10 Terrifying Facts about Sleep Paralysis

If you get sleep paralysis, don't open your eyes: https://youtu.be/jcrYmH1HPO4

Sleep paralysis is an otherworldly experience. People don’t realize how scary it can be.

“Roses are red” “Violets are blue” “Outside I’m sleeping” “But inside I’m screaming”

How many of you are watching this right after having your sleep paralysis experience? I just had my first one 😭😭 it was scary af i thought i was gonna die

It's definitely scary.... as a grown man who isn't scared of anything I can tell you it's horrible. I don't mind nightmares and some of them are crazy and I have had some scary nightmares but waking up paralyzed is Nuts! I pray for people who have this. I have experienced it a lot lately. That's why I looked it up

I’m so used to sleep paralysis by now that when it comes I’m just like “Ah shit, here we go again.”

literally 99% won’t see this but if you do, God bless you, stay safe and have a wonderful day

Thank you for raising awareness on this. It's one of my most traumatic experiences. I had opened my eyes during the sleep paralysis and experienced insane hallucinations and audio ones. It was terrifying and I felt like it was the end.

I have a cousin who suffered an episode of sleep paralysis while in a medical surgery. My cousin who I used to be friends with, suffered a lot of knee injuries throughout his life whilst playing various sports like football and hockey. He eventually got a major knee surgury done in the hospital. He was given some form of anesthesia, which later became futile after the surgery commenced. He was a very large man, both in weight and height and was very athletic; I reckon the anesthesia was just unable to accommodate his large frame. He woke up mid-surgery and felt EVERYTHING. He described it as the worst pain one could possibly imagine, and that it felt like it lasted for HOURS. He even mentioned that he cried throughout it but was stuck in his paralyzed body and could not move nor communicate. It was quite a traumatic experience, no doubt. Has anything like this ever happen to anyone else? Seriously… sleep paralysis ain’t no joke.

Finally a person who doesn't put the scariest images!

Sleep paralysis isn't just unpleasant, it's genuinely horrifying. Several times I literally thought I was going to die because I couldn't move at all, could barely breathe, and it felt like a force was smothering me into my bed.

Just had sleep paralysis last night. It’s always terrifying cause you remember every single detail while it’s happening. It only occurs when I’m under a great amount of stress and/or going through extreme anxiety. After watching a few videos and reading comments, it seems like I have to stop trying to force my body to awake & relax. I must admit, that’s going to be challenging because I always feel like somebody is chasing me or trying to kill me that’s why I want to snap out of it desperately. I’m thankful this doesn’t happen often. 🙏🏾

I used to suffer from sleep paralysis when I was a child and teen, but it went away. I might even have beaten it myself. It almost always happened when I tried taking a nap during the day, rarely at night and it was really spooky stuff until I learned about what sleep paralysis is as an adult. It would always start with a intense buzzing and humming sound, like static on a radio or an old TV and then I would feel how something scary, some form of entity, like a half transparent shadow would approach my bed and loom over me while I couldn't move. Reading Stephen King's "It" as a child helped me. In it he describes the "Ritual of Chudd" where you defeat a demon by challenging it to a duel of the mind and metaphorically biting into its tongue and not letting go till it begs for mercy. So when it happened again, I would become really aggressive and confrontational, mentally challenging the shadow to a fight and while I couldn't really bite it's tongue, I imagined turning into a powerful beast, usually a large crocodile for some reason and just rip the shadow to pieces in my mind. The last few times it happened I got outright giddy with anticipation. "So, you came back to get your ass kicked again?" I was thinking. Shortly after that it stopped for good. I'm not saying that I believe in supernatural stuff and I somehow defeated a demon or something, but I do think I kind of healed myself from the sleep paralysis affliction somehow though some form of self-hypnosis or by taking charge of my dreams. Now it kind of is my go-to without even thinking about it. Even in regular nightmares, I always turn into a crocodile or some sort of monster and turn it around on whatever is coming after me in the nightmare. I'm strangely aggressive and predatory in my dreams, always hunting down, fighting and mauling the scary stuff instead of being afraid of it. It is as if in my dreams the ability to fear was replaced with a single minded chain dog-like bloodlust and aggression.

I feel like “paralysis” doesn’t really explain what it feels like. I can still feel my body, I just can’t move it. It feels more like I’m in a full body cast or stuck under a pile of bricks with someone sitting on my chest.

"Like a demon, or a monster" shows cat

last night I had more than 5 rows of sleep paralysis. I knew I had to move my hand to woke up and I did. I woke up everytime and change my sleep position. but as soon as I closed my eyes it started again. I was so tired and I knew the only way to get away with it is to really stand up and drink water and than go to bed again. I also woke my husband up and held his hand and told him to wake me up, when he hears me breathing fast. It's a versy scary experience, no matter how many times you have had this, it'll always be annoying.

I have a few steps for you if you should find yourself in sleep paralysis: Step1: DO NOT PANIC under any circumstances Step2: Do not open your eyes, this will decrease your chances of seeing a hallucination Step3: Wiggle your toes or fingers, if they won’t move then attempt to do so this will signal the brain that you’re ready to wake up Sweet dreams everyone

Me: trying to relax, sleep, maybe lucid dream My sleep paralysis: I’m boutta end this mans whole career

Is it just me or you guys also get sleep paralysis when u take a nap and then go back to sleep after a couple of hours?

I had my first episode of sleep paralysis it was so freaky and I’ve heard many stories of people seeing demons but I didn’t see anything luckily