(May 20, 2012 at 7:43 pm)gringoperry Wrote: I suffer from sleep paralysis every week, at least twice each week. I had it last night in fact. The nightmares often loop, where I think I have awakened, only to find that I'm in another nightmare. Last night there was a little boy, who looked like my son but who I knew somehow wasn't. I was both on the bed unable to move, and approaching the little boy to find out who he was. Then came the entity. I told it I knew what it was and it showed its true self. It became the most horrific face in a completely black, swirling mass. It engulfed my entire field of vision and was accompanied by a whining sound which increased in volume and pitch as it drew closer. I was terrified but couldn't scream out, then I went into another loop with a different nightmare, but the little boy was there again. With me, there always seems to be one common element to the dreams, on a given night. However, that element changes with each new night of dreams. I should really see a doctor about it, but I've never actually got round to it. When I was a kid my mum sent me to the doctors about it, but all they pescribed was kiddie sleeping pills.
I recently discovered I have a mild form of narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis is the major symptom. However, my sleep paralysis experiences are nothing like most of the stories I hear. I do not hallucinate. For me, my mind awakens but my body doesn't. I feel extremely uncomfortable and it takes every ounce of my will to flip over on the other side of my body to get comfortable. Then I fall asleep again. It's not scary for me, rather very, very annoying and painful.
I've had a few really weird occurrences where I could swear I saw what was going on around me. In one incident, I fell asleep at a friend's house and remember "waking up" briefly and seeing him change his shirt. When I really woke up, he was still in the same shirt he had on when I fell asleep. I asked him if he changed his shirt and even named the color of the one I saw. After a bit of shock, he said that he in fact did change into that shirt briefly (I forgot the reason lol). I asked if he saw me wake up and he said no. I always brushed it off as him just missing the moment I woke up briefly.
Things like this have happened before though. I don't believe in the supernatural so I yea... Just weird stuff that remains unexplained.
As for the ghost thing, I used to be a super believer in ghosts. I still get the creeps in a dark bathroom with huge mirrors. To this day, I stick my hand in first to turn on the lights before I actually enter. I don't even believe in ghosts anymore haha. I find myself constantly thinking, "Your mind is playing tricks on you... you don't believe in ghosts..." in these situations.
Darn brain sometimes...
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