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Originally Posted by lironil  I actually had no idea what this was.. is that sleep paralysis? I'm new to all this lol I do know it was morning already.. I had a good night sleep, woke up at 7am and went back to sleep. Then woke again about 8am, or thought I did, and this happened. I fell back to sleep after that and then woke again a few minutes later and I still couldn't move.. I was shaking afterwards, it terrified me. |
Yeah thats sleep paralysis alright. Feeling hands grabbing you and holding you down is a very common hallucination. I get sleep paralysis every night. I've been having more extreme bouts of it in the past 2 days though. Usually I pull myself out of paralysis 4 or 5 times then its over for the night. Last night and the night before I just kept going back into sleep paralysis so I just stop resisting it and went with it. Last night I lay there until visuals started. I was admiring all the crazy scenery and stuff that was popping up and I noticed old memories were resurfacing, memories I had long forgotten. At one point I started smelling latex gloves and I had the impression I was in a dentists office. It was a very unpleasant sensation though, the smell of latex gloves was very strong and I started remembering surgeries and stuff were I was supposedly asleep under anesthesia but was really only paralysed. I got the sense of some kind of evil presence and then I heard a voice behind me say "Come to me" in a slow, whispering voice like the kinda thing people hear in horror films. This scared me so I pulled myself out of paralysis. I realised I was sleeping on my hands and that day I was wearing latex gloves at lab at college so that would explain the smell lol. Interestingly enough, I washed my hands thoroughly that day and couldn't smell them while awake. I obviously had heightened sensitivity to smell while in sleep paralysis.
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Originally Posted by DayDream I have felt something grab my arm and also try and bite me on the back. But it was strange because it did not hurt, I just felt the pressure. Whatever it was I could also hear. It was laughing at me and kept telling me it was going to eat me. Amazingly enough I didn't freak out. I quickly started praying for protection and asked my angels to please come and clear out any negative energies out of my room. It worked. The experience actually left me feeling powerfull and no longer afraid of astral projection. |
I get this a lot too. I feel a dog biting my hands or feet but it doesn't hurt, it feels more like a dog playfully biting me. It actually feels good. I used to love sleep paralysis, it never scared me at all but I watched this documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPMUz8RAjks
now every time I go into SP I think about this and get scared lol. It never used to scare me cuz I thought it was just some natural part of sleep like dreaming but sometimes I'd pull myself out of paralysis thinking "what the ♥♥♥♥ just happened" because it can be so intense. Like I said, I get it every night so I have had a lot more time to experiment with it than most people. Whether its scary or fun depends entirely on how you look at it. When you remember it can't hurt you and just relax, it becomes great fun. Kinda like an insane, hallucinatory rollercoaster.