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Buzzzing

by eac
(Rhode Island)

When I was in college, I didn't know what was happening, was I abducted by aliens?

If I let the "buzzing" overtake me, I would be paralyzed and frightened. Sometimes I could fight it off by staying awake. Sometimes I would "wake" and be paralyzed. I finally somehow learned that if I just breathe and focus on breathing, I would fall asleep and wake up fine later.

Occasionally someone downstairs would hear me yell and ask what I was dreaming about the night before. How could I tell them that I was screaming and nothing was coming out? I was afraid to tell anyone, the next morning none of it seemed real. It was many years later that I heard the term "sleep paralysis" used, when discounting a "paranormal" experience that I recognized that this is indeed what happened.

It's only happened a handful of times since, college was a very stressful time, that may have affected me. Hope this description helps someone, I wish I had learned this 30 years ago!




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Dec 23, 2011
 Sleep Paralysis- Aliens NEW
by: Anonymous

Hi, your story sounds a little similar to mine. It also started during my first year of college and ended shortly after graduation. So i do believe it has to do with stress. (Better that, than any other scary reasons). I never heard a buzzing but i could sense/see aliens standing by my bed. These 'dreams' would always occur wherever i was sleeping in the waking life. Anyways it was really scary. I felt like they were going to experiment on me, and in other dreams I was being abducted. To break out of it i would have to move or sometimes i would pray in my mind and then i would wake up. I hope that these dreams never come back!
Feb 13, 2012
 the buzzing! NEW
by: kristin

yes! the buzzing...

holy crap yes that's exactly what happened to me. same thing, in college, I followed the buzzing in my ears for awhile and then it would take me over and I'd be paralyzed.

I believe now that we were practicing something akin to self-hypnosis.
Mar 24, 2012
 buzzing NEW
by: Jim

The buzzing was the most unique part of it. Whenever I would hear that sound begin I knew I was in big trouble. It was like the buzzing started quietly and got louder, and the louder I got the worse my terror got and the stronger the paralysis was. I would try to hurry up and wake up before it got too bad, but it seemed like the whole dream sort of sucked me into this helpless vortex of terror. I could not move. Something heavy was pressing me down or else I was myself extra heavy and sinking into the bed or somehow glued or stuck to it. My eyes could never open despite people who say they could, and even worse I could not breathe or scream, though I would try to do so and struggle to break free and wake up, but nothing helped. And the buzzing continued through this. Sometimes it would sound slightly different, like more menacing and sharper if I was on my back (the worse times) or lower and more mellow if I was on my stomach. Seemed that way the paralysis and buzzing were linked to a feeling of a heavy thick liquid substance moving from the back of my head down my back. Very freaky. I always thought I was dying and would die if I did not wake up.

And it was never about the dream I was having. Things would start to take on a nightmare tone, but once the paralysis happened it was all about that and the fear I felt. That was scarier than any thing happening in the dream. And you had to wake up fully when you finally did get up. Once I made the mistake of closing my eyes too soon and I found myself sucked back into the sleep paralysis and had to fight it all over again!

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