This Video Will Make You Never Want To Sleep Again
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Why have u reduced the video length to 11 min it was usually 20- 25 min
Dam being american is more comfortable than being here almost getting heatstrokes and the us dollar can be multiply by exchanging other currency I wonder can a billionaire crash a economy?
Have you ever had sleep paralysis???
I would think the scariest sleep disorder is the one suffered by an Italian family who genetically passed down the inability to sleep, at all, at around the age of 30. It's pure torture and they die fairly quickly from it.
i beg to differ mate... i suffer from P.T.S.D so sleep is MY ENEMY .... the violence and horror im forced to re-live over and over again is slowly destroying my life.... so sorry bud ... the number of people that hate sleep is NOT a big fat zero
This used to happen to me and it was terrifying. How I avoid it now is not sleeping on my back. I noticed that every time I woke up from one of these episodes I was on my back. I even get my wife to wake me up if she wakes up and sees me sleeping on my back. I haven’t had an episode for a while now. I hope this helps someone else who suffers from this.
I have had it happen while laying on my stomach with both arms under my pillow, and my face down in the pillow. It is worse in every way.
And here I was trusting my doctor telling me sleeping on my stomach was bad! XD
@@Ub3rpwnage44that sounds terrifying!!!
@@kiwe7511 when it happens your stomach it is far worse. Your breathing becomes shallower and shallower, you can't move your limbs and you are trying to breathe deeper but every breath you take gets less and less.
@@Ub3rpwnage44same, it'll happen if I sleep stomach/face down. It sucks majorly
I suffered from this regularly for 12 years. Age 16-28. When it first started, I thought I was losing my mind. I eventually learned what it was but it was of little use. You NEVER get used to this condition. As you suddenly wake up to demons, monsters, and shadow people all around, unable to move and gripped by an absolute terror I can't even describe, you don't have time to think, "it's just sleep paralysis, I'll be fine." That realization never comes till it's over and you're shaking with residual terror.
For whatever reason after 12 years of torment, my sleep paralysis just up and stopped. Just as suddenly as it had started. Definitely NOT complaining, I hope it never comes back. To this day I still don't sleep on my back. Ever.
Similar story here but I did not suffer quite as hard as you. I would get it, not regularly but every now and then, sometimes twice and one time thrice in a single night. Whatever the cause, it stopped 4 to 5 years ago. Hopefully stays that way.
Yep, i've suffered from sleep paralysis on and off for years and it's exactly as you describe it, absolutely terrifying. Sometimes i would be scared of even going to bed at night just in case it would happen, i remember trying to even make a sound was impossible let alone trying to wiggle my toes.
I only had it once and I don't want it ever again
That absolute terror is something you dont even feel when faced with death. I still remember how intense and paralysing it was. Almost if it was the fear itself that causes the "sleep paralysis".
My demon never had a form. It was just a writhing mass of darkness and shadow that would sit in the corner of the celieng, and occasionally move towards me. Screaming my head off but no sound would escape me.
Mine stopped 20ish age too.
I personally believe that its not all in our minds.
it really is different for everyone. I got used to it for some reason... after the 3rd time I just started arguing with the shadow in my flat and told it to f*ck off, basically. And wiggling your toes & trying to relax REALLY WORKS!
I used to experience something similar while in the military.
Several of us that spent a large amount of time deployed used to enter a state we called "combat sleep". It was a state of being asleep, your body completely relaxed, eyes closed, slow respiration, yet you are completely aware of the sounds and smells around you.
It was often so complete that your mind produce 'visuals'. Or at least a sense of very unfocused visuals.
It could be described as a deep state of meditation with an acute awareness of your surrounding.
Coming back to full wakefulness, we were always well rested but were also completely aware of what had transpired around us for the last several minutes to hours.
I’ve had sleep paralysis more than once and all I can say is that it’s definitely a terrifying experience
My brother used to get sleep paralysis, he got it almost every night. After over a year of telling our mom about it, she finally took him to a specialist. He couldn’t go into REM sleep. The exhaustion from not being able to go into REM caused it.
theepicnatalie1219.
We all get "sleep paralysis" during deep sleep, but normally it wears off before we wake up to notice it.
@@redblade8160 yeah but my brother was seeing the “sleep paralysis demon”/“shadowy figure” almost every night, and that’s when it became a huge problem, he even started trying to talk to it. I only ever saw it once.
In my case it was something in my diet. I had to change my diet for a different reason and the sleep paralysis ceased. So I don't know if it was a toxin or a nutrient but it's no coincidence if I don't experience sleep paralysis since I had to change my diet.
yeah it used to also happen to me. then i discovered by myself that it was because I would be sleeping 2-3 hours per day. i had no problem being awake. actually, that was the problem. i don't get drowsy. the solution for most people is to sleep more
I have been there (twice, that I remember). The last one, I remember being hugged really hard. At the moment I thought it was my mother but she was not in the house.
sleepy? i was sleepy once. they put me in a bed. a cozy bed. a cozy bed in PJs. and PJs make me sleepy.
Uhhhh
Putting you in a bed? Solid move. I got sleepy too. They put me on a road. It felt like a no-win situation.
Make you dumb too, eh?
Is that a Portal reference?
@snjert8406 if the portal is youranus, then yes
Sleep paralysis was the single worst experience I had as a kid. I've had some terrifying nightmares over the years but nothing will top sleep paralysis.
Grow up
@@shaunmorris3835 I did
I’ve dealt with a few too many cases of sleep paralysis. All done during an increase in stressful time. All I can say personally is it’s good my spouse was close. When I screamed in my s.p., my voice whispered wake me up. My wife saved me from a lot.
It happened so many times with me that I started getting used to it,I’d just close my eyes and wait because I knew damn well what my body was doing with me. The main problem is when I would transition from a dream to a hallucination while paralyzed.
There was one time I was dreaming about a bunch of nuns and it was all fine,but then I realized I was in a dream. Right after that their attitude towards me changed and they started to just stare at me,so I forced myself to “wake up” only to open my eyes and realize I was paralyzed. I closed my eyes shut as soon as possible to avoid having any visual hallucinations,something I was at that point already used to after going through it many times,but then the worst happened,they started screaming painfully loud inside my head and they wouldn’t stop. High pitched demonic screams that were coming from everywhere around me. After a couple seconds that felt like minutes I woke up gasping for air and sweating like I was in a hot steam bath. By far my most terrifying experience during sleep,no nightmare even comes close.
Damn man that sounds bloody terrifying!
Zavalla!
It happened to me once. I worked overnight for almost 10 years, so maybe that was part of it. I suddenly felt like I was being pulled down into the mattress, and I couldn't break free or move. I tried to call for help, because I thought I must be having a stroke. I could not make a sound. It finally released me, and then I realized what had happened... scary 😨
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
@@Pegfoxx it was,it 100% was. Thankfully,that wasn’t the first time I had it,if it was I would probably be legit traumatized. If even after already being used to it,this event alone sends chills down my spine whenever I think of it so I can’t imagine my reaction if it was my first. Ironically my first time being paralyzed was rather chill,kinda funny even,it was great that at least my first experience with it was not a fully negative one.
I've had sleep paralysis for many years. Now less than before. But I've managed to break out each time by making myself move my arm. It's pretty hard since there's resistance but it is possible. It's like trying to move it from inside of yourself. Kind of like a soul energy of some sort.
'soul energy', you have found the right expression. I have sleep paralysis now and then, demons included. I can't move but I attack the demons with my brain. You could say I sent my soul to beat them up and they are gone very fast.
moving arm comes clutch
Man, I can shake my feet back and forth pretty hard and make a stupid moaning sound. It usually wakes my wife up and she shakes me out of it. I told her that no matter how many times it happens, it never gets any less terrifying.
AqwDLM.
Try first moving your index finger before a larger part of your body. You'll find it easier.
@@Chris-adams-rc-journey
At least it's better than farting in bed (or do you do that too)?
The scariest sleep paralysis I ever had, I had an out of body experience, the sound of my baby crying got me back in my body but when I woke from it she wasn't crying. I will never forget that one!
Had this happen to me ONCE but won’t forget it. Woke up, felt existential dread, felt like I opened my eyes, utter blackness and I felt there was a demonic presence right in front of me, pure evil. Lasted a couple seconds, then all was “normal”.
Never forget it
I’ve only seen the “sleep demon” once, but I have sleep paralysis nearly every morning. If you just try to relax and remember you’re just having sleep paralysis and you’ll be fine, the demons go away. Just try to think about something else, you’re halfway to lucid dreaming. The more often you experience it, the sooner you get used to it. Always sleep on your side, it only happens when I sleep on my back.
Oh man I only ever get it sleeping on my back too. I wonder if either of us might have sleep apnea or similar, positions can be one of the things that strongly affect breathing and that could trigger all sorts of effects
Man ive literally seen the demon just dis night. Sleepin on my back as well
Was lyin on my back. Suddenly i felt pressure on my legs arms and throath like someone softly tryin to choke you. While gettin goosebumps all over me. Hallucinating a black shadow with a strobe like background. Sketchy as fuck
I've had paranoia of falling asleep on my back ever since I heard about this. Never had sleep paralysis and really don't want to ever experience it!
Once my sleep demon was my mom folding clothes in my room, it felt so real and normal but out of no where she was at the edge of my bed and her face was turning black and deformed. It was one of the most terrifying experiences cause I tried yelling for my brother which I could see but he just completely ignored me.
I legit got into an internet argument a few years ago with someone who thought people who get this are simply crazy. Hopefully, they know better by now--either because of something brilliant like this video, or because they've seen the shadow people!
Yeah, but Meth heads see shadow people too.
crazy?
Only the ones who don't listen to the science are crazy because sleep paralysis can become less scary with more knowledge
@@nerozone_I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy
@@nerozone_ They were very closed minded. Too dumb to talk to.
I remember thinking to myself "I'm definitely gonna have a bad dream" that night before I fell asleep because I was stressed out as our semester results were out earlier that day. And boy did I get more than I thought I would lol. I felt the "malevolent presence" outside my window just out of my sight (And this was just after when I realized I was having sleep paralysis, and was like "there's supposed to be a demon along with this right?") I tried screaming and calling out to my parents as I thought I could hear them outside my room but I couldn't get anything out of my mouth. And I was short of breath too, it was really hard to breathe
never felt like i was being “sexually assaulted” during sleep paralysis. i mostly just realize i can’t move and then try to scream and can’t make a sound.. which scares me even more. although its happened to me so many times i’m usually pretty good at realizing what’s happening now.
I actually dislike sleeping.. in fact, just 2 days ago, when talking to my cousin, I said "I wish days lasted 48 hours, and that we still only needed the same amount of sleep in order to deal with that amount of time."
I always feel like I run out of time. At the end of the day, no matter how much ive accomplished, I feel a need to do more. I'll fight sleep until the sun comes up, just to continue doing research.
I don't dislike sleep per se but I do see it as a massive and sad waste of life. Between 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours or more of work, 4 hours of necessary activities, that leaves us with just 4 hours a day to enjoy life... And that's an average... Some folks don't get anywhere near that due to one or the other lasting longer. I feel like I get about 2 hours a day to enjoy my own mind and physical capabilities.
The creator of Invader Zim had a dislike, distrust, and fear of sleep.
Yeah, longer days would be great. I don't think my brain is fully engaged until after midnight, too. For some reason the small hours are often the time of day in which I'm most focused, and get the best quality sleep when I go to bed right when the sun begins coming up (about 5 hours worth is fine, then) and no night terrors or sleep paralysis when I do so. Night owl I guess. There's supposedly a genetic marker for such an overnight tendency in a minority of people. Posited as a primitive human leftover of the prehistoric nightwatch for the nomadic hunter-gatherer group.
I enjoy sleep for dreams. I even enjoy nightmares. Sleep paralysis doesn't really bother me either as I've learned enough about it that it barely phases me. Worst case scenario my face is obstructed
I wish there was no need for sleep, too. Sometimes, I just stay up for a couple of days. Never more than 2 days because I drive for work, but I hope one day a discovery is made to leave sleep in the past.
I once woke up in the top bunk of a bunk bed and both of my arms and shoulders were completely numb from pinched nerves. I couldn't just roll out of bed because I was in the top bunk, and it took about 10 minutes before I could move. Not the same as sleep paralysis, but still unnerving.
Lol “unnerving”
That's literally sleep paralysis
younggandalf9325.
Serves you right for choosing the top bunk!
Now imagine that while you are unable to move something sinister and powerful suddenly grabs you by the ankles and rapidly moves them up and down so that your whole body wobbles like a rope being flung around. As a seasoned sufferer of sleep paralysis, you tell yourself you must be dreaming, but nevertheless it _feels_ real. That was my most recent episode. I have had many, many more.
@@shadw4701that not sleep paralysis
I've lived this for more than 20 years. Not every night, but when it happens you don't want to sleep for a few days after. It's scary and disturbing how you have to fight your own mind and your body to get control back. Thank you for this video. I'm sending a link to the people in my life that think I'm crazy or deranged or, heaven forbid, demon possessed 😂
When it happens, try really hard to calm yourself and tell yourself you are asleep, so go back to sleep. When this does work, you will wake up but jump out of bed at that time, so you don't go back into that state.
I literally just released my short film about sleep paralysis! I've been having sleep paralysis consistently since I was about 14 years old. I've honestly gotten so used to it that I don't hallucinate anymore
I've been suffering from this my whole life, I didn't know what it was until about a decade ago, but when I found out I just went, "Ah, that makes sense!". As I've gotten older the hallucinations have changed, getting ever more terrifying. The latest incarnation is a black shadow in the form of a woman who gets into bed next to me and breathes down my neck.
And it's alright you saying, "It'll be over in a couple of minutes" but that makes me think you're one of the lucky ones to have never experienced sleep paralysis, because it may well be a couple of minutes in reality, but in the hallucination it can be *hours*. Time drags on and on as you lay there with a weird shadow woman breathing down your spine, shouting at the top of your lungs with no sound coming out hoping that *this* scream will be the one your partner, Mum, Dad, the cats, the snake, the goldfish *anyone* will hear and come and rescue you from the abject terror you're currently living! It is a literal petrifying experience I wouldn't wish on anyone.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
@@Deagle-lj7tv Glad it worked for you but I don't believe in that stuff, so thanks but no thanks.
@@ModelsExInferis May as well give it a try, what have you got to lose?
@@Deagle-lj7tv I don't believe in it so it won't work. I'd have just as much luck if I called upon Mickey Mouse or the tooth fairy. I'd go into the science behind it working for you but it's 6.30am and I'm knackered.
@@Deagle-lj7tv
If they don't believe in that stuff, it won't help them. Our thoughts have power but if we don't believe in them then it doesn't work.
i've been plagued by sleep paralysis since i was 15, and it came with really weird, scary, and oftentimes painful, hallucinations. i'd see black shadowy hands cover my face, and feel their fingers dig into my sides. it was torture. sometimes, these hallucinations even scream at me, strangling me while accusing me of things i don't even understand, something like "i saw you went out there, admit it!" and i was like "went out where?! i don't know what you're talking about!' (i could hear them in my mind and i also reply to them in my mind). there were times when i got fed up and tried to fight back even if i couldn't move, until i was able to, and i realized my consciousness was out of my body, like i could see my body lying in bed and i was beside it, but my body had a blank face. i couldn't see this "consciousness body" though, i could make it move, feel it move, but if i wave my hands on my face i couldn't see anything. then i would proceed to beat the sh*t out of that hallucination (entity) after which i would roam around my room until i wake up in my physical body again.
i don't know if science can really explain the myriad of entities i saw and encountered during my SP and apparent OBE's. not all of those entities were malign, some were benign, and some even looked like freaky aliens but they didn't harm me or anything.
@@nickers7409 just very rarely these past few years, thanks. Arran is right about the toes, i try moving my big toe everytime i go into sleep paralysis and i snap out of it.
I began experiencing sleep paralysis at 17. I had no idea what was happening during my first episode - I reasoned that I must be dying or having an epileptic fit or something. And then I woke up properly. With me, the worst element was not the hallucinations but a reverberating sensation of pressure in my head that would get more and more intense until suddenly I was awake properly. I would always try to force myself to wake up properly during episodes… until, decades later, I decided to go with the flow. I began treating the sinister hallucinations as amusing, and I suspect that is why I stopped getting the reverberating sensation of pressure in my head. However, although I adopted an attitude of making a point of not being scared and even encouraging the hallucinations, during episodes there always remains a little bit of doubt about whether it is actually an hallucination I'm experiencing. Maybe there really is somebody sliding up my body underneath the covers?
Ngl this sounds pretty cool to experience
I really hope that one day Science will begin to explain mediunity, I have a family member with similar experiences, sometimed even out of sleep, I bet there's another layer of reality that only a few is capable of interacting, I hope we all get to see it because it sounds either awful or awesome
@@seras_hokushin Next time you get an episode, try leaving the room while out of your body. I have a theory about it that it may actually be an out of body experience, as in you may have disconnected from your body. If you can leave the room and visit other places, it may just be a first step towards something more. Imagine if we could all achieve a non-corporeal state of being and live entirely as "spirits", for lack of a better word.
As someone who struggles with multiple sleep disorders including chronic sleep paralysis, I hate sleeping. I try to spend as little time as I can doing it. Also having had chronic sleep paralysis for about 15 years now, I can say it doesn’t become any less terrifying when it happens for the 400th time as it did the first time. When in that state your brain isn’t functioning normally and as such you aren’t able to access logic and rational thought, all you can think is , “I can’t move, I can’t take a breath and there is something in my room… I am going to die.”
Have you tried closing your mouth and take deep breaths through your nose?
i suggest pasting a poster or sign on your ceiling that says "it's sleep paralysis. it's not real. you'll be fine. just relax." idk but hopefully that might help.
As a kid i experienced this many times. I never had any hallucinations but a few times i remember not being able to breathe in the moments before i regained control. Eventually i figured out that if i ignored it and simply went back to sleep it would be gone by the time i woke up again. It takes some getting used to, but i hope it helps.
Exactly what I do. My brain is so used to it now, that when it happens, I instantly realize it and think "Oh, it's you again. Oh well", then go back to sleep.
😂
I experienced this once in my life, last year. I woke up in my bed, my son sleeping next to me. I thought I was having a heart attack, or a stroke, since I couldn't move and knew nothing about this beforehand. I tried to shout out my sons name to get him to call an ambulance. I really tried with all the energy I had, but only whispered strained sounds came out of my throat. The experience haunts me to this day. Its the closest thing to experiencing death I have come. And this being with my son next to me, the thoughts haunted me of him having to wake up finding me there. It felt like i was looking at the outside world through my eyes from a tube inside my head. I was in there, but I had no direct connection to my body anymore
Was looking for a comment with a similar situation. I experienced it a few times but never with the demon or feet pulling, only sometimes feeling like I was tumbling. Almost all of them after a bad nightmare. That feeling you describe, of wanting to scream or move but only the faintest whisper coming out from your breathing throat, is the most terrifying thing. I remember crying after the first time it happened. Hope this never happens to you again. If it does, stay calm and remember it will be over in a few moments.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I have had sleep paralysis while lucid dreaming and was able to not only identify I was experiencing it and see the shadow figure on my chest just disappear and regain control of my body ending the paralysis
This is what I posted and it falls kind of in the same lines as you.
This is what I posted. (didn't want type it all out again)
Yep, it happened to me a lot when I was drinking beer before bed but stopped after I stopped drinking. But a few months ago, was the first time in a decade+ it's happened, but this time I stayed awake in my dream to complete consciousness holding on to the "thing that was holding me down" and watched it vanish into thin air. It gave me a complete understanding of what was happening, and I no longer care if it happens again, because it's just me doing the thing.
me too !
Although almost exclusively a side sleeper, I have experienced multiple episodes of this phenomena. Never really saw anything, but definitely felt something heavy either sit on the bed or lie down behind me, with auditory hallucinations of breathing and/or voices. Whenever I could finally awaken enough to move, I would find my hand had been cutting off circulation to either my right or left carotid artery. I got a better quality pillow and a wedge to elevate my shoulders. No more sleep paralysis!
I first learn about this when I was a teenager, having looked into it after experiencing it one night. I was terrified that first time. But after I learned what it was, I have experienced it quiet often since. Sometimes inducing it on myself. It has since become way less terrifying. You have to learn to embrace it and relax when you realize what's happening.
I've suffered from this since I was a teenager (I'm now in my 50s) and it has only become worse as I get older. I have a host of different hallucinatory creatures that come after me from malevolent groups of goblins that carry out unspeakable rites all around me in my room to a dark unseen entity that tortures me with electric shocks for seemingly hours to dead people looking in at me through my bedroom windows or reaching up from under my bed with their dead grey arms to grab at me to an entity I call The Burlap Bag Man, who is basically that...a man made of or totally wrapped in burlap bags who looms over me. I've experienced the sensation of floating, I've had ghosts cover my mouth with their cold hands and try to suffocate me. For the most part, as one other commentor mentioned, I've just gotten used to it. But it can still be very unnerving and frightening even after all these years and I often wake up screaming.
That sounds demonic.
I had it for years on and off. It took me years to find a fix and now I can easily pull myself out of it. When the sleep paralysis starts I close my mouth and start taking deep breaths through my nose, I close my mouth just because I don't want to accidently beath fluff, spiders etc in. I also count how many breaths I take. Its always when I get in my twenties that suddenly I can wake myself up at will or even drop into a real sleep 😴
My worst sleep paralysis experience is being in a sleep paralysis dream loop. The horrors and struggles of waking up only to find out that You're still in the state of sleep paralysis is absolutely terrifying.
I used to have sleep paralysis a lot in my teens and twenties. I don’t really get it much now. It always followed a nightmare. Sometime I would experience those auditory hallucinations and the feeling that something is in the room. Once I even felt as though something was tugging at my feet. I’m in my thirties now and I can’t remember when my last episode of sleep paralysis was. It’s been years. It was no less a terrifying experience
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I thought it was just me. I have had sleep paralysis many times and it's frightening, especially accompanied by scary situations that you are not able to get away from. Knowing it's a real thing makes me feel better.
Thanks for another great video! I did know one person who resented having to sleep. He once said "think of all the things you could get done if you didn't have to sleep." I never forgot it.
Such timing! I went for a nap a couple of hours ago, and was paralysed. I only have a sleep paralysis when I am going to sleep, not waking up. It lasted for a few minutes. It's soooo terrifying! What was odd this time is that I had full control over my breathing through my nostrils, when normally it is automatic for me.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
Ive had sleep paralysis my entire life and there was one time that made me start to think its not just in my head. I had a pet that also got scared one night when it happened.
Likely just sensed your fear and so was scared itself
@@obfuscated3474^ they are even able to train dogs to sense brain waves to detect strokes. Almost guarantee it was that.
yeah - my mother and I both get it, Ive just accepted it as normal. For me I do get periods where I sleep normally and just wake up - but usually, it takes another half hour or more for my body to wake up after my head wakes up. Even my husband cant tell if im awake - i keep telling him to talk to me in the mornings when he wakes up - as him talking relieves the anxiety of the nightmares while my body tries to wake up. Wierd.
@@roxannlegg750 Have you only ever had nightmares for as long as you can remember as well?
@@forrestallen9354 I think so yes. My husband reports dreams of flying, and lots of nice things - I only ever dream of things that frighten me. Every nice dream I have had I remember coz they are so rare. Often a lot of demon like attacks, sometimes angels there for protection. The worst ones tho that lasted for years was a terminator relentlessly searching for me no matter how fast i run or how long I run.
Amazing video! Thank you!
So far I’ve only had sleep paralysis once in my life and I had a dream (while semi conscious) where a demon was pushing me in a mine cart and he said “even though I’m moving slowly”. Then I woke up from it after a few minutes.
Me too. Once. Once was enough it was a horrifying experience
I stuff from sleep paralysis. It didn't start until I turned 40. Even knowing what it is doesn't make it easier to deal with. It's truly disturbing and scary
I find the best way to deal with it is to just try and relax. The more freaked out you are, the harder it will be to breathe and eventually wake up. Sleep paralysis has never killed anybody, you’ll be fine. I deal with it nearly every morning.
@@Sniperboy5551 I agree. It still is something I would rather not go through.
@@Sniperboy5551 Next time you get it, try to move outside of the room without going back into your body.
@@Sniperboy5551ho knows some people who went to sleep and never woke up might have something to do with sleep paralysis...thats what comes to my mind when i have sleep paralysis.. and it makes me panic...but as someone who suffers from it from time to time...i now know how to get out of it...i just wriggle my toes...it works everytime fir me.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I've experienced this a couple of times. The first time I woke up with a start because it seemed like someone lifted up the end of the bed and dropped it. Then the bed started shifting violently back & forth and I tried to jump out but couldn't move. It eventually subsided and then an intense wave of pins & needles cascaded over me and it was over. Freaky experience but I actually knew about the phenomenon. I learned about it in psych class at school and I was "Hey, the Old Hag Syndrome! It's an actual explainable thing!" I had read about it as a child in some 'mysteries of the unexplained'-type book. Second time was relatively uneventful: woke up, couldn't move, then could move.
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I've had sleep paralysis as long as I can remember. As a child I tried and tried to explain this to my parents, but they always said "you're just having a nightmare, go back to sleep". I was almost 40 before I encountered the term Sleep Paralysis and I knew as soon as I heard it that this was what I'd always suffered from. Although it's different for everyone, long experience has taught me that contrary to your advice, the worst thing you can do in the SP state is try and move something, this only makes the paralysis worse. And in some people including myself it simply won't stop on its own after a few minutes, you have to concentrate on waking yourself up fully - in SP you are indeed a little bit asleep and parts of your mind and memory are simply off-line and unavailable to you until you wake up completely. In the meantime you are in a highly suggestive state where your mind will conjure up phantoms from everyday objects around you that you can plainly see but can't quite recognize because you're in SP. Believe me it's no fun at all. The trick is to give yourself a purely mental jolt that will bring you out of the SP state and back to full consciousness and awareness of where you are. This is easier said than done, but over the years I've learned how. You can find several different methods for how to do this in various online pages devoted to SP, but beware, there are just as many if not more that give bad advice and will say that SP is somehow supernatural in nature. It isn't, it's very weird but there are no demons or spirits involved. I could talk about my experiences with SP for hours, and maybe someday I will, but for now this comment is the best condensed version I can give to those who have SP and might be afraid they're going crazy (very common thought) or under some kind of malign supernatural influence (nope, nothing supernatural about it).
i've had sp one time.
when i was a kid my grandpa always told me never to go to sleep overtired.
one double shift i went to bed, i just remember focusing on sleep. next thing you know i couldnt move, couldnt speak, i could only move my eyes. then i remembered my grandpa saying 'if this happens, try to focus on one of your toes and move it as hard as you can'.
so i tried it whilst having this menacing feeling overwhelm me. minute later i managed to move my right big toe and baaaaam.
it was like a release of weight off my body!
so in my experience, focusing on a finger or toe to move it is the best thing you can get out of SP.
I used to get breathing in my ear out of sync with my breathing, fully aware, and unable to move, eyes open ( or it feels like they are) , difficult breathing, and then… seeing an old lady in a cloak, a few feet away just staring at me. It feels so real.. definitely not the same feeling as a regular dream state. I get it when I am exhausted and sleep on my back
An old lady in a cloak with red eyes visited me in my teens and it was the most fear I’ve ever felt to this day. I knew for a fact she wanted to hurt me.
Great job on this video.
Ugh, happened to me just this afternoon. Always seems to happen if I fall asleep during the day. It is terrifying! For me it’s usually the sensation of a stranger in the room and me not being able to move to get away.
If you just tell yourself you're asleep and go with it, you'll come out of it.
The interesting thing about sleep paralysis is that your mind is conscious while your body is firmly in sleep mode. This can allow you to actually take it a step further and engage in conscious astral projection.
I've only managed it a few times in my life, and it never lasted long, but almost every time it started out with an episode of sleep paralysis.
The key is to not let fear control you, or it will be like a waking nightmare. If you relax, let go of any and all fear, and be at peace, you can have some of the most amazing experiences of your life.
There is no such thing as astral projection, you had a lucid dream.
Not sure if it's astral projection but I did have a strange experience twice with sleep paralysis. I was relaxed, and suddenly I felt something like electricity on my legs and I starting floating. I could even hear a buzz like electricity lol.
Lucid dreaming, it’s fun.
I had an experience like that as a kid. As hard as it is to believe, I think it was not a dream or delusion. It actually happened. Very strange!!!
@@billlyons7024 don't contradict Mr. Thundernuts
Yep, i've suffered from sleep paralysis on and off for years and it's exactly as you describe it, absolutely terrifying. Sometimes i would be scared of even going to bed at night just in case it would happen, i remember trying to even make a sound was impossible let alone trying to wiggle my toes.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
Having several sleep issues myself..
I can relate. I've had sleep paralysis many times since childhood, and it's always a horrific experience.
I had sleep paralysis. The last time it happened my windpipe was cut-off and could not breathe and could hear a demonic laugh. I thought i was going to die. Finally it stopped and have not had it happen again.
I hate sleep paralasys, waking up before your body does and the only way to wake it up is to really focusing hard on moving one of your toes, eventually it moves a bit and then slowly your whole body wakes up. But when you wake up and hear a woman screaming on the other side of your head but can't turn around its freaking terrifying, or a dark voice laughing when you saw a shadow move on the wall you were faced towards
I seriously understand
Actually there's more ways, like as you mentioned moving your toes, you can also try moving your fingers, holding your breath or breathing sporadically.
Sleep paralysis can also become less scary the better it's understood
@@shadw4701 Yeah, it stopped for me when I stopped being freaked out by it and researched what the screaming actually could be which is the ears vibrating from waking up
Awesomely done as always, I love your videos so informative and interesting, keep up the great work!
Yet another great story from the man himself..many thanks
Fortunatelly so far the only weird things that happened to me in dreams is sleeping with my TV on with shows i frecuenly watch and then the audio actually taking part of the dream. It is a bit hard to describe but i still find it amazing, its like my brain is actually using the audio to make a dream out of it.
I'm an insomniac. There are days where I feel like I wouldn't or rather couldn't force myself to sleep after hours and hours of using my phone all day. It's as if both of my eyelids were glued. No matter what I do, it'd be just too difficult for me to lull myself to take a rest. Maybe adrenaline rush has something to do with it. I get these explosive bursts of energy from time to time and they can be tricky to control.
I'm the same, so I feel your pain
Might sound strange but you could have a vitamin B-12 or other B vitamin deficiency.
Medical reasons
Nutrition and working out is the solution to your problem!
@@Chad_Thundernutsthis I have a chronic deficiency of B12 and these problems (beside general insomnia) have been as good as gone for me since I’ve been getting B12 through injections.
I've experienced a few bouts of sleep paralysis over the years. I find it fascinating, and I enjoy the fear (as I greatly enjoy horror films and haunted attractions).
The way the fear instantly vanishes upon fully waking intrigues me.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
@@Deagle-lj7tv I just breathe harder and faster until I wake up.
@@HaphazardDisastard There are other methods but nothing stops it faster then calling out the name of Jesus Christ
As someone who experiences sleep paralysis frequently and have experienced everything in the video and even exploding head syndrome, I can say that insomnia is the worst sleep disorder. You forget nightmares quickly but the suffering from lack of sleep is an endless torture.
I've managed to get out of mine by breathing deeply through my nose, its not fully true what he says about unable to breathe.
From my experience. Just relaxing and letting go works the best. Conquer the fear and just let go. I used to have this off and on for years. One time something walked up next to my bed and spooned me. Which felt like it weighed about 500lbs from the noise my bed made when it laid down. I just let go and fell back asleep. If they gonna take me so be it. And if it is real… the fear is what they feed on. So don’t give it to em.
Sleep paralysis happened to me only once. I "woke up" unable to move. I heard the traffic outside, which made me wonder if this is what it is like to be in a coma. Surprisingly, my thoughts were measured and calm as I wondered how long it would be before I was found. I guess it did not last very long, so I never reached panic mode. I experience "brain explosions" more frequently. This is when I am sitting in a chair slowly nodding off, when suddenly I would "hear" either a loud alarm bell ringing or gun shot which snaps me awake. That can be quite unnerving.
Same here
I often hear growling when sleepy, the brain automatically awakes again super fast
I've had sleep paralysis many episodes in my life and it is terrifying. To be wide awake and unable to move anyting, speak, scream, you can't do anything. The longer it lasts the scarier it gets. Luckily most of mine last less than a minute. The ones that go on longer or not good
I'm glad you mentioned the not being able to speak part. The memory of not being able to call out for help is still vivid. After I could finally move, it took me almost a full minute to gather enough courage to reach over and turn on my bedside lamp. I instantly realized that the bedroom door was closed. During the experience it had been open. Honestly, that's the only thing that convinced me, it had all been a dream. So real.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I used to get sleep paralysis a lot, that's why I use a sleep mask... at least I won't see my surroundings when I experience it again.
By the way, I remember there was a time waking up for school (which starts at 6AM, so this was around 4AM) and while waiting for mom to finish cooking, I took a gamepad to play on it... only to realise I never had one, several minutes later, to which it just disappeared.
I am addicted to your videos!
I remember when I had sleep paralysis once. I woke up and couldn't move, my whole body was numb. Then I saw my mom attending next to my crying, mourning my death. This made me believe I did die and was in a weird state between the real world and the after world. After it ended I figured out my mom wasn't even home and I didn't die. Luckily this hit me at 11:00 in the morning after I accidentally fell asleep before going to work. I don't even want to imagine what my mind would have done to me if it were night time.
A pint with this man would be class 🍺
I endured literally thousands of these. Often multiple times a night over the course of a decade. Complete with malevolent shadow people, auditory hallucinations, and painful sensations like being clawed across my back or my torso being crushed.
It only stopped once I realized that there had never been any lasting effects beyond the trauma that my own fear generated. I've had a couple minor episodes in the 15 years since, but they were nothing compared to what I used to go through. Hope that helps someone. :)
Having sleep paralysis happen to me a moderate amount of times, it is scary but I found a few techniques that make it easier to deal with. Basically recognizing you’re having an episode and remaining calm. Also don’t fight it as it will lead to panic and try to just go back to sleep. Lucky for me I never had hallucinations but I know it’s common.
That's what I figured out also. ❤
I experience sleep paralysis. I haven’t had an episode in a couple of years but it would happen to me so often, that I would be terrified to fall asleep. I always see the shadow people, either in the form of what appears to be a child or a really tall lanky figure. I have no idea why it suddenly stopped, but I’m very glad that it did.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I had this for years around the time I was still in mid/high-school.
Saw the shadow people and all that, I figured out what was up fairly quickly. My dreams have never been all that odd, only really sticking out when it went super fantastical. This being my baseline, anytime I'd have sleep paralysis, I'd be aware of it pretty much instantly. I once even fell asleep during math class and couldn't move, I could still hear the teacher as well. It was pretty normal, apart from some weird brown scruffy mammal freaking out on the desk next to me. My go to method of getting out of it was to "pull backwards" not too sure what that really even means, but it was a consistent method id use.
Most the people on my mother's side of the family have had sleep paralysis as well, though we also have minor hallucinations and delusion of grandeur. Nothing diagnosed though. Me personally, I once upon a time believed my existence caused electrical disturbances, which despite me being fully aware that it's bull, will still come to mind. One of my siblings loves to talk to God, about all sorts of non-issues like 5G towers, and another one had to go on anti-psychotics due to having demons in their closet that would choke them nearly nightly.
Ain't genes great?
So you stopped after a certain age? I think this happens a lot, that we only have this happening while we were young.
@@kimberlina68 It stopped for me after I paused (which I never did get to resume) collage, I don’t think it was age related. More likely it was linked to lack of an appropriate amount of sleep as well as constant high stress.
In middle school, my formerly heroin addicted sister couldn’t take care of her newborn, so I took up the role as the backup caretaker for the little guy. So most days I had to take care of the kiddo, while also still attending school and eventually work.
So, stress was kinda a lot back then. The kid’s 9 now and his mother has been clean and mentally well for a good three years now, so I actually get a decent amount of sleep and the most stress I get is just work being ruthless to me, either that or my disabilities getting in my way for no damn reason.
Anyway, a lot of studies have been done on this subject matter. A lot of it seems to a mix of stress and a few genetic factors. Then again, my research on the topic is like five years old by now. 😅
This is the first time my experiences has been explained. It feels like your fading away. I’m so happy this has been explained. But, it does still haunt me. It hasn’t happened in a long time, but I think I’ll experience it again. It really sucks.
Was very funny to hear this! 25 years ago this happened to me, I had no idea why or what it was. You described it perfectly, and I am glad I finally figured it out. 😅
I used to experience this a lot when I was a teen, and growing up in a highly religious and superstitious society it used to scare the shit out of me and I'd get panic attacks whenever it happened due to all of the myths I'd been told. At one point my mom even took me to a priest for an exorcism. However once I learned the scientific explanation it went from waking up into one of my worst nightmares to being a minor inconvenience.
Kuromario.
I get my exorcism at the gymnasium.
that's true, in the past whenever weird stuff happened that couldn't get explained it would get the blame on demons and ghosts, we now know better, unfortunately I live in latin america and we're behind like 50 years, so people still believe in nonsense like that
@@greenrobot5 We're still pretty far behind where in the Caribbean where I live as well, but thankfully (or not) I'm terminally online since I work from home so I've been able to break away mentally from a lot of the backwardness that still exists here as I'm not exposed to the local culture as much.
I suffer from this all of the time after TBI, here are a few things I have noticed, some of which is contradictory to the video but my case is also not typical. First, sleeping on my back pretty much guarantees it will happen, so that's not something I do anymore. When I wake up in paralysis, it will not wear off by itself, ever, there were periods early on where I recall seeing the TV on and a whole half hour TV show passed, it was a nightmare. I have learned that unless I strain to physically move myself enough to get my body to have some kind of reaction or somebody else starts moving me, I just don't wake up proper at all. For the longest time I would try moving my fingers or toes as so commonly suggested, but I had better luck with my neck, and because of this I try not to fall asleep in positions where moving my neck may be difficult. More recently I discovered moving my hips is actually easier and more effective, as strange as that may sound. I have never seen anyone suggest this in all of the years of my deep dive research, so if you suffer from sleep paralysis as well, try shaking your hips!
Your breathing is taken care of for you as the video mentions, but you can manage to control your breath. I have tried increasing my breathing rate in hopes that would help my body think it was awake, but it has never been effective. I can't recall ever having a feeling I was being dragged away, falling, or floating, but pressure on my body, or parts being straight up touched or grabbed is very common.
The hallucinations that accompany it vary wildly too. Sometimes they are the things doing the touching, and you can feel and often hear them around you even if they cannot actually be seen. An interesting side effect is I have lucid dreams nearly every night, but if I become too aware during the dreams then paralysis hits. Often things from the dream will become part of the hallucinations I see when I open my eyes, except they are strange distorted versions, and things in my room morph into often into something scary until I focus and realize what they really are. I have my room arranged in such a way to try and minimize things that may be problematic to see in that state. Audio becomes completely unintelligible, and sounds from normal things like an air conditioner sound like they got ran through some kind of muffled terror filter and warp into audio hallucinations of their own. The exception to this is on several occasions I have heard my own thoughts as if spoken from somebody who is directly in front of my face, and not always in my own voice. It is freaky. The most bothersome of the hallucinations has to be the misshapen shadow figures with blurry holes for facial features bending over and getting right in my face, talking to me in weird distorted sounds. Even if I keep my eyes closed I can still hear and feel them there. It is not great. Another freaky phenomenon is entities you can have an actual mental conversation with, they feel like they are trying to be persuasive, but at the same time they feel entirely untrustworthy. I can easily see how somebody would think this is a demon.
The sexual part the video mentions is very much a thing. I have had lucid wet dreams and became too aware, then the paralysis kicked in. The thing is, the dream plot kept going so I was just laying there while, uh, things, were done to me, and being able to feel all of it while being completely helpless. Maybe TMI but that cranked fetish activation up past 11 and is one of the few situations where not being able to wake up from the paralysis was okay.
The worst part of all of this is due to my TBI, for a short time after being able to get up and move around the audio and visual hallucinations keep going for a little while before the dream engine in my head slows down and stops.
It's been over a decade now dealing with this, and it all feels old hat. I understand the process of what's going on quite well, I am not the slightest bit religious or superstitious, and know it's not any type of supernatural occurrence. I'm also not nearly as scared as I used to be but that doesn't make it any less bothersome. There have been many times where I am just straight out annoyed and tell the shadow people to eff off while keeping my eyes closed trying to wake up.
Oh yeah, perhaps needless to say, but I am part of that "0%" of people who very much does not like sleep.
Pretty interesting, I used to experiment with lucid dreaming when I was in my late teens/early 20s ish (32 now) and I'd experience sleep paralysis every now and again. It was always sort of a cool experience for me, which I think might have to do with me being aware of it before it happened first, and it maybe feeling like I was "succeeding" with my lucid dreaming techniques. Makes me wonder if it comes down to mindset, where most peoples' first experiences are terrifying because it's so wild unless you've heard it about or researched it before. I've always just been able to "wiggle" out of it (usually with my shoulders) when I want to, but it would take 10 seconds or something along those lines.
I never experienced sleep paralysis but I am aware of it for years. The other night I think I almost experienced it for the first time; I had a tumultuous dream and at one point I heard a woman whisper in my left ear "on your left", or "left" very vividly , and before I was about to turn my head and open my eyes, I realized I was actually still dreaming and knowing what I know about sleep paralysis, I decided to hold my eyes shut. "That was close", I thought to myself thinking that I would have most definitely experienced sleep paralysis.
I literally knew what was about to to happened before I opened my eyes, clenched them shut, and felt like "Whew, almost had me". Also, what was stranger was how real the female voice sounded. It made me believe someone was actually there by my side leaning in and whispered. It's not the first time though that I heard very distinguishable sounds in my sleep, but it never happened at that stage of sleep, it's usually while I'm falling asleep and at those times I'm startled but still very much aware that I'm sleeping.
I do have a terrible sleeping schedule and I'm feeling very exhausted, so that may be contributing to an increase in such experiences lately. In hopes to prevent sleep paralysis, I sleep on my side or face down. However, I think I sleep best on my back, which is a shame.
I do like dreaming though, bad or good dreams. Gives me so many great ideas the days after for movies, video games, art ... which I completely forget throughout the day, but it's still nice to think about it. I should have a dream diary.
I have had calmer sleep in the past few years. However, trying to sleep used to be a scary experience. Sleep paralysis. Narcolepsy. Night terrors. Thinking I was levitating. The bed shaking. It all went away finally. Why? I don't know. The night terrors ended after a faith healer prayed for me. A ketogenic diet helped with narcolepsy.
Both my mother and myself have lived with this for decades, and ive always joked I wake up first, then my body takes much longer to wake up (often up to another half an hour, and whats stranger, one side of my body wakes up before the other. I do have a rare form of mild epilepsy (Temporal lobe epilepsy) and its been assumed it was a part of that. I was never told this part tho is an actual sleep disorder. Im literally awake in my head, can hear, feel, think (when its not a nightmare, which is normal for me), and sadly i fall asleep at random during the day, but my mind is fully aware, and even develop super powerful hearing, with voices feeling like their using a loud speaker. The doctors have diagnosed the day time events as atonic seizures, but this is far more explllanatory. Im now on narcolepsy medication, Modafinil, and these morning and daytime events have almost go away completely. And interestingly enough, when I was eventually diagnosed with severe anaemia, after years of severe sleep problems and fatrigue and heart irregularities, now that Im on regular iron infusions, together with Modafinil its almost fixed the problem.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
I've experienced sleep paralysis twice and it was, without a doubt, the most terrifying thing I've experienced
I get them from time to time, for me I'm unable to breathe as well as not being able to move or speak and once my body forces my lungs to take in air because I'm suffocating that's the only thing that breaks it. Probably only lasts about 10-15 seconds but when you can't breathe it feels like minutes. My eyes only open when it's over as well so I never see anything weird.
Ive had it a few times, mostly unable to move or open my eyes with a feeling of someone else in the room. But one time I had it with a sensation of levitation and an overwhelming felling of euphoria and feeling of connection to all things in a unity state.
If you know you're having sleep paralysis you can control it with positive thoughts and focusing on something you like. It becomes lucid dreaming and pretty awesome really :)
This is my experience also.
Yeah I feel like I legit know what it feels like for a human to fly because of how much I do it in my lucid dreams 😂. Feels so real, but it took me years to be able to control it.
I've had this before, the only thing that's stops it is calling out the name of Jesus Christ, and if you can't speak then thinking the name out loud in your head, it worked every time and nothing else worked
@@Deagle-lj7tv Just try relaxing and accept it won't hurt you, because it won't then you can have a nice dream about your God !
@@andymouse Calling on Jesus stops it completely, and that tells me that I shouldn't stop and enjoy it but that it's something demonic. Even if it feels good at times, Satan often appears as an angel of light
I had my first proper experience of sleep paralysis last year and another a month later. First time was the old hag pinning my chest, second time was the gray blob man who replaced my husband in bed one morning.....I jumped down the stairs :) I tried to stydy the disorder and decided to try to look forward to the next time and as expected it hasn't happened since. I do sometimes imajine earthquakes or sleep walk and sometimes I fall asleep randomly even standing up during the day. The sleep paralysis was terrifying I wont lie, she was screaming in my face and she seemed so real.
Keep unholy things out of your house such as ouija boards, dream catchers, even posters or paintings and other art work that depicts evil. It’s not genetics, it’s environment.
No one can convince me otherwise that the buzzing sound is the scariest sound known to man in the dead of night. Not pleasant. I had sleep paralysis throughout my teenage years quite consistently. I only had a few visual hallucinations, but realised a few events in that if I slept on my front with my head facing the wall I could not see anything. For me the real terror was the auditory stuff. It was this awful buzzing static sound that pulsated in my head. It was extremely loud and would sometimes be accompanied by someone screaming their lungs out by me ear too.
I also experienced being pulled out my bed by my feet a lot as time went on. I could feel myself levitating and slowly backing out of my bed. I managed to counter this by clutching my dog in the middle of the night.
I only ever got it when going to sleep, and it would always happen more than once every night (usually 5 or 6 times until I was too shattered for my body to even do it) so the worst part was knowing that it wasn't over yet, even when I had finished.
I can only say this to people experiencing it- find a comfortable position that allows you to avoid visual hallucinations and sleep with a pillow on your head to help with feeling more secure. A pet really helps things too. Don't panic, shut your eyes and concentrate on something else. If things are really bad, just know that 90 percent of the time it doesn't last forever- maybe a few years, but not forever.
Hope this helps:(
I've only had sleep paralysis 2 times in my life and it was 2 nights in a row. it was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had. Like many others I saw a shadowy figure holding my chest down that I assumed was a demon. This was 15 years ago when lived a completely different lifestyle. I had stayed up for 2 nights in a row rolling with miss molly; zapped of all serotonin and already seriously depressed i had written a suicide note (that i thought i would carry out soon), sat next to my bed for those 2 nights after staying up 48 hours, and each time i'd drift off the shadow figure would crawl in my bed and try to suffocate me. On the 3rd day after the 48 hour rolling experience, feeling a bit more sanity, i tore up the note and threw it away in the dumpster down the street. I slept like a baby that night. I was hesitant to go to sleep for a few weeks after that but i haven't had a reoccurrance since. Thank GOD!
Sleep paralysis is 100% panic and dread ,specially when you come round and start nodding off and feal it coming on again
Not always. It can become less scary with better understanding
As you said trying to relax is a good advice. I’m so used to it that I don’t panic anymore. I just wait til it’s over. Screaming isn’t possible because nothing comes out, no sound. It feels like having no voice anymore and being choked at the same time.
I've been suffering from sleep paralysis since my teens. I am 59 years old now. They have been less frequent now, about an episode every month or so. I have kept a journal since my twenties, but nonetheless, every episode has been a terrifying experience that I have not been able to control.
I have a fear this will be me because my episodes started when I was 14 and I’m 26 having sleep paralysis constantly. They’re also terrifying, to the point where I feel scratching or that I’m being pulled, or floating. It’s insane
What helped me is that I tried to ignore them no matter how scary they were and tried my best to not be scared by them, also check if u have sleep apnea
I used to get it alot when I was when I was younger. It was terrifying seeing things. Screaming, but unable to do anything..
Mainly from long long weekends and very little sleep
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Had sleep paralyses once and I can safely vouch for it's effects that it's damn frightening!
Mine were I couldn't move but nothing else happened I was completely paralyzed
I know a few people who dislike sleeping. Sometimes me included. It greatly sucks we have to do it as it wastes so much of our time like you said. Life would be much more enjoyable and full without sleep if we didn’t need it
I get sleep paralysis all the time... I have narcolepsy and I will be stuck with it for the rest of my life. I hate sleeping and knowing I will never get proper sleep.
I get sleep paralysis, and I find it fascinating. I figured out how to induce it, and I can make it happen most of the time. I like experimenting with sleep paralysis and I don't mind the constant adrenaline rush and the overwhelming sense of dread and fear because it's just so fascinating experiencing it. I want to go back even if it's terrifying every time.
Please share, I'd like to give it a try
@ElowTheProducer •Lay flat on your back. •Works best if you're already kinda tired from a lot of activity. •Let yourself come to a resting heart rate •Begin taking shallow breaths, as shallow and short as you can, but don't hold your breath. Just breathe little bits of breath, and stop yourself before taking the rest in. •Then close your eyes and focus on trying to breathe shallow. •Eventually, you'll feel a wave of adrenaline trying to wash over you, giving you an urge to breathe in, but don't do it. If you manage to get past this point, you'll likely hear everything change pitch, or you might just hear weird noises. Everything will be alarming and scary. You'll probably hear someone trying to break into your house or something coming to harm you. Just try to remain calm and observe the strangeness. You'll be awake but you won't be able to move. This takes maybe 15 mins to an hour, and I only get there half of the time that I try. If I tale benadryl or something that makes me sleepy, it doesn't work at all.
I experience sleep paralysis after a particularly scary nightmare. Almost every time. No demons or anything, just paralyzing fear and the inability to move for about 5 to 15 seconds.
same, maybe its funny or not, but in most cases i run away from t-rex, wake up and cant move for 10 or more secs.
I've had those dreams and they were absolutely terrifying. But I was never on my back. I sleep on my side(left/right) and when I felt it happening I would start to mumble until I was able to say a prayer (i would actually be fully aware that I am forcing myself to do so)and I would snap out of it immediately, and I would wake up on my side. That has always been my go to whenever it would happen.
As a medical student, you have taught me a lot about the impact of immobile motor neurons on sleep paralysis. Thanks Sir.
Guaranteed 85% of the people watching this are now going to experience this sometime this week. Thx Thoughty2! LOL.
I've had milder episodes of this off and on over the years. I have a vague notion of being somewhere between sleep and awake during them. Usually experiencing an anxious situation that I cannot resolve. Once awake, the unsettling feeling continues for a few minutes until I remember it was all a dream. Then the day moves on. No goblins or monsters or sexual assaults thank god!
I’ve never had it before and I’ve just been fascinated by all the comments and have been reading them all… does that put me at risk?
Oops 😅
I get it every once in a while, it comes in waves and it’s always the same, three different entities enter my room, sometimes I can see them, sometimes I can just feel them and hear them, on of them is different from the other two, it has something in his head that is different to the others, when I’m able to see them I can only see shape but not detail, sometimes is dark shadows, sometimes is green shapes like if I was looking through a night vision device, the one that is different never gets close to me, it always stays in front of the bed, just standing there looking, the other two get on both sides of the bed and start whispering like if they had a thousand voices, sometimes I can catch a phrase or two, then they start touching me which is truly terrifying. After a while they just leave and then I’m able to wake up, sometimes in tears, sometimes just shaking and sometimes just really confused and trying to figure out what just happened. In my mind I just tell myself “this is just a natural phenomenon, you just had a sleep paralysis episode” but deep inside me I just know how truly terrifying that experience was and how scared I get every time it happens. Not sure if it’s related but I’m also able to have lucid dreams at will.
I used to get sleep paralysis every night that I've gotten so used to it, I eventually stopped fighting and actually enjoyed the thrill.
That's what I do I count in my head and remind myself to breath
I have sleep paralysis at least 2 times a month
I suffered this all my life, even in childhood. At my 30s I discovered that what triggers it is changing your sleep schedule. My visitors from hell are finally gone thanks to that. If you suffer from this , avoid change your sleep schedule.
That is so true! Keep your sleep schedule and try not to sleep on your back!
I skip literally every single other UA-camrs commercial sponsors, but I always end up watching yours... Interesting.
I dont think ive ever experienced sleep paralysis but my memory isnt the best so i mightve once or twice in childhood. Waking up after being under anesthesia for 8 hours is scary ngl. My brain was waking up and i could move my eyes but i couldnt move anything else, it took me like 10 minutes to be able to move my mouth cause i wanted to ask for my comfort object (an old horse teddy ive had since i was a baby) but i couldnt speak or anything properly, my voice just poofed out of existence and was replaced with a raspy whisper lol. At the time i hated the feeling - my throat felt hella sore like i needed a drink, i couldn't move anything properly and my mind was extremely fuzzy like in the morning. All that combined with a bunch of doctors around me that i didnt know while i was in a bleak hospital hallway made me really uncomfortable. I can barely imagine what sleep paralysis would be like!
Hey 42 here!
Some things in life is so universal
As someone lucky enough to experience sleep paralysis, I feel the scariest thing is just how little is known about it.