My Experience with Sleep Paralysis - INCREDIBLE Experience

[dayglohylite]

I suffer from Sleep Paralysis. It tends to run in a week long session every few months for me. No trigger. I always dream of a presence in my room and I can't call out or move to get away from it. I see nothing but my room. No figure or "ghost" if you like. I found a way to get out of it though. I have to revert to crying and I begin to wake. Feeling relly stupid for crying. But It works. I have had them since I was a kid and They still happen. Truly scarey when they happen.

[HmnTrch]

IMO the op's experience was partial lucid dreaming, not a hallucination. That was a conscious decision to reach out and touch the paramedic in your room.

Sleep paralysis seems to manifest in a variety of different ways. The main way I have read about others experiencing it is by not being able to move and having a heavy weight sit on their chest. I have never experienced it this way, nor the way the OP experienced it.

How it has been for me all times except the most recent was lucid dreaming and then getting bored of the repetition (my lucid dreams sort of 'get stuck' and repeat the same bit over and over and over) and wanting to wake up but I guess still partial asleep so I can't move. And by 'can't move' I mean can't open eyes, can't move eyes, and cannot breathe. The not being able to breathe is scary, and even though it feels like sooo long before I can move again, it is most likely only about 15-20 seconds.

The most recent experience I have had was about a month ago. This was the only time I was lying on my back (all other times I was on my side) and it felt like my sister (who lives out of state and was visiting) was smothering me with a pillow, so I couldn't move plus the feeling of not being able to breath with the thought that someone was intentionally doing it. Upsetting that was!

[Chittery]

So many interesting experiences. I sleep paralysis is just I wake up and csnt move for a couple of minutes. Mybheartbeat roars in my ears and I have to talk myself down until I can move. I have never had any experiences during SP like the one described here.

[Ninjavandal]

Originally Posted by FuckYourAccount

I never would be able to understand that if I hadn't experienced it. It's incredibly exciting, but fucking scary!

Yeah, fucking scary as hell!

[gmasi08]

I had a dream in which I was floating up off the bed, it felt so peaceful and fun. I knew it was a dream, so I shaked my self off to wake up. I woke up by opening one eye, and i was still floating looking at the sunlight creeping into my window shade. I think it could of been some sort of spirit playing games with me.

[Jaktasticles]

I had a period of constant sleep paralysis while going into sleep.

In the beginning it was scary and my mind played tricks on me.
I was also reading a lot of books on out of body experiences (OBEs) ...I think in relation to all the sleep paralysis research I was doing.
At first there was what seemed like some kind of presence in the room during the paralysis and it was always going that horror movie demon way.
After awhile of constantly entering this paralysis, I started becoming more aware. And less frightened.
A lot of research, reading, graveyard shift during this period.
One author comes to mind and it's Robert A. Monroe and his "Journeys out of the Body" book.
That's when everything changed.
I started working with the paralysis (attempting to go back into it instead of trying to avoid it).

That's when things started getting interesting.

I basically started initiating an OBE. Was making progress little by little. Working on it every morning as I lay in bed to "sleep" from my night shift job.
Felt like I was beginning to exit using this method of picturing a "wormhole" of sorts coming from my chest as I lay with an arm propped at a 90 degree (hand in air, elbow on bed). Think of the wormhole that comes out of Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie Donnie Darko and the hand raised is a method for keeping you awake/falling asleep to help induce paralysis.
Once I felt that I successfully "separated" for the first time, I was so excited and motivated to dig in deeper. Travel farther.

However, it was at this point in the journey that life around me started changing. I had a growing family as a father and initiated a move out into the country with acreage to start a little hobby farm.

I stopped going into sleep paralysis except for here and there and was occupied on other things around me. I also left graveyard shift.

Years have gone by now.

I don't remember the last time the paralysis has struck me.

I want to dive back into this, but that was over a year of work on the subject just to enter into that "breakout state" of the beginning adventures of self-induced out of body experiences.

It honestly takes a lot of time, focus, commitment.

My favorite takeaway from that whole time in my life was the overcoming fear aspect with sleep paralysis.
When you are experiencing it on a regular basis, you can recognize it and learn to control it.
Or harness it.

[johnnysixcakes]

I had dreams and in my dream I said to my self: " Hey I been to this hilltop, building, store, beach front, before" from another dream. Weird. Was I in a different dimension? Instead of dreaming?