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Old 07-16-2009, 04:44 PM   #1
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Really! It was possibly the most terrifying experience in my life.

On tuesday night just after I had fallen asleep I was awoken suddenly as I could not breathe. I felt an immense weight crushing my chest and what I can only describe as hands grasping around my throat.

I could not move, I was completly paralysed. Several times I tried to cry out until after what seemed like a long time I finally managed, in an extremly gargled voice, to squeeze out the words ''FUCK OFF'' and just as soon as I did it instantly stopped.

I dragged myself up and out of bed, I was very dizzy and disorientated and stumbled into the bath room. Upon looking in the mirror I realised my face was a white as a sheet and my lips were a blue / purple colour.

I sware a ghost or some shit tried to kill me. I dont know if I want to sleep in that room again, last night I bunked on the sofa instead, I think I will do the same tonight.

If any more freaky shit like that happens I am going to go to a church and see if I can get a priest to perform an exorcism.

It scared the shit out of me... I dont like being in this house alone now. I have never had a problem with being alone before but now
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Old 07-16-2009, 04:47 PM   #2
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Old 07-16-2009, 04:54 PM   #3
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http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-paralysis

5th paragraph.
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Old 07-16-2009, 05:04 PM   #4
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Sleep paralysis sounds like a trip! Imagine if you could get that in drug form. Kids would be doing it all the time!
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Old 07-16-2009, 05:05 PM   #5
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Alternative solution:

Do you have anything supernatural in your home? Like dream catchers, books about ghosts, games where you can talk with the dead etc?

If so, get rid of them. Burn it. It helps better than some priest could.
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Old 07-16-2009, 05:34 PM   #6
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Alternative solution:

Do you have anything supernatural in your home? Like dream catchers, books about ghosts, games where you can talk with the dead etc?

If so, get rid of them. Burn it. It helps better than some priest could.
A serious question, is that some Mormon/Christian teaching that you're getting that from? Or are you just having a bit of fun?
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Old 07-16-2009, 10:21 PM   #7
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Yeah, hate to burst anyone's paranormal bubble but it's just sleep paralysis. I used to work in a sleep clinic.

As far as I know, sleep paralysis is pretty harmless, but scary.
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Old 07-16-2009, 11:17 PM   #8
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Yeah, hate to burst anyone's paranormal bubble but it's just sleep paralysis. I used to work in a sleep clinic.

As far as I know, sleep paralysis is pretty harmless, but scary.
Yeah its very scary, having your mind be consious but your body be unconsious. The scariest dream I ever had in my life included palalysis.
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:03 AM   #9
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A serious question, is that some Mormon/Christian teaching that you're getting that from? Or are you just having a bit of fun?
It's Biblical. Acts shows that when people turned Christian, they always burned their spiritual books. Supernatural stuff can 'lure them in', if you believe in that kind of stuff.

But yes, this sounds more like sleep paralysis.
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Old 07-17-2009, 06:47 AM   #10
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Im not going to lie. I laughed when I read your thread, along with the fact that "sleep paralysis" actually exists.

And. Holy shit! Neo made a post!
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Old 07-17-2009, 11:11 AM   #11
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Consider yourself in a cool minority, Ric. Sleep disorders are pretty uncommon, or at least their diagnosis is. I suffer from the occasional sleepwalking bought.

What are your sleep habits or what were your sleep habits that night? And do you ever have lucid dreams or do you sleep problems?
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Old 07-17-2009, 11:38 AM   #12
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This has happened to me twice, once when i stayed round a friends house, and second time in my own bed. Second time i was aware of sleep paralysis, and i just had to try and wake up.

I thought i had told you about it before Ric, maybe not, either way it is a pretty unnerving experience, and i can completely understand thinking it was a ghost, thats what i thought the first time i experienced it, and my friend had a bag of prosthetic arms in his room (fuck knows why).

But yea, 2nd time i realised what was happening, and actually became aware i was just waiting for my body to wake up. It is a freaking experience though, even if you are aware of the reasons. And if there was a drug that recreated it, i wouldn't bloody well take it.
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:23 PM   #13
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That's king of a nightmare in itself, having sleep paralysis and someone is doing something to you or you can hear something going on that shouldn't..
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Old 07-17-2009, 08:40 PM   #14
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Im not going to lie. I laughed when I read your thread, along with the fact that "sleep paralysis" actually exists.

And. Holy shit! Neo made a post!
And he saved the day. Maybe this is the Matrix and he only plugs into it when people are in dire need of help.
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Old 07-18-2009, 01:27 AM   #15
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Do you have anything supernatural in your home? Like dream catchers, books about ghosts, games where you can talk with the dead etc?

If so, get rid of them. Burn it. It helps better than some priest could.
I don't care what anybody says. When I made myself a dream catcher, my nightmares that happened every night instantly stopped.
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