22-Year-Old Man With Sleep Paralysis Recreates His Nightmares In Photos, And It’s Terrifying
Photographer Nicolas Bruno spends his days like the rest of us, but his nights are very different. And terrifying. 22 year-old Nicolas has been suffering from sleep paralysis for 7 years now, which means that he experiences his nightmares more vividly than regular sleepers.
Sleep paralysis is a condition that happens when we are about to enter rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In it, our bodies paralyze themselves to stop us from acting out our dreams, but Bruno’s mind is awake and experiencing horrific hallucinations. This forced him into insomnia and depression: “I thought I was possessed by demons,” he said.
Everything changed when one high school teacher suggested he should document these terrors. He has been battling his fears with photography ever since. “This project has gifted me a sense of who I am,” he said. “It gave me the strength to persevere in life, to create art and speak to people. It gifted me art, and I don’t know where I would be without it.”
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I've had this issue since I was 10 years old and I'm 35 now. Not until 5 years ago I learned how to deal with it. I know what's happening in my mind so I try not to fight it. The more I try to wake myself up the worse the dreams and feeling in my body gets. So I try to coach myself to go back to sleep.
i do the same. I have been dealing with sleep paralysis since 4 years. I don't fight back now. I just keep myself calm and try to sleep back.
Sleep paralysis Park 5 where can I put this all together anyone have a Blog place I can put my story?
I am relieved to know that I am not the only one. Suffering from this condition for 9 years. Yes I believe stress and some deep rooted fear could be a cause. Things are a little with me now.
I also have this around 12 years old it developed. In my quest to fix myself I used a lucid dreaming devices lights and sound triggers. After using it for 5 or months my brain kind switched up to let me sometimes control my dream. I'm not completely better yet. I still have them just less often. For me the whispers and feeling of being held down really messed with my personal relationships.
The same. I just started to ride it and ended up controlling the dreams. It was like being trapped in a bizarre movie in the end. I grew out of it eventually, but the adventures I had...
You could really be possesed by demons. They could stay with person 30-40 years according to muslim exorcists. They try to talk them out like negotiators. But like all muslims it is divided issue. Some say it is others say it is medical condition. But the thing is exorcists really has a job out of it. So i might think it is maybe a possesion problem, maybe not.
After i post this post i made a research on sleep paralysis on web. I came accross this story on Shaolin Monks, Sifus, way of chi. He was mastering (Wu Qin Xi ). This guy experienced beginning of sleep paralysis after their sifu(Teacher) pass energy to them. Than this guy read some book on Dr. Bilal Philips University of Wales and so on. You can read the story on http://dangerofchi.org/mystory.htm . I was like wow that really happened or whats going on.
Sry i didn't replied all of you just replied main post somehow it replied all of them at the same second. Website mistake. Sry again.
13 years and counting here... Only figured out recently I am not alone in this! There was a documentary on sleep paralysis Netflix, my relatives were shocked to discover how absolutely frightening is gets everytime. Not fighting back however never crosses my mind when it occurs, it seems going against your own nature of defending yourself, but will try from now on thanks :)
Hi, my son suffers from this, to me it lasted just few months instead. May you give me the name of that Netflix documentary please? Thanx :) x
Ajda the name of the docu is 'The Nightmare'
You have a h. Pylori infection. Clear it and your sp will go away.
Sleep paralysis part 4 woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of my name being called by Hollywood sound effect 3 ghostly voices in 1, I sat bolt upright & looked over to this girl who was sleeping 3 feet away from me. Her body was arched, her lips were in a hard-line closed. Her eyes were wide open staring at the ceiling I took in the scene for a few seconds and then poked her upper arm cautiously. She immediately snapped out of that position sobbing saying she had been trapped like that for 45 minutes (she could see the clock) and fed me saying she'd been trying to get my help. I asked her what she was into because by this time I had studied phenomena and esoteric books to find how it was possible and what for. She denied occult practices and drugs use. So I taught her about the white light in case it ever happened again.
Part 6 Then as I turned to settle and lay down before my head even touched the pillow, it started happening to me, it was a roaring of wind, the sound of inhuman laughter and a weird voice speaking a language unlike anything I've heard except perhaps Latin backwards. And I was completely immobilized. I let it go on for a full minute analyzing everything. it may sound crazy but true once I satisfied my curiosity I taunted them with -' is that all you got?' White Light & GONE. I finally got it out of this girl that the argument with her boyfriend was about him getting her addicted to heroin and she was currently on methadone and didn't want to be dragged back hence her need for a sleepover. And this is where I smudged Native American Style convinced I didn't have to take something on faith, I could KNOW it first-hand It's explained in Aldous huxley's book: 'Doors of Perception' from which the band , The Doors took their name.
I experienced this too, what I usually do to wake-up, is to move my fingers slowly, once it move just a little bit, the rest of your consciousness follows.
I used to have it all the time and I always fought back. I don't have one of these in years now.
Have you ever recognized that you were dreaming? Wonderful moment!
Excact same experience. I had to learn to control my thoughts then relax. That took me years to to.
Does waking up from sleep paralysis feel like being hungover for you guys? When I had those dreams when younger I just tried to relax and fall back asleep just as you say you do. I don't have them as often anymore and last time it took me by surprise again. And apparently I sleep with my eyes slightly open so I am usually somewhere that resembles my room in those nightmares. It's quite interesting to wake up and see all those small shadows and objects in the room and how your brain transformed them into aliens, ghouls and other weird things.
I'm 34 and slept with a nightlight until about 4 years ago for that very reason.
I usually have sleep paralysis when I've been under a lot of stress. A few years ago it started to become an every night occurrence to the point I was terrified to go to bed at night. My dreams were always very similar stuck in my bed as 5 to 10 people busted into my home with assault rifles. I can feel my wife beside me and know they are in between me and my child. I can't move or make a sound but can open my eyes and see everything going on. After what feels like 30 min I usually wake my wife with my panicked breathing or just snap out of it. After a few months I learned how to for the most part cope with it and talk myself through it or go to str8 breathing as deep and hard as I could. I've done a lot more research and now can transfer and control it into more of lucid dreaming. Although it dosent always turn for the better.
These used to happen to me when I was stressed in the beginning but then started happening even by a short nap. But it was not like a dream, I could open my eyes, see the room in detail and also hear noises that were around me. I think thats why these experiances were so terrifng for me, because all the halucinacions were added to a real scene that I was so concious about. I tried to embrace it one time and transform it into a lucid dream but I felt like half of my brain was on fire and then in the exact time the hous begun to move... it turns out I was having sleep paralysis during a erthquake. I don't know about you but every time I experianced this thing it made me verry tired, exhausted to the point were I could not get up from my bed or even roll on the other side. Now I know how to relax and get rid of these situations.
IF ti's a series of photos, why can't they present them without video format? So many aren't available in my country...
Alexandra, visit his page: http://nicolasbrunophotography.com/ There are a series of photos...hope this helps
Thanks!
there's also his instagram in the links
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I feel so sorry for him. I`ve heard about this condition but it seems far worse than I thought. Having nightmares is terrifying and what can we say about having this condition.
almost every week, i have at least 1 Sleep Paralysis. For me its a nightmare before i wake up. Its terrible when a monster comes to you and you cant move scream shout. You feel the pain, you think you woke up and its done, but no. One second later the monster comes again... and again... and again... after you "died" 5-10 times you dont know if u are in rl or not. And in the end you just want to die to end your suffer... and ta dam you woke up for example at 2 am, so you have to go back to sleep....
I'm so relieved to know other people have these problems!!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one experiencing the living hell.
Man this shit happens to me all the time. Dreams inside of dreams inside of dreams only to think you've woken up but really you're inside another nightmare.
I've had sleep paralysis since I was young. I've spent many nights feeling awake but literally can't move and seen weird things while sleeping. When I became a Christian it intensified until I removed the license I gave the enemy. Now I don't have them. What I found out is that people that have this happening to them have a prophetic gifting given to them from the Lord. The enemy try's to bombard your senses and keep you bound. Call on Jesus next time I bet you it stops. It has for me every time when I had them.
I know this condition inside out. I always thought everybody has this experience and I avoided sleep since I was very young for this reason. Sleep was not pleasant. What Nathan mentions is a good tactic, I've used it a lot of times, but then, I am a Christian and you may not be religious at all. What then? Many a time I know I'm leaving my body and then I 'wake' myself up, only to find myself outside of my 'dream ego' (Jung calls it that) and then a third level of dreaming will follow and so on. When you keep a dream journal you will see a pattern. Dreams are wonderful 'messengers'. If the message is so important that you have to have SP to take note, then it is worth keeping a dream journal. You have several questions to answer about your dream. These are according to the studies of Jung an integral part of processing your dream and to always remember dreams happen in the dream arena. However real they feel, your sub-conscious will remember you are dreaming.
Thats not sleep paralysis thsts night terrors. Thats even worse...i suffer from sleep paralysis and my dad suffers from both. But what you just described is night terrors. Way worse than sleep paralysis..although you could be suffering from both.
I used to suffer from night terrors almost every night when I was 10-12 years old, I honestly was so afraid to sleep I almost got really sick because of sleep deprivation. It's pretty scary.
And the guy that made this video..and/or the video...is definitely suffering from both. Sleep paralysis doesn't give you night terrors like this. Thats either a negative entity thats latched onto you (depending on your beliefs) or a form of ptsd manifesting itself during the sleep paralysis. 😟 sorry ...just wanted to put the information out there after a lifetime of personal and family experiences
You have an h. Pylori infection. Clear it and sp will go away.
I would recommend keeping a pen and paper by the bed and writing down your dreams immediately. It not only allows you to get it out of your system, but it's a great tool for helping to see any patterns in yourself that might help you to learn how to deal with it. In addition, I've found that documenting my dreams has helped me understand my relationship with my dreams better, and if I stay true to the method, I end up having more control over my dreams while sleeping. That can be a great relief.
This happens to me at least once a month. It really is like a nightmare. I try to scream, but all that comes out is a cloaked whisper. I try to move but I have no control, and just remain still, locked in that position. Different things happen each time, but the worst is when I know something is there in the dark, waiting and watching me. One night it leaned on my bed so that I tilted towards it. My eyes were wide open expecting it to come into my line of vision. Then it got close to my ear, and went "Ugh, ugh, ugh, " over and over, in a terribly ugly raspy voice....it is still the worst sleep paralysis I've experienced. And I've had some bad ones......
@Abdullah Nafi is that not reserved for the followers of Islam?
Same thing stopped my crippling night terrors, Nathan Elliot! I'm Christian, but definitely not religious. A friend lent me her book with the verse and I was AMAZED how incredibly well reciting Psalm 91 worked. Not kidding; worked liked nothing else ever did!
Call adhan. Its a prayer call. have a look on youtube. it will help you and you must believe in it that it will help you.
Don't need to feel sorry for him. Feel joy for him that he found a way to not just cope but to educate the rest of us. It's all good.
I have had problems with sleeping for a long time. Usually I just wake up between 2-15 times a night, occasionally I start sleepwalking. (I've woken up standing in the bathroom etc). I sleeptalk; I'll sit up in bed and say "there's something in the room" or pushing all the covers off the bed saying "this shouldn't be here". I feel bad for waking up my bf at those times but I never remember. Now he just tells me to calm down and go to sleep. To which my body collapses back into bed and I continue sleeping. (no memory of it whatsoever). Sometimes I "see" things crawling on the wall in that moment where you fall asleep or wake up and I have had sleep paralysis too, can't move at all and there's always something standing in the corner of our room, just like it's watching... Writing all this down makes me feel like there's something wrong with me. :P
I have expirience this kind of paralysis since 20 years... they scream at me, flying through my head or running around making noises. Ugly faces looks like demons. Some looks normal, now i start to pray to god. That seems to help in my case. I was never into Religion that much, but as long as it works i'll do it. Last sleep paralyse was three months ago. Hope i get rid of that someday. Wish you all the best!
I sleep scream, walk, write, often wake up sitting in bed or in another room...one night I woke to find a pack of ground beef on my bed
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
No memory of how or why it got there. Two days later it was a bowl of cranberries...not sure what my brain was cooking up! Lol so weird
Thing is: this doesn't happen all the time or I just don't remember it every time. Sometimes I can get decent sleep for a month or 2. And then it's weeks in a row of waking up, nightmares, sleepwalk,... etc so...
y'all need to go to church..... Dunno, just kidding, I'm not that much of a believer myself; but if I were you I think I'd re-become a christian.... Shit, that's intense!! I had a recurring nightmare when I was a kid and now I'm 30 yrs old; had an episode a week ago where I woke up and had hallucinations.... then I realised it was a nightmare of sorts & "provoked" it to see what my mind can conjure. I then felt a volley ball brushing the top of my head and felt it's weight on my pillow; still couldn't move due to the parallysis.... Scared the shit out of me cuz there was nobody else in the room (or the apt).
Sleep Paralysis is more than just hallucinations. It's different for every person! For me, it's as complicated and as simple as my brain wakes before the paralyzing agent has worn off. I do not hallucinate. I hear everything going on around me but I cannot move or interact. I can repeat conversations happening around me with 100% accuracy. But I cannot purposefully breathe and must fall back on my body's natural instinct to breathe during sleep. It IS terrifying, don't get me wrong. I have suffered with this for over 25 years. Minimum of 4 attacks a week. Just remember that people experience things differently.
This is what I had always heard it was, and what I was taught in my psychology classes it was. I had never heard of the hallucinations until now. I had one back in January, freaked me out, first time I had it happen in a long time. Woke up and couldn't move, I wanted to scream for my fiance right next to me to help but I couldnt open my mouth. Terrifying
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
Wow, i've never heard of this until now - what terrible mental suffering that must be. I will share one tid-bit, the mind is very powerful - it can project the most beautiful desires or the worse nightmares. But at its essence it is no more "real" that a movie projection on the wall...10 years ago i had some kind of mental psychosis , and learned over years from very wise friends and teachers to let it go, not fight it but not ignore it either just let go. To this day things still pop into my head but like a gentle breeze it comes and goes, so in some way I think you can train your mind, with meditation, some analysis, letting go bit by bit of holding onto the projection as being real and solid. That's just my experience.
I have had this issue since i was a child and slept with my mum back then telling her take wake me up if I fall asleep before her cause my body would not be able to move but I be awake. As one time i could hear the tv but saw a person dressed in black and shake someone head till it exploded and I wake up and the tv would be exactly what I hear and this happen to me twice same person maybe a few years later but now that im older I have been getting it more and more yesterday's it happen to me 6 times in a row so i get afraid to go back to sleep. sometimes I walk around my house and someone would chase me or tackle me or I feel something wet on my hand so I usually bite my hand to see if I feel pain or not so I know if I'm actually in reality or so and if I know I'm awake as I said I usually leave the TV on and hear the TV or if my dog is sleeping next to me and I feel her heat and breathing I wiggle my fingers and toes and that helps get the body to wake up. But seeing this makes me c
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
I heard that when you find yourself in that conscious nightmare its best to imagine yourself with a magic object like a sword or something. That object should represent all that is good so it can help you fight the evil. I tried it once and it worked. I imagined a lighted sword, after that, the dream took a nice turn and I was able to manipulate it. Haven't had the descipline to try it all the rest of the times so I had to fight my way through the paralysis since then.
The problem is for my mind it is not a dream. I cannot stop it with my mind. It's so exhausting
Depending on you beliefs or open mindedness. There are a few things that have helped die me but I think it relates more directly what someone said earlier about something attaching to you. There are several verses in Psalms that are powerful. If you have a more open mind to other options Amber next to your bed, letting in as much natural light as possible during the day or sage also seems helpful. I don't know how much of that is mental and gives you a mental edge ba what actually helps but mine have not been near so frequent since I made those adjustments
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
I thought sleep paralysis was just not being able to move, but it's nightmares too. That makes me feel like I'm not insane because I have the same thing but I thought I was just plagued by shitty nightmares with sleep paralysis at the same time. The worst feeling is when you try to fight back and it's like magnetic repulsion keeping you from doing so. It's so strong and it makes you feel so so weak and helpless. You will get through this. We will get through this!
My sleep doctors told me told me that sleep paralysis is the term for the paralysis alone. This is the first time I've seen the term used to include hypnagogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations. Basically, these are nightmares which usually include real sensory input such as noises. You are not insane (not because you have sleep paralysis and possible sleep-induced hallucinations, at any rate!). You are not imagining how awful it is. You will get through this. You are not alone. If you haven't had your sleep stuff checked out, I highly recommend doing so ASAP. Finding out I wasn't imagining or exaggerating how awful my sleep was, and learning what was really happening with my sleep, was the best part of getting my sleep study results. I didn't need a diagnosis or treatment (although it turned out both were necessary). I just needed to know what was going on. Once I knew that, things became a *lot* easier to cope with!
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
My sleep paralysis really picked up heavily from 19-22 years old. I almost never have it now at 24. My tips for fixing it are 1. Create a normal sleep schedule 2. Don't sleep directly on your back 3. Use an alarm always 4. Drink water before bed and if you wake up throughout the night ... If you do end up getting the paralysis the best trick is to start by wiggling your toes and finger tips and just keep that as your main focus while staying calm.
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
How horrible. This has luckily only happened to me once - when a vampire ripped my heart out in 2001... I can't think how terrifying it has to be to happen to someone every night... You poor people.
This happened to me a lot as a child. Only occasionally now. I welcome the fear though now. Dreams have rules. They are your own rules. For example: Flying in my dreams is a form of witchcraft. Even though I'm not a religious person It's a rule I'm not supposed to break unless I want to be possessed. When I do break it that's when the shit hits the fan and I suddenly become very aware of the evil about me. It's oppressive, frightening and thrilling at the same time. For the last decade or so it's been at the same places. Torn up places nobody would want to be in. When these appear that's when I know I have to tread carefully unless I want to suffer the night horrors. One time I woke up howling like a damn dog. I mean howling for a good thirty seconds. It freaked my wife out and I couldn't control it. I think that's what happens when you go to far.
I read all the comments and its weird but it's comforting to know there are people who deal with the same issue as yours. I can never really explain this to anybody but this I can so relate to this. May we all take control over the demons that haunts us.
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
That's a great idea! I've been trying for years to try to express my demonic dreams. I'm a terrible artist so it's hard for me to express the dreams. I always said that I'd make a horror author famous with my dreams.
I wrote all of mine down in a notebook that I keep next to my bed, but have NEVER dared to look back st any of them.
God, I feel so sorry for you buddy. It's so scary. D:
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All of you do Know that this is a failed state to enter Astral Projection yes?
You need to find a good entity to help you out or arm yourself with light...
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Altough now I tend to analize those greatly rather than anihilate them on spot, I find them interesting, especially the succubus being my fetish...
Ive been dealing with this for 2 years now and let me tell you, ive NEVER been so scared. My family and boyfriend keep telling me 'there just dreams, don't get to worked up' ' they ain't real, dont let it bother you' but if you dont experience this yourself then you have NO IDEA how terrifying this can be. Most of the time I'm getting choked, I can't breath, I can't move, I can barley think. It's really really scary. I'm to the point where I dont want to sleep because I dont want to have these "Dreams" I sometimes have my boyfriend stay up until hes positive I'm sleep. How do some of you coach yourselves?? It would help me a lot.... Thank you!!
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
Please talk to your medical professional about this ASAP. If you haven't already, start keeping a basic "sleep diary" (google for examples if needed) and record the details for what you experience during each of these terrifying episodes. In my case, my sleep diary helped my sleep doctor suspect narcolepsy during the first appointment although no one had even thought of that possibility prior to then. My sleep study + other testing helped me learn what was happening to me and why, and this alone made a crucial difference as I now knew I hadn't been imagining things! Since then, medication, counseling, joining a support group, educating my family and friends (and my partner!), and practicing good "sleep hygiene" have helped me bring my symptoms under control as much as possible. Good luck! I hope you get the help you need to have better sleep soon.
I have had sleep paralysis for years and was scary at first but now it's more annoying than anything but its easy to break out of it.
I think my night terrors, nightmares, and sleep paralysis fall into an entirely different level of disturbing and exhausting, but I am glad this person found some relief and that this issue seems to be more common than I realized.
I turn to writing with my nightmares as my subjects... But this is horrifyingly mystifying!
I've had this for as long as I could remember and it used to scare the crap out of me but over the years I learned a few tricks. First one, I know i'm going into a spell when I hear a loud, painful ringing and from that point i keep my eyes closed. Second one perhaps the most important, wiggling your toes will bring you right out of it. Once out, change position and go to sleep. :)
I think his work is amazing.
Hauntingly beautiful
I've dealt with this off and on, and it is TERRIFYING when it happens. I'm always sure I'm going to die if I don't fully wake up. But one time, it ended up funny. Hubby and I were sharing a hotel suite with 2 other female friends -- hubby and I in one bed, female housemate in a bed not 3 feet away, and other female friend in a loft above us. Hubby got up to go to the bathroom, and I went into sleep paralysis. I am trying to scream "Help me!", but all I can get out is some sort of moans and groans. So what happens? Housemate and friend both decide hubby and I ARE HAVING SEX, and that's what the sounds are! Friend gets up and leaves the room (having to walk RIGHT PAST THE BED I'm in); housemate gets up out of her bed (like I said, not even 3 feet away from THE BED I'M IN) and goes out onto the balcony!!! EXCUSE ME????? YOU BOTH WENT RIGHT PAST THE BED I'M IN, AND HUBBY IS NOWHERE NEARBY, BUT YOU THINK WE'RE HAVING SEX??????
Hum! These photos reminds me of Tim Burton's artworks ^_^ really enjoyed it. ♥
It can run in family along with other sleep disorders. If you have children see if they have it. This can be very scary and you could help your children deal with it. Discuss it with them my daughter did not have it until about 10 years after I told her about it. She said she remembered what I had told her about it and that helped her.
I have this condition too- but have always called them night terrors. Mine are auditory also- I hear things. Awful! My dog helps to calm me
Yeah they scream at me and are so loud. I cannot sleep because of them.
Last year I started getting sleep paralysis and till now I've had it 5 times and it's extremely terrifying each time it happens, I'm a person who is scared to death of anything unusual or horror, and whenever it happens I panic so much & feel myself struggling, screaming for my mom in the other room through my mind. I've heard old people talking to me and I've seen myself floating on the ceiling and honestly I thought I died. 5th time I saw a women in white gown starting right at me & my mind, my body was vibrating and lights in my eyes were flickering, I don't even know if it's possible but I've felt it, I've died a lot of times, now I try avoiding to sleep alone because I know it's waiting for me again.
Hi Shagun, I think you're having an Out of Body Experience. Look that up. Usually you can transition sleep paralysis into OBE. I've been trying to do OBE but I no longer have sleep paralysis occurring frequently.
Hi, did the woman has blonde wavy Hairs?! Do you see kids running around you too?! The only thing that works is praying for good dreams before i go to bed.
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Hey Noah, well it was drak so all I saw was this women with dark open hair in a white gown, that's all I could see. She's the first person I've seen in my sleep paralysis, I've just heard old people in a bunch talking to me trying not to wake me up, I haven't seen kids.(if I do, I'll die honestly😂)
I've suffered from sleep paralysis for about 25 years, I'm 36 now. The worst is when my nose is stuffed and my mouth is closed. I can't breathe until I wake up. I used to panic in the beginning but learned how to calm myself and wait it out. It feels like an eternity. Question for those who suffer as well. Do any of you experience electricity throughout your body towards bedtime, on the nights you have paralysis ? This is how i know im going to "freeze up "(that's what I call it), that night. Feels like electricity shooting from head to toe? Mostly in brain...
I cannot say that I have ever felt that- or realized it; but I often do know when its going to happen. I cannot remember the exactness of paralysis- it's not really dreaming tho... right? Like I don't remember having a bad dream, I just can't move- no nightmare leading up to it.
I have experienced both hypnagogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) paralysis for at least the past 20 years, and was diagnosed with narcolepsy with cataplexy over 10 years ago now. Though my condition is as stable and under control as possible, I still have 10+ episodes of sleep paralysis per week. I don't experience any "warning" sensations for paralysis, either sleep paralysis or cataplexy (which is thought to be the "awake" version of sleep paralysis, though exclusively found in narcoleptics). I get aura warnings for my migraines, so I'm well practiced at noticing such things. But as my sleep doctors say, how one person experiences their condition is for them to say - not for anyone else to!
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No i didn't registered anything like that.
For a long time I could tell seconds before it happened because my ears would feel different and start to ring. Thank god i have not had the evil I entity standing out of sight or in a cornerer.
I've had sleep paralysis (and other parasomnias) all my life. These images don't relate to my own experiences with it, but they're fantastic (well, the ones in the portfolio on the artist's website, at least). Though they make me wonder how one can afford/find all these props and people (especially where props are being destroyed). I get the impression this isn't a high school student... I've had a few concepts for my own photography that I couldn't ever afford to execute, so it always gets my attention when someone is described as doing a very detailed and complex project without making a statement of already being an established and well-paid photographer.
Never mind my "high school age" related comment. The title says he's 22. I still want to know how he accomplished all this at 22.
Sleep paralysis was brutal to deal with as a child but became amazing when i began exploring it. Who were these people around me? Why were they here? I read that worlds exist around us in different frequencies. When we enter sleep paralysis the consciousness conponent of us is alert in a half way point between the 'astral' and the material. First thing I did was wait for the next occurance. My heart pounding and the pressure in my chest and hands in full force I first noticed, how am I seeing through my eye lids into my bedroom? How can someone be standing at the foot of my bed with my door closed? For the first time despite the cold helplessness of being motionless with an unknown in the room I knew Id never been hurt before. In my mind I asked, since my voice was not at my command, "Who are you?" The shape did not move. I breathed shallow and short as usual. "What are you"? I asked this time" and the shape slowly sunk into the floor like an elivator was beneath it.
Word limit. Continueming my story. It was months before the next incident, in this time I started studying 'astral projection' and the nature of Sleep paralysis. Seriously funny, astral projectors (read it up yourself) work and practice to WILLINGLY go into body paralysis as the means to seperate their 'energy body' from their form. They at the point of paralysis claimed to utilize the mind to aid this seperation where you can go fly around and stuff like a lucid dream. Freaking cool! This is where my fear of sleep paralysis finally started to leave and an excitement taking over in its place....is there more to this than we are being told? This would be two years ago now, I would be 23 years old with my Girlfriend at the time, now my fiance. I was asleep and I woke up in a dream walking somewhere, slowly but shurly the pressure and seizing feeling took over me and my point of view shifted to my bedroom...very wierd. I was looking towards my bed where I was sleeping.
When I clenched I began to lift up into my ceiling and through the roofwork and....I woke up. I woke up staring at the same wall i was moments ago observing myself. I removed my sleeping mask and sat for a good thirty mins reflecting on what I just experienced. I want to say to all the sleep paralysis sufferers out here....there is absolutely more to this than there seems. I dont know what to say, I dont want to sound like a tinfoil hatter, but why are there no programs that teach people suffering from Sleep Paralysis to seperate from the panic and turn it into something...all I can say is magical. After this experience I have had three other 'out of body' experiences from moving past a paralysed sleep state. Please look into alternative methods of dealing with this if you can, my life has been changed by this.
I though "am I dreaming?" and instantly I was shifted yet again but in my body where the familiar sophicating sensation met me. I remembered what I was reading. Remain calm, and let go of fear and focus on your thoughts of lifting or moving forward or away. The feeling was fucked, mind the languadge. Ever been so drunk it feels like the world is shifting inder your body? That was it as best as I can describe it. I mean this, after what felt like ten second I really did lift out of my body, but not straight. I came up (forgive the reference) like Dracula emerging from his coffin, my feat an arc pivoting point and I slowly settled down towards my bedroom floor. Now I am embarassed to admit this...but I got scared (Shame face). I was really alarmed that anything had happened at all...I trust research and all but this was too new not to feel the way I did. Everything felt...vibrating. Or pulsy, sorry I lack a full grasp of it. But energetic like i was surrounded by static.
THank you for sharing, Steven... Story can be read according to time stamps; I noticed after you pointed out this fact and read your story accordingly. Thank you again for taking the time to share; be careful with astral projection; you go out of the body; you never know what can enter it........ o.O ^ I saw this warning somewhere....
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This continues to be strange... I have to stress how insanely vivid this experience was. So looking at myself movement stirs from my girlfriends side of the bed but it is not her moving. Something the size and general shape of a small dog, a sillouhette mostly moved up her legs and purched on her bridged legs looking at me with inky black eyes...like a Deers eyes. I felt a fleight response instantly but I didnt look away... I took the only action I knew and treated this confrontation like it was a puppy and slowly stretched my hand out for it to sniff. Seeing my hand was strange, it was mostly like my real hand but had a textured white longsleeve on, like fabric with no depth just a tone up my arm. No clue what was on my body or other arm but thats what it looked like. Anyways this shadow stuck its neck out towards my hand and in the moment all my fear poured out of me like yt never existed. A joy started to fill me and my own voice resounded "I DID IT!"
My bedroom was in full color but smeary like a good quality painting but with the asthitic that gave an artificial feeling. Everything in my room was identical to its layout even the pizza boxes and crusts on the floor. This is where is got the stranget for me. It really was like half dreaming,my thoughts a second behind my actions but it hit me. My 'physical body' should be just behind me in bed. You see I was facing away from my bed when I emerged... A cold chill settled into my belly. Everything was so vivid, suddenly the prospect of turning to face my self was horrifying. I cant tell you why but the deepest dream settled into my stomach...but i did it. Turning was different, like I was spinning a lazy susan under me. I turned and was met with the site I will never forget, my girlfriend was sleeping on her back, her legs in abridge under the blanets. To her right...was me. My sleeping mask still around my head facing the wall away from myself.
Thank you so much for your story. I was told never to leave my body because dark entities could took over them. One night something came into my bed. i know that it was not human. But it sat down on my bed and i could feel it at my back. I was so scared to see something unpleasant. So i just lay there and pray. My husband told me i should turn around and face the "thing". He tried to cure me by letting my watching Horrormovies, Excorcist and other kind of genres. I think it seems to help me. Because i can learn from the protagonist how to deal with demons, ghost etc. and my fear of them. Of course there aren't always happy endings...
A very close family member of mine used to have sleep paralysis. It sounds so horrifying...
Jeez. My head just gets filled with noise and I can't move. It's smothering and awful but at least I get to see the backs of my eyelids rather than YOUR horrible daymares~
Wooooah you have it way worse. My head just gets filled with noise and I can't move. It's smothering and awful but at least I get to see the backs of my eyelids and not YOUR horrible daymares~
Does anyone know if sleep paralysis is the same as night terrors?
No, they're a bit different. Night terrors usually fade after childhood and are just bad nightmares. Sleep paralysis can happen at any age and it's usually a state of being "paralyzed" (as R.E.M. sleep prevents the body from moving in sleep so you don't hurt yourself) but you still keep dreaming, so you can't move but still see weird stuff.
Sleep paralysis anx "night terrors" are both parasomnias - meaning they happen during or around sleep - but they are absolutely different things. I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, and experience frequent (10+ per week) episodes of sleep paralysis. Sometimes these episodes are accompanied by hypnagogic (falling asleep) or hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations, but often it is just the paralysis alone. Sleep-induced hallucinations are different again to "noght terrors" - but all are parasomnias. There are many excellent sites full of information about this stuff. Google is great for questions like this! https://sleepfoundation.org/ask-the-expert/sleep-and-parasomnias/page/0/1
yes, very similar, both demonic attacks, check my comment around 14 comments down!
I had sleep paralysis for 13 years. Over time i learned how to deal with them, but it was so exhausting. They stopped occuring, after realising, that i had been severely traumatised.
Both my sister and myself suffer from this since we were young children and I can tell you it is horrifying !!!!The Gunshot before falling a sleep the feeling of suffocation upon awakening in the middle of a nightmarish dream but you cant move breath scream !!! Thankfully it cant harm you but it feels like death when it is happening !!!
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The video didn't work so I went on to he website at the bottom and the images are hauntingly beautiful. I imagine the process of seeing these dreams first hand would be terrifying but the photographs are amazing.
It is so scary the first time it happens. I thought I'd been taken over by something. I was trying to shout 'help' but nothing came out and I couldn't move. Now I know what it is means that the 2nd one wasn't so scary and I just waited for it to pass.
Sleep paralysis only happens when you sleep on your back facing upwards in a straight position. Do you get it while sleeping sideways also ? Is it a special condition ?
I can be sleeping in any position. I get electricity shooting through my body on the nights it happens, so I already know that it's gonna happen that night.
I just had an episode recently, and I was laying on my side. It doesn't matter what way you sleep. It was a very unpleasant feeling having to coach myself to roll over since I was already next to the wall, facing it. =__=
Sleep paralysis can - and does - happen in any sleeping position. I have fallen asleep on my back, woken up paralysed curled into a ball, and remained paralysed in that position until it wears off/I fall asleep again/someone helps me/I'm startled by a sudden noise that jolts my body. I have a REM sleep disorder, narcolepsy with cataplexy, but sleep paralysis is common amongst the whole population and is considered a "parasomnia" (condition related to sleep). https://sleepfoundation.org/ask-the-expert/sleep-and-parasomnias/page/0/1
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Oh well, I don't know what to say. I've been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was about 13 years old and it just kept getting worse until I literally felt the entity snapping my arm. It gets much worse than that to be honest. I feel for the artist. To be honest, these pictures are just nothing compared to the real thing. Is this condition treatable? I would like to know.
Sleep paralysis and other parasomnias (conditions related to sleep) are treatable by various means depending on your specific circumstances. Talk to your medical professional about your symptoms and concerns and go from there - you are not alone, and there are ways to help control your symptoms. There are lots of great sites to find out more about parasomnias. This is a good place to start : http://www.sleepeducation.org/sleep-disorders-by-category/parasomnias/sleep-paralysis/overview-facts
yes mate, absolutely! you just call out the name of jesus. some times it a takes a few times, even mentioning it in the mind can be hard, but programme yourselves to remember this, i haven't suffered since! This is a demonic attack, usually let in by sin, the only way to fully get rid, is by the name of Jesus! Hope you use it, because it certainly works! please send feed back if you do! :)
I've been suffering from sleep paralysis since I can remember. Luckily, I've never really experienced any nightmares or hallucinations, but I'd often choke, which resulted in some serious phobias. The sad thing is, my mother never believed me, saying it was just a nightmare. It wasn't until years later that I found sleep paralysis is a condition many people suffer from. That gave me some comfort. As the time came by, the episodes became rarer (though longer) and I'd managed to stay calm and breath normally... Until a day or two ago when I had my worst episode since I was a kid. Maybe ever. I'd choked to the point I seriously thought this is it, I'm going to die here, not able to move or call for help or whatever. I'm really scared of going to sleep now. It's like living on Elm Street.
I've had this since I was 12 and I'm 16 in August wouldn't wish it on anyone the more you try to move the more restricted you are there really frustrating but I've learnt to stay calm still hate then thou 😒💦👹
i became a lucid dreamer due to sleep paralysis, it was due to stress and coffee from my school days i guess. but i learnt to #1 jerk my neck to wake up immediately or #2 allow myself to "sink" into the dreamscape and control my own dreams. i would pick the former if i feel scared and the latter if i feel its not a nightmare of course
It happened to me as a teenager, a few times, and then thankfully disappeared. I don't know why it vanished but maybe it had something to do with the lack of stress factor which my high school used to be.
Ive had it since I was very small, Always the same dream for me and I always fight it. Can't stop myself. Once I do finally wake I fall straight back to sleep and straight back in to the dream. Im now 35 years old and although it is a lot less frequent it is still just as scary as when I was young.
Try this if you are experiencing this problem How do you know if what you're experiencing is just sleep paralysis or something that is Paranormal in nature? If you can visualize golden Sparkling White Angelic light shielding you or angelic wings embracing you and the dark entities are instantly banished, that's how you know it's more than just sleep paralysis . Demonic entities cannot abide its opposite just like the dark cannot stay when you switch on a light in a room. If this is the case it's good to smudge yourself and the room you're in. Native Americans use a blend of sage Sweetgrass and Cedar and the Catholic Church uses pontical incense . Can find some here https://www.stjudeshop.com/incense-three-kings-pontifical/. The Mayans used copal and wiccans use dragon's blood. So it's a common practice all over the world. It's because smoke is the one thing that can go between this world and the next, it also clears out emotional negativity that lingers after an argument.
Sleep paralysis part 2 There's two ways you may be vulnerable to this type of attack. Being an innocent sweet child, some demonic entities are drawn to children and wish to feed off of their essence as they radiate fear and Terror. This is the original reason why there is a global satanic pedophile ring. Pain suffering fear and Terror is what they consume like plants drink in sunlight. You invited it in knowingly through occult worship or in rituals where you are not properly shielded. Or unknowingly through the use of hard drugs such as cocaine crack and heroin. Those who take flakka are in the worst shape because they open themselves so much that they actually become possessed rather than just have an attachment. From the two times it happened to me , I was fully Wide Awake so I know it's real . during the second encounter discovered they have no power outside of fear and immobilization. Although perhaps that depends on the person and how shielded they may be.
Sleep part 3 First time 16 years old summer 2pm in the den reading a book, a shadow passed by the ranch window I turned to see who could possibly be in the backyard when it was fully fenced and I couldn't move, could not cry out and even though I wasn't a fearful teen, I felt terror out of nowhere . Part of me was curious because I knew I had no reason to feel that way which made the terror feel like it was not my own but placed on me so that if I was scared I wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two. It lasted 20 seconds at the most. And like the fearless teen I was I tried to recreate that experience 4 years. Then one day this pretty little flower child type who I had recently met asked to stay over because she was having a fight with her boyfriend.
dunno about others, but i do enjoy weird and fucked up dreams, even if it's pure horror. in times when i wake up from dreams, i jump right back in, watching the next chapter. I never know i will see and that's the interesting part :)
I wish you recreate mine :(
I still cant sleep because of my nightmares
I hope his dreams get worse. Really I thought this was genuin however its just another edge lord faggot with some stupid serial art. I had much worse nightmeres then these, mild, un-disterbing image.
I've had sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember. Everything from nightmares about animals with large eyes to being pulled from my body and dragged around the room, to waking up and not being able to move or breathe. Often times, in my dreams I can't breathe either. And it always sucks
I've had sleep paralysis and find it mostly happens when I sleep on my back. Almost all of my nights are peaceful now that I sleep on my side! It also worked for my brother. Please try!
The night before last, I was speaking with an adoreable little girl, maybe 3yrs old. She had appeared from behind a curtain in my "dream", she knew she was my daughers little sister (she doesnt hv 1 btw), she was told me that she knew she was dead, her body was in the forrest by the river, my boyfriend managed to wake me up before she could tell me how she died, I howl in my sleep while in paralysis. Freaks him out.
These attacks are totally demonic, I used to get these until I found Jesus and started praying then they stopped! So scary though, felt like I was going to die and didn't want to go to sleep!
Hi everyone! I had experienced sleep paralysis a couple of times, I think between 10-15 times, a few years ago. IT WAS HORRIBLE, I didn‘t know itf what I was seeing and hearing was reality or not, I tried telling my friends about it, and at some point I thought I was possessed! but then I randomly found an article about sleep paralysis on the internet and this saved me. after I understood what is this all about, somehow I started being conscious even in my dreams....and I only had 1 more dream like this after reading the article....when the monster came into my room, I started telling myself that this is only a dream and it will end soon, there is no point in panicking, and guess what? the creature didn‘t even get to the point of doing things to me as it usual did (pulling my hair, lifting me up in the air), but instead it just dissapeared and I woke up. And since then I never had an episode.... I think that changing my sleeping position helped as well...
it's spritual, please seek for help , I got cured in universal church Houston 5150 N Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77018, EE. UU. they will pray for you and you 'll get cured I can assure you that
i usually get on sites like bored panda during slow periods at work, but i cant play videos becaus eof sounds issues (and muting just doesnt always feel safe) It annoyed me that they dont just add the pictures under the video and force me to google them...
He has it easy.
Sleep paralysis is horrifying! I have to deal with it as a narcoleptic. It's nothing like a normal nightmare. It's like being stuck, bound or reaped. Not being able to move, speak, scream, or waike up. My paralysis is getting worse with age..
I've had sleep paralysis since I was a young child. During childhood until my 20s, I had petit mal epilepsy...this feels just like a petit mal seizure in your sleep. I used to think that was what I was having, as the nightmares were do horrific. I outgrew the epilepsy, but was still having the paralysis, until a doctor told me what it was. I had several sleep studies and they put me on a CPAP because I was lying there, not being able to breathe or move. Sometimes I'd remember the dreams and sometimes I didn't. I never slept on my back, so we ruled that out. Since being on CPAP, I don't have them as often or as strong. But still, at the age of 63, they're horrifying. Mine were audio as well, which made it even scarier. I found that I had them more when I was under a lot of stress or if I got ill enough to have to stay in bed. I sympathize with anyone who has this condition, it's definitely scary and stressful. Once I knew what it was, it was easier to handle.
99 percent of the comments: "Hey, I've got sleep paralysis, too" 1 percent of the comments: "Hey, those photos are awesome".
I started having this issue when I was 14 and it was indeed terrifying. Thank God it started becoming less and less usual and I haven't had one episode in 2 or 3 years (I'm almost 33 now).
Just had a sleep paralysis 2 days ago. I never have a daughter. But theres this little girls voice. I could hear her giggles when shes hugging my back and kept saying these words many times 'i love you mommy'.. i had a miscarriage a year ago. I was 2 months pregnant and i think its her.
Its the shadow god. The man in a tophat. Google it. Think of light and love and that will stop it. It will sheild you from the evil. I ve body paralisis for 20 years now. Used to get it all the time but rare now...light and love people...
I used get the night hag often. I man in a suit and top hat would sometimes come. Apparantely he is the shadow god or some entity of the sort. If you google man in the hat im sure you would come across it. Mostly amphetamine users see him. I wasnt one and he still came. The only way i could stop the terrors was to think of light and love. Strangely it sheilded me. Try doing that. Its a very scary and terrifying thing to be in a paralized state with evil upon you and not being able to scream...the word nightmare comes from a hag or mare sitting on your chest in the middle of the night i believe...science says it is called body sleep paralisis but i believe its spiritual and real. Too many others have had the man in the hat come to them..light and love people...
Sleep paralysis is very different for me. My eyes are open but I can't move, I can only breathe, and move my eyes... I see what is in the rom. I have a feeling that something is in the room with me. Sometimes I hear things as well with it, voices talking to me. But I never see anything. Thankfully I haven't had an episode of this in several years, but it used to happen to me frequently.
I've had this since I was about 14 or so, I didn't know what it was until I was about 19 or 20. The craziest SP episode I had was when I fell asleep and "awoke" to a heavy pressure on my chest..When I looked down, there was a DVD case standing on end on it..I remember thinking it was odd..Then I looked up into my open closet door, and on the top shelf next to the door, I saw myself peek around the door jamb and look directly at me..Door jamb me said to laying on the bed me these exact words: "I'm going to kill you"... Craziest shit, freaked me out big time. However, that was about 13 years ago and yes, I do still "suffer" from SP, but I've learned to embrace it. Once you realize that what is happening is the sole creation of your mind, you will come to love it. I find that I can induce SP by altering my "natural" sleep cycle. For example, I will go to sleep when I'm not even kind of tired or sleepy. Or, I will put off going to sleep for as long as possible. It works almost every time.
Wow. These photos are fascinating!
I don't suffer from sleep paralysis but the imagery in my mind is equally disturbing.
Trying to get your attention towards your eyes instead of trying to move your limbs actually helps to get "back" in the body more quickly. The most important thing is to not panic.
I was diagnosed with my sleep disorder, narcolepsy with cataplexy, over 10 years ago now. I have frequent (10+ per week) sleep paralysis episodes. As I understand it, "sleep paralysis" is a term used to refer to episodes where you feel stuck/frozen/paralysed/unable to move part or all of your body when a) going to sleep (hypnagogic) or b) when waking from sleep (hypnopompic). These episodes are terrifying enough, but are frequently accompanied by hallucinations (either hypnagogic or hypnopompic) which can incorporate sensory information drawn from around you (such as real noises). Whilst the paralysis and hallucinations can happen at the same time - and may be related - they are not the same thing, nor are they always found together. For anyone struggling with sleep paralysis, or experiencing sleep paralysis accompanied by *any* additional symptoms, please talk to your medical professional about it ASAP - you do not need to keep going through this alone!
Not everybody who has sleep paralysis + sleep hallucinations has a serious sleep disorder - but there is help available regardless of how severe (or not) your case may be. http://www.sleepeducation.org/sleep-disorders-by-category/parasomnias/sleep-paralysis/overview-facts https://www.sleepassociation.org/patients-general-public/hallucinations-during-sleep/ Some good general information and support sites (despite minor spelling errors on the linked page, NODSS is an outstanding Australian-based organisation) : http://nodss.org.au/links.html
I have had this for years and it is when I see the shadow people. It is like being caught between the veil or like limbo. You struggle to wake up but can't because it is like a trap.
Wow I really love his work.
Chilling and beautiful at the same time.
The only time i ever had this is when i lived in a haunted house and praying always got me through them almost instantly. Some points id be able to open my eyes n even look around my room n still feel ss of someone or something was laying on top of me. Try praying it may just work for you.
What a beautiful video and photos! I suffer from sleep paralysis when I'm under severe stress, which can be pretty often since I have an anxiety deserter and the dreams are terrifying. Glad I haven't had one in quite a while
This is bullshit I've had dreams that are either similar or worse and nothing happens because at the end I know it a dream.
Luckyou, you don't seem to have a sleep disorder! I do. Sleep paralysis accompanied by hynogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations (falling asleep or waking up hallucinations) is *literally* not the same thing as a 'dream' or even a nightmare.
My dreams are similar to this or even worse and I don't even have Sleep Paralysis.
These are hauntingly beautiful!
What convinced you that there is not demonic influence? I hope you ask Jesus Christ into your life and repent of all sin. I hope for you to be freed from this condition.
I've dealt with sleep paralysis for almost 2 years and although it's really scary, it can also be turned into Lucid Dreaming. lucid dreaming is when your conscious is aware that you're dreaming during REM and you're able to control your dreams into anything you want basically. it may take some time but the key is to stay calm during sleep paralysis and remember that what ever is happening isn't real.. eventually it'll go away and you'll start lucid dreaming. so many people practice and practice to lucid dream but us people with sleep paralysis have easier access to it... think of it as a gift. think positive instead of negative
i just had my worst sleep paralysis ever. it normally happened to me but last week was more than a nightmare. i felt that my spirit just separated from my body. it feels like im being suctioned out of my body but i tried to fight it and was able to return after a few seconds. it was so scary that i saw my self being lifted all of a sudden.
That sounds terrifying! My sleep doctors have told me that sensations like that are quite common as part of hynogogic (falling asleep) or hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations. I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, but lots of people have sleep paralysis and/or sleep-induced hallucinations without having any other sleep issues. I suggest you talk with your medical professional about this and find out what is going on for sure.
What you were experiencing is more than just sleep paralysis, its astral projection. I'm a little jealous as its never gone that far for me, I'm just paralyzed and have to try and fall back asleep or wait for what feels like hours before I can move again. If it happens again just see where it takes you and remind yourself not to be scared as this is not something that everyone is capable of achieving.
Gonna be honest, I used to get this every night and occasionally several times a night, I am 16 had it since 14. I have gotten used to it and when you get over the fear it isn't even bad it is more of "Oh, this is happening again. All right." and frankly is pretty fascinating. I keep managing to put myself into a state of sleep paralysis some what consciously before I fall asleep also.
I've had this problem since I was little. I'm 25 now and I would be frozen and can't wake up for long periods of time and I would see stuff and hear demonic voices. When I became a Christian they actually intensified until I remove the license I had given to the enemy in my life. Now I don't have them any more. But what I found out is that people who have this happening to them have a natural prophetic gifting given to them by God. It's a prayer orientation.the enemy bombards your spiritual senses at night. It sounds crazy I thought so also but every time I call in Jesus it stops or literally would have to stay frozen for hours. Try calling to Jesus I bet you it stops.
Am i the only one who would get drag from the feet to the floor sometimes it would jus start by pulling my blanket slowly and i would never get to see the actual entity but one time i felt it climbing my bed and sitting on my back of course i couldn't move or scream
I've never been touched, but I have a strong faith, and I just start praying. It's always the same, dark shadow, just standing there watching me, it kind of floats when it moves.. But the scariest was when it started pounding on the foot of my bed. I'm awake, people tell me I'm not, but I am. I try and scream, I just kinda moan a bit. It's evil I think - I don't get a good feeling, just terror.
For those still struggling with sleep paralysis, i managed to eliminate my episode after calling out the name of Jesus! This has helped every who has ever tried it! Please dont dis miss this, it works! try it
My first memory of sleep horrors was a dream. I am 41 years old now. I was just a kid maybe 4 or 5. I dreamed of flying in a Bi-Plane being chased by mannequins. I was terrified of them as a kid. I was shooting them down and then got shot down myself. After I started falling I heard the PopEye Song and that black and white whirley illusion appeared Spinning and spining with Elliot from Pete's dragon flying around it. Right after that a radiating outline of a man appeared. Just black pulsing on black. I was stuck. Screaming and stuck. I finally woke up and looked to the left from my top bunk and saw a shadow standing in my brothers crib. Thinking it was the Ronald Md Donald doll that he had I started screaming again. This time fully awake and paralyzed. MY dad and step mom came rushing in. Turned on the lights and nothing. The doll was actually in my bed. They took me in there room and laid me on the floor. I remember dreaming of colorful hippos on a Mobile after that.
I have had this for as long as I can remember as a little girl of 8 I would get really scared. Had a lot of dreams of my dead grandpa and couldn't move or scream. Now I know a lot more about it and can tell the difference between a real dream and a sleep paralyses dream. So I have learned not to fight it and to control my own dreams they are no longer scary I know when I am having one and I control it now. Thank god I have only very rarely had the night terror part.
I also have this problem since as long as I can remember. Some of the pics are relatable but most of them aren't even a little bit. Since this is caused due to long exposures to stress I guess each person's experience is different. Mostly, I feel an intense fear. Some crude horror, I guess. Sometimes I can fall back to sleep and other times, I wait for my body to wake up so I can do something to stop being scared af.
this has happened to me two were I wakeup but I really don't and I keep getting fucked over and over again and not in a good way horrifying
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I too suffer from this, right up to the insomnia. I cry out trying to move my limbs, and of course sometimes I am unable to cry out. I see shapes and figures, feel presences, and trying to force my eyes open is near impossible. When I am finally able to, I try to come fully awake, get up n walk, get a drink, go to the bathroom, smoke..... only to go back to "sleep" and be right back where I was. I will be soaked in sweat. Even trying to explain it makes me emotional and gives me a foreboding feeling.
Fight it with your own illusions. The first Time I overcame it it was always a shadowy thing with a top hat. You can't move but you can do other things I hit it wit my own darkness. The second that happened I was free. From there I have always been able to deal with it.
I don't have sleep paralysis, but i do have insomnia, I understand how you feel.
These are some of the most powerful imagery I've seen in a long while.
Excellent photos, Salvador Dali would envy them. They make their point: I had never heard of sleep paralysis before.
I experience sleep paralysis when I was still in college.I try to fight back at first.but it just makes me get weaker and scared.then I tried to deal with it.I tried to face the worst.that's when I realize I am calm.I even tried to touch the black smoke I used to see on my dream that keeps on chasing me.
You can fight it. The key is not to move more than your hand. Usually you can get your fingers. Shoot something from your hand. I saw traces of darkness within the darkness and it forces it away. Your body calms. After that the dreams tend to light up better. You can see that damn cloud. Pray. Even if you don't believe in something, just pray to anything and say you won't do whatever rule you broke again. It' helps. Or you can be an ass like me and actually try and fight it.
Jesus is your answer, check my comment way down the page!
From about 1989 to 1994 I would frequently experience "The Old Hag", sometimes a few times a week, to once a month or so, been many years since I have experienced it. It can be very frightening, especially in the beginning, eventually through researching it at a local library I came to understand it more and was able to get to the point where I could make a conscious decision, while experiencing ti, to laugh and joke with "the old hag". This came about my reading material stating there were no external forces at work, that was frightening part, the idea that I was being pinned down by something external, it seemed real and in my case very evil. Oddly, I have met very people who have experienced it, the last person was a classmate in nursing school, I shared what I had experienced with him and with the advent of the internet there are many resources. I also went through a time when I watercolored some of my dreams and kept a dream log, I recently discovered what I believe to be the last
Just scream as loud as you can. Its actually fun after some point if you did not wake up to another dream. If so sceam again until you make an actual noise. Then you can move.
@Llamarights The hardest thing ever is trying to Scream...it doesn't work. Because my body is paralyzed... One time i lay next to my husband, taking a little nap. My Mind seems to wake up to early so i was trapped in the paralyze. I tried to call him for help. But i couldn't get a sound out of my Mouth.
@Noah Screaming works, it's not easy but at some point you can actually hear your voice and that's what wakes you up. Also, leave some light on ( I leave it in bathroom), so when you actually wake up, you can stay uo for few minutes. I also noticed when I have light on, it doesn't happen as often. It requires some time to actually recognize it as a dream, and if it scares you just scream, but try really hard and really loud, if not, have fun with it ( I don't find them all very scary, so I don't start screaming immediately). Good luck!
I used to no when it was going to happen too me id see like blk clouding on the left hand side of my bedroon ceiling , i used to lay awake as long as i cud , the second o fell to sleep it got me held down from my chest to ankles , unable to move tryed to sit up and scream but nothing came owt then id come bk rnd my heart beating owt ev my cheat like id just ad nine rounds in ring , i uses to fall straight bk to sleep , some times it cud be just one part of my body held ive woke up with my arms in the air and not been able to pull them down like i was tied , pulled to the bottom of my bed , awful it only stopped happening when i moved house xx
I have had this issue my hole life and never knew what is was I was always told I was dreaming to hard I never realized it was a thing I tell my self before I sleep so nothing happen in a dream I tell my self just go to the black and think of nothing
That's a great idea! I've been trying for years to think of how I can express my demonic dreams. I'm a terrible artist so it's hard to get the images out of my head. I always said I'd make a horror author famous if they wrote about my dreams.
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I've been here..usually I've seen shadow people. I had problems with falling asleep for like one year which(I think) caused my depression after all I hope U r okay right now tho :)
It happens to me i am not the only one been happening sense i was a kid i Remember monsters trying to pull me in closet
did anyone else come here to see the titties????
Been getting SP for years, but have learned to cope with it. First of... I usually try to stay away from talking about my religious beliefs, unless someone engages in the topic. I do not feel the need to go around publicly telling people what I believe or what they SHOULD believe. I see a lot of that kind of stuff and it only leads to more intolerance on both sides. So basically I consider myself a Christian but had previously been pretty much agnostic. I am not a "bible" thumper by any means, nor am I perfect Christian. I actually quite suck at being Christian because I don't go to church, read scripture, or know anything about the bible (although I do intend to do better with those things). I do have my reasons though. Having said all of that, this is a topic that strikes me personally and maybe my experiences and coping mechanism could help someone in the same situation ( although everyone's are different). Even though I suck at my religion, I do try to pray as (continued..)
much as possible every night. If/when I do go into SP, I start praying the same prayer over and over (usually to the holy ghost and/or Jesus) and it's so freakin' weird because theses are not prayers that I have had previous knowledge of or have recited. Then I snap out of it and sleep well. When I was a borderline believer this used to plague my life, an had no way of dealing with it. I was so afraid of going to bed that I had to keep a light on every night. I do STRONGLY believe this condition is paranormal in some way shape or form, although scientific definition claims otherwise. To me the paranormal/magic that might happen before our eyes, is just unproven science. So if you are a fringe believer like I was, and you are open to including religion in your life (in whatever capacity you are comfortable with) it could drastically help in dealing with chronic SP. It's hasn't been the perfect remedy, but I am no longer afraid of this and feel more prepared to fight it than ever.
Meaghan, I have night terrors without the paralysis. I will wake up, eyes wide open, able to scream and move about. Everything around me--my room--is normal, but I see entities within the room. I used to wake up to them standing over me. Sometimes 3, more often just 1 figure. I'd scream and fight before finally waking up. My husband witnessed this on several occassions and it would happen often, even when we traveled. Since practicing prayer and reciting Psalm 91, those occurences almost never happen anymore. The very rare time they do, it's when I've gotten lazy and forgotten to pray or recite the verse. Coincidence? I think not! Crazy, eh?
Its demonic, when these visitations occur, you are frozen, the demonic beings torment you physically, and mentally. Spirits olny love to torment us, I have seen them looking as witches, teradactyl, dragon/lizard appearance. Few times i had giant clawed hands abou 4ft wide grip, carted me off of earth i traveled at about speed of sound as this thing carried me. Be fore i was in its grip , i even felt its snout, breathr hot breath out on my neck.the way i know these are demonic, you can compare 'alien' abduction and sleep paralysys/ polterghost phenomenon symptoms, and they all match up perfectly.
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Fuck sleep paralysis. Too much shitty drugs at age 12. Handle what's coming your way. Fucking namaste!
I had this too, i researched this and found that it is a neat "backdoor" to lucid dreaming. First you must realise the state youre in ie you have to understand while in the state of sleep paralysis. When you understand that its not reality you must try and relax and position your "body" so you're lying on your back and focus your breathing to deep calm breaths. when on your back, breathing calmly you focus on your stomach/bellybotton, after a while you should feel a falling sensation and enter a lucid dream world. When i learned this i came to appreciate the SP which prior to that had terrorised me for about 3 years, half a year later i stopped having sleep paralysis.
not even scary
not even scary wtf
I've had this issue since I was 10 years old and I'm 35 now. Not until 5 years ago I learned how to deal with it. I know what's happening in my mind so I try not to fight it. The more I try to wake myself up the worse the dreams and feeling in my body gets. So I try to coach myself to go back to sleep.
i do the same. I have been dealing with sleep paralysis since 4 years. I don't fight back now. I just keep myself calm and try to sleep back.
Sleep paralysis Park 5 where can I put this all together anyone have a Blog place I can put my story?
I am relieved to know that I am not the only one. Suffering from this condition for 9 years. Yes I believe stress and some deep rooted fear could be a cause. Things are a little with me now.
I also have this around 12 years old it developed. In my quest to fix myself I used a lucid dreaming devices lights and sound triggers. After using it for 5 or months my brain kind switched up to let me sometimes control my dream. I'm not completely better yet. I still have them just less often. For me the whispers and feeling of being held down really messed with my personal relationships.
The same. I just started to ride it and ended up controlling the dreams. It was like being trapped in a bizarre movie in the end. I grew out of it eventually, but the adventures I had...
You could really be possesed by demons. They could stay with person 30-40 years according to muslim exorcists. They try to talk them out like negotiators. But like all muslims it is divided issue. Some say it is others say it is medical condition. But the thing is exorcists really has a job out of it. So i might think it is maybe a possesion problem, maybe not.
After i post this post i made a research on sleep paralysis on web. I came accross this story on Shaolin Monks, Sifus, way of chi. He was mastering (Wu Qin Xi ). This guy experienced beginning of sleep paralysis after their sifu(Teacher) pass energy to them. Than this guy read some book on Dr. Bilal Philips University of Wales and so on. You can read the story on http://dangerofchi.org/mystory.htm . I was like wow that really happened or whats going on.
Sry i didn't replied all of you just replied main post somehow it replied all of them at the same second. Website mistake. Sry again.
13 years and counting here... Only figured out recently I am not alone in this! There was a documentary on sleep paralysis Netflix, my relatives were shocked to discover how absolutely frightening is gets everytime. Not fighting back however never crosses my mind when it occurs, it seems going against your own nature of defending yourself, but will try from now on thanks :)
Hi, my son suffers from this, to me it lasted just few months instead. May you give me the name of that Netflix documentary please? Thanx :) x
Ajda the name of the docu is 'The Nightmare'
You have a h. Pylori infection. Clear it and your sp will go away.
Sleep paralysis part 4 woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of my name being called by Hollywood sound effect 3 ghostly voices in 1, I sat bolt upright & looked over to this girl who was sleeping 3 feet away from me. Her body was arched, her lips were in a hard-line closed. Her eyes were wide open staring at the ceiling I took in the scene for a few seconds and then poked her upper arm cautiously. She immediately snapped out of that position sobbing saying she had been trapped like that for 45 minutes (she could see the clock) and fed me saying she'd been trying to get my help. I asked her what she was into because by this time I had studied phenomena and esoteric books to find how it was possible and what for. She denied occult practices and drugs use. So I taught her about the white light in case it ever happened again.
Part 6 Then as I turned to settle and lay down before my head even touched the pillow, it started happening to me, it was a roaring of wind, the sound of inhuman laughter and a weird voice speaking a language unlike anything I've heard except perhaps Latin backwards. And I was completely immobilized. I let it go on for a full minute analyzing everything. it may sound crazy but true once I satisfied my curiosity I taunted them with -' is that all you got?' White Light & GONE. I finally got it out of this girl that the argument with her boyfriend was about him getting her addicted to heroin and she was currently on methadone and didn't want to be dragged back hence her need for a sleepover. And this is where I smudged Native American Style convinced I didn't have to take something on faith, I could KNOW it first-hand It's explained in Aldous huxley's book: 'Doors of Perception' from which the band , The Doors took their name.
I experienced this too, what I usually do to wake-up, is to move my fingers slowly, once it move just a little bit, the rest of your consciousness follows.
I used to have it all the time and I always fought back. I don't have one of these in years now.
Have you ever recognized that you were dreaming? Wonderful moment!
Excact same experience. I had to learn to control my thoughts then relax. That took me years to to.
Does waking up from sleep paralysis feel like being hungover for you guys? When I had those dreams when younger I just tried to relax and fall back asleep just as you say you do. I don't have them as often anymore and last time it took me by surprise again. And apparently I sleep with my eyes slightly open so I am usually somewhere that resembles my room in those nightmares. It's quite interesting to wake up and see all those small shadows and objects in the room and how your brain transformed them into aliens, ghouls and other weird things.
I'm 34 and slept with a nightlight until about 4 years ago for that very reason.
I usually have sleep paralysis when I've been under a lot of stress. A few years ago it started to become an every night occurrence to the point I was terrified to go to bed at night. My dreams were always very similar stuck in my bed as 5 to 10 people busted into my home with assault rifles. I can feel my wife beside me and know they are in between me and my child. I can't move or make a sound but can open my eyes and see everything going on. After what feels like 30 min I usually wake my wife with my panicked breathing or just snap out of it. After a few months I learned how to for the most part cope with it and talk myself through it or go to str8 breathing as deep and hard as I could. I've done a lot more research and now can transfer and control it into more of lucid dreaming. Although it dosent always turn for the better.
These used to happen to me when I was stressed in the beginning but then started happening even by a short nap. But it was not like a dream, I could open my eyes, see the room in detail and also hear noises that were around me. I think thats why these experiances were so terrifng for me, because all the halucinacions were added to a real scene that I was so concious about. I tried to embrace it one time and transform it into a lucid dream but I felt like half of my brain was on fire and then in the exact time the hous begun to move... it turns out I was having sleep paralysis during a erthquake. I don't know about you but every time I experianced this thing it made me verry tired, exhausted to the point were I could not get up from my bed or even roll on the other side. Now I know how to relax and get rid of these situations.
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Alexandra, visit his page: http://nicolasbrunophotography.com/ There are a series of photos...hope this helps
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I feel so sorry for him. I`ve heard about this condition but it seems far worse than I thought. Having nightmares is terrifying and what can we say about having this condition.
almost every week, i have at least 1 Sleep Paralysis. For me its a nightmare before i wake up. Its terrible when a monster comes to you and you cant move scream shout. You feel the pain, you think you woke up and its done, but no. One second later the monster comes again... and again... and again... after you "died" 5-10 times you dont know if u are in rl or not. And in the end you just want to die to end your suffer... and ta dam you woke up for example at 2 am, so you have to go back to sleep....
I'm so relieved to know other people have these problems!!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one experiencing the living hell.
Man this shit happens to me all the time. Dreams inside of dreams inside of dreams only to think you've woken up but really you're inside another nightmare.
I've had sleep paralysis since I was young. I've spent many nights feeling awake but literally can't move and seen weird things while sleeping. When I became a Christian it intensified until I removed the license I gave the enemy. Now I don't have them. What I found out is that people that have this happening to them have a prophetic gifting given to them from the Lord. The enemy try's to bombard your senses and keep you bound. Call on Jesus next time I bet you it stops. It has for me every time when I had them.
I know this condition inside out. I always thought everybody has this experience and I avoided sleep since I was very young for this reason. Sleep was not pleasant. What Nathan mentions is a good tactic, I've used it a lot of times, but then, I am a Christian and you may not be religious at all. What then? Many a time I know I'm leaving my body and then I 'wake' myself up, only to find myself outside of my 'dream ego' (Jung calls it that) and then a third level of dreaming will follow and so on. When you keep a dream journal you will see a pattern. Dreams are wonderful 'messengers'. If the message is so important that you have to have SP to take note, then it is worth keeping a dream journal. You have several questions to answer about your dream. These are according to the studies of Jung an integral part of processing your dream and to always remember dreams happen in the dream arena. However real they feel, your sub-conscious will remember you are dreaming.
Thats not sleep paralysis thsts night terrors. Thats even worse...i suffer from sleep paralysis and my dad suffers from both. But what you just described is night terrors. Way worse than sleep paralysis..although you could be suffering from both.
I used to suffer from night terrors almost every night when I was 10-12 years old, I honestly was so afraid to sleep I almost got really sick because of sleep deprivation. It's pretty scary.
And the guy that made this video..and/or the video...is definitely suffering from both. Sleep paralysis doesn't give you night terrors like this. Thats either a negative entity thats latched onto you (depending on your beliefs) or a form of ptsd manifesting itself during the sleep paralysis. 😟 sorry ...just wanted to put the information out there after a lifetime of personal and family experiences
You have an h. Pylori infection. Clear it and sp will go away.
I would recommend keeping a pen and paper by the bed and writing down your dreams immediately. It not only allows you to get it out of your system, but it's a great tool for helping to see any patterns in yourself that might help you to learn how to deal with it. In addition, I've found that documenting my dreams has helped me understand my relationship with my dreams better, and if I stay true to the method, I end up having more control over my dreams while sleeping. That can be a great relief.
This happens to me at least once a month. It really is like a nightmare. I try to scream, but all that comes out is a cloaked whisper. I try to move but I have no control, and just remain still, locked in that position. Different things happen each time, but the worst is when I know something is there in the dark, waiting and watching me. One night it leaned on my bed so that I tilted towards it. My eyes were wide open expecting it to come into my line of vision. Then it got close to my ear, and went "Ugh, ugh, ugh, " over and over, in a terribly ugly raspy voice....it is still the worst sleep paralysis I've experienced. And I've had some bad ones......
@Abdullah Nafi is that not reserved for the followers of Islam?
Same thing stopped my crippling night terrors, Nathan Elliot! I'm Christian, but definitely not religious. A friend lent me her book with the verse and I was AMAZED how incredibly well reciting Psalm 91 worked. Not kidding; worked liked nothing else ever did!
Call adhan. Its a prayer call. have a look on youtube. it will help you and you must believe in it that it will help you.
Don't need to feel sorry for him. Feel joy for him that he found a way to not just cope but to educate the rest of us. It's all good.
I have had problems with sleeping for a long time. Usually I just wake up between 2-15 times a night, occasionally I start sleepwalking. (I've woken up standing in the bathroom etc). I sleeptalk; I'll sit up in bed and say "there's something in the room" or pushing all the covers off the bed saying "this shouldn't be here". I feel bad for waking up my bf at those times but I never remember. Now he just tells me to calm down and go to sleep. To which my body collapses back into bed and I continue sleeping. (no memory of it whatsoever). Sometimes I "see" things crawling on the wall in that moment where you fall asleep or wake up and I have had sleep paralysis too, can't move at all and there's always something standing in the corner of our room, just like it's watching... Writing all this down makes me feel like there's something wrong with me. :P
I have expirience this kind of paralysis since 20 years... they scream at me, flying through my head or running around making noises. Ugly faces looks like demons. Some looks normal, now i start to pray to god. That seems to help in my case. I was never into Religion that much, but as long as it works i'll do it. Last sleep paralyse was three months ago. Hope i get rid of that someday. Wish you all the best!
I sleep scream, walk, write, often wake up sitting in bed or in another room...one night I woke to find a pack of ground beef on my bed
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
No memory of how or why it got there. Two days later it was a bowl of cranberries...not sure what my brain was cooking up! Lol so weird
Thing is: this doesn't happen all the time or I just don't remember it every time. Sometimes I can get decent sleep for a month or 2. And then it's weeks in a row of waking up, nightmares, sleepwalk,... etc so...
y'all need to go to church..... Dunno, just kidding, I'm not that much of a believer myself; but if I were you I think I'd re-become a christian.... Shit, that's intense!! I had a recurring nightmare when I was a kid and now I'm 30 yrs old; had an episode a week ago where I woke up and had hallucinations.... then I realised it was a nightmare of sorts & "provoked" it to see what my mind can conjure. I then felt a volley ball brushing the top of my head and felt it's weight on my pillow; still couldn't move due to the parallysis.... Scared the shit out of me cuz there was nobody else in the room (or the apt).
Sleep Paralysis is more than just hallucinations. It's different for every person! For me, it's as complicated and as simple as my brain wakes before the paralyzing agent has worn off. I do not hallucinate. I hear everything going on around me but I cannot move or interact. I can repeat conversations happening around me with 100% accuracy. But I cannot purposefully breathe and must fall back on my body's natural instinct to breathe during sleep. It IS terrifying, don't get me wrong. I have suffered with this for over 25 years. Minimum of 4 attacks a week. Just remember that people experience things differently.
This is what I had always heard it was, and what I was taught in my psychology classes it was. I had never heard of the hallucinations until now. I had one back in January, freaked me out, first time I had it happen in a long time. Woke up and couldn't move, I wanted to scream for my fiance right next to me to help but I couldnt open my mouth. Terrifying
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
Wow, i've never heard of this until now - what terrible mental suffering that must be. I will share one tid-bit, the mind is very powerful - it can project the most beautiful desires or the worse nightmares. But at its essence it is no more "real" that a movie projection on the wall...10 years ago i had some kind of mental psychosis , and learned over years from very wise friends and teachers to let it go, not fight it but not ignore it either just let go. To this day things still pop into my head but like a gentle breeze it comes and goes, so in some way I think you can train your mind, with meditation, some analysis, letting go bit by bit of holding onto the projection as being real and solid. That's just my experience.
I have had this issue since i was a child and slept with my mum back then telling her take wake me up if I fall asleep before her cause my body would not be able to move but I be awake. As one time i could hear the tv but saw a person dressed in black and shake someone head till it exploded and I wake up and the tv would be exactly what I hear and this happen to me twice same person maybe a few years later but now that im older I have been getting it more and more yesterday's it happen to me 6 times in a row so i get afraid to go back to sleep. sometimes I walk around my house and someone would chase me or tackle me or I feel something wet on my hand so I usually bite my hand to see if I feel pain or not so I know if I'm actually in reality or so and if I know I'm awake as I said I usually leave the TV on and hear the TV or if my dog is sleeping next to me and I feel her heat and breathing I wiggle my fingers and toes and that helps get the body to wake up. But seeing this makes me c
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away.
I heard that when you find yourself in that conscious nightmare its best to imagine yourself with a magic object like a sword or something. That object should represent all that is good so it can help you fight the evil. I tried it once and it worked. I imagined a lighted sword, after that, the dream took a nice turn and I was able to manipulate it. Haven't had the descipline to try it all the rest of the times so I had to fight my way through the paralysis since then.
The problem is for my mind it is not a dream. I cannot stop it with my mind. It's so exhausting
Depending on you beliefs or open mindedness. There are a few things that have helped die me but I think it relates more directly what someone said earlier about something attaching to you. There are several verses in Psalms that are powerful. If you have a more open mind to other options Amber next to your bed, letting in as much natural light as possible during the day or sage also seems helpful. I don't know how much of that is mental and gives you a mental edge ba what actually helps but mine have not been near so frequent since I made those adjustments
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
I thought sleep paralysis was just not being able to move, but it's nightmares too. That makes me feel like I'm not insane because I have the same thing but I thought I was just plagued by shitty nightmares with sleep paralysis at the same time. The worst feeling is when you try to fight back and it's like magnetic repulsion keeping you from doing so. It's so strong and it makes you feel so so weak and helpless. You will get through this. We will get through this!
My sleep doctors told me told me that sleep paralysis is the term for the paralysis alone. This is the first time I've seen the term used to include hypnagogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations. Basically, these are nightmares which usually include real sensory input such as noises. You are not insane (not because you have sleep paralysis and possible sleep-induced hallucinations, at any rate!). You are not imagining how awful it is. You will get through this. You are not alone. If you haven't had your sleep stuff checked out, I highly recommend doing so ASAP. Finding out I wasn't imagining or exaggerating how awful my sleep was, and learning what was really happening with my sleep, was the best part of getting my sleep study results. I didn't need a diagnosis or treatment (although it turned out both were necessary). I just needed to know what was going on. Once I knew that, things became a *lot* easier to cope with!
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
My sleep paralysis really picked up heavily from 19-22 years old. I almost never have it now at 24. My tips for fixing it are 1. Create a normal sleep schedule 2. Don't sleep directly on your back 3. Use an alarm always 4. Drink water before bed and if you wake up throughout the night ... If you do end up getting the paralysis the best trick is to start by wiggling your toes and finger tips and just keep that as your main focus while staying calm.
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
How horrible. This has luckily only happened to me once - when a vampire ripped my heart out in 2001... I can't think how terrifying it has to be to happen to someone every night... You poor people.
This happened to me a lot as a child. Only occasionally now. I welcome the fear though now. Dreams have rules. They are your own rules. For example: Flying in my dreams is a form of witchcraft. Even though I'm not a religious person It's a rule I'm not supposed to break unless I want to be possessed. When I do break it that's when the shit hits the fan and I suddenly become very aware of the evil about me. It's oppressive, frightening and thrilling at the same time. For the last decade or so it's been at the same places. Torn up places nobody would want to be in. When these appear that's when I know I have to tread carefully unless I want to suffer the night horrors. One time I woke up howling like a damn dog. I mean howling for a good thirty seconds. It freaked my wife out and I couldn't control it. I think that's what happens when you go to far.
I read all the comments and its weird but it's comforting to know there are people who deal with the same issue as yours. I can never really explain this to anybody but this I can so relate to this. May we all take control over the demons that haunts us.
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
That's a great idea! I've been trying for years to try to express my demonic dreams. I'm a terrible artist so it's hard for me to express the dreams. I always said that I'd make a horror author famous with my dreams.
I wrote all of mine down in a notebook that I keep next to my bed, but have NEVER dared to look back st any of them.
God, I feel so sorry for you buddy. It's so scary. D:
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All of you do Know that this is a failed state to enter Astral Projection yes?
You need to find a good entity to help you out or arm yourself with light...
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Altough now I tend to analize those greatly rather than anihilate them on spot, I find them interesting, especially the succubus being my fetish...
Ive been dealing with this for 2 years now and let me tell you, ive NEVER been so scared. My family and boyfriend keep telling me 'there just dreams, don't get to worked up' ' they ain't real, dont let it bother you' but if you dont experience this yourself then you have NO IDEA how terrifying this can be. Most of the time I'm getting choked, I can't breath, I can't move, I can barley think. It's really really scary. I'm to the point where I dont want to sleep because I dont want to have these "Dreams" I sometimes have my boyfriend stay up until hes positive I'm sleep. How do some of you coach yourselves?? It would help me a lot.... Thank you!!
You have h. Pylori. Clear it and the sp will go away. Calling jesus stopped my episode. Then cleared h. Pylori and it was gone.
Please talk to your medical professional about this ASAP. If you haven't already, start keeping a basic "sleep diary" (google for examples if needed) and record the details for what you experience during each of these terrifying episodes. In my case, my sleep diary helped my sleep doctor suspect narcolepsy during the first appointment although no one had even thought of that possibility prior to then. My sleep study + other testing helped me learn what was happening to me and why, and this alone made a crucial difference as I now knew I hadn't been imagining things! Since then, medication, counseling, joining a support group, educating my family and friends (and my partner!), and practicing good "sleep hygiene" have helped me bring my symptoms under control as much as possible. Good luck! I hope you get the help you need to have better sleep soon.
I have had sleep paralysis for years and was scary at first but now it's more annoying than anything but its easy to break out of it.
I think my night terrors, nightmares, and sleep paralysis fall into an entirely different level of disturbing and exhausting, but I am glad this person found some relief and that this issue seems to be more common than I realized.
I turn to writing with my nightmares as my subjects... But this is horrifyingly mystifying!
I've had this for as long as I could remember and it used to scare the crap out of me but over the years I learned a few tricks. First one, I know i'm going into a spell when I hear a loud, painful ringing and from that point i keep my eyes closed. Second one perhaps the most important, wiggling your toes will bring you right out of it. Once out, change position and go to sleep. :)
I think his work is amazing.
Hauntingly beautiful
I've dealt with this off and on, and it is TERRIFYING when it happens. I'm always sure I'm going to die if I don't fully wake up. But one time, it ended up funny. Hubby and I were sharing a hotel suite with 2 other female friends -- hubby and I in one bed, female housemate in a bed not 3 feet away, and other female friend in a loft above us. Hubby got up to go to the bathroom, and I went into sleep paralysis. I am trying to scream "Help me!", but all I can get out is some sort of moans and groans. So what happens? Housemate and friend both decide hubby and I ARE HAVING SEX, and that's what the sounds are! Friend gets up and leaves the room (having to walk RIGHT PAST THE BED I'm in); housemate gets up out of her bed (like I said, not even 3 feet away from THE BED I'M IN) and goes out onto the balcony!!! EXCUSE ME????? YOU BOTH WENT RIGHT PAST THE BED I'M IN, AND HUBBY IS NOWHERE NEARBY, BUT YOU THINK WE'RE HAVING SEX??????
Hum! These photos reminds me of Tim Burton's artworks ^_^ really enjoyed it. ♥
It can run in family along with other sleep disorders. If you have children see if they have it. This can be very scary and you could help your children deal with it. Discuss it with them my daughter did not have it until about 10 years after I told her about it. She said she remembered what I had told her about it and that helped her.
I have this condition too- but have always called them night terrors. Mine are auditory also- I hear things. Awful! My dog helps to calm me
Yeah they scream at me and are so loud. I cannot sleep because of them.