Posted on 03/07/2007 5:05:33 PM PST by LibWhacker
Unrelated to the above, once in a great while I will have a nightmarish experience where I feel that there is some evil presence that will "get" me if I don't wake up. I had that nightmare or whatever you want to call it frequently as a child and I still get it infrequently.
Many times I've left my senses, fought giant serpents, rats upon my bed
I've sometimes had the "Falling out of bed" sensation.
Have had that experience before. Also, would be really tired and fall asleep only to awake in about an hour and not be able to go back to sleep.
My problem was finally diagnosed as sleep apnea. You fall asleep and your air passages relax too much and your brain tells you that you are smothering. Hence, the adrenaline rush and not being able to fall back asleep. If anyone reading this has ever had it happen to them and feel tired all the time, I suggest that you get your doctor to prescribe a sleep test to determine what the cause is. It can be a life or death situation.
Yup, that's what happens to me. I'm pretty sure this is sleep paralysis. As I said above, when this happens, it's often accompanied by lots of noise, almost like there are voices, and sometimes a feeling of being sucked or pulled. Sound familiar???
About once a month I dream that there is someone standing over my bed, ready to do me harm. Sometimes I swear to God it's as real as anything I've ever seen. I jump out of bed, screaming every kind of profanity, desperately flailing to turn on the lights.
I understand. After several years of maybe three or four times each week. I would wake up screaming bloody murder. Scared me my wife and the kids. It went on so long that nobody woke up or heard me. I was later diagnosed with sleep apnea. Had one time that I was awake and could not move.
Tell him like it is. If I die tonight, and thats the last picture I saw and will remember, I'm gonna come back and haunt him through eternity.
Bump.....
it was indescribable
This has happened to me several times. I'm usually terrified I'll die before I can wake up.
Same sleep paralysis experience here.
Have also experienced rare light floating - nothing as described in the article however in which one can see his body from above.
It's very scary and so real, but I've managed to control it by saying to myself that this is only a dream. It works in that I can snap out of it and shorten the terrible experience.
"I have no idea. They could happen at any time and for no apparent reason. This article seems to suggest they only happen at times of great trauma, but that wasn't my experience at all -- thankfully!
Diet may have something to do with it.
One food additive I could think of is MSG in Chinese food.
"Just today in the news a woman woke from a 6 year coma and the doctors called it a Miracle, a Mystery.
Remember reading this story but don't remember reading about her experiencing spiritual healing, or anything spiritual for that matter.
"The first time I had it I was very young and remember being scared to death.
Very terrifying.
In almost all cases of the sleep paralysis I've experienced, it's about someone attempting to break into my house through a window or main entrance and my inability to stop them. During these expriences also I can "feel" the presence of an extraneous being near me as if preventing me from moving. Their presence is very real and scary.
What I am baffled about, however, is why the dream accompanying the paralysis is always a scary one - never a pleasant and enjoying one. Why?
My sister experienced this twice in 1981 when she suffered a brain aneurysm and was unconscious for 3 months. She survived and is now 85 and lives alone. My wife had to "reprogram her" to walk and other functions...
"Luckily I haven't had any in about 3 or 4 years.
Haven't had any in about the same number of years. However, when they come back they can recur within a few days or a week. They can recur two to three times and then they stop for years.
The major effect it has had on me is short term memory and to some degree long-term memory. There are times now that I have difficult time even signing my own name. Names aren't as easily remembered and unfortunately there are times I simply forget what my next task may be. Although this is an event I would like to put behind me there propably isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the event.
Do you also experience this someone standing over the body is also holding/touching you and being responsible for your not being able to move? That is my experience.
I've been able to control and shorten the experience by saying to myself in my dream state that this is not real and is only a dream. It does help me tremendously.
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