What is the weirdest/creepiest thing you've seen while you had sleep paralysis?

There was a point in my life, when I was younger, where I was having sleep paralysis pretty regularly, and it was awful. I hated and was afraid of going to sleep.

Every night it was some variation of seeing something either standing in the corner, or over me, while my heartbeat was off the charts, and I could feel (or thought I could feel) whatever it was rocking the shit outta of me. Like feeling actual pressure on my body. I'd wake up though, and of course, nothing would be there. But I'd still be feeling a lingering sense of terror, because in the moment, it just felt so real.

After a while I stopped having regular sleep paralysis, and nowadays, it's more like a once a year sort of thing. I've gotten pretty good at waking myself out of it. I can usually sense when it's about to happen, and when I do, I just try to move any part of my body, like my toes, and that's enough to wake me up.
 
The only thing I remember is having auditory hallucinations, like whispers from ghosts.

And a skull appeared to me as an image.

And I couldn't move.

But it's happened to me several times, and I know they're unreal and they disappear.
 
AJUMP23 said:
Sounds like some of you all need Jesus.
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Against sleep paralysis?! Nah, any Christian I knew who had this condition couldn't just simply "pray it away". Even the J-man don't want nothing to do with that shit.


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Doom85 said:
Against sleep paralysis?! Nah, any Christian I knew who had this condition couldn't just simply "pray it away". Even the J-man don't want nothing to do with that shit.


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It really just sounds like subconscious fears manifesting themselves in a waking dream state.
 
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As a child, I always saw this mother fucker from Power Rangers crawling around on my ceiling. I don't know why my brain decided that a comic relief villain in a kids action show from the 90's was going to be my sleep paralysis demon, but whatever. I wasn't even scared of the character, I mean, he's a complete bumbling bitch in universe. But HOLY FUCK, don't crawl on my ceiling like Peter fucking Parker, thanks.
 
I've never had it and I don't like to think about it in case I manifest it into happening.

I HAVE had one open-eyed hallucination in my life, and it was like the mannequin from Silent Hill but with even more limbs at the foot of my bed as I was drifting off to sleep. It was only for a split-second or else I would've been cleaning my sheets.
 
I get it every once in a while. The worst part is when youre drifting off to sleep and you can feel it's coming. So sometimes when it happens I can already sense it.

But for those of you who get sleep paralysis, I read online a way to reduce it is to sleep on your stomach or sides. It works. I get it when I sleep on my back and then it might kick in and I'm staring at the ceiling. But I've never got it with my face buried in my pillow. Not sure why it works that way, but it does. Another way to reduce it after it happens and you wake up is to go back to bed in a different position (again, try stomach or sides). If you drift back to sleep on your back the same way you'll probably get it again.

My way of snapping out of it is to twist my neck or shoulders as far as I can and I'll snap out of it. But I might immediately go back in. I usually need to do this 2-3 times to totally wake up from it.

If youve never had it, it's a freaky thing. You'll be lying in your bed, you can see the room, you cant move/barely move, you cant speak. You know youre in it and there's not a lot you can do but wait it out or try to self snap out of it. You are fully conscious and can even kill time thinking about work or sports. You know nothing bad will happen, but it's scary because you know you cant really move. So if it parlays into a scary dream where let's say something runs into your room and stabs you (mine has never done that as they are all boring incidents I'm frozen), you know you cant do anything about it. But even though it's a dream its still scary and you still dont want to get stabbed.

My sessions are just me lying there, but I still think about it looking out my bedroom door and what if this time monster thing comes in.
 
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I've personally never had the hallucinations associated with sleep paralysis like many people do, but exploding head syndrome sucks balls.

Hypnic jerks, also.
 
These cloaked figures approached from another room. They stood over me and spoke in these really robotic voices - like what'd you hear from one of those electrolarynxes. I couldn't see their faces, they were just dark shadowy outlines, leering at me. It was very close to what you'd see in one of those ridiculous alien abduction reenactments, and I'm fully convinced the origin of those is sleep paralysis after experiencing it. I tried to scream the whole time, and eventually one got through and it woke me up and my girlfriend at the time. This was 20-something years ago, and I still remember it pretty vividly. I ate cereal and watched cartoons into the morning to cleanse my mental palette afterwards.

I had one other years later, but it wasn't quite as traumatizing. It also only happens when I'm sleeping on my back and both times have been while sleeping on a couch - I very rarely do either of those things, so it's not a common occurrence and completely avoidable for me.
 
I only ever had sleep paralysis one time and I thought it was the coolest thing. I didn't see any hallucinations though, I just was looking around the room without being able to move or "wake up", and I knew immediately it was sleep paralysis and was fascinated. It only lasted a couple minutes.

Never happened again. I definitely would not want to see a shadow demon, though.
 
I always get sleep paralysis when I go to sleep. The things I usually see are shadow people and would even hear a woman giggling in my head. One time I woke up to an old lady on my chest with wide eyes just staring at me..
 
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Grildon Tundy said:
I HAVE had one open-eyed hallucination in my life, and it was like the mannequin from Silent Hill but with even more limbs at the foot of my bed as I was drifting off to sleep. It was only for a split-second or else I would've been cleaning my sheets.
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Excluding occasional sleep paralysis if that counts, the only time I've hallucinated was when I was a kid with a big fever. This was somewhere around grade 3-ish. I'd be so out of it my vision would zoom in out like a camera. Googling it, people can get the same thing due to various reasons. Also called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.

Weird feeling, but it shows in weird situations the human brain and eyes can zoom in and out even though (I googled it to make sure) no human eyes should not be able to do that.
 
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Doom85 said:
Possibly, but actually recent scientific studies have found evidence suggesting some random dead guy from Springwood, Ohio may be the one responsible for these phenomena.

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Begone Satan!!

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now time to get back to my regularly scheduled wet dream....

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Damn, now I wanna watch Dream Warriors again....
 
I've had it one time and it was scariest shit I've ever experienced. I legit thought I was gonna die lol. Whats scary is that I didnt even know what sleep paralysis was until after this happened... so I had no clue wtf was actually going on.

Back in college I was dating a girl and we went to her parents house for the weekend. They had like a little pool house or guest house kinda cabana thing out in their backyard... I was staying out there.

But anyway Im sleeping out there on this couch/futon thing... and the wall next to me is all floor to ceiling glass doors that slide open to the outside and they lived kinda out in the country.

So its probably like 3am... pitch black outside except a few faint outside lights they had. I "wake up"... but I literally cant move my body. But this isnt like a dream... my mind is functionally awake. But my limbs will not respond at all.

And I can see/hear this huge black silhouette of a figure pacing around outside those glassdoors. Like a Brock Lesnar size figure.

I cant move my body or my head, but I can like see from my peripheral this figure is like peering in the windows and starts trying to turn the knobs and get inside the room.

My mind is like screaming at my arms and legs, "GET UP, MOVE MOTHER FUCKER". Lol but absolutely nothing.

Finally the figure moves around to the side of the room where I cant see it anymore, but I can hear a door open back there behind me... and I literally hear footsteps walk up right behind me but I cant even turn over and look at it.

And I could hear like breathing and I could feel that sensation when someone is like all up in your personal space, like you can feel them right there. I could feel that like hovering over me.

I actually thought I was about to be murdered and I was such a pussy my limbs must be frozen in fear. I had no explanation.

Then it was just like BAM and everything turned back on, I jumped off the couch like a fucking rocket, freaking the fuck out, looked all around. No one is there. Door was closed and locked.

I almost wrote it off as something paranormal until I heard about sleep paralysis like years later. Anyway... yeah it sucked. Nearly shit my pants.
 
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This was about twenty years ago it was the last year of my studies and just about everyone i knew had already left and I moved into some garden house to complete a few things.
The year before a friend of mine knew some one who had been a officer in a Congo army and we got drunk a few time together and he talked about things in his military days which are not worth talking about here or anywhere.
As I was sleeping in this garden house I could feel him over powering me and I woke up and the room was really dark and he came at me again and then I woke up proper but the room was exactly the same and as dark as the first time I thought I had woken up.
 
I used to get it a lot and I never saw anything. But what did happen is I would be aware of it while it was happening and panic trying to wake myself up. I remember thinking one time I had thrown myself off the bed and broken my neck.
 
Only thing I ever see is my wife or one of the kids shaking me awake 'cause I'm over here screaming like a bitch-ass in my sleep. Like this gray nigga right here.

 
Man, all these people talking about transdimensional apparitions or shadow people, this is a serious topic. And please don't look at my posts in the earthquake thread, thanks.








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I only get sleep paralysis when I sleep on my back. No More Power Rangers characters, now it's usually a sense of paralysis and panic.
 
I had a phobia of wasps after getting stung a few times as a kid and when I was a teen I had my first and only moment of sleep paralysis.

I used to sleep on top of a bunk bed with a desk underneath and one morning I woke up on my back and couldn't move and my neck was completely stiff.

Then all of a sudden I see several wasps on my bed, my pillow and they were crawling near my face. I screamed for help from my parents but was unable to say a word. I tried several times but still nothing and felt absolute terror.

Then eventually something snapped and I'm not sure what caused it, but I was able to spring out of my bed, jump of it, run downstairs and tell my parents my room had been invaded by wasps. They came upstairs to check and there was aboslutely nothing and they thought I was crazy. The window was open as it was summer so we just write it off as they flew out the window.

It wasn't until several years later and after reading about sleep paralysis that I was finally able to understand and find an explanation for it.
 
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I have a few things to say.

1.) I have had this before, but never saw anyone or anything to my knowledge. I was told by a doctor as a kid, not to eat after 6:00 or 7:00 pm, and it would help with what he called "bad dreams". And sure enough, no calories after 6:00 or 7:00 pm, and i didn't have any weird dreams the majority of the time.

2.) Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, i was asleep and having a nightmare where a group of faceless men all dressed in the same suit where holding me down as other ones attack my wife. I obviously grew beyond agitated and started to struggle and "growled and barked" like a vicious dog. Well, my wife work me up and stated i was growling loudly and viciously like a wild dog. Which i have never done previously or again.

Now, i did have dental work done that week with anesthesia. But that dream was vivid and felt very real, and i still remember the details to this day.


Makes you wonder sometimes if we are all just recycled souls in different forms over and over again.
 
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I kinda had it, but cant say for sure

More like a lucid dream. I could see my body on my bed while I was floating in my room.

Then I realized I was dreaming and decided to fly over my city.

It was awesome. Happened what, 15 years ago and yet I still remember it pretty vividly
 
I'm sure some of you are just mentioning nightmares.

The difference between sleep paralysis and a nightmare is you can wake up from a nightmare, there is no such transition from sleep paralysis.
 
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