GnarlyShillelagh: Just Experienced Sleep Paralysis

GnarlyShillelagh 06.20.13	List is 3 (really fucking good) albums from this year that are kind of freaky and I may now associate with this night/sleep paralysis forever Have you guys ever experienced it?
tommygun 06.20.13	i've had it maybe 10 times or so never had it happen twice in the same night though so dw man
tommygun 06.20.13	yours sounds p fucked up though i've never actually seen figures though i've either sensed their presence or felt like something was sitting on my torso i sleep on my front too so it's scary as fuck feeling like i'm gonna suffocate in the pillow
tommygun 06.20.13	ever had the paralysis? shit's frightening dude even having had it many times and kind of having the presence of mind to be aware what's happening and that i'm totally safe and just need to be patient, it still scares the shit out of me lol
balazs 06.20.13	One of my friends has sleep paralysis. She told me a lot about it, and it sounds the worst shit ever.
slagun 06.20.13	I have, terrible experience, wouldnt wish anybody to experience it.
Ovrot 06.20.13	Happened to me once. It was terrifying. Made me want to record a doom album but I suck at music and stuff.
ImmortalPaper 06.20.13	Sleep paralysis is a pretty unfortunate experience, but lucid dreaming is pretty excellent with practice.
tommygun 06.20.13	yeah lucid dreaming rules had a couple by accident and it was so fun aren't there ways of training yourself to have them?
Kman418 06.20.13	i've always found the concept really interesting, never had it though thankfully
Kman418 06.20.13	if i could lucid dream it would probably just result in lots and lots of sex dreams
BigPleb 06.20.13	Had it a few times, is a really horrid experience. Weird thing about them is it doesn't matter what your frame of mind is, they can just happen.
Vakarian12 06.20.13	Never had it, sounds horrorifying. I don't want to sleep now
BigPleb 06.20.13	Its not real and won't bring any harm haha, its just a disturbing trip. Should train yourself to lucid dream man, that shit rules.
omnipanzer 06.20.13	That's what happens when the dead hate you.
BigPleb 06.20.13	Quit scaring him omni, you mean soul.
Kman418 06.20.13	him think i'm gon learn how to lucid dream then fun
BigPleb 06.20.13	They ain't demons Jaccy.
omnipanzer 06.20.13	I want lucid dreaming. =-(
Vakarian12 06.20.13	Lucid dreaming? isn't that where you control your dreams or something?
BigPleb 06.20.13	Yup, had a few. Best shit ever man, takes time to learn though.
Kman418 06.20.13	yeah basically, i was bored so i found a website with a bunch of tips on how to have them and fuck it why not could be fun right
GiaNXGX 06.20.13	gay, ego deaths are more intense
Vakarian12 06.20.13	teach us to lucid dream leb
thumbcrusher 06.20.13	teach us now
Kman418 06.20.13	vak just google it there's a ton of websites that give tips and shit
mryrtmrnfoxxxy 06.20.13	wag
BigPleb 06.20.13	Dude, just google it. You need like a diary and shit so get prepping!
Vakarian12 06.20.13	already on it, definitely going to give this a go!
SCREAMorphine 06.20.13	Ouch.. I've never had sleep paralysis and I hope I never do. I pretty much dream every night and at least 4-5 dreams during. I'm pretty sure I've experienced lucid dreaming and have been as long for as I can remember.
ViperAces 06.20.13	happend quite a few times to me... its really hard to go back to sleep after it :/
demigod! 06.20.13	ive had it a couple times, i think. didnt scare me much it was just really really surreal. pretty sure i just drifted back to sleep each time that it happened. no hallucinations either, as far as i remember, just the walls of my room.
Masochist 06.20.13	First album that comes to mind when I think of sleep paralysis (and actually the reason I've even heard of it in the first place) is 'El Cielo'.
SpiritCrusher2 06.20.13	I'm not sure if this was a sleep paralysis, but it was kinda similar to yours. I was lying in my bed when my cousin entered the room and started walking slowly towards me. I tried to talk to her but she just stared at me and walked like she was in a trance. I wanted to get up but I couldn't. when she finally got to my bed she started choking me while keeping that creepy stare. I couldn't do anything, it was horrible. then her face started to deform and shit and she started to vaporize into nothing and then I've realized I just woke up aaaaand yea... crazy shit
BigPleb 06.20.13	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSx40KCeJo This is fascinating.
Masochist 06.20.13	It probably was. Most people who experience sleep paralysis hallucinate something terrifying, usually a demon or something, because that's the reason the brain comes up with as to why you're still awake but can't move (and it's technically the start of a dream).
InFiction 06.20.13	I kind of want to experience it just so I know what it's like.
BigPleb 06.20.13	No, you really don't dude haha. The general feeling of sleep paralysis is one of terror and it basically feels like you are going to die. Your mind projects images of what you see to be the 'terror'. Its fucking awful.
demigod! 06.20.13	ever since I heard of a guy "waking up" to a giant mantis perched over him while under sleep paralysis i've been pretty spooked by the subject
Vakarian12 06.20.13	just read that trying to move your toes or swallowing can wake you up from sleep paralysis. So yeah. If it ever happens, give that a go!
BigPleb 06.20.13	You are awake, that's the scary thing. Nightmares shouldn't be confused with SP though, people constitute a really bad dream as a form of SP.
BigPleb 06.20.13	I worst I had was when I was like 16. Was lay in my bed and I opened my eyes to go the toilet. Couldn't move my legs and started to panic real bad. Then I like heard an incoherent moan by the stairs outside my door. I was telling myself "wake up, wake up, wake up" but nothing happened. Next thing I know my door has disappeared and there's this like 7ft figure stood about 10ft away from me. The figure started screeching and flashes up in different parts in my room. Then the figure quickly whispered "James, James, James, James" over and over again. When I woke up I just sat there and didn't know where I was, I honestly thought I'd died or fell back into another dream.
tommygun 06.20.13	damn dude holy shit yeah a lot of the mythology/supernatural heebie jeebie bullshit behind it people say it's a demon sitting on your body or something idk
tommygun 06.20.13	like an incubus
SubtleBody 06.20.13	i don't know if i've had sleep paralysis, but one time i couldn't sleep all night and i finally started drifting off but it felt like i was still awake and I could hear people walking around on the gravel outside and i was panicking that people were in my backyard, then I snapped out of it and woke up and drifted off again and this time i heard them walking in the gravel and talking and i woke up again and it was fine and then i drifted off again and i could hear someone furiously shaking at my door and lock trying to get in an i was trying to scream for my dog to come attack them but i couldn't scream but then i woke up again. but each time it just felt like i was awake like my eyes felt open and everything and I just assumed it was a really vivid dream. then i rolled over and fell asleep and it was cool
BigPleb 06.20.13	Sounds like an intense nightmare dude.
SubtleBody 06.20.13	yeah thats what i was thinking
GnarlyShillelagh 06.20.13	Damn you guys had some freaky ones, I'm sorry. Just woke up, got terrible sleep but at least it didn't happen again. I read some about it last night and found tha wiggle your toes thing so I was prepared for another if it absolutely had to happen. Leb and spiritcrusher your guyses stories sound so fucking scary man, I think I read that the whole choking sensation you feel is your body panicking that you can't move and you start having labored breathing and shit. Also apparently though you can turn your sleep paralysis into lucid dreams and lately I have been having a few LDs so if it happens again I might try it. The whole time it was happening to me I was completely aware that it was sleep paralysis, but I still started freaking out hard just bc I didn't really know how to snap out of it. Idk if being aware of what it is is common (dreaming should be obvious too but it's not) but I'm sure it helps in taking over and making it a lucid dream
omnipanzer 06.20.13	I rarely remember my dreams and I've only ever had 1 nightmare... life is good. Now if I can just get this lucidity thing going I'll have tiger blood.
CrimsonFloyd 06.20.13	My first time experiencing sleep paralysis, was about two years ago. It wasn't scary, I was simply paralyzed and saw my fan floating above me in my room. I never got it again until I began getting drunk/popping molly. Almost every time I do these drugs (alcohol and MDMA, no other drugs do this to me), I get sleep paralysis. My first time I was scared shitless as all the clothes on my floor turned into skulls. I began hearing a very scary demonic filtered voice whispering in my ear, as well as some sort of vacuum sucking me into myself. I then saw a friend of mine laying dead on the floor next to my bed. I also get sleep paralysis when I try to take naps, almost everytime. The reason these things happen is because doing drugs that mess your melatonin levels causes REM rebound, basically an extreme form of dreaming because you missed some, and it can begin as soon as you close your eyes, before you even sleep. This makes it very easy to have your dream stage overlap with wakefulness, the cause of sleep paralysis. The thing about naps is that unless you take the same nap everyday, your body does not expect to sleep and may cause extremely vivid dreams, or sleep paralysis. If this is your first sp, don't worry. Once you know what it is, you can play with it like a trip. You can have what feels like "out of body" experiences, by projecting your consciousness somewhere else in the room and existing outside of your body, shit like that I have done many times if it is light outside.
wabbit 06.20.13	I'm almost always lucid when I dream now. unfortunately the devil's cabbage really stops the dreams. Sleep paralysis is awesome cause it scares the living shit out of you and that's always healthy.
Cygnatti 06.20.13	I wanna lucid dream!! :[
Drummerboy123 06.20.13	Embrace the feeling of it. It's psychology, if you're freaked out, your mind is gonna intensify the fear and anxiety. I've had it around 3 different occasions. The first time I literally could not sleep and just stayed awake with the lights on listening to some ambient music to chill me out. Also, I thought it was just natural for your mind to make images up in the dark. That happens to me all the time, like everynight. Tree branches outside will conform to make faces. It's just your mind playing games. Relax.
wabbit 06.20.13	just don't think ez pz
Motiv3 06.20.13	FUCK I've had this about 3-5 times. I didn't even know what it was tbh. Now I know. It's literally the scariest thing and all the times I've had it it weren't dreams where I knew they were dreams.
Cygnatti 06.20.13	I once had a really really clear dream. I was a really tragic and stressful one, life began to suck: failing grades, dad died, no internet (the worst one probs!). I realized it was a dream because I said something that I would never say in real life. I told my mom that I loved her.
Chortles 06.20.13	wow what kind of bitch doesn't love their mom
SowerKraut 06.20.13	What drummerboy said, if you relax into it you could reach the point of astral projection= far better than lucid dreams. I've had a number of sleep paralysis, so I don't find them frightening any more. That's key to having a OOB or lucid dream is to conquer the fear associated with these things. To name a few of my experiences: •A wolf standing over me, barking, teeth bared, right in my face •My brother pulling me from the bed and beating me •One in which I was a colossus made of light, but I thought something had stricken me and I slowly fell over. I thought I had died. •An OOB where I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to see my facial features moving around on the face and neck. Took some time for me to register what was happening, and got pulled back into my body and into sleep paralysis. • One with several auditory/hypnagogic hallucinations. The most memorable of the sounds were a guy moaning "Why god, why" over and over and another angrily shouted "Don't! Don't fucking do that here!" • People around me saying they are going to kill me while I'm immobile. • One where I was infused within the wall and watched as my sleeping body was projecting another body. The projected body would spin around extremely fast and there was this unnatural whirling sound. • Another where I was halfway off my bed, my computer resting on me.
olivianigma 06.20.13	i've lucid dreamed all my life but i didn't experience sleep paralysis until a couple of months ago. probably one of the most terrifying things i've experienced
Vakarian12 06.21.13	I'm still way too scared to try and sleep haha. I wish I'd never read this =(
Puzzles 06.21.13	Damn it man I keep trying to get into SP but I usually just end up bored/asleep instead. Any tips?
sleepysilverdoor 06.22.13	So I read through this thread last night and before falling to sleep i was thinking "i hope i dont have sleep paralysis." Well, this wasnt really sleep paralysis but it was a weird dream. I was in class in school and the teacher got mad at one of my classmates for doing something and i defended my classmate because he didnt do anything intentionally wrong and then i guess the teacher was mad at me and was going to get me back or something. Then, in the last stage of the dream, i was lying in bed, and from somewhere in my room a freaky little boy (i guess this was some form of the teacher or something) came and stood by my bed and then i woke up.
Uranium 06.22.13	Trying with all your strength to move your muscles or ligaments but can't because for some reason you're completely locked down is one of the worst dreams.
R6Rider 06.22.13	@Uranium - Yup. What causes them for me is falling asleep in weird positions. They've never been associated with bad dreams, thankfully.
Uranium 06.22.13	Someone was trying to kill me and I was trying to fight/run but I couldn't move any part of my body. Then my pov would switch between me desperately fighting my paralysis unsuccessfully and a bird's eye view showing the killer slowly getting closer to my body. 'Twas fucked.
R6Rider 06.22.13	That's funny Uranium cause I've had plenty of dreams like that but not associated with paralysis. I can run like an animal in my dreams but can't put up a fight lol.
Uranium 06.22.13	Maybe your past animal lives come back to you in your dreams!!!
unclereich 02.25.18	Been getting it more lately its awful miss u gnarly
TheSonomaDude 02.25.18	good bump, i just now realized that i had experienced this in the past but thought it was a bad dream or something
unclereich 02.25.18	My gf has night terrors and will start talking to people she thinks are in the room
InFlamesWeThrash666 02.25.18	Happened to me once but i was prepared for it so it didn't really scare me. I saw the girl from the Ring which was kinda cool
BlackwaterPork 02.25.18	Had sleep paralysis since i was 13, still sort of fucks me up now