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.