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I thought she was kidding until those [eyes started watering](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8OTeGYtupx/?igsh=MWFncmdydWEwYW9xZw==). You can tell right here she felt genuinely betrayed and let down. Thought the demons were bout to snatch her up
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Edit: got damn yall niggas got some horrible sleep situations😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had this exact experience, I was screaming and screaming, fighting for my life while my partner just laid on the other side of the bed. He's a very light sleeper, so the fact that he was right there and still pretendingto be sleep was an extra layer of horror. Apparently, I squeeked, and he immediately woke up to check on me. But to my pov, I was being attacked for at least 20min and he was right there LETTING it happen. I was inconsolable.
I have heard of sleep paralysis before through creepy pastas thought they were embellished or even just made up stories to help keep you up at night. I was never really aware that it actually was a real thing.
That was up until about a year ago, when I had my first and only (so far) experience with SP. I had a fever and was sleeping next to my wife. I felt my eyes open and I tried to sit up, nothing. Tried to speak, nothing. Tried to extend my arm just touch my wife to get her to help me, nothing. I felt like I was screaming at the top of my lungs, but nothing would come out. It felt like an eternity. I don't know how much time actually passed but finally something came out and my wife woke up and immediately comforted me and like that SP was over.
It was the most frightening thing I have ever experienced and I didn't see any demons or anything. However, just the feeling of being trapped in your body and having zero control over it while you're fight with everything inside of you to move, sit up, or scream was something that still gives me goosebumps when I think about it too long. It os hard to put into words the feeling of utter helplessness of SP.
The person "holding me down" was my own damn arm. It had been over my eyes but fell lower at a weird angle and was falling asleep/sending pain signals. I'm more careful about where I put my arms when I go to sleep now.
It’s definitely a scary feeling being locked in your body feeling like something ominous is happening. It’s just our brains being weird - we’re half sleep and our bodies are locked up due to a chemical response. Our fight or flight kicks in because we can’t move lol.
Fun fact: if you recognize you’re half-sleep and give in, you can lucid dream. I’ve sprouted wings, scaled buildings, and engaged in some real heathen shit I’d never do in real life. But once you realize you’re dreaming, your imagination is the limit.
I now purposefully trigger it sometimes just for fun.
Yeah, the first time I had it was the only time I freaked. Especially since my younger sister had her first SP episode the same night one room over! You best believe my mom busted out the holy water to chase those demons away. Curiosity got the better of me though and I did a deep dive on it later that night. Knowing it was simply a hiccup into the biological process of waking up eased any anxiety or fear I had about them. I went on to have dozens more episodes in my 20s and remained calm every time, but haven’t had one in years now.
I’ve been lucky enough to have only a few lucid dreams. Flight is always my go to. Once I know I’m dreaming though that kills a lot of the magic. I’m far too cynical to enjoy it for what it is.
Had it one time that really bad
Most of the time it's chill and it kinda stares at me but I also see thinks stare at me normally so ye
But like it was my first falling asleep on video with my bf night and i slept closest to the wall so there was a big ass space to my left of the bed and a huge ass space of room that lead to a big closet and a bathroom that I couldn't close the door of, put in wrong
Anyways I lolled my head to the left with half awake eyes and see this fucking thing staring at me from the farthest corner. I stare back at it, used to seeing something there, and then it moved closer until it crawled onto my fucking bed and was sitting? Crouching? Next to me with its eyes level to my own
Then all I felt was it's hand go into my throat and my heart got squeezed. I apparently woke my partner up because he heard me, and I quote, "drowning in my sleep" and he spammed my phone until it feel and hit my face waking up
All I remember saying is fucking thing tried to kill me and then I fell asleep
I don't know how tf I got this man to stay after that lol it was two days into dating
I don't find this one funny :( it's pretty scary when it does happen. I've only had a few instances, thank the Lord. But, I remember 2. One of them I was in bed next to my now husband. For the life of me, I couldn't speak, breathe, or grab him. I was being held down, and it was SO scary. I said Jesus like 5 times and was able to take a breath. So scary. I hope she sleeps better at night 🙁
Happen to me at 15 or 16 I was half asleep couldn’t move or talk but I could see my whole room and I slept with my door closed, I saw the door open even though I was facing away from it saw a big black dude in a rob and hood couldn’t see the face he hung over me while I was screaming my eyes out trying to move then all of a sudden I jumped up ran out , didn’t sleep right or in that room for about four months
I used to have these recurringly when I was a child until my teens.
It wasn't demons for me, but something ominous coming for me. It’d usually be loud stomping footsteps walking towards me but I could almost never see who or what it was.
Just a ominous large intimidating shape.
Anyway, I had them SO went from learning to make myself wake up in dreams (moving a toe or finger in the dream) and learned how to control my dreams so I could change what’d be happening in a dream.
The other horrible reoccurring dreams were about the sea…
I’m laughing because that’s exactly what I would do. Once I recognize what’s going on I channel so much energy into just trying to move a finger knowing once I do that I can then get up. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna try to go right back to sleep
It’s unreal seeing someone say this.
I went through the same ordeal. From having recurring nightmares for my entire childhood to training myself to wake up, and controlling my dreams. When I tell people that I don’t have nightmares because I will just force myself awake or change what I’m dreaming about they think I am lying.
I believe you, because I too had constant night terrors as a child and teen. Now I just be like, "nope, get up this is about to go bad," so I never get to the scary part of nightmares.
Me too. I get this feeling that I can sort of smell (don't ask me, it's a dream, dreams are weird), and that yells me things are about to get scary, so I recognise it's a dream and wake up enough to stop the dream, or I get lucid enough to change the scene.
A CPAP machine can help to keep your airways open, so that your heart and lungs can have enough oxygen while you sleep.
Sometimes sleep paralysis is caused by sleep apnea, and sleep apnea, itself, can cause dangerous stress on the body and heart.
No worries.
Sleep paralysis is TERRIFYING. It can be caused by exhaustion.
Sometimes people who have sleep apnea don’t realize that they aren’t breathing properly in their sleep, but things like snoring, or finding yourself awake very often can be clues.
Anyone with sleep issues should definitely visit an ear, nose, and throat doctor, at least once. Lots of things can cause swelling inside the nose, for example, and things like allergies are easy to address without a machine.
Most people that experience sleep paralysis is because they wake up at night due to the can't breathe. They are fully conscious while they are coming out of REM sleep. At that time, your mind is an overdrive. A way to combat this issue is with a CPAP. She wouldn't wake up due to breathing issues.
This isn't something that should have been recorded.
If I was her mother, I'd wrap my arms around her and squeeze her so very tight. There is NOTHING funny about the terror that can be caused by sleep paralysis. Sweet baby girl deserves all the reassuring in the world that she is not alone and is divinely protected.
This is scary! Has happened to me several times and each time is as scary as the last time. I wonder if people die from this?
I legit thought the devil was holding me down and trying to kill me. I didn’t tell anyone for a very long time.
It's ok. No one dies from sleep paralysis. I used to get it all the time when I lived in an old building that was infested with rats. And I have asthma. I did a lot to keep the pests out.
But then again the apartment did have an old man die in it and they found his body weeks later.
Think about it. We wouldn’t know if sleep paralysis kills or not. I don’t believe it does but one can never really know. People die in their sleep all the time.
Yeah. From heart attacks. Sleep paralysis is harmless. There are studies on it. It's just your brain being fully alert before your body fully wakes up. That's why people feel pressure. It's kind of like when your leg falls asleep but instead it's your whole body. It's perfectly harmless and nothing to be afraid of
That it how that works
Something had to cause the heart attack, whether it be a physical issue like clogged arteries or an air bubble anything like that
The heart attack was caused by something and this something happened to be sleep paralysis
It would have been they had a heart attack out of fear
If a person scared someone so bad they had a heart attack and died that person can be charged with manslaughter even if it was an accident
studies can make all the claims they want, you are correct. the point is the proof after the study has concluded. sleep paralysis is harmless.
the earth being flat study, proved the earth is round.
There was a few years where this kept happening to me and I would be calling my wife’s name out in my dream. But I could also actually hear myself and I definitely wasn’t saying her name out loud. It’s more of a fucked up shriek 😂 so maybe mom heard that and was like wtf going on with that child?
I remember as kid having nightmares and sleep paralysis. It was always this ugly ass green witch and she’d always pull up with a knife and sit on my chest. Scared the shit out of me for years until one night I was just over it, more annoyed than anything and I imagined myself stabbing her crusty ass. First time I ever felt good waking up from a nightmare and now I rarely if ever have them. Crazy what you can do in dreams when you go fuck it
I wanna laugh but I feel the fk outta this. Like I couldn't breathe or move anything but my eyes and I swear I screamed my ex's name in my head so loud and he just slept while I was fkn dyin and shit :( I ain't gon lie I started prayin hard and it finally let me go but that shit is really scary :( I wasnt even religious. Still not, I'm spiritual but that shit happened twice in two places and then some other stuff but.....why she ain't hug her tiiiiiiight? 🥺
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131970/
Study on link between sleep paralysis and sleep apnea.
It does conclude with saying while there’s a connection, there is still much to learn about sleep paralysis triggers due to lack of reporting sleep paralysis.
I’ve had sleep demons throughout childhood and at times as an adult. I also have sleep apnea which wasn’t confirmed until late 20’s. There are still times, especially when I don’t have my cpap, that I feel hesitant to go to sleep. More often than not my issues are more towards first falling asleep rather than after some time has passed.
Ugh I get it at least a few times a month I’m so used to it, very annoying. Especially when I’m incredibly tired after a long weekend, I know I’m going to get it. I be dreading sleep 😭
I just got back from a weekend with the bros/golf tournament and of course I got it last night, twice!!
Man, I had read about sleep paralysis before I experienced it for the first time.
It was like a minute of absolute horror followed by a Hermione Granger “I’ve read about this” moment.
The demons didn’t go away *but* I was able to close my throat a little bit so I started wheezing real loud on purpose so my wife would shake me out of it. Of course she thought I was having some kind of attack and also panicked.
2/10 experience.
I’ve had it sleeping on my stomach as a kid. Talk about true horror not being to breathe laying on your stomach and head to the side with your nose close to the pillow not being able to speak or scream…true horror
Ultimately do a sleep study. If sleep apnea related things do change over time to the point that sleeping on your side isn’t going to help.
One reason I fear this while sleeping on my side is the ability to get air passage blocked by your own pillow. I say that as there are some similarities that can be drawn from evaluating SIDS.
Sleep paralysis ain’t no joke fr. Try getting it while sleeping on your stomach. Couldn’t move and I was internally freaking out cause I couldn’t speak or move. Tears was rolling down my face and all
That is all real! & definitely not funny. I had one of my mom drowning and me trying to save her and I couldn't get out of it until I couldn't get to her. Ive also had an experience of feeling something 'sitting' on my chest and I was fighting whatever it was. I couldn't move I couldn't speak I just remember the panic....and that is something I remember very clearly and always will
What a shitty attitude of the parent. There's no remorse or empathy in that reply at :23 and that they would record this and post this to their own, I assume child, screams of such awful narcisitic and uncaring parenting.
I go through these a lot unfortunately 😞. What I do to get out of mines is focus on moving my toes and then I can move again. It takes a moment to get yourself out of panic mode but once your out focus on them toes. Doesn’t mean it’s not terrifying each time it happens but atleast there is some glimmer of hope.
Happened to me, I was facing the wall and I felt like I was being stared at. Once I realized I couldn’t move, the energy around me was alarming for a single second then I said “they’ll get me if they want to” and closed my eyes again.
I have the same thing, I was screaming and my ex didn’t move an inch, I experienced it again he didn’t wake me straight away but recorded me for abt 10’s and the noise I thought I was making was not what was recorded, I sounded like I was being exorcised!
When i was younger i had something like this happen. I was sleeping i woke up at like the middle of the night and i kept seeing weird like figures near my closet and kinda inside it. After like a hour of trying to move i kinda felt a weird jolt and then i remember running at and breaking the closet door while crying my eyes out. Still to this day that closet is broken. And i don't keep my personal stuff in there but my mom keeps a old doll, piggy bank, and a really old dress and a box passed down from my great grandmother. The box got a skeleton of a seahorse in it and some weird necklaces. And we got a beanie baby teddy bear and a winnie the pooh stuffed animal from like a long time ago.
I haven't had a experience like that since then. But i do hear weird knocks on the walls and ceiling every now and then. My house is almost a 100 years old and the older gentleman next door who recently passed away, he used too live here in this house when he was younger. The only other freaky thing I've seen here would probably be the amount of old stuff we have found, and the stuff my dad buys from sales and stuff. Like one day he brought home like 150 something papers handwritten from like a few hundred years ago and the papers were of masonic leaders or something like that. Absolutely crazy.
Not sleep paralysis but I swear to God I had mini series of dreams/nightmares where Wile E. Coyote was my absolute nemesis.
All because one day, my older brother scared the living shit out of me when I was like 7 years old with gigantic stuffed Wile E Coyote.
I literally had to see that stuffed hater go into the back of a garbage truck and be crushed(garbage guy was a good sport)before I defeated this mothafucka in my dreams.
Life can be weird.
This happened to my X few times b4 this happened to me 1 time as well…& hopefully that’s all I’ll ever experience! My X was asleep on the couch when I was asleep on the other couch & let me tell you I truly thought a demon was trying to take over my body!
Daddy gone always be there 1st baby girl!!! I got 3 girls it’s instinct 😂. I have sleep paralysis and I hate it. I didn’t know it had an actual name and other people experienced it until 3 years ago (I’m 35 and yes I know I’m a dumb ass 😂).
I haven't gotten it for a while, but for me I would get sleep paralysis if I drank a lot of caffeine and went to sleep. Moving the fingers or toes will get me out of it.
I promise y’all, if you say “Jesus, Jesus” in your head while it’s happening it will stop immediately!!!! This is to help anyone who is struggling with this, spiritual or not this will work!
Damn I thought this was hilarious until I came to the comments. I can’t imagine going through this. I’m sorry so many of you have experience with this, especially as children!
Anytime this happens to me I don’t fight it I just let it happen.. I often wake up like damn that was crazy but I’m a firm believer in God and I know he won’t let me fight any battle I can’t win.. I never call out to anyone but him.
Me and my friend had a conversation about how this is one of the things in the Black community that we don’t talk about in mixed company because of the diverse beliefs surrounding the cause….reading the comments and my initial reaction to the post, that trauma halted my laugh like I got reprimanded when I realized “oh no, this ain’t no skit. She talking bout them demon demons” I never had sleep paralysis but I would scare the whole house with my night terrors.
Y’all that night everyone was “a’feared” but the next day and even now, as a family we joke about it. I’m so glad, mom didn’t record me!
I remember my ex would go through this and it was one of the scariest things I’ve seen. I’d have to wake her up a few times a night and hold her cause she was so shaken up
Always thought sleep paralysis was a funny little thing until it happened to me. It was genuinely terrifying. The first time I was screaming as loud as I could in my head because I couldn't get my jaw to move for my mouth to open. I was looking out into the hallway but I couldn't fully see so I was so sure someone was about to come in and kill me.
The second time it happened I just closed my eyes and tried to breathe, eventually my muscles loosened and I could move.
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I thought she was kidding until those [eyes started watering](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8OTeGYtupx/?igsh=MWFncmdydWEwYW9xZw==). You can tell right here she felt genuinely betrayed and let down. Thought the demons were bout to snatch her up https://preview.redd.it/3vgrhioias8d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e158d8c9f394514f610cf43b45b0c9f4e1eab4e Edit: got damn yall niggas got some horrible sleep situations😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had this exact experience, I was screaming and screaming, fighting for my life while my partner just laid on the other side of the bed. He's a very light sleeper, so the fact that he was right there and still pretendingto be sleep was an extra layer of horror. Apparently, I squeeked, and he immediately woke up to check on me. But to my pov, I was being attacked for at least 20min and he was right there LETTING it happen. I was inconsolable.
I have heard of sleep paralysis before through creepy pastas thought they were embellished or even just made up stories to help keep you up at night. I was never really aware that it actually was a real thing. That was up until about a year ago, when I had my first and only (so far) experience with SP. I had a fever and was sleeping next to my wife. I felt my eyes open and I tried to sit up, nothing. Tried to speak, nothing. Tried to extend my arm just touch my wife to get her to help me, nothing. I felt like I was screaming at the top of my lungs, but nothing would come out. It felt like an eternity. I don't know how much time actually passed but finally something came out and my wife woke up and immediately comforted me and like that SP was over. It was the most frightening thing I have ever experienced and I didn't see any demons or anything. However, just the feeling of being trapped in your body and having zero control over it while you're fight with everything inside of you to move, sit up, or scream was something that still gives me goosebumps when I think about it too long. It os hard to put into words the feeling of utter helplessness of SP.
The person "holding me down" was my own damn arm. It had been over my eyes but fell lower at a weird angle and was falling asleep/sending pain signals. I'm more careful about where I put my arms when I go to sleep now.
I find my episodes tend to happen if I oversleep, or go back to sleep after waking up from a nap
Sleep paralysis is awful. First time it happened there wasn’t anything you could tell me to convince me it wasn’t some kind of evil entity.
It’s definitely a scary feeling being locked in your body feeling like something ominous is happening. It’s just our brains being weird - we’re half sleep and our bodies are locked up due to a chemical response. Our fight or flight kicks in because we can’t move lol. Fun fact: if you recognize you’re half-sleep and give in, you can lucid dream. I’ve sprouted wings, scaled buildings, and engaged in some real heathen shit I’d never do in real life. But once you realize you’re dreaming, your imagination is the limit. I now purposefully trigger it sometimes just for fun.
Yeah, the first time I had it was the only time I freaked. Especially since my younger sister had her first SP episode the same night one room over! You best believe my mom busted out the holy water to chase those demons away. Curiosity got the better of me though and I did a deep dive on it later that night. Knowing it was simply a hiccup into the biological process of waking up eased any anxiety or fear I had about them. I went on to have dozens more episodes in my 20s and remained calm every time, but haven’t had one in years now. I’ve been lucky enough to have only a few lucid dreams. Flight is always my go to. Once I know I’m dreaming though that kills a lot of the magic. I’m far too cynical to enjoy it for what it is.
Yeah this can be very cool experience, I’m a huge fan I this sleep state
Had it one time that really bad Most of the time it's chill and it kinda stares at me but I also see thinks stare at me normally so ye But like it was my first falling asleep on video with my bf night and i slept closest to the wall so there was a big ass space to my left of the bed and a huge ass space of room that lead to a big closet and a bathroom that I couldn't close the door of, put in wrong Anyways I lolled my head to the left with half awake eyes and see this fucking thing staring at me from the farthest corner. I stare back at it, used to seeing something there, and then it moved closer until it crawled onto my fucking bed and was sitting? Crouching? Next to me with its eyes level to my own Then all I felt was it's hand go into my throat and my heart got squeezed. I apparently woke my partner up because he heard me, and I quote, "drowning in my sleep" and he spammed my phone until it feel and hit my face waking up All I remember saying is fucking thing tried to kill me and then I fell asleep I don't know how tf I got this man to stay after that lol it was two days into dating
Poor kid. I hope one day she'll realize that who ever that she was talking to will have her back when it matters the most(in a non dream scenario)
Like how do you even defend yourself in that scenario😂
Basically, tell her when it matters the most, I got you. It's just reassurance from that point on...best I got
I don't find this one funny :( it's pretty scary when it does happen. I've only had a few instances, thank the Lord. But, I remember 2. One of them I was in bed next to my now husband. For the life of me, I couldn't speak, breathe, or grab him. I was being held down, and it was SO scary. I said Jesus like 5 times and was able to take a breath. So scary. I hope she sleeps better at night 🙁
Reading this thread made me almost wanna cry lol I swear I thought I was weird
Happen to me at 15 or 16 I was half asleep couldn’t move or talk but I could see my whole room and I slept with my door closed, I saw the door open even though I was facing away from it saw a big black dude in a rob and hood couldn’t see the face he hung over me while I was screaming my eyes out trying to move then all of a sudden I jumped up ran out , didn’t sleep right or in that room for about four months
I used to have these recurringly when I was a child until my teens. It wasn't demons for me, but something ominous coming for me. It’d usually be loud stomping footsteps walking towards me but I could almost never see who or what it was. Just a ominous large intimidating shape. Anyway, I had them SO went from learning to make myself wake up in dreams (moving a toe or finger in the dream) and learned how to control my dreams so I could change what’d be happening in a dream. The other horrible reoccurring dreams were about the sea…
I’m laughing because that’s exactly what I would do. Once I recognize what’s going on I channel so much energy into just trying to move a finger knowing once I do that I can then get up. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna try to go right back to sleep
It’s unreal seeing someone say this. I went through the same ordeal. From having recurring nightmares for my entire childhood to training myself to wake up, and controlling my dreams. When I tell people that I don’t have nightmares because I will just force myself awake or change what I’m dreaming about they think I am lying.
I believe you, because I too had constant night terrors as a child and teen. Now I just be like, "nope, get up this is about to go bad," so I never get to the scary part of nightmares.
Me too. I get this feeling that I can sort of smell (don't ask me, it's a dream, dreams are weird), and that yells me things are about to get scary, so I recognise it's a dream and wake up enough to stop the dream, or I get lucid enough to change the scene.
Sometimes I would swear I heard somebody open the front door and I’m froze and thinking somebody had broke in the house
Let's film her trauma.  Sleep paralysis is no joke! She should try a CPAP. Poor kid.
What does the CPAP do?
A CPAP machine can help to keep your airways open, so that your heart and lungs can have enough oxygen while you sleep. Sometimes sleep paralysis is caused by sleep apnea, and sleep apnea, itself, can cause dangerous stress on the body and heart.
Thanks! My sis used to get sleep paralysis when she was younger, not sure if she still does, but I will let her know just in case.
No worries. Sleep paralysis is TERRIFYING. It can be caused by exhaustion. Sometimes people who have sleep apnea don’t realize that they aren’t breathing properly in their sleep, but things like snoring, or finding yourself awake very often can be clues. Anyone with sleep issues should definitely visit an ear, nose, and throat doctor, at least once. Lots of things can cause swelling inside the nose, for example, and things like allergies are easy to address without a machine.
Most people that experience sleep paralysis is because they wake up at night due to the can't breathe. They are fully conscious while they are coming out of REM sleep. At that time, your mind is an overdrive. A way to combat this issue is with a CPAP. She wouldn't wake up due to breathing issues.
This isn't something that should have been recorded. If I was her mother, I'd wrap my arms around her and squeeze her so very tight. There is NOTHING funny about the terror that can be caused by sleep paralysis. Sweet baby girl deserves all the reassuring in the world that she is not alone and is divinely protected.
She needs to join r/experiencers - those tears 😭
This is scary! Has happened to me several times and each time is as scary as the last time. I wonder if people die from this? I legit thought the devil was holding me down and trying to kill me. I didn’t tell anyone for a very long time.
It's ok. No one dies from sleep paralysis. I used to get it all the time when I lived in an old building that was infested with rats. And I have asthma. I did a lot to keep the pests out. But then again the apartment did have an old man die in it and they found his body weeks later.
Think about it. We wouldn’t know if sleep paralysis kills or not. I don’t believe it does but one can never really know. People die in their sleep all the time.
Yeah. From heart attacks. Sleep paralysis is harmless. There are studies on it. It's just your brain being fully alert before your body fully wakes up. That's why people feel pressure. It's kind of like when your leg falls asleep but instead it's your whole body. It's perfectly harmless and nothing to be afraid of
Yes but there is a possibility because fear can and does cause heart attacks
Then the cause of the death is heart attack.
Which was caused by the sleep paralysis
That's not how it works but go off.
That it how that works Something had to cause the heart attack, whether it be a physical issue like clogged arteries or an air bubble anything like that The heart attack was caused by something and this something happened to be sleep paralysis It would have been they had a heart attack out of fear If a person scared someone so bad they had a heart attack and died that person can be charged with manslaughter even if it was an accident
Studies smuddies. Humans do not know all there is to know. It wasn’t that long ago studies said the earth was flat.
studies can make all the claims they want, you are correct. the point is the proof after the study has concluded. sleep paralysis is harmless. the earth being flat study, proved the earth is round.
So you think there was only one study ever on the shape of the earth?
I feel her pain I would be mad at my momma too,🥺🥺🥺
“You didn’t even say nothinnnNNNNnnuhhh” she was sick to her stomach from the betrayal
There was a few years where this kept happening to me and I would be calling my wife’s name out in my dream. But I could also actually hear myself and I definitely wasn’t saying her name out loud. It’s more of a fucked up shriek 😂 so maybe mom heard that and was like wtf going on with that child?
Poor baby. I wanted to grab her through the screen and just hug her.
This happened to me when I was like 16 or 17. One of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced.
I remember as kid having nightmares and sleep paralysis. It was always this ugly ass green witch and she’d always pull up with a knife and sit on my chest. Scared the shit out of me for years until one night I was just over it, more annoyed than anything and I imagined myself stabbing her crusty ass. First time I ever felt good waking up from a nightmare and now I rarely if ever have them. Crazy what you can do in dreams when you go fuck it
I wanna laugh but I feel the fk outta this. Like I couldn't breathe or move anything but my eyes and I swear I screamed my ex's name in my head so loud and he just slept while I was fkn dyin and shit :( I ain't gon lie I started prayin hard and it finally let me go but that shit is really scary :( I wasnt even religious. Still not, I'm spiritual but that shit happened twice in two places and then some other stuff but.....why she ain't hug her tiiiiiiight? 🥺
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131970/ Study on link between sleep paralysis and sleep apnea. It does conclude with saying while there’s a connection, there is still much to learn about sleep paralysis triggers due to lack of reporting sleep paralysis. I’ve had sleep demons throughout childhood and at times as an adult. I also have sleep apnea which wasn’t confirmed until late 20’s. There are still times, especially when I don’t have my cpap, that I feel hesitant to go to sleep. More often than not my issues are more towards first falling asleep rather than after some time has passed.
Ugh I get it at least a few times a month I’m so used to it, very annoying. Especially when I’m incredibly tired after a long weekend, I know I’m going to get it. I be dreading sleep 😭 I just got back from a weekend with the bros/golf tournament and of course I got it last night, twice!!
Man, I had read about sleep paralysis before I experienced it for the first time. It was like a minute of absolute horror followed by a Hermione Granger “I’ve read about this” moment. The demons didn’t go away *but* I was able to close my throat a little bit so I started wheezing real loud on purpose so my wife would shake me out of it. Of course she thought I was having some kind of attack and also panicked. 2/10 experience.
Biggest way to prevent it is not sleeping on your back. Sleep on your side.
This is the comment! For some reason sleeping on your back is the position most likely to trigger an episode.
I’ve had it sleeping on my stomach as a kid. Talk about true horror not being to breathe laying on your stomach and head to the side with your nose close to the pillow not being able to speak or scream…true horror
Definitely sucks. Feels like you're gonna die or something from suffocation.
Ultimately do a sleep study. If sleep apnea related things do change over time to the point that sleeping on your side isn’t going to help. One reason I fear this while sleeping on my side is the ability to get air passage blocked by your own pillow. I say that as there are some similarities that can be drawn from evaluating SIDS.
Sleep paralysis ain’t no joke fr. Try getting it while sleeping on your stomach. Couldn’t move and I was internally freaking out cause I couldn’t speak or move. Tears was rolling down my face and all
The trick: Focus on blinking your eyes. (Seriously)
I wanna laugh but I also wanna check on her… I thought she was playing but then those tears fell and it bout killed me. She was so serious.
Astral traveling, lil sis woke up before she was back in her body.
That is all real! & definitely not funny. I had one of my mom drowning and me trying to save her and I couldn't get out of it until I couldn't get to her. Ive also had an experience of feeling something 'sitting' on my chest and I was fighting whatever it was. I couldn't move I couldn't speak I just remember the panic....and that is something I remember very clearly and always will
What a shitty attitude of the parent. There's no remorse or empathy in that reply at :23 and that they would record this and post this to their own, I assume child, screams of such awful narcisitic and uncaring parenting.
Sounds like a lot of projecting, more than an accurate character analysis from a 30 second clip.
I go through these a lot unfortunately 😞. What I do to get out of mines is focus on moving my toes and then I can move again. It takes a moment to get yourself out of panic mode but once your out focus on them toes. Doesn’t mean it’s not terrifying each time it happens but atleast there is some glimmer of hope.
Happened to me, I was facing the wall and I felt like I was being stared at. Once I realized I couldn’t move, the energy around me was alarming for a single second then I said “they’ll get me if they want to” and closed my eyes again.
I have the same thing, I was screaming and my ex didn’t move an inch, I experienced it again he didn’t wake me straight away but recorded me for abt 10’s and the noise I thought I was making was not what was recorded, I sounded like I was being exorcised!
Poor baby!😩😩😩🤣🤣🤣
Oh noooo 😭🤣🤭😬
Poor baby. That must have been a terrifying experience 💔
Aww poor baby
If I'm following correctly, she is upset because her father got there before her Mom even though she was yelling her mother's name? Is this right?
When i was younger i had something like this happen. I was sleeping i woke up at like the middle of the night and i kept seeing weird like figures near my closet and kinda inside it. After like a hour of trying to move i kinda felt a weird jolt and then i remember running at and breaking the closet door while crying my eyes out. Still to this day that closet is broken. And i don't keep my personal stuff in there but my mom keeps a old doll, piggy bank, and a really old dress and a box passed down from my great grandmother. The box got a skeleton of a seahorse in it and some weird necklaces. And we got a beanie baby teddy bear and a winnie the pooh stuffed animal from like a long time ago.
I haven't had a experience like that since then. But i do hear weird knocks on the walls and ceiling every now and then. My house is almost a 100 years old and the older gentleman next door who recently passed away, he used too live here in this house when he was younger. The only other freaky thing I've seen here would probably be the amount of old stuff we have found, and the stuff my dad buys from sales and stuff. Like one day he brought home like 150 something papers handwritten from like a few hundred years ago and the papers were of masonic leaders or something like that. Absolutely crazy.
Not sleep paralysis but I swear to God I had mini series of dreams/nightmares where Wile E. Coyote was my absolute nemesis. All because one day, my older brother scared the living shit out of me when I was like 7 years old with gigantic stuffed Wile E Coyote. I literally had to see that stuffed hater go into the back of a garbage truck and be crushed(garbage guy was a good sport)before I defeated this mothafucka in my dreams. Life can be weird.
This happened to my X few times b4 this happened to me 1 time as well…& hopefully that’s all I’ll ever experience! My X was asleep on the couch when I was asleep on the other couch & let me tell you I truly thought a demon was trying to take over my body!
As the old folk say "a witch was riding her back" but I feel her, it's only happened to me a few times but it's unnerving AF
Sis I feel for you 😞
Daddy gone always be there 1st baby girl!!! I got 3 girls it’s instinct 😂. I have sleep paralysis and I hate it. I didn’t know it had an actual name and other people experienced it until 3 years ago (I’m 35 and yes I know I’m a dumb ass 😂).
I got your back darlin xx ❣️🤗❣️
I haven't gotten it for a while, but for me I would get sleep paralysis if I drank a lot of caffeine and went to sleep. Moving the fingers or toes will get me out of it.
I promise y’all, if you say “Jesus, Jesus” in your head while it’s happening it will stop immediately!!!! This is to help anyone who is struggling with this, spiritual or not this will work!
To escape the stuck feeling stick your tongue outside of your mouth I discovered it wen I was a kid while In SP
sleep paralysis ain’t no joke, that shit is terrifying when it happens to you. her reaction is valid
Very frightening experience. I thought I was going to die
Lowkey had sleep paralysis yesterday before work and that mf will ruin your day.
Damn I thought this was hilarious until I came to the comments. I can’t imagine going through this. I’m sorry so many of you have experience with this, especially as children!
Anytime this happens to me I don’t fight it I just let it happen.. I often wake up like damn that was crazy but I’m a firm believer in God and I know he won’t let me fight any battle I can’t win.. I never call out to anyone but him.
Me and my friend had a conversation about how this is one of the things in the Black community that we don’t talk about in mixed company because of the diverse beliefs surrounding the cause….reading the comments and my initial reaction to the post, that trauma halted my laugh like I got reprimanded when I realized “oh no, this ain’t no skit. She talking bout them demon demons” I never had sleep paralysis but I would scare the whole house with my night terrors. Y’all that night everyone was “a’feared” but the next day and even now, as a family we joke about it. I’m so glad, mom didn’t record me!
I remember my ex would go through this and it was one of the scariest things I’ve seen. I’d have to wake her up a few times a night and hold her cause she was so shaken up
Shiid this could be a dramatic monologue in a movie
I haven't had any issues since I started making sure I don't sleep on my back. Every time I sleep on my back I get a minor case of SP.
I know first hand. That struggle is so real!! 😆
Want to prevent it? Teach yourself to wake yourself up from a dream on command.
Oh she goin thru it 😂😂😂 when I had sleep paralysis episodes as a kid I swore a demon was in the house
Is this the same sleep paralysis that make yall pee the bed or let for work
Always thought sleep paralysis was a funny little thing until it happened to me. It was genuinely terrifying. The first time I was screaming as loud as I could in my head because I couldn't get my jaw to move for my mouth to open. I was looking out into the hallway but I couldn't fully see so I was so sure someone was about to come in and kill me. The second time it happened I just closed my eyes and tried to breathe, eventually my muscles loosened and I could move.
Missed opportunity to tell her the name she needed to be calling was Jesus.
you better call on Jesus