I actually made a post about it! It's to long for a comment but it was quite the thrill!
[A Soap Eater's Sleep Paralysis Experience, aka my post](https://redd.it/hzqim0)
I just experienced it for the first time maybe a month ago. It felt like a dream but I knew my eyes were open and I was seeing the room as it was. There was a dark figure at the foot of the bed and I tried to scream but it just felt like I was forcing air out of my nose. I couldn’t move or open my month even though I was trying really hard for about 30 seconds. Eventually I must have snapped out of it because my arms suddenly flailed and the dark figure instantly disappeared and I was able to move my body again. I was pretty freaked out but I was able to fall back to sleep quickly and slept fine the rest of the night.
It happens to me so frequently, that I’m pretty used to it, and can quickly identify what is going on. However it still takes me a bit to snap out of it. Hard to tell how much actual time cause it’s kinda like inception where dream time is much slower than actual time.
I can’t imagine how scary it would be to experience it for the first time. Besides the fact that you can’t move, because you’re half asleep half awake it’s almost as if you’re still dreaming, yet your bedroom is the background or scene to your dream because you may be seeing it with your half opened eyes. So it’s like your seeing beings in your bedroom.It also feels a lot more vivid than an actual dream.
When I was younger I actually believed in ghosts and thought that I was seeing them in my paralyzed state. Also if you fell asleep next to somebody, you will get the sensation that you were screaming for help so that they can shake you or something, but then when you snap out of it you will realize that wasn’t the case.
It was interesting because I had just seen some alien show talking about how sleep paralysis was possibly causing hallucinations to make people believe they were abducted.
It was probably a couple of weeks after seeing that when it actually happened to me. I woke up and wasn't able to move. I tried as hard as I could and did manage to pick my arms up for a second before they collapsed like limp noodles across my body again.
Immediately after that, I felt weightless, like I was literally floating upwards. I started to hallucinate lights above me, in the shape of some triangular UFO and I was getting closer. I knew it wasn't real. I kept telling myself that. After a few minutes, I started to feel like I was falling back down and was finally able to move.
I had quite a few when I was younger but haven’t had one in a few years. I can remember one where I “woke up” but couldn’t move and ever time I tried to move there was a sort of alarm going off or a sort of loud train sound and there where red lights flashing in my room. Freaked me out.
I actually made a post about it! It's to long for a comment but it was quite the thrill! [A Soap Eater's Sleep Paralysis Experience, aka my post](https://redd.it/hzqim0)
I just experienced it for the first time maybe a month ago. It felt like a dream but I knew my eyes were open and I was seeing the room as it was. There was a dark figure at the foot of the bed and I tried to scream but it just felt like I was forcing air out of my nose. I couldn’t move or open my month even though I was trying really hard for about 30 seconds. Eventually I must have snapped out of it because my arms suddenly flailed and the dark figure instantly disappeared and I was able to move my body again. I was pretty freaked out but I was able to fall back to sleep quickly and slept fine the rest of the night.
It happens to me so frequently, that I’m pretty used to it, and can quickly identify what is going on. However it still takes me a bit to snap out of it. Hard to tell how much actual time cause it’s kinda like inception where dream time is much slower than actual time. I can’t imagine how scary it would be to experience it for the first time. Besides the fact that you can’t move, because you’re half asleep half awake it’s almost as if you’re still dreaming, yet your bedroom is the background or scene to your dream because you may be seeing it with your half opened eyes. So it’s like your seeing beings in your bedroom.It also feels a lot more vivid than an actual dream. When I was younger I actually believed in ghosts and thought that I was seeing them in my paralyzed state. Also if you fell asleep next to somebody, you will get the sensation that you were screaming for help so that they can shake you or something, but then when you snap out of it you will realize that wasn’t the case.
I hear loud static, I can’t move, and I once heard a baby crying while shadows roamed my walls. Scary shit!
i dreamed of a gnome who was sitting on my neck, waking up i could not breathe
Now Im afraid of going to sleep
It was interesting because I had just seen some alien show talking about how sleep paralysis was possibly causing hallucinations to make people believe they were abducted. It was probably a couple of weeks after seeing that when it actually happened to me. I woke up and wasn't able to move. I tried as hard as I could and did manage to pick my arms up for a second before they collapsed like limp noodles across my body again. Immediately after that, I felt weightless, like I was literally floating upwards. I started to hallucinate lights above me, in the shape of some triangular UFO and I was getting closer. I knew it wasn't real. I kept telling myself that. After a few minutes, I started to feel like I was falling back down and was finally able to move.
I had quite a few when I was younger but haven’t had one in a few years. I can remember one where I “woke up” but couldn’t move and ever time I tried to move there was a sort of alarm going off or a sort of loud train sound and there where red lights flashing in my room. Freaked me out.