have you ever experienced sleep paralysis....../ scary wasnt it?

Question

do you kow it is a real condition.....i started having it when i was 16.....i didnt k ow what the hell was happening..........then in my 20's i read a medical article about it...some say it's medical..i think it's spirits..what you think?

Answer 1

That has happened to me a couple of times. Once when I was 17 and babysitting late at night. I thought the man (who was single) I babysat for came home and was talking to me and I was paralyzed on the couch where I fell asleep. Talk about freaky!

Answer 2

To the person????????? that answered this question too, Thank-you. I experience this several times a month. Just as I am going to sleep, this happens. Alot of the time it is accompanied with the beginning of a very bad nightmare. This is so frightening, at 45 years old I often sleep with a some sort of light on. I even ask my wife to keep an eye on me if she is going to be awake for awhile. It keeps me from wanting to go to sleep sometimes for fear this may happen.
It first happened when I was about 9 or 10. It never happened again until I was in my late 20's. I'm not sure if it something medical, although the medical reason sounds logical; I'm not so sure if it is not something paranormal.
Sweet Dreams...lol,
Kevin

Answer 3

I've experienced it and I found it very scary. I didn't know what it was and I asked my Doctor and he's never heard of it. Few years later i mentioned it to a hypnotherapist I was seeing and she told me it was called sleep paralysis, my Dad had had it to. I don't believe it is spirits. I think it happens either when you've just fallen asleep or when your starting to wake up. The brain wakes up before the body and the body is still sleeping so you can't move it. I remember reading a website that said make sure you go to bed at the right time, don't have a heavy meal right before your about to go to bed, try not to lye on your back, if you do experience it try to move your fingers and toes. I often found it helped if tried to move my head. I think I heard that to much stress can sometimes cause it.

Answer 4

My understanding is that your body releases a chemical during sleep that helps inhibit muscle action so your don't completely act out your dreams. If you waken suddenly, you find your speech slurred and difficulty making a tight fist or walking normally. All due to the effect of the chemical which quickly dissipates. I suppose someone could have a defect in this process, allowing the effect to last longer into the wake cycle. I really wouldn't put much stock into any spirit angle.

If spirits were all knowing and that powerful, wouldn't they be stopping George Bush, or Osama Bin Laden for that matter?

Answer 5

My first time was in my teens also.... scared the bejesus out of me. I thought I was being punished for skimping on my prayers. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak to call for help... I just lay there with my eyes darting around...

Now when it happens I just focus on moving one finger, or my big toe and I can usually break it like that. LOL - or I just close my eyes and go to sleep - which is what my body wants to do anyway.

My grandmother used to tell me it was caused by spirits but I tend to think the body is just overtired and shuts down before the mind does. Whatever causes it - it is still scary when it happens.....

Answer 6

Sorry I don't think that it's spirits or anything --- and Yes I have experienced them but once i understood what was happening they seemed to get let scary and eventually stopped -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis _ the dreams were just what they call Hypnagogic Sensations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia#Hypnagogic_sensations --- little blurb from the article -- The hypnagogic state can be accompanied by or associated with anomalous phenomena such as alien abduction, extra-sensory perception, telepathy, apparitions, or prophetic or crisis visions --

Answer 7

my jaw dropped when i read your question; i started having this when i was 13 or 14. until your question, i only spoke of it to one person who looked at me as though i was crazy. i never thought to look it up as though it were a real medical condition. i thought it was just a wierd thing that happened to me; and....at times even thought it was an entity in the room - very frightening. also, i have a thing that happens to me, a buzzing like, but its not heard it's felt. i can describe it as what noise would feel like if you could feel it. ......anyway, to answer your question,

yes, it was scary, and it still is when it happens.

Answer 8

In my first experience, during the dream I was scared because I was faced with speaking to Satan. Then another time it was because I was being abducted by aliens. Both times it was my worst fears that I have. I think it is psychological.

Answer 9

My worst one was when I was a kid and "woke up" to see a doll of mine dancing on her own and with an "evil clown" smile looking at me. I covered my head, fell back into real sleep, and dreamed I got up and walked to the restroom. I peed the bed. LOLOL

To this day, I hate clowns.

Answer 10

it's definitely stress related... your mind wakes up before your body does. it's instantaneous but you perceive it as longer (much much longer because it's scary). i've had it a few times and i'm always afraid i'm gonna get stuck there and be like that forever and die. just exercise daily and it should go away. reduce stressors, and try not to nap often.