers to make your brain realise that you are actually awake. It happens because of hormones in your brain. Our bodies automatically paralyze when we are asleep so we don't act out our dreams. The worst I got I saw an old hag on top of me and she was twisting her way into my stomach and I've also had sexual ones where I've been raped.

I remember you making a thread about this a while ago. Must have been a good year ago now.

I don't get it frequently but I've had it a couple of times. Oddly, it's always the same for me: a horrible monkey (red eyes, flesh ripped away around its ribcage, etc) is sat on the chair at the end of my bed looking away from me. i always lie there praying it won't notice me but at some point it turns its head towards me and we look at each other for a few seconds before he jumps with he teeth and claws out :'(
i always always always snap properly awake at that point

Even though i know I'm gonna wake up at the same point i always hope it won't notice me

You're all talking about hearing sounds but I definitely don't. Like I know when i'm paralysed because, even though it's on, I won't be able to hear my fan which is right next to my head.

What would happen if someone (e.g my mum) really did come in the room? would she be able to wake me up? would i look awake? would i be able to hear her?
idk if anyone knows the answers to those questions but i'm interested

[Jssy]

I remember you making a thread about this a while ago. Must have been a good year ago now.

I don't get it frequently but I've had it a couple of times. Oddly, it's always the same for me: a horrible monkey (red eyes, flesh ripped away around its ribcage, etc) is sat on the chair at the end of my bed looking away from me. i always lie there praying it won't notice me but at some point it turns its head towards me and we look at each other for a few seconds before he jumps with he teeth and claws out :'(
i always always always snap properly awake at that point

Even though i know I'm gonna wake up at the same point i always hope it won't notice me

You're all talking about hearing sounds but I definitely don't. Like I know when i'm paralysed because, even though it's on, I won't be able to hear my fan which is right next to my head.

What would happen if someone (e.g my mum) really did come in the room? would she be able to wake me up? would i look awake? would i be able to hear her?
idk if anyone knows the answers to those questions but i'm interested
oo i dont remember that but it freaked me out cos the sleep specialist I saw said that there have been a few people that have died during it, like theyve had heart attacks because theyve been so scared. average for sleep paralysis though is 3 mins and when i used to scream out nothing would come out . to answer your question you would hear your mum my mum has heard me like breathing weirdly during sleep paralysis and has come in whilst i was still paralyzed and then a few seconds later ive snapped out of it

[james,]

never had it thank god, wouldn't want it either.

[karter]

wow a lott of people seem to have experienced this, i should say i'm lucky that i haven't? nor do i know someone irl who's had this. i didn't know it was so common

[Jssy]

wow a lott of people seem to have experienced this, i should say i'm lucky that i haven't? nor do i know someone irl who's had this. i didn't know it was so common
its common in younger people as during the stages you grow up e.g puberty there's a lot of uneven chemicals in the brain such as hormones, uneven isnt really the right word to use but you get the idea

[BlueEyedSarah]

I've had it a few times, very strange feeling!