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Ever experienced something & you couldnt tell if it was real?
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Maybe 5-6 years ago I was laying in bed, in the dark, not yet really falling into sleep, not tired, when I noticed something across the room and a little to the right. Can't say how I noticed, seein' as I couldn't very well see. I just "knew" it was there.
From what I could tell, this thing was tall, humanish but too thin, darker than the rest of the room and there was a very bad feeling associated with it. Very very VERY bad. Than I realized I couldn't move.
This thing was taunting me, I knew it! It was holding me down somehow and must have thought it was quite funny.
After what I'd guess was 5-15min, I said to myself "fuck it" and struggled a bit and was able to get up. I crossed the room, it was near the floor lamp and in my head I kept thinking "fuck it, fuck you, you aint wreckin my night!" even tho I was scared out of my skin. I knew that some how turning the light on would rid me of this Thing.
I made it (though walking was kind of hard) to the light, turned it on with a smile and it was gone. I felt strange than, not really knowing what had just happened. I knew I hadn't been asleep, even very realistsic dreams tend to have a dream-like quality, and the very convincing ones usually end up with me awake and confused.
Something was wrong here.
I went back to my bed and layed there awhile, and eventually slept. Until than and ever since, I have never felt such terror.
I wouldn't say I believe some malevolent being was in my room, but I know I wasn't sleeping.
Anyone else have some strange stories?
From what I could tell, this thing was tall, humanish but too thin, darker than the rest of the room and there was a very bad feeling associated with it. Very very VERY bad. Than I realized I couldn't move.
This thing was taunting me, I knew it! It was holding me down somehow and must have thought it was quite funny.
After what I'd guess was 5-15min, I said to myself "fuck it" and struggled a bit and was able to get up. I crossed the room, it was near the floor lamp and in my head I kept thinking "fuck it, fuck you, you aint wreckin my night!" even tho I was scared out of my skin. I knew that some how turning the light on would rid me of this Thing.
I made it (though walking was kind of hard) to the light, turned it on with a smile and it was gone. I felt strange than, not really knowing what had just happened. I knew I hadn't been asleep, even very realistsic dreams tend to have a dream-like quality, and the very convincing ones usually end up with me awake and confused.
Something was wrong here.
I went back to my bed and layed there awhile, and eventually slept. Until than and ever since, I have never felt such terror.
I wouldn't say I believe some malevolent being was in my room, but I know I wasn't sleeping.
Anyone else have some strange stories?
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When you sleep your brain releases substances to keep you from moving and thus re-enacting your dreams, as that could hurt you.
But when you wkae up really sudden your body can by accident lack the time to get rid of all the substances that are inherent of the sleep state. Usually you wake up in stages, in this case you didn't. So you wake up and you can't move or partially at best. Result: you're semi-concious trough the whole waking up process.
Another things that's inherent to the sleep stage is the massive speed at which your brain makes sensory connections.You know when you see something in the corner of your eye and when you focus it's something entirely different? That's your brain anticipating what it is you could be seeing. Matching a more detailled shape to the general shape you see. This is a common process your brain uses all the time, because if you were to conciously "see" all the images all day long you(d have an overload. A human brain gets about a billion bits of information a second. So this is one of the processes used to make you see a lot more efficient. So that's why you think you saw a shape of a living being. It actually makes sense since those basic shapes, of a face (like you can see a face in this: -_- even tho it's just three lines) or a humanoid body, or an animal are the easiest ones recognized. Things you could consider a threat are among those too, since the brain usually picks the things that make you the most cautios. It's just one of those ancient safety precautions of your brain. Now, the fear...
Well, since you woke up really sudden and your brain said "eeek! danger! red alert!" there were a whole range of things happening in your body, all desinged to make your next responses and actions (fight or flight) more efficient and faster. For example, your testicles go up, your adrenaline levels go waaay up, your liver releases extra blood sugars, your vision is enhanced, your heart starts pumping and your brain starts making conncetions even FASTER, like really fast. People in this state do those crazy things like fight 3 people at once, cut of their own arm, lift a car, run trough fires, stuff like that.
You said you slowly regained the ability to walk? That was your body recovering from the sleep substances. And when you lit the room you saw way more and your brain could stop making connections like your life depended on it.
Feel blessed with such a marvelously designed body and brain!
And yes, I saw some pretty fucked up things.
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Now when it happens though, I'm pretty good at knowing whats up and can calm myself down enough to not fight it soo much, rather ease out of it. Those little spark plugs connecting to your brain can do some weird stuff sometimes.
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Is there a way to force things like these? Scary as the shadow thing was, it was very exciting!
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It's called sleep paralysis.
It used to happen to me a lot. I even experimented with it some and could induce the state in myself with about 20% reliability. Because I used to experience it so much I learned how to take myself out of it pretty easily too.
Just to compare notes: did you feel a sort of buzzing/tingling sensation all through your body? Just curious.
Also, if your into metaphysical mumbo jumbo I believe that sleep paralysis is pretty closely related to what the Hindus call kundalini (or something like that. It's been a long time since I read about that stuff.)
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Last week I was awoken by something dark moving up my bed. I was terrified and decided to lash out. Then all of sudden there was a pain in my right leg. It quickly dawned on me that I was infact punching my own leg. This woke up my girlfreind, who of course birst out in laughter when I explained.
I thought it was just weird that it took 2 or 3 puches for my brain to realise it was my leg.
When you're asleep or half asleep the brain does strange things.
Yea, just the other day I had this feeling that a malevolent creature was watching me. I turned quickly to see my evil boss sneaking up on my cubicle......
The brain has always amazed me and how it works, I want to learn more about it. Things like dreams and dreaming I find interesting.
The one that gets me (it kinda similar, but not really) when you dream you have a bunch of cash (or something valuable) and you put it somewhere when you can get it when you wake up.
I had a dream that I found $50,000 and i put in the fridge to keep it safe. I woke strait up out of bed and headed to the fridge. Half way there I started laughing at myself.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
Seriously though man theres crazy shit out there like shadow people and demons and alien contact that if you want to you can ignore it and say it all just yer imagination and brain playing tricks.
But ill swear to the day i die that theres ghosts and inter-dimensional beings of both good and evil out there interracting with us.
Also i got contacted by aliens once when i went camping. Me and a buddy were wilderness canoeing way out in the bush in northern canada where theres like maybe 5 people at the most in a 200 mile radius and the aliens came to me at night and told me they had to contact me out here because the interference from other brainwaves was too great in the city where they had been trying to contact me earlier. They told me to expect further communications and to prepare... far what they didnt say. All of the aliens looked completely human except for one that kinda looked monsterish that bothered me and they tried to calm my fears about that.
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Many years back, i went to an activity training camp to practice our netball with our coach. So we gotta stay like about 3 days in school for the upcoming competition. Back then i was a vice captain of the team and the captain went to do some stuffs in another area. I was clearing some equipments for training at abt 10pm at the court with two members and all of the sudden i felt a hand patting on my shoulder when i was picking up some balls. I thought it was one of the two members but when i turn back they are walking to other corners which is 100m away from me across the court., which means that they cant be fooling me in such a long distant. I got freak out and drop the balls on my hands, and later i saw white flashes zoom fast across the court. That night i cant sleep and didnt tell anyone about this matter, as it may affect the camp practice. Well we won the competition on the same week and till today i was thinking abt that freaking hand!!!
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I was lying in bed, I had just woken up in the middle of the night. I look over and in the center of the bedroom and this guy was standing in a cherry-picker. For those who don't know what that is, it's looks like this. The bucket end of that thing was through the ceiling, as if the truck was outside. I was in awe. Then, it raised itself out of the ceiling as the dude in it waved to me, then ceiling then closed itself up.
The guy in it went to my highschool and was hella weird. Seeing him in my room = WTFBASEBALLBAT!!!!!
I don't believe in heaven and hell and all that stuff, but I do believe in spirits/ghosts and I think my grandmother has watched over me at times to help influence little things. Small children and babies have always been attracted to me (not in that kinda of ways sicko's) but to where no matter what they will come and play around me or just come over and hang out, or smile in general. They say kids are hyper sensitive to spirits/ghosts, so I feel the babies and small kids sense my grandmothers spirit and are comforted.
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Pretty simple really but let me clear something up first. When I said I could induce it I didn't mean I could pop in and out of it at will. I meant that I could go to sleep and expect that sometime after I went to sleep I would have one of those experiences.
Since you have experienced it before it shouldn't be too difficult for you to do it again. You might call this self-hypnosis but I think that's too strong a term for it. Anyway, here is what I did:
1. When you lie down to go to sleep try to remember what the experience you had felt like. Specific details don't matter just try to recall the feeling of it.
2. Repeat to yourself a number of times that you will have that type of experience (call it whatever you like) again.
3. Stress the fact that you will REMEMBER to have the experience after you have gone to sleep. The thing about remembering to do it seems to be important. There will always be that part of your mind that is going to want to avoid this.
And that's pretty much all I did. Then I would go to sleep and if I did -remember- I would wake up into the sleep paralysis state. Sometimes almost instantly after I dropped off into sleep it would hit me <BAM> and I'd be awake again but in that state. But I always had to drop into normal sleep for at least a second or two first.
A note about repeating to yourself that you will have the experience.....repeat it for a while and then stop. Don't try to keep repeating it untill you fall asleep or, if you're like me, you will never get to sleep. Fix it in your mind and then relax and let your mind drift on whatever as you go to sleep. Just try to hold onto the idea somewhere in the back of your mind.
Now if you want my back up method it's basically the same thing except that I would also think about scary things. That probably sounds corny in text but when you're lying alone in the dark it's not so hard. I would think about things that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and sent a chill down my spine. For bringing on the condition I was after it really seemed to help but I don't recommend doing it this way.
Some people think that these experiences are real. I mean, that they are more than just lucid dreaming. But whether it's real or not it can be some pretty damn scary sh-t.
And finally...getting out of it easily. I'm not sure how well you remember your experience so I'm not sure how much sense this will make to you. But the main thing is to stop <pushing> against it. Relax. Sort of mentally back away, back down into normal sleep, and then come back up going <around> this state and into normal waking.
That might be more easily said than done at first. Especially if you are having an experience with the sense of another being present in the room with you as you described. Which, by the way, happens a lot. In fact there is almost always at least the worry that there might be something else/other around. So relaxing and backing down into normal sleep might feel like letting your defenses down. But if you stay calm enough to do it it really is the quickest and simplest way to get out of it.
And that's about it. Now just don't blame me if you have some fekking nightmarish experiences and become a born again christian just to keep the demons off your back. I had some of those. Never did get religion though. I was always able to look at it objectively afterwards and not go off the deep end.
I've read up a bit on this and many experiences seem to be similar, very strange, I love it!
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