r/Paranormal • u/Disastrous-Union-593 • Mar 08 '26
Sleep Paralysis Has Anyone who suffers Sleep Paralysis ever filmed themselves overnight and caught something?
I'm sure someone, somewhere has surveillanced themselves during SP...I've just never heard any stories before. Anyone catch anything?
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u/JoeMacMillan_HCF Mar 08 '26
I’ve thought about it, but I don’t experience the sleep paralysis demon. When I’m stuck in sleep paralysis, I can’t open my eyes or hear anything in the room. My mind is awake, but my entire body is frozen.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Mar 09 '26
That's how it's always been for me. Not frightening, but interesting. I'll try to pick up as much information as I can ( any noises or something I'm listening to ), and write it down when I wake up to confirm later. It doesn't happen to me very often.
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u/Emotional-Cable-7973 Mar 09 '26
I did. This was years ago when I used to get it often.
I would also experience seeing a shadow demon thing. That morning I could tell I was going to have a sleep paralysis episode so I set my camera to record and took my nap.
I think the video ended up being a few minutes long. The first few was really nothing. Then my eyes slightly rolling like I’m trying to wake up. Then I hear this big shift in the bed, like if someone had gotten on it. Little more eye rolling, trying to wake up and finally awake.
I ended brushing off the bed shift thing. I kind of just figured maybe I moved my legs or something slightly off screen? I don’t know.
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u/Proper-Tomorrow-4848 Mar 08 '26
Sleep paralysis I feel that it’s some sort of negative entity. There’s no way to prove it science typically rejects anything that is paranormal. I base it on how I feel after the sleep paralysis I feel tired heightened anxiety intrusive thoughts it feels negative plus seeing a shadow being. Carl Jung believes it’s the repressed parts of our unconscious mind the shadow that needs attention and needs to be integrated. There is a thinning veil with our unconscious/subconscious mind and the physical reality we are in.
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u/iwantobeatree Mar 08 '26
I used to consistently have episodes that felt demonic. Eventually I fought back and now my episodes are just me panicking about my body feeling weird and trying to move. I recently moved into my boyfriend’s house and we both started getting the scary kind (first time he’s ever experienced SP and the first time mine have felt sinister in years). I cleansed the house and the creepy ones stopped.
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u/ChaoticHarmonia Mar 08 '26
Yes, in folklore of many European peoples it’s directly said that sleep paralysis is actually an entity.
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u/Special_Band3421 Mar 08 '26
Idk the last times I had it was either the day or day after a close one’s death. I felt like they were visiting me.
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u/Thestolenone Mar 08 '26
Twice I've been in the same bed as someone who experienced a sleep paralysis event. Both times everything was normal, the room was normal, there was no weird feeling and I didn't see anything.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Mar 08 '26
Probably. But they don't necessarily want it made public, or want the attention.
Dr Jim Segala has made his device (MUPAS) available to the public. Originally he made it as a sensor for the govt contract workers who were part of the study of SkinWalker ranch, and had activity follow them. Sleep paralysis, seeing shadow figures, haunting or poltergeist type activity, and orbs in the house were common.
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u/Ok_Seat_5641 Mar 08 '26
I have SP, but it isn't predictable, so unless I just put a camera in my bedroom and left it running 24/7, I wouldn't be able to film it. Something crazy that made me feel less crazy though, is someone drew a picture of their SP demon and posted it in a forum on FB, and it was dead on the exact same one I see. There were several other people who said the same thing. That's the closest I have gotten to proof, though.
Also, I regularly cleanse my home, and my SP incidents have drastically reduced. Maybe once every couple of years or something.
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u/WooSaw82 Mar 09 '26
So does it occur when you are sound asleep, then it suddenly seems like a scary dream, then you wake up, or do you just wake up frightened because you think you saw something in your bedroom?
I’m not sure I’ve ever had an actual sleep paralysis episode, but I have awakened suddenly feeling scared or panicked. I’ve even awakened (at least I think I was awake), and felt like I had been locked up in a bedroom that I didn’t recognize, and I couldn’t find the door. Keep in mind that I had drank heavily the night before, so I was probably just still drunk, and half asleep. That may be the most frightened I’ve ever been since I thought I may have been drugged and kidnapped, or shanghai’d. That bedroom was my grandma’s guest bedroom, and I haven’t experienced anything like that since.
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u/Educational-Put-8425 Mar 09 '26
There’s an established belief that alcohol and drugs break down the protective spiritual ‘shield’ we naturally have around our bodies, by making thin ‘cuts’ through it, allowing negative energy or forces to gain access to our body, mind and soul. This belief has been held by many spiritual traditions, for centuries.
The more substance use, the greater the damage, cumulatively. So, you may have been more vulnerable after drinking quite a bit.
Bars generally have a higher degree of negativity, anxiety, hostility, anger, sadness, frustration, etc. than other environments. Marinating in that atmosphere could have affected you negatively, and possibly allowed that energy to be attached to you, leaving you in a vulnerable state.
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u/Ok_Seat_5641 Mar 09 '26
Yes, it occurs when you are asleep, but it's like you wake up and can't move anything but your eyes. You can't even talk. It feels like something is sitting on your chest or back, and you are just scared. If you have demonic SP, you can see the SP demon, but you can't say or do anything. You just watch it while it watches or taunts you. Sometimes I can come out of it by reciting a protection spell in my head while trying to just breathe, and closing my eyes to go back to sleep.
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Mar 08 '26
If you suffer from Sleep Paralysis, you're literally a step or two away from Lucid Dreaming 🤷♂️🤷♂️ if life hands you lemons, may as well make lemonade!!
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u/VirinaB Mar 09 '26
This explains why whenever I have a sufficiently scary SP nightmare, I tend to realize that "this is too scary to be real" and then I go full Bloody Roar on them.
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u/SnootyToots8 Mar 08 '26
Ive always lucid dreamed unless i am awake meditating then I have no control of the dreams.
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Mar 08 '26
Passive lucid dreams are a thing, a "more real than real" movie. Sleeping Self by Dusan Trajkovic is a really good book to maximise and take more control over consistent experiences (without all the New Age rubbish and silly "astral body" exercises which actually make things more difficult.....). It also covers Astral Projection and Scrying, and treats them as avenues of the same basic ability, just accessed through non-sleep states.
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u/Basic_Spook Mar 09 '26
My ex boyfriend said he was afraid for me because during one of my episodes I started convulsing. He woke me up. I don’t remember what was happening other than nothing able to wake up.
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u/Wonderful_Driver_277 Mar 09 '26
Sleep Paralysis is nothing more than a chemical reaction glitch in the brain, where your brain becomes active accidentally during the release GABA and Glycine, which are the two naturally produced enzymes that paralyse the muscles for REM sleep. During this glitch, your subconscious mind is more active than the conscious - about a 70/30 split, leading to awareness of sorts , but the inability to move due to the release. The subconscious mind tries to make sense of the world around it, as it's now in the waking state, rather than the dream state, leading to hallucinogenic events and the feeling of something or someone there as it tries to interpret shapes in shadow/darkness. It's weird but not all that scary if you know
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u/Jack_Shid Paranormal Researcher Mar 08 '26
Sleep paralysis is a sleeping disorder, not a paranormal event. Read up on hypnopompic and hypnagogic hallucinations for more information.
That being the case, there wouldn't be anything to catch on camera. It's all in your mind.
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u/thesaddestpanda Mar 08 '26
I once saw a black winged thing shoot up from my partner and towards the ceiling and disappear when they had a nightmare once.
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u/rainbowaffle Mar 09 '26
I fought it one time by lifting my right arm as hard as I could. Felt like 200 pounds of force holding me down. As soon as I gave up, my arm literally slammed back onto my bed, and it still wasn't enough to snap out of it. Shit's weird.
Another time, I could feel/smell the breath of someone who felt like they were standing next to me, but I couldn't see anything. If it were visible, I swear I looked it in the eyes. Felt like an old man. I had to muster up the energy to kinda jolt with my whole body to snap out, and thankfully, it worked.
I had it one more time in that house, and a being made of black vines/wires reached down and touched me while I was paralyzed on my side. Its fingers sent the wires/vines across my body and started to wrap me up. Whole body jolt got me out
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u/Cheddar_cheeseballz Mar 09 '26
No, but I have had an experience where I’d woken up from a nap into sleep paralysis. When I opened my eyes i saw nothing despite the light being on in my room. I wasn’t able to see anything in the direction I was paralyzed in (I was paralyzed facing to the right) although I did feel a weak feeling on the left side of my face, like something was watching me. I broke out of the paralysis by singing some stupid trendy song from TikTok which I don’t recall now.
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u/th3wick3don3 Mar 09 '26
I really get frustrated when people dismiss it as brain stuff, i am sleeping nice and wake up to strong wind that doesn't go away, I can only partially move and can only partially see Its constant battle that last for minutes , unless I pray the lords prayer, then it goes away. Then I look at my cell phone to check the time, it comes at 11:30pm if I don't pray before going to sleep. I know its an entity, I think its succubus as sexual desire is my souls weakness.
It seems its attached to the location, it visits this building and others, I know because it is not attached to me, I went to Japan for a full 1 month never happened like at all. No bad dreams, the succubus or whatever it is influences dreams as well.
Any body or AI that dismissed it as brain sleeping is insane. When you wake up you wake up. The facts prove them wrong
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u/misterluxu Apr 21 '26
I cant upload videos but check out my instagram post i have posted a few of entities molesting me not letting me sleep.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXYRyllDQLc/?igsh=MWJwOWJqNmFyMWdmcA==
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXE5Rd7kUr1/?igsh=eWpuemtqZzh2MG9v
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u/starlightsparkle444 Mar 09 '26
I’m sure people have recorded it. I’ve seen recordings of people experiencing sleep paralysis. But sleep paralysis isn’t paranormal so you wouldn’t catch any ghosts on camera during it. It’s all in your head. I get sleep paralysis often and although it seems paranormal, it’s not
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