[Khailyy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

"Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the bodily paralysis persists."


"Some reports read that various factors increase the likelihood of both paralysis and hallucinations. These include:[11]

* Sleeping in an upwards supine position
* Irregular sleeping schedules; naps, sleeping in, sleep deprivation
* Increased stress
* Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
* A lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode."

i have it happened to me once. it was so weird. i wasnt stressed, i didnt have any changes, it was just a regular night. i didn't have any bad dreams but something woke me up and when i opened my eyes i couldn't move at all. i remember not being able to breathe, or blink, or move at all. i was so scared, i just trying to call my mom or just scream but i couldn't. then i heard laughing. it was so creepy. it lasted about a min? a min and a half. it just just gone, i was still trying to scream and then poof, gone. i stayed awake after that. i didn't want to go back to sleep. in the morning i told my family and my aunt gave me this red thing with a lot of weird stuff inside. she told me to put it in my pillow case. i dont want to believe that a ghost or whatever was sitting on me, pinning me down but i just dont understand. ._. i do believe something might be in my house though. cause i'd get these random nosies at night. like chairs moving around midnight when everyone's sleeping, something going up the stairs, ect. .-.

[Srey Mao]

this has been done to me so many times.
the first time was SUPER freaky.
but then i got so used to it, i just attempt to go back to sleep.
i don't even care if i see something or i hear something,
i'm just like whatever and try to sleep again. haha, it's so normal now.

[asianpanthers]

this is interesting. what was quoted at the top of the page. there are multiple levels of sleep;

...all dreams are lucid. i've never had a dream that i didn't think was totally real...and lucid dreams preceding sleep paralysis? that makes perfect sense because when you're in the REM stage, you loose muscle tone. i guess if you have a sibling/room mate you can test to see if this is true, but if they are woken up in the first two stages of sleep, there is muscle tone and they'll just be thinking of every day things, etc. my recollection of this is fuzzy...though it shouldn't be. i was tested over this like a month ago =x

but the loss of muscle tone probably explains the sleep paralysis.

naturally, i choose to believe that this is the case over devils sitting on me or forcing me awake to possess my body...that and the idea that a shiv under my mattress will stop these occurrences.

but i DO remember being pretty frightened when i had this...just because it wasn't long after i watched the grudge =P so i screamed until i could produce a sound.

[lootiefOODIE]

lol. this happen to me like freaking 20 times!. haha. yeah i was awake i think. and my eyelids were nearly half open and i couldn't scream or say nothing. sometimes i get scare or i just go back to sleep haha but its weird. from what i heard ghost can sit on or lay on you so you can't move or sometimes breathe. some of my families member encounter this before. it freaks me out. lol.(i believe in ghost).

[HikariJung]

A lot of people in thailand get that.....
They say like a evil spirit/ghost is on top of you
So you're awake but you can't move.
You can't even wake your friends and they are never awake when you in that thing...
and you can't scream and stuff... I mean you can scream but no sound will come out.....
Then they tell you to go to the temple and pray and stuff.....

On the otherhand...... I think you should go to see a doctor.
That's the best way I think lolz.

[owlsgo]

my sleep paralysis have never really been that bad.
i didn't get any hallucinations or anything, but i'd still be scared.
i dont know, to me, it seems like you're looking through your soul? and not your physical eyes?

but my friends... hers is so... creepy.
she'll hear these high pitched noises calling out her name, and taunting her, telling her she's going to "come with them. and go to hell." and a LOT of laughter.

but these days, i get sleep paralysis like inside my dream. a dream within a dream sort of?

[DongBangBoys]

o0o I've had this before! I swear it was a ghost though. I suddenly woke up and my arm was on my other pillow far from me and I could feel someone holding onto my wrist but I couldn't move. My room was so black that I couldn't even see passed my elbow. I opened up my mouth to scream but nothing came out. I started to cry and tried to move my body as much as I could but I couldn't, it started getting darker and darker. I could see the darkness overwhelming me and then I closed my eyes and prayed and I was able to get up and my room was so bright after that with the moon shining in it. It was so odd. Ever since that I never slept in the dark and it stopped. -shrugs-

[domo_kun]

This happens to me so much, lol.
My whole body is paralyzed except for one pinky xD
I move it back and forth, and then slowly the rest of my body feels less constricted.
Just a couple a days ago, I could feel my heart feeling really tight for some reason, and then the rest of my body would not be able to move.
My mom says it happens sometimes when you lay on your arm against your heart when you sleep?
Like squishing so it feels tight...or something like that, haha, I've never really noticed though.

[xxdis0riental]

I used to have this A LOT when I was around to turning 16, and then all of a sudden it just stopped. God forbid I experience it again, but I've stopped having it ever since. I've experienced things such as seeing dark figures across my bed, but never to where they actually came in contact with me. Usually if I did see or hear things, I wouldn't become afraid because I was so lost and confused. It was like I was in a state of delirium.

But usually when I got it, it would usually be the loss of breath, paralyzed (obviously), but that's about it. I'll be fully awake, but I couldn't breath or move, so I'd try my best to move it, and control my breath so I don't panic and think I'm going to die. I'll usually panic at first, but eventually realize what I'm dealing with. I think around these times when it would happen, it would be associated with nightmares...I don't know if stress and/or lack of sleep contributed to it, but it probably did.

[SnookiePink]

I think I've had sleep paralysis once, it was either last year or the year before. I was lying in bed one night and absolutely everything in my room just froze; like I just lay there frozen, I couldn't move, I swear to God there was a ghost/spirit/whatever in my room...everything was just so intense. Definitely one of the scariest moments in my life.

[AppleLove]

Reviving an old topic..
But i just remembered a tip from an adult, to prevent, or reduce sleep paralysis, or ghosts coming near your bed for that matter.
Sleep with a knife under your mattress/bed.
Well, superstitiously, you can keep ghosts away and prevent/reduce SP, and you can also defend yourself, if someone decides to climb through your window one day, which is unlikely to happen, but is better to be safe than sorry.
hahahhha

[shubr0om]

i got that a few times. one time i was sleeping on my side, it seemed like i was awake but i can feel someone behind about to rape me.
lol. i sleep with an airsoft gun under my bed.

[Lindoodoo]

OHMYGOD I got this about a week ago for the first time.
T_T I wasn't dreaming at the moment, so no hallucinations for me.
Thank freaking god.

[v13tnammer]

hmm...i've never had it before...
it sounds scary >.<

[bashful_harmony]

Never had it before but dang, it freaking sounds scary ._.

[hopkins]

my friend said that you either get it when you are really weak with God or really strong with Him. Also, on alot of korean variety shows, celebrities experienced alot of this. One time, i forgot the star's name but she put a knife under her pillow, but the little ghost boy snatched it and ran away and before he left her room he was shaking it over his head to show her that he got it. ppl might think that would work, but for some ppl it might not. but just pray.

[hanilemon]

Ehh, I get these a few times a week. I started getting them last year and the first time was really scary, I thought I was going to die lol.

Its hard to breathe and I can barely move my fingers, everything else is paralyzed. I do get hallucinations.. like really scary noises and stuff. And as lame as it sounds I have to picture someone hugging/protecting me to calm myself down, or else i'd get really really really really frightened.

[whohungjen?]

i'm religious as well but it has nothing to do with superstitions or God
the reason why your body is paralyzed during the REM stage is because the mind is very active as it dreams
in order to prevent the body to follow along, the brain releases chemicals to weaken your muscles so that they cannot thrash around wildly
(people who thrash around wildly are dreaming in stage 4 of their sleep and are experiencing night terrors, they are NOT in REM)

yay i love psychology. it makes me feel so smart

[loversixteen]

I don't think I have this experienced this though, but one thing I want to tell you guys is, I actually know when's going to happen. Like if my body doesn't move, and when I'm thinking that someone is walking to my room, I started screaming or saying a bunch of words to myself and then I'll be fine. Sometimes, I just think that someone is there in my room, but I"m not quite sure (I just don't want to scare myself too much).

When people tell me to change rooms, I guess I have to do that because I always get nightmares (and I don't want to talk about it). Also, I always think there's something in my closet (thanks to the Grudge). I think I have LOTS of spirits roaming in my room. freaky.

and btw, I'm Christian too. I pray to God whenever I'm freaked out

[EchoOff]

i used to get this all the time
i heard that if you sleep on your side rather than your back, then it'll stop

yeah. and also.. i heard your fingers are the ones that are the easiest to move
when you're stuck in sleep paralysis. so as soon as you move your fingers, your body will acknowledge it.
or something like that.

point is, the next time you experience it, move your fingers first.