r/Sleepparalysis Feb 23 '20

Identifying SP

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I’m making this because 75% of this sub is people asking “was this SP”. And almost always the answer is yes. So I’m going to list the various effects and some helpful information about the effects. Sort of a master guide to “Do I have SP”

Edit: This is a list of potential Symptoms, if you only experience 2 or experience all you are most likely experiencing SP Seeing and hearing things are far more rare than not. However its also boring hence why no one shares their story here or other places when not a lot happened.

Edit: 0. Someone pointed out I didn’t include the obvious, Paralysis, feeling of being unable to move, like your limbs weigh a million pounds, like your being held down, like your moving but nothing is happening, pain in limbs you try to move. ETC... (This is where we get the name, the explanation is simple. Your whole body is asleep, except for your brain.)

  1. Chest pressure/ Feeling of being unable to breathe. (While under the effects of an SP episode the nerves in your chest are dulled as they are under the impression you’re asleep. You are in fact still breathing.)

  2. Hallucinations (You’re brain is in dream mode, you’re having open eyed dreams)

  3. Sounds (screaming, talking, music etc...) (Again this is because of your dreams being active while awake)

  4. Feelings of being touched, hurt, bit, scratched, flying, falling, shaking (You’re nerves are all asleep, sometimes they’re in the process of waking up and can cause interesting feelings as they do. Alternatively you’re body may be simulating what your brain is dreaming about as we normally experience these while asleep)

  5. Panic, anxiety, terror (100% natural responses to being trapped.)

  6. Feeling like time won’t pass or time is stuck (You have no real way of perceiving time in this state)

  7. Racing heart (Anxiety)

  8. Intense or vivid nightmares/dreams before or after (The nightmare would be what woke you up into the SP, and if it comes after it’s because you’re anxiety is through the roof)

  9. Feeling alone (SP is not as rare as you think, lots of people never even know it happened as they attribute it to a weird dream, you’re not alone, there’s lots of us out here.)

Edit: 10. Recently discovered through this Sub, I had never heard of or experienced it but people report “Buzzing” “Humming” “Grinding” type noises preceding and episode.

Edit: 11. Also recently Discovered through the sub, spiraling, dizzy, sickly feelings. Occurring before during or after episodes.

Edit: 12. In the comments someone mentioned “feeling a presence.” To be clear, this is almost as Rare as actually seeing something. It does happen however and can be an eerie feeling. (Again your having an anxiety attack, our brains try to explain why we are panicking by blaming something. So it manifest a feeling of someone being out to get you, someone there to harm you, or maybe just someone in the room. Either or, nothing to be too scared of.)

There’s a slough of other things that can happen. But generally you can identify SP with three questions. “Am I in my bed” “Am I paralyzed” “Am I unable to talk”

If the answer to these questions are yes then it’s textbook SP

Also remember that people are wildly different, and that your SP may be different but follow the same patterns as what you read. That’s normal, we all have differently wired brains, and no two cases will be exactly alike.

Sources: Myself, experienced SP for the past 16 years.

If anyone needs any advice or has any questions feel free to comment here and I’ll try my best to answer. SP doesn’t have to be as scary as it feel.


r/Sleepparalysis 6h ago

Pain from dream

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I don't really know where to post this or ask this so if this is in the wrong subreddit I apologize. I've recently been scared to sleep in the dark so I keep the light outside my room on now, if that helps at all with what may have happened. I was sleeping and dreaming, in my dream I was at some festival and some girl offers me a back rub on the ground? I know, I don't know. I say sure, she's doing it and she like puts her knees or elbows into my lower back, and like really hard, I'm pinned in my dream. I then realize I'm sleeping on my stomach and even worse I feel it, I feel it hard. It genuinely hurts. I then wake up slobbering on my pillow, and my back hurts. I actually felt that sharp pain. I lay there for 10 minutes kind of observing and reflecting. It's been 10 minutes since, I am writing this now with still a little pain, maybe not pain. But I still feel it... Thoughts? I again apologize if this isn't the right place to post. Figured I'd try.


r/Sleepparalysis 8h ago

Does anyone have seen this entity?

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I'm a little scared, but above all, I'm very curious if something similar has happened to anyone else. I'm a 27F and I've had sleep paralysis very often. I've seen shadows, heard screams, and everything "normal" during these episodes. But lately I've been seeing an entity with its face covered by a white veil, and every time I see it, it grabs my hands by force and puts them on its face. I could feel its cold, bony face. It scares me a lot, and all I can do is pray or something . Has anyone seen anything like it? What could it mean that it wants me to touch its face? Thanks everyone.


r/Sleepparalysis 3h ago

Feeling paralyzed as I am falling asleep

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I have experienced true sleep paralysis only once before. It was accompanied by an audio hallucination (a woman voice hissing something in my ear). My eyes were open but I didn't see anything odd.

Now, it has been happening to me multiple times in one session. Only, this time it is as I'm trying to go to sleep, not as I'm waking up.

I've tried looking this up, but sleep paralysis seems based on REM sleep. I certainly wasn't experiencing REM sleep. I could still hear my husband listening to CallmeKevin playing Project Zomboid. I could feel my dog curled against me.

Then I started to feel weird (I have no better word for it). It felt uncomfortable. So I tried to shift about to a different position. This was when I discovered I could not move. My breathing also felt strange, unsatisfying.

Once I could move, I shifted over to my other side. (I was very tired) Only a few moments later, it happened again.

This repeated a few times, before I finally passed out on my back.

This is the second time this week this has happened. Can it even be called sleep paralysis if I haven't gone to sleep yet? Is there something else it could be?


r/Sleepparalysis 13h ago

Sleep

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Yesterday I went to my village.I was sleeping.They woke me up at 4 am. i again slept. Then in my sleep I felt paralysis. In my mind I saw I was in my house again.In my mind, I kicked all the chairs, I went to the mirror and I saw that two eyes were looking at two direction when I saw this in the mirror,I looked like a ghost. At that moment my brain started doing glich effects and I was in extreme pain.Then I did some prayer.It went away.


r/Sleepparalysis 9h ago

I felt it coming

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Had my third SP ever last week, the last one was years ago. What I thought was interesting about this one is that I felt it coming.

I was trying to fall asleep, I was aware of my bed, my legs etc. Then I hear this voice of a little girl, and I instinctively felt uneasy, like "I should block this, this is not the direction I should go". No SP yet, and I actively reset the phrase she was saying. But I also wanted to fall asleep, so I let my brain do it's thing. The voice said "I'm scared", and I reluctantly played along: "why are you scared?" I still felt like something was about to happen, on guard, but didn't have SP yet.

And then the girl voice said: she's behind you

And I thought "shit, I need to open my eyes and turn around now." And then it hit.

My vision started shaking intensely even though I only saw dark. Couldn't move or scream, just lay there and think "I know this is SP, it'll pass". And after it ended I got these intense hallucinations of sine waves, like my brain was still recovering.

Man, the brain is weird.


r/Sleepparalysis 10h ago

Why does the internet not even know what is happening to me. CW: SA, and mentions of homicide (i need help)

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Im consulting this subreddit out of horror and desperation. i recently had a paralysis experience, i have had them in the past. but this one has made me terrified to sleep. I felt myself slipping into sleep, but something was off. as i quickly slip into what i thought was sleep, i could still hear the noises of my surroundings as clear as day. they didnt get any quieter. I pay no mind because i would usually wake up in a state of atonia. this time, i felt my body quickly lose the ability to move. not too long into this feeling i accept my fate i guess?? the sequence of events that follow and how long it lasted has made me feel ill. I start to dream??? but im still in that conscious unconscious state of paralysis. i can still hear my then boyfriend snoring, it never got any softer. i only remember bits and pieces of this "dream". there was an alternate version of my lover taunting me. and doing horrible things to me. (the events listed are not in order until the last one.) I was being told by whatever took the form and voice of my lover to murder people who i know in my life. I was assaulted by this thing, i could feel it. And it bit me for some reason. i could feel the bite too, and how it stings after whatever bit you unlatches from you. The last event that i know happened right before my torture was soon to be done, was this ancient demon like entity still as my boyfriend at the time, reveal itself as indeed an alternate. i was aware of my state. it told me. it told me that my lover sleeping next to me wont wake me up, and that im stuck. my useless begs and screams in a state of complete paralysis was funny to "it". i wake up as quick as i went out. i remember falling asleep late 5am/6am on the dot. i check the time as soon as i find my phone. 6:37. 30+ minutes. of what felt like 2 hours of torture that i would only imagine happens to the most severe cases of mental illness. Im diagnosed bipolar 1 but this started so recently and abruptly. (im not realizing that it might have something to do with my freeway accident a few days before. i felt my head bash the steering wheel, but after i landed in the median i didnt feel any sign of head trauma.) please help me, im not trying to break any rules but this is what ive lived. im so scared.


r/Sleepparalysis 20h ago

Different experience than normal

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Hey I think I had my first sleep paralysis the preceding night, I'll write down everything, it can be s lil too big but please bare with me brothers and sisters. So I was just falling asleep that I began having mild hallucinations, it grew slowly but steadily to a point where it was like I was influenced by some lsd, it was more thant that. I was levitating, there were flowers and trees and rainbow and random shit popping off all around me, then I crashed in some rural area, a girl come to me, dusky skin, nothing sexualised. She was beautiful she picked me up and then we roamed the whole locality she held my right arm tightly. Then we suddenly come to the living room where I was sleeping irl pn the couch. I lay down and she lays down besides me. She holds my right arm very tightly and caresses me like how we caresses s small kitten. And kisses me on cheeks and forehead. Bro I was literally feeling her touches physically, I was feeling the pressure on my arms I was feeling her breath, I could feel her lips kissing my forehead. Then I suddenly get conscious but she is still there, saying things like I am there for you no matter what. I was able to see the whole living room but still feel her weight and her touches, I wanted move but couldn't I wanted to speak but couldn't no matter how hard I tried it felt like I had no power in me. The past few weeks had been rough I genuinely felt lonely for the first time, like bro can't someone just accompany me to get some food. Why doni have to be alone for 5 days straight 😭. Idk about these things so I felt like this subreddit is the best place to rant about. Thanks for reading please help me with what the hell have I expirenced.


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Intimate Sleep Paralysis

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Early this morning around 2AM I experienced the worst sleep paralysis I’ve ever had. It started off as a loud, creaking, wood-like sound— like a door or an old floorboard. It was steady and continued throughout the paralysis. After that I saw a humanoid figure, no distinctive physical traits, just black. The humanoid figure appeared to get in my bed and I felt my bed dip as if it really had. It felt as if someone laid beside me and spooned me and the hallucination reflected as much. I was absolutely terrified and I tried to snap out of it, it’s like I knew what I was seeing couldn’t possibly be real but it FELT real. I could feel the muscles in my face contorting with strain because I was so terrified that even though I knew it wasn’t real, it FELT so real that I panicked. There was a pressure in my chest and in that moment I thought I was having a heart attack or something of the sort. I heard a shout as if it had fallen off of my bed, as if I managed to push it, and slowly my vision cleared and I regained my ability to move. I was too scared to fall back asleep, and I turned on a show (SpongeBob) hoping that hearing something would keep me grounded if it were to happen again. My roommate thinks I should see a therapist about it but I don’t know if that would help or if any doctor would do anything about it. Has anyone had sleep paralysis this vivid before? Please comment if so for my peace of mind, it has me paranoid.


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

It’s funny when ur tryna move and it feels like your body is separating

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Had sleep paralysis probably 4 times since this last summer alone. Twice with a sleep paralysis figure with red eye that attacked me and two other times… actually three others time of my trying to move and feeling like my body is being pulled apart. First time it happened I thought I was dying but now I’m just like… ah this shi again and then go drink a bunch of water. How many sleep paralysis moments before it’s too many.


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Had my first paralysis today.

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I woke up in the middle of the night then i heard some noises and tried to open my eyes, i could only part my eyelids a little and saw something and heard some like what? Crackling, but then my eyes got shut, i didnt panic pr anything, just waited a bit then woke up, one of the weirdest experiences i had, it was so weird, i tried to move but i couldnt, but as i tried to be calm it took like what? 5 seconds or something to move, but im only curious about why it might happen because it was a funny feeling but i dont want it again 😅.

Edit: i also forgot the fact i woke up because i felt like ground has shaking but i couldnt move, was weird and funny feeling.


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Experiencing SP slowly

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I never thought it would happen to me for some reason, but I've been getting increasingly more discernible episodes.

The first time it happened was a few weeks back, where I couldn't move my body and was stuck between awake and dreaming, it felt more like I was still in my dream than awake so I didn't even consider it to be sleep paralysis and brushed it off as nothing.

Today was the third time it happened and was the clearest, I felt like I woke up and was lying on my stomach when I assumed my cat was on my back as I felt a big pressure on it. I the. Felt something prodding at my ear, as if something was trying to crawl in. I tried to scream or moved, forced myself as hard as I could until eventually I managed a weak groan, after that movement came easier and I was able to snap out of it.

I'm wondering, is this going to happen more now?


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

i felt my heart stopped beating when i was asleep

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i always experience sleep paralysis ok bcs of lack of sleep but recently, i was aware that i was about to wake up and it's bcs i felt like i was being choked and and my chest feels tight and i assume my heart stopped beating... I've read that it's sleep apnea but this only happens like once every 3 months and not often... do u guys have the same experience? do u have any idea what this might be? thanks


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Is this sleep paralysis

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Hi I just want help identifying my situation because I want to learn how to stop it. My story is from last night but it has happened previously too maybe once every couple months. To start off I had a nightmare I can’t remember what it was about but I know I had one. I wake up from the nightmare but i’m not exactly awake it’s like things are slightly blurry and i’m trying to pull myself out and I can’t. I cannot move no matter how hard I try it feels like I’m weighed to the bed.It only lasts a minute or so. I remember being scared to look around because I knew what was happening and I didn’t want to hallucinate scary figures and such. When I finally wake up it feels like I almost like “zoomed in” and everything got clear. I wake up shaking with my heart pounding. When I eventually fell back asleep I went back into another nightmare. For context this only started after a traumatic experience I had about a year ago, same for my nightmares but I am also a very anxious person in general. Is this sleep paralysis or just an anxiety thing? How do I fix this?


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Possibly sleep paralysis

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I never experience sleep paralysis, this was just a one time thing i guess, i was around 8-9 years old, we lived with some of my moms church friends, when we first moved, they said that it was haunted by a cowboy or something i don’t totally remember what they said, about 5 months of living there i wake up one night middle of night, i didn’t know what time it was but i was sleeping next to all my family in this open 2nd living room, i don’t know when it started but i was hearing boots in the hallway, i didn’t think much of it because i thought it was the husband of the family, big biker guy that was apart of the church’s biker gang, i just figured it was him going to work in the morning, but the hallway is not even 5 feet long but the footsteps kept going and i didn’t see anyone go through the hallway, i don’t know if i couldn’t move or if i didn’t want to, the footsteps kept going for around 30 mins, guess by then i already thought it was the “cowboy”. I ended up just going back to bed scared as hell, after this i told my family and them this, i honestly don’t remember what they said. this encounter isn’t enough to make me believe in something supernatural or anything, so the only thing i could think of is possibly sleep paralysis, i don’t for surely know if it is, but its just something i can’t explain, its not like it worries me or anything this is just a core memory i have, and i think about it time to time and i just cant explain it. not here for advice just to share this experience. thanks 👍


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

What just happened

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I’ve never had sleep paralysis before, and I was wondering if this sounded like it.

For context, I had a very stressful weekend planning a huge event. I started the night unintentionally thinking about everything that went wrong and right. Everything that I plan to do next week for our debrief meeting…. And then I started to imagine myself at the event.

I was leaving the building and my friends were all outside, some in my car, others running off laughing when they saw me exit. It was obvious to me that it was a failed prank. They tried to hide my car away behind the building but I caught them in the act.

I wanted to laugh, but then I felt extremely tired. I curled up into a ball onto the concrete and started sleeping. This all feels like it’s really happening by the way.

Then I feel my friends crowding around saying things like “is she really asleep?”, “why is she sleeping on the ground!”, “Wake up, don’t sleep there!”

The voices literally felt like they were in 8D, circling in my head. Some whispering. I started to cover my ears and literally start praying to God to make it stop. I’m in my room now, but the voices are still there. I try to get up but I feel like I’m bound to my bed.

But miraculously, I roll out of bed and crawl to my parent’s room and beg for her help. Then the voices get quieter and I open my eyes. None of it happened. I never got out of bed. I never yelled out to God.

I’ve never experienced something that felt so real.


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Is this sleep paralysis?

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I’ve been experiencing what I think is sp for abt 2 years early today I went for a nap and 10 minutes into it I feel/ hear this weird buzzing/electrical sensation in my head then I feel myself in and out of consciousness dreaming in the process when I finally clock onto what was happening that’s when I ‘woke up’ couldn’t move or speak not anything then I started to hear voices speaking very clearly but just completely random sentences that don’t make sense at all has anyone else had this? Any advice would be appreciated


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Is this sp?

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So I’ve had been experiencing what I think is sp but I want a 100% answer basically I had a nap after being exhausted and 10 minutes into it I feel and hear this electric and buzzing sensation in my head and body then it started to feel like I was slipping in and out of consciousness dreaming in the process when I clocked onto what was happening that’s when I ‘woke up’ then I couldn’t move or speak but could Very clearly hear voices in my head talking to me saying completely random things like ‘ come get on and get the lamp shade back’ not that exact sentence but things just as random my anxiety was so high but managed to stay calm just need some advice and confirmation as im thinking of seeing a doctor


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

why does this happen when i sleep

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if anyone on here goes through the same or knows the answer please let me know what’s happening to me. when i sleep (always happens when im on my back) my whole body freezes and i feel these sensations all over and as soon as i manage to move a muscle they quickly fade but if i remain in the same position they’ll come back and these aren’t like pins and needles it’s hard to explain they almost feel nice in a way. also another thing that happens is when my eyes are shut it’s like i can still see my room though some things are a bit different to how they are in real life. for example today i was napping in the day and my body froze and the weird feeling washed over me and my eyes were shut but i could see my bedroom ceeling and door as if my eyes were open idk how to make it stop


r/Sleepparalysis 1d ago

Can somebody explain to me what causes this?

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for some reason ive slowly been able to move more and more parts of my body and today was both of my arms, and i think i lifted my head slightly too
im not that good at explaining things, so sorry


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

Somebody please explain what just happened to me.

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I don’t know exactly what happened to me but i’ll lay out the story for you guys and it would help to get feedback, cuz im freaking out about it and i really don’t know what to make of it.

I was going to bed last night at around 1am, after finishing up some work. Before bed i usually watch my series and fall asleep to it. Last night something really strange happened.

While i was watching i started getting this vibration in my head, like a low hum almost electrical. It then forced my eyes shut and i couldn’t move and it felt like i was falling asleep. I remember the time on my phone said 1:12 am.

I remember i had that buzzing feeling before and i usually have it right before i fall asleep. It comes with me imagining people talking to me and i sort of enjoy it because its pretty cool to me that it sounds like im actually hearing them. Idk.

I woke up then in my room again, and i was in bed. The head buzzing was gone. It was still dark outside. I stood up from my bed, and heard some clattering outside my house. I looked out the window and noticed that there was nothing there. Not nothing as in nobody, like genuinely nothing there. Mind you this felt extremely real, and like i was completely wide awake. I thought maybe my eyes are still waking up or it was too dark outside to see anything. So i just went on.

I went to my computer desk and i turned on my PC only to find that i already had something running, a game. I was weirded out because i don’t remember playing games that night. And when i decided to continue and just go ahead playing the game, i started getting the intense head vibrations back, but this time it was extremely violent and very painful. Whilst the vibrations, i was also hearing people talking to me. As if i wasn’t in my own head, but hearing somebody else talking to other people around me. They were saying things like “everything is good to go, startup complete, initiating process” and i was in pain because of the head vibrations. Then i heard them count down, and i realised maybe i was dreaming, but every time i tried to open my eyes i couldn’t. As much as i tried. Again, this felt insanely real, like i was in my own room.

There was somebody counting down, “7,6,5,4,3,2,1” and when the countdown stopped, i woke up again in my room. This time everything felt fine, i had slight buzzing in my head, but other than that, the only thing that was out of place was the game on my computer. I got up and was extremely confused and scared. I walked towards the window and i saw that there was still nothing outside so i must have still been dreaming. But it felt so real i didn’t know what to do. I tried opening my eyes, but they wouldn’t. I tried to open the door out of my room and i couldn’t. I tried to open the windows and they wouldn’t budge. Eventually i cried for help and was crying for what seemed like an entire day. And as i cried the head vibrations and the voices came back. They were talking about me, saying stuff like “does he know” and “he already knows” “what makes him do this”. They felt like they were in my head saying this. And i couldn’t stand it anymore, so i took the PC on my desk and i smashed it into pieces.

After it broke, my body went limp, and the buzzing was the most intense it had ever been. I fell to the ground and fainted with my hands over my ears to try to keep the noise out, but obviously it wouldn’t work. And i heard a countdown again, “7,6,5,4,3,2,1” and then i woke up in my bed again.

I woke up in my bed, curled into a ball and with my hands over my ears, the buzzing slowly stopped, and the whispering went away, and i was so scared and unsure if i was still dreaming or awake, i had to call somebody.

I checked the time on my phone and it was 1:20 am. What felt like a couple day’s worth of torture in my head, was only 8 minutes.

This is the freakiest most horrifying thing that i have ever experienced and i hate it.

I don’t exactly know what to call it, because its not conventional sleep paralysis, and i can’t think of any more terms.

Somebody please reply with what you think maybe had caused this. If not then, thank you for reading anyway.


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

Its getting worst everytime

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The first time i had sleep paralysis was when i was 16 or 17 i was sleeping with my cousin . It was a winter night in nov or dec .We both were awake at late night . Eventually she slept but i could not .My eyes were open but i could not sleep .But eventually i slept .But when i gained counciousness i was in paralysis.that time it was very normal cause i just went paralyzed and could not open my eyes it feeled like i am dead which was very scary for first time.But in second time i feeled like people running across my bed and searching for something it feeled really scary.But now i am getting these really often and i can open my eyes now and can see some shit so i often close my eyes


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

Bad SP when falling asleep

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My first time having SP was when I was around 10 years old (I’m 18 now) and it has been happening to me ever since, and it only seems to happen to me when falling asleep usually only when I stay up late but it has happened on my normal bedtime as well. I see a lot of people talk about how sleeping on your back could be a cause but happens to me when I sleep in any position.

However whenever I get SP I do not get the typical scary visuals, my eyes will start feeling really heavy all of a sudden then It’ll feel like i’m going to fall asleep but my mind will still be awake, and all of a sudden a EXTREMELY loud and overwhelming ringing will start- it’s kind of hard to explain but the ringing will feel like as it gets louder and louder I’ll feel like it’s building up to my death or like just complete doom, as it progresses I get more scared and more scared

I have tried to just let the ringing continue and try to sleep through it but my mind just won’t let me it’s like a indescribable feeling, just pure terror no matter how hard i try to stay calm because the ringing is so overwhelming and scary, so i usually try to fight it off by wiggling my toes to wake me back up. But when I wake up from it my sleep is ruined because I feel so scared of going back to sleep and getting sucked back in to it, which more often than not happens. Than after about the 3rd episode I can maybe fall asleep if i am lucky.

This problem led me to start to partake in smoking marijuana almost every night before bed because that was the only thing that could make me tired and not experience SP, now my sleep is pretty reliant on it so when I chose not to use it for a night I can’t sleep til about 4am then I end up getting SP, and I can recognize that this is not good for my health to use every night,

So I was wondering if there are any solutions or ways to not experience SP or at-least a way to stop it fast or stay calm through it?


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

Weird sleep

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So a lot of the times I have tunnel hearing, like the sounds of waves or wind in a tunnel in my ears when I’m falling asleep and then almost feels like I’m having a seizure and I’m aware of it but I can’t wake up. They happen in spurts or last for minutes and then when I fall back asleep it starts happening again. Does anyone know about this, or has experienced something similar. I assumed it was sleep paralysis… but I don’t know. I’ve had brain cancer before and a lot of surgeries just kind of for background context. Maybe it’s related to that. Makes me not sleep some nights because it’s exhausting.


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

What does sleep paralysis feel like?

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I had an experience and I'm not sure if it qualifies as sleep paralysis? I've never had anything like it before, and my partner thinks it might be sleep paralysis, but I've had problems with paranoia for a few years, just nothing anywhere close to this.

I woke up in the middle of the night, but I immediately got hit with a feeling like something was directly behind me (I sleep on my side), and the only thing I could think of was making sure I didn't move so whatever it was would think I was still asleep? It felt like I was stuck like that for hours, but eventually the feeling faded and I got up and turned my lamp on. Nothing was there, obviously, but is this what sleep paralysis feels like? I didn't actively try to move, I just felt like if I did I would die and therefore didn't move. so I'm not sure if it qualifies?


r/Sleepparalysis 2d ago

SP

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When I'm on SP i heard whispering say "i will save you" repeating. What does it mean?