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Sleep Paralysis
I read about it on a thread here a while back and thought it would be scary as hell to experience it....well unfortunately it happened to me on Saturday night and I can honestly say it was the scariest F******* thing I have ever gone through in my whole life.
Here’s the whole story...keep in mind that I did not read anything from the link I am going to paste below until this morning. We have no internet at the new apartment yet.
My boyfriend recently moved into a new apartment and was unpacking stuff on Saturday night. I got tired around 1 a.m. and said I was going to sleep. I went in his room and got ready for bed. I had a small candle lit because I wanted a little light in the room. The AC was off because it was chilly out that night and we had the windows open. However, before I went to bed, I closed the windows in the room, because it was too cold, and I shut the door. I guess I fell asleep a few minutes later and started to have a weird dream (more like a nightmare). I dreamt that I was getting in an elevator and when I stepped inside it, there were no buttons to push, so I started to freak out and tried to get out of it. When I went to do this, it shut and the lights in the elevator started flickering (sort of like a strobe light effect). I started having a panic attack in my dream because I was scared that I was trapped in the elevator. I woke up from this dream because I felt some kind of pressure near my feet (at the foot of the bed). It honestly felt like someone had sat down on the bed and because I was still sort of out of it, I thought it was my boyfriend for a second. I opened my eyes and realized I was alone still in the room and that I couldn’t move my body or talk. I was paralyzed and terrified. I felt like someone was in the room with me. I tried to yell out my boyfriend’s name, but I couldn’t. I noticed that the candle was flickering intensely. This only happens when there is like a cross breeze or something, but there wasn’t because of the AC being off and the windows shut…so I thought that was weird. I think the candle had been flickering when I was having that dream too which probably had effect on my dream.
Anyway, I started to feel more pressure on my whole body, like someone was laying on me and it was becoming harder to breathe. I still couldn’t move or talk. Then I heard a weird breathing noise in front of my face, but I swear to God I wasn’t the one making this noise. The noise was similar to the sound of someone sucking in air with their lips puckered (like for a kiss). After I heard that noise, I was able to lift up my head, and the first thing I did was look at the clock and yell out my boyfriend’s name. I guess I still couldn’t move my body. I yelled his name out like 3 times. My body jerked, and I could move again. I jumped out of bed and ran for the bedroom door and out in the living room, but my boyfriend wasn’t there. I figured he went to the old apartment or something for a minute. I sat on the couch shaking like a leaf and almost crying. My boyfriend came back (he had gone to the gas station) and I told him what happened. After he calmed me down, we went to sleep and I don’t know if I dreamt it or if it actually happened again, but I had a similar experience (not as intense) a few hours later (probably around 4 in the morning).
My boyfriend said it actually happened to him a few months ago, but he just never told me. He had the same symptoms I described and he said it scared the crap out of him too, but he was fine the next day. I am freaking out still and just writing about it now makes me feel uneasy.
Another weird thing (aside from the candle flickering for no reason) is that my dog doesn’t like being in the room. He was at my mom’s that night, but we brought him over on Sunday morning. I always put him in the bedroom (at my bf’s old place) when we leave and he is fine with it. But we left to rent a movie last night, and I put him in the room and he started whimpering and scratching at the door. And when that happened, my boyfriend informed me that earlier that day (Sunday) when I was running errands, he and his old roommate went to the old apartment to get the last of some stuff, so he put Lex (my dog) in the room and he was whimpering and scratching at the door then, too.
Has anyone gone through something similar? Please write about it.
Here is a link I found about SP, and it's eery how my symptoms are exactly like what they say and that lots of people go through this.
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html
scroll down a little and click "Sleep Paralysis"
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| quote: | Originally posted by notelfreak
man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone |
Last edited by Slylee on Feb-09-2004 at 17:47
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