This sleep paralysis story is one scary account of a friend who had experienced paralysis and lucid dreaming for the first time in his life. The so-called sleep demon had him running for his life but paralysis for what it is, completely stops you from moving. Read this eerie account to find out his bizarre experience.
A Sleep Paralysis Story
My night shifts started erratically. I did not see it coming but it was a welcome change. Primarily because we are compensated in the form of extra bucks to work through the night in IT, while the whole world is sleeping. How very satisfying, I thought. My hour anyway! I did not have to bump into people. They make life tough, living hard anyway. I congratulated myself secretly and got to it.
Unfortunately, it was short lived. A certain someone on my team was going through a financial crunch. He asked for it and I reluctantly dethroned. What I did not pay attention to was the spike in my graph of sleeping habits. It got terribly disturbed.
I was having trouble sleeping the first few days. One night I dozed off early with a heavy head.
The Company
I was deep in a slumber when my eyes flicked open. I sensed someone standing right next to my bed towards my left. Stock-still I sensed my body failing me. Too terrified to turn around and look at it, I sensed it furious. He was breathing heavily.
My first instinct was to run towards the light switch to see what it was. That’s what I did. I sprang up and ran towards the switch which was next to my room’s door, then managed to press the button but the light did not switch on. I turned around to look and I was taken aback. There I saw my very own body lying there on the bed but I hadn’t moved a bit.
Within moments I was once again in my body, once again feeling the heavy breathing that was coming from my left. I was dead scared. In the background, my clock ticked. The noise grew louder and louder. I slept there helpless knowing that turning my head could be fatal. Yet I tried with all my might to slowly move my head.
Helplessness
But I could not move my head let alone turn it. The room began to grow darker. I wasn’t dreaming, I was so damn sure of it. Also, I wasn’t asleep. I was stuck in between, smacked somewhere between two different worlds. Paralyzed without me having any control over my body.
I laid there for a while trying to figure out if I was dead. All those terrifying movie scenes began to visit. Must be the afterlife, and maybe I might have ended up in hell.
Some more moments passed when I sprang back to life again. The first thing I did was switch on the lights of course. I turned around to look. There was nothing but my ebony cupboard next to my bed. But he was right there!
I couldn’t go back to bed then. The incident had me trembling like a leaf.
Special Thanks to Yash Gupta
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I had very similar experience.
I was in my bed, sleeping.
Than I felt that my dog is on my legs laying with me, I loved him very much, I was pleased.
But suddenly It freaks me out, because my dog died maybe 5 years back. I was scared as hell. I couln’t move.
I started to pray, when I was doing that I heard OTHER voice, which was doing it with me. I stopped, voice was continuing praying without me.
Than I felt the light behind, going through the window or from that direction, I coudn’t s see it but I felt it, than felt some question for me, If I want to look into the light.
I was too afraid of doing that, I coudnt move my whole body was paralysised,
It stoped, and I coudnt still move, for me that was hour or so, I was there in my bed not hearing any voices, not any more, non sleeping, juz beeing freezed.
After spending hour like this I manage to get up from the bed.
That was like some 10 years ago 😉
Good lord! Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙂
Hello Marvin,
I also had a similar experience few weeks ago. I had come to Dehradun to visit my family who lived there. As we all know about Coronavirus scare. That night I self-quarantined myself in another room as I had come from a different city and had a risk of infecting others, just in case. So, I decided alone in my bedroom and my wife and baby who usually sleep with me in my sister’s room.
At night, around 2:30 am (I checked time when woke up), I was in a kind of half asleep and half woke state of mind and I began to feel like someone was hugging me from behind. And then, when I began to wonder who it was I felt like something furry was holding me, by this time I was coming out of my sleep more nd more. Then I guessed, I think it’s our Dog who is cuddling with me but then I thought who let him in because we used to keep outside the house in the night time. But then suddenly I remembered that our Dog was sent to our village in Garhwal about 6 years ago as he didn’t feel well in Hot climate of Dehradun. As soon as I remembered this, I was totally awake and was in total shock and wondered what entity was holding me tightly in my bed. I was in state of sleep paralysis. I used as much of my force as I could to break loose the hold but couldn’t. Then I started invoking name of our Kula-deity and after few seconds I regained myslef and woke up in the dark of room with no one besides me. Checked what time it was on my mobile and then slept while remembering Gods name till I was asleep.
That was indeed scary VJ. Thank you for sharing.
My experience was physical I couldn’t scream I was literally floating up off my bed it wasn’t an out of body experience because I looked down nothing was there. It pulled at the sheets at first it eventually tugged them away and I kicked underneath the blanket etc scared. When the blanket fell to the floor I froze thn eventually built up the courage to get them back on the bed thats when I was in mid air I felt this was pure evil but it felt my strength fighting it.