I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. As I tried to get out of bed, I realized I couldn’t move. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t move a finger. I heard my parents talking downstairs so to get their attention I tried to scream but I couldn’t. I was completely paralyzed, and I did not understand how it had happened.
Then I saw three beings coming out of the walls, like the Cenobites in Clive Barkers Hellbound Heart. I should say I had not read the Hellbound Heart book or seen the movie at the time. It was just how it looked like. As they came closer, they looked down at me, and I realized that they were the Beagle Boys from Duck Tales. They promptly started to torture me by sticking long needles into my back, and it really hurt. I knew it was some sort of hallucination, but I didn’t know how to stop it.
When you dream you don’t know that you are dreaming, and logic and common sense does not work. This was different. I was fully aware, and I understood that what I felt and what I saw couldn’t be real. I guessed that I had some sort of condition causing a hallucination. I would later find out that it was sleep paralysis, a sort of mixed state between being awake and asleep. It happened to me several times during my teenage years and later on it happened to me once as an adult.
Have you ever had sleep paralysis?
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A scary experience which we’ve not come across before. Hope you don’t again.
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It is a strange and scary experience. Once I understood what it was, a little bit less so. Luckily it happened mostly when I was teenager and then it stopped, well except for one time. The one with the Beagle Boys was the strangest of them all.
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I have had sleep paralysis. Fortunately, I had read about it before then, so I knew what was happening. Makes things a lot less scary!
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Yes it is better when you know about it. I am glad you had read about it.
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Yes!!! I used to have it almost every day early in the morning. It’s so frustrating not being able to move when you feel you must because of some emergency. On the other hand, the relief makes it all worthwhile when you realize you’ve been asleep and there is no emergency. Lol!! At any rate, I’m glad I no longer have sleep paralysis. The funny thing is all I had to do was change bedrooms. Evidently there was weird energy in the bedroom that always gave me sleep paralysis. Haven’t had it since I moved. Crazy, yes? Lol!!
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Wow Laura, almost every day, that must have been very taxing. I only had a few times a year for a few years, then one time when I was older. It is funny how it went away when you switched rooms. I’ve read that sleep problems can cause it. Perhaps you slept better in the other room. I am just guessing.
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I think you’re right. I sleep much, much better in the bedroom I’m in now. The good thing (if there is a good thing about sleep paralysis…lol) is I experienced it so often in the other room that it lost its ability to frighten me every time it happened. It was like “oh, its that crazy thing happening again.” Then my only worrying thought was “oh, but what if it isn’t a dream, and I’m not asleep, and this calamity is really happening this time?” Lol!!!
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“I experienced it so often in the other room that it lost its ability to frighten me every time it happened” Wow! That is amazing. You certainly are certainly seasoned and experienced with sleep paralysis.
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Wow thats a very intense sleep paralysis! Like you I’d get that alot as a teenager! Maybe a few times per year which felt like too often. As a Christian I thought they were demons trying to scare me. Once i became atheist they went away for years then returned when I was in Vancouver. Early in the morning a guy friend was outside of my place and subconsciously I knew he was abit off then I froze and this dream person walked in and said “don’t look into his eyes!” It was very scary but I knew what it was by then. Just sleep paralysis.
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Yes, the Beagle Boy hallucination was a special one. Most of the time I just couldn’t move and sometimes I had a little bit of hallucinations. I read that seeing demons is a common hallucination during sleep paralysis. So, you had them in Vancouver too. So, they lasted long for you. The last one you describe must have been very scary.
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Yes that one was scarier. And a few after that have occurred, maybe only 3, but it’s always a guy approaching me while I can’t move. 😦 thankfully it only happens every few years. Maybe it’ll never happen again. 😝
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Sara, that sounds very scary. I really hope it does not happen again.
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Me too. I think sometimes you see what you fear most in those. As a kid & teen I thought demons were scary then after a few real life situations, I’ve found certain guys to be scarier. 😅 That guy in Kananaskis, AB opened the door while I was sleeping and that woke me up to him sitting on the bed & that memory came back to me before that sleep paralysis happened where the dream hallucination yelled at me to look away.
In the more recent one I felt more annoyed & was able to say “f*** off!” LOL. Hasn’t happened since.
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Yes that might true, that what you hallucinate during sleep paralysis is what you fear most. You certainly have some very traumatic experiences. I know some women with similar experiences so I know it is very devastating. I really hope it will not show up in your sleep paralysis or nightmares.
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I should add your last sentence seem to indicate that this scary sleep paralysis hallucination will not happen again. I am pretty sure it won’t.
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YIKES! what an experience! When I was in college, I didn’t sleep well. I know, I’m the first, right? At one point, I shared an basement apartment with three other girls. We had windows at ground level, which always made me a little uncomfortable, because whenever I studied. people’s legs walked by. I dreamt that someone was trying to break into the window while I was sleeping. I tried to wake up my roommates, but I couldn’t get a word out or move.
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Denise that sounds like sleep paralysis. You couldn’t move. I’ve read that it is often caused by sleep disorders and sleeping badly.
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Scary stuff! I used to have nightmares as a teenager and young adult and remember trying to scream but no sound came out. Doesn’t compare to the horrific experience you have described, though.
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Well the Beagle Boys hallucination was special. Most of the time I couldn’t move or speak, that’s it, and sometimes there was a hallucination. Trying to scream and you couldn’t. That sounds like sleep paralysis. Your brain is mostly awake but your body isn’t.
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I have had that happen, but it was so close to a dream that I shook it off as that. Yuck!
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Sometimes it is difficult to know whether it is a nightmare or sleep paralysis. I’ve read that during sleep paralysis the brain is essentially awake but not the body. So, if you feel awake but can’t move and can’t talk or scream that’s a sign that it is sleep paralysis. Sometimes there are hallucinations about other beings in the room, but not always.
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Yes, I’ve had sleep paralysis, and it was horrible. I tried to call out to my husband, and I couldn’t speak. It went away, but I haven’t forgotten it.
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Yes that is scary. Not being able to move, talk or scream is pretty unsettling. Dawn, I hope you don’t get it again.
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And the same to you!
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Thank you Dawn
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That was intense… And yes I and my hubby had a similar experience, Unable to move or shout… It began with a Noise first a Humm in the distance that got louder in my head… I since learnt more about this… But at the time very scary.. But thankfully No needles 🙂 I shook it off…
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Most of the time I just couldn’t move, talk or sleep. Sometimes I had hallucinations, but the Beagle Boys was the hallucination that took the cake. A humm in the distance that is an interesting one.
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The humm sound, Thomas, has happened several times, but I seem to shake it before the paralysis starts.
But I’ve had several weird OBE over the years.
It was several months later when talking with my hubby over that experience. He, too, admitted, having experienced similar also with the hum in the distance..
Thank you for sharing 💖
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The hum in a distance and that both you and your husband heard the hum is quite remarkable. I assume with OBE you mean out of body experience? I have never had that.
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Yes, I used to get pulled up out through the top in my head while dropping off to sleep up out through the ceiling and float above outside sometimes . After a few times I would float exploring, then zoom back in.. doesn’t happen as often now I’m older lol 😆
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That is a strange experience. I am glad it isn’t happening to you anymore. But about “I would float exploring…” maybe it was interesting too?
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It was after getting over my initial fear of what was occurring x
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It is a quite remarkable experience
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I’ve had this before and at the time had no idea what was going on. It can be a terrifying state to be in. I hope you don’t have anymore.
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Thank you Denise. I hope you don’t have any more of them either. You are right it can be terrifying. It is a little bit better when you know what it is.
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I don’t have sleep paralysis. But I di have a couple of scary experiences where it was dark in my room, I woke up in the middle of the night and I could have sworn the room was upside down, I tried to reach out for my phone to turn on the lantern but I couldn’t, I felt that if I moved an inch more I would fall. Luckily first time it happened, a family member was also awake in another room. I called for help, told them to just turn on the light and then everything was alright. I learned to sleep with a light on, because it’s terrifying to wake up feeling like you’re upside down. Not being able to reach for anything because in the dark it all seems different than what you remember it. I don’t know how to describe it better. Sheesh. Sleep paralysis does sound scarier than everything I’ve experienced though. Sorry you went through that.
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That sounds like a really scary nightmare. I’ve read that vivid nightmares is a related phenomenon. Yes, with sleep paralysis you are paralyzed. They are often rooted in sleep disorders or bad sleep.
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it’s amazing, reading over these comments, to find how common sleep paralysis is. I haven’t experienced it for years, but when I was younger, especially when I was in college, I had several episodes of it. I had no idea what it was until many years later. I heard my roommates laughing, which only made me angry.
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Hit send too soon. Needless to say, I hope you’ve no longer have such experiences. It helps understanding what’s going on, but they’re still quite unpleasant.
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I agree with you Denise. I did not expect sleep paralysis to be this common. It seems like almost everyone had it. I am sorry to hear that your room mates laughed about it. It is a terrifying experience not to laugh about. I should say though I give anyone a pass for laughing at my Beagle Boy hallucination. It’s a bit silly but it happened. Maybe because the Beagle Boys actually scared me when I was little. Thank you for your kind words Denise.
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Thanks for sharing scary experience. Anita
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Thank you so much Anita
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Hi Thomas, thankfully I have not experienced anything like this. I did have nightmares for years as a child. I dreamed my dad was in the middle of a water maze and I was in a small rowing boat trying to get to him, but I never could get there. I dreamed that nightmare for years and years.
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Those were really stressful nightmares with a quite interesting plot. I had the occasional sleep paralysis and my brother had some repetitive nightmares. His were simpler than yours, just running without getting somewhere but they happened for years.
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Odd, aren’t they? Mine are the result of childhood trauma. I know that. My anxiety issues are also a result of that but I do okay. Life is strange and winding.
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That make sense, about the nightmares coming from childhood trauma. But I am sorry to hear about your childhood trauma.
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