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There was a night a few months ago, I was having a horrible time falling to sleep. The next thing I know, I swear that I am awake in the dark and I feel as if something or someone is standing over me and I am paralyzed; whether from fear or not I still do not know. I honestly believe that I saw a figure (as a shadow-nothing defined)
Anyhow just as I feel as though I am as scared as I can get; I wake up (again) and I am okay. I can move (which I do) very quickly out of my room and throughout my entire home to make sure that there is no one lurking. Of course, I did not find anything..

That night was the first time that had happened to me but it was not the last time. My reactions are not quite the same as they were the first night it happened. Nevertheless, it's still a little nerve-wracking when I don't know what it is..

Anyhow, my question is this: Has anyone else ever experienced something such as that? And if so, what is it? Or better yet, what causes that type of thing?

That happens to me all the time. I just accept what is happening,if its someting you have no control over, there's no point in trying to fix it. I don't think it is there to hurt you, cause if it wanted to, it would. Or maybe it could just be our minds fucking with us to the point we actually see what we think.

I must admit I have had similar experiences. Not all the time. But yes, a number of times in my life I have experienced this!

I know what you mean, and even we are skeptical, when we come accross that stuff we see them with more respect

I am actually still confused as to whether or not I actually woke up the first time; I mean I felt as though I had woken up..
But it could have possibly been a dream, right?

I have had the same experience, as well. It can either be discribed as just one of the stange parts of the sleep cycle. Or, it can be explained as either a curse that is sent to you or a visit from a psychic vampire. I have seen both of those as answers.

That sounds to me like you were the victim of a psychic attack. I do know there are ways to protect or shield this, but I do not know how, as I am still a beginner on matters like this. I am sure there are others on this site that can help you though.

This phenomenon is called sleep paralysis.

I recommend reading up on some of the studies, and doing a google search on sleep apralysis for more information, especially regarding some of the mythos around this phenomenon.

Thank you every so kindly, Requiem, for the informative link. I had never heard of such a thing until you posted it.
I am indeed going to research it further..
Who would have thought?

Interesting information I found of some use however:
There are two major types of sleep paralysis. One is called Common Sleep Paralysis and the other is Hallucinatory Sleep Paralysis.

The part of the article that intrigued me the most is where they discuss the fact that the Hallucinatory Sleep Paralysis(HSP) seems to be geographically related. Where a region would have no reports of anyone suffering from HSP and then all of sudden there are all types of reports of people suffering from such and the area would be 'effected much as if an epidemic' for a few months and would then stop the same way it started. According to the article, there is no explanation for why that may be the case as of yet..

I agree requiem... i never felt something like that, but i know some people that fell that each night...

yeah that happens to me all the time like theres this little girl who folows me every where i go and sumtimes my friends can see her wen im around tis freaky

~~~Rosa Cruor

this is interesting stuff something definitely worth pondering and thinking about, for a very logical answer

I've had similar experiences, although they are no longer recurring. I don't know why it happens, just that it happens

I have had times where I wake up not paralyzed but just with a feeling that someone is in the house. I will get up and check the whole house and there will be no one there and all the doors will be lock as when I went to bed. It is very strange feeling.

Well according to the pages I have been reading it happens like this:

The body shuts down(paralyzed state, if you will) during REM sleep. They explain the reasoning behind this being that if your body did NOT shut down, you could be very dangerous to yourself as well as others if you body moved along to what is happening in your dreams(which does happen to some. Sleep-walking is one example)
Anyway, sometimes a person wakes up too quickly and the body has not had the time to start functioning properly which is why sometimes you get the sleep paralysis effect. Some believe it is directly related to those who suffer from narcolepsy although, I am not among one of those seeings I have had many cases of sleep paralysis and don't suffer from narcolepsy. If you want more information, check out the link that Requiem posted or feel free to message me and I can direct you to the page that I was reading
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A similar thing happens to me, except that it is when I'm being visited by a certain spirit. She is quite frightening, though harmless so far as i can tell. It is still unnerving to not be able to move, and see a figure with no face though.

I guess I will never truly know..
So many explanations..
Too little time to research them all fully..

Psychic vampires....I've been experiencing that for years. It's quite odd.

really, Id like to wake up and somehow feed of of whoever was feeding off of me...

It's a very strange experience actually feeling them near you or on you as in my case. Just as I was about to fall asleep I would feel it

I often recieve mass energies after 12am.
Once happened that recieved mass energies just after fed on blood.
that was speechless ecstasy.
Usually,takes 3~5min to recieve mass
energies.

av had that feeling a couple of times and it freaked me out a bit

I believe that what you experianced was what is commonly reffered to as a 'Sadow Person" these creatures have little power and for themost part and out in peoples room scaring them. It is relativly easy to get rid of them.

i felt something very similar recently. i awoke to feel a cold hand clasping mine. i could not move - except i could move my thumb and fingers very slightly - and when i tried to speak, i couldnt. eventually, i was able to move, and the feeling of a hand holding mine gradually faded - but it felt so real, so solid - i could feel the cold clammy texture of skin - it was horrible.

I've had these feelings many times, and most of them tried to strangle me. Usually I repelled them, and I've seen a shadow person as well, but it was in the shape of a minatour (bull head human body) before it stepped back into a dark shadow and vanished. For some reason though when ever this happens I get angry and send all the hate in me at it, or else I spaek out in a matra in my mind that I'm more powerful then it.

Sounds more like an OBE.
BLESSED BE

that sounds to me like a psy vamp

when i wish to see someone who is dead is see them in my dreams.

I never thought this post would get such a response..

Everyone has been so insightful and helpful..

Thanks so much
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I've had many experiences of that nature in many different ways, the worst was when the entity lifted my boyfriend and threw him back about three feet. Some are stronger than others so u need to know your limitations. If it persist try and find someone that can help because it may become worst.

Accusations of stupidity generally come from those who cannot comprehend what it going on around them

I've had many experience just like that actually. It's very nerv racking at first. Although the more dreams I had the more they seemed like reality and the clearer they got.

I myself have never had such a experience however I would say such as anything else you would accept it for what you, yourself feel it is.

That used to happen to me all the time when I was a young kid in Newfoundland. My nan said it was the Hag come to visit me. The attacks stopped when we moved to a different town.

It's happened to me once or twice too..... not fun is it?

I had something happen on the same lines of the paralysis and fully knowing it was happening.

About five years ago I was in bed. I had a bad experience that I thought I wouldn't wake up from. I knew there was something laying on top of me, pressing its weight down and suffocating me. I couldn't do anything but lay there and and look at/through a shadowy entity. The only reason I believe that I can write about it today is because the guy I was seeing at the time woke up to the sound of me weezing.

He asked me if I was ok cause he said I was white as ghost and my eyes were very wide and had a frightened look in them.

I haven't had an experience like that since then, but I really wouldn't want to either.

There are more things in this this world that are invisible than visible...

how do you know? if they are invisible, how do you count them?

i have had them in the past though i no longer do. i could never figure out what it was i saw or felt, but since i don't drink at the time, i know it wasnt that, but still cant figure out what it was.

Well, sometimes the mind plays tricks and maybe in my case the shadows weren't really there .. maybe my mind out the shadows there as sort of an explanation as to what was happening to me.

Recently both my hubby and I have been hearing someone talk to us we cant locate this person often hear someone walking around we have been in this house for over 8 months and now were moving we have been getting these strange happenings here no one is here bu us yes we have nieghbors but they arent close to us these voices are calling our names and it has been freaky here recently

Sounds like a demon to me I have had a similar experience oh and once when I was little and sick I saw this white thing come up the stairs to me and reach out its hand, but when I tried to touch it it was gone, and my mom appeared!

THERE IS ACTUALLY A NAME FOR THIS!!

It's called Night Terrors. Adreneline pumps through your body so fast that the body is temporarily paralized and often when the heart calms a little you sweat, heart pumps and feel extreeme fear.

I've felt my shoulder being pulled down and my head being pushed into the pillow. That is not a night terror. I've felt someone or something lay down next to me, and the blanket being pulled tight across my legs

This has happended to me several times that I recall....but I don't feel like I woke up fully...more like a dream...but the paralysis was there....and in the morning I had remembered it pretty clearly...

Yeah I always remember it all happening but it's like you said..I feel like I was fully awake but then I did wake up...so was I awake the first time or not? Hard to say, really

I have had the same kind of experience. One time when this happened i thought I had awaken from dream to only be in another dream state. By the third time i forced my self to wake up and felt a presence over me and I was talking to this presence in some language I am not use to speaking. I was also taken back by this and what ever i sais it made this person or thing leave and i was able to get up and go into the living room were i could share with my sister what happened. It was like 3 am and she was still on Vampire Rave. Im still myself unsure what happened.

I've had very strange experiences where a force was holding me down on the bed and I couldn't move at all. The most recent one was a few months ago.

Pleasent Nightmares, Rose (Blade)

Rose hun, the last time I felt thid was quite a while ago. I can't even remember when it was.

i have had similar experiences as have a few of my friends. in my case it was a haunting voice pleding for help.

i would have to say my odd experience is when i seen my x's death a week before it happened.

It could possibly be someone or something supernatural visiting you in your sleep...Maybe wants you to figure something out...

I had a very similar experience about 10 years ago: I was going through a rough spell and was seriously considering doing something bloody stupid... Anyway, for nearly 2 weeks I found myself waking up within the same 10 minute 'window' every night, certain that someone had either just spoken to me, or just left the room.

The closest experience:

I do not remember the dream I was having, but do remember waking up in a completely fright.

I was sweating and could not move. I don't think there was anyone or anything there.

I just could not move. I eventually fell back to sleep.

oh yes, i have had similar experiances! and one time i woke up in an out of body experiance right after! it was freaky, and frighful!!

i have experienced that as well....when yuor body is parlyzed and you cant hardly speak as like your entire body has almost shut down and cant speak and feel like something has you pinned down..yes ive had this exp a few times.

Wrathschild:

That is what is called sleep paraylsis. I believe they mentioned it higher up in the thread.

It happen to me, as I have mentioned.

I only felt papaylsis once and it didnt feel good. I think some people feel more than others.

There is a thread on special abilities.
Maybe you are empathic. I would think an empath would feel double what the normal person would in such cases.

This is actually quite common (as is also obvious by the amount of "me too" posts). It is even mentioned in history. There are a few things it could be. Sometimes various entities come to visit, sometimes magicians will come to visit. Sometimes they mean harm, but usually the people who have these experiences are left unharmed. I have had all sorts of odd things occur upon waking, but I practice magic so I sort of expect it :).

To have this sort of thing stop if it is happening too often, you can add salt to water (or use sea water) and sprinkle it around where you sleep. This method is more affective then one might imagine! It also helps with other sorts of visitations at night that are not welcome.

Night

I think you have been visited, and by one of my compainions. If it truely irriates you, I can contact him (It is a him). His name is Cassius and he has a thing for mortals, such as watching them sleep and stalking them. Just let me know if you want it to stop or want me to send him a message.

i have read of sleep paralysis, and though my experience is similar, i did not feel any weight on my chest or dificulty in breathing. i just felt a cold clammy hand in mine. i swear i could feel skin. it is worth noting that it was in my left hand - the hand which is usually numb when i am at rest.

My dad had an something happen to him thats a little like how you described it was quite funny actually he had just been telling me and my mother how there is no such things as ghosts and to prove it he was going to sleep downstairs alone (weird stuff used to happen in that house) and early in the morning he came running into the room he said he saw someone walk into the living room were he was sleeping and sit on top of him he couldnt breath and couldnt move he said he was screaming but we were in the room above him and we never heard a thing trippy huh lots of stuff seems to happen to us i think the are attracted to us..

Well they are sort of attracted to (us) folks who can see them...Freaky at sometimes, but also fun at times. It is unfortunate though when people have these sorts of experiences but do not have all the good ones as well :(. I have had many people tell me about the unable to move upon awaking thing and it freaked them right out, and it has been there only expericne with spirits that is that strong.

Night

u are under too much stress, handle your personal life b4 you can handle that which you cant control

i have had this happen to me too, it was wierd i was sleeping and awoke out of a dead sleep to see this thing standing beside me watching me. i look up and it stays there for a while. it then just walked away. i didnt understand what it was or why even it was there but i havent seen it since.

My brother has had that same experience. His actually progressed to the shadow pulling his bedspread off him night after night. We do not know why this ghost (for lack of a better word) did this every night until we moved out of that house. I wonder if your situation will progress to contact.

Every now and again I smell cigarette smoke even if there's no one around who smokes... My windows are all shut and cannot be opened, except the bathroom window. That window is on the driveway side of the house and it the only thing I smell from there is the car exhaust which lingers and permeated the entire apartment. Yet this cigarette smell is localized. It stays in a particular part of the room and only lasts at most about 5 minutes. It is always in a different place in the apartment when it accrues too, so I still can't figure it out.

Also when I've taken pictures with my digital camera, I've found in pictures taken just seconds apart, one will be fine and the other will have these orbs floating about. It's truly mindboggling.

Hello Jens,

I've had similar sorts of 'phantom' smells- a burning acrid stink. Sometimes feels like my nose is itching inside.

It does occur in very random places, but a lot more often when I'm in certain peoples company.

whatis wierd is the same thing that stood over me, "i just found this out" was leaving marks on my best friend. which now im getting those same markings... its wierd

Thats creepy. I've woken up and felt a presence many times before, but never saw anything.

Wow!!! I thought I was the only person that this has happened to.I stopped telling people about it long ago because the responses I got from people were outbursts of laughter to people looking at me like I'd lost my mind!I have actually been awakened by the bad shaking(and I would be in bed alone at the time) and then feel myself being pulled by my arm or arms out of the bed.It's some wild s**t for sure!

the only odd thing that im not able to explain, at least inside my logical brain is the smell of flowers...almost everyday, the smell of fresh flowers invades me...no matter the place where i am...

Jens, I've had that to. In my room, or just around my parents house. It's very odd

I have two entities that reside in my house. One appears to be gentle and caring but the other is terrifying. I had to put a protection spell on my children because they would wake up in the middle of the night screaming. I think the scary one got the hint and left or is hiding out in the basement. The nice one is still there and knew I was having a rough spell the last few days and it would just brush my hair out of my face and stroke my hair while I laid in bed until I calmed down. I was fully awake during this and can't quite explain it.

Well I have 2 experiences. When I was younger I felt something grab my foot while I was sleeping. At first I thought I’d dreamed it, except for the fact it still had ahold of me even after I woke up. I jerked my foot away and ran into my parent’s room. My dad checked my room and the house, found nothing, and told me to go back to bed. Just as I was starting to fall asleep I felt something grab my foot again. Instead of getting my parents again I decided to look for myself, found nothing, went back to bed and never experienced it again.

On another occasion I woke up suddenly from a deep sleep and saw a clawed hand at the edge of my bed about 2 feet from my face. I jumped up and felt my arm hit my side and hang there lifelessly. I’d fallen asleep on my arm and it had gone numb in a clawed position as a result. I laugh about it now, but it scared the shit out of me back then.

I had a simular experience when I was on medication....I was dreaming and in my dream I fell...I woke up but could not move my body...It was like I was awake and sleeping at the same time...I stopped taking the particular medication I was on and have never had it happen again

ive had that happen to me a lot of times.. its just probably you being in a dream/awake state i think..

I have had it happen to me several times over the years, and I believe that it could be any number of things that could be bothering you. 1. Could be some unsettled spirit in your house, 2. Could be a supernatural boogie (they are created by left over psychic energy which is usually produced by you), 3. An alien. I don't know if I really believe in them or not, but the reports that I have read have said that victims feel that sort of suffocating paralysis and they watch their attacker as it observes them. Time may also be disjointed as part of the effect that they have on their victim. Can you tell I'm scared of aliens? haha 4. Could be a dream or some other easily explained things, but you already thought of that or you wouldn't be posting...5. Maybe vampires really do exist? :)

I've had the same expiernce also. Its nuthing to worry about.It's just something out of your imagination, it takes different for for all people. It is only nuthing but also something........think about that for a while.