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  • funmonkey54
    The Chill Keeper
    • Oct 2007
    • 4127

    #16
    Re: Sleep Paralysis

    Only happened to me once majorly when I dreamed I was about to go to bed and I found my girlfriend tied up on the floor. There was a man wearing a blank mask standing over her. In the dream my girlfriend and I had 2 kids who were tied by their wrists to the wall and the man had cut out their stomachs and they were just hanging there dead with the blood all over their white night clothes. I watched the man beat my girlfriend in the face then kill her execution style while she was on her knees. When I snapped out of it I felt an overwhelming urge to kill myself.

    Single scariest moment of my life. Same situation occurred with the same identical dream 2 years apart from each other.

    One other dream I have had like this is strange. I'm in my room but everything is gray. I look around and all I can see is gray normal things. Then I hear a small jingle and look over and see a small green piece of cloth poking from beneath the closet door. I open it and look in to find a little girl in a joker suit (Not from batman. She has a little green top on and green cloth curly shoes with a body suit under it that is gray with dray-green stripes up the whole body of it. Then a joker hat on.) I see she looks scared and sad, so I reach out to touch her. My finger tip touches her finger tip as I offer my hand to her so that she might get up. In that split second I run through every major memory in my life that I have (Actual memories) and see her off in places throughout the scene of them hiding scared and watching. I feel pain all over and this emotional weight in my chest as if what I felt was the cold reality of death overcoming my entire soul. I pull away and am thrown back by the sheer weight of emotional pain in my chest against the floor where I stare at her and she slowly disappears. I crawl into her place curled up and overtaken by this weight. I look down and realize that I am wearing that outfit she wore and am in her same place staring out of my closet. I close the door as the darkness around me for some reason is comforting. I hear my mother's voice call out saying good night and watch the small shadows along the floor from the rooms light peaking beneath the door and see footsteps as a small child (me) climbs into bed. I slide the tip of my shoe under the door a little and then I wake up. I still feel the weight when I wake up.
    Last edited by funmonkey54; 10-18-2009, 12:59 PM.

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    • leonid
      I am leonid
      FFR Simfile Author
      FFR Music Producer
      • Oct 2008
      • 8080

      #17
      Re: Sleep Paralysis

      I experienced several sleep paralysis only after hearing about what it actually is.

      Since I knew why I couldn't move my body and what to do, it was okay,

      except I sucked at controlling my mind to actually move around while having sleep paralysis (I mean in dream).
      Last edited by leonid; 10-18-2009, 12:53 PM.



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      • AC1speakerbox
        FFR Player
        • Jun 2006
        • 1242

        #18
        Re: Sleep Paralysis

        I pretty much tl;dr'ed every post after the first few, so sorry if this is a repeat question.

        Are people engaged in sleep paralysis capable of rational thought?
        If so, shouldn't they be able to think, "oh, this is that sleep paralysis **** I heard about,"?

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        • leonid
          I am leonid
          FFR Simfile Author
          FFR Music Producer
          • Oct 2008
          • 8080

          #19
          Re: Sleep Paralysis

          Originally posted by AC1speakerbox
          Are people engaged in sleep paralysis capable of rational thought?
          If so, shouldn't they be able to think, "oh, this is that sleep paralysis **** I heard about,"?
          Yes. Read my post just above you..



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          • Syhto
            BuMP it
            • Mar 2006
            • 2466

            #20
            Re: Sleep Paralysis

            I'd imagine it really depends on the person and the specific experience. Based on how experienced you are with lucid dreaming, etc, you could definitely do that. I don't think it has anything to do with the thought process at all, just the physical aspect of it. So, yes you could think that. But it doesn't mean you will.
            Originally posted by ~jrodd
            keep ur head up or down whatevers most comfortable idk but ya i repsect u cuz u respect others and we all have opinions to share, so respect one another and keep being urself or someone else watever
            Originally posted by ~Tao of Dossar
            I never self-reflect, and therefore, I have no negative thoughts about myself. However I am also aware about my successes.

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            • kommisar[os]
              Banned
              • Apr 2006
              • 4097

              #21
              Re: Sleep Paralysis

              i have it quite often. also related to my mother's epilepsy. it always happens when i'm half asleep since my body thinks its sleeping but my mind is wide awake. i usually just freak out and try helplessly to snap out of it, which the longer it takes the more freaked out i get. breathing also becomes difficult.


              it usually happens when i'm overtired or when i'm tired and sleep in any sort of light. freaky as **** but they say it's not lethal.
              Last edited by kommisar[os]; 10-18-2009, 12:59 PM.

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              • devonin
                Very Grave Indeed
                Event Staff
                FFR Simfile Author
                • Apr 2004
                • 10120

                #22
                Re: Sleep Paralysis

                Most often, during sleep paralysis, the brain will try to come up with a logical explanation for what is going on. This is the same reason why you can start to see things that aren't there if you go a really long time without sleep.

                You're awake, you can't move, you're probably going to get scared very quickly, and your brain says "Hmm, can't move, frightened, sounds like something scary is stopping you from moving"

                This is likely where the various myths of the assorted bogeymen that come to you when you're asleep and steal your breath/soul/lifeforce etc.

                Also: I get hypnogogia somewhat often, and it's pretty much universally frightening at the time.

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                • schoolboysm
                  FFR Player
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 51

                  #23
                  Re: Sleep Paralysis

                  i have sleep paralysis so much that i've become used to it. i've woken up with a demon looking version of myself staring me in the face and all kinds of crazy ****

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                  • Darkslave
                    :D
                    • Jan 2008
                    • 140

                    #24
                    Re: Sleep Paralysis

                    That's some weird stuff...strangest I ever had was probably some dream when you're half awake in the morning that I could somewhat control, as in, steer the general direction it takes. Ended up snowboarding down an endless mountain while lying on my stomach and doing handstands and **** iirc

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                    • PhaeL v2
                      FFR Player
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 942

                      #25
                      Re: Sleep Paralysis

                      Originally posted by Dr Tran
                      i havent but i want to
                      This.
                      Originally posted by Emo_Saur_
                      Rapha, you're a cry baby!

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                      • Spenner
                        Forum User
                        • Nov 2006
                        • 2403

                        #26
                        Re: Sleep Paralysis

                        Originally posted by PhaeL v2
                        This.
                        If it's as horrible as the ones I've experienced, you'll be afraid to sleep after. Quite the thrill.

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                        • Magic_V2
                          RobMagic
                          • Jun 2006
                          • 638

                          #27
                          Re: Sleep Paralysis

                          I experience sleep paralysis so frequently that I'm used to and even look forward to it happening. I will admit that for quite some time I would panic and during that time it was very uncomfortable, but after some research I found that it can lead to lucid dreaming so I taught myself to just go with it, and try to let my mind fall asleep, while retaining my consciousness. If I do manage to start dreaming it's the absolute BEST substitute for acid or shrooms, as I can go places and do things that wouldn't be conventional or even possible outside of dreaming. The interesting part about it is that your body really feels like you're doing the actions in your dream. I'm not sure if it's common or not, but when it happens to me, ie I wake up frozen, I feel this tingling, or sense that my whole body is vibrating intensly. If you can get used to it you will develop great control over your mind while asleep.
                          Last edited by Magic_V2; 10-18-2009, 05:48 PM. Reason: sleepwalking

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                          • sjoecool1991
                            FFR Player
                            • Mar 2006
                            • 2302

                            #28
                            Re: Sleep Paralysis

                            Originally posted by Magic_V2
                            I experience sleep paralysis so frequently that I'm used to and even look forward to it happening. I will admit that for quite some time I would panic and during that time it was very uncomfortable, but after some research I found that it can lead to lucid dreaming so I taught myself to just go with it, and try to let my mind fall asleep, while retaining my consciousness. If I do manage to start dreaming it's the absolute BEST substitute for acid or shrooms, as I can go places and do things that wouldn't be conventional or even possible outside of dreaming. The interesting part about it is that your body really feels like you're doing the actions in your dream. I'm not sure if it's common or not, but when it happens to me, ie I wake up frozen, I feel this tingling, or sense that my whole body is vibrating intensly. If you can get used to it you will develop great control over your mind while asleep.
                            Yeah, I have tried inducing lucid dreaming, and have gotten to sleep paralysis, and usually it freaks me out too much and I wake up.

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                            • bender5
                              The 40% Iron Chef
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 4894

                              #29
                              Re: Sleep Paralysis

                              Personally I have incredibly lucid dreams. In my dreams most commonly I'll have the inability to move.

                              For example, in a dream I'll try to run or punch something and in the dream I can't do what I regularly would because my body is actually trying to move itself not just trying to move itself in the dream.

                              It's very strange, but it happens on a daily basis. I'm rather used to it
                              Last edited by bender5; 10-18-2009, 09:37 PM.

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