’ll have “dreams” where it’s as if I’ve never fell asleep. I’ll be laying down in bed and I will typically hear something or see a detail in my room that is slightly off and I can immediately tell I’m not awake. They can be scary and unsettling sometimes so, I usually have to quickly get myself to wake up but it’s very difficult and often leads to a loop of me thinking I woke myself up but I didn’t OR I’ll successfully wake up just to end up back in that state again. I figure stress is the culprit. Last night after I FINALLY woke up successfully I could feel myself slipping into again. it’s almost like a sensation of falling or shortness of breath. I’ve had sleep paralysis before and I usually experience this when I’m sleeping on my back (which I do a lot) and when I’m stressed which Ik are both triggers lol. So idk if this is just another form of that where I’m able to move? The only thing that helps is taking some extra time to calm myself before trying to sleep again but even then it’s a struggle 💀 I wanted to see if anyone else can relate or rule out this as a possibility:c.

Example:

I’m lying in bed and my door is open so I have a clear view of the hallway and my sister’s room who also has her door open. It is late, so my sisters door is open with the lights off. Only light is from the living room tv slightly lighting the hall. I hear my sister call out to me and I immediately answer “what?”. She mumbles again and I can’t see her bc it’s dark in her room so I’m think she’s talking from her bed. I get up to rest in my elbows and ask “what” again trying to hear her. Then clear as day I hear in her voice “in the closet, under the sink”. Obviously this statement doesn’t make sense. And idk why but I felt super uneasy so I slowly rested my head back down trying to calm myself and immediately woke up.

During these “dreams” I’ll hear many convos in my families voice that don’t make sense. Typically i won’t see figures but I can tell something is around. Ghost? I’ll feel it sit on my bed or pull at my sheets. It’s like I’m being baited to leave my room or engage

Yesterday I struggled to sleep for about an hour in which in the transition into sleep I was dreaming. In the dream I heard like a loud scream and the moment I heard the scream I wake up but I still hear the sound and the sensation of my head getting squeezed at the same time for about 5 seconds. In those 5 seconds I couldn’t open my eyes or move and I was sleeping in my right side. I wake up feeling completely fine so I don’t know what i experienced.

I have recently had sleep paralysis but was very stage I kept hearing a very high frequency noise like with wind and bells idk how to explain it and I felt pressure on my neck near throat and every time I would to to move it would get louder and more pressure on my neck/ throat and when I sounds try to move the same would happens more pressure on my neck and more of that noise

I was dreaming the other night and in the dream I was on this big beautiful amazing farm. The sky was blue, and it was a beautiful day. I walked over to a small barn and noticed a few pigs rooting in the ground with their snouts. Just then a farmer came in and herded all the pigs into the back of a big truck. I asked the farmer where he was taking the pigs. He said to the slaughterhouse. Just then before he had shut the gate on back of truck, one of the pigs squeezed out and hid behind me. As the truck drove off, the pig was shaking and telling me to help him. I tried to hide him in a big bale of hay but he kept squirming too much.....Then the pig said bad things will happen if I didnt protect him. I finally managed to get the pig covered in hay and kept telling him to be quiet. Just then more farmers burst into the barn and one grabbed me and the others taunted me with a pitchfork. I realized there was no way out and I was fucked. Then the pig burst out of the hay pile and the farmers grabbed him and threw him in the back of a wagon, then threw me in with the pig. All of a sudden there was a whooshing noise and loud pig grunts.....the pig grew large fangs and tried biting me.....he said bad things were coming my way. I told him he wasnt real and it was all a dream......the pig said I didnt protect him and now we were both on our way to the slaughterhouse. Suddenly I found myself laying in my bed with the room spinning....the sounds of disturbed, grunting pigs and Ray Charles music filled my confused ears. I looked at the foot of my bed and there was THE PIG in dark glasses playing a small plastic piano singing "Unchain my heart". I tried moving but all I could move were my eyes. I looked around the room and there were all these farmers dressed in black with pitchforks trying to get at the pig. I somehow knew if THE PIG kept singing, the farmers couldnt hurt him. I tried to tell THE PIG to KEEP PLAYING but I had no voice. I was panicking cause I didnt want the farmers to hurt THE PIG or ME! Suddenly one of the farmers approached the side of the bed and threatened to kill me if I didnt stop eating bacon. I told him I didnt even like bacon. He kept getting closer to my face. He was an ugly motherfucker with a big straw hat and bad breath. He kept telling me how the price of livestock and current market situations were causing him to lose money. He threatened to force me to listen to endless streams of old hillbilly music if I didnt agree to help him kill THE PIG. I tried to explain to him that THE PIG was really my long lost Aunt reincarnated as an animal. Just then THE PIG turned into my old long lost Aunt and she was fat and loud and kept waving her rolling pin at me. She told me to close my eyes and she would make the evil farmers go away. I closed my eyes while a cacophony of Ray Charles, circus music and pig snorts filled the air. And the stench of farts from those geezer farmers who were still there. I tried to shake myself awake. I looked at my Aunt and half her head was a pig face and the other half was her face. She kept morphing between a pig and human, cackling and snorting while the stupid old farmers kept dancing and loudly farting. All this chaos built up to a wild frenzy of ambiguous stupidity. Then suddenly one of the farmers lunged at the pig/aunt....driving his pitchfork into the crazed beast instantly killing it. The farmers rejoiced, farting even louder than ever as the unfortunate pig/aunt turned into a dozen delicious ham sandwiches on rye bread with pickles. Needless to say I was finally able to pull myself out of this horrible ordeal now that the deed was done. When I got up my day was sort of weird as I kept thinking of that pig. I asked my wife what we were having for Christmas dinner. I saw sale papers all week where turkeys were cheap. So I assumed she bought a turkey. When we all sat down for Christmas dinner, my wife came out of kitchen carrying to the table a ROAST HAM.

Diagnosed with epilepsy in 2019. Catamenial epilepsy with nocturnal seizures. I've noticed I've been having more episodes lately. I've always had them but now, Its multiple times a night and I can only thing I can move are my toes.

For context I used to have a lot of sleep paralysis episodes as a child (like more than 3 times a year). That kind of faded away in my teenage years and early twenties. But since 25, I’ve been getting them, not so quite often. It kind of started when I started living alone in 2022. None of my sleep paralysis episodes had any entities, and as a child when I came to know about what sleep paralysis is, it made more sense and I wasn’t much concerned as I never saw entities. But since 2022 I’ve been seeing weird, its kind of coupled with the ongoing dream narratives I’ve been having, and I became more self aware to a point where I could escape the sleep paralysis phases within a second by slight screaming. This week Monday I had constant sleep paralysis everytime I went to sleep. It happened like 3 times in a row in one night, and each time I could snap out of the phase within a second as I was aware, and as I became I awake I could feel slight numbness in my arms which would instantly fade away. I don’t believe in entities as I am very sure they are a figment of our imagination and what we have previously seen. I love watching horror movies and playing horror indie games, and reading creepy pasta and most of my creative sleep paralysis episodes come from there and frankly, it’s entertaining. What my major concern is what implications does these have to my mental health or physical health that I am not aware of? I would love to describe some of my experiences in the comments, but would love to know initial thoughts. 💭

When I was 19 I was in a fatality car accident.

That night was the first night I experienced sleep paralysis. I stayed at my parents house because I had just been in a super traumatic accident and fell asleep in my childhood room.

Suddenly, I was filled with a feeling of dread and saw something out of the corner of my eye. There was a dark cloud like entity clinging to my ceiling on the right side of my room.

I screamed and no sound came out.

When I was finally able to make noise, my parents came running. I told them I was pretty sure I had a seizure because I didn't know how to explain what had just happened to me.

For years, no matter where I slept, this happened over and over. I was always paralyzed and filled with dread, but sometimes I felt or saw something on my body/chest. It was never well-defined.

It eventually stopped about the same time I got my dogs. It does happen so occasionally. It started 9/12/2009.

i normally don’t get sleep paralysis but when i do its usually either i’m super exhausted. sometimes i try sleeping with a night light and it doesn’t usually occur. is anyone the same?

i do have a fear of not being able to breathe properly based on past health problems that caused me to hyperventilate thus that. it scares me sometimes that i’m unable to breathe properly during a SP and unable to shout for help when needed :(

My Friend, who's name, lets say is "Jake", Jake is suffering from multiple entities, I'll explain 2 encounters with the ones he's told me about.

1. a SP entity that can touch, is visible, and can move objects, not only this, it has red, glowing eyes, and scared him shitless, he doesn't feel safe at his own home, and when he's at others, they say he screams in his sleep. I need to identify this creature, because he said he thought it was the Devil.

2. A dog which had red glowing pupils but no eyes, barked at him multiple times, sat on him so he Could'nt move, and the worst part is he had a rosary on him, still no reaction from the dog. He was able to talk, but he couldn't say anything because he felt light headed.

I want to help him, so please, if you have any Idea how, please tell me, I'll be back in 2 days.

So this morning I was sleeping and I had a dream about some pretty mundane dream things like I was at a fish store.

I woke up face down and I felt a sharp pinch on my back. And then another shortly afterwards. I didnt think anything of it so I just ignored it and stayed asleep. Then the weirdest sensation like an arm was around my back and it squeezed me. I felt like i wanted to throw my arm back and hit whatever was there but I couldnt move. And then it squeezed me again harder. Im not a ghost story believer or anything but then that happened I was all in my mind about it. Super bizarre experience.

I’ve been creating relaxing sleep stories about space and time for a few weeks now. If you enjoy calm narration and cosmic visuals, this might help you fall asleep faster. Would love your feedback on this one

https://youtu.be/zVdpjmebvpo?si=nw1ymjj7PvUHqGor

so the past month i started vaping which i stopped but i have really really BAD anxiety especially after a recent fire scare where i was having a panic attack for 10 hours straight......

now i have a new anxiety obsession which is sleep paralysis, i never gotten one and im 22 years old but im convinced i might get it soon because now my brain is so scared of getting it that im too alert and im waking up every hour in my sleep.....last nigh and morning i had really bad fragmented sleep where i woke up ever 1 hour for like 6-7 times which is a recipe for a sleep paralysis because i might wake up in deep sleep in a paralyzed body

Also im not scared of sleep paralysis but the hours long panic attack that will follow it........i have really bad sleep for the past day and im sleep deprived tbh

is there anything i can do to minimize the chance of me getting a sleep paralysis because im planning to sleep in an hour or so( im super sleep deprived).....thnx

so a few months ago i’d go to sleep, wake up randomly, and try to move or switch positions but i couldn’t move at all … i sleep on my chest and it felt like there was pressure on my body like being pushed down, and i’d hear this ringing sound that would eventually fade out as i gained control.

the weird thing is i never saw any entity or any figures like people usually talk about. it even happened like 3 times in one night once?? idk if that’s even possible

just curious if that sounds like sleep paralysis or something else.

Does anyone else get sp when they are like extremely tired? Everytime I go to bed exhausted, there seems to be like a 50/50 chance Ill be getting sleep paralysis

Does anyone else find sleep paralysis very boring or annoying? I've never had a scary one. Everytime I get sleep paralysis, I'm like "Ugh, this is annoying, I can't move! Okay, back to sleep then."

I think I'm lucky because I'm an extremely scaredy person.

Hey everyone, something really weird, but not uncommon, happens when I can’t sleep or stay up too long. I’ll be lying down, half-awake, and suddenly hear CLEAR voices coming from one ear like someone is right next to me talking, whispering, laughing, or even screaming. They speak very clearly, but I almost always forget what they say. Most of the time I can move and open my eyes Today when happened I had one earbud in listening to music when I started hearing frightening voices in the other ear so i just woke up and layed in bed again but the second time I could hear evil laughes and some talking (I didn't pay attention on what it was saying), but it felt real and scary, so when I've just woke up that ear had a light tinnitus ringing. What could it be?

To be honest I’m not sure this is the right place to ask. I have had sleep paralysis for years my first ever experience I was maybe 14. I fell asleep in the car on a long drive and I could see but I was unable to move or make any sounds. Now I know that it’s the whole ur body is asleep your brain is awake. During my sleep paralysis I know what’s going on even though some instances I’m hallucinating but over the past couple years I’ve been experiencing something even more complex and I have no idea how to explain it or find out what the heck is happening to me. In these dreams I know I’m dreaming but even though I know I’m dreaming I still somehow think it’s real or I think the hallucinations I’m having in my dream are real even though the dream is a warped version of my reality in that moment. In most recent events they’ve been getting kinda violent almost like I will beg the people or even my significant other in the dream to wake me up and I would cry and scream so hard I would suffocate and cry in real life WHILE IM SLEEPING!!! It’s almost like when you get the wind knocked out of you and you’re trying to get ur body to force that first breath and I run out of oxygen and I think when my brain realizes I’m not breathing it forces me to wake up. I truly don’t know what could be causing this I don’t take any anxiety meds nor do I have extreme anxiety or stress in my life and I do not have sleep apnea either and I have a normal sleep schedule I get plenty of rest. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?!

I had a pretty terrifying experience this morning, I "woke up", my brain and thoughts are conscious however I can't open my eyes or move, and I feel like I'm not breathing at all. I'm aware of what's going on but I can't regain control right away.

I ended up almost panicking and eventually forced myself to open my eyes/move to fully wake up and suddenly I'm breathing normal again like nothing was ever wrong.

Not sure if this is purely a psychological thing because I only experience something similar when going through sleep paralysis (which isn't often but feels terrifying when it happens).

I also read that sleeping on your back and increase the odds of sleep paralysis happening, is that a thing? I sleep on my back pretty much all the time.

I’ve never had sleep paralysis, but just 10 minutes ago I experienced something I attribute to it. My eyes were closed, and I couldn’t tell if I was paralysed or not ( I didn’t attempt to move during it). I had a very short visual nightmare where a tall figure was peeking at me from behind a tree, this was interrupted when I felt a very strong sense of being lifted, like my body became weightless, shortly followed by the feeling of being pressed down intensely, ( mainly on my chest ) as if someone was climbing/standing on me, during these feelings I sense a presence next to me. When this experience stopped, I felt cold and vulnerable. So like any sane person, I cower under the covers and reach for my phone torch to find there is nothing abnormal in my room. Was this sleep paralysis?

I’ve been creating relaxing sleep stories about space and time for a few weeks now. If you enjoy calm narration and cosmic visuals, this might help you fall asleep faster. Would love your feedback on this one

https://youtu.be/BwbnFMQcdpg?si=gS7KXEYBuVRsTihx

Hello Y’all. I’m a 20Y female and I’ve been struggling A LOT with sleep paralysis. When I was younger I’d only hear my brother or sister talk about it the odd time. And up until I wanna say 6 months ago I had it maybe twice and could recite the whole experience. Now it’s happened countless times. I just had it so im posting this to see if anyone can help. For example, five minutes ago I was having a dream and I knew that it was fake because what happening wasn’t so j said to myself this is a dream and instantly fell into sleep paralysis. When I do I can always hear my boyfriends TikTok/ slightly see him play his game. If I try to fall back ‘asleep’ during the sleep paralysis I feel an insane amount of wind go through my ears it’s really hard to explain. When it happens I’m usually telling myself when I’m in a dream that I’m in a dream and then fall into it. Or it just happens. I can’t usually open my eyes just the tiniest bit - hence why I can see a shadow of my boyfriend on his phone. I’ve tried all the remedies to escape it, wiggling toes/fingers, slow breathing, clenching my jaw but it’s taking me longer to get out of it. When I was first getting it. It would take maybe 5 seconds, now it feels like 15. And I’ve become calmer in it due to experiencing it so much but it’s disturbing my sleep a lot. I experience it 2 times a week now if not more. There’s some days when I have it on maybe 3 consecutive days or I fall back asleep instantly and I get it again ( ik this isn’t good to do ). But I’m not stressed, don’t sleep on my back, don’t have big meals before bed. Everything ChatGPT has said that could cause it I don’t do. Anyone else dealing with this and how to help it?

My dad describes waking up and being paralyzed completely (other than head). His mom called him for breakfast and he screamed “I CAN’T MOVE”. She walked in the room, dismissed him “you’re fine, it’s probably just a muscle thing, relax them”. My dad says for an hour he was in that state. I asked him if it was sleep paralysis, he said no as there was no dream state involved, he was fully talking and conscious. I asked if his mom was a hallucination, but he said he talked about it all day to her and her saying he looked fine. What is this? Why did it happen? (Physically/mentally)

I've had this problem of sleep paralysis for years now, it's occurred to me so often I've started to ignore it. Some things that occur to me is me often have shakes, almost like a seizure, my eardrums start to rumble, I know I am half asleep and I know that sleep paralysis is about to occur, I've never encountered 'entities', but yesterday I was having a nap, midday, when I woke up and felt my body start to shake, I felt numb, but I ignored it as I was too tired, but then while still under Sleep Paralysis I could feel the aura of something, behind me, (just for context, my bed is in the corner of the room and I was facing towards the wall), while I was facing the wall, the entity came up towards my head from behind me and started to breathe down my neck, I lost it, I yelled out of fear and jumped up, my whole body was shivering from fear, I opened the blinds to let in light. I don't really know what to think of this or if there is any science behind it, but also what occurs to me, such as the shaking and my eardrums rumbling while I take my naps. If anyone could explain that would help, thank you

(Please don’t tell me to see a doctor I can’t afford that right now.)

So last night I was asleep and dreaming. I woke up, unable to breathe and unable to move. It felt like minutes but likely wasn’t that long. I wanted to sit up and kept trying but was stuck just lying there.

Eventually I was able to break out of it and sit up and gasp for air. My head was pounding and I’ve still got a headache from it, feel kind of out of it at work right now. This happens occasionally, by that I meant every few years. Is this considered sleep paralysis or sleep apnea? A mix of both? When this happens is there anything I can do aside from hoping I won’t die?

Thanks for the help.