Sleep Paralysis, old hag, night hag
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I have experienced this every now and then. You feel like you can't breathe. You try with all your might just to make a sound or move anything. It's easy to panic. I've heard explanations like, it's a chemical thing preventing the body from physically acting out dreams.
But, here's the interesting thing. Over the years I've been able to develop a certain amount of directed dreaming. Basically, it means I have some control over some of my dreams. Think of a movie scene playing out and the director yells, Cut! This isn't right. Or he's giving active guidance during the scene on how it should go. It takes a third person perspective, as it were.
Anyway, one night, a few years ago, I "woke" having one of these paralysis moments and I remember telling myself, take careful of your surroundings. Where's the door? Where's the window? Or anything I could pinpoint in the room, including the size of the room and my location in it.
So, how do these moments of paralysis end? You don't know, right? You don't remember falling back to sleep, but eventually you just wake up later. Well, I did and I compared what I remembered during my paralysis to the room i was in, as I was laying there. They were different. Things weren't in the right place. So, my conclusion is that it wasn't really waking paralysis, but a dream of waking paralysis. Either that or the aliens don't have the room replication thing down very well.
But, here's the interesting thing. Over the years I've been able to develop a certain amount of directed dreaming. Basically, it means I have some control over some of my dreams. Think of a movie scene playing out and the director yells, Cut! This isn't right. Or he's giving active guidance during the scene on how it should go. It takes a third person perspective, as it were.
Anyway, one night, a few years ago, I "woke" having one of these paralysis moments and I remember telling myself, take careful of your surroundings. Where's the door? Where's the window? Or anything I could pinpoint in the room, including the size of the room and my location in it.
So, how do these moments of paralysis end? You don't know, right? You don't remember falling back to sleep, but eventually you just wake up later. Well, I did and I compared what I remembered during my paralysis to the room i was in, as I was laying there. They were different. Things weren't in the right place. So, my conclusion is that it wasn't really waking paralysis, but a dream of waking paralysis. Either that or the aliens don't have the room replication thing down very well.
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Last one I can remember was in college. But it also has some strange things surrounding the circumstances.
Took a nap one afternoon. “Woke up” to a guy standing at the foot of the bed. Dark trench coat and fedora kind of hat. No facial features that I remember but he was looking at me. Absolutely could not move for what felt like a long time but finally woke up crawling up the headboard trying to get up. Yeah, that one freaked me out.
The strange thing is this happened in an apartment in an old hospital building above the courthouse in Sylva. And I was not the only person to have some strange run ins like that. Just kind of adds to the question of whether it was real or not.
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Took a nap one afternoon. “Woke up” to a guy standing at the foot of the bed. Dark trench coat and fedora kind of hat. No facial features that I remember but he was looking at me. Absolutely could not move for what felt like a long time but finally woke up crawling up the headboard trying to get up. Yeah, that one freaked me out.
The strange thing is this happened in an apartment in an old hospital building above the courthouse in Sylva. And I was not the only person to have some strange run ins like that. Just kind of adds to the question of whether it was real or not.
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Sounds like a similar experience my twin brother had. I remember him telling me something woke him up from his sleep that night, don't have any details as if he saw anything, but when he awoke, he couldn't move. He said he felt like something pressed him down on the mattress, as it felt like the springs were compressing. He also said he heard a growl that oddly said, "hug me."
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it’s happened to me 2 times that i remember.
the freakiest part was the ABSOLUTE certainty that something PURE EVIL was present watching me but it was just out of my clear view
it’s been years but still get chills thinking about it
the freakiest part was the ABSOLUTE certainty that something PURE EVIL was present watching me but it was just out of my clear view
it’s been years but still get chills thinking about it
I recall waking up one night with the feeling that someone was staring at me, like within inches of my face. I opened my eyes and recalled seeing disembodied face next to me with its tongue out. When I reached forward to defend myself it was gone. I don't know if it was real or not, because I was on a medication for vertigo at the time, and hallucinations was one of the mentioned side effects.
However, I do recall on more than one occasion feeling like I was being pressed down into my bed. Other instances I recalled were as if the mattress was compressing on the lower corner near my feet, as if someone had just sat down next to me.
This is really freaky I have had almost the exact experience. I could see a dark figure standing over me but I couldn’t do a thing I awoke immediately afterward and just laid there not sure if it was real or not
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I have experienced this every now and then. You feel like you can't breathe. You try with all your might just to make a sound or move anything. It's easy to panic. I've heard explanations like, it's a chemical thing preventing the body from physically acting out dreams.
But, here's the interesting thing. Over the years I've been able to develop a certain amount of directed dreaming. Basically, it means I have some control over some of my dreams. Think of a movie scene playing out and the director yells, Cut! This isn't right. Or he's giving active guidance during the scene on how it should go. It takes a third person perspective, as it were.
Anyway, one night, a few years ago, I "woke" having one of these paralysis moments and I remember telling myself, take careful of your surroundings. Where's the door? Where's the window? Or anything I could pinpoint in the room, including the size of the room and my location in it.
So, how do these moments of paralysis end? You don't know, right? You don't remember falling back to sleep, but eventually you just wake up later. Well, I did and I compared what I remembered during my paralysis to the room i was in, as I was laying there. They were different. Things weren't in the right place. So, my conclusion is that it wasn't really waking paralysis, but a dream of waking paralysis. Either that or the aliens don't have the room replication thing down very well.
When it happens to me I'm in a dream and I suddenly realize I'm in a dream. Then I am sucked out of the dream into my body but paralyzed with my eyes closed.
I panicked the first few times, then I tried calming myself and riding it out, which didn't work either as it just wouldn't end. Finally I figured out how to force myself awake through sheer will power. Once awake, I calm my heart rate back down, change my sleep position a little and get back to sleep.
There is a fun scifi theory that dreaming is you experiencing the memories of other yous that are living in parallel dimensions. Phenomenon like the power of positive thinking is you sliding into a dimension where the thing you want is/is not present. Sleep paralysis happens because you wake before you are fully transitioned.
Want to stop it? Force yourself to stay awake for so long that when you do pass out finally for a couple hours, nothings going on in the ole think box. That’s the only way to stop seeing things over and over again. That I’ve found anyways
Years after my brothers and I moved out of my parent's house, they had it blessed because of all the strange things we had mentioned.
I used to hear things that sounded like someone was downstairs watching television, like I could hear things happening and people talking, but when I went downstairs, no one was awake. The nearest house was well away from my parent's place, and the sounds were clearly coming from within the house.
I used to hear things that sounded like someone was downstairs watching television, like I could hear things happening and people talking, but when I went downstairs, no one was awake. The nearest house was well away from my parent's place, and the sounds were clearly coming from within the house.
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My first memory of it happening I was 8 years old. I don't really have a conscience to speak of and I've never done drugs. Don't drink to excess either, only 1 beer or one glass of scotch a night.
I've never found an explanation that sounded correct and it happens so randomly and infrequently that it would be almost impossible to get a sleep study done on it. It use to happen as much as three times a year. Now it happens about once every three years. It just is what it is. Nothing to cry about.
I was reading the Wiki definition. It mentions folklore from Newfoundland (Canada) & South Carolina. My last name is English, but there’s a town with my surname in Newfoundland. Kind of an interesting old world/folksy tie between the two places for me
Yeah, sleep deprivation. That's the ticket. Nothing could go wrong there.
So far so good. Beats the alternatives and the “solutions”.
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So, the psychosis and hallucinations are cool.
I'm just jerking your chain. It sounds like you're having some problems when you sleep. I've used the same technique before. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, I've also learned to go with little to no sleep for 2-3 days.
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I've experienced sleep paralysis once. About 2 years ago, I woke up at some point in the night. Difficulty breathing, could feel something pressing on my chest. Couldn't move my body. I could see a dark, shadowy figure standing near my bedroom door. I started to panic, but just out of the corner of my eye, I could see my pitbull sleeping soundly at the foot of my bed.
I knew my dog is a light sleeper and very protective. It was at that moment I realized what I was experiencing was sleep paralysis, and nothing real, and I was able to calm down.
Pretty scary. Not something I want to experience again.
I knew my dog is a light sleeper and very protective. It was at that moment I realized what I was experiencing was sleep paralysis, and nothing real, and I was able to calm down.
Pretty scary. Not something I want to experience again.
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No, unfortunately. I hear the show is good.
I've heard and pretty much believe that most of dreaming is the subconscious mind putting together random bits of information into a semi- cohesive story. That's how the subconscious mind works. But, then I've had dreams that were visions. And when my first wife passed, she spoke to me in a dream. Those were different in perspective and feeling.
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Sleep paralysis exists for a reason. It stops you from punching walls and furniture in your sleep and breaking your hand. The condition is called REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and is related to sleep walking. Melatonin helps but is not a cure. My wife has learned to recognize it and wake me up in time.
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I've experienced it four or five times throughout my 55 years. I've never felt or seen a figure or presence however. Just awake and not able to move. There was one time in the last ten years that I think I was up and walked out of my bedroom into another part of our basement during a fit of panic and then somehow made it back to my bed. I remember going up to our double glass doors and looking out onto the driveway. The moonlight allowed me to see outside. But that could have just been a dream but it sure seemed real.
In my pre-teen and early teen years, terrifying sleep experiences became so frequent that eventually they ceased to be anything except initially startling, then just went away very suddenly. I don't think I've had a recurrence since, and I'm in my mid 30s.
After taking sleep medicine for a while this happens sometimes. But never sure it's this or just waking up before medicine is done. I don't dream often but when I do it's some what controllable as some have mentioned.
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I thought of this because i was on netflix and clicked on a movie called "Mara"
Movie is fairly terrible, but one of the scenes made me remember the feeling when i experienced it
I'm not going to lie, i clicked on the movie because this lady was in it...
Movie is fairly terrible, but one of the scenes made me remember the feeling when i experienced it
I'm not going to lie, i clicked on the movie because this lady was in it...
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My 22 yo son has described instances like those that have been presented in this thread. The first time, he experienced a "grim reaper". He's very detailed in his description of the experience. It would sometimes happen to him while napping during the day. It motivated him to google it and was able to glean a lot of info. This image is often related to the subject.
