c.johnson
04-28-2006, 11:11 PM
i am 15 years old and i experience sleep paralysis nearly all the time. i have tried to prevent this by sleeping on by back, on my belly and on my sides but changing posision doesn't prevent me from experiencing one. i find these dreams really scary, somtimes they make me scared to sleep! when i experience one i can get myself out of them almost straight away, which is good. i try concentrating on my little finger to get me out of them and it always works. i know when one is going to happen because my tounge goes numb and feels as if it has 'pins and needles'. last time i had one, which was only 2 days ago, i was having a bit of a nightmare wen suddenly i went paralysed. it was a bit of a struggle trying to get out of it almost straight away but i did. whilst having this 'dream' i experienced a really loud buzzing noice in my ear, n shuffles of other sounds. when i finally got out of it, i felt really drowsy and i kept going back into it again, like my eyes wouldn't let me keep them open. while feeling drowsy i felt weird and i felt as if someone was stroking my hand, but i didnt want to scare myself so i just told myself it was nothing. during this week i have experienced a sleep paralysis three nights on the run! they really scare me and i wish they would stop so i can just have a peaceful sleep. i would like to know if anyone else gets the same sensations as i do, if so please e-mail me.
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akalei
05-02-2006, 05:56 AM
OMG!! Finally someone who gets Sleep Paralysis all the time!! I did research and its like very very rare for people to have it tons like us. I swear its like a few nights/week I get it. And I read that like 90% of the time it happens lying on ur back. But I still get it no matter what my position. Yeah mine usualy start with a lucid dream. Its like only a 2 second dream (I know I am dreaming) and whilst I am awaking from it I go into Paralysis. Sometimes its while I am first falling a sleep. The 2second dreams I have are frightening and the Paralysis itself is frightening cause I sometimes have horrible very realistic halusinations. (Which is one of the symptons people have during Sleep Paralysis and it turns out they havent even moved at all) I am often scared to go to sleep. I sometimes feel like I am screaming in my head soooo loud, but nothing is coming out. .. Since I get Sleep Paralysis so often I did so much research online about it and got tons of information.
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Example of one of my hullusinations. One of my hallusinations was I wanted to turn my light on. I was lying on my side so i turned over and in the darkness reached for my lamp switch. (it was burnt out) The moonlight was shinning in my room. So I attempted to get out of bed to turn on my regular light. But my legs couldnt move. So I kinda slid out of bed. I felt a presence (another symptom. People often feel a dark presence close to them during sleep paralysis) So I wanted to turn the light on quickly just to have light and make all the creepy shadowns vanish. But since I could only slide on the floor I clrawled and got to my wall/door where the light switch was. I attempted to reach up with difficulty to turn my light on. Then the buzzing in my head started and I realized that I was still lying in my bed on my side facing away from the lamp. I could still sense the presence. Its like my mind was awake but my eyes wouldnt open and I couldnt move at all. I just kept screaming to myself to wake up. But it didnt happen. FInally it did. I was scared the rest of the night.. I have soooo many stories with Sleep paralysis. None of them are ever the same twice. But they all have the same thing in common.
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Example of one of my hullusinations. One of my hallusinations was I wanted to turn my light on. I was lying on my side so i turned over and in the darkness reached for my lamp switch. (it was burnt out) The moonlight was shinning in my room. So I attempted to get out of bed to turn on my regular light. But my legs couldnt move. So I kinda slid out of bed. I felt a presence (another symptom. People often feel a dark presence close to them during sleep paralysis) So I wanted to turn the light on quickly just to have light and make all the creepy shadowns vanish. But since I could only slide on the floor I clrawled and got to my wall/door where the light switch was. I attempted to reach up with difficulty to turn my light on. Then the buzzing in my head started and I realized that I was still lying in my bed on my side facing away from the lamp. I could still sense the presence. Its like my mind was awake but my eyes wouldnt open and I couldnt move at all. I just kept screaming to myself to wake up. But it didnt happen. FInally it did. I was scared the rest of the night.. I have soooo many stories with Sleep paralysis. None of them are ever the same twice. But they all have the same thing in common.
Sifufor
05-04-2006, 08:08 AM
Next time you have it, Akalei, see if you can fly, since it appears you got out of your body. Everytime the buzzing and stiffness and the lucid dreaming occur to me now, I am not afraid. I just get out my body and do odd things, like flying. Oh, yes, the dark figure at the foot of my bed is always there. From age 12 thru 17 I was very scared of it, thinking it was waiting to possess my body.
In college, when the buzzing didn't occur as often, on one episode I looked at the figure and wondered if it was me. Its shape was like mine. broad shoulders, short neck, round head. It never threatened me, it usually just stayed still like a shadowy statue. On a couple of occasions, it came up closer, next to me on my left side,
C.Johnson's description of the onset could very well be mine. I become awake. Maybe I am dreaming. But the dream is so lucid that I can see clearly with a much wider vision, even with my eyes closed. Then I hear soft buzzes, very much like electricity passing in the lines outside. My toes start to tingle (pins and needles) and stiffen. Instinctively, I try to ward the sensation off by wiggling them. After 3 or 4 successes, the buzz returns with a vengence, as though I have mad it angry. It‘s louder and the stiffness starts to overcome my effort. It seems that if the sound reaches its highest peak or loudest volume, something drastic is going to happen. It now moves to my upper body. Now I am panicking, for now my whole body is paralyzed. I try to twist and turn, I try to move my fingers, my legs. I can't. Now the buzzing sounds like gushing wind blowing over my head, not unlike the sound of a hair dryer over my ears. Has it reached its peak? My mind wonders. Am I going to die? Am I going to explode? Sometimes I hear bells and waterfalls. What happens afterwards? I just don’t remember what happens next. I just wake up the next morning.
The above is how things were when I was a youngster.
Like you, akalei, I did a lot of reading to find out what was going on. At 12 years old, when I first experienced it, it occured practically every night. Where I lived there were about 5 deaths during sleep in a year's time. The newspaper reported on every one of them, calling them “mystery deaths.” I had thought that I was heading towards it.
But my readings shed some light. I read up on death and dying, religious experiences, pychic phenomena, lucid dreaming, false awakening, the astral body, etc. I even inquired about Eckankar (Soul travel). I also read up on Robert Monroe who could willfully do OBE (out of body experience) while being studied by psychologists in the lab.
In the course of my inquiry, I came across many others who were having the same experience. My sister for one. Another is my fellow worker. Still another, in the same office, my secretary. They all had kept it to themselves, scared not knowing what was going on or whom to turn, until I shared my experience with them. They felt relief, and they too became animated in describing the same experience.
As I got older, I actually began to look forward to its occurance. But, alas, it stopped coming on as often. In fact, the last episode I had occurred about 10 years ago, although I still get weak buzzes, short lived, every so often.
You will raise an eyebrow and wonder about my sanity after reading the next part. Once when the buzzing started, I was lying in bed absent minded in my in-laws' house, where we were staying on our vacation. From my sleep position on my back, I could see light seeping into the bedroom through the bottom of the closed door, light from the hallway. Even without my looking there. Yet, all lights in the house were turned off. Then I saw my wife's rise from the bed from her waist up and turned to me as though to fetch me. I screamed at the top of my lungs. Why? Didn’t I recognize her as my wife? First, my wife could not physically rise from the bed that way. It would take an strong athlete to do that. Second, her body was different, it had of millions of tiny stars all over it. Instead of being jolted by my scream, she merely said, "oh, Charles..." then lay back down and went back to sleep. The next morning, at the breakfeast table, I was expecting my in-laws asking me about my "nightmare." I was surprised that they didn't ask. They didn't ask because they did not hear me scream. Neither did my wife. This made me wonder if it was only a dream.
Another time, I walked in my house in the middle of the night. I saw everything even clearer than normal times. At the same time I saw furniture and other items in the house that I didn‘t recognize, again making me wonder whether it‘s nothing but a dream.
This next one will indeed make you wonder about me, or conclude that it‘s only a dream: I even flew to the Golden Heights in Israel in my astral body. I even flew over a beautiful forest which I believe was the Garden of Eden.
On one occasion, however, when the buzz came on, I willed myself to go through the ceiling. Guess what? I couldn't. I kept bouncing off. On another occasion, I was absentminded- I kept turning around in my body, didn't realize that I had an OBE. It was like an advocado separated from its shell but still left lying inside it.
C.Johnson and Akalei, next time you two hear the buzzing, see if you can fly. Or be like the avocado. If you do try to fly and do fly, you will have a delightful experience, flying even better than birds and airplanes. No effort. Just will yourself. One thing must be said here. Don't TRY to will yourself to fly. In other words don't have doubt in the back of your mind. This will cause you only to bounce off the ceiling. :) Just think of flying as a matter of fact, like it's no big thing. It will happen. Even if it’s only a dream. But what a dream! Enjoy. :angel:
In college, when the buzzing didn't occur as often, on one episode I looked at the figure and wondered if it was me. Its shape was like mine. broad shoulders, short neck, round head. It never threatened me, it usually just stayed still like a shadowy statue. On a couple of occasions, it came up closer, next to me on my left side,
C.Johnson's description of the onset could very well be mine. I become awake. Maybe I am dreaming. But the dream is so lucid that I can see clearly with a much wider vision, even with my eyes closed. Then I hear soft buzzes, very much like electricity passing in the lines outside. My toes start to tingle (pins and needles) and stiffen. Instinctively, I try to ward the sensation off by wiggling them. After 3 or 4 successes, the buzz returns with a vengence, as though I have mad it angry. It‘s louder and the stiffness starts to overcome my effort. It seems that if the sound reaches its highest peak or loudest volume, something drastic is going to happen. It now moves to my upper body. Now I am panicking, for now my whole body is paralyzed. I try to twist and turn, I try to move my fingers, my legs. I can't. Now the buzzing sounds like gushing wind blowing over my head, not unlike the sound of a hair dryer over my ears. Has it reached its peak? My mind wonders. Am I going to die? Am I going to explode? Sometimes I hear bells and waterfalls. What happens afterwards? I just don’t remember what happens next. I just wake up the next morning.
The above is how things were when I was a youngster.
Like you, akalei, I did a lot of reading to find out what was going on. At 12 years old, when I first experienced it, it occured practically every night. Where I lived there were about 5 deaths during sleep in a year's time. The newspaper reported on every one of them, calling them “mystery deaths.” I had thought that I was heading towards it.
But my readings shed some light. I read up on death and dying, religious experiences, pychic phenomena, lucid dreaming, false awakening, the astral body, etc. I even inquired about Eckankar (Soul travel). I also read up on Robert Monroe who could willfully do OBE (out of body experience) while being studied by psychologists in the lab.
In the course of my inquiry, I came across many others who were having the same experience. My sister for one. Another is my fellow worker. Still another, in the same office, my secretary. They all had kept it to themselves, scared not knowing what was going on or whom to turn, until I shared my experience with them. They felt relief, and they too became animated in describing the same experience.
As I got older, I actually began to look forward to its occurance. But, alas, it stopped coming on as often. In fact, the last episode I had occurred about 10 years ago, although I still get weak buzzes, short lived, every so often.
You will raise an eyebrow and wonder about my sanity after reading the next part. Once when the buzzing started, I was lying in bed absent minded in my in-laws' house, where we were staying on our vacation. From my sleep position on my back, I could see light seeping into the bedroom through the bottom of the closed door, light from the hallway. Even without my looking there. Yet, all lights in the house were turned off. Then I saw my wife's rise from the bed from her waist up and turned to me as though to fetch me. I screamed at the top of my lungs. Why? Didn’t I recognize her as my wife? First, my wife could not physically rise from the bed that way. It would take an strong athlete to do that. Second, her body was different, it had of millions of tiny stars all over it. Instead of being jolted by my scream, she merely said, "oh, Charles..." then lay back down and went back to sleep. The next morning, at the breakfeast table, I was expecting my in-laws asking me about my "nightmare." I was surprised that they didn't ask. They didn't ask because they did not hear me scream. Neither did my wife. This made me wonder if it was only a dream.
Another time, I walked in my house in the middle of the night. I saw everything even clearer than normal times. At the same time I saw furniture and other items in the house that I didn‘t recognize, again making me wonder whether it‘s nothing but a dream.
This next one will indeed make you wonder about me, or conclude that it‘s only a dream: I even flew to the Golden Heights in Israel in my astral body. I even flew over a beautiful forest which I believe was the Garden of Eden.
On one occasion, however, when the buzz came on, I willed myself to go through the ceiling. Guess what? I couldn't. I kept bouncing off. On another occasion, I was absentminded- I kept turning around in my body, didn't realize that I had an OBE. It was like an advocado separated from its shell but still left lying inside it.
C.Johnson and Akalei, next time you two hear the buzzing, see if you can fly. Or be like the avocado. If you do try to fly and do fly, you will have a delightful experience, flying even better than birds and airplanes. No effort. Just will yourself. One thing must be said here. Don't TRY to will yourself to fly. In other words don't have doubt in the back of your mind. This will cause you only to bounce off the ceiling. :) Just think of flying as a matter of fact, like it's no big thing. It will happen. Even if it’s only a dream. But what a dream! Enjoy. :angel:
Bev92
05-16-2006, 07:26 AM
Sifufor, wow..is that true? You can really make yourself fly? I actually read in a book that we can teach ourselves to raise up out of our bodies and go tour the world, even to france or india. Sounds weird, but now that you mentioned it, you never know.
c.johnson..you're not the only one, there are tons of people who go through this. I've been through it about 6-7 times a while back, but once I switched sleeping places, it went away. Try different things like keeping your room cold or warmer than usual, or try sleeping in a different area for a few nights. Hope all goes well.
c.johnson..you're not the only one, there are tons of people who go through this. I've been through it about 6-7 times a while back, but once I switched sleeping places, it went away. Try different things like keeping your room cold or warmer than usual, or try sleeping in a different area for a few nights. Hope all goes well.
Sifufor
05-17-2006, 03:06 PM
Yes, I think so. For me, it starts out two ways. The first is through sleep paralysis. But, because as a youth I usually fought it off like akalei and c.johnson because it is a very scary feeling, most of my flying is through dreams, the second way. When I have a lucid dream, that is, when I know I am dreaming, the first thing I try to do is fly. The experience is beautiful. Still, though, like any other type of dream, the mind is still irrational, not like when you are awake. For example, in one of my dreams, a monster was chasing me. I ran for my life. Then I stop and said to myself, "hey, I am just dreaming (my dream became lucid at that point.) Why run? Just fly away." Instead of, "ha, monster, go do the ballet."
Have you ever had a falling sensation in your sleep? It's a good chance you are flying but don't know it.
Another way to fly is to will yourself. If you get a chance, read up on Robert Monroe. There is a lot in the internet on him. He can will himself to have an OBE (out of body experience). This is a form of flying.
Flying may be pure entertainment of the mind. If it is, it's very much like 3-D movies, where you feel the train running into you. or you are riding it. Except that in dreams, the mind is super sensitive; thoughts are amplified, experiences magnified. With lucid dreaming you can be the director, screen writer, producer of the plot, with unlimited financing. Maybe it's an experience of the afterlife, or of God in us. (Aren't we all God's creation?) But I am getting into an area that is not board related. So I will stop here.
Have you ever had a falling sensation in your sleep? It's a good chance you are flying but don't know it.
Another way to fly is to will yourself. If you get a chance, read up on Robert Monroe. There is a lot in the internet on him. He can will himself to have an OBE (out of body experience). This is a form of flying.
Flying may be pure entertainment of the mind. If it is, it's very much like 3-D movies, where you feel the train running into you. or you are riding it. Except that in dreams, the mind is super sensitive; thoughts are amplified, experiences magnified. With lucid dreaming you can be the director, screen writer, producer of the plot, with unlimited financing. Maybe it's an experience of the afterlife, or of God in us. (Aren't we all God's creation?) But I am getting into an area that is not board related. So I will stop here.