Lucid dreaming teacher Charlie Morley gives a "bullshit free" scientific explanation of sleep paralysis which helps put the myths of demonic possession to bed. www.charliemorley.com
BEFORE YOU COMMENT: This video is simply a scientific explanation and not necessarily my personal views. I'm a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism so i definitely don't agree with scientific materialism but i also don't agree with the dualistic, fear based paradigm of demons attacking you either. Just saying :-)
I have had sleep paralysis for over two years. I have found that closing your eyes may also cause you to have an astral experience. If your not prepared, it can be overwhelming. But with my eyes closed I have had the (shadow man) drag me away. I have found sleeping with a light on or something like a tv on causes the paralysis to be far less terrifying. When this started happening to me i felt like i was slowly losing my mind. I was to afraid to sleep also. So i would go days without sleeping and try to work. I eventually lost that job. I still experience this multiple times a week or sometimes in the same night. Astral projection and lucid dreams are something i am pretty good at. I have done much research on the subject. But still to this day I have experiences with paralysis and have seen many things i cant explain. Such as my cat crying non stop all night i eventually fell asleep and awoke in paralysis, to a small girl singing to my cat a lullaby. I woke for real and looked at my cat who was still purring and moving his head like he was being comforted by an invisible hand.
Hi Charlie, great video. I get sleep paralysis regularly, and generally speaking, my experiences fit the pattern explained by yourself and others on the internet. while the novelty has worn off however, I have one unanswered question about sleep paralysis which i haven't ever seen posed, let alone explained. on very rare occasions (perhaps only ever three or four times) I have woken up in a state of paralysis, fought it, believed myself to be over it, sat upright, only to then suddenly find myself waking up all over again in my original sleeping position. this process then repeats itself as many as 5 to 10 times, whereby I am fully aware what I am experiencing, and am convinced each time that 'this time its real and i am really getting up'. Do you know how common this experience is? or perhaps whether or not there is a term for these experiences. The first time it happened I thought I was dead, I was conscious enough to question whether or not there was a problem with 'time' and ask myself whether this miniature 'ground hog day' experience would even end.
This is a video i have been wanting to make for years and i really hope it will benefit people who suffer with this bat-shit crazy phenomena of Sleep Paralysis! :-)
Thanks for the video. I have only experienced sleep paralysis once and closed my eyes because i knew what it was, but i could still "hear" the sounds Creepy
alexis gonzalez I often experience "Sleep paralysis" as well. Anywhere from 1 to 3 times a week. There are no dreams, no hallucinations. Rather, I'm trapped, staring at the inside of my eyelids. These "fits" can last anywhere from 30 seconds, to 5 minutes. While in these fits, I can only control three aspects of my body: My Eyes, My Breathing, and (oddly enough) My toes. Because these are common enough to no longer be surprising, I stay calm, and slowly work out of it, often ending with my body jolting up, triumphantly! It also helps if you have a partner in bed with you. My fiancée can identify my forced breathing and toe wiggling, and a quick shake from her is enough to jolt me awake. My advice: Always stay calm and know you will wake fully soon enough Try sleeping on your side. It may not work for everyone, but this has cut my "fits" down by almost half. TLDR: SLEEP PARALYSIS SUCKS DICK
Start praying or praising Jesus and it is amazing how fast it will go away. Horrifically scary when it happens but glad to know so many others have had this. I usually experience this during intense times of distress.
After having experienced it once and having felt an evil shadow sitting on my chest and choking me, mate I aint brave enough to ace this kind of shit anymore xD
Just happen last night. I bypassed all videos of spiritual stuff and came right to this one. I believe the scientific explanation but weirdly, its like something was there watching me and it was a sense of negativity. I was positive I was not alone. No pressure on my chest nor high pitch sound. Just felt I couldn't move & definitely not alone and needed to wake up fast. I fought it hard and actually heard myself make a small sound when truly I was trying to scream and not sure how long it took but I was FIGHTING it and finally awoke and well slipped in ' I rebuke Devil" just to cover all tracks. Think I was good to go back to sleep and I did. Uggh.
Very well explained, can't get much better than that, short and on point. I always have sleep paralysis if i am stressed out or have sleep deprivation, I always have a clear conscious mind when it happens, just try to move your fingers or toes (the small muscles that you can control voluntarily) it always help atleast for me. I know that sleep paralysis can be turn into lucid dream, I've been trying that but not brave enough to not bail out :) Thank you for sharing
I've learned to just "accept" what is going on during my sleep paralysis and just go along with it. It's less stressful and I fall back asleep. Sometimes it does turn into a lucid dream.
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Haha i did actually ..but one day i did punch him the face i felt like i was kratos ..now everytime i dream about demons and things like that i destroy them .. so by that i did unlock another level of scary shit ..no when i got SP i hallucinate about being alone home and no body will ever come or some weird shit
Thank you for this video :) giving the information just as simple as it is. I'm happy to see more people sharing the information, as most of the people can keep panicking and now I can just show them this vid in five mins :) great work:)
I've experienced sleep paralysis. One time I had it every single night for a week. I felt like I was being attacked by a demon or something pure evil. Something was watching me, it felt like it was right in my face. There is no way to explain to somebody who hasn't experienced it. The fear was horrendous and I carried this feeling for a year afterwards, even though that week of sleep paralysis had ended. I couldn't shake the feeling, I felt like something had attacked my soul and was sucking everything from me, leaving me with nothing only a terrible sense of dread and emptiness like nothing I've ever felt. I've seen things and heard things too. I've never heard the buzzing noise but I did hear the most awful music one time. Again accompanied by a feeling of intense dread and an evil presence. What I'd like to know is has anybody else ever experienced dreaming of something and then waking up to experience it in reality? One night I had a dream that I reached up to turn on the light above my head, I pulled the chord and it came on but it emitted a very dull yellow light, like a 5 watt bulb if it existed. So then I woke up, realised I needed to use the bathroom, reached up to pull the chord and the exact same thing happened. I used the bathroom, those lights were dull aswell, returned to bedroom, light still dull, went back to bed and slept. Never experienced it again, but I've had others.
Best recommendations also I'd say wiggle you're toes it immediately wakes you up . But when trying to focus on the figure it can cause lucid nightmares
I've been having sleep paralysis since I was 9 years old, I'm 52 now. this is some scary shit, I have to pull myself self out literally. I see lights, I hear singing, I hear voices, I see colors and last but not least I feel a present if one or more people around me. If you have experience this, you differently know what I'm talking about. This shit Is scary. Please tell me if this has happened to you to. I need to know, I'm not alone
I believe I had it happen years ago. Because I woke up on my back. I think I was like 9 or 10. And I couldn't open my eyes or move. But I knew I wasn't dreaming. I could think on my own and like talk tk myself in my head. I was scared. But I must have had it happen before. Because I Thought to myself this is that thing again. just give up and go to sleep. And I just gave up and laid there. but I only gave up for a couple seconds because I hoped giving up would make it end but it didn't. So I tried so hard to move a finger or anything and after a couple of random fights in my brain to get something going. My arm and body got a jolt of movement and I was fully awake. I was so scared to go back to bed. But I never had any hallucinations or any Illusions of demons. just paralysis. But it must have happened another time before If the memory I have at that age has me Calm and giving in and expecting it to end.
I believe I had it happen years ago. Because I woke up on my back. I think I was like 9 or 10. And I couldn't open my eyes or move. But I knew I wasn't dreaming. I could think on my own and like talk tk myself in my head. I was scared. But I must have had it happen before. Because I Thought to myself this is that thing again. just give up and go to sleep. And I just gave up and laid there. but I only gave up for a couple seconds because I hoped giving up would make it end but it didn't. So I tried so hard to move a finger or anything and after a couple of random fights in my brain to get something going. My arm and body got a jolt of movement and I was fully awake. I was so scared to go back to bed. But I never had any hallucinations or any Illusions of demons. just paralysis. But it must have happened another time before If the memory I have at that age has me Calm and giving in and expecting it to end.
i experienced this alot when i was young.. my mom told me to start praying when I can't get out of it.. so i did that and it worked. because when you see yourself and u try to wake up the person that's next to u and it doesn't work, u pray..
Yes when I want to get up I will make noises with my breath through my lips.. Snap I'm up.. If I just wanted to chill within the sleep paralysis I will start see colors like a psychedelics trip.
I have suffered from sleep paralysis for at a minimum, 25 years. More often when Im Under stress and mostly upon falling asleep. Yes it's terrifying but there has never been any hag,witch, demon or anything like it , ever. Just the trying to call out, feeling uncomfortable, overheated and that's it
This might sound weird, but I've experienced sleep paralysis for years. It used to terrify me. Over the years, I've learnt to accept it and just embrace it. It actually gives me a bit of rush. I'm fully aware of what's going on, and it's absolutely wild.
I don't know why, I laughed so hard when you said that part about how a nightmare would play out with the witch and everything. I think it's something about the accent that makes it so perfect xD
I started talking to my brain. It responds what I'm saying. We go on a travel in my brain and we're trying to find what the exact problem is when I'm sleeping. I really don't want it any more. I'm just 18 and I've got lots of dreams and it drains my life
I woke up like this, my most vivid one. I was me standing at the end of the bed watching my body laying on the bed freaking out. I walked out of the room, down the hall and into the kitchen. I could fell myself in bed and in the kitchen.. it’s like my soul left my body and was walking around. I started screaming in the kitchen but nothing was coming out of my mouth in bed.. I screamed for so long my throat finally moved and woke me up. Freaked the hell out of me. I’ve been lucid dreaming since I was little with sleep paralysis since I was little and HATE IT
I just woke up from a sleep paralysis. I already knew that there's a scientific explanation for it, however it always gives this bad and scary feeling. So despite knowing all there is to sleep paralysis, I felt like I needed some reassurance. I did work couple of night shifts recently and I've done them for the past 4 years, on and off. So I contribute it to sleep deprivation and a irregular sleep pattern. As for sleep paralysis that I experienced just now. I fell asleep couple of times watching a TV so I decided to move to my own bed and finally fall asleep comfortably. I lay down on my side and covered myself with few blankets. After a few minutes I fell asleep and it started happening. I became aware of everything in my room, I couldn't move, not even a finger. It's like there was a presence on top of my that weight like a ton. I tried to move, tried to talk, scream. All it did was sounded to myself like a muffled scream, like there was a pillow over my face. At some point I woke up, and turned to my other side quickly before I could fall asleep again. At least I thought I did. As it happens that was just another dream, hallucination. And so it begun. I thought I woke up like 7 or 8 times after that. Every time I woke up I did something differently. Switch position in my bed. Got out of it, ran to my sister's room and tried to scream and get her attention. Ran to my parents room and talked to them about it. But every time I thought I was wide awake, it was just another dream/hallucination. Until I finally woke up, stood up and realized that this time it's real. I walked over to my bedroom window, opened it and lit up a cigarette. I was chilling out like that for couple of minutes and then I came here. I know there is all kinds of rational explanations for this phenomenon but to me it is always so terrifying...
Love your clear and on point explanation about this Charlie. I can't remember whether I managed to engage and embrace this shadow aspect before I read one of your books or not either way you gave me the confidence to do this every time, so now I honestly love the idea of this paralysis state and can honestly not wait for my next one as I know it's a spring board straight into a lucid dream or O.B.E.
My friend experience regular sleep paralysis he says about once a week. He also hallucinates, he sees a tall figure commonly know as the rake. Multiple times he experienced the rake choking him, and woke up with bruises around his neck. I feel so bad for him, I am so glad this video can explain this.
Thank you for this video. Today I woke up in the morning with my first sleep paralysis ever and it was a terrifying, terrifying experience. Once it started I knew it was sleep paralysis but instead of seeing my room I saw weird colors slowly flowing and changing colors. Most colours were red/black and white/black. The thing that got me nervous though is the sound, first started as a beeping noise and soom got into groawls and moans in pain. Then I heard screams, which is where I started to mentally freak out. I've never heard of those types of sounds in sleep paralysis so of course me being unacknowledged started getting worried. With this video it makes sense though as I was seeing mass murders and horrifying killers documentaries.
I sleep on my back with the covers up to my head so when i'm in paralysis mode I see nothing and I play with the buzzing and ringing sound in my ears, and recently after doing that for a while I heard like a school Windows computer turning on in my ear but I escaped from that because I never heard that before.
I used to have this happen to me when I was younger (child bearing age). There were 6 or more beings around my bed. They had large heads, big eyes and were pale in color. I could hear their footsteps coming in my room. I had carpet on the floor, so I don't know how I could hear them walking and I could feel them poking at me. The exam wasn't painful, it was just annoying. The strange thing about this is that all of the young females in my immediate family had the same experiences. My grandmother and aunt called them "Haints". I guess they came and visited them at night, too. I believe my dog has SP, too. sometimes she makes these high pitched noises and sit's hard to wake her up. I have to shake her for a minute for her to come out of it.
Hey Charlie, i sometimes experiance a sleep paralysis, but it allways starts with a vibration in the body which expands to my head. When i just let it go the vibration becomes more intense to the point where i think my head is going to explode. After that it stops and i glide out of my body. Then i allways find myself next to my body. Out of my physical body. It isnt a lucid dream, i can say for sure, because in this state i have been seeing situations that i have been verifing after i snap back. For example , when i was 19 i lived with my parents, i was out of my body and went to the kitchen i saw my mom after 8 hours of sleep exiting her room. I called her name but she didnt see me. She went right trough me. I went into the room of my parents and saw my father laying in theyr bed. I instantly snapped back into my body. I ran out of my room to confirm the scene, and it was the exact scene i have been seeing just seconds before out of my body. Mother sitting in the kitchen wearing the same clothes and father standing up from bed in the same clothes and exiting the room. For me it is more then lucid dreaming. This is something very powerful, and more then just a fake brain sensation...
I had many encounters in my teens. Paralysis, choking, even levitation at one point. I figured out on my own that deep breathing is the best way for me to get out of the sleep paralysis. So, it's no big deal now. Just relax and concentrate on slow deep breathing.
i started getting sleep paralysis when i was 14 and honestly i love it. really shakes things up a bit, plus it caused a spiral of curiosity and learning. i used to think all kinds of crazy things about it and i really love this explanation. great video. i always felt like sleep paralysis was trying to teach me something and sometimes i'd be in a strange place kind of like all the rooms i ever lived in , in my life, all in one room.
Great explanation. I have been experiencing it for a long time, trying to turn it into a lucid dream, but... it´s so hard to breathe during the experience that I tend to get out of this state!
That helped more than u will ever know. I have been going through sleep paralysis every morning. Feel like someone is pushing me, been very afraid , now am going to embrace see what happens .
wow, that makes a lot of sense. First time encounter the sleep paralysis freaks me out, its like " wtf is going on". Thank you for making such scientific explanations. Good work!
How it starts for me is that I fell a really strong presence sit on the other side of the bed when I'm facing the other direction. Then suddenly, I experience the paralysis . The only thing I can move , and just barely, are my eyes. It lasts for about ten seconds.
if you practice from a young age to lucid dream you can do it without going true sleep paralysis, and it helps if you have sleep paralysis bc it's easier to wake up. i really loved this video
thanks for this video. i suffer a lot with sleep paralysis and am sometimes even scared to sleep. this is the most needed video for people like me. very good scientific explanation. thank you
Some great sounding techniques here, ill remember to try them out next time it happens to me. Fortunately most of my sleep paralysis has been without halicination which means its easy to focus and understand whats going on, here i just go back to sleep and try and awake again. When i do get haluctinations however, it may not be so easy to remember these techniques being as my body is panic striken and by the time i have woken up i am often left shaken by the halucinations.
It happened multiple times due to sleep deprivation.. and I always could wake up by moving my eyes, putting all my focus and energy on them. Last time I tried to convert the scary feelings into positive feelings, but I couldn't.. not there yet.. maybe next time :)) Thank you!
thanks for the video! I used to get it all the time in childhood -I've experienced it 3 times since starting lucid dreaming - one turned into a nightmare, the other 2 times I was aware enough to just tilt my body forward or float out of bed into the dream world! I was really pleased myself on these occasions! Personally, I like to think of it as an OBE when sleep paralysis is experienced like this - And it is exceptionally vivid.
I jus had my first experience two days ago... my mom was in my room and she started choking me. I made little huffing sounds with my mouth after I gave up trying to scream. This slowly let my arm move before I jolted awake feeling like I had just died.... NEVER AGAIN I'm making that hiss sound from here on out!!!!
It all depends on the brain and it works when we praise the lord coz we feel we will be helped and it will be over. So I think it will work out too if we just calm our mind let the dream flow in the way we want. Like when I see a ghost trying to hurt me, then instead of struggling just calm and think this ghost will disappear or I am invisible and carry on the hallucination in the safest way possible untill its over
I just work up from having sleep paralysis. I’ve had it happen a couple times before so I knew what was going when I was happening I also suspected it might happen since I fell asleep on my back and that always triggers it for some reason. I also had some ice cream before bed so that might play a factor in it. Something kinda creepy happened while I was in that state but I kept my eyes closed so I didn’t see anything. The worse part was that since my nose is all stuffed up from my allergies I had been breathing through my mouth but now my mouth was closed and I couldn’t open it to take a breath so it felt like whatever was on top of me was choking me cuz I couldn’t breathe and that’s probably scarier than anything my mind could imagine up. But since I knew was happening I tried to remain calm and I slowly woke up and the first thing I did when I woke up was take a huge breath of air.
Just Chilin I experienced a sleep paralysis a few days back and it was really scary. I didn't see anything but it felt like a pillow against my face, suffocating me and someone touching me from behind like he was trying to have sex with me and the scariest part, I heard something like a demonic growling.
Okay look here´s the thing ... I totally agree with your explanation but there is one thing I just can not ignore. It happened last time I was having a SP. I woke up and couldn´t move as far as now usual business. I DID realize that it is just a paralysis and I tried to relax. I was aware of what was going on since I had some SP´s before and knew it was going to be over in a few seconds. So I tried to relax and started breathing in a very controlled manner. And THEN out of nothing I heard someone whispering into my left ear a "good bye" (in german language and female voice) and THAT scared the shit out of me. I tried to move but still couldn´t and my heartbeat went crazy. I could see a shadow walking away from my bed towards the door (the exit) and this shadowthing disappeared then. Thanks my eyes were mostly covered by my sheet so I just saw this shadows "legs". I swear to god I am not making this up. I really am serious.
That sounds super scary but still well within the realm of sleep paralysis. We can hallucinate through all the senses. In fact this whole reality is created by that capacity ;-)
Yeah it WAS scary, to be honest the most scariest thing I have experienced in my life so far. And I am a grown ass man of 25 years. lol. Update: 3 or 4 nights ago I had a SP again. This time I realized very quickly that it is an SP, since I had done some research after my last very scary SP (during this research I came to view your video). As you are mentioning in this video, I started moving my fingers ( I also tried to move my toes but it was too difficult), but moving my fingers broke the SP. I had another SP just like a hour later and again I started moving my fingers and broke the SP successfully.
he didn't mention that you should try to move your toes. its the easiest part of the body to move and instatly wakes you up. and drink a glass of water right away after awakening it helps so you won't return to that scary sleep again. whistling is a little hard to do during sleep paralysis, I even cannot move my mouth when i wanted to scream.
The last time this happened to me I was trying to induce an O.B.E. via a deep meditation, the same scene played out: I am consciously aware I'm in my bed but can't move, the usual shadow aspect appears; though after many experiences and through acceptance of this some years ago, I am ready for whatever it is. This time its a small person or child like figure though with a grotesque almost comically so emoji face. I have the instinct to instantly say "Ahh I love you; you are me and I am you" (with open arms and head rolled back as if ready for a hug) "come here then. I love you, I love you". We reintegrate instantly, the slight fear I have instantly disappears and I find myself in happily in a lucid dream. As i understand it these are always shadow aspects of ourselves; parts of ourselves that we bury or deny and that those moments are a unique opportunity to accept those aspects. Through acceptance they loose their power and simply evaporate. Posting my experience here in the hope it helps someone. I would imagine praying is like making a request to your higher self to assist, so i can see why that would help too though that is if you want to wake up rather than use it for a spring board into lucid dreaming.
I should add that anybody can do this, you don't have to be super confident. What you may find is that your confidence is in fact boosted by overcoming these aspects 💪🏼
I once had sleep paralysis and I thought my coat was a person😂 and I was really mad when I found out it was just my coat cuz it freaked the shit out of me. I threw the coat in the bin when I woke up and i forever hate that coat! 😩😫
Charley, I am a lucid dreamer as well and I once feel asleep so superconsciously I could LITERALLY feel the Reticular Activation System shutting down my muscle system (which you normally don't have any awareness of). I also went into the lucid dream consciously (I went through a long colorful, vivid tunnel and at the end of it I could see the dream scene I was about to enter). As a matter of fact, the music in the background of the dream was actually the music playing from... my headphones!!! I also often happily tell my self once this particular BANG of realisation breaks through (you probably know what I'm talking about) that I'm actually in my bed ànd in the dreamworld simultaneously. Apparently, (hyper)gamma oscillations seems to work through in my dream in such a way parts of my brain re-activate. I love lucidity, it's an integral part of my holistic being. My thought patterns are obvious. I'm all lucid and eagerly waiting for your next book.
Thanks. I'm a man who speaks of practice, sometimes lucid dreaming takes setting fervent intentions, otherwise it won't happen. Lucidity is also a lifestyle, you can often recognize lucid people by the way they walk in life and the things they talk about aren't average at all. Time is an illusion when you're lucid (breakthrough). With my rhetorical abilities I could give lectures all over the world right now and maybe one day I will. I'm training more practice at the moment. I'm on my way.💪💟
I’ve never really found someone who can actually describe this but the first time I had sleep paralysis was as a child. I at first thought it was a dream, I didn’t see anything so I didn’t worry. I just couldn’t move and I would feel so much weight over my body it’s unexplainable but I would just lie there unable to love feeling the weight of a car running me over. Thank God it wasn’t something scary I hadn’t had it for years now. I stopped sleeping on my back which helps
Hello Charlie, thank you for making the video and for expressing your views. Believe me, when I say, that I was so raised believing in science and have always believed in gladly. Before I'd think otherwise, I'd always try to explore a scientific explanation behind it. Actually, had always been convinced thoroughly with science and it always proved 100% satisfactory . However, for past three years, I have had these Sleep Paralysis attacks. I didn't know what was wrong and wasn't even aware that the term actually is known in the world and exists. I had to google it over time and realized , I aint the only victim to it. I never believed in ghosts etc but have been prone to the dead ones since I was 15-16. I mean, had experiences that they can come to contact me quite easily in my dreams (unlike others, family members, friends etc). To me, in my dreams , it's known that they are dead and were part of the family (relatives) but they come into dreams , on and off communicate with me what they want to or send me a message or just show their presence. Now back to the sleeping paralysis episodes, well, I had to discuss with my partner one morning as I had this attack (again). It was so serious and I felt being grabbed from back on my chests by someone. My Partner was laying next to me, I was conscious that I am laying on bed and my partner is sleeping next to me (not sure if my eyes were open, though). I wanted to grab his hand, wanted to shout for his name, so that he is awake but couldn't do as had no power. I kept on repeating his name with no efforts ( i.e. he did n't hear any) . Then I decided to struggle back with this "strange force" and asked him/her, who s/he was (in german, I live in Germany ). I was really replied with a word ( actually a name) i.e. a name of a dead distant relative who died when I was 16 . I have never thought about this dead relative, never talked about her, still. I was so afraid and had shouted finally something that made my partner awoke. He asked, what was wrong. I said, bad dream. At Morning, I discussed with him. On and off, I have these sleeping paralysis attacks and I hate always when I know, my partner sleeps next to me still I could not approach him. The last attack was so hard that this force (in presence of some soul) grabbed me and wanted me to put down from my bed , I struggled back and fought back , finally to be able to get out of this and found me breathing so hard. I discussed with my partner, he also believed in science (actually we both do) but now have to think otherwise, too. These are just my views, experiences and have decided to share. Hope I am not getting anyone hurt who thinks otherwise. Thank you for going through. If you too have had the same, you can share, if you like. PS: Lately, I realize, to be calm and try to get with flow...............Just leaving it realizing that its sleeping paralysis and this process helps a bit. PPS: I don't have any sleeping deprivations as I sleep 8 hours everyday.
Brilliant Charlie! More info needs to be made available about this fairly common sleep phenomenon. Too many people quickly jump to the old superstitious explanations like "Old Hag" syndrome or Incubus/ Sucubus attacks when, as you've pointed out here, it's really quite easily explained and can actually be used as a gateway into a lucid dream (or "super lucid dream" as I call it, with a clarity and realness unlike any other!). I wish there had been more knowledge of this when i was a kid, I'd wake up during the night, unable to move and see my sister's clothes float around the room! My mum said it was only a dream but I knew different, I knew I'd been awake. It's actually inspired me to write a kid's storybook about this very topic to make sure parents know how to help kids who experience it, coming soon :)
Will do, I'm sure i originally saw it in the FB group but I'll share it again. You should join the group and post your videos, news etc, I'm sure everybody would be more than happy to see you there :) My lucid dreaming storybook The Cupboard Of Fear came out last month and I'd like to send you a promo copy, it would be great to hear your feedback on it. I'll send you an e-mail shortly. Take care :)
Literally just woke up from a hallucination in my room. I went with it a little more but still had to eventually bail, as its a frightening sensation. I roll my eyes right back and keep them there to eventually awaken. Interesting to know recreational drugs also cause it, as i thought only stress. Nice video mate. Thank you!
That happend to me 2 times. The first time was so scary and it happend IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!! I was like 6-7 years old, and cried, im still glad my mom came and woke me up.(scary halucination for a child, i thought i was gonna die) The second time, was ok, nothing happend, just black. I was 9, and woke up as usual by the alarm. I figure out i was awake the whole time, but didnt notice i couldn't move at that time. The first one still scares me thinking about it, getting an ugly feeling under my foot.GUH
It is terrifying! I don't think I'll be able to make that sound to wake up from sleep paralysis, but I reciting one verse (from my holy book) repeatedly until the thing vanishes...eventually it helps me wake up.
when i was younger i cry myself too sleep bc i was always afraid to wake up the next day. i often had hallucinations of a faceless old lady on the end of my bed luckily i learned about the existence of sleep paralysis
I know when I am going to get SP while I'm fully awake. It starts with short bursts of electrical like white noise intermittently. I can be walking around and have this noise so when I go to bed I know it's going to happen. I've had this for most of my life and had hundreds of episodes. It always happens on going to sleep for me and usually but not all the time when I've had a short nap earlier in the day and yes sometimes if I am laying on my back. Sometimes I will stay awake longer until the noise stops and then I will be ok but sometimes I'm just so tired I risk falling asleep. I usually dream and hallucinate to start with, sometimes I feel there is someone in my room, sometimes someone touching my foot and sometimes just a presence because I have never seen someone in my room. Sometimes it lights flickering that aren't actually on or someone at my front door, banging noises, hearing voices, always an unpleasant experience. Then at some stage during the dream I wake up and I can't move, the noise I heard earlier is now deafening, unbearable and constant. I have tried to relax and go with it but it just gets louder, it feels like electricity, energy, like my head is going to explode and I can't stay with it. So to wake myself up out of it I start shouting, I can't move my mouth but my vocal chords work so I just try make words as best as I can. I usually yell out "help" or I call out to my husband and he wakes me up by shaking my arm. If I don't consciously let myself wake fully by getting out of bed for a while I will just keep falling back into it multiple times. It's very draining and some episodes are worse than others. Last night I couldnt wake myself up as my husband was away and it was horrible, my jaw started spasaming like it was moving without me controlling it was frightening. My son whose bedroom is at the other end of our hallway heard me and came and woke me up, I can yell quite loud but that is sometimes not enough to wake myself up. Last night after I woke up from it my head felt like it had been standing in front of a large speaker at a concert venue, heavy, buzzing and ringing and I felt a bit out of whack. it took a while for it to go back to normal. Why is there not a lot of scientific research done on this? It's obviously quite common and ranging from some people only having a few episodes or people like me who have had to deal with it a lifetime. I don't believe there are entities involved, it's obviously a problem with hardwiring in the brain.
Christina! I have only just learnt today that what I get is sleep paralysis. I've been getting it for years though by the sound of things not quite as regularly as you, anyway, I just read your history and as soon as I read the bit where you mention the feeling of someone at your door, it sent such a chill down my back as that is one of the feelings I often get, scary as hell! I wake myself by trying to shout, it takes a while and has always been frightening but I then wake up feeling very cold and frightened. I'm so curious now and wonder if knowing what is happening will decrease the fear, will I be aware that I am experiencing sleep paralysis? Thanks for sharing, I no longer feel alone :)
Not true. I had a recent sleep paralysis episode and it was during a stressful time in my life. I had started a new job, and lost 2 people in my life my niece to a car accident and my nephew committed suicide. I was staying up pretty late at night and at about 3 am or so I think that I fall asleep. During about 4 am or so I think that I wake up and in the corner of my bedroom there was my nephew with some dark figure with him and he was in a vehicle with the window down. He comes towards me with a weapon trying to hit me and there is a flashing blue light and he is saying to me in my ear, I could hear his voice plain as day saying " It's me." Before he could come after me, I wake up completely and I am left dumbfounded, thinking did that just happen? No one will ever believe me.
I just recently started experiencing this a week or two ago, i guess with the late nights doing homework finally catching up to me, first night it was my sister screaming at me behind my bedroom door at our old house and as i woke up i still saw the positioning of my old room but at night and my sister still screaming. It took me a good ten minutes to realize that something was off and i just fell back asleep. The second and most recent, i was dreaming i was sitting on the floor and a spider started crawling near me so i went to smash it, but missed and it climb up the wall to the shades on the window, so i tried hitting it off and it landed on me and i could feel it crawling on me, and of course that's when i wake up, still feeling the spider crawling on me and flipping shit without being able to smack it off. I then realized it was remnants of my dream and again fell asleep to later wake up. Both times I experienced it my dreams had blended into my reality but, i had the feeling that something else was there, just out of sight. It didn't scare me Per se, but I definitely didn't wanna find out what the hell that shit was.
So I had a chance to try your trick a few times and I have to say, it doesn't work much for me. Hoever, I found that by far the worst sleep paralysis is the first one. Especially if you don't yet know that there is such a thing as a sleep paralysis. So your brain doesn't know what's going on, it starts panicking like crazy and all the horrible nightmares start to be projected. But nowadays I always immediatelly realize what's going on and there is no panic or horrible images. The sensation itself of being paralyzed is still extremely unpleasant but it's no longer a horrifying nightmare. So I usually just stay calm and wait a while until I wake up.
I just had an episode of sleep paralysis no more than an hour ago. That's why I'm here. I didn't hallucinate, at least not visually, because I keep my eyes closed when it hits. But I did hear and feel things. It felt like someone was crushing my feet in a vice, and sounded like some kind of radio static. When I tried to move my fingers, the sounds and feelings intensified and there was a tremendous pressure on my back (I was sleeping on my stomach). I have had at least a hundred episodes before, and the hallucinations were horrific (Once I saw what seemed to be a planet-sized mass of grey and black flesh and feelers with an insane amount of soul-piercing red eyes, floating five feet above me and mocking my insignificant existence). That's why I keep my eyes closed. I don't believe in ghosts. And while I personally think extraterrestrial life does exist, I think that most abduction conspiracies are bogus. So I one hundred percent agree with your theory.
yeah this is what im doing. i enjoy lucid dreaming like, im the one managing whos going to be involved in my dreaming and what will happened, and when im done, i try to focus on breathing , and every after, 5seconds or more, i try to burst my muscle so that i can get off being paralyzed.
I had it on holiday a couple of years ago, I was sleeping on my belly and I felt something press down hard on an area of my lower back and heard a noise that is mainly associated with ghosts, like a long whisper roar.
Great explanation, Charlie! For me, the only scary and absolutely fascinating thing about sleep paralysis is realizing how brain is one hell of a crazy machine that tries to make sense of everything. Man, it's batshit scary but it's a perfect opportunity to just detach emotionally from fear and observe what kind of crazy connections brain is capable of making in this state. Since you know what you're taking about, I'll take advantage to ask one question. :-) A lot of people, me included, experience painful and incredibly loud vibrations in their head or even whole bodies, which we all know are very common right before the onset of OBEs. I have tried and tried to understand the pain could come from but I'm totally out of ideas. I'm pretty sure it's just another hallucination but can't bring myself to understand where it originates from and what feeds it. Sometimes I think that the brain creates the illusion of pain out of the feeling of extreme pressure but then again, I never really get this feeling of pressure myself when caught in paralysis. For me, it's just loud, it's excruciatingly painful vibrations where it feels like my head could be blown to pieces any moment. I'm not scared of it... just deeply intrigued what mechanism causes it. I'm out of ideas.
What I do wonder is why a lot of people "see" the same things while experiencing that psychotic hallucination that you mention. I mean, I've read a lot about SP since I've started experiencing it, and while I might understand the "old hag" appearing due to maybe dreaming about your mom or something (I was dreaming about acquiring a dog when I had SP and saw her for the first time, which contradicts this explanation of yours since I wasn't dreaming about any women, but rather dogs in a dog shelter, weird connection to make there, brain…), I don't understand some others, like the shadow man, or the man with the top hat, or the little kid. These imageries come up again and again in SP stories, and at least I can tell you that I wasn't dreaming about things related to "shadow people" when I woke up to experience SP, or any kids when I first saw the shadow kid standing next to my bed, and I’m usually not scared of kids, I actually rather like them, so again, weird thing for my brain to be scared of. That’s the only thing for which I can’t find a good, satisfying explanation. Do you have any more information about that? Thanks! And thanks for the awesome video with the explanation :)
Great question. My research revealed that there were loads of similar hallucinations reported BUT that they were all culturally specific. In Japan there was a certain figure reported and in Victorian England another and in the southern states of the US in the 1950's it was always aliens. Why? The shared cultural fears of the time. OR maybe certain demons only hang out in certain countries ;-)
Hi, yes I have had multiple experiences with sleep paralysis and it usually appears that there is some sort of bad entity present in front of my face. I have now learned that if I want to escape it I have to surrender to it. I did not know that I could experience Lucid Dreaming this way too, so I will try to do this next time. Thanks
Ive had this off and on since teen yrs. Never had any hallucinations, just woke up not able to move. How i learned to break out of it was to hold my breath. When i hold my breath by reflex i will then gasp for air. This breaks u out of it. After that i make sure to reposition myself in bed. I turn over to sleep on my side. I find i go into sleep paralysis if im lying on my back. Also move your legs and arms around to reset yourself.i never go back into an episode of paralysis after doing this. Hope this helps!!
Having this for long time now, it seems to be normal among meditators. Dont open eyes and know you are dreaming and wake yourself up somehow. After a few times i learned how to do it. Keep eyes closed
I've had sleep paralysis a couple times, but it's never been spiritual or "scary". Idk if it's common to have hallucinations but I've never had hallucination. I can usually just see my room and I feel myself trying to move but nothing happens.
I guess I've been suffering from Sleep Paralysis for a year: It often happens whenever I'm having a weird and irregular sleep schedule. Basically I just can't fall asleep and that really annoys me; all of a sudden, I notice I just can't move anymore, no matter how hard I try, I can only open my eyes. I usually sleep on my back and that seems to make the paralysis tougher to break up. By the way, I luckily never experienced any hallucination, although I recall hearing my own thoughts once, but It never happened again. The only way I found to free myself from that state is to slowly try to move my fingers and my head until I gain complete control over my body. After that I usually try to distract myself for a few minutes, for example I go take a drink or check my phone, until I feel like going to bed again. I am still not 100% sure I suffered from Sleep Paralysis, since it's described as a way more terrifying experience by people, but I can honestly say that what I experienced so far is already terrifying enough: having a regular sleep schedule has since extremely lowered the intances, so I pretty much stopped worrying about it, thanks for the video, sir!
There's a pattern between regular sleep and sleep paralysis if you find it not being the same wake up before you go to sleep chill for a bit then go back to sleep your going to be dead tired but if you go to sleep you'll have that experience or you can take it a bit further relax your body let it happen don't be scared track your heart beat to accelerate then go out of your forehead is astral projection now this is different you can move around and be fully conscious be aware those things You see in your paralysis sessions can be there but you can fight back and move your furniture if you push them keep in mind your body is asleep
I've only had about two or three experiences with sleep paralysis. I've tried to wake myself up and all that. Usually doesn't work. So my only option is to explore this creepy experience. There was one time I even brought my friend I was staying with one night to the paralysis or dream if you want to call it. I brought him to a haunted hotel. I had a conversation with him asking how we're going to wake up or get out this crazy dream. We gave up on the options we thought of cause we both felt it was pointless, so we just explored a haunted hotel with ghosts following us. We kept trying to push them away but we all know that doesn't work that way haha. We just let them follow us. We somehow had a room in the hospital that looked just like my buddies room I was at, so we just decided to go to sleep in a dream. I felt like that would wake me up so I tried it and it worked. Craziest thing I've ever experienced
I've had it several times. at various levels of intensity. Never pleasant... Constant points were feeling pressure, like something is pressing me down, being unable to move and a Very Strong feeling you're not alone. A malignant presence, sometimes you can almost feel like it hates you. Sometimes there were hallucinations. More often than not I could also hear whispers, nothing intelligible, like a jumble of words on top of one another, more like airflow. very loud airflow. Once I tried mocking that pressure holding me down. and I swear it got more intense immediately, like it suddenly wanted to break my spine, like it was angry ... I don't believe in the supernatural, and I'm sure there is a perfectly logical explanation for these symptoms. But the truth is it still scares the shit out of me. Scared enough not to want to go back to sleep. Scared enough to beg to wake up. A horrible bloody experience. My advice, avoid sleep deprivation and upsetting your sleep cycle. The prior in particular seems to be the usual cause for me.
ive had constant sleep paralysis when i take a nap but ive never managed to get my eyes to stay open nor experienced any hallucinations. However, the trink to waking up works perfectly
I suffered from SP all my life but it comes and goes....I'm pretty sure it happened a few times when I was young but I didn't what it was and due to my life when I was a child (which was a lot more happy and stress free) I think I hardly noticed it. However when I was about pre-teen or maybe 14-15 I think it happened a bit more cause I came back to my home country (UK) and the school I went to had so many bullies and the stress and depression was so heavy. There is certainly a pattern to them none the less...all my dreams and nightmares are very vivid but obviously when going into SP they feel more...awake and I experience pretty much exactly this.
I felt the pressure on my back and ears like a wave going back and forth. Did anyone experience the same or is it just me ?, and yeah every time the 'wave' gets close to my back my back automatically goes front on its own. I experienced it today
Im 16, and haven't been able to sleep peacefully for a couple days. I have been having these dreams that keep me from going to sleep. They're not always scary dreams, but some feel like im sleep but trying to wake myself up. I dont usually see anything that frightens me...but if i do i usually wake up pretty quickly. I just recently had one, to where it felt like i was trying to force myself up. I was on my side, and my eyes were opening and closing, my head felt heavier, and i started to crawl out of my bed, then stumbling and falling to the ground. And as all this was happening i could hear myself screaming for my mom, and actually heard a response from her, which scared the shit out of me at the time, because that made me think i was actually awake. Im not sure if it has anything to do with sleep paralysis, maybe its just stress or something...but it happens way too much, and i dont know how to prevent it.
I had this at around 4am today, I was having a nightmare and I woke up but unable to move,I was totally freaked out and struggled alot to get up from bed was unable.. finally after I gave up and slept again I woke up in morning
I had two simultaneous episodes last night, and aside from feeling paralyzed, it also felt like several 'things' were at my bedside. I swear that I even felt something very light jump onto the bed. I was too scared to turn around because the tv was on, and I didn't want to see whatever it was that my brain was actively imagining. It felt like I was calling out for my wife for what felt like hours, and my entire body was painfully tingling when I tried to move. I managed to wake my body up by moving my extremities, and essentially, fought my way out of my own body. It happened again a few minutes later, and I repeated the process. I wouldn't mind seeing an alternate life form, but damn; send me an email or an invitation to my calendar. Don't paralyze and scare the shit out of me. Ruins the rest of my night!
BEFORE YOU COMMENT: This video is simply a scientific explanation and not necessarily my personal views. I'm a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism so i definitely don't agree with scientific materialism but i also don't agree with the dualistic, fear based paradigm of demons attacking you either. Just saying :-)
Buddhists love science dude. So says the dali lama
With quantum physics and neuroscience yes, but absolutely not with scientific materialism :-)
um so glad coz I've been trying to figure out why i get it coz it's scary
I have had sleep paralysis for over two years. I have found that closing your eyes may also cause you to have an astral experience. If your not prepared, it can be overwhelming. But with my eyes closed I have had the (shadow man) drag me away. I have found sleeping with a light on or something like a tv on causes the paralysis to be far less terrifying. When this started happening to me i felt like i was slowly losing my mind. I was to afraid to sleep also. So i would go days without sleeping and try to work. I eventually lost that job. I still experience this multiple times a week or sometimes in the same night. Astral projection and lucid dreams are something i am pretty good at. I have done much research on the subject. But still to this day I have experiences with paralysis and have seen many things i cant explain. Such as my cat crying non stop all night i eventually fell asleep and awoke in paralysis, to a small girl singing to my cat a lullaby. I woke for real and looked at my cat who was still purring and moving his head like he was being comforted by an invisible hand.
Hi Charlie, great video. I get sleep paralysis regularly, and generally speaking, my experiences fit the pattern explained by yourself and others on the internet. while the novelty has worn off however, I have one unanswered question about sleep paralysis which i haven't ever seen posed, let alone explained.
on very rare occasions (perhaps only ever three or four times) I have woken up in a state of paralysis, fought it, believed myself to be over it, sat upright, only to then suddenly find myself waking up all over again in my original sleeping position. this process then repeats itself as many as 5 to 10 times, whereby I am fully aware what I am experiencing, and am convinced each time that 'this time its real and i am really getting up'.
Do you know how common this experience is? or perhaps whether or not there is a term for these experiences. The first time it happened I thought I was dead, I was conscious enough to question whether or not there was a problem with 'time' and ask myself whether this miniature 'ground hog day' experience would even end.
I think I like the science way of explaination better. Other youtube videos be scaring me 😶😶
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As a man thinks so is he... Its amazing how fear can affect our mind.
It makes more sense anyways than the superstitious viewpoint
This is a video i have been wanting to make for years and i really hope it will benefit people who suffer with this bat-shit crazy phenomena of Sleep Paralysis! :-)
Thanks for the video. I have only experienced sleep paralysis once and closed my eyes because i knew what it was, but i could still "hear" the sounds
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Charlie Morley nice explanation i understand clearly
alexis gonzalez I often experience "Sleep paralysis" as well. Anywhere from 1 to 3 times a week. There are no dreams, no hallucinations. Rather, I'm trapped, staring at the inside of my eyelids. These "fits" can last anywhere from 30 seconds, to 5 minutes. While in these fits, I can only control three aspects of my body:
My Eyes, My Breathing, and (oddly enough) My toes.
Because these are common enough to no longer be surprising, I stay calm, and slowly work out of it, often ending with my body jolting up, triumphantly!
It also helps if you have a partner in bed with you. My fiancée can identify my forced breathing and toe wiggling, and a quick shake from her is enough to jolt me awake.
My advice:
Always stay calm and know you will wake fully soon enough
Try sleeping on your side. It may not work for everyone, but this has cut my "fits" down by almost half.
TLDR: SLEEP PARALYSIS SUCKS DICK
That cleared up things further, Thanks Charlie
I get this and Alice in wonderland syndrome.. both put fear of God into you
Start praying or praising Jesus and it is amazing how fast it will go away. Horrifically scary when it happens but glad to know so many others have had this. I usually experience this during intense times of distress.
Yup, pray to a higher power and love will replace fear!
After having experienced it once and having felt an evil shadow sitting on my chest and choking me, mate I aint brave enough to ace this kind of shit anymore xD
Ha ha, i hear you man! :-)
same my heart and chest felt crushed
Charlie Morley I
Just happen last night. I bypassed all videos of spiritual stuff and came right to this one. I believe the scientific explanation but weirdly, its like something was there watching me and it was a sense of negativity. I was positive I was not alone. No pressure on my chest nor high pitch sound. Just felt I couldn't move & definitely not alone and needed to wake up fast. I fought it hard and actually heard myself make a small sound when truly I was trying to scream and not sure how long it took but I was FIGHTING it and finally awoke and well slipped in ' I rebuke Devil" just to cover all tracks. Think I was good to go back to sleep and I did. Uggh.
Very well explained, can't get much better than that, short and on point. I always have sleep paralysis if i am stressed out or have sleep deprivation, I always have a clear conscious mind when it happens, just try to move your fingers or toes (the small muscles that you can control voluntarily) it always help atleast for me. I know that sleep paralysis can be turn into lucid dream, I've been trying that but not brave enough to not bail out :) Thank you for sharing
Thanks man! Feel free to share the vid if you think it may benefit others :-)
I've learned to just "accept" what is going on during my sleep paralysis and just go along with it. It's less stressful and I fall back asleep. Sometimes it does turn into a lucid dream.
Great work!
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im not about to focus on a demon
ha ha, sounds like good advice when you put it that way!
Haha i did actually ..but one day i did punch him the face i felt like i was kratos ..now everytime i dream about demons and things like that i destroy them .. so by that i did unlock another level of scary shit ..no when i got SP i hallucinate about being alone home and no body will ever come or some weird shit
Thank you for this video :) giving the information just as simple as it is. I'm happy to see more people sharing the information, as most of the people can keep panicking and now I can just show them this vid in five mins :) great work:)
so glad! please share the vid with anyone who might benefit!
I've experienced sleep paralysis. One time I had it every single night for a week. I felt like I was being attacked by a demon or something pure evil. Something was watching me, it felt like it was right in my face. There is no way to explain to somebody who hasn't experienced it. The fear was horrendous and I carried this feeling for a year afterwards, even though that week of sleep paralysis had ended. I couldn't shake the feeling, I felt like something had attacked my soul and was sucking everything from me, leaving me with nothing only a terrible sense of dread and emptiness like nothing I've ever felt. I've seen things and heard things too. I've never heard the buzzing noise but I did hear the most awful music one time. Again accompanied by a feeling of intense dread and an evil presence. What I'd like to know is has anybody else ever experienced dreaming of something and then waking up to experience it in reality? One night I had a dream that I reached up to turn on the light above my head, I pulled the chord and it came on but it emitted a very dull yellow light, like a 5 watt bulb if it existed. So then I woke up, realised I needed to use the bathroom, reached up to pull the chord and the exact same thing happened. I used the bathroom, those lights were dull aswell, returned to bedroom, light still dull, went back to bed and slept. Never experienced it again, but I've had others.
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Best recommendations also I'd say wiggle you're toes it immediately wakes you up . But when trying to focus on the figure it can cause lucid nightmares
milkgotzgames lol can’t wiggle toes at that point
Great recommendation. If you're paralyzed just move. 12/10 good idea.
Lucid Nightmares is the fuckin scariest shit ever
ayish amber Rose same
milkgotzgames I tried, but I couldn’t.
everytime when i get paralyzed i just go back to sleep
It happened to me 3rd time today:(
I was so scared at first time :(
But I didn't freak out this time because I knew what was it😅
I've been having sleep paralysis since I was 9 years old, I'm 52 now. this is some scary shit, I have to pull myself self out literally. I see lights, I hear singing, I hear voices, I see colors and last but not least I feel a present if one or more people around me. If you have experience this, you differently know what I'm talking about. This shit Is scary. Please tell me if this has happened to you to. I need to know, I'm not alone
Ice_swallow_cman02 stop sleeping on your back
I believe I had it happen years ago. Because I woke up on my back. I think I was like 9 or 10. And I couldn't open my eyes or move. But I knew I wasn't dreaming. I could think on my own and like talk tk myself in my head. I was scared. But I must have had it happen before. Because I Thought to myself this is that thing again. just give up and go to sleep. And I just gave up and laid there. but I only gave up for a couple seconds because I hoped giving up would make it end but it didn't. So I tried so hard to move a finger or anything and after a couple of random fights in my brain to get something going. My arm and body got a jolt of movement and I was fully awake. I was so scared to go back to bed. But I never had any hallucinations or any Illusions of demons. just paralysis. But it must have happened another time before If the memory I have at that age has me Calm and giving in and expecting it to end.
This happens to me it was horrifying
i got it this morning and i could hear my mom talking and the noises in the environment but they sound distant and echoing.
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I believe I had it happen years ago. Because I woke up on my back. I think I was like 9 or 10. And I couldn't open my eyes or move. But I knew I wasn't dreaming. I could think on my own and like talk tk myself in my head. I was scared. But I must have had it happen before. Because I Thought to myself this is that thing again. just give up and go to sleep. And I just gave up and laid there. but I only gave up for a couple seconds because I hoped giving up would make it end but it didn't. So I tried so hard to move a finger or anything and after a couple of random fights in my brain to get something going. My arm and body got a jolt of movement and I was fully awake. I was so scared to go back to bed. But I never had any hallucinations or any Illusions of demons. just paralysis. But it must have happened another time before If the memory I have at that age has me Calm and giving in and expecting it to end.
i experienced this alot when i was young.. my mom told me to start praying when I can't get out of it.. so i did that and it worked. because when you see yourself and u try to wake up the person that's next to u and it doesn't work, u pray..
I just experienced sleep paralysis a moment ago. 😥
Yes when I want to get up I will make noises with my breath through my lips.. Snap I'm up.. If I just wanted to chill within the sleep paralysis I will start see colors like a psychedelics trip.
Great attitude :)
I tried to wake myself up tonight by biting my lip. Wonder why we’ve got control over our lips but nothing else? Apparently we can vocalize a bit too.
I have suffered from sleep paralysis for at a minimum, 25 years. More often when Im Under stress and mostly upon falling asleep. Yes it's terrifying but there has never been any hag,witch, demon or anything like it , ever. Just the trying to call out, feeling uncomfortable, overheated and that's it
This might sound weird, but I've experienced sleep paralysis for years. It used to terrify me. Over the years, I've learnt to accept it and just embrace it. It actually gives me a bit of rush. I'm fully aware of what's going on, and it's absolutely wild.
I don't know why, I laughed so hard when you said that part about how a nightmare would play out with the witch and everything. I think it's something about the accent that makes it so perfect xD
I started talking to my brain. It responds what I'm saying. We go on a travel in my brain and we're trying to find what the exact problem is when I'm sleeping. I really don't want it any more. I'm just 18 and I've got lots of dreams and it drains my life
I woke up like this, my most vivid one. I was me standing at the end of the bed watching my body laying on the bed freaking out. I walked out of the room, down the hall and into the kitchen. I could fell myself in bed and in the kitchen.. it’s like my soul left my body and was walking around. I started screaming in the kitchen but nothing was coming out of my mouth in bed.. I screamed for so long my throat finally moved and woke me up.
Freaked the hell out of me. I’ve been lucid dreaming since I was little with sleep paralysis since I was little and HATE IT
I just woke up from a sleep paralysis. I already knew that there's a scientific explanation for it, however it always gives this bad and scary feeling. So despite knowing all there is to sleep paralysis, I felt like I needed some reassurance. I did work couple of night shifts recently and I've done them for the past 4 years, on and off. So I contribute it to sleep deprivation and a irregular sleep pattern. As for sleep paralysis that I experienced just now. I fell asleep couple of times watching a TV so I decided to move to my own bed and finally fall asleep comfortably. I lay down on my side and covered myself with few blankets. After a few minutes I fell asleep and it started happening. I became aware of everything in my room, I couldn't move, not even a finger. It's like there was a presence on top of my that weight like a ton. I tried to move, tried to talk, scream. All it did was sounded to myself like a muffled scream, like there was a pillow over my face. At some point I woke up, and turned to my other side quickly before I could fall asleep again. At least I thought I did. As it happens that was just another dream, hallucination. And so it begun. I thought I woke up like 7 or 8 times after that. Every time I woke up I did something differently. Switch position in my bed. Got out of it, ran to my sister's room and tried to scream and get her attention. Ran to my parents room and talked to them about it. But every time I thought I was wide awake, it was just another dream/hallucination. Until I finally woke up, stood up and realized that this time it's real. I walked over to my bedroom window, opened it and lit up a cigarette. I was chilling out like that for couple of minutes and then I came here. I know there is all kinds of rational explanations for this phenomenon but to me it is always so terrifying...
Love your clear and on point explanation about this Charlie. I can't remember whether I managed to engage and embrace this shadow aspect before I read one of your books or not either way you gave me the confidence to do this every time, so now I honestly love the idea of this paralysis state and can honestly not wait for my next one as I know it's a spring board straight into a lucid dream or O.B.E.
My friend experience regular sleep paralysis he says about once a week. He also hallucinates, he sees a tall figure commonly know as the rake. Multiple times he experienced the rake choking him, and woke up with bruises around his neck. I feel so bad for him, I am so glad this video can explain this.
Thank you for this video.
Today I woke up in the morning with my first sleep paralysis ever and it was a terrifying, terrifying experience.
Once it started I knew it was sleep paralysis but instead of seeing my room I saw weird colors slowly flowing and changing colors. Most colours were red/black and white/black.
The thing that got me nervous though is the sound, first started as a beeping noise and soom got into groawls and moans in pain.
Then I heard screams, which is where I started to mentally freak out. I've never heard of those types of sounds in sleep paralysis so of course me being unacknowledged started getting worried.
With this video it makes sense though as I was seeing mass murders and horrifying killers documentaries.
glad the video has helped in some way :-) x
I sleep on my back with the covers up to my head so when i'm in paralysis mode I see nothing and I play with the buzzing and ringing sound in my ears, and recently after doing that for a while I heard like a school Windows computer turning on in my ear but I escaped from that because I never heard that before.
I used to have this happen to me when I was younger (child bearing age). There were 6 or more beings around my bed. They had large heads, big eyes and were pale in color. I could hear their footsteps coming in my room. I had carpet on the floor, so I don't know how I could hear them walking and I could feel them poking at me. The exam wasn't painful, it was just annoying. The strange thing about this is that all of the young females in my immediate family had the same experiences. My grandmother and aunt called them "Haints". I guess they came and visited them at night, too. I believe my dog has SP, too. sometimes she makes these high pitched noises and sit's hard to wake her up. I have to shake her for a minute for her to come out of it.
Hey Charlie, i sometimes experiance a sleep paralysis, but it allways starts with a vibration in the body which expands to my head. When i just let it go the vibration becomes more intense to the point where i think my head is going to explode. After that it stops and i glide out of my body.
Then i allways find myself next to my body. Out of my physical body. It isnt a lucid dream, i can say for sure, because in this state i have been seeing situations that i have been verifing after i snap back. For example , when i was 19 i lived with my parents, i was out of my body and went to the kitchen i saw my mom after 8 hours of sleep exiting her room. I called her name but she didnt see me. She went right trough me. I went into the room of my parents and saw my father laying in theyr bed. I instantly snapped back into my body.
I ran out of my room to confirm the scene, and it was the exact scene i have been seeing just seconds before out of my body. Mother sitting in the kitchen wearing the same clothes and father standing up from bed in the same clothes and exiting the room.
For me it is more then lucid dreaming. This is something very powerful, and more then just a fake brain sensation...
yeah defo, it can be a great exit point for OBE's :-)
I had many encounters in my teens. Paralysis, choking, even levitation at one point. I figured out on my own that deep breathing is the best way for me to get out of the sleep paralysis. So, it's no big deal now. Just relax and concentrate on slow deep breathing.
i started getting sleep paralysis when i was 14 and honestly i love it. really shakes things up a bit, plus it caused a spiral of curiosity and learning. i used to think all kinds of crazy things about it and i really love this explanation. great video. i always felt like sleep paralysis was trying to teach me something and sometimes i'd be in a strange place kind of like all the rooms i ever lived in , in my life, all in one room.
Great attitude man! :-)
Suffered with this for 40 years and your about 95% right on. My attacks have lasted longer and longer and I do lucid dream.
Amazing. Your videos are always so insightful, without exceptions. I’m always learning something new. Thank you so much.
Great explanation. I have been experiencing it for a long time, trying to turn it into a lucid dream, but... it´s so hard to breathe during the experience that I tend to get out of this state!
thanks for the feedback! :-)
You can’t be attacked by the shadow monsters if you are the shadow monster
I tried this once, it did kinda work but you end up waking yourself up trying to enter the dream
yeah that can happen somtimes
That helped more than u will ever know. I have been going through sleep paralysis every morning. Feel like someone is pushing me, been very afraid , now am going to embrace see what happens .
So glad the video has been of help :-)
wow, that makes a lot of sense. First time encounter the sleep paralysis freaks me out, its like " wtf is going on". Thank you for making such scientific explanations. Good work!
glad it helped man!
How it starts for me is that I fell a really strong presence sit on the other side of the bed when I'm facing the other direction.
Then suddenly, I experience the paralysis . The only thing I can move , and just barely, are my eyes. It lasts for about ten seconds.
if you practice from a young age to lucid dream you can do it without going true sleep paralysis, and it helps if you have sleep paralysis bc it's easier to wake up. i really loved this video
thanks Hananr! x
thanks for this video. i suffer a lot with sleep paralysis and am sometimes even scared to sleep. this is the most needed video for people like me. very good scientific explanation. thank you
glad it helped!
I had sleep paralysis on my vacation I felt like a huge dog was on top of me and my ears were ringing
Some great sounding techniques here, ill remember to try them out next time it happens to me. Fortunately most of my sleep paralysis has been without halicination which means its easy to focus and understand whats going on, here i just go back to sleep and try and awake again. When i do get haluctinations however, it may not be so easy to remember these techniques being as my body is panic striken and by the time i have woken up i am often left shaken by the halucinations.
It happened multiple times due to sleep deprivation.. and I always could wake up by moving my eyes, putting all my focus and energy on them. Last time I tried to convert the scary feelings into positive feelings, but I couldn't.. not there yet.. maybe next time :)) Thank you!
thanks for the video!
I used to get it all the time in childhood -I've experienced it 3 times since starting lucid dreaming - one turned into a nightmare, the other 2 times I was aware enough to just tilt my body forward or float out of bed into the dream world! I was really pleased myself on these occasions!
Personally, I like to think of it as an OBE when sleep paralysis is experienced like this - And it is exceptionally vivid.
I scream for help, but nobody ever wakes me up. It's quite terrifying.
I jus had my first experience two days ago... my mom was in my room and she started choking me. I made little huffing sounds with my mouth after I gave up trying to scream. This slowly let my arm move before I jolted awake feeling like I had just died.... NEVER AGAIN I'm making that hiss sound from here on out!!!!
Just say “Jesus, help me” it goes away immediately.
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BonkTM , just say “Jesus help me”. This works and maybe you can consider Jesus to be your saviour. He is what He say He is.
BonkTM say "aooothibilliahi minishaydaniraajeem" and read ayatal kursi
Sleep paralysis is code not a nightmare
It all depends on the brain and it works when we praise the lord coz we feel we will be helped and it will be over. So I think it will work out too if we just calm our mind let the dream flow in the way we want. Like when I see a ghost trying to hurt me, then instead of struggling just calm and think this ghost will disappear or I am invisible and carry on the hallucination in the safest way possible untill its over
is it still sleep paralysis if someone elce in the room sees a spitit at the bottom of the bed
I just work up from having sleep paralysis. I’ve had it happen a couple times before so I knew what was going when I was happening I also suspected it might happen since I fell asleep on my back and that always triggers it for some reason. I also had some ice cream before bed so that might play a factor in it. Something kinda creepy happened while I was in that state but I kept my eyes closed so I didn’t see anything. The worse part was that since my nose is all stuffed up from my allergies I had been breathing through my mouth but now my mouth was closed and I couldn’t open it to take a breath so it felt like whatever was on top of me was choking me cuz I couldn’t breathe and that’s probably scarier than anything my mind could imagine up. But since I knew was happening I tried to remain calm and I slowly woke up and the first thing I did when I woke up was take a huge breath of air.
Just Chilin I can relate to this so much bro it’s the worst feeling
Just Chilin I experienced a sleep paralysis a few days back and it was really scary. I didn't see anything but it felt like a pillow against my face, suffocating me and someone touching me from behind like he was trying to have sex with me and the scariest part, I heard something like a demonic growling.
Summer that’s really creepy, I’m sorry
Just Chilin Thank you, I hope none of us goes through that again.
Okay look here´s the thing ... I totally agree with your explanation but there is one thing I just can not ignore. It happened last time I was having a SP. I woke up and couldn´t move as far as now usual business. I DID realize that it is just a paralysis and I tried to relax. I was aware of what was going on since I had some SP´s before and knew it was going to be over in a few seconds. So I tried to relax and started breathing in a very controlled manner. And THEN out of nothing I heard someone whispering into my left ear a "good bye" (in german language and female voice) and THAT scared the shit out of me. I tried to move but still couldn´t and my heartbeat went crazy. I could see a shadow walking away from my bed towards the door (the exit) and this shadowthing disappeared then. Thanks my eyes were mostly covered by my sheet so I just saw this shadows "legs". I swear to god I am not making this up. I really am serious.
That sounds super scary but still well within the realm of sleep paralysis. We can hallucinate through all the senses. In fact this whole reality is created by that capacity ;-)
Yeah it WAS scary, to be honest the most scariest thing I have experienced in my life so far. And I am a grown ass man of 25 years. lol.
Update: 3 or 4 nights ago I had a SP again. This time I realized very quickly that it is an SP, since I had done some research after my last very scary SP (during this research I came to view your video). As you are mentioning in this video, I started moving my fingers ( I also tried to move my toes but it was too difficult), but moving my fingers broke the SP. I had another SP just like a hour later and again I started moving my fingers and broke the SP successfully.
I hate getting this
he didn't mention that you should try to move your toes. its the easiest part of the body to move and instatly wakes you up. and drink a glass of water right away after awakening it helps so you won't return to that scary sleep again. whistling is a little hard to do during sleep paralysis, I even cannot move my mouth when i wanted to scream.
The last time this happened to me I was trying to induce an O.B.E. via a deep meditation, the same scene played out: I am consciously aware I'm in my bed but can't move, the usual shadow aspect appears; though after many experiences and through acceptance of this some years ago, I am ready for whatever it is. This time its a small person or child like figure though with a grotesque almost comically so emoji face. I have the instinct to instantly say "Ahh I love you; you are me and I am you" (with open arms and head rolled back as if ready for a hug) "come here then. I love you, I love you". We reintegrate instantly, the slight fear I have instantly disappears and I find myself in happily in a lucid dream.
As i understand it these are always shadow aspects of ourselves; parts of ourselves that we bury or deny and that those moments are a unique opportunity to accept those aspects. Through acceptance they loose their power and simply evaporate.
Posting my experience here in the hope it helps someone.
I would imagine praying is like making a request to your higher self to assist, so i can see why that would help too though that is if you want to wake up rather than use it for a spring board into lucid dreaming.
I should add that anybody can do this, you don't have to be super confident. What you may find is that your confidence is in fact boosted by overcoming these aspects 💪🏼
I once had sleep paralysis and I thought my coat was a person😂 and I was really mad when I found out it was just my coat cuz it freaked the shit out of me. I threw the coat in the bin when I woke up and i forever hate that coat! 😩😫
My eyes are always closed but I can hear
Charley, I am a lucid dreamer as well and I once feel asleep so superconsciously I could LITERALLY feel the Reticular Activation System shutting down my muscle system (which you normally don't have any awareness of). I also went into the lucid dream consciously (I went through a long colorful, vivid tunnel and at the end of it I could see the dream scene I was about to enter). As a matter of fact, the music in the background of the dream was actually the music playing from... my headphones!!! I also often happily tell my self once this particular BANG of realisation breaks through (you probably know what I'm talking about) that I'm actually in my bed ànd in the dreamworld simultaneously. Apparently, (hyper)gamma oscillations seems to work through in my dream in such a way parts of my brain re-activate. I love lucidity, it's an integral part of my holistic being. My thought patterns are obvious. I'm all lucid and eagerly waiting for your next book.
sounds like your making great progress man! :-)
Thanks. I'm a man who speaks of practice, sometimes lucid dreaming takes setting fervent intentions, otherwise it won't happen. Lucidity is also a lifestyle, you can often recognize lucid people by the way they walk in life and the things they talk about aren't average at all. Time is an illusion when you're lucid (breakthrough). With my rhetorical abilities I could give lectures all over the world right now and maybe one day I will. I'm training more practice at the moment. I'm on my way.💪💟
I’ve never really found someone who can actually describe this but the first time I had sleep paralysis was as a child. I at first thought it was a dream, I didn’t see anything so I didn’t worry. I just couldn’t move and I would feel so much weight over my body it’s unexplainable but I would just lie there unable to love feeling the weight of a car running me over. Thank God it wasn’t something scary I hadn’t had it for years now. I stopped sleeping on my back which helps
Hello Charlie, thank you for making the video and for expressing your views. Believe me, when I say, that I was so raised believing in science and have always believed in gladly. Before I'd think otherwise, I'd always try to explore a scientific explanation behind it. Actually, had always been convinced thoroughly with science and it always proved 100% satisfactory . However, for past three years, I have had these Sleep Paralysis attacks. I didn't know what was wrong and wasn't even aware that the term actually is known in the world and exists. I had to google it over time and realized , I aint the only victim to it. I never believed in ghosts etc but have been prone to the dead ones since I was 15-16. I mean, had experiences that they can come to contact me quite easily in my dreams (unlike others, family members, friends etc). To me, in my dreams , it's known that they are dead and were part of the family (relatives) but they come into dreams , on and off communicate with me what they want to or send me a message or just show their presence. Now back to the sleeping paralysis episodes, well, I had to discuss with my partner one morning as I had this attack (again). It was so serious and I felt being grabbed from back on my chests by someone. My Partner was laying next to me, I was conscious that I am laying on bed and my partner is sleeping next to me (not sure if my eyes were open, though). I wanted to grab his hand, wanted to shout for his name, so that he is awake but couldn't do as had no power. I kept on repeating his name with no efforts ( i.e. he did n't hear any) . Then I decided to struggle back with this "strange force" and asked him/her, who s/he was (in german, I live in Germany ). I was really replied with a word ( actually a name) i.e. a name of a dead distant relative who died when I was 16 . I have never thought about this dead relative, never talked about her, still. I was so afraid and had shouted finally something that made my partner awoke. He asked, what was wrong. I said, bad dream. At Morning, I discussed with him. On and off, I have these sleeping paralysis attacks and I hate always when I know, my partner sleeps next to me still I could not approach him. The last attack was so hard that this force (in presence of some soul) grabbed me and wanted me to put down from my bed , I struggled back and fought back , finally to be able to get out of this and found me breathing so hard. I discussed with my partner, he also believed in science (actually we both do) but now have to think otherwise, too. These are just my views, experiences and have decided to share. Hope I am not getting anyone hurt who thinks otherwise. Thank you for going through. If you too have had the same, you can share, if you like. PS: Lately, I realize, to be calm and try to get with flow...............Just leaving it realizing that its sleeping paralysis and this process helps a bit. PPS: I don't have any sleeping deprivations as I sleep 8 hours everyday.
Brilliant Charlie! More info needs to be made available about this fairly common sleep phenomenon. Too many people quickly jump to the old superstitious explanations like "Old Hag" syndrome or Incubus/ Sucubus attacks when, as you've pointed out here, it's really quite easily explained and can actually be used as a gateway into a lucid dream (or "super lucid dream" as I call it, with a clarity and realness unlike any other!). I wish there had been more knowledge of this when i was a kid, I'd wake up during the night, unable to move and see my sister's clothes float around the room! My mum said it was only a dream but I knew different, I knew I'd been awake. It's actually inspired me to write a kid's storybook about this very topic to make sure parents know how to help kids who experience it, coming soon :)
Yeah exactly. Thanks for the support Stewart! Feel free to share this on your FB group page too?
Will do, I'm sure i originally saw it in the FB group but I'll share it again. You should join the group and post your videos, news etc, I'm sure everybody would be more than happy to see you there :) My lucid dreaming storybook The Cupboard Of Fear came out last month and I'd like to send you a promo copy, it would be great to hear your feedback on it. I'll send you an e-mail shortly. Take care :)
mate this is a great explanation also thanks for making your voice clear so that i can copy the transcript and use it for my school. cheers!
Literally just woke up from a hallucination in my room. I went with it a little more but still had to eventually bail, as its a frightening sensation. I roll my eyes right back and keep them there to eventually awaken. Interesting to know recreational drugs also cause it, as i thought only stress. Nice video mate. Thank you!
You forgot to mention that this is part of narcolepsy as well. It's one of our main symptoms
That happend to me 2 times.
The first time was so scary and it happend IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!! I was like 6-7 years old, and cried, im still glad my mom came and woke me up.(scary halucination for a child, i thought i was gonna die)
The second time, was ok, nothing happend, just black. I was 9, and woke up as usual by the alarm. I figure out i was awake the whole time, but didnt notice i couldn't move at that time.
The first one still scares me thinking about it, getting an ugly feeling under my foot.GUH
It is terrifying! I don't think I'll be able to make that sound to wake up from sleep paralysis, but I reciting one verse (from my holy book) repeatedly until the thing vanishes...eventually it helps me wake up.
when i was younger i cry myself too sleep bc i was always afraid to wake up the next day. i often had hallucinations of a faceless old lady on the end of my bed luckily i learned about the existence of sleep paralysis
I know when I am going to get SP while I'm fully awake. It starts with short bursts of electrical like white noise intermittently. I can be walking around and have this noise so when I go to bed I know it's going to happen. I've had this for most of my life and had hundreds of episodes. It always happens on going to sleep for me and usually but not all the time when I've had a short nap earlier in the day and yes sometimes if I am laying on my back. Sometimes I will stay awake longer until the noise stops and then I will be ok but sometimes I'm just so tired I risk falling asleep. I usually dream and hallucinate to start with, sometimes I feel there is someone in my room, sometimes someone touching my foot and sometimes just a presence because I have never seen someone in my room. Sometimes it lights flickering that aren't actually on or someone at my front door, banging noises, hearing voices, always an unpleasant experience. Then at some stage during the dream I wake up and I can't move, the noise I heard earlier is now deafening, unbearable and constant. I have tried to relax and go with it but it just gets louder, it feels like electricity, energy, like my head is going to explode and I can't stay with it. So to wake myself up out of it I start shouting, I can't move my mouth but my vocal chords work so I just try make words as best as I can. I usually yell out "help" or I call out to my husband and he wakes me up by shaking my arm. If I don't consciously let myself wake fully by getting out of bed for a while I will just keep falling back into it multiple times. It's very draining and some episodes are worse than others. Last night I couldnt wake myself up as my husband was away and it was horrible, my jaw started spasaming like it was moving without me controlling it was frightening. My son whose bedroom is at the other end of our hallway heard me and came and woke me up, I can yell quite loud but that is sometimes not enough to wake myself up. Last night after I woke up from it my head felt like it had been standing in front of a large speaker at a concert venue, heavy, buzzing and ringing and I felt a bit out of whack. it took a while for it to go back to normal.
Why is there not a lot of scientific research done on this? It's obviously quite common and ranging from some people only having a few episodes or people like me who have had to deal with it a lifetime. I don't believe there are entities involved, it's obviously a problem with hardwiring in the brain.
thanks for sharing!
Christina! I have only just learnt today that what I get is sleep paralysis. I've been getting it for years though by the sound of things not quite as regularly as you, anyway, I just read your history and as soon as I read the bit where you mention the feeling of someone at your door, it sent such a chill down my back as that is one of the feelings I often get, scary as hell! I wake myself by trying to shout, it takes a while and has always been frightening but I then wake up feeling very cold and frightened.
I'm so curious now and wonder if knowing what is happening will decrease the fear, will I be aware that I am experiencing sleep paralysis?
Thanks for sharing, I no longer feel alone :)
Not true. I had a recent sleep paralysis episode and it was during a stressful time in my life. I had started a new job, and lost 2 people in my life my niece to a car accident and my nephew committed suicide. I was staying up pretty late at night and at about 3 am or so I think that I fall asleep. During about 4 am or so I think that I wake up and in the corner of my bedroom there was my nephew with some dark figure with him and he was in a vehicle with the window down. He comes towards me with a weapon trying to hit me and there is a flashing blue light and he is saying to me in my ear, I could hear his voice plain as day saying " It's me." Before he could come after me, I wake up completely and I am left dumbfounded, thinking did that just happen? No one will ever believe me.
I just recently started experiencing this a week or two ago, i guess with the late nights doing homework finally catching up to me, first night it was my sister screaming at me behind my bedroom door at our old house and as i woke up i still saw the positioning of my old room but at night and my sister still screaming. It took me a good ten minutes to realize that something was off and i just fell back asleep. The second and most recent, i was dreaming i was sitting on the floor and a spider started crawling near me so i went to smash it, but missed and it climb up the wall to the shades on the window, so i tried hitting it off and it landed on me and i could feel it crawling on me, and of course that's when i wake up, still feeling the spider crawling on me and flipping shit without being able to smack it off. I then realized it was remnants of my dream and again fell asleep to later wake up. Both times I experienced it my dreams had blended into my reality but, i had the feeling that something else was there, just out of sight. It didn't scare me Per se, but I definitely didn't wanna find out what the hell that shit was.
I think it's very important not to freak out because you might even have a heart attack from the fear
i was sleeping and all of a sudden i wake up and i felt like my soul was moving away and i couldnt breathe i hope it doesnt happen again
So I had a chance to try your trick a few times and I have to say, it doesn't work much for me. Hoever, I found that by far the worst sleep paralysis is the first one. Especially if you don't yet know that there is such a thing as a sleep paralysis. So your brain doesn't know what's going on, it starts panicking like crazy and all the horrible nightmares start to be projected. But nowadays I always immediatelly realize what's going on and there is no panic or horrible images. The sensation itself of being paralyzed is still extremely unpleasant but it's no longer a horrifying nightmare. So I usually just stay calm and wait a while until I wake up.
I just had an episode of sleep paralysis no more than an hour ago. That's why I'm here. I didn't hallucinate, at least not visually, because I keep my eyes closed when it hits. But I did hear and feel things. It felt like someone was crushing my feet in a vice, and sounded like some kind of radio static. When I tried to move my fingers, the sounds and feelings intensified and there was a tremendous pressure on my back (I was sleeping on my stomach). I have had at least a hundred episodes before, and the hallucinations were horrific (Once I saw what seemed to be a planet-sized mass of grey and black flesh and feelers with an insane amount of soul-piercing red eyes, floating five feet above me and mocking my insignificant existence). That's why I keep my eyes closed. I don't believe in ghosts. And while I personally think extraterrestrial life does exist, I think that most abduction conspiracies are bogus. So I one hundred percent agree with your theory.
Thanks for sharing man :-)
yeah this is what im doing. i enjoy lucid dreaming like, im the one managing whos going to be involved in my dreaming and what will happened, and when im done, i try to focus on breathing , and every after, 5seconds or more, i try to burst my muscle so that i can get off being paralyzed.
I had it on holiday a couple of years ago, I was sleeping on my belly and I felt something press down hard on an area of my lower back and heard a noise that is mainly associated with ghosts, like a long whisper roar.
Great explanation, Charlie! For me, the only scary and absolutely fascinating thing about sleep paralysis is realizing how brain is one hell of a crazy machine that tries to make sense of everything. Man, it's batshit scary but it's a perfect opportunity to just detach emotionally from fear and observe what kind of crazy connections brain is capable of making in this state. Since you know what you're taking about, I'll take advantage to ask one question. :-) A lot of people, me included, experience painful and incredibly loud vibrations in their head or even whole bodies, which we all know are very common right before the onset of OBEs. I have tried and tried to understand the pain could come from but I'm totally out of ideas. I'm pretty sure it's just another hallucination but can't bring myself to understand where it originates from and what feeds it. Sometimes I think that the brain creates the illusion of pain out of the feeling of extreme pressure but then again, I never really get this feeling of pressure myself when caught in paralysis. For me, it's just loud, it's excruciatingly painful vibrations where it feels like my head could be blown to pieces any moment. I'm not scared of it... just deeply intrigued what mechanism causes it. I'm out of ideas.
yup, it is super scary but again all the advice i can offer is in the video really :-)
This is probably the best explanation of SP I have ever heard. Thanks for being ‘real’ and rational.
What I do wonder is why a lot of people "see" the same things while experiencing that psychotic hallucination that you mention. I mean, I've read a lot about SP since I've started experiencing it, and while I might understand the "old hag" appearing due to maybe dreaming about your mom or something (I was dreaming about acquiring a dog when I had SP and saw her for the first time, which contradicts this explanation of yours since I wasn't dreaming about any women, but rather dogs in a dog shelter, weird connection to make there, brain…), I don't understand some others, like the shadow man, or the man with the top hat, or the little kid.
These imageries come up again and again in SP stories, and at least I can tell you that I wasn't dreaming about things related to "shadow people" when I woke up to experience SP, or any kids when I first saw the shadow kid standing next to my bed, and I’m usually not scared of kids, I actually rather like them, so again, weird thing for my brain to be scared of.
That’s the only thing for which I can’t find a good, satisfying explanation. Do you have any more information about that? Thanks! And thanks for the awesome video with the explanation :)
Great question. My research revealed that there were loads of similar hallucinations reported BUT that they were all culturally specific. In Japan there was a certain figure reported and in Victorian England another and in the southern states of the US in the 1950's it was always aliens. Why? The shared cultural fears of the time. OR maybe certain demons only hang out in certain countries ;-)
KarBTT I thought I was the only one that saw the man wearing a top hat!!! I’m from South Africa btw so culturally I don’t know what that means.
Hi, yes I have had multiple experiences with sleep paralysis and it usually appears that there is some sort of bad entity present in front of my face. I have now learned that if I want to escape it I have to surrender to it. I did not know that I could experience Lucid Dreaming this way too, so I will try to do this next time. Thanks
Super interesting...I've done the same thing
Ive had this off and on since teen yrs. Never had any hallucinations, just woke up not able to move. How i learned to break out of it was to hold my breath. When i hold my breath by reflex i will then gasp for air. This breaks u out of it. After that i make sure to reposition myself in bed. I turn over to sleep on my side. I find i go into sleep paralysis if im lying on my back. Also move your legs and arms around to reset yourself.i never go back into an episode of paralysis after doing this. Hope this helps!!
I had these since I was a kid. They are a wonderful way to tap into my subconscious.
Having this for long time now, it seems to be normal among meditators. Dont open eyes and know you are dreaming and wake yourself up somehow. After a few times i learned how to do it. Keep eyes closed
I've had sleep paralysis a couple times, but it's never been spiritual or "scary". Idk if it's common to have hallucinations but I've never had hallucination. I can usually just see my room and I feel myself trying to move but nothing happens.
I guess I've been suffering from Sleep Paralysis for a year: It often happens whenever I'm having a weird and irregular sleep schedule.
Basically I just can't fall asleep and that really annoys me; all of a sudden, I notice I just can't move anymore, no matter how hard I try, I can only open my eyes. I usually sleep on my back and that seems to make the paralysis tougher to break up. By the way, I luckily never experienced any hallucination, although I recall hearing my own thoughts once, but It never happened again.
The only way I found to free myself from that state is to slowly try to move my fingers and my head until I gain complete control over my body. After that I usually try to distract myself for a few minutes, for example I go take a drink or check my phone, until I feel like going to bed again.
I am still not 100% sure I suffered from Sleep Paralysis, since it's described as a way more terrifying experience by people, but I can honestly say that what I experienced so far is already terrifying enough: having a regular sleep schedule has since extremely lowered the intances, so I pretty much stopped worrying about it, thanks for the video, sir!
Glad it helped!
When I was a kid I used to see an elderly couple in way doorway and it scared the crap out of me, I guess now I know why that happens.
There's a pattern between regular sleep and sleep paralysis if you find it not being the same wake up before you go to sleep chill for a bit then go back to sleep your going to be dead tired but if you go to sleep you'll have that experience or you can take it a bit further relax your body let it happen don't be scared track your heart beat to accelerate then go out of your forehead is astral projection now this is different you can move around and be fully conscious be aware those things
You see in your paralysis sessions can be there but you can fight back and move your furniture if you push them keep in mind your body is asleep
I've only had about two or three experiences with sleep paralysis. I've tried to wake myself up and all that. Usually doesn't work. So my only option is to explore this creepy experience. There was one time I even brought my friend I was staying with one night to the paralysis or dream if you want to call it. I brought him to a haunted hotel. I had a conversation with him asking how we're going to wake up or get out this crazy dream. We gave up on the options we thought of cause we both felt it was pointless, so we just explored a haunted hotel with ghosts following us. We kept trying to push them away but we all know that doesn't work that way haha. We just let them follow us. We somehow had a room in the hospital that looked just like my buddies room I was at, so we just decided to go to sleep in a dream. I felt like that would wake me up so I tried it and it worked. Craziest thing I've ever experienced
I've had it several times. at various levels of intensity. Never pleasant...
Constant points were feeling pressure, like something is pressing me down, being unable to move and a Very Strong feeling you're not alone. A malignant presence, sometimes you can almost feel like it hates you.
Sometimes there were hallucinations. More often than not I could also hear whispers, nothing intelligible, like a jumble of words on top of one another, more like airflow. very loud airflow.
Once I tried mocking that pressure holding me down. and I swear it got more intense immediately, like it suddenly wanted to break my spine, like it was angry ...
I don't believe in the supernatural, and I'm sure there is a perfectly logical explanation for these symptoms.
But the truth is it still scares the shit out of me. Scared enough not to want to go back to sleep. Scared enough to beg to wake up.
A horrible bloody experience.
My advice, avoid sleep deprivation and upsetting your sleep cycle. The prior in particular seems to be the usual cause for me.
ive had constant sleep paralysis when i take a nap but ive never managed to get my eyes to stay open nor experienced any hallucinations. However, the trink to waking up works perfectly
trust me...u don't want the hallucinations
I suffered from SP all my life but it comes and goes....I'm pretty sure it happened a few times when I was young but I didn't what it was and due to my life when I was a child (which was a lot more happy and stress free) I think I hardly noticed it. However when I was about pre-teen or maybe 14-15 I think it happened a bit more cause I came back to my home country (UK) and the school I went to had so many bullies and the stress and depression was so heavy. There is certainly a pattern to them none the less...all my dreams and nightmares are very vivid but obviously when going into SP they feel more...awake and I experience pretty much exactly this.
thanks for sharing!
I felt the pressure on my back and ears like a wave going back and forth. Did anyone experience the same or is it just me ?, and yeah every time the 'wave' gets close to my back my back automatically goes front on its own. I experienced it today
Just brilliant! Just brilliant. I’m just so intrigued by the brain. THANK YOU FOR THIS BRILLIANT EXPLANATION. 👏👏👏👏
Thank so much :-)
great work..finally understood the concept
thanks!
Im 16, and haven't been able to sleep peacefully for a couple days. I have been having these dreams that keep me from going to sleep. They're not always scary dreams, but some feel like im sleep but trying to wake myself up. I dont usually see anything that frightens me...but if i do i usually wake up pretty quickly. I just recently had one, to where it felt like i was trying to force myself up. I was on my side, and my eyes were opening and closing, my head felt heavier, and i started to crawl out of my bed, then stumbling and falling to the ground. And as all this was happening i could hear myself screaming for my mom, and actually heard a response from her, which scared the shit out of me at the time, because that made me think i was actually awake. Im not sure if it has anything to do with sleep paralysis, maybe its just stress or something...but it happens way too much, and i dont know how to prevent it.
I had this at around 4am today, I was having a nightmare and I woke up but unable to move,I was totally freaked out and struggled alot to get up from bed was unable.. finally after I gave up and slept again I woke up in morning
I had two simultaneous episodes last night, and aside from feeling paralyzed, it also felt like several 'things' were at my bedside. I swear that I even felt something very light jump onto the bed. I was too scared to turn around because the tv was on, and I didn't want to see whatever it was that my brain was actively imagining. It felt like I was calling out for my wife for what felt like hours, and my entire body was painfully tingling when I tried to move. I managed to wake my body up by moving my extremities, and essentially, fought my way out of my own body. It happened again a few minutes later, and I repeated the process. I wouldn't mind seeing an alternate life form, but damn; send me an email or an invitation to my calendar. Don't paralyze and scare the shit out of me. Ruins the rest of my night!