For the first time. I was aware of what was going on, but I couldn't open my eyes. Pretty wild.
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Try to wiggle your toes when you feel it coming on. Works for me. Only had 5 or so episodes my entire life but I was able to break out of the last one last year. Thought I read that tip in a thread on here.
Happened to be a couple weeks ago for the first time. I was freaked out. Couldn't move. Even tried to yell but couldn't. Thought there was a demon in my room
Happens to me all the time. Aside from the shadow figure and moving, I can control everything else while paralysed.
I had it once or twice and it was weird but not so scary. Then the last time I had it it was fucking terrifying. It was the first time I had the shadowy figure there and it was intense. What is the explanation of the shadowy figure? It's weird that it's not just something that happens to a couple people. So many people have the same experience. There has to be some explanation to what it is.
It doesn't really count until you see the shadow people. That is what makes the experience.
pennviachoke -Not to be insensitive but this always seemed like bs to me
I can assure you it isn't.
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Shadow people? What the feck are you lot talking about?
I usually scoff at people talking about there experiences, demon on there chest or watching you.
It has happened to me before…not the demon bit. Joe rogan was talking about this with some sleep specialist.
Its just your body am brain not communicating or something like that for a second
Its been awhile for me. I try to turn my head. Feels weird.
HULC - Shadow people? What the feck are you lot talking about?
Sleep paralysis involves being in a state that is somewhere between being awake and asleep. You are awake, but certain parts of being asleep are still around. Primarily, when you are asleep the body feeezes up so you can't move as much.
The freakier part is that you also still might be in a dream state, so sometimes there are hallucinations. The most common hallucination is seeing the shadow people. Google image search it, those are about accurate. I haven't done DMT, but apparently it can have the same effect since the chemical DMT is somehow involved with dreaming.
This explains a lot of things. Most cultures see, to have some version of a demon who sits on you ur chest at night and it is usually what people describe when they think they've been abducted by aliens.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6UtDJj4ZF0
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MojoSoDope -I had it once or twice and it was weird but not so scary. Then the last time I had it it was fucking terrifying. It was the first time I had the shadowy figure there and it was intense. What is the explanation of the shadowy figure? It's weird that it's not just something that happens to a couple people. So many people have the same experience. There has to be some explanation to what it is.
Hereditary. Old wives tale that just sunk in and stayed there. Everyone has been told ghost stories whether from an old relative or at camp. It's like a right of passage to Warn off bad behavior.
Some experience a tall man or an old hag. The shadow figure was mine. I told it off and it went on full blown laughter and I could feel like it was about to charge and I'd wake up. This was the only way I taught myself to wake up so every time I'd wake up shaking sweating and heart racing but it was better than the dread.
Pretty cool experience, completely normal, just your body's mechanism for making sure you don't run out the window when you're dreaming. And you get a waking glimpse into your own weird unconscious.
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As far as interpreting those images as real, people have been doing that since they thought the sun was a God. Just bleedover from the dream world.
I didnt see any shadow figure, not that I wanted to
It's awful.
One that really bothered me was when I lived in a ground floor apartment and I was sleeping with the window open and fell asleep with the light on. I could hear a radio in the background and was terrified someone was going to come in through the window while I was frozen there just watching.
NiteProwleR -MojoSoDope -I had it once or twice and it was weird but not so scary. Then the last time I had it it was fucking terrifying. It was the first time I had the shadowy figure there and it was intense. What is the explanation of the shadowy figure? It's weird that it's not just something that happens to a couple people. So many people have the same experience. There has to be some explanation to what it is.
Hereditary. Old wives tale that just sunk in and stayed there. Everyone has been told ghost stories whether from an old relative or at camp. It's like a right of passage to Warn off bad behavior.
I’m not sure. I had my first experience without ever having heard anything about the shadow figure or the crone who’s supposed to sit on your chest. It was only after I was trying to research what the fuck had just happened to me that I encountered the stories.