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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majin" data-source="post: 1167301" data-attributes="member: 13265">I'm not sure whether it's supernatural in nature but for years now I've had a weird form of sleep paralysis that I can't explain. I don't even know if I should call it sleep paralysis because it doesn't really match the description of what I've read up about it. Now I would really like to get anyone's opinion about this, especially if someone has experienced something similar. I would really like to know that this is just some kind of sleep disorder and not something more diabolical in nature. This usually happens to me in small grouped "incidents", as in 5 times in a row in one night for 2 or 3 days, and then nothing for weeks at a time and then all of a sudden it's back again. Maybe it'll only happen once that night but it'll be every night for a week or something. Anyway heres what happens.I fall asleep normally and sleep an undetermined amount of time, although I try to check the clock whenever I wake up from these things and it's usually under 10 minutes from when I estimate I fell asleep. When this happens it can happen in what seems to be two different ways. First of all I seem to be fully lucid when this happens, I know that I'm asleep because I can almost feel like I'm in two places at once. I can sense and FEEL myself lying in bed but yet the scene that I'm dreaming about is what I can see. Sometimes there is nothing at all but darkness, so it's like I just have my eyes closed but I can't open them. The feeling I get is very uncomfortable, almost like I'm being smothered, and I know that the only way that I can wake up is to open my eyes. (This counts for both the darkness "dreams" AND the ones where I already have my eyes open!)Because I know I'm dreaming I feel trapped but if I'm able to see whats around me in the dream I know I have this 2nd pair of eyes in my real body that I need to open. This is where it gets really terrifying for me. I try and try to open my eyes but they won't open. The sensation I get makes my heart race in my chest and I panic. The only way I could describe it is to try closing your eyes really tight. That squeezing sensation is what I feel trying to open them. "Dark" dreams - I sometimes try to just lay there as if I have my eyes closed and go back to "sleep" since nothing is happening around me but I just feel too uncomfortable and have to try "waking up"Visual dreams - When this happens and I can actually see things around me as in a dream it usually kicks in when something in my dreams attaches itself to me in one way or another and won't let go. (This also gives me that sense of pressure and smothering) About a week ago this happened by having a relative in my dream attach his entire mouth over my ear and not letting go. (Weird I know), and even weirder last night it seemed to be some tall lanky being made out of snow I believe grabbing me by my arms. Waking up - I can do it but it simply takes a lot of willpower and "pushing" through the pressure of opening my eyes. When I wake up my heart is still racing like crazy and I'm slightly out of breath but I never see anything in my room at all. No shadows on the wall or anything. Has anyone ever experienced something similar? I would love to hear about it if so, I always dread falling to sleep sometimes fearing that this will happen to me. Especially when it happens repeatedly like I mentioned earlier, 5 consecutive times a night. (Although these seem to be constituted by the "Dark" dreams and rarely visual repeats.</blockquote>

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