I sleep walk 1-2 times a week. the wife wakes me up pretty quick now days but its pretty normal for me to try and walk out of the room. or just go do circles in the closet
Yeah looked up the origin for nightmare because I had never heard that before and that's what it feels like. The painting The Nightmare is pretty much what sleep paralysis feels like.
You need to see a doctor. According to the Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleepwalking/basics/symptoms/con-20031795
It's usually the outline of someone that looks like person standing in the shadows. Basically my brain forms a human being out of whatever I'm looking at. Did sit up in bed once in my old apartment and saw an old man sitting in the chair across from me. Yelled loud enough to wake up the neighbor upstairs. Still not sure what happened there since I didn't see him until I sat up. And honestly still creeps me the hell out.
Whew, yeah never seen anything like that. Just the figure in the corner or like something leaning over me. It may have been one of those ones where you think you wake up but you're still in your dream. Those are freaky as shit too
I woke up and had this horrible feeling of doom, and after laying there for a minute had this overwhelming sensation that I wasn't alone. Sat up and there was a very old, very sickly looking man sitting in the chair across from me and I screamed like a little fucking bitch. He just kind of faded out after that. Checked every lock in the place and slept on and off with the light on for the last couple hours of the evening.
Yeah, it's basically the exact opposite of sleep walking. I get it about twice a year, and it always involves the voices and shadowy figures. It's much more entertaining, now that I'm older and know how to deal with it. If you stay in a happy mood, it doesn't become demonic. I can make the shadows appear as female body silhouettes (I lucid dream several times a week, so this might help in the control of the situation). It's almost like you're about to be raped by sexy ghosts. Unfortunately, if I slip a little bit in the control, they turn into horrifying witch apparitions. Have you had the floating away sensation? Like they get to you, and carry you out of your bed? It's freaky. The two times that has happened, I carried over the sensation of the witches getting to me back into a deep dream state, and they carried me out of my house and into the sky. They eventually drop me, and it feels real (probably helps the sensation, that I've been skydiving several times, so my body can draw up the memories of that feeling whenever it wants). I wake up with tons of adrenaline, and no chance of falling back to sleep. I wonder if there is a correlation between people who experience sleep paralysis/night terrors, and people who can lucidly dream easily?
So you get the crone/hag figure. I've never had the carried away sensation. I always get enraged when it happens and just want to fight it. I'll wake up and be so angry I can't go back to sleep. I remember when they started as a kid waking up and pacing around my room wanting whatever it was to fight me. I use to tie my Swiss Army knife to my wrist with a shoe string so I'd have it when it came back. I absolutely think it's tied in with lucid dreaming. Just in this thread it seems that most of us who have this can also lucid dream if we can overcome the feeling of doom and realize it's just a dream. I know that every time I've had a lucid dream it's like the dream ends and it's just me in like a big open field. I can't fly but I can kind of hover really high and I try to fly and it'll feel like I'm just falling and I'll get that afraid feeling again and that's usually when I wake up.
Not a disorder, but every day for the past 2 weeks I've woken up with a crick in my neck. No idea what's causing it and that's the frustrating part. I've tried sleeping on my side, back and stomach, pillow, no pillow, doesn't seem to matter. Mattress hasn't changed.
One of my former housemates reported seeing something like this in his room one night, except it was a woman. He claims his GF saw it too when he woke her up to get her to look. Though I never talked to her after it happened because I never saw her again so I can't confirm if he is telling the truth about that part. He had already been convinced the house was haunted, so the next morning he started searching for a new place to live and moved out by the end of the next week. I still hate him to this day for telling me he believes he saw a ghost in that house.
Try sleeping with one of them neck pillows. Sleeping on your back or without a pillow is the worst thing to do for the neck.
Mine used to be kind of enjoyable and yes I have floated off. The dark shadow stuff while scary was kind of cool once it was over. However, my recent ones are more health related and scare the shit out of me. I'll fall asleep on the sofa only to fill like I'm having a stroke or dying however I can't call out to my wife or grab my phone to call for help. Last for a good minute then all of sudden I'm fine and the sleep p and night terror is over.
Sleepwalk ocassionally. Have night terrors every now and a again. Had a night terror episode earlier this week. All I could see was a dark figure standing at my closet just staring in my closet. Couldn't move or say anything. Finally woke up yelling what the fuck are you doing in here. Worst night terror I ever had was in college woke up staring at my ceiling and watched a spider figure slowly lower itself from my ceiling into my open mouth(couldn't close it).
I can still remember my most terrifying dream ever. I was in Jr high and in my dream I was at a kid's house that I was good friends with more when we were younger. His family was all there and it was normal except they all had huge black eyes. I kept asking about their eyes and finally his mother told me that they are lemurs. After that it was like they weren't really chasing me but I was running out of the house and down the street and everyone was looking at me with those big black eyes. I did the whole wake up but not really wake up thing and was looking at my nightstand and my friend's mother leans over and looks at me with the big black eyes and I then wake up for real. So I turn on all my lights and commence to stop freaking out. Something still didn't seem right to me and I wanted to make sure what they said they were saying was like the monkey. So I go get the big ass dictionary and sure as shit right there it's a lemur with big ass eyes. What I didn't do was shut the book because right the fuck there beside it on the page was the definition for Lemures. Edit Read in another language Lemures In Roman mythology, the lemures /ˈlɛmjəriːz/ were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae /ˈlɑːrviː/ (from Latin larva, "mask") as disturbing or frightening.[citation needed][clarification needed] Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.[1] The word lemures can be traced to the PIE stem *lem-, which also appears in the name of the Greek monster Lamia.[2] Didn't sleep for awhile after that and still remember it over 20 years later.
My paralysis always involved the dark "being" that I couldn't get away from. That shit sucks so fucking bad.
Yeah. I'm sure I saw that word somewhere sometime or read it doing "definitions" or something in school or saw it looking up lemur monkeys and just tucked it away in my subconcious but still freaked me the fuck out at the time.
Also, the majority of the times I have experienced sleep paralysis have been during afternoon naps, or nights where I didn't get much sleep the night before. Anyone else? Hoss Bonaventure, MANPOW Jax Teller
I have pretty bad sleep habits across the board, which results in me very easily nodding off. I definitely get the paralysis every now and again, but it's at this point so recognizable when it happens, it's rarely a big deal. That moment when you realize it's happening is one of the more unique and funny sensations of life imo. "oh, I get it, ok...." And yea lucid dreaming is dope but I'm usually too impatient/tired to try triggering it as it were.
The Gullah in the low country of sc call sleep paralysis the hag or the boo hag. The guys on the farm used to tell me about when I was little. Never knew what they were talking about until I experienced it a few years ago. Probably happens a few times a year now. They say you don't let the hag sit on you when you sleep. The hag is like a shadowy faceless vampire that sits on your chest in the middle of the night. You can't move and it sucks your breath.
Dang it's got an actual wiki entry. Pretty much what the guys would tell me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_Hag
I think I had sleep paralysis hit one time when I was living at home in college. I was having a horrific nightmare and sort of woke up feebly yelling out help but I couldn't move. Mom came into my bedroom and asked if I was okay and I pretty much just snapped right out of it then and was wide awake.
I have what my wife calls "sleep episodes," that are basically me doing insane shit in a weird state where my eyes are open, but I'm not really awake. In one of my latest ones, I dreamt that the local news wanted to film me for some reason but I was against it. I thought the red light on our cable box was a camera light so I quickly got dressed, then started yelling about how I didn't want to be filmed. Finally, I took a shirt out of the dresser and covered up the cable box light, while I jumped back in bed fully clothed and hid under the covers until it woke my wife up.
Sleep apnea here I was having a-fib problems with my heart. After two ablations and 4 cardioversions Doc said to get a sleep study. Went and had a sleep study done and got a Cpap machine the next morning. Haven't had any A-fib problems in a year (knock on wood) Lifesaver
Did your insurance cover the sleep study? I've long had several of the symptoms of sleep apnea but never really looked into it, such as loud snoring, dry mouth, sore throat, daytime sleepiness, although the last three are fairly infrequent but I've had times where I straight up just fell asleep at my desk at work when I wasn't even trying to sleep. Pretty sure the sore throat and dry mouth are much more hayfever related though.
I know what you mean. I try to get my 9 hours a night but usually only get 8 1/2 uninterrupted hours. Sucks
It's happened throughout multiple houses. When I was young that's what I thought but once I moved out for college and it continued I realized that wasn't it.
I deam about work often, and it's awful. I also routinely email myself in my sleep. I'll wake up to find an email to me, from me, that says cryptic shit in the subject line like "ASK JIM ABOUT THE TEMPLATE!"
Mine are usually always at night and occur when I'm in the waking up stage. Once the initial one occurs I cannot go back to sleep because they will occur every time I start to fall asleep. I read that a possible cause for them is sleep deprivation so that makes sense you get them when you didn't get much sleep. It's a bastard of a cycle as I'm exhausted from having them so I have them even more. Fell asleep sitting up on the couch last night and woke up pinned down and staring at the shadowy figure in front of my tv. Fucking bastard.
I never watched the documentary of the trailer I posted on page 1 but apparently according to that and some stuff I've read if you sit 10 people from different countries in a room that have sleep paralysis with the visuals we will all have seen 1 of the 3 figures. The shadowy silhouette, the man in the hat, or the hag.
I think I read that if you stop breathing whenever you feel yourself starting a sleep paralysis "episode" it'll make it all stop. Something happens with your brain and you wake up fully.
I finger blast my wife occansiinally when I'm sleeping. I am a terrible sleep walker too. Pour Apple juice on the floor and lay in it. Wake up in random parts of my house.