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re: My sleep paralysis is intensifying

Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:10 am to
Posted by CypressTrout10
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2016
3122 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:10 am to
What is it called when you are half asleep and start dreaming and something hits you or in the dream you run into a wall and your body jolts and you wake up
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27560 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:18 am to
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open my eyes during sleep paralysis and see something, I just remember to look at my dog.


Are you actually seeing your dog? Or are you asleep and dreaming what your dog always does?

Some of you guys are Lucid Dreaming. Turn those frowns upside down. Conjure up some old piece of tail and have her meet you in the living room. That usually wakes me up. Always wake up when things get interesting. Even my sub conscious can frick up a hook up. Lol
Posted by pilsnerpusher
Member since Sep 2009
1424 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:22 am to
I think the main thing (in my case calling out to God, in others wiggling toes, or having their dog) is to break the sense of panic. I'm not much for the "paranormal" fwiw.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
69178 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:22 am to
Basically, you are actually seeing the room because your eyes are open, but your subconscious and dream mind are essentially photoshopping images onto that image of your room as if it were the backdrop on a green screen.
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 11:25 am
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
40478 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:22 am to
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I made an account just to respond here.


Welcome.

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Alcohol?


Yes

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any sugary food within hours of bed?


Yes
Posted by When in Rome
Telegraph Road
Member since Jan 2011
36150 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:39 am to
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Basically, you are actually seeing the room because your eyes are open, but your subconscious and dream mind are essentially photoshopping images onto that image of your room as if it were the backdrop on a green screen.
Yep. This is why having as dark a room as possible has helped me. The more light there is (and shadows), the more vivid the dreams/hallucinations are.
Posted by rickyh
Positiger Nation
Member since Dec 2003
12962 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:41 am to
Many years ago when I was 18 or 19 years old, I would feel a presence come into my room before going to sleep. It was an eerie feeling, just a sense that something evil was there. It would speak to me in my mind not verbally. I would dismiss what was happening and pray and fall asleep. After several episodes this presence would get angry and try to convince me that what was happening was real. I would counter with, telling this thing that I was sleeping and he wasn't really there. So he would ask me things like where are you, what time is it, if you are sleeping wake up. I was very aware of all these things and I knew that I hadn't fallen asleep yet. But I would still deny that it was there. One night it came into my room and told me that he was tired of playing and this night he would prove to me that he was real. He lifted my feet off the bed. Of course I argued that it wasn't real. He then swung my legs off to the side of the bed and made my feet touch the floor. And then swung them back on the bed. I told him that it wasn't happening because I was dreaming everything.My bed in in a part of the room where a walk in closet used to be and a sting was hanging down that I could reach to turn on the light. He said since you are just dreaming, reach up and turn on the light. I tried to raise my arms but two hands grabbed both of my wrists. His hands were cold like they belonged to a dead person. He was very strong and had me pinned. I got angry and told him that he was fooling with a child of God and His power was stronger than him. I reached over with all my might and grabbed his arm that was holding down my other wrist. His arm was cold and strong. I felt his skin kinda roll on his arm as I twisted it with all my might. I ripped the arm off at the elbow. I reached up and turned on the light. I was holding an arm with fingers and hand, it was white like it had no blood in it. I threw it on the floor and I looked at my brothers bed across the room. The thing was lying in my brothers bed. He was wearing a white robe with a hood. He looked to be very tall and very dead. He had white hair and a white beard. He pointed his arm and pointed at me and said, You better change your ways. That was it. He never returned. That was over 40 years ago and I still don't know if it was real. I like you had many visits.






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Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
69178 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:45 am to
That gave me chills. I honestly thought it was going to be a “walk the dinosaur” at the end.
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 11:47 am
Posted by rickyh
Positiger Nation
Member since Dec 2003
12962 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 12:38 pm to
No joke.
Posted by DeepBlueSea
Member since Jan 2018
815 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 1:47 pm to
Crazy stuff. I had episodes of sleep paralysis for years (even saw Hatman) before I knew it was an actual thing. Scared the shite out of me as a kid. I can see how it can convince people they've been abducted by aliens or possessed by demons, because there's nothing dreamlike about it.

It seems be genetic in my case. Mom and brother always had it, and two of my kids had similar episodes from a very early age. I actually didn't even put together that this is what happened to my son at 2 years old until this thread popped up. I heard him shriek in the middle of the night, and when I picked him up out of his crib he was shaking violently and crying, "Don't the snake get us!!" When he settled down some he told me that he woke up in the middle of the night and saw a cobra crawling across his floor, and when he tried to scream no sound would come out. He has NEVER forgotten it and still insists it really happened, even though he knows now that makes no logical sense.

In reading all these other stories, I can't help wondering: Am I the only one that doesn't always have "bad" sleep paralysis? Sometimes the episodes are neutral, and a few have even been very positive ... like the ones where I see, talk to, and touch dead relatives. Those are incredibly comforting, and the sense of love and joy that comes with them as just as strong as the fear associated with the bad ones. It's like the whole time I keeping thinking that I know it should be scary or unsettling to, say, feel your dead grandfather wrap his hand around yours while you're sleeping, but it isn't. Just the opposite.
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 1:49 pm
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 2:24 pm to
dont get therapy

keep us posted
Posted by agreenway6
SETX
Member since Aug 2017
819 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 3:44 pm to
Mine is some sort of dream, but I never realize it until I wake up.

I see everything through my own point-of-vision and it is always of my room. I'm always laying in bed and something (I never see anything, but feel an evil presence) across the room has me in a state of semi-paralysis. I'm able to crawl/fall out of bed VERY slowly, and I have a constant heavy pressure on me. All the while I am telling the presence it can't harm me because I am a child of God, and that it needs to leave immediately. I'll finally get to where I'm on the floor of my bedroom, and all of a sudden I will wake up and be in bed like nothing ever happen.

Of course I'll be freaked out, but when I realize it was just a dream, I'll calm back down, roll back over and go back to sleep. I used to get the dream all of the time, but it hasn't happened in a while.

I make it a point to NEVER fall asleep laying on my back, and that has helped for the most part, I think. However, when I wake up in the middle night, atleast 75% of the time I'm laying on my back.

What contributes to the dreams? I honestly don't know. But when I started looking for information I was shocked to see how many people are affected by something similar.
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