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Post by Tabris on Aug 14, 2009 16:23:44 GMT
Upon researching it a couple days ago, I realized I get sleep paralysis/hypnagogia (in many different varying degrees) at least once a week.
I won't use the word 'suffer' because while it has its moments of being utterly terrifying, it's mostly just cool.
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Post by ami on Aug 17, 2009 6:52:21 GMT
"It's also funny when the TV is on.. I mix reality and fantasy together in my mind to create a very odd, sometimes hillarious, sometimes frightening amalgamation of the two."
wow, this sounds exactly LIKE me! I had no way of explaining it before, but you nailed it on the head. xD
I dont actually mind it though, because I know when it does happen Im going to get a really good sleep out of it. That doesnt happen much :I
also the falling sensation....I could do without that one.
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Post by Kiryū Kazuma on Aug 19, 2009 23:08:33 GMT
had a bad one few days back was case of still not enough sleep, reading on here and shhf to much more. Was like a realtime nightmare bad enough to wake up sat bolt upright in a cold sweat. Was like something was running after me but nothing I could do would make it go had a floaty sensation
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Post by Tabris on Aug 20, 2009 16:24:24 GMT
had a bad one few days back was case of still not enough sleep, reading on here and shhf to much more. Was like a realtime nightmare bad enough to wake up sat bolt upright in a cold sweat. Was like something was running after me but nothing I could do would make it go had a floaty sensation Is this something you visually seen or consciously experienced? Or was this a nightmare? Because hypnagogia and/or sleep paralysis is something you experience while awake and conscious (to some extent).
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Post by Kiryū Kazuma on Aug 20, 2009 18:52:03 GMT
i think it was a combination of something I half exp at university and something i saw recently when I get these feelings it is really weird
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Post by Tabris on Aug 25, 2009 17:47:22 GMT
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Was it a nightmare that became apparent in real life before you woke out of it?
Sorry, maybe I don't have enough coffee in my system yet ~ ~
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Post by Kiryū Kazuma on Aug 25, 2009 21:33:18 GMT
yes exactly what you just said you usually need lots of coffee to understand me lol
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Post by blacky on Aug 30, 2009 3:51:35 GMT
Something I've realised, since I take heavy sedatives before bed I can normally experaince Hypnagogia if I just let the pils take effect without trying to sleep the normal way. For some reason I keep seeing animals, i've already menctioned the flipping big spiders, but more lately once with a snake like creature, once a rat, and once a bat. They like to hang around behind by bedroom curtains. The only drawback to this experiance is by then I am way too sleepy and take longer than usuall to realise that they don't exist, so I am there trying to find the bloody things with the mentality of a zombie, not too a bad experiance if it wasn't for the fact that my legs always feel like they will fail me any moment (and sometimes do)
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Post by Tabris on Aug 30, 2009 18:56:29 GMT
Yea, that happens to me here and there. I'll think there's a snake or spiders in my bedsheets and I'll jump out of bed and turn on the lights and start patting down the bed trying to find them.
I feel like a dumbass every time! It's funny but kinda redundant and annoying after 20 years laf.
The last time was interesting. Woke up to my grandma (wtf?) opening my door and pointing at my blinds telling me that there's maggots and worms hanging off blinds. Which I could see them and they were falling all over my sheets. After they disappeared it still took me about 45 minutes to convince myself my blankets were fine hah.
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Post by blacky on Apr 3, 2010 0:45:50 GMT
Not meaning to revive an old thread, but I have new things to add.
So now I am occasionally experiencing full on sleep paralysis. During these I have hallucinations, it feels like I have something sitting on my chest (like the incubus pictures that was posted earlyer in this thread) and I hear sinister whispering in my ear (I can even feel it's breath) And since I am paralysed during this I have little option but to deal with it until my body finally responds
a more vivid hallucination though I had last night, it kinda felt like an outer body experience I guess, I coulden't sense my arms, legs or anything. It just felt like my mind or soul was ripped out of my body and sent flying as fast as a roller coster, it's really unpleasant because It made me feel queasy, outer body motion sickness? And I wasn't even in my room, I don't know where I was, it was all black and white and very blurly (the speed I was going and all) It certainly wasn't a dream because it felt too real and I wasn't even that sleepy yet when it happened. Plus it happened twice, I was fully awake, it happened the first time, then I was fully awake again, and barely a moment passed when it happened again, but even worse.
I don't know, it just seems like my night experiences have escalated recently. they would of been cool if I didn't feel scared or sick after they happen. I am not even that easy to scare, the feelings just seem to come out of nowhere as much as the experiences do themselves
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Post by muralasa on Apr 4, 2010 18:15:17 GMT
Oh my... this thread has some creepy posts...
The only thing I experienced was that falling like sensation.
I'm glad >.<
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Post by Jump, James on May 29, 2010 5:43:18 GMT
Oops, I haven't been posting here at the forum in awhile (bad, bad. . .) Anyway, I experience hypnagogic hallucinations every now and then. Usually it'll involve seeing spiders or insects crawling on my bed or on my wall. And yes, on more than one occasion, have jumped out of bed, turned on the lights, and tried finding the little bugs before realizing that they're not there. I've even tried crushing them with my hands. Always felt stupid afterwards. Also, and this sometimes still sends me into a panic, see shadows or shapes of people in the darkness. One time I actually picked up the flashlight I leave on my night table beside the bed and threw it at a shadowy figure. The flashlight hitting the wall finally woke me up for good. Luckily I didn't wake anyone up with that little incident. One of these days, I'm going to injure somebody by accident. Oh and another time I saw a little blonde girl in a bright pink sweater with her pet dog (a poodle, maybe) on a leash. Her mother was calling her to come to her. It was daytime so it was a little strange and daytime hallucinations are pretty rare for me. The most recent scary event involved seeing a large grizzly bear in the center of my bedroom staring at me while I was lying down for a nap. LOL my heart was pounding afterwards. I have never experienced sleep paralysis though (thank goodness). Honestly I need better sleeping habits.
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Post by Tabris on May 31, 2010 18:50:33 GMT
Oops, I haven't been posting here at the forum in awhile (bad, bad. . .) Anyway, I experience hypnagogic hallucinations every now and then. Usually it'll involve seeing spiders or insects crawling on my bed or on my wall. And yes, on more than one occasion, have jumped out of bed, turned on the lights, and tried finding the little bugs before realizing that they're not there. I've even tried crushing them with my hands. Always felt stupid afterwards. Also, and this sometimes still sends me into a panic, see shadows or shapes of people in the darkness. One time I actually picked up the flashlight I leave on my night table beside the bed and threw it at a shadowy figure. The flashlight hitting the wall finally woke me up for good. Luckily I didn't wake anyone up with that little incident. One of these days, I'm going to injure somebody by accident. Oh and another time I saw a little blonde girl in a bright pink sweater with her pet dog (a poodle, maybe) on a leash. Her mother was calling her to come to her. It was daytime so it was a little strange and daytime hallucinations are pretty rare for me. The most recent scary event involved seeing a large grizzly bear in the center of my bedroom staring at me while I was lying down for a nap. LOL my heart was pounding afterwards. I have never experienced sleep paralysis though (thank goodness). Honestly I need better sleeping habits. Wow, glad someone else out there gets something similar. It's been a little while since I had any really hardcore hallucinations. When I was still at my dorm at school I see this bizarre creature for a couple seconds. I'd put it into words but it was like something out of a voodoo priestess mind in Silent Hill. It was damn cool. Another time I woke up in this weird, forest trail and there was a kid standing beside my bed. It lasted roughly 30 seconds but the kid turned to the side and everything kinda dissolved back into the way my dorm looked. The kid kind've just walked into my wall. It was neat but really brief. The more recent one was after I moved back to my home town. I woke up and there was this weird light that I seemed to have registered as something like a mirror. The 'mirror light' was reflecting someone that was 'outside' but they were walking towards me through the 'mirror light'. Was a bizarre little mindfuck. I've been getting full on hallucinations a bit less lately. Although I get the basic ones a lot. Like looking at your clock and its just a bunch of gibberish shapes and such. I love it though. You get to see a lot of crazy shit that you wouldn't normally. Plus the irrationality of bugs in your blankets and such is hilarious.
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Post by Valtiel on Jun 1, 2010 12:39:40 GMT
I think all I've felt is some kind of relaxing feeling where I feel like floating. There was one time where I stood up from bed but my right leg was still sleeping/inactive and thus I fell on the floor. :/
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Post by Lolli on Jun 1, 2010 12:44:45 GMT
^Ha ha, I hate having dead legs. I've had the floating sensation too. It's nice
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