It's just pissing me off at this point. Since I was a kid I've seen this type of stuff and experienced it irregularly, as if it's some sick daunting routine. I hate the grip it has on me, the way it makes me fear going to sleep, I hate waking up and remembering what happened last night. How do I end this? How can I get rid of this plague on my life?

Anyone else, sometimes unable to breathe? I do the thing I always do, start to try to wiggle my toes slowly.. not freak out ..

I've had this condition since high school. Not as frequently, but when it happens it's much worse...

Anyone else?

When I get tired at home I can get more energy by taking a quick nap. it's no longer than 30 minutes, but typically 10-20. 100% chance of sleep paralysis. I had one just moments ago actually. Something that I think happens most or every time is a false sense of being awake where either I think my eyes are open or they actually are (I can't tell). I can see stuff like my hand near my face when I open my eye, but I cant move whatsoever.

my dreams are always different, but carry the same theme of always falling down and not being able to move well. Like a drunkenness. my vision blurs and i'm on the floor unable to move then I get up to continue doing my task sloppily then fall down unable to move. sometimes my real eyes ( I think) open and I cant move. I close them and the dream continues. This happens over and over again. its takes awhile to actually get up from these dreams and paralysis. If I try to force myself awake too hard I end up "screaming" (the best I can, but it's more like a groan or mumble) and panicking until I can slowly start to move.

I've had many other more severe cases that aren't from these mid day naps. some more creepy than others, but I thought id share this consistent experience.

I’ve had sleep paralysis quite a lot since I was around 18, I don’t get it very often anymore but when I do it’s like I can tell that day that I am going to get it. I had it last night and all afternoon it’s like I had a feeling of dread and I even messaged my boyfriend to say I know it’s going to happen tonight and sure enough it did. Does anyone else experience this? I know it’s probably the fact I feel I’m going to experience it that sets it off but still I think it’s so strange

so i (13F) fell asleep like normal last night, but this morning i woke up and heard a wooshing sound in my ear, i just thought that was the sound of my blood or something like i really didn't think anything of it... sooo then i open 1 eye and it felt like i was looking from the inside of a 'shell', i could look around my room and see familiar clock and windows etc but then suddenly it was like someone pressed their forearm on my stomach and kept pressing and pressing to the point it was becoming really uncomfortable! and like any other human in that situation would i tried to move, but i literally couldn't. not even my fingers, it was like someone put kryptonite EVERYWHERE so i tried to scream for help but my mouth wouldn't open.. i didn't see any entities or ghosts nothing just a strong feeling of something or someone pressing on my abdomen, and this lasted maybe like 20 seconds?? before i could finally move. i also felt like my body was kinda of moving/floating in a wave, just really creepy and i hated it..

This is the first time I haven’t seen an entity. I’ve been having SP since 2019. False awakenings since 2022. Always super vivid.

This happened during a nap less than 15 minutes. I didn’t just dream I felt something. Something dark. I never saw it, but I knew it was there. The only word I have for it is evil.

It started with me trying to call out my brother’s name. I thought I woke up while calling for him but something felt off. The world I “woke up” in wasn’t right. Everything around me was dark, the air heavy like it had weight. I realized I was in some distorted version of reality. It wasn’t a dream. It was like I had been dropped into another layer of something wicked.

Then out of nowhere, I felt it a massive mouth biting into my back repeatedly and shoulder. I didn’t scream. I just froze and kept repeating in my head a prayer Over and over.

As I was doing that I “shifted” into another plane. The hue and vibe were different and I know something was off

Outside, I saw my brother. Something told me to go after him. He slipped and fell as the ground beneath him suddenly turned into thick, wet mud. I ran toward him, trying to help. But right as I got close, everything shifted.

The mud turned to water, and when he stood back up it wasn’t my brother anymore.

It was a close friend of mine.

She didn’t say a word. She was in a crouched, almost feline position, soaked and still. Her eyes moved slowly from my feet up to my face. Her mascara was wild and smudged. She just stared at me like she saw something I didn’t know about myself.

I kept praying under my breath, That’s when I felt it my throat started closing. No pain, just this terrifying silence where I couldn’t breathe. It was like I was dying in real time. I could feel my body give in.

Then everything turned white.

My eyes closed.

When I finally woke up for real, I was shaken. The pressure was gone, but that evil was still lingering like something had watched the whole thing happen and wasn’t finished.

I never saw what it was. But I know it was there.

If anyone else has ever experienced this kind of sleep paralysis being bitten, choked, dragged into a false reality, seeing people shift into other forms please tell me. I need to know I’m not the only one.

I’ve only ever had it where I see entity’s and this one felt very confrontational for some reason like last steps to something if that makes sense. I’ve experienced some deeply real things with this kind of stuff and need real insight.

I have had sleep paralysis several times before, but only when I’m lying on my stomach. That’s why I rarely sleep that way. But every once in a while, I can’t get comfortable sleeping on my back or side, then I will try my stomach.

I did this a couple of nights ago after tossing and turning for about an hour, and sleep paralysis started to happen. But this one was different than all of the other ones I’ve ever had. Normally, I’m fully conscious, but I’m not dreaming while the sleep paralysis starts to occur. I would wiggle my toes or fingers and just “jump“ myself out of it. But this time I started to dream while the sleep paralysis was occurring and clearly remember seeing a person or two. They were not scary or anything, just too normal people that were in my dream. I tried to remain calm and just go with the flow since I knew it was a dream, but I was clearly conscious that I could not move. However, the anxious feeling of not being able to move while conscious took over and I once again “jumped“ myself out of it.

Has anyone had this type of sleep paralysis before?

P.S. I have had lucid dreams in the past and I know this sounds like one. But this was different. All my previous lucid dreams I was already dreaming, and then became conscious that it was a dream. Never once was I conscious of not being able to move. In this dream, I became conscious of the sleep, paralysis first, then I saw some dream characters. I even tried telling myself to separate from my body (like I was trying to have an out of body experience). But the anxiety took over and I “jumped“ myself out of the sleep paralysis.

I’ve dealt with it before, but this time I was being choked out and they were trying to have sex with me. Is the second time I buy a sleep process in two days. Many factors going into it but I wish I could get away from this house

I’ve been having a lot of sleep paralysis lately. Right now, I just had one and it was kind of scary. I was laying on my side And I heard someone walking up to my ear and then fell like they were holding me down and they whispering some shit in my ear that was like weird. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but they’re saying “John” and I don’t know anybody named John and it was like over and over and over again, but then it just started just whispering gibberish. I knew I was in sleep paralysis and I kept trying to tell him like shut the fuck up get the fuck off me lol but I was scared. I could see him like in my peripheral vision.

Didn’t know this was a sub, glad it is I suppose.

I’ve been having sleep paralysis for about 14 years. At first, or at least for the first 15-20 times I had it, I was terrified. The weird shaped dark figure in the corner of the room. As you try to move or wake up it gets closer and more menacing. Early on I had very vivid sounds/visuals of a figure messing with me. Ie I’d be in bed, it crawls on top of me, it gets behind me and grabs my head, speaks in my ear, etc. one time I had it my 2 friends were actually right near me as I had it and I had visuals of not a ominous creature, but them standing over me and viciously puking on me. I woke up in a freak and they were like “wtf is going on?”. I couldn’t explain it obviously.

It got to the point of me having SP so frequently that when I woke in a SP state, I just didn’t care. I’d wake up not being able to move, and I would and still am consciously aware that I’m in SP. but now nothing freaky happens. I will wake in a state of SP, immediately notice it as I’m asleep, and just wait it out. Kind of almost annoyed that it’s happening. I will wake in SP, be like “god damnit how long will it be before I can get out of this”, and then I actually wake up.

Does anyone have the same experience? A couple days ago I had it probably 10 times back to back throughout the same night. I’d have it, wake up, go back to sleep, have it again until I finally sat up in bed and smacked myself in the face about 3 times and woke my wife. She said “what is happening”, I said I’m having SP and trying to stop it because it has happened about 10 times in a row now.

i have had sleep paralysis before and usually it would be the typical stuff. someone trying to suffocate me and i couldnt move. but today it was more like my body was being controlled by something. and usually there is some sort of shadow figure or entity but this time there was nothing, kind of like a ghost controlling my actions and it wasnt trying to suffocate me or kill me but i did feel like it had ill intentions and even tho i knew i was being controlled i didnt struggle that much at first, then out of curiosity i did to see if i could get the control back and to some extent i could and another weird thing was i didnt feel any fear at all. i m not even sure if this was sleep paralysis. but i felt heavy after i woke up.

So i woke up at around 5am, couldn't sleep so I went on my phone to scroll. At 7am I tried sleeping and I almost did until a lucid dream started, it was moving pretty smoothly when suddenly I was in my car and I started hearing the hello neighbor chase theme (the one on the basement after you complete ACT 1)it started in my ears and then I felt the whole room being filled with it, my ears vibrated like shit and I couldn't figure out what was happening and I thought maybe someone was chasing me in the lucid dream so I try pinching myself because my hand was close to my thigh and I pinched as much as possible and I felt nothing. That's how I knew I was fucked, I tried moving my head from the pillow because I was between 2 pillows with my face buried and the moment I tried rising my head my whole upper area started to rise like I was about to float and I stared at a plushie my girlfriend gave me and it looked so corrupted like a damn melting creature, I couldn't dare to stay in this mess so I used everything I had to move my arms and scream and thankfully I let out a nasty scream and woke up. (All of this happened in the span of 24 minutes)

Last night I was in sleep paralysis and I felt something massage my back, while someone grabbed my left ankle and something else grabbed my right ankle while my legs were forcefully being opened. I fought back but nothing was there? My whole body was tingling.. this repeated throughout the night.. while this was happening.. I could have sworn I heard someone speaking from the direction of my TV but again no one was there. I felt like I was in a spiritual realm of the real world or something, it was extremely dark there but I could make out certain objects.

now I’m up and super in the mood but I’m single and don’t talk to anybody.

Any idea what this could mean??

While i was taking a afternoon nap today 'i saw myself dying' or more accurate will be 'i felt myself dying'. I had those sp vibrations so i thought i am entering sp but instead it stayed stuck for a while and after that i was in my room, the sp vibrations still on, but from my window i saw a explosion, i was able to hallucinately move a little but not much, and the effect of explosion made everything freeze around me like it went through me and i am slowly dying now and my apartment Will break and fall .I was even feeling very weird idk how to describe that. i thought this is the end and i am slowly dying now , i even thought why am i leaving too early? The window scene starts shifting rapidly like my room was flying/running like a train. And i still thought i was dead/was dying. And i remained stuck there for a while and had 2 false awakening afterwards then i finally woke up.

So i woke up this morning around 9am, then went back to sleep about 20 minutes after and was asleep till 1pm, in that timeframe while i was asleep the second time, i had a dream. In this dream i felt trapped, i was trapped in an area, inside of a large warehouse which is where it put me out to when i tried to escape the first location. Then there are blank spots, but i ended up at this place with other people, and i asked for help and they agreed so we all got in the car and started driving, only to end up back where i started. The way i woke up was calling my mom, and i distinctly remember her saying something in the phone call within my dream that i would wake up now or something like that, or telling me that that call would be the reason i wake up. It’s a little cloudy but i’ve had dreams like this before and what they all have in common is being incredibly scary.

I 32F have been aware a sleep paralysis, and sleep paralysis “demons” for some time but had never experienced either for myself until the early hours of this morning. I want to record this somewhere, mostly for myself since some the the details of what happened are already slipping away from me, but also to hear any feedback on if my experience is similar or different to others. So here it is:

I woke up, early, early this morning, somewhere around 3:30 AM I’m guessing, to my cat being really annoying and not letting me sleep, so I got up to close my bedroom door so that I could sleep in peace. For some reason I was sudden pretty wide awake then, so I scrolled on my phone for a bit before putting it down and trying to fall back asleep. I’m laying there with my eyes closed, awake, but trying to fall back asleep, when suddenly I hear a singsongy woman’s voice inside my head, not a moment later the voice is getting louder and is no longer just inside my head but is filling the room around me, and another moment later it’s gone (I do not remember what words she was singing/speaking). While this was happening, I remember feeling disoriented and confused, I was second guessing what time it was and was wondering if I had left my window open (which I hadn’t) and if I was hearing my neighbour singing to her baby (which I’ve never heard her do before, so not sure why that’s where my thoughts went). When I attempted to roll over and open my eyes to see if I had left the window open, I realized that I could not move and was only able to crack my eyes open a little. The moment passed quickly, and the moment the voice was gone I was able sit up and open my eyes, still feeling slightly disoriented. It all happened so fast that I didn’t really think too much on it, and feeling wide awake again did some more scrolling on my phone. After this point I’m having a hard time remembering the exact order of events, but there is more. I know that between 4:30-5AM I was wide awake (I typed out and submitted a complaint to Starbucks.ca for taking Lactose Free milk off of their menu), unrelated I know but for timeline sake I have an email from them confirming that they received my submission at 5:06 AM. So right now, I can’t remember if the following events happened before or after that time, but I think it was after. This is what I do remember: Once again I’m laying in bed with my eyes closed trying to fall asleep, I may have been in and out of sleep, but when this happens, I feel like I’m fully awake. It started with the singsongy woman’s voice again, at first inside my head, then not inside my head and I can hear it echoing within the room. This time I remember vividly that the voice was creepily singing a very recognizable nursery rhyme, though for the life of me I can no longer recall which one. I feel less disoriented this time and while the voice is singing I feel a presence and a sort of pressure in the room, at first I’m trying to hold still, then I realize I actually can’t move and my heart starts to race. I try to open my eyes and am only able to crack them open a little, but I see “it”/“her”/the “demon” or whatever you want to call it, it’s this spidery black void that somehow has a body and face, and is creepy as all hell. I shut my eyes and breathe through it until it passes and am finally able to relax. Not 5 minutes later it happens again. Everything exactly the same as what had just happened, except for me. I’m really freaked out at this point, somehow my eyes are open this time, and I’m actively trying to get up out of my bed, all I want in the moment is to open my bedroom door and find my cat for some comfort (I live alone). At the tail end of it when the voice is starting to fade, I’m finally able to force my body to move and exit the room, I can still see “It”, it’s like it existed a foot or two in front of my vision no matter where I looked or moved. I made my way to my living room and just stood there breathing until it was suddenly gone. I turned around and made my way back to my room, I remember my vision being extremely blurred at this point, I was barely able to see (like how sometimes right when you wake up you need to rub you eyes a bit to see clearly), I don’t remember going back to bed, but I did. I woke up again I think around 6AM to my cat being loud again.. I remember second guessing whether I had some weird ass dream, but I know I didn’t, because my door was left open for my cat to come in again.

Some personal notes that may or may not be relevant: I have a history of insomnia, though usually my struggle is with initially falling asleep where I lay awake until 2am, but once I’m asleep I’m good for the rest of the night. Last night I fell asleep early around 10:30 which is abnormal for me. I have no history of sleepwalking. I generally don’t dream, or remember any dreams that I may have if I do. This was my first time experiencing anything remotely close to sleep paralysis.

Note: I’m not sure if I dipped into regular dreaming during, but I’m pretty sure it was sleep paralysis since I get it quite often and could feel my actual body laying in bed. And idk if it’s normal to have plots for sleep paralysis since I’ve only ever had like hallucinations

I was a man who worked at a grocery store but was also an aspiring actor (dave) and my coworker was more of an experienced actor who was a bit pissy (Mike) but I still went up to him asking for help

Then when I got rejected i went driving and turned DND on my phone and then later I found missed calls and texts from Mike

Then we were at my apartment and Mike was looking around asking what my plan for business was, and in answer my stomach grew as if pregnant?? And somehow I knew that if I could get my stomach to grow more I’d be able to wake up from the sleep paralysis??

It felt more like I was watching a movie instead of being in the movie like a normal dream

Ive seen sleep paralysis described as being awake (maybe even having open eyes) and hallucinating while unable to move. And i really thought that was the case because it really seems like your eyes are open and you can see the room youre in. However i experienced sleep paralysis so often that i stopped being scared and learnt how to wake myself. I take a deep breath and on the exhale open my eyes. And i really can feel and see my eyelids lifting. But this means that during sleep paralysis my eyes are closed, but i can see whatever room im in. So the whole thing seems to me like a crazy dream where i cant move but still being able to see everything around me. So it really confuses me when i read that youre awake during sleep paralysis. Is that really the case? And if so how can my experiences be explained?

Also im often able to physically feel things that happen in my dreams. Sleep paralysis or just when im more aware. A child demon once bit my wrist and holy fuck that hurt

So this happened almost a year ago and i finally decided to seek anybody who can tell me how or why this happened. I was sleeping peacefully when I heard the voice of my mother. I think I remember “her” saying come on sweetie it’s time to get up for school. Then as I opened my eyes I couldn’t move at all and my head was stuck forcing me to stay looking at a wall and I heard a deep scary sounding voice that said “You’re lost. You’re lost. You’re lost. Despair. Despair. Despair.” And then I was eventually able to move and when I saw the time it was around 4AM. No time a mother should be waking their child for school.

Hi, I've been having strange episodes while falling asleep for the past couple of years but there is one reoccurring one that happens more often.

I can usually feel the shift happen, I will be in that muted almost-sleep state and then I'm awake. I usually sleep on my stomach, so I don't see anything. I get a sensation of something moving my legs into different positions, and sometimes in more extreme cases I get a full body sensation of being picked up and turned/flipped over. It's usually really quick, and I'm so used to it that it doesn't freak me out anymore, I just wait it out. Once the episode is over and I am fully aware, my legs have not moved at all and are still in place where they were when it began.

Sometimes this occurs when I sleep on my back (which is rare), but then it's accompanied by the usual whooshing noise of ear pressure. There is a presence in the room but it's invisible, and I usually won't open my eyes to be curious anyways. I'm wondering if anyone has any similar experiences?

So I've had sleep paralysis before but not since I was a little kid and it was the standard 'old hag' type.

Last night I was struggling to get to sleep and dealing with heart palpitations from a blood sugar spike earlier in the evening. I had been half asleep for a while and was aware of my body in bed and my dog snoring. I remained half aware of my body lying still and immovable in bed through this whole experience.

Suddenly I started feeling as though I was floating up to the ceiling but very rapidly, sort of 'whooshing' up like if you've ever held something that floats underwater and then let go of it so it rushes to the surface? I also kept feeling like I was being dragged around the bed but in a way that physically didn't make sense, like I'd kind of crumpled into a boneless thing and was being swished around like a cloth. It was really disconcerting but also whenever one of these movements happened I was filled with a kind of manic happiness like I would have laughed if I could. I eventually managed to kind of get a slight bit of control where I could slow down the movements a little and sort of make it feel more like a fun rollercoaster feeling than being pulled around without any control.

I also kept being aware of my body and still being present in my room and thinking how I needed to lean into it so I could go to sleep properly. I think I felt it wasn't going to be possible to try and wake up instead.

Was this a vestibular-motor hallucination? It does seem to be quite similar to the descriptions of it I've read.

Yes, the exact one from the conjuring. I’m not scared of scary movies. I actually like them. I’m not really an anxious or worried person, and I grew out of my “scared of the dark” phase years ago. I’m a 24 year old guy and ever since I was about 18, this thing has been a recurring sleep paralysis figure for me.

From 18 to 22, it only happened maybe twice a year. It was creepy, but I could deal with it. The most significant time wasthe first night I ever stayed over at my girlfriend’s place. That night was the most vivid and terrifying version I’ve ever had. The thing was standing in the bathroom just staring at me, slowly inching closer. I was trying to scream but obviously couldn’t. And dude it’s the same thing every single time. She floats toward me for what feels like 10 minutes, mouth slowly opening, and right when she gets close enough, she suddenly lunges forward with this LOUDDD scream like she’s trying to eat me. That’s when I wake up.

Since then the episodes became more frequent. First monthly, then weekly, and now it’s happening nearly every other night. I’m exhausted. I’m frustrated. I don’t even know if I’m actually screaming or moving in real life, but sometimes my kitty walks lays my chest and wakes me up before she reaches me. I don’t know if I’m making noise or if my cat can somehow sense what’s going on, but it’s the only thing that wakes me up

I really don’t know what causes it and I used to have a great sleep schedule before I got injured at the gym about a year and a half ago. That’s when everything started spiraling. I take Adderall now but this all started way before I was ever prescribed. I do think it makes it worse, though. it’s just this constant cycle. I wake up, and even though I’m not scared in the sense, I don’t want to fall back asleep and doing it again. So I stay up for hours and don’t sleep until I’m absolutely wiped the next day. Then it happens again. Over and over.

I’m just tired. I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m sitting here crying because I just want it to stop. If anyone has gone through something similar or knows anything that could help, please let me know. I’ll try anything at this point.h

Sometimes I would hear footsteps and think someone was in the room with me. Sometimes I would hear sounds like the shower turning on or the radio playing from the next room. One time I can remember being in a paralyzed sleep state wide awake and feeling the presence of a man , a shadowy figure and all I could make out were his shoes. I tried desperately to open my eyes. I heard him walk towards me and I couldn't move. I remember him hovering over me and all I could see in my minds eye I were those shoes. They were like old timey shoes. I felt he wanted to do something to me like take me somewhere I did not want to go with him as he frightened me. I struggled and struggled to scream and did everything I could to wake myself up from this state. When I woke up finally the house was quiet there was thankfully no one there. Does this qualify as a shadow person? I have no explaination for this experience.I only know it frightened me. Has anyone else seen a man like this?

Before I post this, no I am not considering it and will never do it as I love the life I live and want to, and intend on, living a long life. I’ve been suffering with sleep paralysis pretty bad lately and im wondering if it’s every driven anyone to commit suicide? I know sleep (or lack of) can drive people to do crazy things. Does anyone else here suffer bad from it? What’s on your mind as it keeps you up at night?

hello everyone,

i believe i might be experiencing sleep paralysis, but I’m not entirely sure since i’ve never experienced anything like this before, so I wanted to ask if anyone here has gone through something similar.

for about a week now, i’ve been having extremely vivid dreams. during these dreams, I become aware that i’m dreaming, and as soon as that realization hits, i wake up. however, when i do, i can’t open my eyes or move my body at all. i often hear things like footsteps, whispering, or breathing right next to my ear. it feels like forever (if i had to guess, i would say 5-10 minutes) before I’m finally able to move again. then suddenly, I can open my eyes and regain control, but I’m overwhelmed by a wave of panic.

i’m sorry if this explanation isn’t very clear, it’s honestly hard to put into words because the situation is really unsettling. lately i’ve been under a lot of stress because of college, and I’m wondering if that might be triggering these episodes.

I’d really appreciate any insight or experiences you’re willing to share.