I dont know whethe this is the right place for this, first time posting here..
I had the worst night of my life last night, i havent slept for more than a few minutes the entire night.
I dont know who i should speak to about this so im going to here..
Last night my girlfriend feel asleep at around 11, i was wide awake in bed until just past 3. Then all of a sudeen it felt like my whole body felt this moderate pressure on it, the only way i can describe it is someone laying directly ontop of me pushing me into my bed, I couldn't move for what seemed like a minute but it was probably no more than 3-4 seconds. basically i couldnt move, couldnt breathe, couldnt talk - i was trying to say help to my gf but nothing could come out - like the kind of nightmare you would have when you were little. then after what seemed like ages i could move and was wide awake again and like panting and kinda fucking freaked out which woke my gf, and i told her what happened.
Obvious response from her - just a nightmare, i am pretty sure it wasnt just a nightmare.
I was laying on my back when that happened. i was realy really tense but rolled onto my side and tried to get to sleep like that, thinking it may of just had something to do with the way i was lying (i dont know my thoguhts were racing). it took forever to fall asleep, i was wide awake for what felt so long and also was semi trying to not fall asleep cos i was kinda freaked out still. Then after what seemed like a shitload of time, i feel asleep (i supppose) and it happened again. This time i could hear this constant vibration noise in my hear, but the same force holding me down, i couldnt move, couldnt cry out for help for a few seconds, i couldnt breathe. I looked at the clock, it was 3.09. All this had taken place in 9 minutes and it had seemed like hours in between the incidents.
By this time i was going nuts with paranoia. As soon as i "gained control back of my body - you could say" it woke my gf again, my eart was racing and so were my thoughts and I said i think it is actually a ghost or a spirit or something. i was trying to think of reasons why, this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me, i was sleeping in my brothers room which i thought could mean something, but i lived in that room for years so idk. as all ghost story cliche's i was home alone, but with my gf - the parents and sublings on holiday.
her response to it again, although worried for me etc tried to find a more reasonable explanation - i was pretty fucking set on something paranormal going on. She said it might be that i was extremely dehydrated - i have a cold and my temperature fluctuated countless times in the night from cold to sweating a shitload. anyway she said maybe the dehydration made my muscles sieze up or something and would explain what i feel- i cant really remember what she said. i wanted to beleive her and she had work early in the morning so i said i would try to go to sleep again after mustering enough courage to get out of bed and get a drink - (LOL i know.) - by this point im feeling fine again, basically i felt like a little kid who just woke up from a nightmare and all better again, so i went back to bed adn layed there for ages, kinda reluctant to fall asleep because even though i felt better, i was still having massive hot spells and seriously did not this shit to happen to me again.
at 3.30. it happened again. laying there, though this time the force pressing me was strong, the vibrating in my ears moved to my whole body, it felt like my whole body had this numbing vibration on it, again i couldnt move, couldnt breathe, couldnt speak and by this time so fuckign freaked out, after a few seconds i could sit myself up and was like FUCK THIS dude this is fuckign real, its happened 3 times in the space of 30 minutes there is no way this is not physically happening to me, it was real and it was really happening to me.
she then started to get really worried herslef but, staying off the spirits / ghost topic, she suggested it was Night Terrors. I had heard of them before but no idea really what they are.
Im almost 20 years old, this is the first time anything like this has happened before, though i swear on my life i had seen a figure in a different room of the house a few years ago, but thats it.
i spent the rest of the night laying in bed starring at the the roof forcing myself to stay awake the rest of the night, which i did. its now morning and i kinda feel like maybe i was over reacting and it wasnt as bad as i make it out to be, but the other part of my remembers what it was like feeling powerless and not being able to breathe was one of the scariest moments of my life.
sorry about the massive wall of text :/
any thoughts / advice?
thankyou
as slither said, its sleep paralysis, and its not scary shit.
happens on average once, maybe twice to each individual.