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BigDru (11/20/2015) [-] I've never experienced sleep paralysis, but my brother does. He talks about something called "the shadow people", whatever that is.
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anon (11/25/2015) [-]
Used to have sleep paralysis really usually when I was young, around three or four times each week.
But I never really saw anything, just heard voices every now and then. It was more like that my body wasn't functional no matter how hard I tried to move.
Annoying mostly, but not scary. I guess this depends on the person though
But I never really saw anything, just heard voices every now and then. It was more like that my body wasn't functional no matter how hard I tried to move.
Annoying mostly, but not scary. I guess this depends on the person though
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anonmynous (11/20/2015) [-]
How the **** did you read OP's comment and think, "I should put a political spin on this."?
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boomerpyro (11/20/2015) [-] he's from the year of 2012, twas a sad year, one of thanks obamas and XDDD's
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BigDru (11/20/2015) [-] Supposedly it's a recurring subject for people that experience sleep paralysis. Experiencing something unexplainable does not make you a nutjob, it simply makes you an observer of the unexplained.
There are plenty of liberals I don't trust with a butter knife, while the same can be said of conservatives. In the end, there are people from all walks of life that simply can't be trusted to look out for anyone's interests but their own.
There are plenty of liberals I don't trust with a butter knife, while the same can be said of conservatives. In the end, there are people from all walks of life that simply can't be trusted to look out for anyone's interests but their own.
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seikestrom (11/20/2015) [-] When I experienced it my head was hanging off the bottom of my moms bed. (I was 10 and had some disturbing nightmares so I went to my moms room) I opened my eyes and I couldn't move my body and I noticed something in the corner, but I couldn't make it out because I'm pretty much blind without my glasses. I waited and stared at it for a bit before realizing it was coming closer. I struggled to get control of my body but no movement came. I could only let out a faint moan and nobody was around to hear me so im freaking out on the inside, and then it just appears right over my face and smiles at me. When it was over I couldn't sleep right for months.
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funbaggy (11/20/2015) [-] I am lucky in that I normally don't see demonic **** . I get sleep paralysis in episodes where it doesn't happen for months, and then it will happen like 10-20 times in one night. When it happens now I am not really scared, but for the next few days I am on edge for whatever reason. Like I feel like I am being followed.
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ieatsnatch (11/20/2015) [-] All night long? That doesnt make sense.
Sleep paralysis only lasts a couple minutes at most. still spooky dough.
Sleep paralysis only lasts a couple minutes at most. still spooky dough.
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guysimadeanaccount (11/20/2015) [-]
The couple of minutes can feel like quite a while when you're "asleep" or whatever, just like time in dreams I guess
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blackholee (11/20/2015) [-] it's a short amount of time but it feels like you're trapped for a very long time, I understand why he said it, every time I have sleep paralysis it's usually less than 10 or 20 minutes but it genuinely feels like an entire night
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adplum (11/20/2015) [-] For me it was always things I heard. I had a really creaky old house, out in the middle of nowhere in oregon. Next to that I also had this ******* tree that always used to scratch on my window during storms. Nothing's more scary to me now than dark shapes outside my window
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mamabama ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-]
for me it was the sound to, whenever i went in to sleep paralysis i would try to calm myslef down so that i wouldn't see any hallucinations which, mosto of the time, worked however everytime i calmed down it would last for about 10 seconds and after that i would here a indescribable sort of ringing sound in my left ear i tend to sleep on my right side this would **** me up and i can never calm down while hearing it. it's like ******* loud to.
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ryderjbudde (11/20/2015) [-] As someone who has experienced sleep paralysis many, many, many times throughout my life, I can very confidently say that visual hallucinations are either extremely uncommon, or that they do not happen at all. I have never once seen anything during an incident that was not there.
However, what makes the experience one of terror are the other hallucinations. The tactile ones, the audible ones. Those are not only common, but always present. The feeling of a weight, or of something creeping up on you. The sound of a loud and growing rumbling, or breathing, or of more specifically identifiable noises.
When I was a freshman in high school, I was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. I took knockoff Ritalin daily, but it would sometimes give me terrible indigestion that would discourage me from going to school. After spending about an hour in the restroom, all of my family would have been gone for the day, but it would still be early in the morning, and I would be tired. Before the Ritalin kicked in, I would end up laying on the couch, and falling asleep for a couple of hours.
When Ritalin kicks in while you are asleep, there are three possibilities, each of which stemming from the realization that you are asleep. One way, you wake up. Another, you are mid dream, realize you are dreaming, and begin having extremely vivid lucid dreams. Third, you wake up, but your body doesn't.
One particular morning, I was laying on my back, which they say increases the risk for sleep paralysis, with my head turned to the side. I was struggling greatly to move my arms, to raise my hand to my face and pry my eyes open, but when I succeeded, it became clear that any motion that I had made was actually just imaginary, and any lid prying didn't actually happen. My eyes were closed, and yet, I could see everything. The hallway, the doorway to the kitchen, the chair, the TV stand. I couldn't actually see the TV, and I couldn't hear anything, so I decided I must have turned it off before I fell asleep. The room was silent. That is, until I really started to struggle.
I tried vocalizing. Yelling, grunting. I swore I opened my mouth, but noises were muffled by my closed lips. That's one of the hallucinations that I think a lot of people never realize they are having. They think they are moving or making noise when they really aren't. Hallucinations about actions that their bodies aren't really making.
Then I heard the front door open, which was beyond my field of view. I must have slept all day, and my mom had come home, or maybe she came all the way back on her lunch break. I tried calling to her for help, but then the door didn't close. She would have closed the door behind her. I began struggling harder, both to make sense of who was in my home, and to wake up. As I struggled, I felt a sense of where the person was standing by the door, like a vibrating on my skin pointing at where they stood. I could feel them coming closer and closer, and I tried to writhe, or swat them away. And I felt them lean over me so that I could feel them just above the side of my neck. I felt their warm breath there, and this almost triggered a ticklish response of raising my shoulder to protect my exposed neck.
Finally, just before the point whatever it was would have struck, I awoke.
The TV was on; morning infomercials were playing. The door was closed, and locked. No one was in the room, and it seemed earlier than I thought it was while I was asleep.
I think that sleep paralysis is just a really vivid imagining of your surroundings. I don't think people's eyes are actually open when it happens, but it really does seem that way, because you can look around at everything, and every little detail is so convincing. Perhaps your eyes are barely open, and it is half imagined, half seen.
But anyway, most of my experiences didn't involve presences, just rumbling noises that got louder and louder until I awoke. I think those noises are just the sound of blood flow in my ears.
However, what makes the experience one of terror are the other hallucinations. The tactile ones, the audible ones. Those are not only common, but always present. The feeling of a weight, or of something creeping up on you. The sound of a loud and growing rumbling, or breathing, or of more specifically identifiable noises.
When I was a freshman in high school, I was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. I took knockoff Ritalin daily, but it would sometimes give me terrible indigestion that would discourage me from going to school. After spending about an hour in the restroom, all of my family would have been gone for the day, but it would still be early in the morning, and I would be tired. Before the Ritalin kicked in, I would end up laying on the couch, and falling asleep for a couple of hours.
When Ritalin kicks in while you are asleep, there are three possibilities, each of which stemming from the realization that you are asleep. One way, you wake up. Another, you are mid dream, realize you are dreaming, and begin having extremely vivid lucid dreams. Third, you wake up, but your body doesn't.
One particular morning, I was laying on my back, which they say increases the risk for sleep paralysis, with my head turned to the side. I was struggling greatly to move my arms, to raise my hand to my face and pry my eyes open, but when I succeeded, it became clear that any motion that I had made was actually just imaginary, and any lid prying didn't actually happen. My eyes were closed, and yet, I could see everything. The hallway, the doorway to the kitchen, the chair, the TV stand. I couldn't actually see the TV, and I couldn't hear anything, so I decided I must have turned it off before I fell asleep. The room was silent. That is, until I really started to struggle.
I tried vocalizing. Yelling, grunting. I swore I opened my mouth, but noises were muffled by my closed lips. That's one of the hallucinations that I think a lot of people never realize they are having. They think they are moving or making noise when they really aren't. Hallucinations about actions that their bodies aren't really making.
Then I heard the front door open, which was beyond my field of view. I must have slept all day, and my mom had come home, or maybe she came all the way back on her lunch break. I tried calling to her for help, but then the door didn't close. She would have closed the door behind her. I began struggling harder, both to make sense of who was in my home, and to wake up. As I struggled, I felt a sense of where the person was standing by the door, like a vibrating on my skin pointing at where they stood. I could feel them coming closer and closer, and I tried to writhe, or swat them away. And I felt them lean over me so that I could feel them just above the side of my neck. I felt their warm breath there, and this almost triggered a ticklish response of raising my shoulder to protect my exposed neck.
Finally, just before the point whatever it was would have struck, I awoke.
The TV was on; morning infomercials were playing. The door was closed, and locked. No one was in the room, and it seemed earlier than I thought it was while I was asleep.
I think that sleep paralysis is just a really vivid imagining of your surroundings. I don't think people's eyes are actually open when it happens, but it really does seem that way, because you can look around at everything, and every little detail is so convincing. Perhaps your eyes are barely open, and it is half imagined, half seen.
But anyway, most of my experiences didn't involve presences, just rumbling noises that got louder and louder until I awoke. I think those noises are just the sound of blood flow in my ears.
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moistnuggests (11/20/2015) [-] Dreams vary from person to person and I imagine the same can be said for hallucinations.
Everyone always described their dreams and nightmares as being lifelike but for me they're warped and sometimes it even happens during daydreams, just imagine seeing people and their body parts grow or shrink or get elongated. How you view and feel your own body even begins getting warped and it feels like one leg just grew to the size of the room while your arm just shrunk or your body just stretched out all over the place.
At one point this warping manifested while I was awake in the form of a black hole in the bed while I was tiding up...just imagine a piece of your bed falling into nothingness, spreads/grows and almost pulls you in.
Dreams and hallucinations seem to depend on the cause and person. Even a drug induced hallucination is going to vary from person to person, if only slightly.
Everyone always described their dreams and nightmares as being lifelike but for me they're warped and sometimes it even happens during daydreams, just imagine seeing people and their body parts grow or shrink or get elongated. How you view and feel your own body even begins getting warped and it feels like one leg just grew to the size of the room while your arm just shrunk or your body just stretched out all over the place.
At one point this warping manifested while I was awake in the form of a black hole in the bed while I was tiding up...just imagine a piece of your bed falling into nothingness, spreads/grows and almost pulls you in.
Dreams and hallucinations seem to depend on the cause and person. Even a drug induced hallucination is going to vary from person to person, if only slightly.
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fazbearxplain (11/20/2015) [-] I ain't readin all this, describe it to me using only one word.
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peanutsaurusrex ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-] lol just like wake up, even a baby can do it lol man up
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peanutsaurusrex ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-] lol, just then like, move, lol it's not like anyones forcing you to not to lmao
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peanutsaurusrex ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-] Bruh
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chucknorrisisreal (11/20/2015) [-] Doesn't seem that bad to me, I can see them just fine without the paralysis part.
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meringueluka ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-] copy and paste from last time this was posted
since everyone is talking about it i might as well
when i was around 20 years old i woke up and couldn't move. my head was tilted to side and i swear to every god i was staring a demon from hell dead in the eye. i can still remember it almost perfectly, completely white skin, ******* perfect white not a ******* imperfection, no eyes. none just empty ******* sockets. at first i thought it didn't have a mouth but nope, it's skin started to open and a mouth grew into the biggest grin that sent a thousand shivers down my spine.
as i was looking at it, unable to do anything i felt something crawl up my leg, i was freaking the **** out thinking i was about to either die or be raped heck maybe both. and to add to it was what ever was moving up my leg was smooth and so soft, like velvet sounds nice? but when you staring down a demon hell spawn it was so creepy. what ever it was moved up to my hip then just ******* vanished as the creatures mouth slowly shut before and making it's face completely empty of features again before it just, floated backwards through my night stand and just ******* vanishing.
that ****** me up so badly i found it hard to sleep for a few days, had to have my then GF to come over and sleep over and comfort me.
since everyone is talking about it i might as well
when i was around 20 years old i woke up and couldn't move. my head was tilted to side and i swear to every god i was staring a demon from hell dead in the eye. i can still remember it almost perfectly, completely white skin, ******* perfect white not a ******* imperfection, no eyes. none just empty ******* sockets. at first i thought it didn't have a mouth but nope, it's skin started to open and a mouth grew into the biggest grin that sent a thousand shivers down my spine.
as i was looking at it, unable to do anything i felt something crawl up my leg, i was freaking the **** out thinking i was about to either die or be raped heck maybe both. and to add to it was what ever was moving up my leg was smooth and so soft, like velvet sounds nice? but when you staring down a demon hell spawn it was so creepy. what ever it was moved up to my hip then just ******* vanished as the creatures mouth slowly shut before and making it's face completely empty of features again before it just, floated backwards through my night stand and just ******* vanishing.
that ****** me up so badly i found it hard to sleep for a few days, had to have my then GF to come over and sleep over and comfort me.
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warwolfrider (11/20/2015) [-] **warwolfrider used "*roll picture*"**
**warwolfrider rolled image**When I was a kid age 6-12 I would have 4 or 5 different nightmares but there was one that always scared me badly this is what it was.
I would walk outside my house for some reason and when I close the do and looked up there would be this thing like 20 feet away it was in black shreaded robes long black hair but there was very little white skin like why as in the color of this text and it was skinny with 2 big black holes for eyes and a black mouth kind of looked like the mouth on the scream mask and it would start to walk to me.
I would try and scream but no sound would come out and when I would try and run in side everything would slow down super slow like vats speed in fallout 4 and just before it got to me I would make it to the door then everything would speed up and when I got in side I would look out the doors window and nothing would be there and then I would wake up...... **** freaked me out
**warwolfrider rolled image**When I was a kid age 6-12 I would have 4 or 5 different nightmares but there was one that always scared me badly this is what it was.
I would walk outside my house for some reason and when I close the do and looked up there would be this thing like 20 feet away it was in black shreaded robes long black hair but there was very little white skin like why as in the color of this text and it was skinny with 2 big black holes for eyes and a black mouth kind of looked like the mouth on the scream mask and it would start to walk to me.
I would try and scream but no sound would come out and when I would try and run in side everything would slow down super slow like vats speed in fallout 4 and just before it got to me I would make it to the door then everything would speed up and when I got in side I would look out the doors window and nothing would be there and then I would wake up...... **** freaked me out
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belshir (11/20/2015) [-] this **** happened to me literally the other night, is was after a night out and i had a girl with me, she had been sleeping on my arm and when i moved it i started getting pins and needles but i thought " **** it il be asleep in a few, wont bother me".
I woke up a little while later feeling fingers raking down my arm when i was finally bale to move i looked towards the end of my bed and saw a face and huge long spindly arm protruding from my wardrobe. That is the fastest i have ever ******* moved, i launched myself down my bed and kicked the door shut while panicking, i was sat there for a good 5 minuted just wigging out trying to convince myself it hadnt been real.
The worst part is trying to convince an Estonian girl who speaks broken english you are not crazy and that you thought you where saving her life at 5 in the ******* morning. Shifted my room around yesterday so my wardrobe doesn't face my ******* bed anymore... spooky ****
think it may have been because i read that 4chan post about their own custom vault that had moving rooms and eventually same of the populace because "skinnies" (monsters that would move from room to room slaughtering people in their sleep) pic related, very similar to what had been reaching for me only what i saw had yellow eyes
I woke up a little while later feeling fingers raking down my arm when i was finally bale to move i looked towards the end of my bed and saw a face and huge long spindly arm protruding from my wardrobe. That is the fastest i have ever ******* moved, i launched myself down my bed and kicked the door shut while panicking, i was sat there for a good 5 minuted just wigging out trying to convince myself it hadnt been real.
The worst part is trying to convince an Estonian girl who speaks broken english you are not crazy and that you thought you where saving her life at 5 in the ******* morning. Shifted my room around yesterday so my wardrobe doesn't face my ******* bed anymore... spooky ****
think it may have been because i read that 4chan post about their own custom vault that had moving rooms and eventually same of the populace because "skinnies" (monsters that would move from room to room slaughtering people in their sleep) pic related, very similar to what had been reaching for me only what i saw had yellow eyes
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thechosentroll (11/20/2015) [-] God damn it, this **** is making me paranoid right now. Am I gonna have to start jacking off, while staring at the dark parts of my room again?
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birthdayboi (11/20/2015) [-] there was a guy who was under an interview on a popular radio show in norway, and he told everyone who listened about how you could lucid-dream and stuff like that,, but that if you try you must be prepeared to experience things like one of those ''nightmares that feels real and can't wake up from'', before i heard him talking i was excited about being able to control my dreams.. but after he spoke about shadowpeople and other 5creep7me stuff.. i have no further interest in trying..
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JNS (11/20/2015) [-] I've never experienced the intruder
I have felt the Hag a few times during my sleep paralysis ... creepy as ****
but most of the time I don't get any paranormal heebeegeebees
I have felt the Hag a few times during my sleep paralysis ... creepy as ****
but most of the time I don't get any paranormal heebeegeebees
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OtisMcWonderful (11/20/2015) [-] Mine isn't that bad. My "intruder" is usually just a small, pale, kid looking creature. It never does anything though. It just watches and runs into my closet, whether the door is open or not, when I finally force myself awake. Visually, just imagine something like the Rake with a more human-like head, an indistinct face that doesn't have any major details hell, it may not have a face at all , and smaller proportions.
When it's not that, sleep paralysis usually just has me feeling snakes or something in my bed and obviously not being able to move to get away.
When it's not that, sleep paralysis usually just has me feeling snakes or something in my bed and obviously not being able to move to get away.
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OtisMcWonderful (11/20/2015) [-] Nah. Needs to be more human-like. That head is way too huge and the limbs are too thin.
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hueman (11/20/2015) [-] Well, I had an experience something like that once. I had just watched a documentary about a demonic entity named Zozo, who apparently can haunt you if you so much as mention it or think about it. I went to bed laughing it off and thinking of it as a bunch of baloney.
I ended up waking in the middle of the night several times, definitely not feeling alone in my room. For most of the time I was awake, I was completely paralyzed, but I was aware of being awake and of my surroundings. The scary part was that it took my sister from the next room to come in and kick me in order snap me out of it, yelling at me to stop screaming about "Zoo zoo" or whatever. Funny thing is, I had no recollection ever saying anything while in these episodes.
So yeah, just my two cents. Scary **** happens, man.
I ended up waking in the middle of the night several times, definitely not feeling alone in my room. For most of the time I was awake, I was completely paralyzed, but I was aware of being awake and of my surroundings. The scary part was that it took my sister from the next room to come in and kick me in order snap me out of it, yelling at me to stop screaming about "Zoo zoo" or whatever. Funny thing is, I had no recollection ever saying anything while in these episodes.
So yeah, just my two cents. Scary **** happens, man.
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nationalanthem (11/19/2015) [-]
why does this happen? and how/why is there a similar creature from person to person?
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drumandbass ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-]
There is no specific why. Can be because a louder noise stopped your brain from falling asleep, over psychological problems or drugs.
For the 'intruder' part - nobody knows exactly, most people say it's your brain imagining stuff. but interestingly though most people seem to see familiar stuff, black cloud floating around like hairs, and old hag with dark holes for her eyes or the withering black figure with long twitch like hands/fingers .... my personal opinion is pretty vague, it simply can not be random, something is there. I'd say it could be another dimension (scientists have proven that one room shares more than 10 dimensions) something like an afterworld full of ded people or it could really be a hallucination due release of DMT
For the 'intruder' part - nobody knows exactly, most people say it's your brain imagining stuff. but interestingly though most people seem to see familiar stuff, black cloud floating around like hairs, and old hag with dark holes for her eyes or the withering black figure with long twitch like hands/fingers .... my personal opinion is pretty vague, it simply can not be random, something is there. I'd say it could be another dimension (scientists have proven that one room shares more than 10 dimensions) something like an afterworld full of ded people or it could really be a hallucination due release of DMT
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anonmynous (11/20/2015) [-]
So either they're hallucinating due to the chemical all human brains emit while dreaming... or its actual demons from the 10th dimension? You got any intermediate theories there?
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lankou (11/20/2015) [-] he most common thery is that there are two main biologic processes at work. !) that immobilizes the body so we don't flail around in our sleep and 2) the actual sleep mental process. We aren't exactly sure why we sleep, but the most common theories revolve around either energy conservation reasons i.e. not spend as many calories, during times in which we cant work (night), so we can more efficiently heal/grow, and then the mental aspects normally are thought to deal with mental transcription (creating memories) and creating synapses.
Now its believed that sleep paralysis happens effectively when there is a disconnect between the two biologic processes. where !) happens and 2) doesn't happen. so effectively the experience is (chemically) bound and from there there is actually an interesting cultural element as to how the even is experianced. the body is clearly is in distress, imagine being poisoned but not knowing by what. people "feel" wrong and that causes people to fill in the gaps with relivent cultural infromation. there is another veration in whcih this chemical paralysis restricts breathing, and the experiencer will believed by they are crushed (by a old hag), or strangled by demons, or being chased down long hallways. Theres actually a great book we had to read surrounding both the practical and cultural aspects/folk traditions involved with sleep-paralysis.
interesting fact that this process is how we get the idea of and the word for "night-mares" ( of the chased variation by demonic horse) or nightmares
Now its believed that sleep paralysis happens effectively when there is a disconnect between the two biologic processes. where !) happens and 2) doesn't happen. so effectively the experience is (chemically) bound and from there there is actually an interesting cultural element as to how the even is experianced. the body is clearly is in distress, imagine being poisoned but not knowing by what. people "feel" wrong and that causes people to fill in the gaps with relivent cultural infromation. there is another veration in whcih this chemical paralysis restricts breathing, and the experiencer will believed by they are crushed (by a old hag), or strangled by demons, or being chased down long hallways. Theres actually a great book we had to read surrounding both the practical and cultural aspects/folk traditions involved with sleep-paralysis.
interesting fact that this process is how we get the idea of and the word for "night-mares" ( of the chased variation by demonic horse) or nightmares
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thedippestofshits (11/20/2015) [-] When i was a little kid, i'd get sleep paralysis every so often. In my case i was usually lying on my back with a glowing orb/moon thing with a face hovering over the foot side, whispering incomprehensibly to me.
Creepy **** .
Creepy **** .
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ningyoaijin ONLINE (11/20/2015) [-] When I have sleep paralysis, it always presents itself as ******* jumpscares. Last time I had it, I heard a deafening scream in my head and simultaneously saw a black... thing come through my door, leap onto my bed and put its face to mine. I felt its body weight crushing me into my bed...
After about a second of being on top of me, I regained my senses and didn't sleep again for a few days.
Since you're in a dream-like state when it happens, you think it's 100% real and sense everything happening as though it actually is, with the added trauma of being immobile while it happens.
I've also been eaten by a man with no eyes before, and I felt pain and gushing, and saw blood spurting everywhere.
After about a second of being on top of me, I regained my senses and didn't sleep again for a few days.
Since you're in a dream-like state when it happens, you think it's 100% real and sense everything happening as though it actually is, with the added trauma of being immobile while it happens.
I've also been eaten by a man with no eyes before, and I felt pain and gushing, and saw blood spurting everywhere.
