Anyone Else Occasionally Experience Sleep Paralysis/Lucid Dreams?

Yes, usually it's because I ate something bad or my sleep schedule has been disrupted by having to pull an all nighter and I'm trying to get back on schedule. The only way to shake it is to come fully awake, turn some lights on, walk around, and then try and go back to sleep.

Bro that was a gay demon trying to take over your gay body.

I'm just glad I knew what sleep paralysis was before it happened to me the first time.

I woke up and couldn't move, but because I had heard of it before, I just closed my eyes and went back to sleep before I could see all of the freaky shite.

Have experienced it about 2 or 3 times.

Yes I've had it before where i could not move at all, but i knew i was awake. I then felt my dog jump on my bed and curl up next to me. I felt the mattress bounce and the heat coming off her. It felt 100% real. When i finally got the "strength" to get moving. My dog was in her kennel sound asleep.

I use to experience a few times a year but haven’t for the last 5 or so years.

It used to scare me because it always happened when I was face down in the pillow. Felt like I couldn’t breathe but I couldn’t lift myself up either. I would struggle to get up but couldn’t move. When I would eventually snap out of it, I would shoot up and make a huge gasp for air.

First time my wife seen me experience it, she freaked out.

Yea if I saw that in my room and could not move, I would make some changes too lol

I used to have lucid immobilizing dreams similar to that back in my 20’s. Very scary at first but were interesting after I became accustomed to them. They stopped when I had kids.

Brain tumor...

Yep. I first experienced it in my early teens, and I’m 47 now. It was terrifying for the longest time. When it first started up my eyes would also produce extra secretions and make it very difficult to open them. I stayed at my Dad’s on weekends and this would happen around 3am on what felt like every Sunday morning for a long time. I remember my Dad actually coming and checking on me once because of the noise / struggling I was making. Dreams were always a negative experience. I also had the shadowy figures or dark presence and the simplest way I can describe them is dread and an absence of love, I suppose evil would work too. The worst event was having thoughts in my mind that were not mine and waking to that darkness just off of my bed. I’m not one that scares easily but I will not set foot on the property where that happened (the shed at 1610 E Yale Fresno, Ca). Yes, I lived in a shed from 10 to 15 years old. I have not had that experience anywhere else that I’ve lived.

Sleep paralysis is something I’ve learned to manage. I avoid sleeping on my back as that will trigger it. If it does happen it seems to originate from the base of my skull/neck area and I can snap myself out of it now but it does take considerable effort. There is no panicked feeling like when I was young. It used to be a terrifying experience to be fully aware of your surroundings and unable to move a muscle and now it’s an annoyance at best. I tried to avoid sleeping in my teens and early 20s it just wasn’t worth it when the bad stuff happened.

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frick that shite.

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