re: I had my first experience with sleep paralysis

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However once I realize in my sleep that I'm in the middle of a sleep paralysis episode it becomes a lucid dream from which I can't wake up. I close my eyes (in the dream) because I know that as soon as I look up that thing is coming for me and I'll be unable to make a sound or move.

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pretty much what happens to me now most of the time. Usually im able to start praying and i usually wake shortly after.

exception is when i know im going to go over a cliff or if i know im gonna fall off a ladder....when those happen and i know its coming, i just brace myself for my stomach being in my throat.

luckily i dont sleep on my back much anymore(even though its the best way physically for one to sleep) so i dont have those kinds of dreams or sleep paralysis much anymore.

I don't know if this counts, but this has happened to me 3 times. I "wake-up" and look at my bedside table which is completely covered in spiders. 100s of them. Feels very different than a dream. Each time its happened, I have almost involuntarily kung-fu jumped out of bed. I don't become completely awake until I'm already on my feet

I’ve had the experience of 3 scientist type figures in lad coats looking down and speaking to each other, about me, in some sort of German sounding tongue.




That would freak me the freak out.

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That would freak me the freak out

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It was so surreal. Imagine being on a table, and these impossibly tall figures with these…featureless faces (maybe they were wearing masks?) looking down at you, you can hear them talking back and forth, almost clinically, but don’t see the mouths moving. Only the eyes…these black eyes staring deep and uncaring into you.

You recognize they are speaking, not to you, but about you. Their words are foreign but distinctly language. Eerily familiar, but wholly indecipherable.
They are utterly passionless. They could be talking about a piece of mud.

It’s like you wake up but your brain is still dreaming (and you can’t move)

If it happens to you it will probably be from exhaustion and you’ll wake up on your back on the couch in the middle of the night

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I took a melatonin to fall asleep

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ya sure that was a melatonin?

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That's the most SAF, mind-freak moment: not being able to shout. You begin to think your so-called reality --back where you could scream and people could hear you-- was the illusion.

The ice cold horror of that is what always wakes me up. (so far)

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Try shaking your head. Eventually you will move it enough to wake yourself up.

My best friend got a double-wide that was his dads when we turned 18. I moved in. We enjoyed the freedom of drinking and having our girlfriends over- all our buddies used it as a home base. Anyway, his mom had bought an antique bed for dollars and put it in his bedroom. A month or so into it, he says that he had sleep paralysis- that he was marrying this girl in a dream that had her face obscured by a veil. He knew that she was dead, and he didn't want to see what was under the veil. He got closer and closer to her, but couldn't move or speak or breathe- and he woke that way. He gets a little wigged out- wants to switch rooms. So, a month down the road, I'm in that bed. I dream I'm on this lonely, deserted beach and I'm isolated. I dream that I can see a body of a woman floating face down in the waves. She is coming closer and closer, and I do NOT want to see this when she gets to shore. But I'm powerless to move to get away, or speak, or do anything. I wake.
A while later, I dream I'm in an open coffin with a shroud over me. There are people in the room, they are mumbling things I can't hear, and the room is lit with candles ala 1800s. I want to raise up, but again, am paralyzed. After that one, I started sleeping on the couch.

Damn! Y'all need to lighten up on the crack pipe!

How long does an episode of sleep paralysis last? I usually just dream of tornados coming at me lol