AKA "sleep paralysis". When you wake up but are completely paralyzed and it feels like someone or something is sitting on you keeping you from breathing or speaking. You also get the strong sense of evil in the room. If so...explain....
2006-06-21 14:03:15 · 17 answers · asked by whitetornado_ns 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
sleep paralysis is a throwback from our hunter/gatherer days, caveman days, a long time ago. Back when we where not on top of the food chain and we were not the most powerful preditors. It is a defense mechanism that kept us safe at night. If we were asleep and moved, that would alert preditors out to get us. So our nervous system prevents the body from involuntarily moving while we are most vulnerable, while we are in a deep sleep. It is not supposed to continue when we are conscious but it does happen. If it happens while we are having a bad dream it seems logical to associate the feelings of terror and fear with evil but it is in our minds.
2006-06-21 15:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by luxyfoxy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the experience of being awake, but not able to move or speak, yes I have. My family has this and it is one of the scariest things i have dealt with. Often I feel like something is actually touching me and i can feel a presence in the room. I try to scream and in my mind I am screaming, but there is no sound emanating from my mouth. I start to pray and this works for me. I notice I seem to get these when I lay on my stomach and when I am excessively tired. I never get them when I lay on my side, and it has been a year or so since I've experienced one. Wow I haven't heard many people talk about this.
2016-05-20 10:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have and for more than a month, once every few nights I get the same experience. Each time when I woke up, the clock always shows between 1:25am to 1:30am. I am very sure it is definitely not REM. I had so much of it during that period of time, fear turns into frustration and frustration turns into anger. The problem is resolved when one night I decided to "turn the table". Ever since then I never had that experience...for more than 10 years now.
2006-06-21 23:40:43 · answer #3 · answered by TSL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that evil is in the room it's the fact that evil is inside you. Your good nature is telling you to say put until the evil within subsides. It shuts down most of your systems except the ones needed to live. i've been there. I've been taken to the hospital because i was late for school and my parents were notified and came home. My teacher wasn't angry but worried that something had happened to me. They came home and found me in bed with steady tears rolling down my face. I was unable to talk or move. After three hours in the hospital and four at home i was able to move. They said it was just a system breakdown. A very unusual case. I just thought it was my inner good surpressing evil.
2006-06-21 14:10:06 · answer #4 · answered by juniorteen312005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and it is terrifying. But scientists say that when someone wakes up directly out of REM sleep, this is a common occurrence.
I one time went through this phenomenon feeling that there were hands groping my body. I couldn't move and I couldn't scream.
It took all my mental concentration to pull myself out of this state and I couldn't go back to sleep for a long time because I was still terrified.
2006-06-21 14:10:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I've felt that. I woke up and knew I was awake but I couldn't move or anything ... I didn't feel like anyone/thing was physically preventing me from moving, but I did feel a presence in the room... a vaguely threatening one. It was pretty scary, once I was able to move, I spent an hour or so calming down.
2006-06-24 09:52:49 · answer #6 · answered by ladyangelovely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard it called "Old Hag Syndrome", but yeah, I've had it happen. Unfortunately, the only explanation I have is that it must've been a bad dream.
2006-06-21 14:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by oh kate! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Had no idea this experience was a syndrome--let alone had a name. My son experienced such a sensation... which led to his carefully considering his spiritual beliefs and adopting a more open-minded attitude about religion in general.
2006-06-21 14:07:58 · answer #8 · answered by gapeach7355 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have, and I do not for one minuet believe it is sleep paralysis. You may want to go to may home website Book-of-ThoTh.com/html.
It is a real scary experience to go through Hugh!!!!
2006-06-21 17:44:51 · answer #9 · answered by Yvette aka EvilMistress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, some of these people are a little scary....
sounds like you could be talking about night terrors too. some can be more elaborate than others, and there may be more to it than you remember. I haven't experienced them, but you may want to check out this website...
2006-06-21 20:37:52 · answer #10 · answered by gwenwifar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋