Sleep Paralysis

I just had an episode. It's an amazing experience! Does anyone else get it?

 

i have a few times before, the year before last year. it was usually terrifying. once it was kind of funny. i always had hallucinations accompany it

 

Explain.

 

i havent gotten it in awhile...

 

I have hardcore hallucinations with SP. I can actually hear and feel the SP coming like a demonic possession.

 

I use to get it quite a lot, its been a while though

I always have hated it.

A few times it felt like i lifted out of bed and flew up to the ceiling..thats likely something else though

 

i've had it in the past.

the most memorable was the first time it happened to me - when i was a freshman at school. we weren't allowed to sleep in our rooms until it was lights out...we were allowed to sleep in the chapel. so one day i was taking a nap on one of the pews and i remember being "awake" but i couldn't move, couldn't talk. i could hear everything and see eveyrthing around me. then all of a sudden i felt like i was getting hit by lightning. it was pretty scary at first. but i had to wait it out until i really woke up. the subsequent times it has happened weren't as bad

 

ive gotten to the point where i can pull myself out of them...

 

i do, sometimes.

 

I googled it and I've never heard of such a thing.

 

i can pull myself out of it, too. it's a very particular feeling. some people think aliens or ghosts, i think creepy intruder in the house. but it's such a unique feeling that i know i can just close my eyes and it's over.

 

I do if I sleep on the couch or chair.. not really in bed though.

 

the first time i was able to wake myself out of it was at this condo we had in NM. i used to have thursdays off, so i'd sleep in. oh, blissful days before children. anyway, we had this neighbor guy who always looked so intensely angry and kinda mean. one morning i "woke up" and he was standing there in my bedroom watching me, angry. i was scared to death and my heart started racing. but i COULDN'T MOVE. that's when i knew it was sleep paralysis, because when i'm scared i twitch. so i took the chance and closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

 

John has some crazy sleep paralysis.

 

wtf? this i do not understand.

 

you're sleeping with your eyes open and you can see but you cant move because your sleeping. It's like the opposite of sleep walking

 

weird.

 

It's happened to me. I tried saying stuff, or hoping someone would come wake me up. It sucks.

 

Hypanagogic Halluciations :cheers2:
Some of mine are like dreaming, others make full blast DMT trips look like taking caffeine pills.
It's during these episodes, of which I've had thousands, that I get seizures for the most part. It's horrible, but the visions that accompany are beyond beautiful.

 

I used to try and fight it as a kid. I always left my covers tighten like something was coming over me. Then I'd feel the weight on me. Then I got the hardcore hallucinations. I'd see a black light come through the wall and exit through the other. It's trippy because I didn't know why I saw it but I saw a documentry about it and apparently others around the world experience the same dark light.

I'm an athiest so I write it off as a mind fuck. If I was religious I would assume it was paranormal.

I actually enjoy it now! First theres the sound of it coming, the weight and then the awesome hallucinations. I was getting tossed around my room last time and all my furniture ended up on top of my like I was in a Poltergiest movie. Sweetness...