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I'm Stuck, I Can't Move, All I Can Do Is Make A Soft Noise

by Lanera Brown
(Philadelphia)

I'm presently twenty years of age and since as far back as I can remember whenever I would wake up from a good night's rest and fall back to sleep I would get stuck and not be able to move. I feel as if I am awake and can see everything but can't move any part of my body, just my eyes. I can't scream or talk all I can do is make a soft noise.


I hate the feeling so much. I try to pray to myself during these times and sometimes that works but not often. The only way I can come out of this is if I relax and lye there and after a while I'm able to kick which is the only way I can get up which is hard when I feel as if I can't move.

I have waken up and scared people in the room with me by kicking the wall or jumping up. Once a cousin of mine was in the bed with me and she heard me make the noise and woke me up. This was the best moment I've ever had during one of these times. Now she knows if she ever hears me doing that, to awake me.

I used to feel like I'm awake because there were times when I would ask the people who were in the room with me if they did certain things and I was correct. But recently I discovered sometimes I'm dreaming because I haven't been correct lately. It's the scariest feeling in the world.

Kevin: Hey Lanera, thanks for sharing this. Sleep paralysis can be incredibly crazy and frightening, but if you keep learning about it you'll be able to understand it better, and that can help a lot. In fact, this book by a man who's studied and experienced sleep paralysis for almost two decades, is full of strategies and stories about taking control of these episodes, using them as good experiences rather than very negative ones. I hope it helps.

All the best,
Kevin

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Feb 28, 2011
 :)
by: Anonymous

When this has happend to me, i say aprayer and try to relax, and but the scary thing for me is right before im able to getup i hear screaming in my ear! Sucks
May 31, 2011
 I'M STUCK AND CAN'T MOVE
by: Anonymous

THIS JUST HAPPEN TO ME ITS THE SCARIEST FEELIN EVER I PRAY TO GOD TO WAKE ME UP NA THE WORST THING ABOUT THAT I SEE AND HEAR PPL THAT IS ABNORMAL ITS SO SCARY AND I WONNA KNOW WHATS THE MEANNING OF THIS
Jul 07, 2011
 remedy
by: Anonymous

don't sleep immediately before previous sleep, or only sllep at night and not in the afternoon..... this has worked for me.
Jul 21, 2011
 THIS IS IMPORTANT
by: Anonymous

it is actually the paranormal as when i was around ten my brother did alot of witch craft and ever since then i have always been frozenen bed and can't move i asked my brother what it was and he tried to change the subject but one night when me and my bro were home alone he went to bed then i heard some wird noises and went to my brothers room and saw his face with terror then he looked like in pain but he managed to call out to the moon goddess, (trust me i now believe in the gods and stuff now cause of this)he told me what it was and how to overcome it, its from a ghost trying to possess you and if you ever have a fit after BLESS YOUR HOUSE as it is actually powerfull enough to control you. to prevent this is to pretend that nothing is there if you hear tapping just calm down and DONT BE SCARED THE SPIRIT WILL JUST GET STRONGER they feed off of negative energy which is anger depression and other emotions like those always be happy
Sep 11, 2011
 Stuck in your sleep?
by: Anonymous

I don't know if you ever noticed but you can move your neck. What you do is, move your face to your chest and bite. Of course you will not bite yourself but you will bite the entity that is doing this to you. You will actually feel it unravel and leave you only to never return. It worked for me and I have been free from it ever since. Try it and let me know.
Sep 23, 2011
 help
by: Anonymous

I’m 16 and this happened to me four times am starting to freak out because everytime i try to move and open my eyes i see this ugly big person next to my head of by my side and I can hear that person laughing at me when I’m trying to pray. I try to call my mum but I can’t talk and once when that person was laughing at me my brother was getting out of his room and was calling me by the moment he came in my room my eyes was already open and he told me that he thought I was sleeping I was terrified
Oct 06, 2011
 Happen to me
by: Anonymous

i don't know if its sleep paralysis or paranormal but when this started with me i was a teen and played with the ouija board, i never played with it after but at times,when it would start i can only move my fingers and toes , i try with all my might to move and scream for help after a min. i brake free, that's all you can do. it happens most when i am about to fall asleep.
Nov 09, 2011
 ya its not fun
by: Anonymous

ya this sucks I hate it to, sometimes I'm like half awake and or asleep don't really know and I get awaken by a loud growl it doesn't really happen anymore but that was worse than when I get stuck sleeping and can't move. I experimented and realized alcohol before bed was making me freeze awake stuck a lot, and sometimes I would get that feeling in short dreams that were mildly frightening. Then I just wake up dehydrated. It hasn't been happening lately as I drink a lot of water when I'm done drinking, and It doesn't happen at all if I don't drink so that is good.

It happened a lot when I used my temperpedic because that bed traps heat like no other and makes you feel gross so I think it only happens when I am uncomfortable for some reason.
Dec 03, 2011
 i have this same problem
by: Anonymous

i have had this same problem for over a year now happens quite often to the point where i aint really scared of it no more i just hate it coz it messes my sleep up -.-. let me tell you what this really is. when this happens dont you feel the shivers and feel cold? can you feel the coldness moving around you? this is not a problem that is caused by your body. its called a JINN they are unseen or as you would call them ghosts but they can show themselves if they want. i was really afraid of it at first but iv started practising my religion more (islam) and praying and now when they come all i do is ask god for help and they let go of me immediatly.
Apr 04, 2012
 Methods and Reflecting
by: Tim

This happens to me a lot. The more I try and move the harder it is for me to breathe and always feel like someone or something is coming after me and i dont have enough time to snap out. Panic is always the first reaction when I go through this. But then I control my breathing as much as i can while in this state. This way I could get enough concentration to perform a snap or a "kick" (much like they do in Inception) to wake me up. I used to try and whisper or murmur out, but it's not very affective as people often see people talk in their sleep. The first thing that people react to when I go through this is they say I breathe like Im preparing for a run. My best suggestion is when this happens next.. find out what time it happened, remember the time u slept, and try and study a pattern . Mine often came from drinking late at night and crashing after a long long week. This is the same reason I dont drink much anymore. Once you notice a pattern, try and change that thing you know is unhealthy out of that and chances are this is what the issue is. Usually people that i know that go through this are athletes, artists, etc during the weekdays and professional binge drinkers on the weekends.. i hope you find your root for this. It's not the best feeling in the world I know but I've been having these since I was a teenager and I've learned to build my own methods of fighting it.
May 31, 2012
 Grandma Said
by: Anonymous

I am 49 Years old and this has been happening to me since childhood. my Grandmother told me it was because of poor circulation, and to wiggle my big toe to come out of it. Strangely enough for the most part it still works . Go figure
Aug 16, 2012
 Me too
by: Anonymous

Hy! I'm lora, I'm almost 16 and it happen to me too, since I'm at junior high. It was the worst feeling ever. Everytime I took a nap it always happened, I'm stuck at my bed an ant breath or move, I try to wake up but it was the hardest, the worst part is that after I awaken I felt so sleepy than ever, and then suddenly I can't move again then I realIze that I've already fallen asleep again, it scared me. Not just that, everytime it happened I always knew that I was asleep but I can't see and hear everything, well not always, but it terrified me
Aug 19, 2012
 just this morning
by: amos

I have jut had another session of that ordeal right this morning and the same hillsong song that was playing on my pc was the same one when i snapped out of the condition...this is a very unpleasant situation to be in but before i got in it i dreamt of a man going up a flight of stairs that was actually pointing down.in other words he was walking into the stairs' concrete..
Aug 21, 2012
 why does this happen?
by: Anonymous

Karate
Sep 10, 2012
 nightmare
by: Anonymous

it happens to me often.. i thought i was having an astral projection. it scares me a lot. sometimes after waking up from this nightmare another episode occur again. ITS SO HARD TO FIGHT IT and sometimes i want to let it out and die. LOL
Sep 28, 2012
 Scared
by: Blah

Happens to me as well. Has been for years. It wouldnt be as bad if every time it happened it was somewhere else besides my bedroom. But every single time I "dream" that I am lying in my bed, I see shadows, I feel some presence, sometime I feel weight on me, sometime I fight it and fall off my bed onto the floor. That is what scares me the most. If i dreamt I was outside, anywhere, but it is at home everytime, which makes me wonder if it was a dream at all. I used to work night shifts and sleeping during the day. I remember sleeping in the bed and feeling someone lye down next to me, I assumed my bf came home for lunch to take a nap. However, he said he did not come home for lunch. Basically I drove myself to a point to where i'm terrified of darkness and falling asleep now, I'll stay up till I cant function anymore and go to sleep after the sun comes up. I went to the doctor telling her i cant sleep at night and sleep till noon or later, she sarcastically asked me I have tried waking up at 7am like normal people do, which now also made me selfconsious about bringing up the problem. She gave me anxiety meds which did absolutely nothing, i took them for a week, threw away the rest and never took them since. I have actually found that drinking myself to sleep eases the fear, but I cant make myself drink every night. Its depressing.
Oct 04, 2012
 idk wat to say
by: kamuda

this happen to me when i was reading the bible and history books alot... i reali didnt like when pesons where screaming my name and lions roaring in my ears.. but wat i do know is the more u try to get up it gets harder to move an u get tired quickly and uand the more i tried to get up the sreams get louder very unbearable... i was scared and am not scared easily
Oct 05, 2012
 just happened today for the first time
by: Anonymous

So I'm lying in bed right arm fully extened and left arm across my chest and legs straight out. I start getting these feelings that I can't move and pressure on my right arm like someones next to me sleeping on it. At first I thought it was my brother so I try to say his name to move and why isnt he in school then I realized I can't move my neck to see who it is. So I start to panic then the "person" moved and the pressure is lifted. It starts walking towards the door which is right in front of me but I don't see anything but I hear the foot step by the way the house is old so cricky floors. He walks and then he goes into the hallway but without opening the door but I hear it walking away then I move again. Weird I must say I heard the garbage truck passing children going to school and see the sunshine through my window. I started to think paranormal but its not and its a disorder. I'm calm and happy to know what it is thank you for posting.
Oct 23, 2012
 Not a once in a while thing... or even just once a night
by: Anonymous

I keep reading people saying that you canmove your neck and certain things to do to snap out of it but in my case i cant move anything. When i try to close my eyes and wait for it to pass all the noises just get louder and i feel the hold on me is stronger. Its been happening a long time and it seems lately ive tried fightinf it more and its just been happening more. This happends to me muliple times throughout the day abd night now..Wether i rest my head or are sitting up i can feel it like a wave course through my body into my head and i get light headed. For the last few weeks it happends so many times within 10-15 minutes that i get horrible headaches im dozzy and almost feel drunk.
Nov 01, 2012
 Weight holding me down
by: Anonymous

I had this 2 nights ago. I was dreaming I was in bed but I truly felt weight on top of me. I tried to call out for help but I could not move or yell. I woke up with my husband shaking me, I had been doing a soft moaning, almost like a soft cry. Never had this before and hope I never have it again - it was very unnerving!
Nov 05, 2012
 A Little Crazy
by: Anonymous

I find this happens to me a lot; however, sometimes it's because I'm dreaming, while sometimes I know I'm awake and experiencing sleep paralysis. Lately it's been especially strange because I've been experiencing episodes where I'm laying in bed and fall asleep, but dream I'm falling into a sleep paralysis. Some of these times I know I'm dreaming and I'm aware during the dream that it is such, So I just have to struggle as if it were a real episode until I wake up. The problem is it seems like it has been every time I fall asleep lately. It's a little unnerving because my entire life I've never had a dream where I was aware it was a dream before, but now I'll find myself in a strange place struggling to move when I know I was just in my bed so it's a tip off that it's a dream, but my entire life I've had ridiculous dreams that seemed perfectly plausible while dreaming. I guess lately it's a little hard to keep track of reality when I'm first waking up.
Nov 25, 2012
 Ghosts
by: Anonymous

You are being possessed. Call a priest or any religious person. Hope I helped!
Dec 03, 2012
 Try this.
by: Anonymous

This used to happen to me. Hasn't in years, I'm currently 25. But when it did, the way I'd wake up is close my eyes really tight and hard. When I'd open them slowly it would be me opening them awake. I can use this technique anytime I'm having a nightmare or anything else. But I learned it from what you're experiencing. Give it a shot.
Dec 22, 2012
 I am a victim too
by: Anonymous

It also happened to me this afternoon and it happens almost evrytime i sleep no matter the time of the day. Normally when it happens I feel this sudden atiffness through out my whole body and it hurts. I also see people that are not there! Like today I saw my sister walk into the room that I fell asleep in. At first I heard the footsteps then i got scared and the stiffness got worse and more painfull. then she walked into the room and I started breathing heavily so she can see that I am stuck in my sleep but she wasnt actually there! I broke out of it by wiggling my toes but that felt like forever. sometimes i feel it as it is about to come over me and make sudden movements then it goes away< sometimes im just not that quick. This has been bothering me for about 3 years now and I would rily like for it to stop. If there is an answer or some sort of treatment or cure for this< the people who have it should please share with us because I end up not being able to sleep at all because of this and I always thought it happens to me only
Jan 01, 2013
 I've had this way to many times.
by: Zachary Johnson-Yeates

Yes. Some of you can't move, you can see about 80% right? You hearing is good for you can hear the tv or others well you can also barley move. I have many of these dreams. Sometime I hear a person screaming really loud. A devil-like soul hurting scream. But I ignore those. Also many of you mayfeel actual pain. They say you don't feel pain in dreams. Well guess what? This isn't a dream.. I know. Then you "wake up" and have a weird energetic and a light headache feeling but just barely there. Yep. I know. Haha these last for only mins but seem to last hours. Many times you wake up unusually hot. Yes. I've learned after dozens of these ways to not have them. Its to get on a sleeping schedual. You know. Sleep at 10 p.m. wake up at 7 a.m and wakeing up is inportant to not hit the snooze. Just start your day. If you da that I promise you won't have any more because your body will adapt and get used to it. There for the switch in your head eliminates the "inbetween" stage. Either off or on. Hope this helped :) for any info on sleeping, lusic, astro projection, or just life help. Message me on facebook. Zachary Johnson Yeates
Jan 02, 2013
 Shadows of Darkness
by: Ashlyn

If you know me, I NEVER sleep with the door closed and the lights out. I did this once since I fell asleep in the day time. I woke up at night, but was too tired to get up and open the door. BIG MISTAKE! I fell asleep and woke up staring at the door... There was a shadow. It was groaning and getting closer, mind you, the door is 5 feet from my pillow, TOPS! I was crying but couldn't move or scream. I pit my lip so hard it bled and woke up with blood on my lips. I shot out of bed and opened the door. Last time I fall asleep with the door closed and no lights.. even in the daytime....
Jan 06, 2013
 Anxiety and Panic Attacks
by: Tonya

So basically this happens to me less often than it used it to. It started when i was a child, probably around the time my parents got divorced. It took a while for me to figure out what was happening because i wouldn't ask anyone about it. anyways, when i finally figured it out it made sense. Anxiety attacks. They happen to most people who have anxiety when they are awake, but they can happen when you are asleep too. i believe these during sleep anxiety attacks could also be defined as night terrors.
now, some of you have stated praying helps (sometimes) this can be for a couple of reasons (so all of you skeptics/non-believes and those who hold faith continue to reading) praying is one of two things, something that works supernaturally because there really is a god, or something that works subconsciously because it calms you.
trying to wait for it to pass can work because anxiety usually (and i mean USUALLY) passes once you can calm yourself down.
Jan 18, 2013
 damn
by: melissa

Yea i just woke up for the second time i was layin on my right side and all of a sudden i felt diz nolt in my body but my eyes were close the second time n i felt like my breathing paused n i got hot n i tried to wake up n it took me a min but i was shaken then woke up finally but shaken and had a scary feeling i dnt knw wat this means but i felt like i was going to die ......this always happens to me I'm scared
Jan 25, 2013
 i shouldnt be scared
by: Anonymous

I really don't know were to start....I'm only 16 years old but thi has been happening me since I can remember I every time I'm half at sleep I can't move nd I feel something on top of me I can move or talk I try to scream but I start losing my breath ..this has been going on for years I'm almost use to it already but this morning something really scared me this time I could hear a women whispering next to me and I t wouldn't go away even when I start it praying.. I NEED HELP PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME I need answers ...when I was 9 I felt the same this but I had my eyes open it was about 5 am nd I saw a black shadow standing in front of my bed nd it only when away when I start it praying that's when I was able to brake free after that I was terrified of going to sleep
Jan 31, 2013
 Its a demon/ghost
by: Anonymous

The thing is dark and heavy. It immobolises you. You can't talk or move. Its a spirit. The thing fades any time you mention Jesus even in your mind cause your mouth is held. Pray before going to bed it has worked for me. Also if it happens don't be afraid to rebuke it openly and tell it you know what it is. Demons hear.
Jan 31, 2013
 Cant move and speak and see ghost
by: Anon 17

Hey im 17 years old and the same thing happend to me a couple of minutes ago i couldnt move and speak but when i was a able to move i ran to my brothers room and there was a dog guarding the stairs as if it didnt want me to go through but the dog was quiet and i decided to run past the dog but instead i went through it like a ghost and then i woke up is that normal am i the only one who has experienced this please could i get response Asap!
Feb 02, 2013
 Shivers and Flashes
by: Jon

Hi, It is currently 3:45am and I am new here. I have recently been having the same problems as many of these people. When I awoke, I could not move around nor yelp for attention. I am growing weary of this. I hear something high pitch usually when I awake scared or having an extremely vivid dream. I have only slept for about an hour and I have been up for about 15min and i am still have shivers--scratch that, it just went away(I will keep a table of how long these occur). I will post more about this later.
Feb 05, 2013
 sp is my worst fear
by: daisy

I get sp alot but its weird because the demons or spirits try to have sex with me but i cant move or scream and they are always touching me and sticking there dirty toungs in my ears and mouth. Very scary and annoying it takes soo much energy to actually make your self wake up from sp. But the only thing that really works is praying to god.
Feb 05, 2013
 Hmmm
by: Anonymous

This happens to me every night...sometimes it happens 4 maybe five times in a row. When this does happen i say to myself not again and i pray to god then i wake up.....sometimes after i wake up if there is anything there i tell it to leave me alone or go away i got work in the morning and it stops
Apr 03, 2013
 so scared
by: Patricia

I'm so tired and so scared I can't do this anymore this is scary feeling I'm a single mom with 3 kids I'm so scaryed one day im not going to be able to bring myself out of this sleeping thing i can see and hear everything ive had this since I was very little this happens every night like 4 to 7 times a night how can i make this stop i will do anything there has to be a way if it wasn't for my kids i think i wouldd of killed myself a long time ago i dont want to die but i cant even take care of my kids the right way with this sleeping thing im so sleep and so afaide to slee what can i do
Apr 28, 2013
 Ugh!
by: Anonymous

I really don't know what it is but over the years I ve just learn how to,stay calm till I can move again most of the time I am only able to control my thoughts so I sing and have conversations with myself yea talk to my self I can actually hear things goin on around me and at first I use to think that my eyes were open an I saw thing but I didn't it was just old images from my brain now I just listen to try hear familiar sound to give myself a time of how long I'm experiencing this it very scary cus the older I get the more frequent it occurs wondering if its poor circulation what's goin on to disrupt my circulation so while I am sleep now I gotta look up what cause poor circulation but my foot did fill lil stiff an who most time I think I just might be about to slip on to a coma or som ugh this just terrible if anyone finds out more bout this please post
Apr 28, 2013
 Ugh!
by: Anonymous

I really don't know what it is but over the years I ve just learn how to,stay calm till I can move again most of the time I am only able to control my thoughts so I sing and have conversations with myself yea talk to my self I can actually hear things goin on around me and at first I use to think that my eyes were open an I saw thing but I didn't it was just old images from my brain now I just listen to try hear familiar sound to give myself a time of how long I'm experiencing this it very scary cus the older I get the more frequent it occurs wondering if its poor circulation what's goin on to disrupt my circulation so while I am sleep now I gotta look up what cause poor circulation but my foot did fill lil stiff an who most time I think I just might be about to slip on to a coma or som ugh this just terrible if anyone finds out more bout this please post
Jun 21, 2013
 I call them night terrors
by: Baggy

I didn't realise this was so common, I'm 44 now and have had many of these over the years. Mine start of with a heavy oppressive feeling, this part is harder to explain even though the room is dark it gets even darker then I get the weight on my chest and can't move, I'm trying to shout out nod scream but can't my breathing feels loud and heavy and is a struggle. It's scary as hell, I try to calm myself and make myself relax, I sometimes speak to it and say 'I'm too tired, go way' would you believe this has actually worked, catch it quick though before it REALLy kicks in and gets a hold. I've had it with my hubby lying next to me..he says I don't move to make a sound! My mum had this too, I remember her telling me about a similar dream where she was trying to kick, scream but no one came to help her, Dad was lying next to her at the time. At least now I know what it is now
Jun 21, 2013
 I call them night terrors
by: Baggy

I didn't realise this was so common, I'm 44 now and have had many of these over the years. Mine start of with a heavy oppressive feeling, this part is harder to explain even though the room is dark it gets even darker then I get the weight on my chest and can't move, I'm trying to shout out nod scream but can't my breathing feels loud and heavy and is a struggle. It's scary as hell, I try to calm myself and make myself relax, I sometimes speak to it and say 'I'm too tired, go way' would you believe this has actually worked, catch it quick though before it REALLy kicks in and gets a hold. I've had it with my hubby lying next to me..he says I don't move to make a sound! My mum had this too, I remember her telling me about a similar dream where she was trying to kick, scream but no one came to help her, Dad was lying next to her at the time. At least now I know what it is now
Jun 22, 2013
 THIS HAPPENS TO ME A LOT
by: nearfar

That happened to me, when i went to sleep tired, after a few hours, my eyes, were so heavy, and it opened, i want to close it down, but i saw a man in white, and told me repeatedly "just sleep" i panicked, i cant move my body, my body is numb, and all i want to do is scream, but i cant. I struggled, and find myself as if i broke free and stood up touching the floor, but in reality i was there in the bed still struggling, i repeated it until i can move freely. i was scared.
Jun 30, 2013
 its scary
by: Anonymous

This has only happened to me twice. Both times it felt like I was stuck in my dream but I could see my bedroom it just looked distorted and no matter how hard I tried I could not move. There was also always a figure in the corner of my room I am pretty sure it was a man but it was scary, not a friendly.
Jul 07, 2013
 Sleep disorder
by: Anonymous

It has something to do with your brain growing. Like most muscles, after a workout, they expand in size while your resting. This should subside by the time you reach your early 30's. The neurons in your brain will make most of there permanent connections by this time and you will begin to sleep a solid eight hours without interruptions.
Jul 14, 2013
 Not alone 2
by: Anonymous

Well it does have to do with stress yes. I have insomnia for most part and nerve damage in my spinal cord and main nerves that come off. Spine fused 4 levels and 3 artificial disc. Scoliosis as well. My nerves just don't function properly awake or asleep. Causing pain and paralysis causing sleep deprivation hence causing the panic episodes when wake and can't move. Lack of sleep can eventually tear our brain down. When I say lack of sleep I am talking maximum sleep 2 hours nite interrupted. No sleep rest of day. This is year 2 for me. Last bout was worse over a month. Finally slept 4 hours no interruptions heard nothing.
Jul 24, 2013
 samethng
by: Anonymous

hi am am only 13 and this happend to me four times in on night .It felt like if someone was there and it was sitting on top of me.I could open my eyes but i cant talk and can hardly breath .and my brother was sleeping across from me and i tried to call his name but he was not hearing me the next morning when my father was going to drop me to school i told him and he look at me and told me just say Jesus free me and t5he same night it happend again and i said Jesus free me and it worked
Aug 02, 2013
 Over thinking?
by: Anonymous

I'm 18 years old, I've had this happen once before. I couldn't move, talk or anything. I felt like there was a evil spirit holding me down. Mentally I was screaming for my boyfriend to wake me up, but I couldn't get anything out. Finally I got myself to wake up almost gasping for air cause I was so terrified. Then about an hour ago, it happened again. I have anxiety, and cannot watch scary movies. Of course I watched one a few nights ago, and my biggest fear is being taken over by a demon. I kept seeing this face in my dream that was destorted and I just tried and tried waking myself up. Trying to pray. I don't know if this is demonic or I'm just over thinking about that movie and letting it get to me. It was the scariest thing I've ever had happen to me.
Aug 04, 2013
 Astral Projection
by: Dyl

This happens occasionaly to me it use to frighten me. I once had a dream someone was pushing down on my forehead making me paralyzed, when I woke up it still felt that way. What made this time different was that my eyes were open while I couldn't move. There was like a black shadow/mist hovering above me. When I broke free it looked like it hit the wall and went along the wall and out the window. Ive read that this might actually be the beginning stages of astral travel. The next time it happened I tried to get up and walk around. I managed to fall next to my bed. Then the though of monster under the bed made me panic and I woke up where I fell asleep. In the stuff I read it said that fear is the only thing stopping us from leaving our bodies and reaching limitless potential. Its also very dark near u when it starts, apparently if u can get away from ur body it start to become brighter
Aug 14, 2013
 Paralyzed body
by: Anonymous

Im commenting here as I just 5 mins ago had a night terror, I don't have them often but when I do- they all seem to disable me in the same way!! I always am dreaming that I have been to sleep & something or mainly someone has woken me. This person is someone I am scared of, I cant open my eyes as they are too heavy and my legs won't work, my voice is really soft and my arms are very jelly like, its like my body is still asleep but my mind isn't & I know im in trouble but theres nothing I can do. I generally wake seconds later feeling very disorientated and Sluggish !!
Everytime I have this dream, it will be in the exact place I have fallen asleep, so if its my bedroom, I dream that I have woken to someone in there, or if I've fallen asleep on the couch I dream I have woken to someone there!! This happens a couple of times a month!! There surely must be a reason to this....
Aug 26, 2013
 you all are wrong.
by: Anonymous

i am sorry to say but everyone who is saying its "ghosts" or "paranormal" activity is wrong. If you actually researched what it is, its this. When your body falls asleep, your brain releases a hormone that goes through your muscles to put them to sleep. It basically paralyzes you. If your the type of person who dreams when having naps, then that means your body skips the non REM sleep and immediately goes to REM sleep to make you dream. When this happens and you wake up, the hormones are still in your system so the affects of them are still there but will only last a short while. so while your brain is awake, your body is basically still asleep. its nothing paranormal or something actually wrong with you. its perfectly normal. A quick overview - when you sleep, your brain releases hormones to make your body sleep. You wake up during REM and your body is still asleep. Goodbye.
Sep 09, 2013
 HELP
by: Anonymous

this just happened to my bf last night, he was able to scratch my leg just hard enough to wake me up and whe n i tried to wake him he wouldnt so of course i freaked out and turned the lights on, he had a boner and when i lifted the blnkets he climaexed all over but it was blood he finally woke up and said it felt evil like a dark spirirtwas forcing him to ejaculate with rough hands and claws. he said it was awful were going to the hospital now but im just trying to get any info if anyones had this experience before he said he was so terrofying and even tho it was dark he could still see something darker over him like sitting on him were both so freaked out we dont even know how to explain this to a dr without sounding crazy, it wasnt an average wet dream this was something else he had all the symptoms everyone else is saying except the spirit was swxual with him, someone please help he was basically raped by something evil!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP WITH ANH ONGO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST ASAP!
Sep 15, 2013
 Nothing Supernatural About It
by: GodChaser

Most of us who experience this phenomenon probably have very active imaginations. I'm not saying this is all in our heads. I am saying we dream very vivid dreams - something I have done my whole life, and I am 44. If you research sleep and dreams, you will find that there is a certain amount of paralysis that occurs during sleep to keep you from injuring yourself while you're dreaming. What we are most likely experiencing is simply a dream that seems very real because of our active imagination, but we are not deep enough in our sleep that we are oblivious to our surroundings. Therefore, we are conscious enough to realize we are (naturally) paralyzed, but we are asleep enough that we do not realize we are sleeping. It is all a natural occurence - nothing supernatural.
Sep 15, 2013
 Nothing Supernatural About It
by: GodChaser

Most of us who experience this phenomenon probably have very active imaginations. I'm not saying this is all in our heads. I am saying we dream very vivid dreams - something I have done my whole life, and I am 44. If you research sleep and dreams, you will find that there is a certain amount of paralysis that occurs during sleep to keep you from injuring yourself while you're dreaming. What we are most likely experiencing is simply a dream that seems very real because of our active imagination, but we are not deep enough in our sleep that we are oblivious to our surroundings. Therefore, we are conscious enough to realize we are (naturally) paralyzed, but we are asleep enough that we do not realize we are sleeping. It is all a natural occurence - nothing supernatural.
Sep 15, 2013
 Nothing Supernatural About It
by: GodChaser

Most of us who experience this phenomenon probably have very active imaginations. I'm not saying this is all in our heads. I am saying we dream very vivid dreams - something I have done my whole life, and I am 44. If you research sleep and dreams, you will find that there is a certain amount of paralysis that occurs during sleep to keep you from injuring yourself while you're dreaming. What we are most likely experiencing is simply a dream that seems very real because of our active imagination, but we are not deep enough in our sleep that we are oblivious to our surroundings. Therefore, we are conscious enough to realize we are (naturally) paralyzed, but we are asleep enough that we do not realize we are sleeping. It is all a natural occurence - nothing supernatural.
Oct 04, 2013
 Scariest experience ever.
by: Charlotte

I'm 20 years old, I have problems with sleep anyway but this ha stopped me over the edge tonight... My eyes are open, I can't move.. Can't make a noise can't do nothing it feels like I'm falling but I'm not, I couldn't wake my partner to get him to help me because I couldn't move I was so scared. This is the first time this evr happened any suggestions how to handle this?
Oct 06, 2013
 Scary
by: SleepParalysis

It is called Sleep Paralysis, half awake and half asleep.... well u can look up sleep paralysis and read all about it, but if u do have this alot i will say that isn't a good idea... it could make it even scarier..

I have had this 2 times, when i was stressed after school and fell aslepp.

If u have felt that someone is standing behind you, like i felt and comes closer, closer and then it stabbes you in the chest(and hurts like hell) the only thing you can do is to fight it with your mind.
Believe that you are strong enaugh to wake up!

I hope no one felt it as strong as i did!..
Oct 10, 2013
 very scary thing to experience
by: Pinay

first of all im glad that im not the only one who experienced this, but of course I feel sad for us guys cause I know how frightening and crazy it is.. 1st time I experienced this, Is I really cant move, but I can see everything and hear everything .. I saw someone standing on my door, and I can see his eyes is red and I can hear him laughing at me , I panic a lot and it tears me.. but when I closed my eyes and relax I can finally move .. and I believe aying and praying to God will help ..

I don't know why we experienced this kind of shit, but I will always pray for us ..
Oct 24, 2013
 wow
by: ken adams

It use to happen to me but I've grown out of it a long time ago. I don't know what it was but I'm sure it's not a demon!! It would happen to me after I had a good night sleep and try to take a nap before bed time. You will grow out of it. Don't be afraid.
Oct 31, 2013
 The matrix is real
by: Anonymous

they torture you because they don't like competition. you will be the one to free your thought and mind remember. this universe is made out of energy, and the ET is for another demission, the real world. never be a slave to the system. this is a clue, Jesus use a avatar body to show man the way the flesh is weak. in the beginning man created his own image a i his superior
Nov 08, 2013
 I'm Stuck, I can't move
by: Melina

I had all the same experiences for years since I was a little girl, am in my 30's now and I started taking Melatonin 30 minutes before I sleep and has not happened to me since.
Nov 16, 2013
 This is not a Disorder or Religious thing!
by: Anonymous

This is perfectly normal, because when you sleep you dream and sometimes you have lucid dreams(being able to know you're dreaming in your sleep)which can often cause your brain to think you're awake. You wake up, you can't move and sometimes you see a black figure approaching you. All you can do is go to sleep, knowing this is perfectly normal. P.S go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSX51xBkos for more information.
Nov 20, 2013
 it used to happen to me
by: Anonymous

its been 2 years since the last experience . i was suffering with these moments often .i felt frozen , could hear and see ,couldnt talk ,coudnt move ,and felt a strong force pushing me down . always in my room on my bed? it scared me alot. my boyfriend was there and i had warned him of this.when it happened i tried to scream out and was able to manage a soft scream and move my hands infront of my face using my full strength . he said he could not hear me at all but said that he did see my hands move?? i also struggled to breath.Things i feel contributed to this was: i had depression, was mentally weak.
Eventually,i ended up taking drugs,was set up by the boyfriend and sent to jail as a result of something i didnt have anything to do with.(surrounded by evil)lost my kids and life a total mess. definately happens when i was vulnerable and was being victimised in life.happened 2-3 times a day . hasnt happened since i have recovered from depression , drugs , and the effects of the negative experiences .GOD has given me strength, there fore i feel strongly it was something evil. not meaning the person is evil , rather they are being taken advantage of by the evil . i suggest doing all you can rise above any negativity. if there are things bothering you , adress it , you cant ignore it . you will find this will help you to process the issue and move on from it .If you hold onto things eventually you will become weakened,vulnerable and can become victim to this kind of thing.
Dec 01, 2013
 Hate it so much
by: Anonymous

This happens to me and I can't move any part of my body it's scary sometimes I couldn't breathe and when I wake up I would breathe heavily but when I could breathe in my sleep I would hyperventilate it's scary because it's been happening since i was 13 I'm 18 now and most of the time it would happen there's nobody in the room to wake me up I hate it and wish it would go away it kinda makes you feel like you're paralyised
Dec 05, 2013
 Anyone??
by: Anonymous

Does anyone else pray during the dream and feel even more pressure? Like as soon as you mention God the pressure becomes even more intense? Like whatever it is that's making you feel this way gets mad? Their was this one time it was happening and I started praying the Our Father prayer. As soon as I recited the first line,I felt like I was being attacked or something. Like it didn't want me to pray. I find that extremely scary.
Dec 14, 2013
 This May Help
by: Anonymous

Make sure your hands are not on your chest. Dont give pressure on your chest while sleeping. Avoid putting hands on your chest. Nd If you are Paralysed in your Sleep just try to open your eyes forcefully. If it doesnt open on first attempt. Try some more Attempts. Relax and then go to sleep. Worked for me :)
Dec 30, 2013
 scared
by: Anonymous

I am relieved to know I'm not alone in these happening. Even though it sucks. Iv had these things happen to me many times usually it is just me being held down, being shaken and hearing voices. But I have been lifted off my bed as if I'm hovering I can always see but can never move. I have always been aware of the spirit world since my childhood. Its very scary and I would like to know more of why this happens to me.
Dec 31, 2013
 cant move or wake up
by: Anonymous

I have had this since I was 7 years old I'm 33 and this thing won't let me sleep world starts spinning right when its going to attack me then I can see my soul moving from my body like something trying to take it for a few minutes then I fight with it or I pray or cuss at but I still can't find the cure but the good thing I'm not alone a lot of people have the same problem so Fuck you satin!
Jan 07, 2014
 this is scary
by: brandy

I have the same problem and its crazy and scary but when i ask my mom questions or my friends they look at me like im crazy idk what to i just hate when it happens to me they dont happen much just every now and then. I hppe this cant harm anyone or myself that has this problem thank you.....
Jan 11, 2014
 Common
by: Elijah

This used to happen to me a lot about 3 years ago, then it stopped, and one day I decided to learn about it. I can now sort of control it. It can be scary as it can cause hallucinations, or spirits? Which ever you prefer, My belief is that you are aware but on a on another level and that is what causes spirits. I used to pray in the name of Jesus but i found that YHW works best, but you have to use authority and speak to it. Now one experience I can remember that scared the poop out of me was: once i awoke (at least i felt like I did) and felt something moving around the room, in my closet, and by the window, i tried to make a move however it came at me, pressed down its weight on me, it grabbed by head and turn it slightly as my head was already turned and started speaking to me in some language i didn't know but kept repeating the same line over and over again till i finally was able to muttered 'in YHW's name leave' name and it screamed and left. woke up told my mom and we prayed as she had just dreamed something also. Weird, yes...scary, yes...but we have a god who saves.
Jan 12, 2014
 had these few times
by: Anonymous

1st time this happened i was 14 and living w/ girls at grouphome. i remember not being able to breathe and i swear it was demons pulling me down.. or holding me. my roomate said i woke up & screamed out 'Rachel' .(i didnt no who that was or why i said it,.). i had these happen at least 3 more times im now 29.. but no evil stuff visual but just same being 'held down' feeling, cant breathe, cant move or shout just soft whimpers,(soft noises.) only thing i can do is kicks and punches til i wake myself. it is a trip. also when i dream about fighting someone, in my dream, i dont make contact w/person ill swing & ill miss or the punch is incredibly soft. i feel helpless..;;

i can feel wen i just entered that, whatever it is, ill be going to bed but sum reason ill be half awake, frozen, uncomfortable feeling suffocation, so i began the kicks n punches again...til i wake myself up.. my little 5y/o was next to me she got scared seeing me sleeping and kicking n 'wimpering' she woke me ;)
Mar 04, 2014
 here's what to do
by: Anonymous

if you cant move your body try to move your toes and its gonna be easy to wake up, that happens to me almost every night. and my grandma said stop drinking alcohol coz it might be one of the reason why that always happen to me.
Apr 25, 2014
 Possible possession prevented
by: Anonymous

I had eyelid surgery last week not sure of final look yet. Me and wife who I been with for 26 yrs aren't getting along seriously thinking about leaving but my daughter is keeping me here. So for the last week I've been overly depressed. Tonight after a long discussion with my wife I was falling asleep on the couch my daughters walkie talkies kept seeming like they were being pressed so we cut them off and both of us said strange. I continued to fall asleep sudden I was in experiencing some ghostly events. 1st spirt had enter my home as a playing card which I forced into the floor then it wrecked my tv which my wife fixed then my daughter rsn out the apartment and I was closing the door but it wouldn't let me then I was pushing it open but it wouldn't let me then I told my wife there's a demon here and if we fall asleep and grabs us yell out then suddenly I was on the couch falling asleep and it grabbed me holding me down and seeming as if it was putting it enormous tongue in my mouth so I couldn't talk all I could do was moan. Then I heard my wife's voice asking if I was alright and that broke it's hold and I woke ( jumped) up. Supernatural, depression or what? I ask. I heard when your depressed, angry or emotional your weak and vulnerable to possession? Was it that? I believe that their are entities that can take over ppl and have them do things they would never do. If that is true I pray I never that weak again. Nothing will ever take over my mind, body or soul. I'm not religious but I'm spiritual and I will always be on the side side of the righteous amen.
Apr 26, 2014
 Had a weird experices after closing my eyes
by: Joanna John

Hi, I'm Joanna John , 17.

This once happen to me from last night. I was very curious that everytime I closed my eyes, I saw red spot in the middlle facing at me. So I'll decided to look closely into that red spot . Then it begun. I was bought into another dimension . I felt like I was lying on the ground facing a standing trees. The leaves are moving as if there were winds. After looking left and right, I started to noticed that I can't even moved nor standing . Just laying on the ground staring the standing the tree. I can zoom in the trees that I was able to see the leaves movement and yet I still can't moved my entire body. I actually can move my head left or right but not for my entire body. The tree look glowing . Can't tell what it was, where am i or what am I doing. After all these happens to me, I have more than 1 weird of mind's world or something. It keeps me moving into another place. I also realizing that I can feel myself into each of weird places that I have bought in by something.
May 04, 2014
 New
by: Anonymous

Hi there this happening with me over a year I sleep durning day suddenly stop breath try to wake but can't move my body it's really very scary sleep please tell me the remedies of this what could be a problems mail me warraich89@hotmail.com
May 27, 2014
 Know about this
by: Muslim

I'm from Malaysia and this occurrence is not unusual. My friend and sister have experienced what you all have been describing.

There are other beings besides humans that we can't see; jinns, as we call them. The Quran mentions them. Where I'm from it's a fact that we all believe, and know to be true. That doesn't mean we're not sceptical of "paranormal" happenings, some of these situations may well be purely medical, but we know jinns are reality.

While most of us can't see them, jinns can see us. I think most don't bother anyone but some do interfere. Especially if we bother them ourselves. Generally the people who get affected are the ones more sensitive to these things.

Yes please pray. But there is no god but God, Creator of everything, same God of Adam, Noah, Moses, Solomon and Jesus and Muhammad, who were all His messengers and the best of mankind, to remind the people.
May 29, 2014
 not able to move
by: Jose blue 72

I just woke up right now but what happen was i open my eye and i saw a dark figure like in front of me but on top of me like looking down at me. I wasnt able to move i ask this figure robert is that you ( little brother) and it answer Noooo with a screaming voice, thats when i really freak out thats when i tried to yell but i couldnt if sound like i was wispering . I swear to God i was screaming so loud and i couldnt.but somehow i was able to ask him where are you from and this dark skinny figure he pointed to my window. Yeah this what i just expereince idk if this just a dream or i really couldnt move. Anybody can explain thia to me thanks jose
Jun 01, 2014
 Stop denying the obvious and do your research
by: Anonymous

A doctor will make up any kind of condition because they get paid to. this situation is paranormal. they are called mare spirits do your own homework.
Jun 02, 2014
 Not cool
by: Anonymous

We'll I has the same exspiriance I am a paranormal in vestigater and I had a ghost but this ghost was not what is expected it to be. I saw this person and it look like Satan red with horns and a long trangulre tale he said god hates you. Come to me . Then I tread screaming gods name couldn't do it it felt like he was covering my voice and I tried to signal got then final god came to my rescue. God is awesome I believed in him all of my life. Maybe god was testing me with satan at Least I didn't resist and went to Satan. It's scary do you guys ever exsperince this ?
Jun 04, 2014
 this is tru read this
by: Anonymous

this happens to me all the time i feel as if my eyes r open but idk if they really are i feel the weight pushin on my chest i get really scared i cnt move at all i tryed to wake up my wife 1 night wen it happened i could not yell like i wanted to i can barley breath wen it happens but i managed to hit her she woke up gasping for air i asked for help i recived the most demonic look i ever seen n wen i told ppl they acted as they didnt here methis didnt happen till i sold my soul to the satan its not sleep wat ever it is a demon i know for a fact i feel it wen it arives in my home then it happens n each time i lose a lil bit of myself
Jun 04, 2014
 power in faith
by: iamsecond

IM TIRED OF PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT GOD AS SOMETHING THAT ISNT REAL AND IS JUST CRAZY TO BELIEVE IN! THE FUNNY THING IS THAT THESE SAME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT FOR MORE CRAZY! (THE UNIVERSE BEING CREATED BY SOME BIG ACCIDENTOR BY MISTAKE IS ONE EXAMPLE.) LETS NOT BE BLINDED BY WHAT OTHERS THINK OR BELIEVE. IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD ONE OF THESE EXPERIENCES THAN YOU SHOULD BE OFFENDED WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT ITS JUST SOMETHING GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN OR IN YOUR BLOOD! COME ON NOW! LETS THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX...DOCTORS STILL HAVENT FIGURED OUT THE FUNCTION OF OUR APPENDIX! LOL DONT ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT THE DOCTOR TELLS YOU. THE POWER TO BREAK FREE FROM THIS IS YOUR FAITH IN GOD. (JESUS CHRIST) FAITH IS WHAT WE USE WHEN WE DONT KNOW THE ANSWER TO PARTICULAR THINGS. EVEN THOSE WHO CLAIM NOT TO USE FAITH BELIEVE IN THEIR OWN UNLIKELY IDEAS! WOW! YES I HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF THESE ATTACKS. THE FIRST TIME THIS HAPPENED TO ME I FELT AIR GETTING BLOWN INTO MY EAR AND WHEN I
Jun 04, 2014
 God exsits
by: Anonymous

Power in faith I am really offended by your comments god is very real and your talking crap. Why don't you believe in god oh wait a minute your a low life atheist! Get out if you wanna curse god go ahead you'll end up in hell! I know god very we'll but he didn't like your comment so keep out demons exist and so dose god! So leave Jesus Christ alone stop messing with him he sees and hears everything so if I were you I'd think before you say things like that Christian can easily become offended by that comment
Jun 04, 2014
 GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE!!
by: iamsecond

This comment is for god exists.
I want you to know that not ondo i believe in god but that i love him with all my heart...that being said please read my comment more carefully and you might realize this! Please dont be so quick to judge and point fingers. I hold close to my heart the truth which is the WORD OF GOD! EVEN THOUGH YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE IN GOD I GET THE FEELING THAT YOU WANT TO STRAY PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE TRUTH. GOD IS THE ONLY TRUE JUDGE AND MOST PEOPLE WITH THE NAME IAMSECOND IS A BELIEVER..THERE IS POWER IN FAITH AND BY THE WAY JESUS LIVES!!!
Jun 06, 2014
 Temp possession
by: Anonymous

Ok do this so awkward reading these stories. I am Hispanic we believe a lot in spirits. From what I know this us know as a dead attempting yo posses your body. We know it as the dead laying on too of u to feel alive and hopefully posses your body
Thus happens a lot to my husband not to me but I gotten do good at hearing muffle some painful or distressful noise!
Yes u are supposed to wake up the person which I always do. U r not to pray but to cursed the spirit it is said that some spirits only do this not to posses u but to have u pray for their soul . So just curse away
Jun 07, 2014
 DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN
by: Anonymous

FIRST TIME WAS SCARY BUT BY THE THIRD IT WAS ABNORMAL, BUT THEN I MANAGED TO GET USED TO IT BUT FROM TIME TO TIME THAT FREAKY FEELING SURPRISES ME EITHER BEFORE OR DURING A BOMB ASS SLEEP BUT I STILL HATE IT :(
Jun 07, 2014
 my testimony!
by: power in faith

after Feeling air getting blown into my ear I moved my head to the left and bam some spirit had paralyzed my body! It was a demon and it spoke nonsense into my ear that I couldn't understand. The spirit did not loosen his grip on me, I could not move shout all I could think of was to breath heavily until someone heard me! Of coarse it didn't work there was no answer and eventually after three minutes I was able to move again. being an unbeliever at the time I did not pray. Once I told my family about this they all either thought I was crazy or just didn't know what say! (they also were unbelievers) Feeling alone I began to choose a different route for my life. Using drugs drinking alcohol and acts of injustice became the norm for my life from the age of 14 to 24. I did these things to help ease my pain from these attacks but of coarse it didn't work AND SOME THINGS GOT WORSE. At the age of 24 I had been in jail twice and was left homeless due to my addictions and drug dealing and began living at a church for A WHILE. LIVING THERE DIDNT CHANGE ME I STILL DID ALL THE THINGS THAT I WAS DOING BEFORE BUT THE ATTACKS ON MY BODY BECAME WORSE! ONE DAY I TOLD GOD TO HELP ME BECAUSE I WAS TIRED OF LIVING THAT LIFE. AND HE DID.... HE TOOK MY ADDICTIONS AWAY THAT VERY SAME DAY BUT THAT NIGHT I WAS REALLY IN FOR A SURPRIZE. WAKING UP IN MY BED I NOTICED THAT I WAS SINKING INTO MY MATRESS AND THERE WAS NOTHING ON TOP OF ME BUT I BEGAN TO FEEL A LOT HEAVIER AND THERE WAS A SPIRIT(DEMON) IN THE ROOM WATCHING ME AND I COULD SEE HIM. STILL I DIDNT REALLY KNOW WHAT I WAS GOING THROUGH SAY THE NEXT DAY I EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH. TELLING HIM THAT I HAD LOST MY MIND AND WANTED TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST THE PASTOR PRAYED FOR ME. WHILE HE PRAYED FOR ME HE I TOLD HIM THAT SOMETHING WAS TELLING ME TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE AND RUN AWAY! SHORTLY AFTER HE SAID I KNOW WHAT THIS IS KNOW ITS SPIRITUAL! HE SAT ME DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHURCH AND ALL OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS BEGAN TO PRAY FOR ME! TO MY SURPRIZE THE DEMON SPIRITS WHICH HAD POSSESSED MY BODY LONG BEFORE BEGAN TO MANFEST THEMSELVES WITH CURSE WORDS ROARS AND SHOUTS. ROARS THAT COULD BE HEARD TWO BLOCKS AWAY! THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY WALK WITH CHRIST AND NOW I CAN SAY THAT BECAUSE OF CHRIST AND THE POWER GIVEN TO HIM ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY I AM SAVED AND I HAVE BEEN FREE FROM THOSE DEMONS!!! ACCEPT CHRIST IN YOUR HEART AND LET HIM TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE! IT WILL BE THE BEST THING YOU COULD EVER DO!! GOD BLESS EVERYONE
Jun 14, 2014
 what is really going on
by: Anonymous

OMG I thought I was the only one this was happening to but after reading lots of these post's I feel im not alone anymore. It has been happening to me for years and always wondered what was going on as I could not move, speak etc and was very scared. My two friends witnessed it once, when I was asleep they heard me calling softly and trying to struggling. My other friend said "wake her up its a demon on her". My other friend laughed and said dont be silly. At first I didn't know what to think but having done loads of research since I do believe it is a spirit of some sort trying to get in to my body. It used to start by coming in to my side but now since my partner has been on a long vacation it ia happening a lot more and all over my body now. I need some help and will try to try some of the things suggested. I cant take it anymore its driving me crazy!!!
Jun 15, 2014
 Jerk free head ache
by: Zoë

I had this expense only a few ours ago i opened my eyes but it was like they were stuck then i tried to move my hand and grab my kindle but it wouldn't budge and i knew what was happening so i tried to yell for my dad but nothing came out then i saw a bunch of flies fly across the room so i freaked and i felt tingly and so i forced my head to jerk which set me free but know i have a head ache! Worst thing ever!
Jun 16, 2014
 diein
by: francine

Hi,my situation is very similar to others,but different in one way. I feel like I'm dying and I have to fight to live. When I once laid there to see what will happen, I went deeper into my comatose state of mind,I was suffocating and and flooding oxygen.
Jun 20, 2014
 Sleep paralysis
by: Anonymous

It isn't anything paranormal rather sleep paralysis, google it and you will see your symptoms described.
Jun 24, 2014
 I thought I was the only one
by: Dylan B

I thought it was just me that had this issue, when I am sleeping I wake up and I can't move my body, can't open my eyes, and can only Make soft noises, sometimes when I do get the strength to move my head to another position I see a black figure staring at me and it freaks me out even more so I pray and pray until I can move my body again or someone comes to wake me up. Scares the crap out of my roommates when this happens.
Jul 19, 2014
 scary
by: Anonymous

I use to get that alot ppl say it's when a spirit is holding u down i usually pray andit lleaves like 5 mins after
Aug 06, 2014
 Spirits are hurting you "Med"
by: Anonymous

Med I want to encourage you to consider going to a Christian bookstore and reading about spiritual activity also known as paranormal activity from a Christian perspective it is very real and what you are describing is what it is there were some incidences I did not put in my post from the other day the one by anonymous it posted way too many times I apologize everyone it kept giving me an error message (so I just kept trying to post it I'm so sorry) I did not put in my post the other day that I have seen the dark spirits floating around above me too but I was afraid to look I just started raining calling on the name of Jesus there is power in the name of Jesus I know you have heard this and it is true! One time I heard footsteps in my home on the floor they walked right over to my dad and got in the bed the bed went down just like it would is if a human being had walked over and got in the bed all I could do is just calling to name Jesus also want you to know that people around us can be involved in spiritual activity they can also impact us there is normally some type of a gateway in our lives that allows or is the porthole for this activity I encourage you to find out what it could be for yourself
Aug 07, 2014
 Voices
by: Petra

It happens to me too. But it only happens in my Chemistry class, or around it. The first time it happened, I had rested my head on the desk because I wasn't feeling well. I heard this really inhuman Metallic voices talking (I thought it was someone's ring tone) and as I looked around, I saw nobody was reacting to it. Then I heard "All systems shut down." and Boom! My body was immovable.I couldn't move anything, except for my eyes. I started breathing deep and heavy, trying to get my torso to move just enough where it would snap me out of it, but it didn't work at all. This went on for another minute or two, and right before I began to move again I heard engines powering off. The second time this occurred was in the same room and I heard the same voices, except they kept fading in and out like some sort of radio signal. That day it happened twice. It happened again to me not half an hour ago. I'm not in the same room, but I'm directly below it. I heard those voices again, but it wasn't as difficult to snap out. It was the same faded quality, like static interrupting a radio signal. I have no idea what the hell is going on. I do know that a couple of weeks before this started happening to me, things would move around in that room. Mrs. Cherek would stay oblivious to it, but a few of us noticed. I was one of the few and I was the only one who refused to ignore it. I don't like that this is happening because I want to see whatever it is I'm facing, if there is indeed anything to face. If anyone else is experiencing something similar, please email me: emerishorse@yahoo.com. Lable the subject "Robot Voices". I know, cheesy title, but it's the only way I won't junk it. Thanks for reading.
Aug 08, 2014
 Badsleed
by: Orao muhamed

Sometimes it feels like am dead. Am 22 years old boy and i live in the boarders of kenya and uganda. This rtarte when am young. I could get stuck during my sleep. I could hear everythin around me but couldnt talk or move a finger. I wonder whats happening to me.
Aug 20, 2014
 Sleepless Years
by: Anonymous

This has been happening since i was 6 im 16 now and it just gets worser as the years go by it has gotten to in a point that since i turn 8 i have to take pills to sleep but it only last for so long because my dreams become more and more realistic for example to day i was cooking burger and then went to sleep because im tire i dream that i dream that a voice told me listen to my mother and i try to move because the voice was suffocating me but then i open my eyes but they were heavy leading me to close my eyes then i could walk and i ran to the kitchen and i was eating a burger and a ghost was next to me and i try to leave but couldnt move and when i woke up i was out of breath like always and my neck throat section hurted what can i do
Sep 15, 2014
 EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT
by: Anonymous

Your body shuts off while you sleep so that you dont act out your dreams. when your body shuts off and you're still awake your brain thinks youre asleep and you'll start dreaming. if you are scared, it will be a nightmare. TO GET OUT, START BLINKING AND THEN GRADUALLY MOVE YOUR FINGERS AND TOES. DO NOT TRY TO "JUMP" OUT OF THE TRANCE. It's not paranormal, and it happens to everyone at some point. It can even be self-induced for meditation, which might help someone who gets it regularily to feel more in control
Sep 16, 2014
 You cant fool us!
by: power in faith

Its not paranormal?! Smart people know what they see and feel and know it is for real and yet you try to say that supernatural MEDITATION is going to help them! lol THE BATTLE FOR OUR SOULS IS FOR REAL! THERE IS A HEAVEN AND HELL AND WE HAVE HOPE THROUGH ALL THINGS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR! THIS USED TO HAPPEN TO ME BUT NOW IT IS SOMETHING FROM THE PAST BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST! I THANK HIM SO MUCH THAT I AM FREE!!! LOOK TO JESUS AND HE WILL RESCUE YOU FROM THESE ATTACKS AND DO SO MUCH MORE! Invite him in your life take a chance and Jesus will show you the way!
Sep 26, 2014
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Oct 06, 2014
 HATE THIS FEELING!
by: Anonymous

It does not always happen to me but it sometimes does an I just hate it. Nobody comes and helps me and I'm just a kid . Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it
Oct 18, 2014
 first part-Kathy
by: Anonymous

I'm 53 years old, and waking up and not being able to move and unable to make a sound has happened to me off and on throughout my life. These experiences were terrifying especially the very first one I experienced as a child. I had these experiences off and on until my late twenty and then they stopped.
Oct 18, 2014
 2nd part katyh
by: Anonymous

I had a complete post on here that explained what I did to being woke up and not been able to me, and they have removed it.
Oct 23, 2014
 scared NEW
by: Anonymous

This jut happens to me. Twice and when I opens my eyes I seen a white statue and when I tried to move I would start shaking please help
Oct 24, 2014
 don't be afraid of this regardless if its medical or spiritual NEW
by: MunSung1075

This SP has been happing to me for as long as I can remember. I'm 25 now. I dont know if its medical, paranormal, or sometimes both but I know it scares people. I went through a phase where I thought it was a demonic attack and I wod hallucinate and hear voice durning g it. I tries to rebuke it but could not speak and it gave me a buzzing mocking laugh. Then I thought it's god that rebukes it so I can pray in my mi f and it works regardless if its peace or prayer. So remember to stay calm and not panic.
Nov 01, 2014
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Nov 14, 2014
 I have the solution NEW
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Nov 24, 2014
 Sleep paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

I am sure it's sleep paralysis. I am 29 and I have had this condition for a long time. At first it was frightening to death but over the time I learned how to fight it. One of the funniest and most painfull ones happened while I was in the bus. My head was hanging down while I was seating in the bus and I was fully concious but I could not move my head and get over the pain that it caused to my neck but I still could hear people around me. When I am paralyzed, I immediately remember this is going to happen for a short time and try to jump start my nervous system as you would start the car engine. It's like as I am in a hole and have to get all my muscles to move at once. It wont make me move when I wake up though. Dont be afraid and try to fight it.
Nov 28, 2014
 The appendix does have a use NEW
by: Wiccan

Okay, so that christian person who was typing before me, said that the Appendix has no use in the body that has been discovered yet. I did a little bit of research (aka a quick typing in Google then a copy+paste) and this is its actual use.
The cecum is a pouch-like structure of the colon and the appendix is near the junction of the small intestine and the large intestine and has abundant infection-fighting lymphoid cells, which suggests it plays a role in the immune system.
Just because you believe in your god doesn't mean science cant prevail in discovering things, Hun.
Don't be so arrogant to subjects like this. This type of thing has happened to me and its not something like "God's will" for me to be terrified.
Nov 28, 2014
 something same happened NEW
by: ivettalol

It happens to me mostly when i want to awake from a nightmare. I try to scream or open my eyes , but i cant. And when i knowdes it i fell like i have no exspresoin on my face and i just lye there, but inside i try to fight it and open my eyes like nothing happened and i can move again. It almost like what happens to you but i cant open my eyes or have any expresions on my face.
Dec 17, 2014
 Strange feeling NEW
by: Anonymous

Have you ever had someone tickle you on the armpits whether you liked it or not?
That is the closest i can relate with when it comes to that time when all of a sudden i become aware of a presence during sleep time and before i can "think",there is an entity touching what i believe to be my astral body and causing that very negative sensation; like av been skinned and it's touching raw nerves.
Last night i suffered again -twice- getting a feeling that small feet were jumping up and down my lower back as i slept face down. I also felt a sort of finger step through the side of my torso about five times.That's when i "woke up" and asked my self - "what shall i say?" and i begun to softly cry "Jesus" many times until i was freed and came back to consciousness. Up til now i feel the weird sensations hours later and some body aches.
This begun about twenty years ago when i was going thru a really hard time in life. Does anyone relate to this and is there a solution please?
Jan 01, 2015
 I cant move my body cant scream but im trying toa man i no over me NEW
by: Crystal Waters

I've had this same dream a few times in a row .I open my eyes and feel his presence in the room I can't move and scream..he's over me putting his face around my face area and neack not touching me but his warmth of his skin is so close and when he gets towards my neck I try to scream louder where I feel I'm screaming but nothing is coming out and I'm dreaming I wake up and really screaming and I really wakeup and I sweating.. It's a man I know
Jan 01, 2015
 I cant move my body cant scream but im trying toa man i no over me NEW
by: Crystal Waters

I've had this same dream a few times in a row .I open my eyes and feel his presence in the room I can't move and scream..he's over me putting his face around my face area and neack not touching me but his warmth of his skin is so close and when he gets towards my neck I try to scream louder where I feel I'm screaming but nothing is coming out and I'm dreaming I wake up and really screaming and I really wakeup and I sweating.. It's a man I know
Jan 05, 2015
 Faith in the Gospel NEW
by: Anonymous

The same way there is power in the mind of man there is power in the spirit of man. We are so much more than what google "Suggests" (Wiccan have you read what you posted)we complex spiritual beings. The great gospel is the only literature that gives us a definitive identity. In this gospel there is power to break free from all curses and witchcraft that has been placed on us! All those that say it isn't so is because they have never experienced the gospel. Its like saying that the sun doesn't shine but if you have been stuck in a cave all your life how could you know this was true!! The Gospel is real and the sun shines bright every single day, Take a hold of the promises that our lord Jesus Christ has for you and make it through this situation fist first! Victory is only a small part of living the gospel there is so much more out there for if you just believe! God Bless you all!!
Jan 08, 2015
 i learned how to get out of it! NEW
by: Shani

Hold your breath! you will not die from doing it because your airway is not obstructed. it will jolt your body out of that terrifying "stuck" state. I tried it once and use it whenever this awful thing happens to me.
Jan 18, 2015
 Yes! NEW
by: Anonymous

It JUST happened to me the same way. I woke up this morning and was still tired so I went back to sleep. Then,I was having a dream, I was aware I was dreaming, I tried to wake myself up and I thought I did but then I realized I was still in my dream and I started panicking because I couldn't wake up. I finally did. But I have to try really hard to convince myself I am awake.
Jan 18, 2015
 Yes! NEW
by: Anonymous

It JUST happened to me the same way. I woke up this morning and was still tired so I went back to sleep. Then,I was having a dream, I was aware I was dreaming, I tried to wake myself up and I thought I did but then I realized I was still in my dream and I started panicking because I couldn't wake up. I finally did. But I have to try really hard to convince myself I am awake.
Jan 20, 2015
 Just happened NEW
by: Anonymous

This just happened to me so I decided to google it to see what it can possibly be now I know I was super scared and I always try to call out for my daughters name but felt like something was covering my mouth so I got super scared I couldn't move and the on,y thing that helped was that my alarm went off so it's like I automatically woke up.. It was weird and super scary... I woke up lit a candle and went all over my house and blessed my house.. Thanks for all the advice:)
Jan 23, 2015
 feel like there's a creature behind it NEW
by: nae

it was 4am whenI try to sleep after I review my midterm exam. at first it was hard for me to fall asleep, and when I sleep I feel like falling from something, it happened 3x. then when I sleep again,..I know I immediately had a dream. I saw a dwarf and I smiled at it,while smiling and looking in the dwarf's eyes.i feel like being hypnotized then until my vision became something like a force pulling me towards the dwarf and taking me somewhere else..with the force I see in my dream I knew I was dreaming, I'm having my senses, and I can't move, I want to scream and ask for help i couldn't ... and it feels like something is in front of my face, I thought it was the scary dwarf...getting more scary as seconds go by..I tried my hardest to scream and shouted "brother!" wishing he could help me wake up. then after that scream...5 seconds later..that's the time i finally woke up. feel like my heart beat and breathing stopped, and feel like my whole body was paralyzed.
Jan 23, 2015
 feel like there's a creature behind it NEW
by: nae

it was 4am whenI try to sleep after I review my midterm exam. at first it was hard for me to fall asleep, and when I sleep I feel like falling from something, it happened 3x. then when I sleep again,..I know I immediately had a dream. I saw a dwarf and I smiled at it,while smiling and looking in the dwarf's eyes.i feel like being hypnotized then until my vision became something like a force pulling me towards the dwarf and taking me somewhere else..with the force I see in my dream I knew I was dreaming, I'm having my senses, and I can't move, I want to scream and ask for help i couldn't ... and it feels like something is in front of my face, I thought it was the scary dwarf...getting more scary as seconds go by..I tried my hardest to scream and shouted "brother!" wishing he could help me wake up. then after that scream...5 seconds later..that's the time i finally woke up. feel like my heart beat and breathing stopped, and feel like my whole body was paralyzed.
Jan 24, 2015
 Paralyze?? NEW
by: Anonymous

We'll this happens to me a lot . Mostly if I sleep during the day or take naps but it barley happens when I go to sleep at night. Like I wake up and can't move but I can blink my eyes a little but get very sleepy and then I try to move my toes and fingers to wake my self up its hard but I do wake up .
Jan 26, 2015
 it hapoened to me also NEW
by: Harry

Well I experienced it right now and it's like 2 Am.
The solution I fell is you should try to move your jaw slowly. tell me if this helps.
Jan 26, 2015
 it could be worse and i have a tip NEW
by: paul

first off breathe, second the more u try and move the more your muscles will fight you, third start with your toes move them first, then feet, then fingers, then wrist, then youll be alright, and in some special instances, lay off the drugs, not saying you do, but if you do, then theirs your problem.
Feb 19, 2015
 I think its spirits too. NEW
by: Anonymous

Hey there so I had a lot of these things happen to me once was wen I was 16 and then a lot of constant ones at 19 wen I delivered my baby. I was so sleep deprived and my husband is a firefighter he would be gone for weeks n wen he is that's wen it happens. In my experience everything seemed so real I would be wearing the same cloths n room would look the same lights would be off and I or my spirit could get out of bed n wen I go turn on the light the light doesn't turn on .. anywhere.. n that's wen I know I'm still sleeping n immidiatly after I find out I see my body n kinda just watch myself struggle. Then I start to feel it I can't move can't cry shout I try to move so bad but nothing happens. My mom told me to say this prayer..in the name of Jesus Christ leave me Satan. And a couple times of saying that it worked n I would wake up..I read about this after like the 20th time it happend n I found that it sometimes can happen from having low vitamin D .. n I thought omg that's so true Cuz I was breastfeed n baby was stealing everything n he fact that I was so busy with baby I never went outside for sun(vitamin D) I started to take my prenatal n thy stopped coming. So although all made sence to me I do believe some evil spirit came over me covered my body n paralized me all I had power over is my thinking. God realy works on these situations so believe or not just call out for Him.God bless.
Mar 01, 2015
 0097339254447 NEW
by: Anonymous

I am 32 year old it happening to me since i was 6 year old till now every night it happens with me i can feel it when it comes to me.I dont want to share that what is it exactly and why this happen just want to request you dont get scared. for detail you can call me thank you.
Mar 02, 2015
 scariest feelin ever NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm 28 I have did feeling almost every other day in it seem to get wordier were I can't move are talk half to kick my feet n I also see people watchn me n I start to shake my head bk n forth sometimes very scary
Mar 02, 2015
 I'm Stuck, I Can't Move or talk, extreme pressure on head NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm Stuck, I Can't Move,talk or turn myself right or left, feels extreme pressure and burden on my head, when i try to wake up my brain kills me, i can't,last for 1 minute, after that pressure goes down slowly then i get asleep but i wont sleep, i'm scared feels like hell...anybody tell me what kind of disease/disorder is this please help me ..
Mar 02, 2015
 I'm Stuck, I Can't Move, NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm 25 years old, this happening since i was 11,
I'm Stuck, I Can't Move,talk or turn myself right or left, feels extreme pressure and burden on my head its like i lost myself in galaxy space, when i try to wake up my brain kills me, i can't,last for 1 minute, after that pressure goes down slowly then i get asleep but i wont sleep, i'm scared feels like hell...anybody tell me what kind of disease/disorder is this please help me ..
Mar 17, 2015
 Repent now NEW
by: Anonymous

i experienced it too and i think its evil i too could not move at all but my eyes and i could see a dark very dark shadow in my room but i would pray that it should leave in the name of Jesus then it would just disappear for a week its very scary
Mar 21, 2015
 Tingles NEW
by: Anonymous

I have had it for almost all my life and it still scares me but the thing is I start hearing this after and girl but I think it I my imagination but I wonder sometimes why my mind does the and then when I finally wake up I hear these weird screams but it is not like scary screams but this is when I can move my head and open my eyes but I still can't say anything or move and it is terrifying and I start feeling these tingles all over my body and they stop and start stop and start over and over and it scares me
Mar 21, 2015
 ONLY JESUS! NEW
by: Anonymous

It has happened to me severally, but that was it! I ain't letting it happen anymore. I have known the secret to it.

Most people here will choose not to believe it, but it really is spiritual. I noticed that when I became a strong believer and began breaking any demonic and occultic ties (my grandmother was involved in witchcraft and exposed us) that have for whatever reason ever been linked to me, either by ancestry or whatever, I began having strange people in the night. They would laugh at me and touch my body as I struggled to resist as I lay motionless.

One day, I had one person that sat on my belly and some years before this, I woke up with bleeding on my clothes that I cannot explain to this day. I also had a scratch under my eye that lasted for years...

In a previous experience, someone chocked me so hard, as I lay on top of my bed dressed ready for the day....but in all this, I learnt one thing. Call out: JESUS! And the attack ends. In the last encounters, I slammed my radio so hard as I struggled to lift my hands and fight, and the person rose up without a fight and walked away when I called on Jesus..

I have learnt one other thing however. When you call on JESUS...it will be solved...But they will still come back! You need to pray against all those satanic forces in the name of JESUS, ask them to leave they have no place in your life! Bind them to the dark pits of hell where they belong till judgement day!

Pick your Bible, quote verses to them that actually declare your freedom from them....say you cover yourself with the blood of Jesus...
Remember demons do not work in isolation! They look for a home inside humans! Do not give them your space!

LASTLY...commit your life to Christ....and PRAY, PRAY, PRAY....For me I realized this phenomenon happened to me when I slowed down on prayer....

You can ask members at a church to pray WITH - you... Again remember WITH! You need to pray as well...

And prayer is not necessarily when ur down on ur knees....it the constant sincere conversation you keep having with God!

Mar 22, 2015
 feel trap NEW
by: Anonymous

Hi im sherline and this happen to me ever since im little im always getting scared because i can never wake up its like im trap i cant even move it feel like someone is on me like a ghost but its frightening i just to feel safe but nothing is working i really hate this feeling when i tried to wake up in take a long time to get up and when i do i panicked
Apr 02, 2015
 i too wake up NEW
by: Anonymous

i wake up about 5 times a night.. sometimes I cant go back to sleep. funny thing is I TOO AM STUCK....making soft noises,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

......sometimes im awake!! at say..3am. the walls in my place are so thin if I move make a noise go to the bathroom, I DISTURBE MY NEIGHBOURS ! THE LISTEN TO EVERYTHING. and then I hear them talking about it too. I feel trapped in my own home.. if I wake up for the 4th time and IM UP, at stupid o'clock(3-4am). why should I feel scared to move around or put coffee on and the tv? what a bunch of FREEKS!!! nothing better to do but easdrop huh... and bitch.. why are they so interested in listening to EVERYTHING I DO????
IM 33, THERE 50+
I CANT WAIT TO MOVE, KISS MY ASS WEIRDOS

Apr 12, 2015
 Terrified NEW
by: Anonymous

this has been happening to me for about 6 months.. Not ever single day of course but enough to scare the out of me. I'm only 13 and I've experienced this only once before. But I always have a tough time trying to fall asleep, and since this has been happening I don't want to sleep at all anymore. I am terrified of sleeping. I only get about 3-5 hours of sleep now. Some nights I don't even get an hour. I have a counselor and I have said something to her about it, but it didnt seem to concern her. Do I need to talk to my doctor about this?
Apr 22, 2015
 Anyone Else? NEW
by: Anonymous

It has happened to me since I was kid and I'm 15 technically still a kid but I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but one time when it was happening to me I was in the bed with someone else and they turned into a blur and these dark figures were around me trying to grab me and making whispering noises and I could see the sun rising but I just couldnt pull myself out of it no matter what I did they would get closer and louder until my mom (the person in he bed with me) moved and brushed my arm and I had the strength to pull out of it.
Apr 24, 2015
 scary sp NEW
by: Anonymous

it happens to me a lot.and is realy scary so i search online and i found this link hope it helps.

http://dreamstudies.org/2010/04/29/9-ways-to-wake-up-from-sleep-paralysis/
May 26, 2015
 Weird "cure" NEW
by: Anonymous

Happened to me all my life. Then I got a cat. The first time it happened with him around, he helped me fight off the "attacker." I was finally able to say "I belong to Christ and you cannot touch me" out loud, as I always tried. Never have had another episode. This cat still wakes me if he senses any trouble in my sleep. Good boy!
Jun 02, 2015
 g NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was 7 something similar happened to me I had a dream I was on a train but for some reason I knew I was dreaming and I had closed my eyes and struggled to wake but I barely woke and could not move and fell into the dream and I still knew I was dreaming I was going through in the train AN OLD CHURCH I had gone to when I was like 5 and even thought I was only on a train it was scary because I knew what was happening and could not wake up.
Jun 03, 2015
 REM Sleep NEW
by: Anonymous

This is called REM sleep. It is supposed to happen. It is called Rapid Eye Movement. You are supposed to be asleep, but your consciuousness woke up while your sub-consciuousness is still asleep.
Jun 18, 2015
 disturbing nights NEW
by: raggey

wow i was wondering i was the only one dealing with this problem . it just one of those scary times for me . i can feel my body been pressured and weird noise that constantly runs in my ears . i try to scream , move nothing works at all . it merely last for mins or so but the impact is undeniable. any solution for that friends
Jun 24, 2015
 Extraterrestrial NEW
by: Anonymous

It is extra terrestrials paralyzing and examining the human body while sleeping! There's a chip somewhere under your skin on your body. Search and you will find
Jun 24, 2015
 Yes NEW
by: Anonymous

He's right nobody is ever around when it happens
Jul 16, 2015
 I still get it it. NEW
by: Anonymous

This has been happening to recently and I'm really scared cause I'm only 14. The first time I had it I thought I was dying and it scared me shit less. After a few more times I told my mum and she said I just need to sleep, but it kept happening. Then a few months ago I woke the same way but I was lying on my side and a saw a dark figure moving. It wast my mum cause I. Saw her face at the other side of the room sleeping I tried to call out to her but I could've only made a choking noise,the dark figure was just facing me and I could just feel a very heavy weight on my chest.I had read about the symptoms and I was still worried. It only seems to happen when I'm about to fall asleep or about to wake up. I found it was fast for me to wake up if I breathe slowly but that was a challenge because as I said I felt like I was suffercating. My mum thought I had gone crazy when I told her I saw a dark figure that night. And just thinking about brings me to tears cause I always feel like I'm about to die everytime it happens.
Jul 19, 2015
 My Experience NEW
by: Anonymous

Yeah this haoppened to me as well its like im super numb to the point where I cant move and it feels like there are flying insects on me and flying around me not a lot but just like 4 and it felt like one was going to crawl into my eye
Jul 24, 2015
 please help NEW
by: yugo hughes

i keep waking up in the middle of sleep to darkness and i feel bugs crawling all over me can someone please kik me yugo.hughes. (both dots) and help tell me what i can do to stop this
Jul 26, 2015
 Scary and weird dream NEW
by: Anonymous

I fell asleep on my left side and then in this dream I woke up in the same position to a weird scratching sound outside my window which is just above the bed. I then tried to focus in on the sound to figure out what it was and then all of a sudden i felt constricted, i couldn't move or talk. I could only minutely wobble my body as a result of frustration, i tried my hardest to call for a family member but only a soft moaning sound would come out. It carried on for a while and then it just stopped and i woke up normally and i was paranoid of someone begin in the room, when i shut my eyes to try fall back to sleep i saw faces (could just be my imagination). This really freaked me out and i really want to find out if it was dream or a paranormal encounter.
Aug 07, 2015
 Just don't panic NEW
by: Anonymous

This happens to me really often. It is kind of scary I guess, but I also frequently have 'conscious dreams' where I am totally aware I am dreaming and have been able to begin to take a certain level of control over my dreams. "Oh, I'm in a dream. I should go flying over everything like superman." Being trapped asleep is a very strange feeling, but like other types of sleep states I just find it interesting to explore the state while I'm there. Generally, I am aware of what is going on and where I am (physically), but my brain is still superimposing dream stuff over everything. In fact I'm not even sure whether my eyes are usually open or if I'm "seeing" the room around my in my head. I usually notice that I am in a bed like I would expect, but then notice that I'm in the wrong bedroom. Sometimes it is a bedroom from my childhood or somewhere that I used to live a long time ago. Sometimes I'll be able to "snap out of it" only to find that I'm in a different bed again, still asleep and still trapped but in a different bedroom.

At the point that I'm ready to really wake up and be done being paralyzed in my bed, what usually works for me is to hold my breath. Just hold your breath until you can't anymore and your body will (really) wake up.
Aug 29, 2015
 Help? NEW
by: Anonymous

This happens to me from time to time. I just turned 18. I'll get stuck and almost a tingly numb feeling, feels like something is hovering me. But I'm awake and I can see what's happening sometimes. Scary things would happen, like a spirit is bugging me, making me see frightening things, and says stuff in my ear. It just happened to me last night and I deicieded to make a change and I want to end it, or somewhat control it. I've prayed but it doesn't seem to work. But now when it happens, right when it happens I quickly force my eyes open. But last night I forced my eyes open but I was still stuck. It's getting annoying and I want help.
I'm surprised I'm not the only one that experiences this.
Sep 05, 2015
 you might want to check this out NEW
by: Anonymous

Look Up guillain-barré syndrome
I had a friend with the same symptoms as you however he was unable to snap out of it. He said when it happened, all he could do was move his eyes. He recovered and had to learn how to walk and talk again. He still has fear when he goes to sleep. Probably ptsd from the whole experience. I am not trying to scare you.
I was shopping one day and this lady came up to me and asked me how i stayed so skinny. Her question stemmed from her own personal experience of her 22 year old daughter who collapsed one day and was diagnosed with guillain-barré syndrome. She showed concern for me and wanted to tell me to eat more and watch my diet.
Hopefully that is not your case. Good Luck to you.
Sep 17, 2015
 Scary NEW
by: Anonymous

I experienced it too. Two to five times for some night... I dont know why it happens... I wnat to shout but i can't all i cqn do is to pray relax and it helps
Sep 27, 2015
 I got up at night I can not move and I see white diamonds glittering woman in front of my eyes !!! NEW
by: Anonymous

Hello I am 18 years old it all begins when I was 13 years old and has continued until now many times through the night I got up and I can not move at other times I can not move and flew above my bed lying position and I see this huge lady who has diamond coming out of her and she is very bright can someone tell my what that is please.
Sep 28, 2015
 i feel too NEW
by: Anu

some time when i sleep in day time , i feel that i can see or i feel awake , but i am unable to move & when i try to wake up it was so hard , i can not .
Than i start to pray & relax , than after some i wake up & able to move my body .
Oct 07, 2015
 Im stuck and cant move NEW
by: adamdavis1993@hotmail.com

I believe that overwhelming feeling that i can describe as death, is death. I believe people cheat death every day. But its cheating and a cheater will be haunted till death. I was a premature baby, about a month and a half, my body not ready for food, made it unlikely i would live. I've been cheating for 22 years. Death has visited me many times but when in "paralysis" youv been invited by death to join him in the "between" of our worlds to show him you value life to much to give up and go now. When i kick/snap out, he moved on to the next.That heavy feeling is his pull to his world. But if you start to lack the of value of life,he will come again. Love everything, appreciate everything/everyone and practice peace every day keeps you out ofdesths sight. Im dont feel as though im crazy or wierd, but a dark,faceless, shadow like man in a dream told me this when i was about five. Hes visited me many times since. I also think paralysis is a spiritual gate between our world and the spiritual world.i can go into paralysis when ever as long as its quite. It's a gift but scarry as hell.
Oct 07, 2015
 try it please this will help u NEW
by: Anonymous

It's very simple,you need a clear glass cup no designs and put water on it place it on the side of ur bed or under if u can place a white cloth fist n the cup on top make sure u trow the water away every morning and replace it with clean water before going to bed it works try it :)
Oct 09, 2015
 Help me NEW
by: Sorry :.(

Its been long I m still struggling with this Sleep Paralyses. I always watch time when evening goes to night. As I try to sleep i hear sounds, sometime bees buzzing, sometime i listen someone called my name and got quite. Then I feel sleepy but I was awaken only ny eyes were shut and all of a sudden I cant move my entire body excep movements of my eyes and feet fingers. When it encroaching my body I start listening screaming sounnds, bees buzzing, like devil possession sounds. I feel something is crawling on my body :(. Its so horrible and very spooky. I cant sleep straights like common people do. I always wear blanket while sleeping and keeping pilow over my head. I cant describe more there are so much horrifying events were happening with me even still happening.
Oct 11, 2015
 Heyyy NEW
by: Anonymous

This has been happening to me for 9 years now, right after my brother passed away. It use to scare the hell out of me but now it doesn't. I learned that the more you fight the more energy it takes from you.don't sleep on your back because that's like asking to get stuck. Praying helps sometimes but I learned that if you be submissive to it it'll leave faster. It thrives off fear and if you act scared or fight it you'll get stuck even deeper. When this happened to me I can see and hear everything around me and my eyes are shut the entire time. In one case I seen my spirit float right from me and go back in. Some times there is a loud buzzing in my ear or even many voices saying their names all at once. The key is to not fight and not be scared trust me.
Oct 17, 2015
 I can't move NEW
by: Anonymous

Happened to me once but my eyes were closed. My brain was awake and I was sleeping on my back and couldn't move. I was so scared and struggling to wake up then I felt a naked woman on top of me I was so frightened I stopped struggling then I felt the woman kiss me on my neck and it felt so realistic I thought that when I wake up I'll see her. After she kissed me I woke up and I was freaked out. My neck was sweaty and wet (same place that she kissed me on). It felt like she was trying to relax me. Like she was helping me and calming me down. Idk it was very scary though
Oct 19, 2015
 Very weird NEW
by: Anonymous

Yesterday I was sleeping once I wake up I couldn't move my body but I was so tired and once it gone I wanted to sleep more and it happend again but I was so tired that I fall asleep into the not moving my body and I had dreams of falling on floor and can't wake up and and it was very weird because I was feeling it real and after I was seeing my own face on bed and I lay over my self and I looked at my own face and I looked into my own eyes and I kiss ny lips and I felted how my lips feels to be kissed and it was so weird ! This happens because some ghost are real and they see you they wanna have fub with you or scare you but all you gotta do is pray to GOD not just when you need him but always when you sleep and when you wake up in morning say thank you GOD for giving me other life to live and Give you love to GOD and when you pray to him he will help you same time you say the prayer ! Amen 🙏 ❤ ➕ this happen to me since I was young I even saw a men in black long jacket and he walked out of my bedroom and when I saw that I shout so loud loud I wake upp everyone and I went to sleep next to my parents this things are real so as heaven and hell please believe in GOD he is the only way to Heaven ! Have great days and pray ! Bye
Oct 19, 2015
 Help me NEW
by: Sorry :.(

Guys,
My life is like a Hell, more I try to overcome on sleep Paralyses more I get into it.
I feel the presence of someone is in my room like I m being watched. Before it takes over my body, I feel deep sleep, eyes are getting havier. I take a scoot on bed but all of a sudden back side of my pillow i listened the phat sound, Buzzing, names are being called sometime my names and sometime a complete clear sentence, as I go deeper into it I feel an image of someone hovering over me or sitting on me. I felt that invisible guy cluthing my both hands tight on bed. I struggle and try to make him away from me. I pray but sometime prayers dont work.This weird pheromona takes breath out of me. My eyes and feet fingers can be moved but it takes so much strengh.
It gets me most of the time when I was alone at home or alone in my room. It encroach to me during day time also so you cant even image what happens with me in night. I cant take proper sleep in night guys.
Its effecting me and my life from everywhere. Sometime I feel I should kill myself. The concurrency of this weird feeling is like everyday and if alone so whole day it can get me easily.
I tell to my friends and they laugh on me I tell to parents but they scold me and say that I need more dedication with God. When it gets more havier on me.
My body starts jerking me I m trying to get rid of from it. If I will not resist it will kill me guys.
Help meeeeeeeeeeee pleeeeeese. I may loose my life I m already paranoid with it.


Oct 23, 2015
 praise the lord and you will find the truth! NEW
by: Anonymous

The same way there is power in the mind of man there is power in the spirit of man. We are so much more than what google "Suggests" (Wiccan have you read what you posted)we complex spiritual beings. The great gospel is the only literature that gives us a definitive identity. In this gospel there is power to break free from all curses and witchcraft that has been placed on us! All those that say it isn't so is because they have never experienced the gospel. Its like saying that the sun doesn't shine but if you have been stuck in a cave all your life how could you know this was true!! The Gospel is real and the sun shines bright every single day, Take a hold of the promises that our lord Jesus Christ has for you and make it through this situation fist first! Victory is only a small part of living the gospel there is so much more out there for if you just believe! God Bless you all!!

Read more: http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/im-stuck-i-cant-move-all-i-can-do-is-make-a-soft-noise.html#ixzz3pQcVuxkN
Nov 07, 2015
 Similar but not the same NEW
by: Anonymous

I get this too, but not when I wake up. I'll just be laying in my bed playing a handheld or watching TV, and I'll find myself unable to move. I can turn my head a small bit, but I can't make any noise or move any other part of my body.
Nov 13, 2015
 If it kept you down and you eyes were open,or.. NEW
by: Anonymous

If it kept you down and you eyes were open or it catches you in the same position, then its a spirit trying to poses you,that's all it is.you must only stay calm 1.Pray to utter Jesus name continuously, 2.Once it has released from you make the signe of the cross all around your position you are in, 3.Do this and let this bad spirit know you know its there, 4.Feel at piece to sleep subconciously knowing it will come test you again...usually after the second time it will fear coming back to you___.Keep in mind spirit travels through flesh,and it most likely will manifest itself in the closest depressed/negative individual.__BLESSED Water YOU HAVE PRAYED OVER by touching it in prayer by your side and the powerful name JESUS in your mind or mouth is your main tool of release...keep the cross near by or make sure you do the signs of the cross.Amen...I speak from experience__me?i woke up at piece with expecting it after a while,I watched(as in felt its presence how it watched me thinking I was asleep,I timed it as it waited for my energy level to drop at a low.I heard it made noises with the rotating chair screeching,but yet the chair failed to move.With not a breeze or a sign of wind,I watched how it made my room key swing whilst in my room door at pass 2AM in the morning...Be not afraid,but be ready...do not mess with bad spirits,as you don't know its personality...but only know its prefectly safe to guard youself and it will stay away from you.Amen.
Nov 20, 2015
 Horror NEW
by: Anonymous

Fr d fist time i experiemced this knd f strange thngs
One night i slept around 3 late night
Suddenly i was unable to move and i felt something holding both my legs so tight dat i cudnt even move and i tried so much n i was freezed. And i felt like something touchng me ...
It was v v horrific
I tried shouting but i became dumb .. i sleep in my room alone with my teddy
My teddy id a big one
I hug it n sleep
But while i became freezed . I felt like i was floating and i never felt my teddy near me.. i felt like some other was near me and i cud feel thick arms wer i was hugging .. i i opened my eyes n eveg was everythn was dark nearly fr half n hour i was freezed and my heart was filled with fear
Then after some time i was able to move i got up and saw my room
Nothn was seen .. i cudnt even see my teddy
But in d place d teddy i saw something black
I slept off somehow
Now my question is
Where was i ? Y i saw dark?
Was i in my room or somewhere else?
Who was near me apart frm teddy?
It reallly freals me out
Can anyone plx tell me
Dec 17, 2015
 same feeling NEW
by: elias tooma

Hi.
I'm Elias Tooma 16 years old.
I've been feeling and dreaming this shit for about a year and i dont know why for God's sake... until this moment after couple of minutes i had this dream and the same feeling, i dont know why its happening with me yet. Now i wanted to search about it because you know it feels like youre dying so you cant feel any or say any or move any. Maybe thats true if you pray you would feel better but its really really killing me. What i think about that -again i repeat "maybe" its true, i feel like my soul got out of me and you know some priest says in the nightmares your soul go out for searching and you know... then you have to wait till it gets back into you... i think maybe because of a hight wight on you'r chest or maybe because of wearing sucks while sleeping ...
Thanks.
Elias Tooma
Dec 18, 2015
 same feeling NEW
by: none

Its called in Arabic " ابو رابوص(abu rabous)" it means that some one or something is holding you down by pressing on your chest maybe its the spirit or (like quilt).
An old friend told me to pray before I sleep and to make sure not to swear
Dec 18, 2015
 same feeling NEW
by: none

Its called in Arabic " ابو رابوص(abu rabous)" it means that some one or something is holding you down by pressing on your chest maybe its the spirit or (like quilt).
An old friend told me to pray before I sleep and to make sure not to swear
Dec 24, 2015
 Where to find help!!! NEW
by: Alexsandria

I've been going through this since I was a little girl (I'M 27 now) and it is actually terrifying. Sometimes at night when I lay down and go to sleep I feel this Electric magnetic energy tingling through my body and the next thing you know just like that I've fallen into a deep sleep, but my mind is still awake. I still can hear the television I'm still aware of my surroundings, but my body is stuck and I can't move... It's hard to breathe and if I panic it makes it even more harder to move I'm only able to move my head from side to side I can barely even wiggle my fingers or toes. Only way I've been able to fully awaken myself is pray first, calm down and tell myself over and over in my head that you can move, breathe and your okay... But really would like some help because it SCARES ME SOOOOO MUCH! I've actually seen people that I know come in the room sometimes when I'm having this sleeping problem and then sometimes the things I've seen could've been a ghosts or a dream but more like a dream I'm awake in but I'm just lying there in my bed stuck!!!!!
Dec 28, 2015
 Call if i can help you and or you wanna talk about it. 989-714-3946 NEW
by: Linie person

Hi, this been happening to me since I was in 7years old now I'm 23. When this first started happening I couldn't move or talk. But as the years pass I learned to relaxes and that will help me wake up. It feels like someone is on my back and holding me down.I was hearing voices.I learn to make noise and open my eyes. 2 days ago 12-24-15 something happen to me that I never had happen before. I went to sleep and got stuck.I heard foot steps walking towards me. I thought it was my girlfriend. So I made noises.the stetps got closer & stop. I open my eyes and seen a ghost. When I close my eyes and tryed to awake I heard the steps walking away.I open my eyes and seen the spirits bend down and disappear. my eyes closed back then i woke up. I have been scared ever since. Thanks you reading my post. Plz leave commits or even call me. Thanks you ppl.
Jan 09, 2016
 Strangest things NEW
by: Anonymous

Im a 16 year old girl and I am in a Marching band.
During the summer around july I was sleeping and I opened my eyes for a second and I see some next to me talking gibberish and I couldn't move, I couldn't yell. Scariest thing .I forgot about the situation and it happened to me again on January ,same thing but only no person was there next to me I could just hear the gibberish again and couldn't move I started to pray .it stopped after a minute or two . I thought something was wrong right away and im still looking for answers. people say its normal I believe it buy why do I hear talking and why was there someone next to me . If anyone knows something please help me . And if this has happened to you. Your not alone .
Jan 22, 2016
 I know what to do NEW
by: Anonymous

I do this. When I know it is happening I immediately calm myself. I say to myself, well... I can just keep still, and think up...dream up whatever I want to. I have a relationship with Jesus. I won't let fear over rule me. The bible says "perfect love casts out all fear". So...think on the good things God has done in your life. Or if you're not a Christian, this rule still applies, because well..God ordained it to be the truth. (Like gravity is an undone truth.)
How's the fun part!! You get to choose your dreams....eat whatever you want...enjoy every bite as if it was real....have sex with your significant other....just remember you are in control. All you have to do is keep your eyes closed and think of what you want to happen. It takes a few seconds to kick in.

Obviously this has happened to me a lot.. Lol

Your welcome. :-)
Jan 22, 2016
 I know what to do NEW
by: Anonymous

I do this. When I know it is happening I immediately calm myself. I say to myself, well... I can just keep still, and think up...dream up whatever I want to. That's fun! I have a relationship with Jesus. I won't let fear over rule me. The bible says "perfect love casts out all fear". So...think on the good things God has done in your life. Or if you're not a Christian, this rule still applies, because well..God ordained it to be the truth. (Like gravity is an undone truth.) think about things that make YOU feel the emotion of love!!
Now's the fun part!! You get to choose your dreams....eat whatever you want...enjoy every bite as if it was real....have sex with your significant other....just remember you are in control. All you have to do is keep your eyes closed and think of what you want to happen. It takes a few seconds to kick in.

Obviously this has happened to me a lot.. Lol

Your welcome. :-)
Feb 16, 2016
 same thing NEW
by: ABRAHAM

I'm Stuck, I Can't Move, All I Can Do Is Make A Soft Noise" I read that and not by an accident i was researching becuz this happened to me mostly in the summer when I sleep at day time sometimes at night too but not that much...... here is what happens I'm almost asleep then suddenly I can't move anything except for my eye pupil and hearing some cosmic noise If I try to resist I gets worse and it becomes hard to breathe.. sometimes there is hallucinations too... some people called sleep paralyze but i find it different...
Feb 17, 2016
 Is it a Punishment? NEW
by: Titus Massey

I think these kind of things which happen is kind of punishment when we dont follow the christ way.
My life is already ruined by this experience whether its day or night. Whenever i head to bed it gets me.
I heard people sleep in night in day they do their work but here Its totally opposite i dont sleep in night but I sleep when I am tired waking up long time and my body cant resist more so I feel very very deep sleep. Sometime I take the support of wall and then I try to sleep, in this way that female spirit which hovers on me cant take me.
I cry like a baby sometime and sometime I felt her in my blanket and she is so horrible dark face. I shouted on her so many times to get off from my life. I dont know what to do , my parents say whats wrong with me eventhough I said them so many times about this problem. They just dont listen and say need to do more dedication. I made some weird activity which I performed when I feel she is in my room and ready to get me. I take my legs on the wall while my rest of the body on bed. I can move my feet if she makes me paralysis. But sometime I show sluggishness and Then instant she binds me and then she very mean to me. However I am able to move my eyes, Feet also found in movement. She attack me sometime on legs also like she wants to kill me and letting me without any movement. What to do cant understand
Feb 23, 2016
 It just happened 3 times NEW
by: Anonymous

I dozed off with my hand on my chest and i tried moving my fingers and it felt like they moved and it woke me up so febuarary 24 2016 i will attempt to record my sleep and see if i had even slightest of movement
Mar 06, 2016
 This happened once NEW
by: Anonymous

I was younger than I am now one night I woke feeling normal
But then for some reason bugs and strange black figures where crawling on my bed room wall. I could not move or screen. Lucky my sister was awake and heard my scweeling
But when she came in the room it all stop
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 13, 2016
 overcome..it.... NEW
by: shaurya

This happened. To me a lot of time....
Idk why i feel very insecure at the time when it happen
But i made my own way to overcome it...
Idk..if it works for everybody....
But here is what i do
When it happens... 1st of all i calm down myself...
Then..i try to open my jaw or stick out my tongue
Forcefully.....
Then it ends...idk..how but...it just goes away...
If u can't do both...just try hard to move your any 1 finger...
But easy way is to stick out tongue....
Suddenly...the whole thing cuts off....
But now also i hate the feeling....
I want to stop...it permanently....
Mar 20, 2016
 sp experience NEW
by: sagar karer

Please tell me how to get over it because everytime im having this it feels like i m getting into coma its really frightning me out
Help me out with this.

karersagar@gmail.com
Apr 01, 2016
 The Woman NEW
by: Ms. Anonymous.

I'm 17 years old.This just happened to me. Last week, i woke up hearing a woman whispering to me, i heard her breathing, i can't move. I think she's trying to tell me something. And then the freezing stopped. I ran to my mom asking her what it was. She said it was nothing. So i ignored it. But then.. last night i dreamt of someone chasing me. A guy. It felt real. Then i tried to wake up suddenly a light flashed to me.i can feel chills. And then i woke up for the last time. I tried shouting but nothing is coming out of my mouth, no voice. Then i prayed while crying. It stopped. Then again it happened after that day. I told my mom to wake me up if she ever wakes up early. So she did that morning, i got up and slept at our sofa. I woke up paralyzed and the woman again is telling me something. I did not try to stop her while telling me something. I let her talk to me although i can't undrstand a word she says. Then she stopped. I got up, i'm scared. I think she was the woman from before. It happened at the same time as before. 7am. She seemed angry at something. What will i do? Please tell me. Thank you. God Bless. :) reply please?
Apr 20, 2016
 I love this site.. NEW
by: Anonymous

SO far read fifteen comments, I relate to each one...I love to sleep but need to do stuff so I get stuck in bed...my legs can not move, sometimes my arms, my eyes used to get heavy and I would nod off, now my body does...Anyways....I'm ok...just need the energy...sometimes my hand and arm and leg fall asleep...As a young girl I woke up in dream to see a burglar climb to my second story window, I was so scared that I screamed, woke up and could not hear or actually scream, nothing would come out...Around same time I got stung by bee, had to shower with aunt, lol, had to ride bike outside, had to go to pool with cousins, my bathing suit went into my private part, and I caught my Dad looking at me when I turned around, LOL..I was nder age of 5. My mom said neighbor vacuumed too much, everyday...LOL....so I still have all hi stuff...LOL
No window can be open, I have to scream, I hate burglars, bees are too much, showers, everything makes me wonder...LOL...wondering if it all goes together..??Perhaps....but the stories are the same..News said tight legs means tired...
the best is fresh everything, cold nights, cozy up, stuffed animals though...
May 11, 2016
 FIGHTER NEW
by: Anonymous

It's happen to me i also prayed and fighting trying to move. and then after a many days or month i controlled it, so when it happen again. it takes a second and then it's gone i'm really happy that i'm able to controll that thing.
May 20, 2016
 Chemically unbounced NEW
by: Anonymous

I go through the same problem with this SP, I get stuck when I go to sleep sometimes and can't move a muscle, I suffers from depression meaning that my brains is chemically unbounced,so I was just wondering can this have something to do with what's going on inside of my brain also
May 20, 2016
 Chemically unbounced NEW
by: Anonymous

I go through the same problem with this SP, I get stuck when I go to sleep sometimes and can't move a muscle, I suffers from depression meaning that my brains is chemically unbounced,so I was just wondering can this have something to do with what's going on inside of my brain also
May 22, 2016
 I'm awake, I can move but actually I'm still sleeping NEW
by: Anonymous

It's like you awake, you see what you saw before sleep. The surrounding is exactly the same and the first thing I see when I'm awake. I tried to tilt my head left or right, but the view of what I saw doesn't change at all.. It's completely the same view when I'm awake.. Then you try to move my hand or leg..It felt heavy, but I still can manage to move it slowly.. I try to move one of my hand to touch my face.. I felt it, but I can't see it.. Then, that was the moment I just realized I can't open my eyes.. I tried so many times, but my eyelids didn't move at all.. my lips are completely seal, I try to utter a few word.. but nothing came out of it until one word finally escaped from my mouth, my eyes open.. I can see my hand still on my face.. It's really weird, and I don't know what my situation is called??
May 22, 2016
 I'm awake, I can move but actually I'm still sleeping NEW
by: Anonymous

It's like you awake, you see what you saw before sleep. The surrounding is exactly the same and the first thing I see when I'm awake. I tried to tilt my head left or right, but the view of what I saw doesn't change at all.. It's completely the same view when I'm awake.. Then you try to move my hand or leg..It felt heavy, but I still can manage to move it slowly.. I try to move one of my hand to touch my face.. I felt it, but I can't see it.. Then, that was the moment I just realized I can't open my eyes.. I tried so many times, but my eyelids didn't move at all.. my lips are completely seal, I try to utter a few word.. but nothing came out of it until one word finally escaped from my mouth, my eyes open.. I can see my hand still on my face.. It's really weird, and I don't know what my situation is called??
May 22, 2016
 I'm awake, I can move but actually I'm still sleeping NEW
by: Anonymous

It's like you awake, you see what you saw before sleep. The surrounding is exactly the same and the first thing I see when I'm awake. I tried to tilt my head left or right, but the view of what I saw doesn't change at all.. It's completely the same view when I'm awake.. Then you try to move my hand or leg..It felt heavy, but I still can manage to move it slowly.. I try to move one of my hand to touch my face.. I felt it, but I can't see it.. Then, that was the moment I just realized I can't open my eyes.. I tried so many times, but my eyelids didn't move at all.. my lips are completely seal, I try to utter a few word.. but nothing came out of it until one word finally escaped from my mouth, my eyes open.. I can see my hand still on my face.. It's really weird, and I don't know what my situation is called??
May 25, 2016
 Help NEW
by: Anonymous

It happened a while but now I put my head on a pillow.It works for me.I hope this works for you too.











May 31, 2016
 IM SCARED NEW
by: Anonymous

Im 18 years old. This happened a lot of times already but just about 5 mins ago I experienced it again. I couldn't move my body and I guess it was because I don't get to sleep earlier anymore. And the worst part was that my eyes were open with the view beside my bed and I saw dark shadows, and evil creepy laughter and it was horrible. Now im praying and wore a cross necklace hoping i get back to sleep
Jun 01, 2016
 Scared NEW
by: Anonymous

I was sleep and was trying to get up i couldn't i tried to move my hand and could .and then i stopped and woke up and asked my friend did she see my hand trying to move and she said no. then we was talking bout it and she told me what it is .now i am scared to go to sleep .
Jun 06, 2016
 That's really bad feeling NEW
by: Anonymous

İt nearly happenes to me all the time before i get to sleep after i get to sleep or like i just pass out... all the time.Unlike you i push myself and get rid of it, at first my legs then my arms and everypart of my body. İt's a really bad feeling for me
Jun 09, 2016
 A wake up call from Allah NEW
by: Anonymous

Yeah it do happens to most of us. My suggesions are to read ayat al kursi from Quran before going to sleep and nothing will ever happen. Even if u are in that paranormal phase where you can't speak or move, just remember that their is a God above all and everything belongs to Him and that He is one and no one is associated to Him. Just remember this and you will surely be outta trouble.
Jun 09, 2016
 A wake up call from Allah NEW
by: Anonymous

Yeah it do happens to most of us. My suggesions are to read ayat al kursi from Quran before going to sleep and nothing will ever happen. Even if u are in that paranormal phase where you can't speak or move, just remember that their is a God above all and everything belongs to Him and that He is one and no one is associated to Him. Just remember this and you will surely be outta trouble.
Jun 19, 2016
 easy NEW
by: Anonymous

dont sleep on ur back try to sleep sides or sleep on belly but dont sleep on ur back cuz arab people know this its called ( جاثوم ) its came to u when u sleep on ur back sometimes
Jun 25, 2016
 All aboard the nope train! NEW
by: Anonymous

Just this morning I had sleep paralysis. I couldn't tell though.
I was somewhat in the same situation, not being able to move at all until it was over, but instead of being awake, my eyes were still closed. I could hear my thoughts aloud too, but I also heard this loud, deafening sound too. What made it worse was that it almost felt that I was having pins and needles all over my body, while feeling an odd chill. It was terrifying.
Jun 30, 2016
 Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: Rodney

Omg Men I Been Dealing With This situation Since I Was Young Probably Like 13 Year Of Age Or Younger And I'm Still Is Dealing With It And Now I'm 23 Of Age And What's So Crazy About It Is I Never Could Explain It To Anyone Because I Didn't Know How To So Now I See What It Really Is Can't Can't To Tell My Wife About This 😬 But One Thing I Could Say It's Not A Good Feeling At All Because You Can't Talk Or Move Nor Scream And If You Trying To Get Up Its Tough To Do So But If You Continue To Fight It You Will Be Able Get Up

I Hate It Yes I Really Hate It But One Of The Ways To Stop This Sleep Paralysis Is To Sleep On Your Arm With The Pillow Under Your Arm It Might Sound Crazy But It Work Definitely Will Stop It I've Been Dealing With This For A Decade So I Know What To Do 6/30/16 Hope This Encourage You
Jul 08, 2016
 Same NEW
by: Emilly

I have this too but not a lot just onece in a while but it only happens when im drifting off to sleep then i feel stuck and cant move or wake up it stinks.But i was interested in why it was happening so i researched it and i found out that it was because i was haveing a weird sleeping pattern so i corrected my sleeping pattern and i havent had one since this might not be what your experiencing but i hpe this helped some of you 😊
Jul 16, 2016
 I loose to breath NEW
by: Anonymous

I am 21 and this happens to me also since many year. And also i lose my controle on my breath,it becomes very hard to breath and i feel like almost dead. It's really horrible. I wish to get rid of it but don't know how?
Jul 18, 2016
 Creeped out NEW
by:

One night I was thirsty and I went to get something or I think I was going to change the song on my laptop. But anyways I couldn't get up so I heard some whispers and then I tried to move then I started shaking really fast. Then I felt a hand on me and I head laughing. After I was finally able to wake up in my mirror I saw this smiling dragon shadow it ran down my dresser and left my room. Last night I was super stuck then it felt like something dragged me out of my bed and it took me somewhere and every time I close my eyes I would see a loading sign and I would be back in my bed and I couldn't wake up and then I ran up to the middle part of my house and fell asleep.
Jul 31, 2016
 Its common. NEW
by: Prakhar

happened with me many times. the part of your brain which controls your muscles and the part which help to think are different. that is the reason why sometimes our thinking part is awaken but the part which controls the muscles is still at rest. hence we can feel our surroundings but can't move. the best way to get relieved from this is to wait for 20-25 seconds and then try to move your leg muscles with all the force you have collected. it will really help you☺☺
Aug 02, 2016
 A New Hated Feeling NEW
by: Anonymous

I am 17 and have moments when I was awake in my bed, but couldn't move or speak. I usually just count to five and force myself awake, but that never works till about the fifth or sixth try. But today I experience something new. I was in my moms office working on the computer and I laid my head down in my hands, and suddenly I felt this trance come upon me. I couldn't move or anything. Similar to what happens sometimes when I go to sleep, but different. It happened so fast. As soon as my head hit my hands I couldn't move.
Aug 14, 2016
 Something is holding me too NEW
by: What is it?

This has been happening to me since i was kid. I want to know what it is and what to do? My grandmother told me its called "The Devil Riding Your Back." Once u thought i seen it, and tonight i felt it. Also right before it happened my ears started ringing.
Aug 28, 2016
 Terrible feeling NEW
by: Anonymous

It's happened to me twice. I'm laying on my back under the covers. It seems im awake but the covers tighten and I can't move. I tried yelling for my daughter but nothing is coming out. I'm praying and tears are rolling. It feels like an eternity but finally at some point I can move again. I don't see any dark shadows or hear any weird noises. It is a frightening experience almost like a spirit or something takes over and is holding me down...I don't know what it is. I'm scared to sleep on my back.
Sep 01, 2016
 been having these dreams since 2004 NEW
by: Anonymous

i thought it was just me but i never dream unless its these awful ones...even if i fall asleep in daylight and there are people around i always wake up amazed they didnt hear me struggling. one night i fell asleep but could still hear the tv in the background and suddenly i couldnt move or speak and felt the wind beneath me. i pictured myself against a wall and next i new i was back on the couch and woke up with a sore back. i called my ex bf whom i wasnt speaking to to come over and he claimed he was attacked in my bed. he woke up screaming at me to let go of him and i didnt know why cause i wasnt touching him. most recently i had a dream, still not fully asleep but i heard someone talking to me, telling me to shut up and stay still and i couldnt move. i dont know... ive had these dreams for years and they are the only dreams i ever remember or have but i can go a year or so with out having one but when i do, they get worse. i know im not crazy...im a mother of 2 very well raised boys but these dreams, they get to me.
Sep 01, 2016
 been having these dreams since 2004 NEW
by: Anonymous

i thought it was just me but i never dream unless its these awful ones...even if i fall asleep in daylight and there are people around i always wake up amazed they didnt hear me struggling. one night i fell asleep but could still hear the tv in the background and suddenly i couldnt move or speak and felt the wind beneath me. i pictured myself against a wall and next i new i was back on the couch and woke up with a sore back. i called my ex bf whom i wasnt speaking to to come over and he claimed he was attacked in my bed. he woke up screaming at me to let go of him and i didnt know why cause i wasnt touching him. most recently i had a dream, still not fully asleep but i heard someone talking to me, telling me to shut up and stay still and i couldnt move. i dont know... ive had these dreams for years and they are the only dreams i ever remember or have but i can go a year or so with out having one but when i do, they get worse. i know im not crazy...im a mother of 2 very well raised boys but these dreams, they get to me.
Sep 03, 2016
 spiritual attack NEW
by: Felicia

Most of these stories sound like demonic events. It breaks my heart. I had an experience a few nights ago. Draw close to God. Only then will you have authority over these demons. I command them to leave in the name of Jesus Christ and I know I have authority as a child of God. I know many people are skeptical about this. I would encourage you to pray and ask God to reveal himself to you. Start reading the bible. If you don't believe then test the Lord. He will never fail you. He promises if you draw close to him he will draw close to you. Then these evil spirits will no longer be able to mess with you. I'm aware that some of these stories may just be a sleep issue, but I believe that a lot are demonic. Praying for you all!
Sep 11, 2016
 A silent cry, makes the most noise. NEW
by: -D

I am recently up because of this.. I'm actually not sure if it is sleep paraylsis but, I can relate to the similarities people are having. I'm not going to lie this isn't the first time. So, I'm pretty use to it.. But tonight it happened once and I knew what to do because, I knew it was going to be over soon. So I layed there and stayed relax- I told myself "it's almost over" then it was. I have never had it happen to me more than once in a night. So when the second time came around, I panicked. I tried yelling for my mom but I felt like I was in a whole other place.. Someone's house to be exact. When it was over it was confusing focusing myself on where I truly was. Last, the third time came around, and I lost it. Remember I think my body is moving but I'm not actually sure it is.. I felt my eyes just a split open but wasn't sure what I was looking at. I felt like my legs were shaking as almost as I was having a seizure. I tried to reach out to my God mother.. But I'm not at her house. I felt her holding on to my legs.. But she wasn't there. I just wanted her to wake me up. I'm not sure how it ended but it did and I couldn't go back to sleep.. I just couldn't. I called my mom who is in her room and I told her "I don't know what's going on" and she came in a heart beat. She told me I was having a nightmare but I don't think that's what it was. I am 15 years old, and I want this to stop.. I remember it so well because it happened 10 minutes ago.. I really want to know what's causing this. I don't want to go back to sleep.
Sep 12, 2016
 solution for sleep paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

The best solution for sleep paralysis is relax yur body within 5 seconds u will get released and free from sleep paralysis
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Sep 23, 2016
 I'm Stuck, I Can't Move, All I Can Do Is Make A Soft Noise Read more: http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/im-stuck-i-cant-move-all-i-can-do-is-make-a-soft-noise-comment-form.html#ixzz4L3hKt7RD NEW
by: Anonymous

I sleep in morning at 9.am after finishing my household then was dreaming someone on my bedside and the on me then i thought i was in sleep so i try to wake up i strongly hold the beside to wake up then i dream i want to get out of house as i was wake up and try to open the door, the person who was near me forcing me not to do so.Then i ran to washroom i want to put water on eyelid but he stopped me and i rushed to kitchen but after that i went back on bed remembering GOD to open my eyes so that to see such thing. Then i decided to open cupboard which has many sacred things.I rushed to that hold holy books in my hand and wear a sacred mala(string of prayer beads for chanting) around my neck.So with that i can open my eyes.Everything was happened in my dreams but was in half sleep and that mala was never in my
cupboard.But in my dream every moment i chant or remember GOD
Sep 26, 2016
 me to NEW
by: Anonymous

It happened to me all the time when I was 8 I'm ten now the only reason it doesn't happen any more is because my bed used to be next to the wall but my mom moved it
Sep 27, 2016
 A Cure NEW
by: Morsal

I have now been experiencing SP (sleep paralysis) for many years now. The first time that I ever experienced this, it was absolutely terrifying. There is no words to explain this horror. Have you ever felt that sudden jolt of fear when someone scares you suddenly? Picture that tenfold. The sensation does not end until you force it to end. The most common LIE that I have been hearing lately is to let it take over you. This is completely WRONG and it will only cause an extended time of dread for you. I want you to flex a muscle. An arm or a leg muscle is perfectly fine. Now, tense up your whole body (flex it). Flex both of your arms, your 2 legs, your shoulders, and your stomach. Perfect, there is your cure. When you are in SP, you unknowingly have full control over your mind and your thoughts CAN be clear. All you have to do is repeat in your mind: This is not real, this is not real, this is not real. If you are still in your first week or so of experiencing this, you may not be able to do this. Fear is a very strong sense that keeps you alive. After you have gotten control over your mind, I want you to tense your body and in your mind, count: 1. Tense your body again, and count: 2. If you do this correctly, you should not have to tense more than 4 times. Praying does NOT work, god is NOT answering your calls and never will. You are simply waiting out the full time of SP. After you wake up, which you should suddenly, get up, walk out of bed, wash your face, do 10 jumping jacks, and then go back to bed. Do not sleep on your back, sleep on your side or your stomach. There is no permanent cure, and I doubt that there never will be besides drugs. Don't wait SP out, and don't panic. Follow my simple steps, and you will learn to overcome your fears and maybe even control your dreams! If you are calm, you can turn SP into a very realistic dream where you control yourself and everything around you. Your brain is very open to suggestions, and if you suggest that something happens in your dream it will happen. You can literally do ANYTHING you want. Good luck fellow sufferers :)
Oct 17, 2016
 i know about this very well NEW
by: rishabh

I'm rish from India as I read your comments and problem I going to explain what is that and why is that and what to do in that actully this nature have some rules like birts and death this also is rule of nature now every dead soul don't become a ghost every one have the fix time to enter they soul in other world if before that time any one get dead it's called akaal mrityu means dead before time and become of that soul get into ghost until they real dead time comes if this type of soul see the empty body of humans they think they can get into in it and take a enjoy of second life in others body what actully is sometimes when you sleep your soul go for doing toilet and drinking water but your body is on your bed like this your soul goes some times little bit far from body to take a round around and when akaal mrityu soul see your body it's like working and empty so they try to grab your body seating on your chest and you get stuked but the nature rule is if your soul is out of your body while sleeping and some other soul or human come to contact of your body your soul automatically come in your body no matter how far it is at this time your soul take speed of light to come again in your body it's like emergency if you got stucked like this you have to only take name of Hindu god bajrang Bali (Hanuman) in your heart you will be fine thank you love from india
Oct 17, 2016
 i know about this very well NEW
by: rishabh

I'm rish from India as I read your comments and problem I going to explain what is that and why is that and what to do in that actully this nature have some rules like birts and death this also is rule of nature now every dead soul don't become a ghost every one have the fix time to enter they soul in other world if before that time any one get dead it's called akaal mrityu means dead before time and become of that soul get into ghost until they real dead time comes if this type of soul see the empty body of humans they think they can get into in it and take a enjoy of second life in others body what actully is sometimes when you sleep your soul go for doing toilet and drinking water but your body is on your bed like this your soul goes some times little bit far from body to take a round around and when akaal mrityu soul see your body it's like working and empty so they try to grab your body seating on your chest and you get stuked but the nature rule is if your soul is out of your body while sleeping and some other soul or human come to contact of your body your soul automatically come in your body no matter how far it is at this time your soul take speed of light to come again in your body it's like emergency if you got stucked like this you have to only take name of Hindu god bajrang Bali (Hanuman) in your heart you will be fine thank you love from india
Nov 17, 2016
 Cant move NEW
by: Anonymous

Same i am 13 years old and i could be sleeping then all of a sudden my eyes are open but my vision is a little blurry and i try to move but feel like im sinking into the bed. Its like im light but im heavy to the part where i cannot move. it kinda feels like when your at the dentist and they put you to sleep like your awake but your not awake, and you dont know whats going on. when it first starts, its like my body kinda feels tingly like i have no control over my self, but i mange to jerk my leg just enough to stop it. It happens mostly ever couple of days most of the time, i know it might sound weird but when i wake up at night i start thinking about it and then it happens again i cant move. I know it sounds weird but its the truth.
Dec 17, 2016
 AWAKE AND CANNOT MOVE NEW
by: Adam

Omg wtf is happening to me. For weeks now I hear my front door handle which is about 8 feet in the other room being bent down as if to open. My eyeys are wide open I'm aware of all my surroundings I cannot makes a loud noise or move I have to scream to get this quiet sound out I cannot speak sentences an saw 2 greysih long arms holding my hands down to my stomach as I lay on my back by grabbing my wrists. Finaly my significant other broke me out of this state tonight but not other nights. I think I'm going nuts. I'm a bug person an nothing should be able to pin me in a frozen state. What's happening to me??????
Jan 04, 2017
 Call On NEW
by: Anonymous

Used to happen to me.

They are demons. Call on Jesus Christ and put your trust in him. They are all scared of Jesus because the Bible says he will eventually destroy them all.

This is the guaranteed answer. A demon's goal is to deceive you and keep you away from God. Do not go to witchcraft or psychics, it will open the door wider and make the problem worse.

Read the Gospel, Ephesians 6 and 1st John 4. It is a spiritual war.
Jan 16, 2017
 Sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations NEW
by: Stayontheground

You people who think it's ok to bring God, Jesus, aliens demons etc into this are either stupid or trolls, or stupid trolls or even just plain pathetic.
These are Called hypnagogic hallucinations, you wake up but your brain basically hasn't got the message yet.
They can happen without sleep paralysis but usually happen together.
I have narcolepsy with cataplexy and have had this since I was a baby, narcoleptics usually have their own special 'demon' ( I use the word demon but I cannot stress enough that the word does NOT describe a demon in the biblical sense, more like a companion,for long term narcoleptics they certainly do become companions) but their own special one they've had for years. Of course there are others, sometimes you feel a hand stroking your face or you can even get slapped in the face by something which is present but you're unable to view it like you would another person. This is part of the hypnagogic hallucination, becoming alarmed by it then experiencing negative things which seem very real.
You should look at the narcolepsy discussion pages based on paralysis and hallucinatory images, some of them are frankly hilarious, I'm not saying it's ok to laugh at these things but it's helpful to not take yourself too seriously, other narcoleptics routinely laugh at each other's hallucination descriptions,that's why they write them, to make themselves and other sufferers laugh. One that sticks in my mind and still makes me laugh out loud if I think about it, was the description by another narcoleptic of being regularly visited by a gold darth Vader.
No...I've never seen a spiritualist or used an ouija board.
These hallucinations are the fault of your brain, orexin levels or lack of it for narcolpesy, something that cannot be controlled with any medication either. I'm not saying that you all have narcolepsy but it's definitely some type of sleep/wake cycle disorder. Teenage and early 20s are around the time that these conditions actually begin to show symptoms.
I would suggest taking melatonin before you go to sleep, it's helps but doesn't stop it. The best thing you can do is to know that these strage things you see, or feel a presence of, while you have sleep paralysis are definitely NOT there to hurt you, it's the exact opposite.
By the way sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations have NOTHING to do with mental illness so don't let anybody tell you any different. Up until the mid 1990s narcoleptics and anybody else who routinely suffered with hypnagogic hallucinations where treated extremely shoddily by doctors who annoyingly assumed that they needed to be locked in psychiatric wards. This became a hidden, shameful thing that nobody felt safe to discuss, for fear of being labelled.
You people who suggest demonic possession are disgraceful.
The year is 2017 not 1617. It's just a shame that you can't still burn witches at the stake I guess. Get off your Puritan,religious zealot high horses. Nobody wants to hear about it ffs.
Jan 16, 2017
 Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! NEW
by: Anonymous

Just as a reminder to the hard of heart. Jesus is the answer. You cannot explain everything especially the reason why you are so troubled. When you get the truth to your suffering you begin to receive peace from the heavens! You can receive peace strength and healing is you are willing to recieve it. Also if you want to live a suffered miserable life go right ahead that's your choice but always know there is always something better for you if you accept it. You are wise enough not to do witchcraft or play with the Ouija board because something inside tells you not to. That is the spirit of God. You also know better than I do when I tell you that Doctors and Pharmaceutical companies are out only to make money! Its not in their best interest to fix the problem only treat it. God has our best interest in mind especially healing. I too was a victim of these episodes and was for nine years. The drugs did not make them go away but did help falling asleep. It wasn't until Jesus came into my life and brought me the truth. Being a teenager we moved to the other side of the country and when we did my mother was worried about being in a new city and did witchcraft to me so that I would be protected by the spirits that haunted me. Through the truth the relationship with God and prayer. Now I can say that I am 100% free from these episodes. It is in your will what you want to believe and I can say I got my truth. Thank you Almighty Jesus!
Jan 29, 2017
 I can't move but I'm not unconscious NEW
by: Anonymous

It just happen today while I was waking up from a sleep I took on my road trip. I was sleeping in a very weird position bc it's not much space but it has never happen before I can hear everything I can think clearly and I'm not unconscious but it seems like my nerve isn't responding what my brain order I can't move, open my eyes, or speak and it happens for a brief moment. Is it bc of how I sleep and it affect my brain or is it a symptom of any illness?
Feb 20, 2017
 Does so really involve demons or spirits NEW
by: Anonymous

PEPs say that it Deon's or spirits trying to take over our bodies ,if true then how do I prove that,that theory is correct
Feb 22, 2017
 i m stuck i cant move NEW
by: Ahmad

Actually this is happen when our soul is week cause we don,t feed our soul and the food of our soul need actually is the ibadat namaz quran . I have facing same issue but as i start to read quran and namaz i have never face this kind of stuck body thing so please give food soul its reality and we have to follow it cause we are very loving humans for ALLAH PAK so we are lucky
Mar 14, 2017
 Happened again... but Thank God NEW
by: Anonymous

Had this experience when I was 18 years old (25 years ago), and will never forget. Then again last night. When I was 18 it was as if something was holding me, my eyes were open and I could barely make a sound, but kept trying and when I could, I called to my bf who was in the next room, any other people close to me, nothing happened. Then I started calling out to God and then bible and I was freed. But before I was released, a deep voice said "Thou can no longer bear to dwell in this body". To this day not sure what exactly was "dwelling" in or leaving my body. Ran into the next room scared as ever and told my bf about. Never really metioned to anyone again.


Then last night, right after I fell asleep or thought. I did, found myself laying in bed eyes open looking at poster on my wall. Conscious of my environment, I could hear people chattering and strange noises like electronic devices, but really couldn't see. Cant say I remember feeling held down but was def in state of paralysis. When I first tried calling out,voice was faint, going in and out. but kept at it and eventually was able to call out saying "Thank you God" and heard them leaving. As they were leaving I got bold at this point and started talking smack saying "U better get ur ass out here", then there was a pause and I got a lil scared cause I thought they were gonna come back and so said I was just kidding...lol. Then I heard my door unlock and it was quiet.

Was able to get up after that though, was still a lil afraid to go back to sleep but very intrigued about what had happened and stayed up long enough to make sure I retained as much detail about this incident as possible.

I find it very interesting though that I consciously know to call out to God when this happenes. Thank you God!
Apr 08, 2017
 Thought I was dieing NEW
by: Jodie

I woke one night and couldn't move was able to finally get from back to my side but while while I could barely breath and I couldn't speak I closed my eyes and prayed cause it felt as if I was gonna black out and possibly die because my chest was so tight and I had slowly and easily as I could take slow shallow breaths and writhing a few mins my arms and legs and body started functioning. I was so scared if I coulda cried I would have been
May 02, 2017
 Medical issue NEW
by: YVETTE

Hi All,

I have a condition thats proven genetically with a dna test, I have Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis, it means my potassium shifts or depletes when i am asleep and your muscles need potassium to move, this can last seconds, minutes or even hours, please get yourself checked. it can lead to heart failure and mobility issues if not treated.
May 20, 2017
 Pain in chest NEW
by: Anonymous

Sounds like we're all having the same experiences. This has been happening to me for the past 4 years started around the time I began to mess with astral projection/lucid dreaming/third eye meditations.. it's gotten better over the last year but happened three times in a row last night. I'm either just falling asleep, in a deep sleep or waking up, sometimes I can look around my room seeming like I am awake and sometimes it happens in my dreams. Whatever the case it always feels like it's going for my soul or heart or chest area. Like it's trying to steal my soul or something, which always leaves me gasping for air right when I wake up, anyone else get or explain that feeling? Ive also noticed my vision seems to spiral or intensely start to shake. Calling out for Jesus is the thing that helps me the most
Jun 12, 2017
 Please help me NEW
by: Rubu Engti

Thank god I am not the only one who face this problem. Its horrifying. What is the cause of this? I'm now afraid of sleeping. Please help me...
Jun 21, 2017
 cant move but can here and see everything NEW
by: George

I've also experienced this feeling when I go to sleep and I want to wake up but I can't wake up the only thing that moves are my eyes and I can push out a little bit of noises to my wife wakes me up but from that I know I've been doing this ever since I was 12 it happens to me once every month sometimes twice a month it feels like I can feel it right before it's going to happen to me for example last night I was falling asleep but seconds right before I close my eyes I got the scary feeling like I didn't want to close them as soon as I close them they feel like something got on top of me and grab me by my neck and I couldn't move I was paralyzed I was only able to make noises and my wife woke me up has anybody else had the same like me
Aug 17, 2017
 Second night can't move see and my ears is blockt NEW
by: Tomas

Hey guys just now wake up from don't know what ... Wtf is going on with me . last night I just started sleep by chatting with my gf . and just what I felt is someone keeping me on the side and I can't move my ears was blockt as well . wen I try scream shout or something I couldn't. But after like 30seconds I get up . I was scare to sleep but with music started sleep and nothing happen that night . this night was worse god just horrible was reading if u sleep on the back is happen like this. But trust me no . can happen this in any position when u sleeping . today I take mirror from my room was thinking because of this I can't sleep . and this night I started sleep on my belly and what's happened I was almost flying in my room trying get out from someone I get up my head and I seen that mirror and literally someone put my head down on bed and I try open eyes sound in my ears was geting laughter and loughter my legs all body was like someone block me . but I make nose sound from my mouth and wake up . don't know what to do if I will get worse god help me .
Sep 27, 2017
 Someone growling at my right ear NEW
by: Anonymous

When I'm having a sleep,my dream was really weird and scary.In my dream,there was my grandma and me in that dream also other people that I don't recognise,me and my grandma was in the shop that have dress,makeup and accessories in that shop,but shop was really small and lot of stuff,when I take the what I want at the shop,my grandma run outside of the shop and forgot to pay....but the person I saw is just smiling when I forgot to pay her stuff....when I out from the shop...i heard someone with a evil laugh...that person was small and holds a knife,while I saw that little thing....he chased me while his laughing...the thing that I saw was like The Chucky in horror movie...but I only saw it once...when I was running ,I didn't saw my grandma,but I still heard that thing still laughing at my back....that place when I was tun,that place was like shopping mall but nobody around except me and that thing,that place was less light and dark night...

After my dream,I hear someone growling next to my ear,I can't scream,open my eyes and my body....I try to move harder....First I move my head side to side slowly while I hear someone growling ,I try try in a second,I open my eye and my heart starts raising and I couldn't sleep...

It happens 3 times ,I feel so scared in my own room while thinking of something that I imagined that I've never seen

I'm only 13 years old...
Nov 17, 2017
 Why does this happen NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm only 13 teen years old and this has stopped for a while already but this first started. When I was like 5 and it scares me like I just had one and. I felt like I was up out of a dream but I could scream but I couldn't move like I felt like I wasnt me anymore. And I woke up scared but more powerful like I pushed something out. For every one who is facing this good luck and just pray put some holy water near your bed. And tell a parent or you if your a adult to bless the house it worked when mybdad blessed are house. So good luck every one.
Nov 14, 2018
 Scariest thing ever NEW
by: Vickie

I had this happen to me 3 times last night.
I was so freaked out I didn’t want to go back to sleep because I was scared it would happen again. I remember trying to scream and nothing would come out, trying to get my husbands attention but couldn’t move. Every time it seemed to get worse because I felt so scared. What can I do to end this

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The Zeo

Track Your Own Sleep With Zeo

A revolution in personal sleep tracking, the Zeo is a wireless headband that transmits your brainwaves in realtime to a dock (pictured here) or your smartphone. The result? You can wake up and see exactly what stages of sleep you were in during the night! Unprecedented personalized sleep knowledge.

Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer's Guide

Sleep Paralysis Treatment Book

Ever woken up paralyzed? A surprising number of us have, believe it or not. But few know the actual causes of this phenomenon, and fewer still how to exert control over it. Dream researcher and sleep paralysis expert Ryan Hurd shares breakthrough insights into how to do just that.

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