andyd12345 8:06 Tue Jan 6
Sleep Paralysis
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Anyone on here ever suffered from this? I tend to go through stages where I get it reasonably frequently, then nothing for months (or even years) and then it returns.
It's always the same; invariably I've woken up before I need to get up, and begin to drift off back to sleep. When I'm in that semi conscious state between awake and asleep I am aware of my body but am completely paralysed. Can't move a single part of me or make any noise at all. Incredibly disturbing, and accompanied with a demon like presence that attacks me and I am unable to move, or.defend myself. I don't feel any pain, just utter fear. I sometimes remember consciously telling myself during these experiences that it isn't real and I can't get hurt, and then I can somehow manage to click out of it and fully wake up, but it's incredibly vivid.
Never really mentioned it to anyone before but there seems to have been a huge amount of research done on it and it appears to be very common!
Anyone else experienced this, or are you all just so hard that you fight off demons despite your paralysed state?
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Texas Iron
1:32 Wed Jan 7
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Nolan's display at Everton atom...
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Rodfarts
1:21 Wed Jan 7
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Had this quite a few times........I just tell myself to just relax and I will wake up soon........and hey ho that's what happens.
Pretty scary when it 1st happened mind.
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stomper
1:16 Wed Jan 7
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connolly8 8:11 Tue Jan 6
Some people have claimed that experience when I have hypnotized them.
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stomper
1:14 Wed Jan 7
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Have you considered that you are clearly dead.
WHO is just the sounds made by other ghosts
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The Joker
12:56 Wed Jan 7
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Check your loft for haunted jam jars.
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Noah
12:10 Wed Jan 7
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There is a simple cure for this.
MAN THE FUCK UP
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Uncle Junior
12:06 Wed Jan 7
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The thing about this is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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cuzoftheeast
12:02 Wed Jan 7
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Nolan clearly has it
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deanfergi
11:52 Tue Jan 6
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Had it a few times (not helped by sleep apnoea & being on the bumbles frequently)
I was being dragged out of my bed by one arm, with my arm feeling as if it was going to come out its socket at my shoulder - that it doesn't have I know). Anyway, the pain started to wake me up but I was unable to fully wake but forced my eyes just open just a bit and saw I was sitting up in bed with my arm outstretched and aching as if it was being pulled to drag me up... injured my shoulder innocuously just after and it's never healed...
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Eerie Descent
10:12 Tue Jan 6
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Hasn't everyone had shit like this?
Had similar loads of times, just shake it off once you're up and get on with it, hardly worth worrying about when you're awake and aware it's just bad dreams is it?
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andyd12345
10:04 Tue Jan 6
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yeah ive taken codene for wisdom teeth extraction. May well have been from that...
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Gentry
9:30 Tue Jan 6
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Get it everytime I'm on the jack and jills, it's so fucking weird proper freaks me out.
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bruuuno
9:28 Tue Jan 6
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Oh - I get it when I take any form of codeine, so if you're taking cough medicine it might be that apparently it's a known side effect
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Spandex Sidney
9:25 Tue Jan 6
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Is this the mysterious 'Old Hag' syndrome?
If it is, fuck that
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ForeverHammers
9:19 Tue Jan 6
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Sleep paralysis can be caused by light stimulating the brain to close to sleep, so for example use of a phone, iPad, laptop. Or in other cases where brain stimulated to close to sleep by other activity, so talking, listening to music.
Basically the best advice is to try ensure say 30 minutes of relaxing before trying to head of to sleep.
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Hani
9:13 Tue Jan 6
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I had when I was a kid not since. The demon thing sounds brilliant.
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Mr Anon
9:11 Tue Jan 6
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There's a documentary called "The Entity" on YouTube about it. But sensationalised though.
Scientific thought on it is your paralysed dream state kicks in while you're awake, the brain "panics" and conjures a reason why you can't move, hence the figure usually on chest or legs. Doesn't explain why it's usually a hooded figure or old hag though!
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andyd12345
9:09 Tue Jan 6
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No, never smoked pot (bar the experimenting for a few weeks at school). Never done any drugs to be honest.
The research says it could happen during times of increased stress, which would tie in with your mind not being able to fully switch off, but never really worked out if that was true.
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On The Ball
9:01 Tue Jan 6
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I get it almost exactly as andy describes, although my 'demon' is being absolutely certain that someone is in the house. Over the years I've become a bit used to it so I'm able to calm myself pretty quickly, although more recently I've begun to panic that I will stop breathing.
Now I'm basically ok with it, it's a very curious experience.
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Far Cough
8:54 Tue Jan 6
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It's actually quite normal to be paralysed during dream state, otherwise you would be acting out your dreams and possibly murdering the missus, what isn't normal is your awareness of it.
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NewtonsPartyBag
8:52 Tue Jan 6
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Had it once night fishing.
Scared the living bejeesus out of me.
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