Sleep paralysis

[Mrswhiskerson]

I have experienced sleep paralysis for years , being awake while my body is asleep and on the whole it is a scary experience which comes with hallucinations and sometimes the feeling of being dragged off the bed .
It happens when I am over tired an because know one I know had it I was wondering if anyone on here has it ? Is there any cure and does anyone think this is a slep disorder or something more spooky? Like I say it Can be terrifying. Being a believer in all things supernatural I'm not sure what to make of it I would love to hear what others think.

Wow Loopy that's one demon I would like to meet.

Actually all jokes aside, and I don't know if this is a by-product of being a weird sleeper who gets the occasional paralysis, but I (far more often than I get paralysis actually) have erm one of those kinds of dreams (the kind with the um "happy ending")

And you wake up and go, ooh, no hands!

I guess the thing you describe is just a combo of sleep paralysis, "wet" dream, and nightmare containing demon all rolled into one?

Tatty I get that quite often as well.

Great innit

For Loopy

That's the one, thanks Tatty

I've experienced this twice. The 1st time was absolutely terrifying because I know I was awake - I was on my back but couldn't move anything except my eyes - and was taking in detail of the wallpaper etc (to tell myself I was awake). I too had this utter and all encompassing feeling of evil in the room, and a huge crushing weight upon me, and I just "knew" I was going to be raped ..... as if I could mind read the intentions of the "thing" on top of me. I could tell "it" was thinking it was "going to get" me. I couldn't see anything but "knew" what was on me was some form of giant male (but not quite human) and was petrified. All I could do was repeat, in my head, "get off me" again and again, and at the same time try to imagine a cloak of gold around me (which a friend had once said in a conversation was a way of protecting yourself from evil - what basis this has in truth I don't know) .... and after what seemed like a lifetime, the pressure on me eventually eased, and I managed to move.

I consider myself an athiest BTW.

Interestingly, the 2nd time it happened was about a week later but this time it was reassuring. I was on my tummy (my normal sleeping position) when I felt something on my back. However, the feeling this time was very different ... instead of an all over dead weight, I felt 4 pressure points - one on each shoulder, and one on each buttock. It felt exactly as it does when a domestic cat stands on you, except it would have had to have been a bloody big cat to stand on me in those spots. Thing was, the feeling I had then was as if something good had visited (me being a life long cat owner) as if to say I was being watched over. I didn't feel any sense of panic whatsoever and of "its" own accord, whatever that might have been, eventually went away leaving me to move again. I mentioned this to said (new agey friend) who reckoned it was my guardian angel !!! (I quite like the idea of a cat angel !!)

Really very weird, and quite unlike "normal" dreams.

I have very vivid dreams / nightmares every night including SP & tbh I'm sick of them. I'm on a lot of medication, also I have a depressive disorder & other MH problems. The dreams are so realistic that in the past I've become mixed up over reality & dreams. Also I get episodes of 'deja vu' when I'm awake (due to epilepsy), & my short term memory is poor atm so I often have to check what is real & what isn't after. It can take ages to come to as I feel very disorientated on waking.
I keep asking my drs for help with all this as it's scary - I live alone - but there's not much they can do.

Ladies it's the incubus we'd want to meet. The succubus is the lady version. So your husbands/partners could have that one.

I'm interested how many are saying about having insomnia - me too. I have restless legs as well. REALLY irritating. I also took to controlling my dreams in my teens. THe problem with that is I've found that it stops me drifting off to sleep properly. As long as I'm 'directing' my dream, I feel that I am still conscious and 'working' not relaxing enough to sleep properly.

I keep having a recurring nightmare - have done since I was a child and it scares me shitless. In it I am in a familiar house, I live in it but it is not one I have ever, in real life, lived in. In it my room is down a corridor. I have to walk past a closed door behind which is a set of stairs leading to another room to get to my room. Whenever I walk past this doorway I feel an overwelming sense of evil and hatred. I know that there is another little girl (I am still a little girl in this dream) who lives in that room and she hates me. She really, really hates me and she just knows whenever I am walking past that door.

I know this is a little off topic, but it helps to write it down! Fairly certain it is probably my mind telling me there is some aspect of my personality that I don't like or something similar.

Occassionally the setting will shift and I'll be out in a public place, I will keep catching a glimpse, just a glimpse of this girl and she will be staring right at me - before vanishing into the crowds.

Ick