[crannyannyfran]

mm listening to music while im sleeping completely stopped it for me.. maybe that will help?

[ChunJin]

Yeah, I get it when I sleep on my back and it's sunny outside and shining through my window usually.

I think I hallucinate when it happens. I see things and I feel things too that feel weird.

Like I'll see myself sleeping or I'll see shadows... the worst one was in my room I have an inri jesus cross thing. I saw a hand come from it choking me :s.

But yeah it happens to me. I still freak out because it's scary. I can't breath or do anything. You feel hopeless.

[poorplesocks]

YEAH. i thought there was something wrong with me because it used to happen to me a lot.
the things that happen during it could get really scary.
everytime i get it, i feel like i'm trying REALLY hard to wake up and move .. i always feel like if i don't break out of it and just let go, i'd be giving in to something .. like possession O___O.

[Yoomi_AH]

When it happened to me the first time, I heard this really loud noise and felt heavy and stiff. The first thing I did was cry out in prayer (well in my head) and it went away in a few secs. Second time was prob a few minutes after that same night.

I don't know, might be stress or irregular sleeping times. I was just doing math homework until 1 or 2 that night.

[theoneandonly]

You should probably see a doctor cause it could be related to sleep apnea.

[lenakeem]

i heard of this on sang sang plus the ghost one. and its liek a black shadow who pushes your chest down with its arms and it kinda suffocates you?

ive never had that happen to me before.
but i have had times where im just sleeping and my WHOLE entire body twitches and i wake up and then i cant move my body for like a second... okay maybe it is a gawee?? iono lol XPP

[situponatree*]

mann I never knew what it was called.
I think it happened to me a couple of times but
I thought I was just having a nightmare..
cause I saw and heard some scary things
anyway this thread scared the crap out of me.
now I'm afraid to go to sleep .___.

[kyongster]

put anything holy next to you

hehe

[conzerz]

POMGGGG THIS SOUNDS SO SCARY!!!!
i hope i never get it! ahaa i sound so selfish omgg.. so scarededdd..

has anyone had like when you're lying down and you move too fast and like twist too far so you get this huge cramp and it hurts sooo much and you can't move for like 3 minutes? or am i just weird?

[Tranny-ster]

OLD HAG SYNDROME

"Victims of "Old Hag Syndrome" awake to find that they cannot move, even though they can see, hear, feel and smell. There is sometimes the feeling of a great weight on the chest and the sense that there is a sinister or evil presence in the room. And like the above reader, they are often quite frightened about what is happening to them. The name of the phenomenon comes from the superstitious belief that a witch - or an old hag - sits or "rides" the chest of the victims, rendering them immobile. Although that explanation isn't taken very seriously nowadays, the perplexing and often very frightening nature of the phenomenon leads many people to believe that there are supernatural forces at work - ghosts or demons. The experience is so frightening because the victims, although paralyzed, seem to have full use of their senses. In fact, it is often accompanied by strange smells, the sound of approaching footsteps, apparitions of weird shadows or glowing eyes, and the oppressive weight on the chest, making breathing difficult if not impossible. All of the body's senses are telling the victims that something real and unusual is happening to them. Rather than ghosts or demons, however, there is probably a scientific explanation: "sleep paralysis" or SP (sometimes ISP for "isolated sleep paralysis")."

[lilbfantasy]

ohhh i had this problem b4..and it was because of stress and a lack of sleep ...whenever i was "tooo tired" and tried to sleep it happens..man was i scared....my body was once paralyzed and couldnt move..and the worst part was that whatever i imagined at that moment..IT JUST COMES UP..such as LOUD SCREAMS and WIERD creatures...

SLEEP MORE!! and let go of ur anxiety! ..and if u still do experience it..try sleepin with a pillow on ur forehead..covering ur eyes..and stretch ur blankets up to ur ears..it helped me

AND if u were in the middle of this experience..try moving ur fingers..it wakes me up ...i always do that and it works most of the time

[mrs. pakman]

i used to get it AAALLLLL the time. don't trip. it's really common during adolesent years and usually it passes. i just wait it out. nothing to be scared of. but if it continues, you should talk to your doctor about sleeping habits and such.

[nanjiyoun]

it might be because you sleep weird.
thats what my friend said lol..
i got it before too
but it only lasted like 2-3 minutes?
because i wasnt scared
&i was like half concious[?] lol..
&&i prayed to God

so i think you should pray. or sleep right....?

[SUPERSTAR]

i had that happen to me a lot. but these days it doesn't. it is real, i'm not dreaming. bcuz it happened at my dorm during the day. i was awake and could see stuff but couldn't move or talk. i saw my roommate come in with her bf but i couldn't move or do anything. and one time i was dreaming then woke up in a gawee...so i was again laying there unable to move...i think that was my first one. i was trying to scream but i couldn't...i don't know why it happens though. it happens to me once in a while, it happened a lot last year. but i don't really get them now.

[obs3ssive]

My brother gets this sometimes too. From what I've learned in my psychology class, it's a completely normal thing that you don't have to worry about. I can see how it can freak you out a little though, but otherwise it's not the least bit harmful ^_-

[luvelyasian]

i used to get this daily too and now i get it once in a while. it's the worst feeling ever. i think it has to do with the devil-- i slept with a bible on my chest and it worked most of the time.. oro just try a pillow cuz that worked too.

i don't know how to get rid of it completely though

one question, do you not struggle when you're going through it? i struggle like crazy cuz i'm afraid something bad will happen if i don't.. but i've always been curious what would happen if i just relaxed...

does it pass on its own? and how long does it last? thanks

[lindoo]

Holy crap, I know some people who's had this happend to them once MAX. but they also saw some sort of creepy figure too.. but uhm, yeah, like everyone else said, DONT SLEEP ON YOUR BACK.

[Rinrinn]

omg, I can't believe I found this thread.

creepy experience. >___<
When I don't get enough sleep from time to time, this stuff happens to me.. most likely when I sleep on my back.
When it happens, I would get loud screaming noises in my ears & diffculty breathing. Of course, I sometimes feel that my body is feeling heavy.. like it's falling at a high speed towards the earth... and I start to hallucinate scary things. (and omg, it's really bad when it happened once after the night when I watched a japanese horror movie.) >_____<"""
And about the 'ghosts sitting on you' thing...
since I always hug a pillow when I sleep, I would also feel that 'something' is sitting on my chest... so I used to believe that there's 'something up' with the pillow...
but then I learned that this experience is normal and has nothing to do with ghosts or demons.
Therefore, to avoid this, you should maintain a healthy sleeping pattern (and get enough sleep). I still prefer sleeping on my side than on my back (although it may not be healthy).

[musical.memory]

i have that happen to
me alot. but then when
i not sleeping on my
back, then it just stops.
but i get it alot. it's a
scary experience. >.<
but yeah, don't sleep on
ur back. that just makes
things worst, kinda.

<3 Vivian

[peachesapples123]

Man, this sounds really scary...I don't want to ever experience it...X.x I did experience something that someone in this topic mentioned. I'm kind of sleeping, then my body twitches all of a sudden and I become fully awake but my heart is pounding...