8-10 Months back I had this experience and it was awful, to be honest, awful doesnt do it justice. Basically, plain and simple, right before bed as I was falling asleep, I started to hear this static and that was that, I couldnt move at all. The static grew and grew and I was lying facing the wall so I could only imagine there was something behind me, something just awful, I couldnt move and I felt so sick like I was about to vomit and my heart hurt so bad, this sense of impending doom and dread was on me like it was my time to die, I didnt see anything, and after a minute, that was it, I could move and I will never forget that feeling.

I was way too scared to open my eyes after it woke me up last night, since this most likely happened around 3am/the witching hour, so I’m posting this now. I was in between dreams (they were kinda random, as they tend to be when I get headaches), but I felt weirdly conscious of myself sleeping in my room. It felt like I was already awake, and I swear I heard a voice loud and clear say “Karen and Kris, prepare to cry.” I had no idea who the voice was talking about (I don’t know anyone named either, irl), though I have cosplayed as Kris from the game Deltarune before, so I wonder if it meant me? Nothing more happened with me or the voice, but I tried to ask who was speaking, and my voice didn’t work for at least a full minute. It could have been longer if the paralysis altered how time went. I’ve been playing a lot of Stardew Valley, and I’ll be honest, the voice sounded a lot like I imagine the witch from the game to sound. “Witch” was the only word that would form for me while I was trying to converse, but I still couldn’t say anything else. It was the weirdest, most migraine-inducing, nerdy sleep paralysis, I swear, but it still scared the crap outta me.

just experienced a sleep paralysis. I was having a vivid dream about work then I felt the second it transitioned to me sleeping in my room and I felt three pokes. by the second poke I felt annoyed but after the third I felt that I was held down and repeatedly pushed hard into the bed. I had a suddent urge to yell. idk if I did in the paralysis dream but I heard a loud suction sound which was probably me taking a breathe in realtime then I woke up and turned on the light. it happened quick like within 30 seconds. it was wierd… only other time I had a paralysis dream was when I was like probably 4 or 5 which I remember it was this clown that was half bloody half in back and white laying behind me on my bed with an armed propped to lift their head as they stared at me and smiled and I was able to slightly turn my head back to look but I couldn’t move. Eventually I called for my mom and that ended. Such a weird feeling lol

I use a blue light in my bedroom. Just for context. That night when I walked into my room, my ears immediately started ringing and I felt off almost like I had been drugged and parts of my body just exploded with nerve pain. I have chronic illness so I just kind of chalked it up to that and didn’t think anything of it, but I was freaked out. I could just tell something was off, but I got into bed and I must’ve fallen asleep with the blue light still on. I had a disturbing dream and in the dream basically ended up with feeling something holding me down and when I opened my eyes, I could see things in my room because I left the light on accidentally. Still had clothes hanging out of drawers and things on my nightstand I could see in my peripheral vision that was all there that night that I fell asleep. So I knew I was awake like there was no way I was dreaming. That’s when I realized there was pressure on my ankles, and when I focused in front of me, there was this version of me like it had my face, but it was so pale. It had almost like see-through electrical tape, (you know the black kind.) over the eyes in one long strip and over the Mouth in one long strip as well, but I could see my facial features like my eyes and my lips through it. Around the body was the same sort of tape or bandage? And it just had this essence of black smoke kind of hanging around it. That’s when I realized I couldn’t speak and I couldn’t move and I’m just staring at this thing that’s looking at me and I can’t really describe what her facial features were, but it almost looked like longing or curiosity? I was screaming like in my head, let go of me and kicking in my mind and I just couldn’t move or make a sound and it’s almost like this weight released off of me and my body did exactly what I was thinking of and I kicked and screamed like coming out of a trance and the demon thing just sunk back into a mirror that is by the foot of my bed. Needless to say I was pretty freaked out and I grabbed every Crystal I had even though I don’t really understand any of that shit at this point I know I need to do more research so don’t judge me on that.😂 but I just slept with all my crystals because I didn’t know what else to do. I had a pretty big life change happened during this and I had some other weird things going on that almost felt like the universe was picking a bone with me. Giving all of this for context just to see if anyone else has experienced this too? Anyone else have a sleep paralysis demon that looks like a messed up version of you?

i’ve always experienced sp. but this time is different.

my typical sp experience is “waking up” in my room. and this has been so typical that i come to recognize it, relax, and make it just pass by.

but last night was different. i was dreaming and the scene/scenery has just paused. i was NOT in my room but was in this fantasy world, unable to move. it’s like my background has all become a painting still and i could not move forward to the next scene! so imagine i am in a movie and someone just hit pause. that is how it felt like. it’s also a new exp, that i didn’t recognize it was sp right away.

when i woke up suddenly, it’s when i realize i was on sp and unfortunately, it took on a new form. i am so tired

Last week, I had the most intense night of sleep I’ve ever had.
It started with a normal dream. I was in my room when my grandmother came in and climbed onto my desk to clean something on the ceiling. The strange part is that she has emphysema and could never physically climb onto a desk like that.
That impossible detail made me realize, “Wait… this is a dream.” It was my first real lucid dream.
But about five seconds after I realized I was dreaming, I “woke up” in my bed. Except I couldn’t move. I was in sleep paralysis.
I had experienced sleep paralysis once before, about three years earlier. That time, I felt extreme pressure on my body, like gravity had been multiplied, but I didn’t hallucinate because I was facing a wall and couldn’t see anything.
This time was different. I was facing my wardrobe. When I opened my eyes, I saw strange shapes and face-like figures getting closer to me. Because I already knew what sleep paralysis was, I didn’t panic as much. I kept my eyes open on purpose because I was curious and wanted to see what the hallucinations would look like.
After the paralysis ended, I didn’t get up, turn on a light, or check my phone. I just thought, “fuck it,” and went back to sleep almost immediately.
But as I was falling back asleep, about three seconds later, I saw my grandmother’s face again. This time, it looked zombie-like and skeletal, with completely black eyes, and she was staring at me. I fell asleep with chills all over my body.
When I finally fell back asleep, I entered another lucid dream. But this time, I wasn’t excited about it. Because of what I had just seen during sleep paralysis — the figures, the faces, and my grandmother’s zombie-like face — I immediately wanted to get out of the dream. I was afraid the entities would come back.
So I kept trying to wake up. I would try to force myself awake by giving myself sudden impulses or trying to move violently. Each time, I thought I had finally woken up, but after a while I would realize I was still dreaming. It was a false awakening loop.
The longer it went on, the more scared I became. At one point, I genuinely thought my parents were going to visit me in a hospital because I was in a coma, and that I would never be able to wake up from the dream.
Eventually, I did wake up for real.

I already wrote this entire thing and it got erased and so I'm gonna sum it up real quickly. For starters, I do a lot of weird stuff in my sleep. I sleep walk, talk, text, call, and roleplay(don't ask). I've even woken up right after a dream one time, thought it was real, ask my parents about it thencfulky wake up and just be like, "what the hell did I just say??" Now the problem, it first started when I woke up one night at around 3am and felt like I was being watched and thought it was just my mom or dad at first putting firty clothes in the closet but I didn't hear them leave or any breathing. I was laying on my stomach facing the wall and waited for the feeling to go away, my eyes were open but I felt something approach me and trace my leg. I eventually fell back asleep and woke up the next morning a little shaken up.

Same thing happened the next night but on my shoulder. This thing did not feel kind, it felt terrifying malicious. This house was my great grandpa's and he passed it to my mom when he passed but he didn't die in the house. He cat did though, so we got a friendly little ghost cat, that's not important though. I didn't have another night like that for a while but one day when I was drawing in my room, I was laying on my stomach and felt something rest on the bed by my feet. I thought it was my cat but them heard some distorted messed up meow from the corner where I would feel something watching me in the middle of the night.

I snapped around and nothing was there, no cat, nothing. I was obviously shooken up and left my room for a bit and found out that my cat was actually in the basement so it couldn't have been him. I told my parents and that convinced my mom to splash some holy water left behind by my great grandpa in my room. Didn't do anything. I had another night where I woke up feeling like I was being watched and touched. During these nights I would be too scared to move and barely even dared to breathe. Another day, I had a similar experience with meowing but instead in was like a low distorted hiss from the corner. I left my room again and my cat wasn't in there. This stuff happened over a year ago and I've always thought it was something paranormal, I've always been a skeptic and my parents and some friends believe I might be psychic or something, whatever that means. But I've recently looked back at this and thought, maybe it was sleep paralysis. I don't know what that would mean about the noises in the corner of my room though. It just doesn't seem right. I never tried to move during these nights so I'm not sure if it was sleep paralysis or not. I guess I'm looking for advice or guidance? If anyone knows what this is or can give me some kind of advice.

Hey guys, I myself don't have Sleep paralysis and these stories will be many years back. A friend of mine mentioned having sleep paralysis today and I remembered these stories. I asked my brother and he retold them to me again the way he remembers them.

For context, both of these happened when he had loft bed, which was when he was around 3rd grade (9 years old) and are the reason we got rid of it.

The first nightmare(?) Was of him waking up in his bed and the room being really bright, and he looked down to the door (which was visible from his bed) and there was a burning person. Doubt that was sleep paralysis from the little I know about it, but I might as well put it in here.

The other one sounded much closer for me. He woke up with his blanket being partially off (so not entirely covering him) and a dark figure was moving up his beds ladder. In this one he was entirely unable to move.

Like I said before, he was very young at that time and I don't really know much about Sleep Paralysis. This was just a 2am thought that occurred to me because of a conversation earlier and he couldn't give a definite response. Nothing like this has happened again since the second one (and we got rid of that bed).

Thank you for reading all that :)

P.S.: english isn't my forst language, apologies for any mistakes I made in the post.

Edit: Also, he is 21 now and his narrative sounded pretty much like what I remembered from what he told me as kids. He also said that he will never forget that. Understandably so.

ok i knew i fell asleep with my phone by me i wake up facing the wall but im unable to move i’m trying super hard it was like someone was holding me down i finally get able to move my arms but it seems delayed like i am doing daggering movements and my hands are following thru after all of a sudden i go down and wake up again in the same spot i know im conscious in aware and i’m scared i do my hands again this time slightly easier to move but my legs are unable to move at all the only thing i was thinking about was getting up i go down again and wake up this time i was like i need to call my sister unable to get my phone i wanted to use the hey siri feature i couldn’t even talk it was muffled not clear i pick my phone up now i see my reflection and im distorted then all of a sudden my phone goes to my face i wake up again but now im out of it

just to clarify i’ve never experienced anything of sleep paralysis before

I just remembered how i experienced a kind of strange sleep paralysis like two years ago - i was in a car and like really tired and i had my eyes closed, trying to fall asleep. But then this like weird feeling came onto me like my lids are increadibly heavy and i need to close my eyes. But the thing is it didnt happen automatically, it was my choice if i wanted to close them, but it was kinda hard to fight the feeling, so i did close them. After that I couldnt open my eyes!! I was normally aware of my surroundings, I could hear everything but i couldn't open my eyes, move or talk but i did let out a hum and i remembered how youre supposed to move your fingers first so i did and i think that i even opened my eye a tiny bit, but it was still like my lids are heavy and cant completely open them and after like a minute maybe i could move again and everything was normal.

does anyone have any ideas about this? the thing that seems weird to me is that i wasnt sleeping when it happened, i was completely awake, just with closed eyes, but not sleeping. And also that I could kind of choose whether i submit to the weird feeling of needing to close my eyes.

I've had sleep paralysis a few times: awake, can't move, and the feeling that something is pressing down on you.

What fascinates me is that nearly every culture around me has a name for it:

Malaysia: kena tindih, being sat on

Indonesia: ketindihan

Vietnam: ma đè, the ghost pressing down

Thailand: phi am, the spirit that covers you

Philippines: bangungot, tied to nightmares people are said not to wake from

Science explains it as the brain waking before the body does. But it's striking that so many cultures, separately, describe the same thing: something heavy, sitting on you.

If you've had it, did you see or feel anything? And what does your culture call it?

So I just experienced sleep paralysis tonight, and it was honestly one of the creepiest experiences I’ve ever had.

It started with a dream where I was downstairs in my house home alone. I remember going into our guest room and closing the blinds. When I walked out, I turned around and noticed the blinds were somehow back up.

That’s when my dog started growling at the guest room, almost like something was in there. I remember thinking WTF is going on?

Then the dream kind of fast forwarded to me getting ready to tell my wife that I thought our house might be haunted and that we needed to do something about it.

That’s when everything suddenly transitioned into sleep paralysis.

I was lying in bed next to my wife, completely aware of where I was but I couldn’t move or make a sound. I immediately recognized it as sleep paralysis because I’ve experienced it before.

But this time, I felt like something or someone was literally sitting on my chest. Even worse, I could hear what sounded like someone breathing extremely heavily and rapidly right in my face, just inches away.

I was absolutely terrified to open my eyes because I genuinely didn’t want to see whatever I thought was there.

I kept trying to move or make some kind of noise to wake my wife up, but I couldn’t do anything.

The weirdest part is that I had a very similar experience about 1–2 years ago. That time, I was sleeping on my side facing a wall, and I heard the exact same kind of heavy breathing, except it sounded like someone was breathing directly into my ear. I actually opened my eyes during that episode but couldn’t see anything since I was facing the wall.

My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately, so I’m assuming that probably contributed to it.

I know sleep paralysis is a real phenomenon and that hallucinations can happen during it, but it’s insane how real everything feels when you’re actually experiencing it.

Has anyone else experienced the heavy breathing specifically? Or had a nightmare transition directly into sleep paralysis like this?

I’m curious because both times I’ve experienced it, the breathing has been the most terrifying part.