Sleep paralysis

[parmoboy]

I remember having a really scary episode as a child when I'd seen an elderly lady in a wheelchair wheel herself past the bottom of my bed, then a couple of alsation dogs jumped up onto the bed and were barking right in my face.

I can remember trying to scream but I was unable to and luckily I then woke up.

 

[The_Tiler]

I used to get the duvet rustling then slowly moving over the face to suffocate me, but haven't had it in recent years. The best solution was to relax and tell yourself it wasn't real. Not easy in the moment I know, but it did work for me.

Reading some of the posts on this thread, especially this one, I'd instal a secret cctv camera in my bedroom and check on what my wife was getting up to a night.

 

[FatFrank]

I had brief episodes on holiday once - I think the combination of alcohol, sunlight and lack of sleep contributed massively to it all.

I would think that my wife was spooning me whilst asleep but then when I looked down the hands were black and spikey, and the shape would then move over on top of me. During one episode, I began screaming in my sleep and my wife had to wake me up as she described it as "screaming with your mouth closed". She had never been more frightened in her life.

I also used to have the same dream 3-4 nights a week. I would be attempting to cross a familiar road however at the end of the road was a Nazi machine gun firing down the road. Everytime I attempted to cross, it was spray a trigger worth of bullets at me. I then got a new job in 2017 and subsequently I've not had the dream since.

I can easily tell myself during a dream that I am asleep and I need to wake up.