5 NIGHTMARISH Facts About The Sleep Paralysis Hag...
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- As humans, we all share some experiences, no matter what part of the world we live in, and no matter what our culture may be. We share them because we are human; some are obvious... We are all born, we all gather sustenance in some way, we all sleep, we all dream, we all love and hate, and we all die, these are things we understand. However, there are other experiences we share that are not so easily understood, such as dreams, sleep paralysis and The Old Hag, and the latter is what we will look at in this video.
The Old Hag occurs everywhere in every human culture. It is sometimes called an “experience”, sometimes a “phenomenon” But it is sometimes, in fact often, called an “attack”, and for good reason, because it is often utterly terrifying. So What is it? Let's take a look. Hit the lights, sit back, enjoy, and don’t let yourself doze off. Something may be waiting...
00:00 Introduction
01:06 What is the “Old Hag”?
03:46 How Widespread is the Experience?
04:37 What Causes it?
06:07 The Subjective Experience
07:45 Is the Experience “Real”?
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A run down of the sleep paralysis 'hag'. Would you like to hear some real life horror stories about the hag?
yes please. can i send you photos of my mother in law?
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One Halloween in 1966 . My Mum was called next door as one of the girls hurt them self with a cut , so my Mum went to help out . Then my brother got up to go to the the toilet and we seen a black cat sitting on the old toilet system as we thought it was next door neighbours cat as they had a black cat . Then the cat looked at me and my brother and jumped off the toilet system and glided through the window which was closed . So we both went back to bed & thought nothing of it . During the night i woke up from a dream of witches going round on 2 Carousels then only being 6 i never knew what a witch was . Since that night i have seen ghosts good ones felt the presence of them as well . But for the evil presence i get out of there where ever it is as i had a close call down the pit in 1978 when i seen a white fog coming towards me at the back as i never looked around me but what ever it was it was bad . The next night i was called in as one of the coal faces had a fire which wasn't showing up on my screen which i told the enquiry when i left to go down the pit i was told that a person lost his head in that area of the pit behind me and even deputies had seen it and had to retire from ill health .
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A lady has been my sleep paralysis thing.
When my mental health started to get bad I had dreams/sleep paralysis of a lady all in black at my bedroom door.
As it got worse she got closer until one day she was on top of me. That marked the worst time for me.
It was horrifying. The dream when she was on top of me was horrifying. Nothing has scared me more.
I use to have it all the time, when I was really unhealthy obese late sleeper and used lots of alcohol. I gave up on all that about 10 years ago, lost like 100 pound and healthy. It has not happen for almost 8 to 10 years now. I’m from Sri Lanka
May you continue to have peace of mind. And sleep well.
So you had to give up on the curry? Don’t think I could do that mate. More power to you.
Sleep depravation weakens the veil to the supernatural .
I used to have sleep paralysis after sleeping for a good 10 hours a day.
I have it more often than others. And I get full on Old Hag Syndrome. BUT BECAUSE it's happened SO MANY times, now once I wake up paralyzed, I might panic for a couple of seconds, but I get to a point where I can just tell myself, "It's JUST sleep paralysis, if you fall back asleep, it'll go away." And then I shut my eyes and drift off back to sleep, more often than not. Sometimes , I panic and have to wiggle a body part like a finger or toe to wake up but it takes SO MUCH EFFORT. The only way I can think to describe it, is it's like trying to run underwater or throw a punch swimming in a pool full of jello. I have often wondered if I could bring it on voluntarily in order to study it, lol. Maybe I'll try some things mentioned in this video. My episodes usually come randomly, or when I'm stressed out, last for up to a few minutes, and while I often sense a presence or figure in the room with me and feel weight on my body holding me down, I have yet to SEE anyone, but I'm putting in my brain NOW that if I ever do see someone, to ask them a few questions if I'm able lol, or to try telling the figure "Look, I know this is just sleep paralysis, and I've got an early day tomorrow, so if you could let me get back to sleep now that would be great." Let's see if it works.
Do you get the sound paralysis also? I get banging on the door. Or any creatures in your bed?
@leightzmill I have 3 cats lol, they sleep w me and any noise or feeling like pressure on me other than the feeling of being pinned down, I just always figured is them laying with me or getting into something lol.
One of the honest to God, the scariest dreams I've EVER had, wasn't even sleep paralysis as far as I know. I fell asleep super deep super suddenly, and in my dream, I was sitting in my car in the driveway at night, and someone started banging on my window, demanding I open it. I could hear the banging on my window and could feel my car rocking as he tried to get in. I woke up so frantic when I jolted awake, I scared my cat, and he jumped about 3 ft in the air before landing on the floor across the room. He looked like a piece of popcorn popping, lol.
@@allisonhunter1063 i know what you mean by the dreams. Its rare these days that i have those deep power dreams. The sound thing is like your dream, you hear it like it's real. There's no image or dream though, just the banging or what ever it is on that occasion. Like you said in your original comment, you get used to it, but now and then it'll spook you.
I find falling asleep on my back rather than my side or front, will most likely trigger SP
Ooh, horrid. Think I've had that. What you do sounds a bit like what the lucid dreamers do, where they find a way to wake up in the dream, and are able to use their conscious mind to decide what happens next.
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My last sleep paralysis I was SCANNED.
I perceived a bar of energy and SOUND that stretched from head to toe as I laid on my back and passed from my upper left swooping down to my left then CRASHING into my body causing every muscle to tense up as it slowly passed through me from left to right.
I couldn't even breathe as the energy passed through from left to right.
The instant it exited from my right the energy and sound swooped up to my upper right, (I knew it was coming for a second pass. That was the horror) passed OVER my whole body 2 feet above me to my left then started to swoop down for a SECOND pass through CRASHING into me and slowly going through my body exiting my right.
This was my last sleep paralysis.
The initial horror was a feeling like I was about to die.
The terror was knowing that this energy was going to pass through my body and pass through me a SECOND time as I was scanned.
The sound, I've only found one example that comes remotely close.
The intro sound to NIN - A Warm Place
The energy sound outside of my body was a mid octave
"eeeeeeeeeeee"
But when it crashed THROUGH me it turned to a deep toned
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"
About 7000 years ago, when I was 4 or 5, I remember seeing an old hag looking in my bedroom window late at night. I even apparently screamed a few times for my parents, but of course there was no one there. But, I still recall her face clearly. This happened over a period of a year or so, I guess. We moved out of state and I not only never saw her again, I hadn't thought of the occurrences for years. I thought it was just dreams, but now I wonder... And, I recall feeling like I couldn't move!
7000 years ago??
You must have been quite rich to have a Neolithic window. What’s your secret? I can’t haul my sorry carcass to the gym!
@@AllisonChains64 Ok, perhaps a slight exaggeration.
My great grandmother, who is aboriginal, said to deal with a hag, you need to walk in your bedroom backwards. When you do this the hag won't follow as the hag won't face you , so she's not as tough as people think. Now I'm not sure this will work as I've never seen one tg. So good luck and I hope it works.
Oh, she's not. I don't think she's harmful. But just being there is intimidating. I scream her away by pure anger. For some reason, she makes me angry. Even though I think she's looking after me. As for her looks, imagine what a 150 year old granny would look. Her appearance always dark. Her colours black, brown, gray. Long gray hair, witch like face with a huge nose. Typical of how old school witches are represented.
Watching this video makes me happy to be a side sleeper.
I experienced this for the first time in my life last year. I was sleeping on my side facing the window, and standing in the corner of my room was a black shroud, like a tall lady wearing a headscarf and gown. She was whispering a language I didn't understand in my ear. I was terrified, I don't remember waking from it with a jolt, I think I fell back to sleep and woke up later whilst it was still dark resuming my terror.
Around my sleep paralysis experiences, I've encountered several different entities. Last august, I've sketched the one that made me not able to sleep at night for many months.
Thankful I’ve never seen her !
I used to experience the “entity” presence on a semi-regular basis where it would start with me feeling someone beside me in the bed, then seeing the covers move as it drew closer. It terrified me. Then I started recognizing that I was asleep, becoming a lucid dream where I’m all-powererful and able to cast it out. That continues to happen and when I wake up I feel absolutely exhilarated and kind of tingly.
My sleep paralysis experiences were very mild. I would often be frozen but I had no fear and would force myself out of it. The most I had was when I heard a little girl say hello, and I still had no fear but in my mind I would taunt the voice.
For the most part fear of sleep paralysis comes from misunderstanding and superstition
Thank you for the update, Top5s..!! Yup, the sleep paralysis events do occur. Quite scary to experience them though. 🥶
Survivorman Les Stroud recently uploaded a commentary video about his episode in Grenada where he talks about an experience he had like this while trying to sleep on the foundation of an old abandoned hut.
I've experienced sleep paralysis, except i felt like darkness was consuming me. I've never seen a hag and probably hope not to 😂
Last year I was having sleep paralysis every day for a week straight. I would attempt to yell for help. Never worked. Eventually my daughter's cat would jump on me and end the paralysis. One day my aunt told me about the shadow man she saw in her dream. We saw the same thing on the same night in different locations. I'm in Texas and she's in California. It was absolutely terrifying.
I only experienced sleep paralysis once, about 10-15 years ago. It only lasted a couple of seconds, but after I had realized I was awake and still couldn't move, I saw a person stepping into my field of view, holding a big ass knife. Then I awoke, still in the same position than before... It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life and I can only cope with it, because it only happened once. I don't know how a whole week of experiencing this every day would effect me.
My mom use to suffer from sleep paralysis like all the time, she use to make my sisters sleep with her for that reason. I started getting sleep paralysis in high school, and boy I’ll never forget the first time it happened to me. The first time I really did see a “hag” but to me it was perceived as a lady in a black veil standing over me. I got them so often in hidh school and while in the military. Got them so often I was able to “learn” to move my whole arm whenever I was “paralyzed”, but it never woke me up. Now I don’t mind them anymore. Kinda fun once you’re use to it yall.
the hag certainly loves to travel
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Absolutely suer top notch 🏆 video narration
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I’ve never seen her but when I get sleep paralysis, it feels like I’m in a room full of shadow people. I can see them running around me.
between you voice and the images of people in bed i cant help but feel sleepy as hell
My beautiful brothers and sisters, I've experienced sleep paralysis & seen a black figure. I always prayed to God Almighty and Jesus Christ & it would stop immediately because you have to believe & try not to sin. Of course we all do sin but please repent and believe in Jesus Christ & you're going to feel inner peace. It's a blessing to yourself.
Remember love they're not family members, they're dead & God takes the soul. It's demon deception. I love this channel for giving man's explains & tgen there's God's word. ❤
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Yeah, that's not true
@@SweetUniverse How do you know? I’m not religious m but you simply don’t know.
Given the overall theme of your channel and how most view it, you should probably place ads differently. The way they pop out at you is usually scarier than the stories.
I've had it since i was about 14, with memories of it even younger. I kept it to myself for years as i didn't know what it was. I was about 25 when i found out there was a thing referred to as sleep paralysis, by talking to the bar maid at my local. A few years ago i accidentally learned how to stop her entering my bedroom, but (i don't believe in the paranormal as such, but this part does creep me at times tbh) i can feel her standing outsode the bedroom, on the landing. I can't be physically woken up during it, as i can mistake you for the paralysis woman and "defend myself".
I also and still get regularly the sound paralysis, heavy banging on the door etc. And i get the metallic purple spider that sometimes likes to stand on my pillow. The spider is worse than the old hag as my partner hets disturbed by that one.
Good video on the subject.
I've never experienced a hag but I've had the spider thing. It was crawling up my wall and I couldn't move.
@@50ztej that's what i get, but it stands on the pillow. It's a stare off untill it lunges, that's when i can move again.
Unpleasant to wake up to ain't it lol
I’ve had sleep paralysis when I’m slept on my side but never experienced the old Hag thankfully. 🤞
When I was younger, I was fascinated by lucid dreaming and the possibility of astral projection. I used to try and induce sleep paralysis with the WILD (Wake induced lucid dream) method. I had my first experience and it was a little freaky, albeit not terrifying; as I felt in control to a degree. However, I definitely awoke something in my mind/body/world because a few months after my stint of trying to do these techniques, I was then plagued by sleep paralysis. Almost nightly for a while Id have it. It would then strike randomly and still to this day I'll probably have anywhere from one to four experiences a month. I've certainly had the old hag experience and it's super freaky. I've sort of gotten used to it, in the sense werebim not terrified, but its never a great time.
I saw her for 5-6 times throughout my life. First time I was between 3 and 4 years old. Latest was some 7 years ago. She never comes close to me. Always at a distance, looking at me from a doorway, peeking from behind a curtain or something similar. But she's always present through my SP episodes. Although she never harms me, I feel inexplicable anger towards her. But, I do believe she's a harbinger of bad things to come soon after her appearance. The feeling of experiencing something like that is unlike anything else.
Great video,i think all Sleep Paralysis Demons are a weird but truly creepy phenomenon but out of all of them i think the Hag and the Hatman are the creepiest ones out there 😱👻🛌💤
The Hat Man! I was thinking of this one too 😅
I had a man with a distorted face, almost like a ladies stocking pulled over, dressed in white. Ever heard or read something about that?
Never experienced her. Even if I did, like everything else that would wake a normal person, I probably slept throught it. 🤷♀️
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My one episode of sleep paralysis happened in my first trimester, a little more than 11 years ago. It was a wolf, running down a hill toward me. It jumped on my chest and growled in my face. I could smell it's breath, see the yellow drool oozing from its mouth... I had to force myself to sit up. I couldn't breathe during it, and I remember that my surroundings, the living room where I was sleeping, was coming back into view behind this wolf. I haven't had anything like that happen since and I'm immensely grateful.
You met Black Shuck!
thank you
Nice video. Can we have more? 😊
3:26 in Denmark it’s called a "mareridt" literally a "mare ride", because the mare, a supernatural creature, sits on your chest, riding you 😁
Thanks thats fascinating
This one was a strange experience. Way back in 2007, my wife, now ex, and I were driving back to Arizona from California after Thanksgiving. After about a 5 or 6 hour drive, we get home and it's about 1 or 2 in the morning. We get ready for bed, we finally get under the blankets to get some sleep. As I turned off the lights I rememeber looking the towards the bathroom that we had in our bedroom. And standing the doorway was a giant shadow of person, entity or whatever it was. I didn't make a big deal or gave it much thought or attention and simply closed my eyes to fall asleep. Here is where it gets strange. I woke up to my wife asking me to help her. I don't know how I heard her because she was whispering if you want to even call it that it so low. I shook her awake and she was in tears terrified. She begins to tell me that she felt this giant pressure in her chest. Like when someone sits on you and is holding you down. Whatever it was, she said it was whispering something to her and that's when she began "yelling" for me to help her. She was screaming as loud as she could but what I heard was her whispering. I saw the dark figure but it went after her for some reason. I don't speak of this very often because people always chalk it up to we were both dreaming but it happened. I didn't even tell her that I had seen a dark figure until 2 years later when we moved back to California.
It's the most frightening experience I deal with weekly. I've never seen any of the commonly talked about phenomenon. I see a child always in 1940s clothing with a very old style cap on his head. He doesn't look at me but i see him. Everytime im forced to blink, he appears closer without me ever seeing him actually walk and this happens about 3x until i close my eyes for the 4th time only to feel my pillow being pushed down over my face. I feel the bend of the pillow and pressure from above it being pushed down. Who could this lil dude be? Why 1920s to 1940s look? Why i have never seen his face or him move? Only happens as im forced to close my eyes from strain. He also has never spoke. My heart pounds every time and i believe this is it.. im gonna have a heart attack or suffocate and no matter how scared i get.. it doesn't wake me until the pillow is being pushed over my face and this lasts for what feels like 10-20 min because at first he doesn't move at all. I have to wait for it every time and it's still as scary. Lights are on for the rest of the night as i am.
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I’ve experienced sleep paralysis multiple times in the last year, it never used to happen before. I tried to avoid it once by sleeping on my front but it happened anyway. It felt like someone was pushing my head into my pillow with a lot of force and I could vividly see a shadowy figure whilst squeezing my eyes shut. The first time it happened, I heard my door shut and then it felt like I couldn’t breathe for about a minute.
Dammit, I've had a man get next to me from behind, squeeze his arms around me and speak what sounded like Latin ☹ I had to wriggle and tell "him" to FOFF. Its no joke, even though it might sound funny. It isn't.
I don't think "sleep paralysis" is capable of pulling your covers off.
Yip or having to fight it off. That sh*t ain't fun.
Edit: This story is very unbelievable but I don't care about that. I'm leaving this comment in hopes that someone else has shared the same exact experience.
I had never experienced any of the things -- that I've seen during sleep paralysis episodes -- physically touching me until about a week ago. It was an older woman and she held me down by placing both hands on my chest, with her knee in my stomach, and every single bit of it felt real. It was painful and I couldn't breathe due to the force/weight on my chest, and it seemed to last for quite awhile. Then, it suddenly felt as if I'd passed out/blacked out and came to shortly afterward. She was nowhere in sight and I was finally able to sit all the way up. Oddly enough, I was still in pain as if someone had actually done those things. It bothers me that I can't explain this sh*t away like I typically do because my abdomen is still tender several days later, exactly where her knee had been, and I can't come up with a solid explanation for it.
I've had many, MANY sleep paralysis episodes over the years and have had "sleep people" get pretty close to me but NEVER had I ever been touched, nor had I ever thought they were at all real. I'd never been able to make out that much detail before either, like I was able to do this time, i.e. the face, the hair, even the teeth. I'm still struggling with it mentally because it just doesn't feel right; Something was way too different. I know the brain is capable of some pretty incredible things but fabricating THAT level of reality? I understand how and why such episodes happen and that I was theoretically going from a dream/sleep state to a waking state but I was awake enough -- during the time she was holding me down -- that I was able to squirm around and was beginning to sit up and therefore much closer to consciousness than I usually would be when experiencing sleep paralysis.
I'm definitely not saying that I had some sort of encounter with an actual entity or that any of that was REAL-real, but I've still not been able to convince myself that it WASN'T real. I've spent the last few days worrying that I'd have the same type of episode again, but part of me honestly wants it to happen again so I can either "confirm" it or debunk it entirely; I know it occured, I just want to know what "it" was, if that makes sense.
I typed this before watching the video. I just now heard him mention the pressure on the chest, etc, but this was so far beyond that.
Do/ have you ever been in an old building of sort and wondered why spots were cold and other spots were COLDER? Have you ever heard whispers and wondered who made an echo in the room but no one was there? You have had horrible experiences and to share is brave of you. Our world that we live in is filled with demons of many sorts. Put your trust in God/Jesus Christ and they will leave you alone and let you get rest. I've learned to do this and not just for me but for my family as well. I've been haunted before but towards the end. . .I was close to being killed. I learned how to accept my "gift" and that is when I learned how to listen. . plus I can see them as well. I thought it was fluke but it turns out I have family members that have what I have only mine is stronger than theirs. Be Brave and Share. . .Others might be able to be more helpful, just know that you are NOT ALONE.
Suffered from it many years ago. Never once had anything scary happen other than not being able to move whilst you're technically awake.
It’s really not that difficult to find a way to mitigate this - if you’re fearful of what you can’t control when having this happen - put something on your bed and place it between you and the void of your room. Something that gives you pleasant feelings. This can help to curb the feeling of not being in control. If you only focus on the negative aspects you will find it more difficult to move beyond.
Nothing happened during my sleep paralysis. That kind of stuff fully wakes me my brain doesent dream anymore
I had the absolute worst sleep paralysis last week so this is right on time
Most of my sleep paralysis episodes have involved just a dark figure, usually coming from the corner of whatever room I am in…but I do remember an old lady in one of my episodes once.
I used to suffer from sleep paralysis at least 3 times a week. The Hag was always the scariest and most sinister as it always happened in stages and got worse throughout the night. For the first 10 years I suffered from it I didn't know it was an actual thing and thought there was just something wrong with me
Sleep and deprivation and tiredness are the main reasons for SP. Don't get scared just observe and keep in mind that you can move in a minute or less and go back to sleep happily. I had 100's of sleep paralysis experiences.
she had yellow eyes last time i saw her and levitated over me
I saw her last night, she tried to kill me 😢
Anytime I’ve had sleep paralysis in my life it’s always been when I’ve been under tremendous stress or just went thru trauma. Even knowing it’s just a chemical/biological reaction it’s terrifying to go thru and the uneasy fear stays with you for days
I'm 35 and suffered from night terrors since I was a child, but in my late 20s and onwards I enjoy having sleep paralysis cause I got to a point that if I let it go long enough I am able to sink into it and lucid dream and its honestly the coolest thing ever. But once i was able to control going into lucid dreams my sleep paralysis are now so few and in between it kind of sucks not having them as much as i use too.
I've never seen this particular entity, but the one single time I had sleep paralysis I saw the "guy" in the wide brimmed hat, aka the hatman. That was utterly terrifying and confusing. What's interesting is that I had that experience before I even knew that this pitch black hat wearing presence was a phenomenon that actually happens to other people. It's downright insane how other people see the exact same thing - without even having explored the topic beforehand, or at the very least have no prior knowledge of this entity at all.
Glad that only happened that single time. That thing can F off back to whatever dark abyss he came from.
I have sleep paralysis almost every morning. Nothing happens, i just cannot move but i am awake. But one night i woke up to a hooded looming figure speaking in a language i am unfamiliar with right in my left ear. It was a voice similar to Smaug in Lotr. I could do nothing but lie there and wait for it to stop. Truly terrifying
It’s real. I seen her in a long dress and fixing her bun in my bathroom mirror. I tried to speak and couldn’t. She turned, looked at me and I finally could shake my head and when I looked back, she was gone.
I never experienced sleep paralysis, but I know it could be scary..
Thanks for the creepy content, Top5s..💖
This happened to me last night. I remember thinking of looking a witch, she flew at me so fast, in my face like I had offended her. I couldn't move breath or scream out. I screamed for Jesus over and over in my head. Then she was gone. So bizarre and terrifying
Yeash . . .Too Close to Home. . .talk about trigger a horrid memory. The Hag definitely did do something to me. . I remember not being able to breathe. .but when I woke up I couldn't move. .some thing was sitting on my chest and it hurt because I also felt LONG SKINNY fingers around my neck . . .Long story short. .. I really thought it was a nightmare until I was at work and one of my colleges told me that I have marks on the back of neck to which I put my hair back down instead of up. I was later asked if my relationship was alright; it's fine. . .but there is something with our appartment.
I had a bout of weekly sleep paralysis for a few months before it disappeared. Was some of the most terrifying things. Even though you kind of know what is going on, the mind still has a way of playing tricks on you.
a week ago, i had sleep paralysis but this time, i saw a dark entity on top of my son. i silent screamed to the dark entity to leave him alone. i had sleep paralysis since childhood but never hallucinated dark entity. to this day, it terrifies me.
I have had sleep paralysis episodes where I wake with finger marks and bruises on my arms and shoulders. Been happening since I was around 5. Same "shadow figure" every time. I am now 51 and experience sleep paralysis to this day.
Used to happen to me a lot when i was younger. Happens a lot less now, usually when I'm extremely tired and haven't slept properly. It happens less when I sleep on my front and always stops when I call on Jesus.
I've had sleep paralysis since childhood, it's a little different from what I've heard others explain. I feel a pressure on my back rather than chest, but I'm a stomach sleeper. Usually happens when I'm trying to "get out" of a bad dream, I've never seen anything or "felt" anything was in the room - but it's a freaky, unpleasant experience 😕
I invited the hag by accident, I was watching CZcams some years ago on sleep and dream interpretation. I stumbled across a sleep paralysis video. Then there after I was tormented for weeks and I was afraid to go back to my room, back to the same place, time again. To be assaulted 🥺😳
Didn't even watch this video. Still had a paralysis spell last night.
Have had this a handful of times. Only once could I make out a greenish face but for the most part, they always had a shadowy dark figure. Only two I can really recall in detail. The one with the green face was one time where I opened my eyes and the face was maybe a foot away from mine. I couldn’t move and all I could do was stare at that face but luckily, this only lasted a few terrifying seconds. The other time I can recall has the most detail as I believe it lasted the longest. I remember I fell asleep on the couch while watching The Godfather. I had woken up mid movie but couldn’t move at all but I could still watch the TV. I think I remember it being the scene where Vito was talking with Sollozzo about his drug business. Anyway, I was so scared because I could clearly tell what was going on on the TV but couldn’t move my body. Suddenly, this shadowy figure emerged from just out of sight and then “floated” over top of me and then out the window behind the couch. As soon as it was out the window, I could move again. These types of experiences haven’t happened in well over 5 years and it’s not like my sleep or sleep schedule has improved or anything so it’s weird.
I've experienced this creature many times. I thought it was trying to kill me. Haven't experienced it in 15 years and I hope I never do again. It's real.
WAIT HOLD THE FUCK UP I’M NOT THE ONLY WHO’S SEEN HER!?
As a kid I would repeatedly see her in my dreams. I would always be in my house walking past a room then she would see me and I would get caught by her then become paralyzed unable to move or scream with an intense horrific fear. They’re would no words from her or me just fear. There’s one time I remember her violently shaking me and then being woken up by my mom because she said I was shaking violently on while I was sleeping on the couch.
I eventually learned to deal with it by just accepting her and the fear. I think she got upset by that because she would just got away and I would immediately wake up. Honestly now that I’m thinking about it I haven’t had those dreams since I was maybe 15 and I’m almost 30 now.
Have experienced sleep paralysis since my late teens, but never saw The Hag because one thing I _cannot_ do is open my eyes. Not only am I an insomniac, when I do sleep, I am a semi-circle sleeper, moving right side / back / left side / back / right side /etc. all night long. Every paralysis experience I've had has occurred when I'm side sleeping. There have been 'voices,' 'entities' heavy enough that the mattress moves when 'they' sit down, and, on occasion, the sensation of an entire body lying down behind me. I've been here often enough to know that either making a sound or moving some part of my body will end the episode, which has always been the case. It always takes too long [of course] and is pretty stressful, fighting to move while frozen solid. Interestingly enough, more often than not, I will have been sleeping with a hand under my head with the heel of my hand pressing into the carotid artery. I suspect - at least in my case - my oxygen starved brain is fighting to get me to wake up and move that hand so I don't stroke!
I remember having nightmares when I was a kid when I got older I started playing spooky games such as resident evil doom and eternal darkness I learned to embraced my nightmares and ever sense then I stopped having nightmares at night I have had my shoulder pushed by something trying to get my attention I just ignored it
Had my second ever experience of sleep paralysis a couple days ago. Both instances something was saying my name, first a creepy male voice coming from the hall. The second was a female whispering inside my head, but also there was a tall dark shadow standing right next to my bed. Also came after a really weird dream. Twas a really fun way to start my day
Also both instances I was on my side. At the end of the second experience I felt like I was falling forward, or being pulled, or rolling forward without actually moving
Yay!
I've suffered sleep paralysis a number of times. Ive never experience the old hag though. I've had a wierd bloated corpse in the crucifix postion floating over me. A man with a knife, and a weird faceless creature with a large wide brimmed hat to, name a few.
I'm surprised that I don't get sleep paralysis episodes, it might be because I have lucid dreams.
I have had a lot more sleep paralysis since moving into this house. One night after a party (which I left early) I went to sleep as normal. But in the night I was awoken by a really REALLY ugly charactered man who was sitting on top of me.. I was so scared I shut my eyes because I couldn’t move. I turned to my right side when I was able to move but must have fallen back to sleep when a terrifying woman who somehow I knew what she looked like and was stomping up the stairs to come and get me! It felt like she was as much inside my mind as in the house., I managed to wake up but was really shaken, because it felt like what I would describe as a psychic attack. I was left with an eeey sense of foreboding afterwards. The woman was old and skinny wearing all black a sort of dress that looked hundreds of years old and tatty and worn, she has looooong black hair but was bald in some places, I remember her scrawny fingers. Still creeps me out when I think of it now, and it was almost two years ago.
In my early twenties I used to get a lot of hypnogogic experiences, but once I read about it (after the first one) I knew I could just relax. But this one - it was different, it felt predatory and psychically violating… weird stuff. I wish I knew what it meant. I think it means there are evil forces that want to possess us (perhaps they come from inside us?) I don’t know… but I once summoned a demon force in a dream, and it became so intense I got the fear and had to wake up. So much power ran through my veins, I was psychologically killing someone off…
I have felt this kind of sensation recently. Felt like some kind of heaviness on my chest while sleeping.
I've never seen the Old Hag, but I have seen crawling insects on the ceiling, disembodied hands, a Japanese ghost girl, freaking _Slenderman_ (jumpscaring bastard how did that ridiculous overrated meme get in there), a grey alien claiming to be a refugee (my very first sleep paralysis bout), and the Hat Man. Funny thing about the Hat Man, though: I first saw him before I even knew he was a thing.
He was very irritated when I looked at him and basically just thought, "Oh. It's one of _those_ nights. Alright, let's get this over with." In the end, all he did was glare at me. The second time he showed up, however, he did something that truly scared the hell out of me and was smugly satisfied about it, like he had asserted his power and put me in my place. Dude's such an asshole.
I wonder why these things happen to us 😩
My ex has a tall woman with long black hair following him. He doesn't know who she is or where she came from (he's afraid to find out). He named her Athena. One night I had the pleasure of experiencing sleep paralysis. I slept on my stomach; out of nowhere my eyes opened and I couldn't move. I started to hear a woman humming at the foot of my bed I freaked out for a second but the presence wasn't threatening. My ex jokes around and says that she was trying to soothe me back to sleep.
Last one I had involved a shadow storming in my room and running circles. Previous was a shadow coming down from the ceiling like a spider. I actually stood up but out of nowhere all my nerves went to my ankle and could not move. This was almost two years ago.
When people talk about it like its a supernatural thing it does make me laugh. The term "sleep paralysis" is when during the rapid eye movement sleep stage REM, your brain protects yourself from moving your limbs while dreaming so you don't hurt yourself. The paralysis part happens especially when you start to regain awareness when going into coming out of REM stage. And technically its not paralysis. Its not harmful, but can cause anxiety and a sensationof pressure on chest and head. Wiggle your fingers or toes and within a few seconds and it should pass quickly through your body. If it keeps occurring consult a doctor. Usually this occurs to patients who suffer from stress, overworked, obesity or insomnia. No hag involved.
I get sleep paralysis but i never got hag'd, i just get trapped in loops where I'm aware that im asleep and try to wake up but either can't or then realize that im not actually awake and still stuck in the dream loop
I have concluded that a good percentage of these are demonic in nature. I saw a documentary about severe forms of this. One guy, who called on God during a terrifying episode was immediately delivered from it. I've read about others who did the same and were released "in the name of God." Makes sense to me, as a believer in the spiritual realms, that demons might pray upon us in that vulnerable state of consciousness. Had similar experiences myself. I notice it's more likely to happen if I'm very tired or distressed.
I dreamt about her when I was in high school, @ 17 yrs old. She was standing on the road outside my house, staring & not blinking, not moving. When I was @ 40 yrs old I was shocked to see a picture of her on TV- Madame Helena Blavatsky. That's who I dreamt of when I was a teenager.
I always just see a tall black mist/shadow in the corner of my room, im glad I never seen details up close or anything. I guess mines is not as bad as other peoples 🙏🏾
You know, whether is supernatural or not, the concept is insanely scary. I mean, think about it. If it's totally supernatural, that means that entities are messing with people when they are at their most vulnerable, fast asleep. But if there is a scientific explanation and not supernatural at all, that means that the human brain can mess with itself in a very very messed up way.
Only experienced it once and that was recently. I was dreaming about walking slow up a hill where I came to a stop and froze in dream and In reality! I was aware I was awake but couldn’t move! Very freaky experience!
I guess im one of those rare birds who is less scared of it the more it happens. I study it and now my dream hallucinations are beautiful, such as seeing a beautiful and vibrant orchid growing out of my stomach. Its rare when i have hypnopompic hallucinations but when i do, i feel blessed and excited about the experience.
i developed sleep paralysis after my mom passed and the hag women was who i saw and experienced it was so scary and all i wanted to do was wake up.. it got so bad to where i didn’t want to go to sleep so then i got insomnia from not sleeping but having to deal of go thru this experience is not something that u want
I have sleeping paralysis. The more stress I have, the worse it gets. The most I had it in my 20s and the worse after I moved out from my parents home and went to university. At that time almost every night a dark figure was lying next to me, I was unable to directly look at it, but I could clearly feel and touch it. Sometimes it was lying with one half on top of me, sometimes it pushed/pressed me against my closet (standing directly beside my bad like a wall) and a few times it even choked me. After that I had red marks on my neck.
One night something pressed constantly on my chest, like someone would do cpr on me. A few days later I found out that the mother of a friend died from a heart attack at exact the same night and her husband did cpr on her.
Nowadays I really rarely have them and sometimes I can only hear people talking, like they are standing next to me … but to be honest, these are much scarier than the ones where I can see shadow figures …
Interesting. Not prone to this type of stuff but felt "frozen" for a few seconds recently while falling asleep a few times and forced myself to throw my arms up to sort of "unlock". I brushed it off as it didn't sound like what I heard sleep paralysis to be but it was scary for a sec 😅
I’ve had sleep paralysis. Sleeping on my front. It literally felt like someone was sat on my back. The episode I had just after my mum died i couldn’t move, felt like someone was watching me, a weight on my back, the. I felt a hand on my leg. I cried out for my mum and it stopped. I know she wouldn’t do anything like that to scare me. I was terrified
Mine was male. Like a demon. Scariest experiences of my life. I used to be too scared to go back to sleep.
In Philippines, it is called "Bangungot" you what is happening around you, you are half asleep-half awake, but can't move a muscle.