Has anyone else experienced this?

it happened to me for the 2nd time last night in my lifetime (the first time happened about 4 years ago) and I was legitimately terrified during those 5 or so minutes I couldn't move.

all the time, sucks.

how many hours before you fell asleep did you last have caffeine?

Uhm, I don't think I had any caffeine at all that day. I'm not big into caffeine. Will have a soda once or twice a week maybe (only on weekends)

this is how alien abductions are explained away

Had it right after I got back from vacation a couple weeks ago. Was the scariest shit ever. Idk if a coke binge had anything to do with it but was probably about the only thing that was out of the ordinary between vacation and my daily life
It's terrifying and the most helpless feeling lol

This post was edited by Boilermakers on Jan 19 2016 01:06pm

Never
Sounds scarry

When I came out of it I also felt helpless. I couldn't fall back asleep for 2 hours and I just said fuck it and went for a walk to clear my head in freezing weather to cool off.



Yeah it's pretty scary. This is the 2nd time it's happened in my life and both occurrences I felt like someone was watching me. This time I could see that it was a person with some weird aura around them.

This is probably the most scary shit that happened to me, also unintentional waking up in the dream after reading about lucid/vivid dreaming.
So i've previously read that you can manipulate your dream and change surroundings, i had a casual nightmare where i was walking through some kind of a bunker/tunel (there are places like that where i live, pre war atomic shelters) it was all dark and creepy and i thought of something calm - water.
Dropped into the middle of fucking ocean during a storm, while i swear i could feel waves, rain, wind and everything else. Prayed to wake up, woke up all wet from sweat, like i just left a shower.
Never been messing with my consciousness ever since.
Yeah, story of my life

tldr: dont mess with your dreams.

Sleep paralysis was worse than any nightmare for me. I was awake but my whole body was frozen and it felt like a shadow almost standing over me grabbing me and I couldn't move or do anything. Like I remember my heart started racing and you get this sense of true panic and helplessness. I was literally just mind fucked sitting there afraid to go back to sleep afterwards lol



Yeah it was legitimately the most amount of fear/helplessness I've ever felt in my life and I've done some pretty crazy shit lol. I just stayed awake mindfucked after it

This post was edited by Boilermakers on Jan 19 2016 02:02pm

for most people, there are usually triggers for it. over time i found out having caffeine close to when i went to sleep was the trigger.

the most important thing to try and do is calm yourself. if you remember, you'll notice there are only 2 things you have slight control over, you can usually control your breathing, and you can wiggle your toes a little bit. for some people this slight sense of control helps, for others it makes it worse.

if you sleep with a s/o let them know if your breathing gets weird to physically wake you up. it's nice when there's someone around to do this for you. good luck!



This post was edited by Wretch on Jan 19 2016 02:05pm