Waking Up Paralyzed, Please Help!

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

When this happens try and move your toes and fingers to regain control of your body. Try not to sleep on your back. Dont think about it before you sleep too.

You can see many posts about it in the "Sleep disorders" forum.

my sister had this a couple times throughout her life and so have i.

its called sleep paralysis, i remember in middle school i did a whole report about it.

very frightnening and im sry u have it.

thats called sleep paralasis, its a type of sleep disorder. its actually very common, its just when you wake up but your body is still asleep, then it starts to wake up. it can be scary but please dont worry about it though.

No need to worry, it's easy to fix.

Just breathe when you wake up, it will fly away

Do you feel an evil or angry presence during this? I've had the same experience several times during my life. Once in my Grandparents house that is 150 years old and has had reportings of ghost sightings all of my life and back to when my Mom was a little girl. She woke up and couldn't move or talk and finally screamed and said someone is breathing in her face. It's happened once to me in the same house but a different room. When I was a kid I was scared to go into the basement alone. My first memory is from the basement in this house. I was about 3 years old. I wonder if I saw something before that to make me scared of the basement. I was 30 years old before I ever slept down there alone and felt like someone was watching me. This has also happened to my Mom, Step-Dad, little brother, and myself in my Mom's house. Same feeling. Wake up can't move but can see everything in the room. And feel like I'm being held down. I finally say "Get off of me" and it lets go. I looked it up online and came across alot of sleep disorder stuff. But I've never had a sleeping problem. This has only happend to me 3 or 4 times. Other than that I sleep fine. Getting back to sleep after it happens is a problem. Usually after it happens you can find something in your house that would attract a demon or evil. Such as porn, anti-christ comic books, skulls, anything dealing with the occult or voodoo. It also happens if you are trying to become more spiritual. You attract your opposite. As good as you're trying to be. On the other side of the spectrum is an evil that can match it and will try everything to deter you from being good.

Ooh now, porn's not evil.....

If you feel like you need to get it treated, a sleep clinic can help. Otherwise just do your research and you should be ok.

my nae is anthony , my mother is a jehovah's witness. on several ocassions I would awake paralyzed feeling a demonic and evil presense. I would say god's name in my head and slowly would regain my ability to move and awake. sometimes this would happen more than once a night and usually when i slept at my sister's house with my wife.very scary , very real, I believe it's demons. my parent house in collingswood , nj was severly invaded by demons in the 70's. blinds would fluttter. doors would slam and cabinets would slam with pots and pans falling out. all the cousins and my sister and brother would wake up crying at the same time.no coincidental sleep disorder when 2 adults and 5 children wake up at the same time and children are crying terrrified. please reply.anthony

I have sleep paralysis and I would wake up not being able to move, but feeling like I was in immediate danger like someone else was in the room wishing me harm.

I would scream but nothing would come out. When I did get to move, I would jump up off the bed running for the next room where I knew someone would be.

I went to the doctor but had a regular test and nothing ever came of it. But I learned on my own that sleep depervation is the trigger.

Make sure that you don't go long periods of time without sleep. I have not had a problem again with sleep paralysis. KNOCK ON WOOD!!!

Anyway there is a easy fix to this, just make sure you get enough sleep. And try to calm yourself if it happens again.

I had the exact same thing, its pretty scary and I remember it very well.
I often have them in the morning when I am just about to wake up.

I "wake up" and my body is paralysed, but still able to move my arms a little bit, but it takes so much energy and then my heart starts to thump and speed up in my chest, I often have the duvet over my mouth and nose and feel like i am sufforcating but can't get the duvet off because of the paralysis and I worry that i might sufforcate before I get the movement of the arms back. I often hear a voice in my head to not move otherwise I would die
I try to shout for someone and then I realise i can't speak that great, my voice is a whisper.
I don't get it as often as i used to and it happens randomly
Its really strange

I am very relieved to know that I am not the only one who has what I just learned is called "Sleep Paralysis."
When it happens, I wake up and cannot move my body, no matter how much I want or try to. My thoughts are crystal clear but for some reason I cannot for the life of me carry out my motor neurons.
Something that also happens to me that I have not read about happening to anyone else on this forum was that I hear voices. Very loud voices which I know are in my imagination because they are so loud (sometimes they will be male and no males live in my house) the voices will also sound very random and will repeat words over and over. I was not very happy to read that this is associated with demons. My most horrible experience with sleep paralysis was a night when I woke up, could not move, heard stange voices, and felt like my body was lifted off of my bed and placed on the floor (I remember thinking trying to convince myself that I wasn't on the floor but I remember thinking that I felt carpet. ) After this part I felt pressure on my neck like I was being choked my hands. After this I felt that I was back in my bed. (I really do not believed that I was physically removed from my bed and placed on the floor but that is what I remember feeling.)
I do not believe in demons or ghosts, but this experience made me wonder whether or not they might exist.

Please post a message if you also hear loud imaginary voices while experiencing sleep paralysis.