Creepy unsolved/paranormal/strange events thread

So I had my third sleep paralysis attack ever, this morning...and they are becoming more fucked up with every iteration.

So I'm in bed, asleep, and I'm in a lucid dream. It seems like I'm playing a Red Dead Redemption-like game, or I'm controlling a cowboy character; either way, it seems like it's virtual reality cause I'm in the 'game-world' itself. I follow this character in 3rd person, and from a distance I see this old, creepy, wooden, two story house. My character walks towards it, and I see a haunting, dark shape in the window on the upper floor. I can't describe what it looks like, but it gives me a terrifying feeling. My character keeps walking toward the house - and while I'm in the lucid dream, I think to myself: This is a dumb ass thing to do, don't go in there man.

So my character reaches the house, and goes inside. Once inside the 3rd person camera shifts closer to my persona, and suddenly I become him, walking upstairs - against my 'lucid will', to the attic where I saw the dark shape. Once in the room I see nothing, but I feel the presence of the haunting shape.

Then boom - my eyes open. I'm in sleep paralysis. I'm in my own room ofcourse, eyes open and staring at the wall, unable to move, FEELING that fucking haunting shape in my very own room. I hear a hard, cracking sound - almost exactly like the girl from the Grudge makes (they really nailed that in the movie). This auditory hallucination is made worse with the fact that I see a twig like black arm with equally thin fingers holding on to my own fucking arm. At this moment I'm lying there going 'holyshitwhatfuck'. After a few microseconds I am finally able to move, and I slap the twig arm off of me, screaming as I fully wake up. As soon as my arm goes through the hallucination it disappears instantly. The whole paralysis scene only lasted about 5 seconds, but god damn that shit is intense.
 
Holy lord, sleep paralysis is terrifying.

In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger. Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations. The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful or dream-like objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision.
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Nope. Ima pass.
 
I've had so many sleep paralysis if I don't have one in a long time it feels weird.

I find there are 3 types
One where nothing happens and you just lay there afraid something will
The ones where something happens but its not too bad
And then theres WTHBBQ those are like the poster described above.
 
Blutonium said:
So I had my third sleep paralysis attack ever, this morning...and they are becoming more fucked up with every iteration.

So I'm in bed, asleep, and I'm in a lucid dream. It seems like I'm playing a Red Dead Redemption-like game, or I'm controlling a cowboy character; either way, it seems like it's virtual reality cause I'm in the 'game-world' itself. I follow this character in 3rd person, and from a distance I see this old, creepy, wooden, two story house. My character walks towards it, and I see a haunting, dark shape in the window on the upper floor. I can't describe what it looks like, but it gives me a terrifying feeling. My character keeps walking toward the house - and while I'm in the lucid dream, I think to myself: This is a dumb ass thing to do, don't go in there man.

So my character reaches the house, and goes inside. Once inside the 3rd person camera shifts closer to my persona, and suddenly I become him, walking upstairs - against my 'lucid will', to the attic where I saw the dark shape. Once in the room I see nothing, but I feel the presence of the haunting shape.

Then boom - my eyes open. I'm in sleep paralysis. I'm in my own room ofcourse, eyes open and staring at the wall, unable to move, FEELING that fucking haunting shape in my very own room. I hear a hard, cracking sound - almost exactly like the girl from the Grudge makes (they really nailed that in the movie). This auditory hallucination is made worse with the fact that I see a twig like black arm with equally thin fingers holding on to my own fucking arm. At this moment I'm lying there going 'holyshitwhatfuck'. After a few microseconds I am finally able to move, and I slap the twig arm off of me, screaming as I fully wake up. As soon as my arm goes through the hallucination it disappears instantly. The whole paralysis scene only lasted about 5 seconds, but god damn that shit is intense.
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Can I ask, have these sleep paralysis attacks happened in the same room? I remember when I used to live in NJ, I always seemed to have sleep paralysis attacks in one room only.

But in that one room it happened at least three-four times. I agree that that shit's intense. Opening your eyes and not being able to move one inch. I was fighting to turn around in bed and I couldn't. Then all of a sudden it felt like a force jumped off me and I could move again. The whole bed shook hard. Now I don't know if it was because of me struggling to move and when I finally could and snapped out of it was my own body shaking the bed.

Hope you don't go through that again anytime soon, man.
 
Ash Sparrow said:
I've had so many sleep paralysis if I don't have one in a long time it feels weird.

I find there are 3 types
One where nothing happens and you just lay there afraid something will
The ones where something happens but its not too bad
And then theres WTHBBQ those are like the poster described above.
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Like I said I've only had 3, in that exact same order. I hope I don't have a fase 4 , that will surely scar me for life. Hell I'll probably never forget my episode from my last post.
 
purple cobra said:
Can I ask, have these sleep paralysis attacks happened in the same room? I remember when I used to live in NJ, I always seemed to have sleep paralysis attacks in one room only.
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Yep, same room. I first heard of sleep paralysis on GAF a few years ago. I had my first experience with it last year.

Was it light in your room when they occurred? Not being able to see the hallucinations might make it less creepy.

Edit: sorry for the double post, I'm getting used to mobile gaf.
 
Blutonium said:
Like I said I've only had 3, in that exact same order. I hope I don't have a fase 4 , that will surely scar me for life. Hell I'll probably never forget my episode from my last post.
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There was a girl i use to talk to on a forum, it was a bit creepy as she'd experienced many of the exact things i'd had during sleep paralysis. The dirty brown creature with a snout :( Maybe it was just psychological, but it bit my hand and when i woke up my hand felt like it was slightly throbbing.
 
Blutonium said:
Yep, same room. I first heard of sleep paralysis on GAF a few years ago. I had my first experience with it last year.

Was it light in your room when they occurred? Not being able to see the hallucinations might make it less creepy.

Edit: sorry for the double post, I'm getting used to mobile gaf.
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No, it was dark in my room. If I remember right it was sometime in the middle of the night. Maybe two-three in the morning. I never saw anything, but I swear it felt like someone sitting on top of me holding me down. It's a weird feeling.
 
Sleep paralysis is odd, for sure. I have been trying to attain lucid dreams, but somehow I can only get myself to a half-wake state and I can't move. It always pisses me off until I manage to wake up all the way. I am really unhappy in tight spaces because it restricts my movement, and it's exactly the same when I'm half-asleep.

Bleh.
 
I don't think I've ever had sleep paralysis, but I have seen things in a half-sleep state before. Usually I'll wake up and see either creatures in the corner of the room that kind of pulse with light, or this one time last week I saw a man with red eyes staring at me. I'll kind of snap out of it after a minute or two (it feels like an eternity) and then they disappear. Weirdest stuff ever.
 
I've read ghost and scary stories across the entire internet, and Sleep Paralysis comes up a lot.

A LOT.

I wonder if there's a correlation between that disorder and a predisposition towards believing in the supernatural?
 
jaxword said:
I wonder if there's a correlation between that disorder and a predisposition towards believing in the supernatural?
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Seems extremely likely to me. As a child, you would probably be told "that was just a nightmare", and chances are that would be the end of it... but as an adult, if you don't know about sleep paralysis...
 
Think I had sleep paralysis when I was in high school. Remember waking up in the middle of the night but not being able to move or speak and I hear fucking Gollum from LOTR like he's right outside the window next to me and no matter what I do I can't speak or move while he's talking. After a few seconds i was finally able to scream and my parents came running to my room wondering wtf happened. Anyway after that experience I always slept on my side since I've had near sleep paralysis every time I sleep on my back but every time I force myself to move before it locks in.
 
Sleep paralysis is awful because you feel powerless to stop it but you have try your damned hardest to get out of it.

Sometimes I can feel it just before it happens, so I wake up and get a glass of water then go back to sleep.
 
i remember having sleep paralysis just after watching wwe ppv which was free here in the uk. as i wen to sleep suddenly i felt something like a hand go up my bed sheets, i open my eyes and i shit you not it was that fucking exorcist girl looking down right at me from the ceiling. i couldnt move for a good 2 minutes and as i was muttering some verses from the quran my voice sounded to sound deep and develish. suddenly i snapped out of it and ran straight for my parents room screaming. my parents though it was a jinn (ghost in islamic term). at least it didnt shout at me that my mother sucks cock in hell lol
 
Erigu said:
Seems extremely likely to me. As a child, you would probably be told "that was just a nightmare", and chances are that would be the end of it... but as an adult, if you don't know about sleep paralysis...
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Hmm, from an evolutionary perspective, I wonder if it's some sort of mis-triggered basic instinct? We're not nocturnal creatures, so our species has had millions of years of vulnerability-at-night fears keeping us alive.

Maybe sleep paralysis is some sort of broken response, like a throwback to a time when we had to be able to wake up and flee at the slightest sound of a broken branch. Since we haven't had to do that for a long, long, LONG time...maybe the dichotomy of living comfortably is clashing with ancient instincts to run at any moment?

Or maybe I'm 100% wrong. Who knows what weird instincts are being suppressed inside of us.
 
I get a shit ton of sleep paralysis, ever since I started getting it in junior high, it's really annoying because it gives you a feeling that you're in some kind of vegetable state, I could still move if I really try but half of the time I drift back into that state again, the problem is that your subconscious fucks with you depend on how conscious you are, so more often than not you're watching your brain paints a layer of dream-like stuff onto the surroundings.

If the room is dark with objects around, my brain sometimes percept them as something else, if my brain feels like it it could percept them as weird creepy shit, and it's almost impossible to control it, that's the thing that makes it creepy because you don't know what your brain is going to show you, you're in a semi-dream state.

Sometimes I see translucent figures floating around and tapping my shoulders and shit, after I get out of it it's necessary to get up and take a break, which is a waste of my sleeping time.

Edit: not to mention there are other weird sensation that comes along with it, it's impossible to ignore it and sleep, I don't mind it half of the time, but when I'm tired and really just want to sleep, it really bugs me.
 
Nelo Ice said:
Think I had sleep paralysis when I was in high school. Remember waking up in the middle of the night but not being able to move or speak and I hear fucking Gollum from LOTR like he's right outside the window next to me and no matter what I do I can't speak or move while he's talking. After a few seconds i was finally able to scream and my parents came running to my room wondering wtf happened. Anyway after that experience I always slept on my side since I've heard near sleep paralysis every time I sleep on my back but every time I force myself to move before it locks in.
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Same here. I got sleep paralysis during highschool and I wouldn't be able to move. I had to muster up all my will just to break free from the stranglehold it had on my body. During all that I felt a presence (my mind playing tricks on me) coming closer which struct a fear in me since it was the unknown. Before the experience I slept on my back, but ever since I started sleeping either on my sides or face down.

There was one occurrence that I saw things very vividly that wasn't there. I was laying down for a total of 5 minutes and my body shifted into paralysis. I felt the transition while being awake. As soon as I shifted I heard chimes that wasn't there and I seen a silhouette of a black cat walking across my bed, soon followed by a hand creeping up the back of my neck.

The first occurrence I felt like I was being sat on while being paralyzed. I shrugged it off and it occurred again two more times. I didn't sleep that night.

There were a lot more, but those really stuck to me.
 
Crakatak187 said:
There was one occurrence that I saw things very vividly that wasn't there. I was laying down for a total of 5 minutes and my body shifted into paralysis. I felt the transition while being awake. As soon as I shifted I heard chimes that wasn't there and I seen a silhouette of a black cat walking across my bed, soon followed by a hand creeping up the back of my neck.

The first occurrence I felt like I was being sat on while being paralyzed. I shrugged it off and it occurred again two more times. I didn't sleep that night.

There were a lot more, but those really stuck to me.
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That's pretty close to how mine was like the first time, I think I drifted into paralysis mode right after I saw something on my knee (it was pretty quick) then there was a silhouette of a hand staying right on top of my face and I felt someone was holding me down, I didn't actually feel the hand on my face, but I was staring at it calmly to make sure I wasn't imagining things, and I made sure the hand wasn't mine, but it was there and I had to look through the gaps between the fingers.

After that it was just paralysis without those context, just weird visuals and sound and the "drifting" sensation that's more annoying than creepy.
 
I've figured out how to break sleep paralysis because as a kid it happened to me all the time. The only thing I can control is my breathing, but even that I have very little control over. Basically I just take the slowest deepest breath that I can, then I force it out as hard and fast as I can while also trying to move my arm as hard as I can. My arm ends up flailing around and it breaks the paralysis.

It used to scare the shit out of me, but I'm able to stay calm and get out of it using this method.
 
riskVSreward said:
I've figured out how to break sleep paralysis because as a kid it happened to me all the time. The only thing I can control is my breathing, but even that I have very little control over. Basically I just take the slowest deepest breath that I can, then I force it out as hard and fast as I can while also trying to move my arm as hard as I can. My arm ends up flailing around and it breaks the paralysis.

It used to scare the shit out of me, but I'm able to stay calm and get out of it using this method.
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This is basically the same tactic that I use. Except I often end up snorting very loudly like a pig. It can wake you up, but it can be uncomfortable if you have a roommate.
 
Yea I could get out of it by just moving my arm, but it's kind of tiring because my body is still asleep even though when my god damn arm is moving (slowly), the fight doesn't end until I could sit up completely, or I would doze off

It's still an annoying thing when it happens frequently, especially you get up to take a break, go back to sleep and you get it again.
 
purple cobra said:
^^ That was weird, Pancho :0 How'd you come across that? I wonder if it is a viral for a movie or something...

Anyone else see this video of supposed Men In Black discussed by Mysterious Universe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GHh04oepbI&list=FL9ldEfA0aMSzB_TGkaXpv9A&index=7&feature=plpp_video

The description of them sounds very weird.
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I was just stumbling the other day when it came up, the video was released yesterday. Before that the site was just the story about how he found the tape and saying he'd release the video on May 13th
 
Have any of you heard of Bob Lazar? I remember years ago going on a searching spree about him, practically listened to all his interviews (which were very few, actually) and I was inclined to believe the guy.
 
The only thing I dont like about viral found footage like that, is how the person recording manages to get that close to...whatever that was, without it noticing.
 
Bufbaf said:
I simply refuse to believe he didn't make this up, but that's just incredibly well written stuff right there. I kinda want to try to make a comic/graphic novel out of it, but I'm sure I couldn't do the story justice.
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I really enjoyed the first two, but the third and fourth just failed to keep my interest.
 
Sentry said:
Have any of you heard of Bob Lazar? I remember years ago going on a searching spree about him, practically listened to all his interviews (which were very few, actually) and I was inclined to believe the guy.
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His background at MIT never checked out. Interesting stories he had but I think he's part of a bigger ploy to make people think Aliens exist or something like that.
 
Leeroy3101 said:
His background at MIT never checked out. Interesting stories he had but I think he's part of a bigger ploy to make people think Aliens exist or something like that.
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I don't know, he said before hand how his history there was erased etc etc. Thing is I would think he would be more adamant in interviews if he was lying, but he seemed be annoyed by the whole thing as well as the alien/ufo believers in general. Not to mention he's only done one or two real interviews.. I don't know, he recounts it all with a non-scripted style, and in detail on certain aspects more-so than others, like he's really recounting from memory.

Who knows, just found him in particular interesting.
 
Sentry said:
I don't know, he said before hand how his history there was erased etc etc.
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Those claims always sound odd to me. How easy is it to erase every evidence that someone has studied at a school? Not very easy, I would think, even for the CIA or whoever. And wouldn't the guy have some evidence himself, like a diploma or something? What about fellow students? I love reading about Bob Lazar, and kinda wish he tells the truth, but that thing about his school history being erased just sounds too far-fetched.
 
Teknoman said:
The only thing I dont like about viral found footage like that, is how the person recording manages to get that close to...whatever that was, without it noticing.
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The alternative is some horrendously distant and blurry shot, I suppose.

Have you guys ever thought about looking up the most (supposedly) haunted places in your area and checking them out?
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
The alternative is some horrendously distant and blurry shot, I suppose.

Have you guys ever thought about looking up the most (supposedly) haunted places in your area and checking them out?
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The thought has crossed my mind, honestly. But I'm not sure if I really want to do that, lol.

I came across another Black Eyed Kid story, this time right here in Florida:
http://twocrowsparanormal.blogspot.com/2012/04/black-eyed-kid-in-florida.html

Usually when I hear stories about BEKs, they're usually from somewhere in the midwest or some other spot. At least as far as I know. This is the first time I've heard of one here. Yikes...
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
The alternative is some horrendously distant and blurry shot, I suppose.

Have you guys ever thought about looking up the most (supposedly) haunted places in your area and checking them out?
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Yeah actually. Hummel Park in Omaha Nebraska is one place me and my bro's would love to check out. Most rumors about the place are totally unsubstantiated but there is a guy who claims to have witnessed some satanic activities there.

Just been to the entrance (my friend was too much of a wuss to drive in) but it was definitely creepy. Love to go back some day.
 
Ugh...I hate sleep paralysis. My episodes are always the same...pressure on my chest and I feel like there is something else in the room hovering over or around me. Freaks me out because it just happens out of the blue and I can go years without experiencing it. Sometimes it happens multiple times in the same night.

I'm usually able to at least close my eyes and that helps a little bit with the visual hallucinations. The whole time I'm trying to scream or flail my arms. Be happy you've never experienced it...its not fun. :|
 
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