MONOLITH

Yeah, that's pretty much what you experienced.

I've experienced that... in a dream I guess. Not the kind where you just think you can't move, the kind that... in normal cases you would have flailed about and at least woken up.

A couple of friends and I are standing in an alley way, possibly New York or L.A., but that doesnt matter, and we just seem to be.... loitering I guess. Its about 12 of us, a trash can, a van and a general muck about the place. After about 10 minutes of talking, somthing spooks us all, and everyone scatters away but me, where upon I run under the van. I look around for a bit, and can't seem to see what scared everybody so much. I then feel a whisp of cold air to my right, and I see a form, a ghost I guess. Once my eyes my it's, I froze with terror, and when this happened, I was kind of a in-dream sleep paralysis, which scared the shit out of me. The rest is fuzzy, but i'm pretty sure I just wake up.

I hate to bump this since it's sort-of old, but I've had the same thing happen and it was definitely one of the scarier things I've experienced.

I was up in my room alone at the time, and I dreamt that I was sleeping up in my room alone, of all things. I dreamt I was laying on my belly, but for whatever reason, I couldn't switch positions. It was like I was paralyzed. All of a sudden there was this great pressure on my back, like someone was sitting on it. After a few seconds of me flipping out, this male voice starts hysterically whispering into my ear. I'm not sure what language it was, but I didn't understand a word of it. The TV was blaring in the background and because of the position I was laying in, all I could see was the wall. I couldn't see who was sitting on me whispering gibberish in my ear and I couldn't move an inch, no matter how hard I tried.

Suddenly, I jolted awake. Turns out I was asleep on my back the whole time, and the TV wasn't on.

Best believe I made my way downstairs and slept on the sofa that night, hah.

My roommate suffered sleep paralysis during finals week of last semester. The morning after it happened, she asked why I'd let my phone ring for hours on end without answering it. When I said that my phone hadn't rang at all and checked to be sure, she said that she'd heard a loud electronic ringing for what seemed like hours and couldn't get out of bed to yell at me about it. After which we realized it was sleep paralysis.

I've never experienced it, to my knowledge, and after reading through these examples, I'm glad.

Oo I had this once.

I had a dream I was paralyzed and in my dream I thought I could hear my sister on the bottom bunk playing with dolls and a light was coming from down there too. I was trying to say "Bryony help me" but I could only grunt and she couldn't hear me.

Then when I woke up I couldn't move for what felt like hours but was probably a maximum ten minutes.

Scary times.

How would one say that, paralyzed or no?

Just curious, as that's quite the unique name.

I fell asleep watching Coraline a few days ago (great movie, although irrelevant) and I was laying on the couch. I dreamed that I woke up and walked over to the computer and started chatting on msn and my boyfriend told me he had gotten a new tattoo. It was nothing spectacular, the dream just seemed like a normal day. But it was very hazy and I remembered feeling drowsy/about to fall asleep as I was sitting at the computer nodding off.

So I got up and layed back down on the couch to "fall asleep". Mind you there is no computer in that room, which is when I realized it was a dream.

I was half asleep in the dream laying on my side in the couch, and was paralyzed staring up at the wall but I heard my parents arrive home and walk in carrying grocery bags having a normal conversation. I was trying desperately to move and yell "help me wake up!" but could only grunt and feel myself trembling inside, not actually moving.

Then I woke up in the same position and finally forced myself to sit up, and the room had morphed back into it's real life state. I've had much more severely fucked up sleep paralysis situations.

Up until about a year ago I used to always have sleep paralysis from laying on my back, and would freeze staring at blue/turquoise neon glowing figures in the dark superimposed over my vision. They kind of looked like 80s movie effects but still scared me shitless.

I also used to have experiences where I would be floating/levitating in the air on my back, and be under the floor looking up at it and then blink and there was no floor above me, or actually phase through it and rise back up into real life.

Another time, I was laying, again on my back, frozen while a huge cloud of red sand swirled around me in a tornado, in my bedroom, and a demon was staring at me angrily. Not even attacking me just standing, he was very muscular kind of like Darkness from Legend. Then he disappeared into the sand storm, and the sand faded away and I could move/wake up.

Luckily, I have not had any sleep paralysis for almost a year. I'm hoping it'll stay that way because man does it freak me out.

Oooh, I absolutely LOVE that name. I first heard it in Atonement, but I think it is so pretty. Your sister is lucky to have that name.