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Sleep paralysis

Acidtek

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Hey bl's! Just wondering if any of you suffer from this?

What are you crazy experience of this?

I was lying there in the bed and I couldn't move, but I had these shadows rushing towards my face a darting off at the last minute! At some points I though the light was on in my room and I could see my mum and house just stood there with my dog beside them! Weird, the most intense hallucinations of my life!

But the whole thing had a sinister side to it, it was mainly about these shadows out there trying to get me! They were shadow skeletons with dark robes around them and they could fly/hover and would rush right into my face, then dart off!

Anyone feel like sharing their stories?
 
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Luckily Acidtek, this is something I have never suffered from, though I a few friends of mine have suffered from it, sounds pretty scary!

One girl I know was terrified to sleep because of it for a while:(
 
It's crazy, crazy shit. I find it most fascinating for the scary element that almost always brings. People describe feeling held down. Not just paralysed but physical pressure on their arms or torso's. Some people experience being fucking raped but some invisible beast, really scary.
 
Bluebell, you are lucky that you haven't had to experience it! I didn't sleep for dsyys afterwards! The acusl sleep paralysis lasted about three hours, although you don't have much concept of time!

Yeah hooks, tis crazy! Feels like someone is sitting on your chest! They say it can explain alien abductions and haunting from ghosts! I can see that!

I could feel the sleep paralysis coming on I'm sure, my arm and head went all tingely! And I fad a weird feeling in my whole body for about 20 mins, then I was straigh into the paralysis, not fun at all! Feels lime a bad dmt trip, if you get one of those! ;)
 
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I had it once a long time ago, don't think it was drug related.

I was on the verge of sleep when I suddenly became aware of a bloke with long bony arms in some kind of black exoskeleton or suit. He had a completely featureless white face. He ran at me and I couldn't move as he picked me up and flung me across the room and then I was falling through the air looking back up at a Hercules type plane with the back ramp open and him standing on it watching as I plummeted to earth. Then everything went black and I got a searing bright white flashing crucifix in my vision for a couple of seconds before I was able to force myself awake.
 
I had it once a long time ago, don't think it was drug related.

I was on the verge of sleep when I suddenly became aware of a bloke with long bony arms in some kind of black exoskeleton or suit. He had a completely featureless white face. He ran at me and I couldn't move as he picked me up and flung me across the room and then I was falling through the air looking back up at a Hercules type plane with the back ramp open and him standing on it watching as I plummeted to earth. Then everything went black and I got a searing bright white flashing crucifix in my vision for a couple of seconds before I was able to force myself awake.

Funny that, I've read that a lot of people can bring themselves out of it by praying in their minds or by 'asking God for help'.

I don't think it's really Jesus helping folks out, I think it's the psychological effect of some comforting thoughts (even if your not religious) helping to give you control over your body again. Or summat like that, maybe it really is an angels and demons thing, who fucking knows?
 
I always get really bad sleep paralysis after doing MDMA and not sleeping for like 40+ hours, most fucking scary thing ever though, dosent get any better each time. After doing like 3-4 day binges in ibiza ill get it for 2-3 days after every night. It feels like I am actaully awake, more awake than a dream like I can see my room in complete darkness, had ones where I thought I was getting sat on then dragged across my floor, body starts making some wierd noises just as im about to fall asleep. Cant really describe what it feels like but have to sleep with the light on only thing that gets me to sleep, feel like an 8 year old, it goes usually after 1 or 2 really good sleeps though.
 
I remember getting this infrequently in my childhood and adolescence, but at the height of my MDMA abuse ( 2008 ), I would get it religiously. Whenever I dropped on a Friday night, it would strike the following Tuesday and/or Wednesday for sure, and sometimes that same night after dosing. I still get it occasionally, so while drugs don't seem necessary to bring it about, using certain ones almost feels sufficient enough for it to occur.

A few things come to mind when I reflect on it:

(1) TERROR. Absolute terror. I don't know how some people find this fascinating and/or don't mind it. I find it to be scarier than most of the real-life trauma I've been through.

(2) EACH TIME FEELS LONGER. Especially when I was getting it weekly during my every-weekend abuse, it began to register during the paralysis that It's happening again. And it feels really uncomfortable fighting it. But I've been fighting it for a while now. Typically I snap out of it by now. Why have I not this time? It's going to be permanent! Oh shi-

(3) No matter how freakin' tired you are, once you wake yourself from it, you GOTTA STAY UP for 20-30 minutes or else IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. In other words, you need to stay up just long enough so that falling back asleep will be impossible.

(4) ALWAYS make sure a bedmate COMPLETELY understands what it is before you two share that bed. It's bad enough when the imaginary monsters are grasping at your limbs, but when that girl you hooked up with at the rave is shaking you wanting to know why you're acting weird, and escalates after you are unable to immediately respond, the terror takes on a new level of real.

(5) It always seems CORRELATED WITH SOME EVENT going on IN A DREAM. A frequent one I would have would be driving my car down the highway, the seat suddenly falling into an extreme decline so that I cannot see the road, and, because I couldn't move/react, being unable to control the car as it barrels down the highway. Another time I fell off of a wagon and couldn't get out of the way of stampeding horses. Point being, it always seems to start within the context of a dream, and after a moment in that weird dream state, I recognize what's actually going on, and then (2).
 
Tis indeed very scary! I though I was gonna die a one point be use the physical effects on mg body, it was hard to breath and I had pins and needles everywhere! Aparenrtly acording to wiki, your more prone to it if you sleep on yor back! :)
 
Bluebell, you are lucky that you haven't had to experience it! I didn't sleep for dsyys afterwards! The acusl sleep paralysis lasted about three hours, although you don't have much concept of time!

Yeah hooks, tis crazy! Feels like someone is sitting on your chest! They say it can explain alien abductions and haunting from ghosts! I can see that!

I could feel the sleep paralysis coking on I'm sure, my arm and head went all tingely! And I fad a weird feeling in my whole body for about 20 mins, then I was straigh into the paralysis, not fun at all! Feels lime a bad dmt trip, if you get one of those! ;)

eh, sounds like a fully awake and conscious nightmare and must be terrifying.

I get dreams/nightmares that I sometimes can't wake up from where I scream continually yet I'm unable to make a physical noise. apparently this equates to moaning out loud in my sleep. luckily when having those types of dreams there's the fallback of instantly waking up if it involves falling to your death ... cannot fathom what that kind of fear is like while being totally conscious and aware.

as soon as you get an inkling of the pins n needles sensation Acidtek, I'd hope youre gonna leap out of bed and have a walk around. you betterer. that's an order <3
 
Thanks marmz, I will defiantly do that next time I feel it coming on <3

Thanks to everyone posting their experiences a support for this mattern :)
 
A frequent one I would have would be driving my car down the highway, the seat suddenly falling into an extreme decline so that I cannot see the road, and, because I couldn't move/react, being unable to control the car as it barrels down the highway.

That sounds fucking horrendous. Scary as fuck.
 
I have had this multiple times but only ever on the one night. It just kept happening every time i fell back to sleep after the last one I'll never forget it was sacred to go to sleep again after the 4th one.

Just remember waking up in a panic but unable to move my body at all and if i didn't fight it, it felt like i was falling of the edge of the world.

That was too many pills the night before
 
I get it after heavy mdma usage, pretty horrible buts its the price I pay for having a good time
 
I have gone through this like a hundred times. Started when I was 18. I dont believe it was drug related with me, at least not directly.

I believe sleep paralysis is caused by a spirit interacting with you. It is related to astral viewing, astral projection- it is like the step before viewing.

After sleep paralysis, you may go through a movement phase-- where you are swung around, shaken, held upsidedown -- just after sleep paralysis. Then you may encounter spirits and interact with them. It seems like it is up to them how much they want to let you into their world. Sometimes I can see them opaquely, feel them (let electricity), talk to them, hear them, feel their weight and see their weight on my mattress.

What may feel evil may just be mischievous.

The point is to conquer your fear. To let go, To know you will be okay.

At one point when I stopped having moving sleep paralysis, I started to miss it.

Im sure everyone thinks Im bat shit crazy after reading this post. Just my opinion and experience. Very unscientific.
 
I always get really bad sleep paralysis after doing MDMA and not sleeping for like 40+ hours.

This is definitely when the worst of it happens. Ive had it sporadically for about 10 years, at first I hated it and it was terrifying but got used to it after a while, because for some reason the visions I got became less fucked up. Although after one particularly bad mdma binge I had it for a week straight multiple times a night, which wasnt fun. Also starts happening more frequently when I stop using benzos
 
I actually enjoy sleep paralysis since its a great way to jump into lucid dreams more easily. I don't see them as very scary. Yes there's a "presence" sometimes but that's it for me. The only sucky thing is the not being able to move part.

The last time I had it I actually had some sort of out of body experience. I wanted to move and move and all of a sudden I bump up and saw my body still laying there. Got sucked back into it after a short period. It 'shocked' me back into dreamland.
 
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I often have dreams where I jump out of my head and go flying off. I can sorta 'force' my way into other people too and see through their eyes! Then whenever I want I can fly back into my head. There was once that it felt like summat else was in my head as I tried to return to it and I had to 'force' my way back into me. Weird. I like those dreams.
 
Nothing worse Acidtek. What were you taking? I loved 6-APB the one time I tried it but it's probably the worst case of sleep paralysis I've ever had for the 3-4 days after, from just 12 hours of seshing on it. Brutal. I tend to get similar experiances as have already been said, something very unpleasant happening that you want to come out of but you are unable to move or snap out of it.

It's pretty much the reason I'm not big on the stimulants anymore. Had some really bad cases of it with meph and MDMA, even more so anytime I've ever mixed them. Festivals usually guarentee me a week of sleep paralysis after if I don't sleep. Even though all you want to do is sleep and eat junk food I find the quickest way to beat them off is get up early, eat lots of fruit, bananas etc and go to bed at a reasonable hour. Exercise helps alot too.
 
happened to me a few times but only when using etizolam, was quite disturbing being awak but body asleep, did seem that there was sinister things in the room with me aswell. Was trying to shout out the first time it happened as i didn't know what was going on but nothing came out really freaked me out for a bit.
 
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