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Sleep paralysis is a curious thing. As you might know, during an episode of sleep paralysis a person is unable to move or speak, all the while being totally aware of that. If that wasn't enough, there's also an eerie twist - while being paralyzed, one might also see hallucinations, which, when seen for the first couple of times might be intensely scary. And to make it just a little bit more fun, visual hallucinations are never pleasant, merely the level of terror felt might vary. Of course, there are a couple of theories why these things happen to usually otherwise healthy people, but nobody knows for sure.
Unlike with dreams, people with sleep paralysis always remember their hallucinations easily, since they weren't dreamed of, but seen during a period of awakening. And that makes these visions a perfect inspiration for horror-themed art. Mostly, the sleep paralysis hallucinations include dark figures watching, supernatural creatures suffocating or terrifying the sleeper, often accompanied with and out-of-the-body feeling and loud buzzing, humming noises. Though it is quite hard to describe what exactly this grim experience feels like, these artists have managed to impart their episodes perfectly, giving us a glimpse of these nightly terrors in their dark drawings.
If you also suffer from this mind disturbance, try following a healthy sleeping regime as it decreases the chances of sleep paralysis phenomena occurrence. On the other hand, these deep drawings might consolidate you in knowing that you are not alone and these hallucinations haunt other people, too.
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#1
I Too Had Sleep Paralysis
Giorgio Prodoti 6 years ago
such a beautiful contrast, the sweetness of the style with the darkness of the subject
Ashley Kellers 6 years ago
Oh this is like that short animation on death and the deer in the forest. So beautiful.
Richard Muir 6 years ago
I had something like this and for about 2 months i was strangled by something in a old house we lived in it was strange as i also had a buzzing noise in my ears too
Ubaris Jackalium 6 years ago
This is a lot less creepy then the previous ones. (THANK GOODNESS)
Audrey Martin 1 year ago
I've suffered sleep paralysis twice in my life. I only remember the details of the first time it happened. I was in some kind of space laboratory and " something" was heading to earth from outer space, getting closer. I half woke up and couldn't move. I had to physically shake myself to wake up fully. I was too scared to go back to sleep. It was 1969, the year of the first moon landing. I have a vivid imagination.
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#2
I'm A Little Bit Panicked That I May Find Myself In Sleep Paralysis Again
Sleep paralysis hallucinations often include visions of incubus and succubus - demonic entities who lie atop sleeping people, harboring evil intentions.
Dianna Collins 6 years ago
I have had this a lot when growing up. My granny used to say it was a "haint " and if you can name the person that sent it to you, you could call their name and the thing would have no choice but to go into an open bottle. Crazy stuff....
Petra Christovová 6 years ago
Me too .. then it just disappeared after growing up.
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Chrissa Paradis 6 years ago
Long time sufferer and at times severe and repetitive events...does any one also feel the attacks? Mine vary greatly in content and I always feel them physically as well including the pain of cuts and severe pressure of their weight.
Jaclyn Valenti 6 years ago
Yes weight and pain. I experienced chest pain for several minutes after experiencing a dark figure trying to eat my heart out.
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Waking up trying to get up or say something and cant. My grandmother always said "A witch was holding you down."
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
I've never dealt with sleep paralysis, but when I hear the stories and how the majority of them aren't good. It makes me wonder if somehow somebody gave a spiritual attack a scientific label so that people felt more freely about talking about it. I do believe in a spiritual plane, and not everything is good on that plane, just like on ours.
Lucy Seymour 6 years ago
Ive suffered this since I was 3/4 and still do at least 2/3 rimes a week ... I see and feel people around me I've often drawn my demons that I see I still get scared ...
Hafida 2 years ago (edited)
Lucy, try to sleep on your side. Sleep paralysis come often when you sleep on the back (I have read). Since I know this I sleep on my side and don’t have them anymore.
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Bunty Twinkle 6 years ago
I had this for some years after my last divorce...I was very depressed, and these dreams did not help - I still remember the terror of not being able to scream or move...
Sharon Mccomb 6 years ago
Iv had this lots of times seen ugly old lady crawl through my bedroom door up onto my chest couldn't move or scream
Lilly Spicer 6 years ago
I've been having these since I was a child never knew what they was, until lately. I was always terrified of the dark growing up and afraid to fall asleep. Even today I have insomnia because of them..
#3
Sleep Paralysis
"Why can't I wake up? I have had this before, and it is undoubtedly one of the most frightening experiences ever. Who else here has had sleep paralysis? Once I woke up but I was not really awake it just felt so real, I looked at my room door to see why it was open. I close it every night, all I see is what seems to be an old woman silhouette standing there then all of a sudden she runs to the side of my bed, I can't move, can't talk, can't shout."
🧜️Mermaid098 3 years ago
ive hade it before when i was twelve i didnt halucinate thank god i just lied there crying and trying to scream "i cant move!!!"
Donald Morin 6 years ago
I experienced many such occurrences in my life/ I wrote a small scene "Scared and shaking (1983 ) after one incident. and prayed the lord's prayer which stopped these acts of sensory occurrences from the spirit world. Principalities of the air is what we should be aware of in these changing times
attunedsorcerer 2 years ago
This reminds me of the tall dark figure that stands at the foot of my bed after a sleep paralysis episode.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
I've had several episodes of sleep paralysis, I don't recommend it. It always happens if I sleep on my back.
#4
Intruder
Another common theme in sleep paralysis hallucinations - terrifying intruders.
反社会的 6 years ago
A lot of time, I see either the grim reaper or a random celebrity in the corner of my room. Kind of a strange mix, but neither of them seem terribly hostile. If anything, the celebrities are scarier.
Loonie Toonie 3 years ago
I guess it would be scary to see Justin Bieber in the corner of your room or some
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the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
imagine you're falling asleep and then you hear a soft almost inaudible "quack" followed by "QUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKK" and look up and you just see this duck-de-la...55c4e0.png 
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
dont know but if this picture is based on real room I can see, why she had such horror imagination, the colour of the monster fabric are quite the same as the dress on the painting, also the faces looks similiar to those on painting and the dolls.
U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️ 2 years ago
Does the intruder kinda look like a granny to anyone? Bc the darkness of the drawing is like messing with my eyes and o just wanna make sure others are seeing it as some sort of granny-looking being? But I am incredibly impressed with this drawing! It looks so realistic!
#5
Had Another One An Hour Ago. Decided To Photoshop An Example
I've had sleep paralysis for a few years, and each time is just as terrifying as the last. I always wake with a feeling of being in a void, alongside a sense like the void is rumbling deeply, like an airplane engine is above my house, combined with a weight on my chest
ANDREA SERRANO MORALES 6 years ago
ive had that once and it looked a bit similar... i was 10, now im 12 and it still haunts me. and for some reason i havent really been sleeping these days
Julia Groesch 6 years ago
Tell them to go away in the name of Jesus Christ. They will leave and the weight on your body and the paralysis will go away. Your voice and your ability to call for help will return. Jesus will protect you from these demonic visitors. Pray to Him always for His protection. Jesus helped me and sent them away. I am no longer afraid.
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Kyana Winter 6 years ago
I used to get sleep paralysis, once it was so bad I started to hallucinate, something like this. I was 6.
BeepBeepBoopBoop 2 years ago
bro omfg I couldn't see anything so I turned my brightness up.. that scared me
#6
Ever Since That Day, I Pray I Never Wake To It Again
Dark and eerie monsters are what accompanies sleep paralysis most often. And when the ability to move and speak is lost, it is incredibly hard to snap out of it.
Rae_ 6 years ago
Yes! That is by far the scariest part. Forget the monster, the eyes O.o
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#7
I Use My Nightmare Creatures As An Inspiration
Cris Şerbu 6 years ago
Thank God, I've only had this experience once. I knew what it was and I wasn't panicking...much, but it still was a harrowing experience.
miaow 6 years ago
ikr I just really feel for those who experience this almost every sleep. I think they're really strong ppl to endure it..
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#8
Sleep Paralysis Self Portrait. I'm A Long Time Sufferer
It started in my teen years and has continued into adulthood. It was always hard to explain to people without thinking I was crazy. I wanted to create something that conveyed how scary the experience is when your body is paralyzed, and you lay there while you feel things in the room or see dark shadows or demons staring at you
Adrian Sean 6 years ago
Crazy. I always had this, being half awake half asleep periods when I was 14-19. But it was always the same situations and fortunately nothing terrifying. One set-up was that I slided from the dream to being in my room, which seemed to have being turned into a party house, friends around me chatting kinda blur figures everywhere. And my ofc unable to move. The other situation was that I was aware of me being in a bed, not being able to move, but at the same time everything around me was in movement and everything felt out off place. Very vivid, though it still was more a dreamlike state of mind.
#9
The Feeling Of Sleep Paralysis
Feeling of sleep paralysis is probably the best described by using such words as terror, helplessness and threat.
Kawazoe 3 years ago
Was about to say that I really like the style on this one
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𖤐houseplant𖤐 2 years ago
translation for the writing in the corner: "we aren't here, we're there"
#10
I Feel That This Is A Pretty Accurate Depiction Of Sleep Paralysis
Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart 2 years ago
This is the only one that actually shows what I feel during sleep paralysis. I never see any of these demonic beings, usually just any images I see are quite ordinary thins like furniture or people, but I can't act and that is the scary part.
#11
Describing Sleep Paralysis
#12
Here's A Painted Storyboard Shot For My New Horror Film Called Tickle About Sleep Paralysis And Domestic Abuse
Laurine Clifford 2 years ago
This was my experience, I was in a difficult relationship at the time as well And would regularly feel hands around my throat and a face so close to mine I could smell his breath trying to strangle me but couldn’t fight back or move.Terrifying.
#13
Illustration I Did A While Ago Based On A Sleep Paralysis Experience I Had
Talrath OS 3 years ago
I don't know why, but the art style makes the monster look more curious than anything
Jenny Barner 3 years ago
person: CATS PROTECT ME "throws cats at monster" cats: shut the f**k up hooman
Abigail Moritz 1 year ago
My cat will randomly look around me my room even if nothings happening. I’m convinced animals can see the demons and nightmares. 😥
Megalodon Meg 2 years ago
He actually seems polite 😂 ,"Oh sorry you and the cats look so comfy, I'll come back some other time"
TransTherian(he/fae/kit/fluff) 1 year ago
i love how the demon looks like "Oh sorry, are you busy? I'll come back later!"
#14
A Drawing Of One Of My Sleep Paralysis Experiences
I feel it's definitely a manifestation of my inner issues and fears. Although I used to get sleep paralysis all the time when I would drink heavily and that seemed pretty straight up demonic at times - like I was in hell. Which felt like I was in a lot of the time. But this drawing was from the tail end of my excessive drinking days and a bad relationship. That was two years ago. A lot has changed. I'm healthy. I am feeling better than ever. I don't have sleep paralysis anymore. Not often anyway. It's happened once in the last two years, but after dealing with it nightly for years, I'm no longer afraid
What am i doing here 6 years ago
It sucks that you had to go through that! But by the way, that art is awesome. Whenever I wake up late at night everything looks like the colors and lines you used
kiana zurch 2 years ago
this is not what I look like but this is what my sleep paralysis looks like either this or sometimes being dragged to hell by my hair Screenshot...d432b9.png 
#15
The Best Picture To Depict Sleep Paralysis
Magenta Blu 8 months ago (edited)
That's exactly what I felt while I was in the hospital. No sleep paralysis, but that's how it felt being pregnant and forced to accept the nurses' "care". The next time I got pregnant I avoided hospitals at all costs and my baby was born at home without any mistreatment, disrespect or forced procedures. I got 2 more babies after that. Without any nurse at sight No more prenatal care and other t.o.rture.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Ew is he also touching her? That would be terrifying thinking you are holding your partner and being frozen holding onto a monster like that ugh
LeilaM Hogan60 6 years ago
They're trying to describe one of the most horrifying things that can happen to someone and you joke about it? shame
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Sleep Paralysis
#17
I Can Tell You That Sleep Paralysis Is Not Fun
For me, I know for sure that it was a sleep paralysis since I couldn't move at all. It felt like all nerve connections were cut, and even though I ordered my legs and arms to move, they didn't respond in any way. It was a terrifying moment. Also, I saw all kinds of stuff, but after the thing was over I realized I had kept my eyes closed all the time
Stéphanie Morneault 6 years ago
Mine are very similar except i also ordered myself to wake up and couldn’t open my eyes.
Ashley Michelle 6 months ago
Only thing I can ever control is my breathing. I'd start pretty much hyperventilating trying to wake up my husband, hoping he might be able to pull me out of it? Never worked for me tho.
#18
Drawing For My Illustration Class. The Assignment Was To Pick An Article And Do An Illustration For It. I Chose An Article On Sleep Paralysis
#19
A Girl From Some Of My Sleep Paralysis Episodes. I Am Not An Artist By Any Means But She Is Kind Of Creepy
She comes from the doorway and kind of just floats in the corner of my room staring at me. She has no legs that I can see as her dirty white dress covers them. One of her arms is cut off above the elbow and bleeding onto her dress. There is always a breeze blowing her hair and dress around. She doesn't do anything but float and look very sad. Never tries to approach me. Sometimes she has a lantern in her intact arm. I used to be very afraid of her but now that I am used to having sleep paralysis - I know she is not real and nothing to be scared of
Crowsgoin*brrr* 3 years ago
I feel like the girl in the corner is sad for some reason
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#20
This Is A Painting About Sleep Paralysis. If You've Ever Had It, You'll Understand
After a sleep paralysis hallucination episode one might feels totally helpless and out of control of their own body.
#21
The Sandman, A Drawing About Sleep Paralysis
I avoid sleeping on my back when I don't want it to happen. It still scares me
MPaula Whelan 6 years ago
This is the scariest I have seen here. Reminds me of a play I saw about a woman being stoned (with rocks, not a chemical).
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
This one scares me. I don't experience sleep paralysis anymore since I started taking gabapentin for a neurological condition. My doc wanted to take me off and I panicked. He agreed to keep me on it.
Hidari 1 year ago
Ironically i started to have it while i was on gabapentin, but I’m not anymore and also i no longer sleep on my back… ever
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I've Been Having Sleep Paralysis For Years, And I Wanted To Reflect The Suffering You May Feel And The Loneliness That It Brings
This is a profound subject to represent for me, so it was kind of hard to do, and I think that's why my style is so different, kind of truer
attunedsorcerer 2 years ago
Yep. To the point where your own family will start looking at you like you're some kind of a creep.
#23
A Drawing Of Something I Saw During A Sleep Paralysis Episode
Those were like translucent blue electric cords, what I saw. Like being plugged into the matrix
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
duck de la rocha in there like WAKE UUUUUPPP
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#24
Awake And Conscious, But Unable To Move Or Speak
It happened to me a lot of times, and it is the most frightening experience that has ever occurred to me, but now I am getting enough sleep, and I tried following a sleep schedule
Petra Christovová 6 years ago
I would say that this one is the best. I appreciate that artist managed to depict sleep paralysis without drawing some evil being which would dominate the picture .. just by lying on the bed but this odd and twisted perspective shows that something is not right and then you begin to see the details in the picture .. the outcome is even more ominuous and creepy. Good work.
Nikita Khrushchev 3 years ago
Ah, this pic reminds me of the sleep paralysis I had when I was 8 or 9. I had some kind of sunroof at the ceiling of my room. When I had my sleep paralysis my eyes were wide open and see this dark silhouetted figure of a person watching me from that sunroof. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak so as to wake up my mom who slept beside me.
#25
My Sleep Paralysis
I get sleep paralysis quite a bit, a few times a week at the moment, but unfortunately/fortunately I don't get the creepy woman sitting on my chest like so many others do. I also get night terrors, but they are always completely separate from my sleep paralysis. So anyway, a few days ago I woke up to some sleep paralysis but this time it was different, it was like an out-of-body experience, but I could see myself asleep in a hospital ward, the creepy empty 1950s asylum type. I didn't think that much of it, and I was doing the usual actions trying to wake myself up, at some point, I 're-entered' my body and was laying there asleep but able to see. Then all of a sudden from underneath my duvet these grey old spindly claw-like hands reached out towards me followed by this hollow/shallow face. It moved lightning fast with the kind of jitteriness of a spider, and this woman came from beneath the covers and injected me. The instant I was pumped I was awake
Ashley Kellers 6 years ago (edited)
So in a way, she saved you? or killed you - depends how you interpret it
sleepy-kitty1234<3 1 year ago
i thik she saved them from staying in hat terrible stte for any longer
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Chelle Jones 6 years ago
I had almost this same image come to me as a child repeatedly. I was terrified to go to sleep because the devil would have a huge needle & come towards me. Very frightening.
#26
"Have You Been Sleepwalking Again? Don't Worry, Not Anymore"
Loonie Toonie 3 years ago
I did not mean to offend anyone I just thought that the title was funny... I did not sleep after I saw this one..
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#27
Drew This Piece Based On Stories That My Friend Who Had Sleep Paralysis Told Me
Sleeping in a supine position - lying flat on your back or stomach is a known instigator of sleep paralysis and hallucinations that follow it.
TransTherian(he/fae/kit/fluff) 1 year ago
This is why I always sleep curled up. (that and d o g)
Keeva Laurent 2 years ago
apparently sleeping on your back is the best way to sleep, having your neck and spine lying straight.but is it really?
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
All so if it is warm to me. I sleep with a fan on to keep the oxygen level up and it has helped a lot for me.
#28
If Anyone Else Has Been Through It Before, You Know The Horribly Terrifying Feeling. This Is My Take On It
When I was a child, I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time. Sleep paralysis may leave you feeling frightened, especially if you also see or hear things that aren't really there. Sleep paralysis may happen only once, or you may have it frequently - even several times a night
Slay Queen 1 year ago
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS Been thinking about mr Benedict the whole tiiiime
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Kristi Northcutt 2 years ago
If I go right back to sleep after finally awakening from an episode, it will continue right where it left off. I have to stay awake for at least 30 minutes to keep from slipping right back into paralysis.
Oasis_the_mudwing 2 years ago
When I was 3 or 4 I would wake up in the middle of the night, see these little creatures forming into one, and I would get up out of bed and open my door to let them out. I know I was probably imagining them, but it made me feel better
#29
I Worked Pretty Hard On Creating What I Saw Staring At Me In My Room, And This Is It
For me, the first time it was on my ceiling staring at me, and the second time it was sitting at the end of my bed. Back when I had no idea what sleep paralysis was I told my brother about what happened (he is 25), let me just say that was a terrible idea... because he tried to convince me it was an alien and that I was abducted
#30
Sleep Paralysis - A Self Portrait
🧜️Mermaid098 3 years ago
but if i sleep in any other way the the demons behind me will get me
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#31
Sleep Paralysis Is Utterly Horrifying. I Did A Quick Marker Drawing Of What I Hallucinated
I only had the sitting feeling, seeing things, and the stabbing feeling. The choking one, which some people also suffers during sleep paralysis, sounds pretty horrible
ETHAN BENNETT 6 years ago
Once a month I had this dream where chuck e. cheese would try to steal I was always up stair but my fm would get mudred since they were down stairs so I would hide under my grandma's bed hoping that he would not find me and thank god he couldnt, but it still occurs
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
i once had a sleep paralysis episode where i felt a giant figure get on me and i felt very violated. i was having a whole bunch of intrusive thoughts and this figure was a good metaphor for those feelings. looking back, it was probably the cat sitting on my face XD
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
that's the only sleep paralysis i've ever had too, so it was very weird
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#32
A Drawing Of What I've Seen During Sleep Paralysis
A lot of times they are standing right next to my bed while I try to move or scream for help but can do neither. There's not much you can do besides try to wake yourself up somehow
#33
My Try To Describe Sleep Paralysis
Though, as much as it scares me when it happens, I have to appreciate the creative motivation it provides! Something good has to come of it
Lilly Spicer 6 years ago
This is exactly how I feel.. Like I'm being held down by my blanket and my mouth is being covered. I can't move my head, shoulders, legs or arms. Very scary all the while I'm awake. And..it can go on for hours. It started when I was a kid and it has followed me my whole life. I'm 48yrs old now.. I have insomnia and I've been on numerous types of medications and it seems to get worse depending on the medication..
#34
"Stop Trying To Scream, It Won’t Work. Your Throat Muscles Are Paralyzed Too. You Still Can’t Breathe"
You are staring at a blank ceiling, and you can’t stare anywhere else. Shadows flit across your vision, forming shapes you try not to think about. A clawed hand, a flash of jagged, shadowy teeth. All images from your subconscious. A face forming above yours, leering through black void eyes. You think you hear sibilant whispering. Angry hissing, like a snake that’s been disturbed
Gaylene Ngaia 6 years ago
I learned to scream with my mouth closed , I hear myself and I know if there is someone who could hear me nearby so I scream louder...it works. I can’t move my body but I somehow always manage to move a finger or two even if it’s only a little bit, I have reassurance that I have control over myself it soon stops! I also suffered a lot as a child...scarey s**t..no doubt about it! Maybe sleeping on our backs has something to do with it? Maybe ..just a thought.
Sarah Santos 2 years ago
Thank God, I never had these experiences. I think it's just a reason for saying your prayers before you go to sleep !
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kiana zurch 2 years ago
I have managed to call out during sleep paralysis and usually it freaks out the demons and makes them think they are powerless over me and then they usually go away
#35
Sleep Paralysis: Succubus
A succubus is a demon in a female form that appears in dreams or hallucinations with intentions to seduce men for their own good.
Becca Kuehn 2 years ago
I'm sorry that you had that experience. Incubus and Succubus are both horrifying.
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#36
Another Sleep Paralysis Experience
I'd like to say with this one, and I remember my TV woke me up...or what I thought was my TV, I mean I was in a dream state, so it wasn't actually even on. That snowy effect was going on when the cable goes out, and there was an all-encompassing and deep vibrating or buzzing that seemed to come from the TV. This buzzing typically accompanies sleep paralysis episodes and serves as a sort of warning for what may happen if I don't calm myself and think positive and loving thoughts
kiana zurch 2 years ago
oh my god my brain provide me with that exact same warning sound before it happens and that is when i usually fight to stay awake only to succumb to it in the dark
#37
What I See When I Get Sleep Paralysis
Sometimes he comes over and picks me up, but I usually wake before we leave the room. Sometimes he just stands there waiting for me to go on my own. He's a very long, creepy looking dude with blotchy skin and wears a suit. Sometimes a table and two chairs are set up at the end of my room, and he's trying to get me to come to sit. I have a very long bedroom with not much in it. I guess he brought the table and chairs with him
#38
Done For An Article On A Condition Known As Sleep Paralysis. It's Kind Of Like The Opposite Of Sleep Walking
#39
How I See Sleep Paralysis
Jenny Barner 2 years ago
Up vote 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times (this number is to big for me to know the name)
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nicholas cosakavega 2 years ago
Upvote for the cool drawing. The bird lady looked like a guardian spirit from a hidden shaman tribe or something
#41
Sleep Paralysis
Luckily, I don't have sleep paralysis issues anymore. Not often anyway. They were common experiences for most of my life though. Lots of ideas for artistic inspiration
#42
When I Was Little, I Always Had Some Sleep Paralysis So Here Is A Drawing Representing My Childhood
The fact is that your brain thinks you are sleeping so all your dreams, and your fears will be personified into the real world, and it'll give you hallucinations. I think it's the most terrific thing I've ever experienced cause it's impossible for you to understand that what you're seeing is not real, you know you are "not sleeping" so you are SURE it's real
🧜️Mermaid098 3 years ago
i wish it would put some of the good dreams in there too like mabe make me see my crush ask me out or something
#43
Sleep Disorders For Years. Terrified Of Shadow Things. Here’s An Example I Drew Of What I Am Seeing When I Doze Off
This has caused me sleep deprivation and insomnia as I am anxious to sleep. I went through severe sleep deprivation to the point of hearing things and waking hallucinations when I got to 8 days without sleep I took myself to the emergency room where I ended up voluntarily committing myself. It was scary as hell
LanteiaTG 6 years ago
I'm sorry you went through this. I've only had 2 instances of sleep paralysis where a dark creature hung from a corner of my bedroom, watching me. It was 8 years ago, and it still scars the s**t out of me. I can't imagine suffering from this for years. I hope things get better for you.
Chelle Jones 6 years ago
I had the same issues growing up. I was terrified to go to sleep because I knew I would dwell in this frightening other world and in the morning I would not feel rested at all. It was like living in another universe that was frightening. It took its toll on my mental health as a child and early adult. Lucid dreaming helped me learn to recognize it wasn't real but that doesn't work on paralysis. I out grew it in my 30's and for the first time in my life I actually felt like I had gotten sleep. My heart aches for you but don't let this define you.
Keeva Laurent 2 years ago
you should try thinking about things that you love when you are trying to sleep
#44
Recently I Feel Like A Dark Figure Is Observing Me. When I Was Younger, It Used To Happen More Often, So I Guess I Managed To Master It
I have sleep paralysis too. This illustration is an expression of my feelings. It's no joke, and sometimes it’s hard to deal with it
#45
My First Sleep Paralysis Episode Drawn From Memory. A Dark Figure Watching Over Me. This Happened 4 Years Ago, But The Memory Still Haunts Me
The scariest aspect of my experience was that though its face was pitch black and had no facial features, yet I could “feel” it intensely staring at me. It was that same feeling you get when you are alone and feel like you are being watched. I get chills thinking about it. But as creepy as this figure looked, the weirdest thing is that I didn’t feel like it was an evil presence. It was sitting so human-like... and seemed more curious in me rather than threatening. It sat there motionless for about 30 seconds by my feet at the edge of my bed, just watching me the whole time, then disappeared once I regained control of my body
Suerena Garrison 2 years ago
Yes, exactly, my experience is a feeling of the presence of the devil nearby trying to take me to hell. I can't see him or I refuse to look, I'm not sure what happens, I haven't had one in a long while. When you wake up that fear sticks with you for days, it's so frightening!!!
#46
My Drawing Of Sleep Paralysis
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
My only experience with S.P. was in Hospital after Parkinsons diagnoses.The room was full of cats faces and i would fall into and slide down inside their eyes. I would do this over and over til I woke up!
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i_ship_it 6 years ago (edited)
Hey guys, pro tip! Don't look at this article right before you go to sleep. I am terrified.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
I had sleep paralyisis frequently when in 11th and 12th grade. It was terrifying. I had scary things happen during it, but never the presence over the bed that so many people suffer from (luckily). The artwork is just brilliant, in my uneducated opinion. Thank you for sharing this!
Kelly Horrigan 6 years ago
the buzzing, feeling the pressure of someone on your bed, knowing that you are slipping into it and trying so hard to move any part of my body just to get out of it. Started when I was 12. I would hear voices whispering. I hate them. There was a time when instead of sleep paralysis I had outer body experiences. Those were very interesting. But the terror of a presence during paralysis was/is sickening
comboplush 6 years ago
If you suffer from sleep paralysis, try not to sleep on your back and not to eat right before sleeping. I have had episodes of sp throughout my life (one of the most horrifying experiences I had) and apparently sleeping position has an influence. Haven't had an episode for about two years now, I hope it has faded off or something. I would get paralysed, fight with all my power to wake up, just to fall asleep again and and re-dream the same episode multiple times, always wanting to scream, fighting for the tiniest bit of movement to "break the paralysis". Sometimes with my ex bf besides me, with no means of communicating my horrors to him, help so close but so far. I truly believe one can get traumatized from sleep paralysis. It is pure terror and you truly feel absolute horror.
Bepina 6 years ago
For first 10 years or so, it would happen only when I slept on my back but now it has 'evolved' and I have experienced the sleep paralysis regardless of the sleeping position (sideways, on my belly..)
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LanteiaTG 6 years ago
I had 2 instances of sleep paralysis 8 years ago. A dark creature just hovered on the ceiling in the corner of the room, watching me. Couldn't move, and I felt like I was calling out for my husband for hours while he was in the other room, my lips eventually were barely able to move but I still couldn't produce a sound. Finally I was able to be heard and he rushed in. All I could do was sob. It was horrific and still the 2 scariest moments in my life other than a car wreck I was in.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
This used to happen to me from childhood well into my 20's. I finally learned to stop panicking because I couldn't wake up and just give in the paralysis. I would then naturally go back into real sleep. After a couple of times Ignoring it, it never came back.
Petra Christovová 6 years ago
Yes, sleep paralysis is a b***h. I had this when I was a teenager, then it sort of faded out and finally disappeared. What I find strange that most of the artists in the article see and depict the phenomena as some evil being attacking them. I never perceived it this way, I was probably rationalising it, seeing it as some kind of illness or a curse. For me, it was more like the feeling that I am turning into a stone, often I could not also breathe properly and felt odd for a while even after I finally got up. When I would have to paint a picture, I would probably draw just me turning into something immobile and solid.
i_ship_it 6 years ago (edited)
Hey guys, pro tip! Don't look at this article right before you go to sleep. I am terrified.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
I had sleep paralyisis frequently when in 11th and 12th grade. It was terrifying. I had scary things happen during it, but never the presence over the bed that so many people suffer from (luckily). The artwork is just brilliant, in my uneducated opinion. Thank you for sharing this!
Kelly Horrigan 6 years ago
the buzzing, feeling the pressure of someone on your bed, knowing that you are slipping into it and trying so hard to move any part of my body just to get out of it. Started when I was 12. I would hear voices whispering. I hate them. There was a time when instead of sleep paralysis I had outer body experiences. Those were very interesting. But the terror of a presence during paralysis was/is sickening
comboplush 6 years ago
If you suffer from sleep paralysis, try not to sleep on your back and not to eat right before sleeping. I have had episodes of sp throughout my life (one of the most horrifying experiences I had) and apparently sleeping position has an influence. Haven't had an episode for about two years now, I hope it has faded off or something. I would get paralysed, fight with all my power to wake up, just to fall asleep again and and re-dream the same episode multiple times, always wanting to scream, fighting for the tiniest bit of movement to "break the paralysis". Sometimes with my ex bf besides me, with no means of communicating my horrors to him, help so close but so far. I truly believe one can get traumatized from sleep paralysis. It is pure terror and you truly feel absolute horror.
Bepina 6 years ago
For first 10 years or so, it would happen only when I slept on my back but now it has 'evolved' and I have experienced the sleep paralysis regardless of the sleeping position (sideways, on my belly..)
Load More Replies... LanteiaTG 6 years ago
I had 2 instances of sleep paralysis 8 years ago. A dark creature just hovered on the ceiling in the corner of the room, watching me. Couldn't move, and I felt like I was calling out for my husband for hours while he was in the other room, my lips eventually were barely able to move but I still couldn't produce a sound. Finally I was able to be heard and he rushed in. All I could do was sob. It was horrific and still the 2 scariest moments in my life other than a car wreck I was in.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
This used to happen to me from childhood well into my 20's. I finally learned to stop panicking because I couldn't wake up and just give in the paralysis. I would then naturally go back into real sleep. After a couple of times Ignoring it, it never came back.
Petra Christovová 6 years ago
Yes, sleep paralysis is a b***h. I had this when I was a teenager, then it sort of faded out and finally disappeared. What I find strange that most of the artists in the article see and depict the phenomena as some evil being attacking them. I never perceived it this way, I was probably rationalising it, seeing it as some kind of illness or a curse. For me, it was more like the feeling that I am turning into a stone, often I could not also breathe properly and felt odd for a while even after I finally got up. When I would have to paint a picture, I would probably draw just me turning into something immobile and solid.
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