Sleep Paralysis
It’s a simple enough thing. It’s all a part of the body’s sleep processes. Sleep Paralysis, right? No big deal, really. Your body produces a chemical that paralyzes your body during R.E.M sleep to prevent you from hurting yourself by thrashing about during your dreams. No big deal.
Okay, so, you opened your eyes and you can’t move your body. It’s the chemicals. Oh, you can keep trying to wriggle those toes, but it’s not happening. Forget it. Just relax. It’ll go away. It’s fine. It’s normal.
Oh, now there’s something pressing on your chest, real hard, it’s making it hard to breath. It’s heavy, so very heavy, whatever’s on your chest. Chemicals. It’s all chemicals. Stop trying to scream, it won’t work. Your throat muscles are paralyzed too. You still can’t breath.
You are staring at a blank ceiling, you can’t stare anywhere else. Shadows flit across your vision, forming shapes you try not to think about. A clawed hand, a flash of jagged, shadowy teeth. All images from your subconscious. A face forming above yours, leering through black void eyes. You think you
hear sibilant whispering. Angry hissing, like a snake that’s been disturbed.
Suddenly, a sharp white light briefly flares in the room as a car pulls down the street, dispelling the shadows. The weight is gone. You can breath, your hands clench sheets.
You feel an eternity has passed by but it was all the work of a moment. You wriggle, just to prove to yourself you can. You sit up, take a deep breath and then laugh a little at yourself. Sleep Paralysis. Stupid.
You turn to shake your spouse awake, eager to share your experience. You feel paralyzed again, but it has nothing to do with Sleep Paralysis. You stare at the blood, the jagged wound in her throat, her wide, staring eyes, mouth opened in soundless scream.
You survived your Old Hag Syndrome.
She didn’t.
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Credited to C. Noel Huff
Holy cow. I’ve had sleep paralysis. Scary poo too. D:
I hallucinated about a giant black shadow with glowing red eyes. Scared me so bad.
This one was actually really interesting. :-D. At first I thought it was a ghost but it was a person. I didnt expect that.
I’ve also had several night terrors/sleep paralysis experiences, and this is quite terrifying. Good story!
At the beginning I thought I had read this one before. Is there another sleep paralysis creepypasta out there?
That was pretty awesome. Ive never had sleep paralysis before, though.
g’damn!!! that was awesome!
Hello.
Sleep Paralysis. Hypnagogia. Hypnopompic Trance. Kanashibari. Pee Umm. Guǐ Yā Shēn. Mottaka. So many names.
Curiously, there are just as many names for an anomalous entity which causes this fascinating state. Night Hag, Kriksy, Plaksy, Nocnitsa, Gorska Makva, Succubus, Dab Tsog… the list is curiously long.
I wonder if any of you have heard of Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome?
No?
What fun.
Go on, friends. Use those handy research faculties provided by this advanced form of “communication.”
What knowledge I have imparted is easily attained.
What knowledge I keep in confidence is damning.
Do not tarry, friends. Look.
Look.
Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome sounds like what happens when people see themselves die in a dream. It isnt the dream that kills them, its the shock of actually seeing themselves die.
Sorry to have to play editor, but you meant to write “breathe” not “breath”. Kinda kills the mood.
good, but it sort of ruined it for me when it said “breath” instead of “breathe” EVERY SINGLE TIME. but i’m a spelling nazi so whatever :]
“Mr.Welldone, no one asked what it was.. everyone is friendly here really, I don’t believe there is any need to be cocky.
Forgot my other quote on “Mr. Welldone,” sorry.
Thank you all for your kind thoughts. Will try to remember breath/breathe. I was in a bit of rush when I wrote this and didn’t proof-read very thoroughly. I had this happen to me once, and it is very terrifying, when you see things that ‘aren’t’ there. Bhawawa
C. Noel Huff
Maybe a jealous daughter of Lilith?
I dunno. Just a thought…
i get sleep paralysis on purpose just to have a good fight with that bitch
Can someone help me with the end?
I had this happen to me once, except that the thing with black claws was on a door. That scared the shit out of me when I couldn’t move and my heart was about to bust out of my chest.
I get this quite often, and it terrifies me - usually because its accompanied by various hallucinations of my death by various means, with the most common being suffocation.
Am I being told something, perhaps?
Dear god I am so badass and mysterious.
Did you know that waking during sleep paralysis is one of the suggested reasons for “alien abductions”?
Just change the old hag to alien grays in this story and you’ll see what I mean.
Hello.
You are wrong.
I’ve tried sleep paralysis before but I keep failing. MUST DO SLEEP PARALYSIS!!!!
I once made a mysterious pie of mysteriousness and came all over it cause my behavior is mysterious.
Only upon seeing his wife’s blood pooling in the bed did he realize. This is why you never ask Garfield, “I can has cheezburger?”
thank you mr. well done!
i think i love you!
i hav hypnapompia [it occurs while u try to wake up while hypnagogia occurs while you are trying to fall asleep]
ive seen unbearable things, even had about 8 episodes in one night, i get it very often
and i can hear screams and i feel like i’m being raped sometimes, and i see sum1 coming to slap me, or a man without a head…
it’s not fun ><
btw, the end of this was stupid…
Yeah i’ve had sleep paralysis too that shit is not even fucking funny ><
I once had sleep paralysis. I didn’t see anything as vividly as in my actual dreams, but two green blurry shapes across the room I imagined to be those earth-ruling reptilians from conspiracy theories just looking at my helpless unshakable form. Terrifying.
I had sleep paralysis a couple nights ago. It was awesome. I had no hallucinations, at least none that I can remember. I just woke up in the middle of the night and felt very light. When I tried to move I just couldnt. I could barely even curl my fingers. It felt like I was extremely high. After a couple minutes I think I just passed out. Bottom line: It was like being high for free.
I get sleep paralysis, when I was little I had night terrors, it really sucks.
I only remember having sleep paralysis once in my life. I was about 7 years old, and it scared the shit out of me. I thought I died in my sleep and that I was stuck.
The hallucinations didn’t help much either.
I’ve never had Sleep Paralysis before, but one time when I woke up, I sat up and thought I heard something in the room. A second later it felt like an invisible fist slammed into my gut, knocking the wind out of me and throwing me back down against my bed. Later that evening, I had a large fist-sized bruise on my stomach… Creepy, no?
omg. well creepy cheesey pasta
god- i didnt no that actually existed! My friend about 5 months ago told me that she had one of these episodes and saw dwarfes running around her room and they tied her up with silver rope!!!!
i laughed! Damn!
“Old Hag Syndrome?” I don’t get it.
Sleep paralysis usually only happens when awakening from a lucid dream, and usually only happens to lucid dreamers. Even though it may be scary, all the hallucinations are merely in your head, and are caused because even though your eyes are open, your brain still thinks you’re in REM sleep (which is also why the body’s paralyzed). The easiest way to get out of it, in the rare chance you get it, is to try to move any of your fingers or toes. If you can move just one of them even slightly (which isn’t that hard), then you’ll snap out of it.
scary…
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“Old Hag Syndrome”?
Wtf?
thats not funny my brother died that way D:
@ 31
I think you were raped.
Lawl. Old hag syndrome. Thank you, Phone.
sleep paralysis is the scariest shit ever. once I was laying face down on my bed, half awake half asleep, and I felt something pressing down on me really hard and then it felt like it was pulling me to the side off my bed.
Teeeerrifying.
Good pasta.
I’ve had quite a few episodes of sleep paralysis as well as hypnogogia and hypnopompia. The worst was the sleep paralysis I had the first night I had to spend in the hospital. It’s really not best to think of all the folks who didn’t make it out of that emergency room bed before you before falling asleep.
I get blowjobs in my sleep paralysis. Except their not hallucinations.
THEN WHO WAS HAG?
I suffer from very frequent episodes of sleep paralysis but never have I seen images. I’m always being tickled in my dream when it happens.
Pff, Sleep Paralysis is not scary.
It can be… but only if you let it. I like it. It’s fun.
Especially when I feel like I’m being pulled off my bed.
“weeeee….”
I lol’d at the “Old Hag Syndrome”. It totally killed the mood for me.
I have really bad sleep paralysis and this one totally relates to how I feel. Except the spouse and blood part. I have sleep paralysis so much that I am actually to the point where I can self induce it.
I agree that sleep oriented hallucinations are “fun”, interesting always. To those who still don’t get it, “Old Hag Syndrome” is a term associated with night terrors.
I have nasty insomnia, so I’m in and out of lucid dream state every night and morning. I really think most paranormal activity can be explained by sleep disorders- Yes, I see figures, hear voices, and even feel things that aren’t there- =)
i have it all the time, it is terrifying because i hallucinate dead bodies in my air vent over head
@DJ LoONa
im so sorry about my night visits, i didnt mean to frighten the shit outta you. but dont be afraid, i use condoms every time i rape you. and about the screams, i just cant help it that i must scream every time i have an orgasm. and the slaps are just to give me a harder boner, ya know i like to slap-up-da-bitch. btw your hot
oh and very nice story this was. good job noel. old hag syndrome ftw
Jesus, I just had sleep paralysis almost a week ago, scared the poop out of me
I was half-asleep at the time, and I could have sworn I saw the silhouette of a man to my right, and he was holding my right shoulder down. I tried to move it, but it felt so heavy, like it was really being pushed down. Then I thought I saw another guy to my left, but he soon disappeared. My sister had her friend sleeping over downstairs, and I thought I heard screaming and immediately related it to them. I really thought I was going to die D:
Then they went away and I got up and felt better XD
Quite creepy, though I honestly couldn’t connect with it being uber-scary because I’ve never experienced any manner of paralysis while sleeping. Actually, I can be a pretty restless sleeper. Insomnia is an old buddy of mine. You know the kind. You really should have stopped talking to this “friend” ages ago because you just don’t have much in common, but you’ve been friends for so long that you’d feel like a dick just dropping them….
this use to happen to me every night….
it just recently stopped. it used to scare the sh*t out of me.
I THINK I’ve had it. The reason I say think is because I’m still capable of closing my eyes and if it was true sleep paralysis I wouldn’t be able to would I?
Either way whenever I have these types of experiences I shut my eyes, even though its absolutely terrifying and feels as though theres something evil in my room, and sing the old “Jesus loves me this I know” song I learned a long time ago (I’m sure alot of you think its silly but it makes me feel better).
During the experience I have an intense pulsating sensation from not only from my own body but also from two other areas. One that feels like its in my chest (not in a crushing sensation like this though) and one that feels like it bouncing all around the room. I keep replaying the song in my head until the one from around the room finally stops and the one in my chest just goes more to a slow rhythmic beat that I fall asleep to.
Imagine looking at a fucking mirror during sleep paralysis…