pillsbury420 wrote:
Yes, as stated above, this is this “sleep paralysis”
I experience this a lot (more often when I was eating a lot of beanz).
It happend to me as a kid as well but I didn’t know what it was.
basically, you are awake, but you feel terrified. You try to move or even scream but it just doesn’t happen. Then sooner or later it fades away.
There is much more to this than just being paralyzed though. You can learn to use this to acheive out of body experiences.
The first OBE that i encountered with SP was when I was falling asleep, but I began to feel the feeling… I heard acid like sounduals and my body tingled. When I finally got there, I tried my hardest to keep my fear at bay. I didn’t try to move or get out of it.. just go with the flow. I began to float above my body. I saw my roof getting closer and closer. When I snapped out of it, I was back in my bed. This caused me to research what I experienced.
Since then, I’ve expereinced it on one occasion with my eyes closed. I felt an incredible ZOOMING feeling and I could see inside of a friends house (everything looked very psychedelic). Do some research.. It is very intriguing. The first step is to not be afraid (which is hard because the feeling is very scary). Let us know how it goes.
Later.
Hi very interested in your experiences, I get this a lot, ever since I was 15 )(thats why i knew about it!) I didnt want to write about it before, in case I sounded a bit mad, but as you’ve had this too……
With me I have managed to learn to wake myself up, which is start wiggling a toe, then gradually i can move more and more – a couple of really awful times, Ive actually managed to open my eyes but have still been paralysed and not properly awake.
When it started there was also a sensation of pain, and then my mind seemed to be floating round my room. My boyfriend at the time said he saw me in his room once, then i turned and disappeared, but i put it down to him just dreaming about me. I certainly didnt recall being there! He told me to try to turn a light on next time it happened, but it never did again in quite the same way.
Shortly after that it changed to feeling there was a presence in the room, a black hole in the corner getting bigger and coming closer, and now many years on, its more often the feeling I must wake up because there is danger around me (someone trying to break in is a common one), or theres a problem with my breathing – but I have never gone with the feeling since those early experiences. The terror is just too much for me, its like your going to die if you dont wake up. Ive never had the feeling just “fade” like you have. Ive tried to relax into it a couple of times, but the terror just grows and grows.
Emotional upset & being over-tired will spark it off, but often it just seems to happen for no reason.
I’ve heard it called “devils grip” before, and thats what it feels like. Horrible!
