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There have been several great threads on sleep paralysis in the past, but the search function seems perpetually broken and I can't seem to find any of them.
I have been suffering from sleep paralysis most of my adult life - it doesn't happen very often (3 times per year roughly), but when it does, it is extreme and leaves me shaken the next day.
Normally I feel an intense terror and I am acutely aware that it is happening (something in the room with me, feeling like something is touching me or talking to me), and eventually I force myself awake in a panic.
Last night's episode was very different, in that something "followed" me across dreams. I would bet my bottom dollar that I woke up several times (to go to the washroom, put out the dog etc.), and each time I would fall back asleep, this "thing" would reappear in my dreams. The logical side of me knows that it isn't possible, and I was probably asleep the whole time, but my goodness it seamed so real.
What was also different about this dream is that there was no sense of (immediate) panic or dread, I just noticed what looked like a woman standing in the distance looking at me. She didn't look entirely human - her eyes were way too large for her head and her skin was milk white. In every dream that I could remember, she would just be standing at the periphery of whatever I was doing in my dream, but getting progressively closer each time. In the last dream that actually startled me awake, she smiled, and she had rows of teeth like a shark.
While it is technically not the scariest episode of sleep paralysis I have ever had, it is the one that left me the most bothered. Like I said, I would bet money that I got up on multiple occasions, and even made note of the weird dreams I was having, only to have it continue when I went back to bed.
I know a lot of you suffer from sleep paralysis, so I would love to hear your stories as well.
I have been suffering from sleep paralysis most of my adult life - it doesn't happen very often (3 times per year roughly), but when it does, it is extreme and leaves me shaken the next day.
Normally I feel an intense terror and I am acutely aware that it is happening (something in the room with me, feeling like something is touching me or talking to me), and eventually I force myself awake in a panic.
Last night's episode was very different, in that something "followed" me across dreams. I would bet my bottom dollar that I woke up several times (to go to the washroom, put out the dog etc.), and each time I would fall back asleep, this "thing" would reappear in my dreams. The logical side of me knows that it isn't possible, and I was probably asleep the whole time, but my goodness it seamed so real.
What was also different about this dream is that there was no sense of (immediate) panic or dread, I just noticed what looked like a woman standing in the distance looking at me. She didn't look entirely human - her eyes were way too large for her head and her skin was milk white. In every dream that I could remember, she would just be standing at the periphery of whatever I was doing in my dream, but getting progressively closer each time. In the last dream that actually startled me awake, she smiled, and she had rows of teeth like a shark.
While it is technically not the scariest episode of sleep paralysis I have ever had, it is the one that left me the most bothered. Like I said, I would bet money that I got up on multiple occasions, and even made note of the weird dreams I was having, only to have it continue when I went back to bed.
I know a lot of you suffer from sleep paralysis, so I would love to hear your stories as well.