How would you explain this?

Question

I have weird experiences sometimes; especially involving my sister and especially when I am asleepor coming out of sleep. This one night I woke up in the middle of the night and tried to get up and it felt like somebody slammed me back onto the bed; like they had their hands on my chest.I started to freak out and tried to scream but I couldn't and then it put its hand on my mouth. After it did that I wasn't scared though; I felt like it was trying to calm me down and get me to focus on something; it wanted me to do something. It turned me over to the side of my bed and I had to "drive" myself out of this "feeling" I had; I can't explain that part. I talked to my sister two days later and she said that night she had drank way too much and was lying in the back seat of a car after puking until she was puking up green stuff and at one point she thought she was dying. I had an uncle who died ten years ago of alcohol poisoning; he choked on his vomit. How do you explain this? What happened?

Answer 1

I agree with Michael, it sound like sleep paralysis. He gave some good links and had a very good explaination so I will not add anything to what he said except to agree and offer another link .

Answer 2

I can't guarantee that it was your uncle. I can't even guarantee that it was not sleep paralysis, but I do think for those two things to happen on the same night demands more respect than a coincidence (I don't even believe in coincidence for that matter).

It seems that a certain entity may have been trying to communicate with you. That feeling you got probably coincided with it attempting to give you the details of what it wanted from you. The fact that no words were exchanged could be either because the spirit was not capable of effective communication with humans or because you were not able to open your mind to thoughts it tried to send you. That is not your fault. If you had never experienced mental communication with a spirit before, it would have been extremely difficult to start so suddenly and randomly.

It seems unlikely that this spirit was any sort of high being or an angel since it clearly didn't know that your sister would be alright in the end. If it had, it would not have tried to get you to intervene since it would not matter anyway and the experience would likely teach your sister something important. That points to your uncle again but I won't jump to conclusions- that's your job. I'm just trying to make it easier.

My suggestion is to relax and try to contact your uncle, preferably at night when the worries of day will not obstruct you as much. Then, you can ask him to tel you if he was there, and by opening your mind you will likely get a response, regardless of whether it is a feeling, a thought, words in your head, or just an image in your mind's eye.

Answer 3

What you describe sounds like sleep paralysis. I've had it happen once when I was young, probably early teens. I was asleep for some time and woke up but felt like something was on top of me holding me down, and I couldn't move or say anything. When sleeping your body produces a hormone that shuts off your muscles which prevents you from acting out your dreams. When you are woken suddenly this hormone doesn't wear off in time, and you are lying there awake and aware but can't move or speak.

Religious fanatics will try to tell you it was a demon, but from what I've noticed only they fear and experience that stuff. I'm not an atheist but more like agnostic or naturalist. I don't acknowledge any god or any kind of evil santa, I mean satan. There is no reason for evil to come after me. The way I see it, the more you believe in evil, the more power you give it.

btw, I DO believe in ghosts and have seen enough evidence online and on tv specials (Ghost Hunters) to see that they are real. Although I have never experienced anything. Yes I'm somewhat afraid of anything lurking in the shadows, but I'd rather it be Casper! I want to experience/see a friendly ghost or a remaining spirit.

Anyway, enough nonsense, here's a Wikipedia entry that explains a bit more about sleep paralysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Answer 4

I HAVE THIS PHENOMENON.

Strangley my sister has it, too! When I described my episodes to her she freaked and said, "I get that, too!" Then I freaked! What really amazed me was that we both hear a loud "buzzing" sound during paralysis and we both sense an intense evil presence!

When I have it, sometimes can be lying there wide awake just before I go to sleep. As I start to drift off to sleep, the buzzing sound wakes me up and I can't move! The best way I can describe it is it's like being a frog under a running lawn mower....the buzzing is so loud, yet I can't move to get away from it! I then scream at the top of my lungs but ony a tiny squeak comes out that my wife can hear. She then shakes me out of it. I sometimes can talk my way out of it (in my mind) by commanding the phenomenon to leave in Jesus' name.

Weird, eh?

Answer 5

if it was your uncle then why the heck would he be holding you down? what purpose would him holding you down serve? did that tell you that your sister was puking? did it in anyway help you or her? is she alive now because of it? her thinking she was dying as she puked is completely different from someone choking on their own vomit which incidentally isn't alcohol poisoning.

no, it was sleep paralysis. your sister drinking too much was just a coincidence. she and your uncle are not the first people to drink excessively. odds are there might have been someone that very night who did die from choking on their own vomit, but still you didn't help that person any by being held down in bed.

i'm afraid the simplest explanation is the best, you had sleep paralysis, and your sister should learn from your uncle's example and tone down her drinking.

why wouldn't your uncle have gone to her and held her instead? wouldn't that make more sense?

Answer 6

You were having a nightmare.It seems kinda real and your body goes numb sort of like you have lost all strength and cant fight back.Eating onions cause some people to have these dreams others just have spells they go through.I sometimes have them myself.This effect can also take place if a person has died in or near your house.

Answer 7

I don't think there's any connection between your sleep problems and your sister's alcohol use/abuse. It was just a simple coincidence -- two events happening at the same time. You may wish to see a doctor about your sleep problems.

Answer 8

It is sleep paralysis. It is normal to have strange sensations when dreaming, just falling asleep, or just waking up. Your brain and body have to get back in synch. One is more asleep than the other. Nothing to worry about.

Answer 9

This is not some kind of a sleep paralysis. It was really your uncle's soul. He wanted you not to save your sister that night when she was drunk & was subjected to alcohol poisoning. Believe me. I'm not kidding. Since he died in that way, he wanted someone else to die in that way. But that time his mind changed thinking that it was his own relative and he let your sister live.

It wasn't a kind of outer body experience as you were within you.

Answer 10

OK, you are either a certified wacko or you had too much to drink, or maybe just maybe you had an encounter with the dark forces.