Current Events > Had a sleep paralysis moment but a good one all things considered

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Took a quick nap on the couch sitting sideways with one leg bent on the couch and the other hanging off it.

Suddenly I hear a woman giggle as she puts a blanket on me from behind. I swear I felt the warmth.

She then kisses the back of my neck in a motherly fashion and just holds me.

Now my mother is very much alive so its not some desire to feel maternal love again. Out of all my SP moments this was the most "enjoyable".
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I normally just have demons and old ladies trying to suffocate me :/

I think yours is a lot creepier though.
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Was she cute?
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Yeah I normally get some crazy bitch sitting on my chest but she's not naked or hot. It's awful.
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Last time I heard children break into my apt thru the kitchen door and start giggling demonically behind me.

I've learned to logic/ sleep thru my paralysis moments now.

I realized I wouldnt hear their laughs so clearly if they were behind me as there is a wall between the corridor and the couch.

But sometimes no logic can save you and struggling never works. Gotta just shut the eyes and hope this isnt a real demon.
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All mine have been me just very much conscious, but completely unable to move. Nothing scary going around me thankfully, at least.
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salandrews posted...

Gotta just shut the eyes and hope this isnt a real demon.

Wiggle them toes and focus on them. It's the fastest way out of SP in my experience. It also keeps me from feeling panicked when I do snap out of it.

Except for one time, but I had other reasons to be seeing things then so...
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Why is this such a common thing for you guys i thought it was rare as fuck
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MrNintendo1213 posted...

Why is this such a common thing for you guys i thought it was rare as fuck

I have horrible sleeping and stressing myself out habits, which don't seem that uncommon here.
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It happens when your stressful before sleep or fighting yourself trying sleep.

I used to get it a lot when I went to my girlfriends house. The after sex cuddling and nap was stressful because I knew her dad could come back home on his lunch break if he chose to.

I'd hear footsteps right out the door. I'd struggle to wake up or to get her attention but to no avail.
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mine feel like i'm floating and flying all over the place, while still stuck in my sleeping position..
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PikaPika1000 posted...

mine feel like i'm floating and flying all over the place, while still stuck in my sleeping position..

I've had that too. Reminds me of when a video game renders a character far away and you see them awkwardly be placed where they should be
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yall freaking me out

this shit is srsly so fucked up lol. I can't tell you how many different ones I have, the worse ones are.... awaking, and just, all I can do is panic and look around the room while its dark, and in the end, can only put the cover over me head, to stay safe and sleep........ More variations of that can happen. Sleep is so genuinely creepy.
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I'm going to write about my last sleep paralysis experience here
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how come sleep paralysis stuff is mostly creepy/scary? why is it always corpses and demon ladies instead of elmo?
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I don't know whether to be happy or sad that i never get any weird hallucinations like that when i get sleep paralysis
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Only got it once. Giant spider (like australian funnel web looking) started slowly crawling up my body starting at my feet. I was struggling so hard to move but nothing would happen. It slowly made it's way up my body. I could feel every leg as it moved slowly towards my face. Up my legs, onto my chest. It was on my neck and reaching out towards my face when i finally snapped out of it.

Was pretty terrible. I don't even have a problem with spiders and regularly catch and release ones i find. But this was pretty horrifying
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Back_Stabbath posted...

how come sleep paralysis stuff is mostly creepy/scary? why is it always corpses and demon ladies instead of elmo?

It probably has to do with the sense of panic that hits when you can't move your limbs or speak.
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QwelzaarKane posted...

Back_Stabbath posted...

how come sleep paralysis stuff is mostly creepy/scary? why is it always corpses and demon ladies instead of elmo?

It probably has to do with the sense of panic that hits when you can't move your limbs or speak.

So thousands of people somehow conjure a witch woman? It's so specific and prevalent it's ridiculous lol

I'm not denying it but it's just weird. Must be that collective unconscious...
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MrNintendo1213 posted...

Why is this such a common thing for you guys i thought it was rare as fuck

Because CE is full of bullshit attention seekers
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salandrews posted...

I've learned to logic/ sleep thru my paralysis moments now.

Same. Worst case scenario I wait it out.
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salandrews posted...

It happens when your stressful before sleep or fighting yourself trying sleep.

I used to get it a lot when I went to my girlfriends house. The after sex cuddling and nap was stressful because I knew her dad could come back home on his lunch break if he chose to.

I'd hear footsteps right out the door. I'd struggle to wake up or to get her attention but to no avail.

It's also more likely to happen if you sleep on your back and/or you have a weird sleep schedule
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Thats true too. I worked the evening shift and would sleep at 2am. And now i do some overnights and go to bed at 7am.

SP is a lot more common than people think. Especially for people who tend to have vivid dreams and can remember them.
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Unfortunately happens to me but it's always boring. Room just ends up blurry or its pitch black. Twitch around until I wake up. I haven't had a scary one for years since I realize what's happening which prevents me from getting scarred and thinking up cool ass demons.
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salandrews posted...

Thats true too. I worked the evening shift and would sleep at 2am. And now i do some overnights and go to bed at 7am.

SP is a lot more common than people think. Especially for people who tend to have vivid dreams and can remember them.

More of my dreams are lucid than aren't. I even argue with people in the dreams about whether or not I'm dreaming.
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I've never gotten "the hag" who sits on your chest. I've gotten shadow people a couple times (one was EXTREMELY vivid and demonic), and one time I had some kind of dead girl hanging from the ceiling and "statically twitching" like a broken tape recording.

I haven't had any lately, but the most recent ones were all auditory. Usually a looping continuation of whatever I was dreaming before waking up.
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RebelElite791 posted...

MrNintendo1213 posted...

Why is this such a common thing for you guys i thought it was rare as fuck

Because CE is full of bullshit attention seekers

No, it's not rare at all.

Also you're the one who says you have no internal monologue whatsoever. That would be rare and honestly I have no idea how you even function like that.
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Yeah it had been happening to me for a few years before I found out there was a thing called sleep paralysis. It was terrifying as fuck. Now it's mundane.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

salandrews posted...

Thats true too. I worked the evening shift and would sleep at 2am. And now i do some overnights and go to bed at 7am.

SP is a lot more common than people think. Especially for people who tend to have vivid dreams and can remember them.

More of my dreams are lucid than aren't. I even argue with people in the dreams about whether or not I'm dreaming.

One time I dreamt of a party of coworkers or something. It was a formal setting.

Then I told one person this is a dream. Suddenly they all turned to me and looked at me angrily. They made no threats but I clearly upset them.
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MorbidFaithless posted...

So thousands of people somehow conjure a witch woman? It's so specific and prevalent it's ridiculous lol

I'm not denying it but it's just weird. Must be that collective unconscious...

I never got how the hag was so common either. Personally, I never saw her until I started reading about SP. Before that it was always a group of five demons (plus one if I could see a window) that would examine different parts of my body and make weird noises.
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Yeah no hag for me either. But i never really see what I feel or hear.
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Funkydog posted...

All mine have been me just very much conscious, but completely unable to move. Nothing scary going around me thankfully, at least.

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salandrews posted...

Yeah no hag for me either. But i never really see what I feel or hear.

Same. Always feel and/or hear, never see, in spite of the fact that my lucid dreams are extremely visually oriented.
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I think one of the scariest I had was when I was asleep on my side.

Some demon thing cuddled up behind me and grabbed my arm. I actually saw its hand. So by that I imagine what it looked like.

Think of Daedric armor but drawn by a four year old who scribbled it out with black crayon. The hand looked sharp like the gauntlet but frayed.

I couldn't logic out. So i tried to sleep but it grabbed my and said "I wont let you."
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There was a good documentary film about sleep paralysis that came out like a couple of years ago, i forgot the name though
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It's on Netflix right? I've been meaning to watch
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The nightmare i believe its called
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I think it would be a nightmare if all you do is hold hands and can't get rid of her relatives. https://goo.gl/images/6SyfFv
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