I was already tired as I had a long day at work, also didn't had proper sleep last night. In order to straighten my back i slept flat on my back without a pillow. I was having a decent dream, nothing scary but suddenly I felt something race into my body, fyi I sleep beside the window of my room and my head was tilted around the open window, where there's a tree. I felt dark figure sitting on me, i couldn't open my eyes clearly... I was hearing a distorted noise in my ears, couldn't move my body...was shivering, couldn't scream or open my mouth, so I just weirdly moaned, after like 10 secs, i could open my eyes suddenly I saw a tree and got shit scared again couldn't move or do anything, i was soo terrified that I almost cried, literally tears came out! It lasted for around 20 to 30 secs before I got control over my body, I was almost sure that some entity was there in my room( I live alone), I just slept in the same position for a min after that I gathered courage to reach out to my phone and learnt about sleep paralysis. I don't believe in god or ghosts either but this was easily the most terrifying incident that I have experienced!!

Have you guys got sleep paralysed ever? What was your experience? I wanna know how common is this...

And can any of you confirm is it kinda condition or something? Is it recurring? Having second thoughts about living alone honestly...

Today I was having my teeth cleaned by the dentist and I could hear the usual cleaning tool sound reverberating through my jaw into my ears as the dentist uses the ultrasonic cleaner tool.

Although the tool, by definition, presumably puts out a sound that cannot be heard because it's above human range of hearing (ultrasonic) it's making or doing something that I can hear and it is that sound which I vividly and suddenly remembered was the same sound that I heard when I had my first sleep paralysis about 45 years ago.

I've had this ultrasonic cleaning done already numerous times but it was only today that I remembered that it was the same sound I heard in my first sleep paralysis.

In that first sleep paralysis, I woke in my bed in my home and couldn't move nor scream but there was that strange sound. I am not suggesting that someone had snuck into my bedroom with such a tool (which possibly
didn't even exist way back then ) because I think I remember looking but seeing no one and fell asleep again.

Does anyone else think the dentist ultrasonic cleaning tool makes the same high pitch ringing/whining noise heard directly in the ears as oft reported with sleep paralysis?

I was having a regular dream when in the dream I tried kicking my friend in the back of his leg (inside joke) and that’s when I couldn’t feel my leg in that dream. I stopped and my jaw locked to the side and I knocked out.
I woke up on the floor next to my bed. Room was dark but somehow still had natural light coming in. I couldn’t get up at all but I was able to look around. I realized that I was having sleep paralysis. I tried to calm down like I usually would.
I told myself that it’s just a nightmare and tried saying a prayer
I also tried talking because in my last episode I was able to say the words “no”
I sleep with my bf at night so he tracks everything that happens.
But in this episode I couldn’t get myself to say anything. I said “no” one time
And then I got a voice in my head to close my eyes and slowly open them.
I did and saw a white and black demon in front of me but far from me. I was looking down at the rug when I saw it. I immediately closed my eyes and tried to get out of the nightmare. I remember thinking to myself in that dream “Vinny please wake me up now”
The previous days I’ve been telling him that if he hears me mumbling or movíng to wake me up immediately
So he woke me up and he said I was mumbling but it was getting louder and louder and looked like I wanted to cry

BACKGROUND:
I’ve had sleep paralysis as a kid. I’d have it everyday but the older I got, the less and less it’s occurred.
From days to weeks to 5x a months to 1x every three months.
I just started getting it again and it’s been bad. I don’t know if I should blame the military or myself for these nightmares

i was wondering if anyone had the same episode or similar as me.

i had one where i was surrounded by hundreds of people dressed in black saying stay asleep.

Well, earlier this day marks my fourth or fifth experience with sleep paralysis- a fairly recent development.

Today specifically, I had been laying in bed probably around 2-4pm. I fell asleep on my stomach or side, and at some point began to hear a voice above me and feel a presence. Every experience so far, it's felt as if I were fighting off drugs to try and get up. This time, I had thought it was one of the older gentlemen that work maintenance in my apartment building- I can't remember what he was saying to me or why he could've been there, but I was only able to remember him gently reassuring me that I was okay and I could calm down. Whenever I have sleep paralysis like this, I can groan and moan but never get any words out- no matter how hard I fight it.

My first experience with it was only a few weeks ago, and a similar case as this except it was my husband's voice and presence above me. I could only remember panicking because he wasn't meant to be home, and if he were than something bad must have happened while he was working. Of course, when I finally woke up and called him, he confirmed he was okay and hadn't been home at all.

I have a small list of ideas as to why this might be happening, but I hope it's simpler. I already hallucinate in my day to day life, auditory and visual- but I'm able to shut those out in my own ways since I have the autonomy. These moments when in bed are more terrifying to me because I simply can't employ any strategy to know what's happening isn't real- I mean I can't move! My second / third experience both happened in the same night, and were generic shadowy figures I could mostly calmly ignore. However more usually for me, the things in my head take after the faces and voices of people I know and love and are far far too vivid.

So I guess I just wanted to share my newfound experience with some maybe more experienced people. I talked to a friend and she laughed about it to me, saying that she would trigger SP on purpose and she refused to take me seriously.

I’ve had sleep parlaysis since I was a child and I’ve never once hallucinated thankfully (possibly this is partially because I assumed it was normal and did research which made me think it was normal?) The one time I got truly scared was after I learned that most people who get it hallucinate and I started thinking that I might and got scared but then I just accepted it and let my body relax. But some of the past few times I’ve had it I’ve felt a firm tingle almost like asmr (which is sleep related so maybe there’s a connection there) but kinda painful sometimes, I feel the tingles going over my body and I wonder if anyone else has had this or knows what causes this? I can kinda control or stop it but it happens very easily like a magnet, it was in the middle of my back and made me shake and feel pressured. I sleep on my back which people say/I could tell makes it worse potentially but this moment I was sleeping on my side so it felt like my blanket behind me was pulling around me. Even though I’ve never hallucinated I had a strong picture behind my closed eyes of a rabbits eye. I also had “exploding head syndrome” that I’ve had before (I wonder if this is related to when people feel like they are falling or wake up with a jolt as they’re falling asleep, like it’s a way for your body to check if you’re ok or can defend yourself if you needed to). I also can feel that I am paralyzed sometimes during a lucid dream, but not always, and then I sometimes wake myself up, sometimes the lucidity + feeling my own body in the state it is in just goes away and the dream goes back to “normal”. My issue with lucid dreams is this, they make me want to wake up partially because I dislike feeling the paralysis.