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Paranormal or Sleep Paralysis?

by Michael Nix
(Gulf Shores, Alabama)

Seems a lot of people are having the same experiences or at least very close to what I have had. The feeling of something climbing on your bed, feeling your bed being pressed down by some kind of weight, then the weight of something holding you down, not being able to scream or move at all, feeling like you are awake and aware of your surroundings maybe even sometime seeing a figure at the foot of the bed or in the corner of the room, also sometimes hearing groaning noises or maybe an evil voice.

It’s very scary and it makes you to where you are afraid to go to sleep of it happening again. I think in most cases after reading about sleep paralysis that this could be what it is, not to say that in some cases it very well could be a paranormal experience. I am caught between what I think is going on with me, maybe it’s a combination of both and this spirit (or spirits) know exactly when to attack a person. No matter if it’s a spirit or sleep paralysis or both it’s scary as hell.

My next move is to set up a camera and see if my bed is really being pressed down! But then again I might not want that answer of fear that it just might be.




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Paranormal or Sleep Paralysis?

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Nov 10, 2011
 It's not paranormal
by: Anonymous

I've had these experiences off and on for 50+ years and I'm convinced it's just sleep paralysis. My older brother has also had these experiences. My wife is sometimes awake when this is going on and she says that I will sometimes speak and say something like "help me" and then she will wake me up (which is sometimes hard to do). I think if you just accept it for what it is, you will take away the fear and power that it has over you. That's what I've done and I notice that it happens a lot less frequently now, and when it does happen I just kind of go with the flow, and try to not let it bother me. Take as much control of it as you can and hang in there. It will get better.
Nov 11, 2011
 Scared To Sleep NEW
by: Linda

I am sort of relieved in reading your story because I have the same exact dream and it has me afraid to sleep. It is very frightening. It's as though something crawls into my bed and weighs heavy upon me, restraining me. I struggle and curse to break free, eventually crying out, which wakes me up. But worst of all, it's reoccurring. There are times I've considered seeking help from a priest!
Jan 08, 2012
 I dont know whats going on! NEW
by: Anonymous

I have these dreams really often, its like im just after going asleep and i awake up and im in my room i cant move my arms or legs sometimes i can move my toes and fingers i cannot talk or scream no matter how much i try.. my body rises up into the air and moves around then it just drops sometimes onto my bed or on my floor, i just keep trying to make my self wake up as this is happening and trying to scream.. some times i have loads of theses ''dreams'' a night.. they scare me sometimes but they have happened so many times they dont scare me as much.. i would really like to know if other people experience what i do.
Jan 27, 2012
 myself and identical twin have some what same dreams NEW
by: Anonymous

my sister and i have had same thing happen since about the age of 5years old and we r 27 years of age now. One dream starts with we start to go to sleep and them you think you are awake and you can not move at all, only your fingers, my sister has heard me call out for help and say no before. There is also the other thing that happens that my sister has only had it happen twice to her and the first time she had it was a day after I did like a year ago when she was sleeping over in my bedroom with me on a mattress on the floor. In this dream you think you are awake and u see a shadow figure in the room that you can not see any features but it has male persence. It makes it way towards you and then leans down till it is right in front of your face and while this is happening you can not move at all, when it gets to your face it will all of a sudden disappear and we feel this pressure on your chest very heavy almost like it is sitting on you, then it starts to choke you, it is like its inside you somewhat and takes your breath away and just as you feel like you can not breath anymore and like your life is taken from you, we wake up and gasp for air and then the dream is over and your fully awake. My sister has had this happen to her only 2 times but i have had it happen since i can remeber. It reoccurs over time sometimes more then once in a night where I am scared to sleep or couple times a week or once in a few months or even a year or so will pass and then I will have it again. We both though off and on as well have had the other dream happen many times where you feel awake but you can not move for like 10 min. and then it stops. My sister and I always wondered what was happening to us, but sleep paralysis with sometimes having night terror is seeming to explain what is happening to us.
Jan 28, 2012
 scary to expirience NEW
by: Anonymous

For me it happens a few time a week and started when I was five. When I was young it only happened once of twice but within the past couple years is been way worse. I am now 20 years old trying to deal with it. What happenes to me is ill think I woke up and then all of the sudden my whole body will start to tingle then go completely numb then ill feel pressure pushing down on me. In the mist right when it starts I will even tell me boyfriend its happening again then my words faintly dissapear I no longer have control I scream and cry and beg for help. No one can here me. I try to wiggle around and touch my boyfriend just enough to wake him up but I can even do that. Then a dark shadow appears and gets closer and closer and right when its right in front of me I scream but there is nothing after a couple minutes I wake up and my body slowlly returns to me. I had no idea what this was until just today when I researched it and figured out it was definitely sleep paralysis. I don't know what to do because after it happens I am so scared to go back to sleep. Its the scariest thing I've even been through. I don't know what to do anymore.
Feb 09, 2012
 me to NEW
by: Anonymous

it happens to me to except i know 4 a fact im awake bcuz i see people sociallizing i cant move at all no figure i wat like 5 minutes and fully asleep and i have a problem that i hate staying still
Feb 15, 2012
 experienced this for nearly 15 years NEW
by: Anonymous

I too have had these experiences. It happens both when I am falling asleep or waking from sleep. Either way, it's like a state of mind caught in between sleep and awake. I know my surrouding, so I know I am awake, yet caught in a weird place. I feel a pulling, falling into the abyss, or sometimes a heavy pressure on my chest.
Every time it happens, I feel a bad presents. At times I have even seen it. When it first happened to me, I was 18. I woke up unable to move and heard noise that eventually turned into screaming. I could see a figure at my bedside holding a bundle. The screaming sounded as if a baby was screaming in pain. Terrified, I tried to move. I fought and struggled until I could get physical movement. It took great control and effort to move myself out of this state.
It has been 13 years since, and I still have similar episodes.
I feel as if this is a menacing evil being, but try to see the scientific explanations. Whomever experiences this, my heart goes out to you. I know how horrible it is and I hope that it is merely a glitch in our minds. nothing more.
Mar 04, 2012
 sleep paralysis i think.. NEW
by: Anonymous

I've had this experience too recently i had this twice and I'm 20
so my first time was about a month ago and it happen to me in a afternoon nap. i guess i was dreaming but i saw my curtains in my room moving and something or someone grabbed my arm and i couldn't move and talk, i felt numb and terrified.t i tried screaming for my brother or any little movements like slamming the wall but i couldn't do anything.so then i woke up and felt fine but was so scared and terrified.the next night nothing happen. my 2nd time happen last night, something was holding me down and my bed shook a little bit and again i couldn't move or open my mouth. my heart was beating so bad i felt like demons was trying to posses me i don't know but damn it! so scared as hell! I'm gonna have to deal with it anyways but it helps a lot that people has the same problem. i should also note i have sleeping problems where i sleep so late at night cause i feel so paranoid, i just feel like a presence in the room at night every time i try to go to sleep and with these experiences it doesn't help! i really don't have the money to see a doctor or a professional but anything from u guys can help! take care people
Mar 04, 2012
 sleep paralysis i think.. NEW
by: Anonymous

I've had this experience too recently i had this twice and I'm 20
so my first time was about a month ago and it happen to me in a afternoon nap. i guess i was dreaming but i saw my curtains in my room moving and something or someone grabbed my arm and i couldn't move and talk, i felt numb and terrified.t i tried screaming for my brother or any little movements like slamming the wall but i couldn't do anything.so then i woke up and felt fine but was so scared and terrified.the next night nothing happen. my 2nd time happen last night, something was holding me down and my bed shook a little bit and again i couldn't move or open my mouth. my heart was beating so bad i felt like demons was trying to posses me i don't know but damn it! so scared as hell! I'm gonna have to deal with it anyways but it helps a lot that people has the same problem. i should also note i have sleeping problems where i sleep so late at night cause i feel so paranoid, i just feel like a presence in the room at night every time i try to go to sleep and with these experiences it doesn't help! i really don't have the money to see a doctor or a professional but anything from u guys can help! take care people
Apr 17, 2012
 Paranormal or Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: justin bray

i just the samething and girlfirend herad me from living
Apr 17, 2012
 Paranormal or Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: justin bray

i just the samething and girlfirend herad me from living
May 01, 2012
 paranormal NEW
by: Serena

Hello,i have had 'hipnopompic hallucinations' since i was born.im 25 now and have a son of my own.i have these experiences often.i used to think it was a sleep disorder.but now EVERYTIME i see or feel something my son starts screaming and crying in his room.and i havent made a sound to wake him.also my husband has seen the same thing i saw in the same night,at a different time.maybe everytime i see something,its not paranormal.but i think sometimes it is.
May 13, 2012
 Scary NEW
by: Anonymous

I just had a crazy dream about a best friend. i awaken. I was 100% i was fully awake but i was unable to move or speak, seems like sleep paralysis but then i swear i can hear something hovering over me and holding me down,I then hear what i thought was my little sister scream for help but i cant move to run to her, im finally released i run to my dad and wake him but my sister is sound asleep as if she never was awake
May 15, 2012
 Electric paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

In the past couple of years I have begun to experience "night paralysis". It has increased in intensity each time it occurs. It started with a feeling of suffocation and paralysis, now there is a feeling of electricity humming through my body along with paralysis. I feel like I am thrashing and screaming to be free, but I wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. I sleep on my side and I felt like i was pushed onto my back and the humming was so intense, like I was plugged in to an outlet. Each time this happens, it becomes more intense. I wake up and my heart is racing. I feel violated. I sometimes take pain medication due to back, hip and leg problems. I have to wonder if this has anything to do with my situation. Is anyone else out there experiencing the same?
May 15, 2012
 Electric paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

In the past couple of years I have begun to experience "night paralysis". It has increased in intensity each time it occurs. It started with a feeling of suffocation and paralysis, now there is a feeling of electricity humming through my body along with paralysis. I feel like I am thrashing and screaming to be free, but I wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. I sleep on my side and I felt like i was pushed onto my back and the humming was so intense, like I was plugged in to an outlet. Each time this happens, it becomes more intense. I wake up and my heart is racing. I feel violated. I sometimes take pain medication due to back, hip and leg problems. I have to wonder if this has anything to do with my situation. Is anyone else out there experiencing the same?
May 15, 2012
 Electric paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

In the past couple of years I have begun to experience "night paralysis". It has increased in intensity each time it occurs. It started with a feeling of suffocation and paralysis, now there is a feeling of electricity humming through my body along with paralysis. I feel like I am thrashing and screaming to be free, but I wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. I sleep on my side and I felt like i was pushed onto my back and the humming was so intense, like I was plugged in to an outlet. Each time this happens, it becomes more intense. I wake up and my heart is racing. I feel violated. I sometimes take pain medication due to back, hip and leg problems. I have to wonder if this has anything to do with my situation. Is anyone else out there experiencing the same?

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