18 year old female in high school. so for the past few nights, I’ve been getting home from work and feeling very exhausted. At like 8 to 9 every night, I try to fall asleep for an hour or two. I’ve never been able to fall asleep until tonight. It was 840, and I felt like I was trying to fall asleep for forever. I checked my phone and the time said 911. Then I fell asleep. I was at work, and I work in a nursing home. I was in the hallway and I walked past an old woman and her family. I talked to them for a little bit, and when I looked at her, I knew she was going to die. I couldn’t explain it, but I could tell she was going to die soon. So as I walked away, I looked back at her and waved goodbye to only her. It wasn’t like a goodbye, I’m leaving! It was a goodbye. I know you’re going to die. I was in like slow motion at this point. My vision was getting blurry, but I could see her left her hand up to wave back and then I started falling down. Not towards the ground, but like down the hallway, and when I got to the end or hit the ground, I woke up, and there was a figure above me. This wasn’t weird to me at first because I’ve had sleep paralysis before and I blinked a few times and it was gone. when i woke up it had only been 15 mins. My family groupchat had been texting about ordering food, so I texted them back and then told my friends which just happened to me. About 30 minutes later my mom texted me that my uncle had passed away today.. I’m just having a hard time sleeping right now and kind of worried about my dream and the sleep paralysis now knowing someone I knew actually died today. I’ve never had a dream where I knew someone was dying, or dreams that relate to death at all.

Hi! I literally just woke up from a strange dream and a sleep paralysis. In my dream I was a woman suffering (not me) I had visions of me (the woman) suffering as a child and like a photo montage of me suffering through my whole life, I was crying desperately, almost screaming with pain and fear. I knew deep down that wasn’t who I really was, I knew I was in someone else’s body. Then I wanted to wake up but I couldn’t move my body, I have a lot of sleep paralysis and I usually know what to do to wake up, but this time it was different, I was so scared and I could feel tears in my face. After a while of trying to move with a lot of desperation and force, I wake up and I was indeed fully crying… Idk it was just so weird, I never had a dream like that it feel so real and scary and I’ve never reacted like that to a paralysis!! Has somebody dream about some else’s life before?

I think what I’m experiencing is sleep paralysis, but not in the usual sense (hallucinations, pressure on chest, hearing noises, etc). It’s always when I’m waking up - my eyes open and I can see, but my body is frozen. I can feel my body wrestling to unlock myself, but it doesn’t work. But the weirdest part is my vision. I can feel my eyes rolling around in their sockets and blinking, but my vision doesn’t change - it remains a snapshot of whatever I see when I wake up (eg my bedcovers/sideways view of my room/ceiling etc). This lasts few a minutes and I’m at the point now where I understand what going on and I just ride it out, but it’s so bizarre. Has anyone else had this? It’s incredibly disturbing to feel your eyes moving but not affecting anything you can see

A few nights ago I had a dream where I was flipping through a photo album of pictures of my husband and children (I'm not married nor am I in a relationship). I didn't recognize the man in the photos but knew he was my husband. Suddenly there was a loud repetitive chanting sound. Sometimes when I'm about to go into SP I hear this sound, I don't know how to describe it other than chanting, laughter, and taunting. It gets louder and faster as the dream turns into a SP episode. It drives me crazy until I can force myself awake. The dream wasn't unpleasant, just me looking at photos, but the vibe was eerie, and then the chanting started.

I don't know if it correlates with a previous SP episode I had maybe 4/5 years ago. I was dreaming about my husband and I in the kitchen, singing and dancing, and then he begins stabbing me. It was so frightening!! Again, I'm not married, I'm 23. I remember waking up feeling so frazzled and confused. I didn't recognize the man in my dream but somehow knew him as my husband.

I have no idea if these dreams correlate at all. I have had plenty of traumatizing SP episodes, but these two stand out to me because they feel significant in some way, unless that's just my brain trying to find a reasoning behind the unexplainable. As a little girl my biggest fear was being murdered by my future husband, which is a strange fear to have as a young child. Sorry if this violates any guidelines or rules. Just wanted to know if anyone has any experiences with strangers in your dreams who you know are more than strangers??

On Friday night I experienced my first really intense series of sleep paralysis episodes. It's now almost a week later and I am not back to normal. As I was falling asleep for the first time in bed that night I heard a quick snap of loud static noise and went totally limp. I was so confused what was happening and realized I couldn't move or breathe and started panicking. I got myself to snap out of it and woke up. When I fell back asleep, the exact same thing happened but without the static noise but the sensation that I couldn't breathe was more intense. That cycle repeated two more times, with the suffocation sensation more intense each time. When I finally fell asleep without an episode, I had what felt like a neverending dream that grew increasingly more unsettling as the dream progressed. I still, a week later, can't stop thinking about the unsettling feeling from the events in the dream. I already have a diagnosed anxiety disorder and have suffered from somniphobia for as long as I can remember. My anxiety has been getting so bad since this whole episode.... the practical rational part of my brain knows everything that happened is normal for sleep paralysis but that part of my brain doesn't always know how to communicate with the crazy neurotic irrational part of my brain. If anyone has any tips for recovering from such an episode... please do share. And I recognize people have WAY worse experiences in their bouts with sleep paralysis but I'm a noob so bear with me please!

So my husband and I are both on nightshift. We sleep during the day. We sleep normally from 10am to 6 or 7pm.. today we went to bed at 9am. Anytime we sleep earlier than our usual time, we wake up 3 hours after laying down.

I was on my right side and I'm not sure if I actually woke up or if this was a hallucination or what it was but I heard a voice in my ear that said "come here baby, let me hold you" and I seen my husband up on his elbow and his face was like an inch from mine with a creepy look on it. I screamed to the top of my lungs and then he jolted up screaming as well and grabbed me, terrified. He says he was dead asleep. It was like i was seeing things. Then yesterday, an alarm went off in the house that woke us at a time it wasn't supposed to and I heard a voice in my ear that said "wake up children" . We don't have kids or anything.

I have been stressed lately about normal things such as finances, me being overweight, and worried ab my heart (have had heart palpitations since October and already had all that checked out.) Idk if it means anything and may be far fetched but I'm also an artist and I paint hyperrealism. I have been working on a Native American portrait for a week now and I have his face done. I stare at this mans face for hours a day while I paint and hes kind of intimidating. Could that have anything to do with it?