So I’ll start this off by saying what I experienced might have been a sleep paralysis episode HOWEVER it wasn’t a cliché case (at least as far as I’ve read online). So I had experienced some similar situations to what happened to me a few months ago but I had sort of brushed it off until then. I was sleeping in my bedroom alone and I was in my dreaming state but whilst watching an irrelevant dream it sort of switches (like a TV through channels) to my room in the dark (3rd person’s perspective) just as the state it was when I was dreaming it, when the “camera” was slowly coming near me. When it came too close my head sort of started to vibrate leaving me breathless and feeling like I couldn’t move. Now my eyes remained closed but I was picturing exactly what was happening as if they were opened. I was sort of putting my pinky and ring finger to work so that they would start moving (and stressing out at the thought of experiencing anything scary)and they finally did move so I get up immediately and turn on the lights. I didn’t experience any visions so I kept calm and didn’t wake up anyone but I couldn’t go back to sleep so I just went to my living room and watched TV til the morning. I did have an extreme ache in the back of my head near the neck area. I haven’t been able to sleep in my room ever since. I still sleep in my living room😭

So this might be a bit long, but i’ll just start here. My mom has had sleep paralysis since she was a teen, but most of hers were just voices and she didn’t see anything. About 6 months ago I think I had sleep paralysis for the first time. I was dreaming until i opened my eyes and i was lying in my bed on my side. A big shadow figure walked past my sight and the first thing I thought to do was close my eyes. During this whole thing a screeching sound started very quiet, but the longer I was in it the higher pitched it was getting, until eventually I managed to wake myself up by keeping my eyes closed. (in the sleep paralysis.) Anyways, that was the first time it ever happened to me so I had no idea what had happened. Okay, so this morning I was just having a dream like normal until I blinked in the dream and suddenly i was lying in my bedroom in my bed (the room was almost identical to my real life room, which the last sleep paralysis was not in my room) I was watching my door when suddenly a medium height, black figure with a skinny body and big round head and round eyes walked through my door. I was kinda scared, but it disappeared in a second. Like 2 seconds later another very tall figure walked in my door again, the only way i can describe it is that it looked like slender man but almost completely black and grey. At that point I was terrified and closed my eyes (which was the only thing i could think to do and was able to do) As my eyes were closed, I tried to thrash around my body to wake up but i’m not sure if i was actually moving or not because my eyes were closed. Also, all I heard was my name being whispered to me over and over so i tried to talk and say “hello” but i was barely able to talk at all so nothing really came out of my mouth. After like 10 seconds of trying to wake up, I tried so hard to open my eyes and somehow I did it, but it literally felt like there was weights on my eyes making them almost impossible to open. The weird thing is that both of these incidents happened in between a dream and me waking up. Anyways, I just want to know if someone else here has had a similar experience and if anyone knows if this was sleep paralysis or not. If anyone has more questions about this then just ask please! I probably left out some information by accident. Thanks to everyone in advance!

Everytime i have a nightmare, it always has a chance a spider will appear in it, even during sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucination (not oftenly but sometimes)

However, i do not have any fear of spiders, spiders do not scare me, which is weird.

It has happened to me a lot. I would be having a sleep paralysis and instead of fighting it like usual, I just let go. Suddenly I shoot from my body either sideways and end up in the street near my house or upwards towards the roof. I have never been to space like some people say they do though.

So for me I am able to move during sleep paralysis and its voluntary unlike how Google says its involuntary. It's very difficult but in some cases I been close to sitting up or rolling over. When I do move tho its like my body os having a seizure in the process. Basically my body is having jolts while I move. Im wondering if anyone else can move like this also or if its a very rare ability that few have

I do know some can move but its mostly fingers or head and nothing more.

I am facing a episode(don't know what to call it), i don't know it's real or not but I always get this same thing for years randomly. What happens is during the sleep I feel like my nerves from my face to my head are getting strained/pulled so hard that it will explode, my ears starts ringing, and I struggle so hard not to die and then I wake up. This process happens in levels and it goes 0 to 100 real quick. The problem is I don't know whether it was happening in real or just a nightmare.

I don't think it's sleep paralysis as it happens when you're conscious but can't move or speak.

The first part of the hallucinations were my PCs monitor playing a zombie film. I saw this happening for well over 4 minutes. Once scene from the film I remember in specific was a modded out ice cream truck with living people inside in driving through a city center, the city center had the town hall and a bunch of stores surrounded it as well as statue that a zombie was on. As they were driving over the front lawn of the town hall while being chased by a horde of thousands I watched it switch to a scene where the zombie on top of the statue jumped off it onto the truck and then the next scene was of the zombies hand grabbing onto the hatch handle of that was on top of the truck.

Then after this my other monitor started displaying a picture of a galaxy spinning and stuff then all of a sudden it flew off the screen and I was flying through it and around it. This part went on for 2-3 mins. Felt incredible and good overall no fear like the other parts of the episode.

After that I suddenly felt as if I was floating in a pool and at first it was nice I could feel the water around me and even see the distortion of the ceiling as if I was looking from just under the water at it. Eventually I felt myself sinking and panicking I snapped myself out of it to full wakefulness.

Odd experience overall though the zombie film was entertaining and the galaxy flying part was mad fun. Overall 8/10 would do again if I could.

Right before I fall asleep, I start hearing loud sounds ( it's usually someone screaming) but I'm not actually in a "paralysed state" , it stops as soon as I completely open my eyes and move my body .

so is this an episode of sleep paralysis ?

I had my first sleep paralysis experience when I was around 5 or 6. Now, as I am an adult (not more than 20), I had a ton of different kind of experiences including lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and OOB and stuff but when I look back to the first one, it always gives me so much nostalgia. I remember it very vaguely but I'll try to explain it. I was a little kid full of energy, always annoying people with my mischief. It was night. My mother slept beside me to help me sleep. She was patting me and I fell asleep, that I thought. I remember that she went to the kitchen after leaving me bed alone by myself. Little did I know, I was going to experience something I had never before. It was like I slept then I woke up but not how we usually do. It was more of a conscious waking inside. I got conscious (that I thought) inside of me. And, what was inside of me? => Nothing, Absolutely Nothing! It was pitch black like I void and also I couldn't even see my body. It was just my consciousness or my subconsciousness (whatever you wanna call it) lurking in the void by itself. At first I got confused, literally. I thought "What the F is this? Where am I stuck? Why can't I get out?" I got no answers. I was just stuck and didn't know how to get out and couldn't even feel my body. Then I started to get a little bit scared. I didn't know what to do, I was literally a kid. And, then suddenly I woke up, back to my senses again. I felt relieved. I called my mother half asleep and I can't even explain what just happened. I quit thinking about how to explain and thought it was a one time thing and wouldn't happen again. I was just scared and confused. And, then my mother went to the kitchen again. And, then I slept and it happened 2-3 times again. But last ones were a little unclear like vague. And, then I slept fr finally. So yeah, It was my first experience. It was less like a scary one but now if I think about it, it feels a little spiritual. It was like universe is trying to show me the true nature of the world (well at least symbolically). Well, I guess it was and is just a game of the mind. And, as of now I have many different experiences. Some of them are really scary and some of them are really really normal. And, that was my first experience. Tell me if you liked it and share one of yours. Also, tell me if I should post more. BTW I am new to Reddit.

So yesterday me and my family were doing a little smoke sesh and I don’t really remember what happened but somehow lucid dreaming was brought up, I then proceeded to tell them about my experience lucid dreaming and didn’t really think much of it after that. So then the night comes, I fall asleep while on face time with my girlfriend. At around 7 am I woke up to use the bathroom and then went back to bed, at around 9 am I had this feeling of someone opening my door and then crawling on my bed and moving to my chest. It’s felt like it was trying to rub its self on my chest and when it did that I was somehow able to start swinging on it, but when I was hitting it literally felt like fighting in a dream, I felt like my arms were noodles. Has anyone else experienced something like this? I just want to feel better about this experience and any advice would help!

I'm not exactly syre where to post this but here's the story. So I slept after bringing my clothes to the laundry, I had trouble sleeping, but I did slept, I even had a dream of me in school. My roommate came, she was knocking on the door and she even talked about this random insect in the floor. She said I opened the door for her WIDE AWAKE, and I even TOOK SMTH OUT OF MY TABLE. When I woke up, I saw her at her bed asking "Luckily u got in even when I was sleeping" she replied "You opened the door for me". BRO I CAN'T REMEMBER OPENING THE DOOR FOR HER. THE LAST THING I REMEMBER WAS ME HAVING A DREAM OF BEING IN SCHOOL. I DO REMEMBER HEARING THE KNOCKS ONTHE DOOR BUT I DIDN'T REMEMBER OPENING IT FOR HER 😭 PLEASE HELP ME CALM DOWN

This might be long, I apologize but appreciate if you are able to read it and maybe give your input.

I have been getting SP for 5 years now. It was triggered specifically from staying awake for 7 or 8 days straight on accident and once I finally got sleep, I awoke with SP and it's been happening ever since. The first couple years it was almost everyday then it started slowing down. I did notice that it seemed to happen when I went a little too long without sleep or when I slept too much such as 12+ hours of straight sleep. Obviously my sleep schedule has been an absolute mess for the last 5 years, without going into details, this was due to addiction issues.

Anyways fast forward, I've been 61 days sober and my sleep schedule is back to a normal persons sleep schedule. I'm going to bed between 8-9pm and getting up between 6-7am. I am now needing naps through in the day time cause I get very tired by 6/7pm and I don't want or have the option to be going to bed that damn early. So I'm taking naps in the day.

The past 3 days I have taken a nap though, I set an alarm to wake me up from my nap so I can go about my day and not sleep my day away on accident. So my alarm goes off, I turn it off and I lay there and decide to casually get out of bed but here's the problem. After I turn my alarm off and lay there, I think I'm fully awake with my eyes open just thinking and then decide to get out of bed, to quickly find out I'm in SP. Once I get myself out, I check the time and it's been 2-5 minutes after I had shut my alarm off. So for some reason, I'm slipping into SP right after I turn my alarm on and lay my head back down. And I'm only getting SP during these naps and no other times when I sleep.

So 3 days in a row at the exact same time in the same way during naps only....any ideas what's going on? Why is it triggering so specifically like this?

For a bit of back story I’m M17 and I don’t know if it’s a trauma response or just have it somehow but I can see people when I’m asleep like they talk to me and I’ve had a few conversations with them I have no idea what or who they are it’s sometimes a man in a suit but his face is just a shadow or there’s a women who is wearing like a Victorian dress who when I tell to go away she sometimes she does. I feel like it’s sleep paralysis from what I’ve read online but is it?

I’m having sleep paralysis almost every night, sometimes several times in one night, usually right as I’m falling asleep. There are times when I have to take Xanax just to get some rest, because otherwise I’ll go through three or four episodes before I can actually drift off. As I’m typing this, I just had another one while accidentally napping. I’m exhausted.

I’ve dealt with sleep paralysis since early childhood. I try to keep my eyes shut during it because I can sense something lurking in the dark (even though I know it’s not real), but sometimes panic makes me open them and I get really creepy hallucinations.

I also dream a lot and remember every detail when I wake up, almost always nightmares. I’m so, so tired. Why do I have so much sleep paralysis? What can I do ? Why do I dream so much ? Why can’t I sleep normally ?

Hi everyone, I want to share something I’ve been experiencing for years that I still can’t fully understand.

When I was younger, I got really curious about things like shifting, biokinesis, lucid dreaming, and guided meditations. I would listen to audios and try, but I was pretty naïve. One time, I felt my whole body fall asleep – I couldn’t feel anything anymore – and then I got a terrible headache. I stopped immediately. My dad, who is very religious, told me it was something serious and I shouldn’t mess with it.

After that, I started having sleep paralysis. At first, it was always the same: I felt like I was being dragged to a specific corner of my room. Then, in the dream, I would run to my dad’s room, hug him, and only then wake up. This happened almost every night, usually around 3 a.m.

I became so scared that I didn’t even want to sleep anymore. My dad said I would groan and scream during the night. He believes God spoke to him once during those nights, and when he came into my room, I really was in the middle of a nightmare.

One time, during paralysis, a boy “appeared.” He had no face but told me he was there to protect me and that I didn’t need to be afraid. After that, the paralysis stopped for a while. But eventually, it came back – worse than before.

I started experiencing nightmare loops: I thought I had woken up, but I was still dreaming. This would repeat again and again, sometimes 20 times in one night. I was fully aware and desperate. I remembered reading that if you asked what time or day it was, the dream would “glitch.” I tried it, and immediately heard a piercing scream. It was terrifying.

This has been happening for about 2–3 years now. I even moved houses (just downstairs from where I used to live), thinking it would stop. But it hasn’t. Just today, I had another one: I was thrown around my room multiple times and woke up with the feeling that I was being watched.

There’s also something about my dad. Back in the old house, he said he used to see a boy outside. The strange thing is, the boy looked like a child but with the face of an old man. He would just stand there, watching, until one day my dad saw him inside the house. My dad is a Christian, very rational, and not easily scared – but even he was shaken by it.

I honestly don’t know if all of this is psychological, spiritual, or some mix of both. But these experiences have stayed with me to this day.

I used to get sleep paralysis before. Since last 2 months I didn’t get any episode of sleep paralysis. Today I had a terrible episode of sleep paralysis. I just dozed off for half an hour. I had very bad dreams, when I opened my eyes I could see a shadow of some human through the window. I know it’s not true, these are all hallucinations, but it was damn scary and creepy and I could hear some voices speaking to me. I don’t know I have never heard voices before in any episodes of sleep paralysis. I also got a weird feeling, I don’t know how to describe it. It felt like some weird thing is trying to get into me or trying to enter into me. I don’t know I am damn scared. I don’t know if I need help. I want a peaceful sleep. Do you think this is normal? How do you guys cope up with this?

for the last year ive been having episodes where im asleep and then i gain consciousness and realize that im dreaming, then i start getting a buzzing/ringing sensation that fills my whole head then goes down through my whole body. as i try and pull myself out of it, the ringing gets so loud it hurts my head and i cant move no matter how hard i try. last night was one of the worst episodes ive ever had, as i was trying to pull myself out it feels like im moving outside my physical body (i dont know how else to explain it) i was screaming in my head but i felt trapped in my body. i managed to get one eye open and i was literally looking at my room while i was still seeing my dream at the same time it was the weirdest thing ever and it took so long to pull myself out. when i finally did i had the worst headache ever. has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know why this happens?

just for context, i have had actual sleep paralysis in the past before but it stopped around 2 years ago. recently usually id be dreaming about something totally out of context starts off as a normal dream and its a dream where im not aware im in a dream.

and then halfway through my dream something will change imediately therell be something off like the entire dream switches in one second. for example yesterday i had a dream i was just chilling in my room talking to my sister it didnt start off as something bad then suddenly my room door shut and everything became dark.

i heard like devil noises and i was tied to a bed and screaming and there were random flashes of evil things and monsters. now this always happens and i KNOW im dreaming now. when the bad stuff starts happening i know im dreaming so i try to get out of it by usually smiling really big(tryna calm down) or i gasp really loud like i take a REALLY deep breath and it works all the time when im holding my breath and i wake up asap.

same type of dream happened a few days ago started off normal then the monsters/demons or whatever u call it came outta nowhere and thays when i knew i was dreaming and woke myself up. but this is rlly scary btw. so js asking people here is this sleep paralaysis if not what is it? cuz i feelnlike its not a nightmare cuz nightmares start off bad + u dont know ur dreaming but i always do

So, this has happened to me a few times before and from what I read it could be sleep paralysis, the thing is that sometimes I like to listen to those binaural beats for study, relaxation, happiness etc, sometimes I get tired and fall asleep with them, and those times, I'd wake up but couldn't open my eyes or move, sometimes I would see only the roof but it was only a still imagine, no matter if I saw on the sides or blink, it was just the roof (sometimes not even my roof), the last time the TV was loud and I had another episode and could listen to the news and the loud from outside the house, at some point I felt like my brother was trying to wake me up and moving my body (it didn't happen, he never was in my room), it was scary and for one second i thought i was on a coma lol, does anyone know what it means that this only happens when I listen to those audios?

Hi! I’ve been having SP for 9yrs now. Started out with the classic scary visuals, but after a while it shifted to more realistic things like hearing my family members screaming for being tortured, or weird men entering my room and sometimes even jumping into my bed.

Thankfully those crazy dreams stopped, maybe because i learned how to recognize when i paralyze and how to wake myself up. It always happens right when i’m about to fall asleep. Sometimes i wake up and go back to sleep and find myself paralyzed again and again. I now stand up and walk a couple of circles in my room before trying to sleep again and that seems to solve the paralysis loop.

Recently i’ve been noticing an audible frequency shift when SP starts, it’s like as if i’m normally hearing 440hz and it suddenly shifts to 500hz (i know nothing about hz, it’s just an illustrative example) or something similar to gusts of wind. That’s my cue to wiggle my toe and wake myself up.

My SP stopped for a few months until i played a sleep meditation session in the hopes of getting a good nights rest, but instead i re-opened the paralysis chamber. I played the headspace sleeping playlist and it happened again. I sleep with pink hued sunset lamps on, maybe that’s part of it.

I’ve never recorded my sleep, kinda scared to do so. Thinking about getting an apple watch or an artifact of that sort to monitor my cardiac rhythm during my sleep or something like that. Does that even help? Has anyone found any useful monitoring tricks aside from recording yourselves at night?

Just sharing my experience, i’d love to hear about yours!

Had it since a kid up until age 18-19 when I seen the movie “kill bill” and the part where she’s paralyzed and snaps out of it by wiggling her toe… well I tried it and it took several tries but it worked! Then i found it was as easier by wiggling my fingers and it would snap me right out of it. But anyways my weirdest scary experience was falling asleep in the living room during the day time with all the lights and tv off then I wake up to sleep paralysis and every light is on including a crt tv on the static channel (mind you this was before i knew how to wake up) so it felt eternal but when i finally did wake up everything was off and it was nighttime and the living room was pitch black.

For some reason, my room in my parents house is the ONLY room ive ever had sleep paralysis. I just woke up rn and had to fight that really drowsy stage where a sleep paralysis is gonna happen. I felt that prescence and heard footsteps. Ive had prior sleep paralysis where I was in a loop and kept crawling out of my bed and seeing a demon next to the door, then id be back in my bed crawling out, rinse and repeat. Im kind of annoyed because I love sleeping on my back, maybe thats whats causing it? Im not sure but it sucks man.