Weird things in your sleep

[Tual]

So my brother told me something very scary/hilarious today. We share a bedroom with a bunk bed, me on top he down low. Last night he went to bed a few hours later than me and while he was getting in his bed I grabbed his hair, pulled it up (it hurt) and very quietly whispered 'death' in his ear. Then I let him go and went on complaining I was cold.

So far you might think that's kinda weird but the really freaky thing is that I was asleep the whole time, I remember nothing about it. I know that I've always talked a lot in my sleep, I curse my brother in my sleep every night he goes to bed later than me and I scream really loud sometimes, but I've never been physical as far as I know.

My brother says it's because of my 'vulcan suppression of my emotions' although I really don't feel like I'm suppressing any emotions.

Anyway I was wondering if any of you have a similar experience.

[HappyMondays]

I laugh in my sleep. Not small chuckles, but loud laughs from time to time.

[TheLastMohican]

Occasionally I talk in my sleep (usually just as I am waking up). It's happened maybe 10 times.

I must say what you did is downright creepy.

[Uytuun]

I don't think it's that creepy...

I talk in my sleep, sometimes shout, but I don't feel like I'm suppressing any emotions either.

[Haphazard]

I don't really have anything besides waking hypnic jerks. Enough to seriously freak out my mother once or twice, at least. It must have to do with my perpetual state of exhaustion.

I don't generally talk in my sleep, or scream. I've heard my dad laugh raucously in his sleep, though. It's seriously eerie.

[paradanmellow]

haha Tual, you are evil!

I got same experiences with my brother (ISTp) when we shared the same room; he sleepwalked almost every night, he ran, he once got out of the house, he talked a lot to me ("I'll rob you all!"), I talked back to him as well... once he brought me his pillow and blanket and tucked me in; the only physical thing was when he stepped on my face, which was quite something believe me :laugh:
what I find interesting is that when he sleepwalks he has his eyes open like really wide open and a fix stare, can anyone relate to having witnessed that?

as for me, I once punched the wall... and a couple of months ago I woke up in the middle of the night and when I closed back my eyes a voice whispered in my ear: "asleep?" :scared: I immediately turned on the light and started to wander: it hadn't been my brother, he was not home, and besides that it had been an unknown, curious male voice, benevolent even... haha I still recall that moment with odd affection; my mother asked me if I had talked back and I believe I said something like please let me sleep, whoever you are, you really scared me, huh

but nothing spectacular happens in the dorm room, just one of my ENFP roommates snoring and combing her hair all night long, sleeping with her eyes open and such... but she is so boring if compared to my brother...

[malefide]

Apparently I talk about sandwich ingredients in my sleep.

[Bear Warp]

I have plenty of lucid nightmares. They're terrible. Some of the images from the nightmare carry over into waking consciousness. Flashing outlines and hologram sorts of things. They (the nightmares) force paranoia onto me. Can't help but feel scared even though I'm entirely aware of where I am and what just happened. It's a bad feeling.

Other than that...plain old dreams. Strange dreams, happy dreams, etc dreams...

[Wapiti]

When I was 5 or 6, I slept walk outside in the middle of the night - we lived in the country. My mom heard something and woke my dad up who assured her that it was just a cat. She insisted that it wasn't a cat so my dad got up and went to lock the door to the house. So there I was, sleep walking outside and the door to get back in was locked. I remember waking up while running in a field between our house and my uncles house several times during the night. I also remember waking up pounding on the sliding glass door of my uncles house. Eventually my mom convinced my dad that someone was outside and he came and found me outside. A strange night - that was about 30 years ago.

[Femme de Homme INTJ]

So my brother told me something very scary/hilarious today. We share a bedroom with a bunk bed, me on top he down low. Last night he went to bed a few hours later than me and while he was getting in his bed I grabbed his hair, pulled it up (it hurt) and very quietly whispered 'death' in his ear. Then I let him go and went on complaining I was cold.



Dude, that's some creepy shit. I would stop reading dark novels or something.

I am quite emotional in my sleep. I used to have a very clean mouth, but when I was asleep I would yell at fmaily members to "shut the f*** up," very out of character.... Or just more align with my "true colors." I can be a bitch in my sleep when disturbed, but I not concsious enough to be held acccountable. Ah, sleep, the only place where I can be ME!

Also, I wake up laughing and crying sometimes.

When I was a kid, my mom said that I agrued a lot with my friends in my sleep. I am still neurotic and aruge with people during the day time - all in my head. Not in reality though because I know the stupid, unhealthy things they do are none of my business.

My mom talks in her sleep, too. Once she told me "Take the keys!" and go to the store or something. I tried to reason with her, but she got all the more frustrated, "Take the keys!" "But mom, I'm only 7; I can't drive yet! You're sleeping, mom!"

[TheLastMohican]

I just remembered one particularly odd experience: When I was about six or seven, I spoke in my sleep while riding in the back seat during a long car trip. When I woke up, was arguing with my mother (who was driving). I was saying something like, "How do you think it's okay to not pay the two dollars for the blanket?"
I was apparently speaking in complete sentences, but my arguments were making no sense, and I was probably not processing any of what my no-doubt confused mother was saying in response to my ramblings.

[lordrrr]

I was in vacation in Hawaii once and the next morning my mom was like "What happened last night?" and I was like "I went to sleep... Why?" and she said "Because I heard you screaming "CHOCOLATE CHIPS CHOCOLATE CHIPS!" and "FUCKING BITCH" last night.


So apparently, I become pretty testy when I'm asleep.


Don't think it happens too often though as I rarely hear complaints, but it happens every once in a while.

[royalstar]

A few days ago I had gone lucid. I was having a particularly vivid dream set at my school and in it I was being teased because I had...um...performed an act of pleasuring myself in class. As I was being ridiculed I was surprised by how calm and unnerved I was (I mean wouldn't you be embarrassed?). While walking to the imaginary school buses to return home I stopped walking and said to myself "Wait, I would never do that in class? Wait, am I DREAMING?"

Then I opened my dream eyes and lo and behold there was a demon skeleton standing above my bed. Then all of a sudden my spine felt like electricity was being run through it (like volts of it--really painful, I was screaming in my sleep a little). Then I woke up. A trippy night, indeed. I'm still wondering what that skeleton standing above me was.

Oh yea, and one time when I was young (like 7) I slept walked. Apparently my unconscious brain thought I was heading towards the bathroom, but instead I just sleptwalked in front of my mom and dad's door. I proceeded to take a peepee at their door, very odd.

[Moriarty]

Once I had a dream so funny I laughed so loud I woke myself up. I don't remember what the dream was about.

I've had a couple of lucid dreams and for a few months was hooked on the idea of inducing them. Some people report that they're pretty successful at it, but I lost interest pretty quickly in trying.

I have had two cases of sleep paralysis. One when I was very young and one as an adult. They were both very frightening experiences, but if it happens agaion I'll recognize it for what it is.

[Danneh]

I've done similar.

When we go on trips I sleep with my best friend, and she wake me up just to inform me of something I've done.

*Braiding her hair.(Very badly)
*Talking about how to make anti-matter and it's uses
*My decision that Cheese should be one of the four main food groups
*Thinking she was my cat

One night I apparently grabbed onto her and started shaking her, muttering something about the president was going to find out about the assassination plans.

No idea what causes this though, thankfully she simply thinks it's hilarious.

[Solaris]

I was in vacation in Hawaii once and the next morning my mom was like "What happened last night?" and I was like "I went to sleep... Why?" and she said "Because I heard you screaming "CHOCOLATE CHIPS CHOCOLATE CHIPS!" and "FUCKING BITCH" last night.


So apparently, I become pretty testy when I'm asleep.


Don't think it happens too often though as I rarely hear complaints, but it happens every once in a while.

*makes note not to get between lordrrr and his chocolate chips*

I do laugh in my sleep, and have woken myself up laughing many times. I don't think I've ever done much more than that though. My neice is quite the sleepwalker/talker though. She has conversations with my sister, which my sister humors (because they are hilarious, and partly to not freak out her child), and then goes back to bed. That would really weird me out the first time though. I'd think she had some serious fever until I realized she was asleep.

[Alaron251]

Well, I usually either - Creating the sounds from my dreams; which has the possibility to be eerie.
Or - Shout random insults to the wall
I guess reasons are potentially unfathomable until we really delve into the brain.

[searcher]

I actually talk to people. There have been several incidents when in the morning my friends have said something about a conversation we had in the night which I was actually asleep through. One has said that he figured out I was asleep because I wasn't being sarcastic at all. Thanks mate.

[Szarra]

I remember waking myself from a dream once in which I was reaching for a glass of water. Rather shocking to find yourself grabbing empty air.
Another time, in college, my roommate asked me if I had fun chatting with my friends and could I please ask them not to come over so late next time. I had no idea what she was talking about. After talking with my friends, I found out that they had indeed come to my room. They "woke" me up, asked me to lie about where they had been the night before to their boyfriends, and left. Apparently, I agreed and even helped think up the lie. I have no recollection of that night.

[Koanashi]

When I was 7, my parents claim I screamed 'Don't kill the King!', though the context in which I meant it remains a mystery to this day. I've also argued with someone whilst I was asleep once... mostly because I was forced to sleep in the bottom bunk when I was a head taller than her, and they where damn low bunks. The next morning I woke up and whammed my head into the above bunk.

[kovsky]

I've been sleeping normally over a year, nothing wierd.

But there was once, when I went to bed, I was extremly tired. I just went to bed and forgot to turn off the lights. I woke up and it was dark, and then I realized that my head and my feet has switched positions..my head was in the blanket and my feet was enjoying the comfort offered by a pillow.

I woke up at night to get myself a drink, and saw my dad sleeping on the sofa after watching a soccer match. My dad suddenly sat on the sofa, pointed his finger at me and yelled "Go Away You Devil!Go Away!" he started praying and then laid on the sofa again. He was probably having a nightmare by that time.

[Sylvanus]

I usually don't do weird things in my sleep. I do steal the covers, and cuddle in real close (I like to be warm), and grind my teeth. I rarely dream, but when I do it takes a toll on me. Usually if I remember dreaming, I wake up exhausted and am tired all day. Often when I dream, it is so real to me that when I wake up I have a hard time telling the difference between what I was just dreaming about and reality. Sometimes it takes hours for me to get back to normal.

[ceg6]

I usually don't do weird things in my sleep. I do steal the covers, and cuddle in real close (I like to be warm), and grind my teeth. I rarely dream, but when I do it takes a toll on me. Usually if I remember dreaming, I wake up exhausted and am tired all day.

This is me with the exception of cuddling and I have my own blankets so I like to cocoon in them alone. I wear out teeth grinding mouth guards regularly too.

[Myrak]

Apparently I sleep with my eyes half-open. eheheh.

And apparently my mate mumbles shit in his sleep, really freaks out his roommate. My dad does that as well, and what's funnier is my mum engages him in these conversations and gets whacky answers out of him. (She's fully awake, though a double sleep conversation would look pretty cool to a 3rd party observer)

[suzyk]

I'm a light sleeper, so I'll open my eyes at 2:00AM in the morning and I'll want to get ready for the day. Some times, I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, like I slept the entire time when my dad went to the emergency room in the middle of the night. That scared me. My brother talks in his sleep, though.

[Timdotz]

Reading all these are quite amusing.

Once I was sleeping at the top bunk in a room full of my friends, and my friend at the bottom bunk turned a bit in his sleep in the middle of the night. I suddenly sat up and shouted "EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, ITS AN EARTHQUAKE!". One of my friends told me to goto sleep and I muttered something like "its not my fault if you guys die from a natural disaster.." and went to sleep again.. The next day I vaguely remember it as a dream while everyone laughed about it..

[Alida]

I don't talk in my sleep or anything like that

unless you count agreeing to wake up in the morning... I never remember doing that but my mom always gets angry after she does in 4 or 5 times

I also continuously seek out sources of warmth in my sleep. I can travel all around the bed if I know some place is warmer. It makes me look like some emo cuddler, when the warm thing turns out to be a person.

I have burn scars from a radiator that was positioned directly next to the bed at my ex's house. ouch.

[Sylvanus]

You're a cuddler too!:lovestruck:

[Dreamer]

:suspicious:I would be pretty pissed off if somebody screamed while sleeping in the same bunkbed as I.

[Timdotz]

Dreamer, your name really suits the topic, why am I not surprised of your presence?

[ElstonGunn]

I once got up in the morning, showered, got dressed, and went down to catch the bus before I realized that it was 3:00. I'm not sure if that was sleep-related, or if it was just because I'm an absent-minded oaf.

My friend shared a room with his brother. One time his brother sat up in bed, raised his arms and shouted "Oakland scores seven!" If I'm remembering correctly, this was the same kid who once barfed in his sleep without waking up and then rolled around in it all night.

[gogurtdynasty]

I laugh in my sleep. Not small chuckles, but loud laughs from time to time.

Ha! Before my best friend got married we were inseparable which meant that we would end up sleeping at one or the others house quite often and one day she finally confessed that she couldn't handle sleeping in the same room at me because frequently i would start hysterically laughing in my sleep




I also used to have a particular friend i would drink with and then we would share a bed once it was time for passing out. Well i sleep on my stomach and it's pretty difficult to wake me up and in the morning on several occasions i woke up in sleeping on my stomach with my friend laying on top of me with his back to my back.... it was pretty strange

[INTJoe]

About a month ago I was in a half-asleep mode in the early morning and I subconciously figured out the word "emergency" comes from the word "emerge". When you have a stack of prioritized tasks, and one of them emerges to the top of your stack, it is an "emergency". It has emerged from an unseen place, and requires immediate attention.

I literally woke up and remembered this as if it were a dream. I went to dictionary.com to verify and was pretty shocked that I was right. (I'm not great at verbal acuity).

This type of crap happens from time-to-time; I'll figure things out while not even, for all intents and purposes, thinking about them.

Is this Ni at work?

[Solaris]

About a month ago I was in a half-asleep mode in the early morning and I subconciously figured out the word "emergency" comes from the word "emerge". When you have a stack of prioritized tasks, and one of them emerges to the top of your stack, it is an "emergency". It has emerged from an unseen place, and requires immediate attention.

I literally woke up and remembered this as if it were a dream. I went to dictionary.com to verify and was pretty shocked that I was right. (I'm not great at verbal acuity).

This type of crap happens from time-to-time; I'll figure things out while not even, for all intents and purposes, thinking about them.

Is this Ni at work?

Yes.

[fripping]

my intj talks in her sleep almost every night. fervently. she's chinese so i have no idea what she's saying, which considering the things listed in this thread is probably a good thing.

[pinkroger]

I have dreams in which I do drugs. I suppose this alone isn't too strange, but the really weird part is that I feel the drug. Like if I'm doing marijuana in the dream, I feel the effects of the marijuana.

[Minerva]

You guys have overly active minds.

[Solaris]

You guys have overly active minds.

And this surprises you?

I once bounced my head off the wall because I hit the ground in a dream and jerked in my sleep. I woke my mom up laughing. When I yelled down the hall what happened, she laughed too. Ahh, my strange teen years...

[Pinkie]

I don't talk in my sleep very often, but I do dig my nails into myself. I wake up quite often with lots of little crescents on my hands and my arms because I've been doing it. I don't know why.

[Blacklustre King]

My friend says I breath really hard like I' am being choked and that sometimes I'll growl really low toned. Its kinda scary and funny~

That and either someone else or I' am scratching the hell out of myself. I wake up with all these annoying scratches, most of them bleeding.

[azelismia]

I talk in my sleep and occasionally sleep walk. I've had a number of conversations with people when I am sleeping that I have no memory of later, in which they didn't realise I was sleeping but said later that I was being excessively weird even for me.

I've had lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis a few times.

[Grizzly]

Ive always talked in my sleep since around the age of 7-8 everything ranging from the tamer examples previously listed to the flat out war cries that others have mentioned

I used to suffer from night terrors up until about 3 years ago that used to really piss off girlfriends/roommates. As I'm 6"2 about 190lbs I cause quite a racket when I wake up thinking I'm still fighting a hoard of badgers (not kidding, they feature quite regularly in fact)

Nightmares tend to set them off worse than normal dreams, and I find that I do not talk/act out in my sleep when someone is sleeping next to me.

[azelismia]

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[mkay]

My INTJ husband has a lot of active dreams (apparently he often dreams about flying). He sometimes seems to have stressful dreams, like he'll kick the covers or mutter like he's upset. I nudge him if I hear him sounding stressed out. I wonder whether his dreams are vivid because he doesn't express a lot of emotion day to day. He says he remembers most of his dreams.

I'm ENTP, usually sleep great and rarely remember my dreams.

My ESFJ brother and I used to sleepwalk when we were kids, but we grew out of it.

[Grizzly]

azelismia-
Yeah Ive spent some time giggling to that webtoon. The badger hoards in in my dreams tend to have more teeth and less coordinated dance steps.

Anyone ever read the Redwall series by Brian Jacques? I think the badgers from my dreams come from the stories involving salamaderstrom when I was a kid.

Something I'm noticing though is the prevalence of sleepwalkers in the previous posts. I thought it was a pretty rare behavior especially in older children. Ive never done it but I would be interested to hear about it from anybody that experiences it often as an adult.

[Aoiluna]

When I was younger I relocated my crayfish from the tank across the room to my closet. When I woke up my hands smelled funny and I heard a squeaking sound in my closest. The poor thing was so dry rubbing its claws together :( I felt awful and put him back in his tank. Ive had other sleepwalking incidents, but that is probably the most odd.

[PillowSoup]

Whenever I have a dream that involves something with motorsports I sometimes wake up realizing that I'm bracing for inertia from turns or moving my hands in search of the gearshift/handbrake. I sometimes dream in broken mandarin and that usually screws me up for the next day and I've been told that I blurt out random stuff in Thai and Chinese.
Oh and one Sunday night I went to bed late and dreamed that I had gone through an entire Monday of school, shopping, and commuting back home only to wake up to another Monday.

[NicoMT]

I make loud "HMMM" sounds in my sleep, like I'm thinking. Heh

[iMiki]

I sleep normally. But, there was one night, which happened about 6 years ago, that I punched and kicked my little sister aggressively for a couple of times. I was asleep the whole time.

I have a friend whose little brother has sleeping problems too. One day, her little brother almost killed her. He was holding a knife. I thought that this was pretty scary. :scared: There was also one time that he went to the kitchen and was supposedly making breakfast for himself although in reality, he was making a big mess.

[TehBeefah]

I have been having lots of sex dreams ever since my girlfriend broke up with me. It's rather odd that I rarely had them before--I just hope I don't do anything embarrassing in my sleep for my roommate to wonder about....

[mkay]

You don't sleepwalk, do you?

[capricornintj]

My weird sleep things...
- had night terrors as a child. now I occasionally wake up laughing hysterically
- cursed out my college roommate while I was asleep. I had no recall of the event, but he was pissed for days
- once had a 45 minute phone conversation while I was asleep. My answering machine answered the same time I did and recorded the whole thing.
- my boyfriend accused me of repeatedly hitting him while I slept
- frequently bounce, as if dropped from a few feet above the bed, usually related to falling in a dream
- sometimes tune in to certain times, like always waking up at 12:34am, or pm if I am sleeping in. As a teen, I read the Amityville Horror and woke up at 3:15am every night for the next month.

[changos]

Sleep paralysis: I go to bed, sleep and then wake up softly, I can hear, see, move my eyes but not my body, only breath. I read about it and is pretty random with no explanation. The doc says stress and dehydration have to do with it. Is not a dream, I can hear, I'm aware of things.

I had a girlfriend who liked to take naps. I took naps with other girls before but with this one... I woke up suddenly as if it was some kind of emergency. I ended up sited in bed in half a second totally aware. She freaked out about this. Some times she was laying her head on my chest, some times facing the other side... it was nothing she did, I just didn't had peace of sleep with her.

[Big Grizzle]

The short answer to this question is that I do all manner of crazy sh*t.

I don't even know where to begin.

[Zzyber]

Yeah I used to have a problem with sleep walking a few years ago. Don't know if I still do or not but it was brought to my attention because I was deployed at the time. I would wake up sometimes in the morning with scratches on arms and legs and my "room" would be completely reorganized and apparently I would have had complete conversations with a few of the people that lived next to me but have no memory of it because I was asleep.

Very interesting. I wonder if this is (and seems to be considering the amount/content of the posts) more prevalent of INTJ's and if so why? Is it our subconscious rebelling against our introversion or just a physical manifestation of things that we suppress in our fully conscious part of life.
Which I believe is the same thing. :p

[Fanowene]

I sleeptalk and I sit up in my sleep sometimes. But I don't sleepwalk. Right after I've fallen asleep I'm a very deep sleeper, but as it gets closer to morning (6am or so) I can wake up because of little noises. Though mostly I sleep until my alarm goes off (which is around 7am at the moment).

[Prunesquallor]

I laugh in my sleep a lot.
Once I twisted my ankle.
And another time I wrote on my wall ("animal imagery in King Lear: discuss").
Exams make it worse.

[Nikita]

I was told once that I sing in my sleep. Apparently I sang Puff the Magic Dragon...I was 8 years old, lol.

[Vagrant]

From what I understand, I fidget a lot in my sleep.

Although often people think I'm asleep when I'm actually not.

[baixue]

I talk in my sleep and occasionally walk/run into things in my sleep.

Shortly after my husband and I were married, I discovered that I moan a lot in my sleep. -One time my hubby clearly heard me say 'hamburger' followed by a 'mmmm' sound -while fast asleep.

Several years ago, I had a pretty embarrassing sleepwalking episode. I had watched "Crocodile Hunter" and then went straight to bed. Sometime later, I had the most horrible nightmare about crocodiles attacking me, along with cobras chasing me. I fulfilled the running that I was doing in my dream, by leaping out of bed and running head first into a wall. That definitely woke me up. :surprised:

[jikin]

The strangest with me is I sometimes have strong olfactory hallucinations in my sleep. They are enough to wake me up and send me flying across the room thinking something is wrong.

I do have the occasional sleep paralysis problem.
When I'm sick I'll talk in my sleep.
I've been told I kick in my sleep.

[Hanfgeist]

I suffer badly from sleep paralysis with associated audio and visual hallucinations , a very bizarre experience indeed. Typically takes the form of waking up unable to move with a buzzing noise in my ears and the sense that a malevolent presence is in the room, which subsequently manifests as a large dark shrouded wraith like shape floating over me and the unshakeable belief that it is in fact trying to kill me and all the time this is happening, I cannot move (probably because your brain switches off your muscles during REM sleep and there is a delay in activating them if a noise awakens you at this time)

It may well be a wraith, an alien abduction in progress or my repressed subconscious Jungian shadow complexes have broken out of the castle in the high Carpathians of my subconscious where they have been locked up way too long and are paying me a visit or that a brain in a temporarily paralysed body, which has been awakened by a noise during REM sleep, conjures shapes and supernatural explanations from the darkness. I tend to experience these episodes when I am tired, had a stressful day or have jet lag.......


Does anyone else experience sleep paralysis with associated hallucinations? and if so what age were you when it first happened and do you ascribe it to attack by a supernatural entity, alien abduction or to physiological/psychological factors ? (I favour the latter explanation but have seen video footage of dark shapes manifesting in rooms so I am maintaining an open mind on what the explanation for these events is)

[secretagentm]

I laugh in my sleep a lot.

Me too! Apparently I woke up my friends in the next room because I had been laughing so hard. I don't remember what was funny though, which is weird because I have good dream recall.

I talk in my sleep A LOT. And I have lucid dreams frequently. Usually I'm usually giving myself super powers and teleporting to places or flying. I like it best when I've had a bad dream, then I can relive the dream and do things the right way. Like arm myself with a machine gun or fly away if I'm being chased, or say the perfect thing to shut up a jerk or something like that.

[llBradll]

I've had a lot of conversations when sleeping and still do but I only know if somebody tells me. Apparently I do good impressions in my sleep too.

[daydreamer]

once while under a lot of stress from work, i slept-walk during a midday Sunday nap and proceeded to scream nonsense vehemently at my husband for about 5 minutes, then went back to napping. i had no recollection upon waking, to my husband's incredulity.

[Hjordis]

Once I had a dream so funny I laughed so loud I woke myself up. I don't remember what the dream was about.


I did that once. I asked, for a reason still unknown to me, whether elephants were allowed to ride hobos and woke up laughing.

My friend told me I kept saying no, no in my sleep once, but usually I don't talk or sleepwalk or anything. I don't even remember sleeping that night, though I do remember *thinking* no a lot.

My dreams are completely devoid of emotion though and never normal. I've dreamt that my science teacher is a serial killer and that I was being chased by cannibal giants without feeling any fear, and I've dreamt that I accidentally went to school naked without feeling any embarrassment.

[meistergeist]

I suffer badly from sleep paralysis with associated audio and visual hallucinations , a very bizarre experience indeed. Typically takes the form of waking up unable to move with a buzzing noise in my ears and the sense that a malevolent presence is in the room, which subsequently manifests as a large dark shrouded wraith like shape floating over me and the unshakeable belief that it is in fact trying to kill me and all the time this is happening, I cannot move (probably because your brain switches off your muscles during REM sleep and there is a delay in activating them if a noise awakens you at this time)

It may well be a wraith, an alien abduction in progress or my repressed subconscious Jungian shadow complexes have broken out of the castle in the high Carpathians of my subconscious where they have been locked up way too long and are paying me a visit or that a brain in a temporarily paralysed body, which has been awakened by a noise during REM sleep, conjures shapes and supernatural explanations from the darkness. I tend to experience these episodes when I am tired, had a stressful day or have jet lag.......


Does anyone else experience sleep paralysis with associated hallucinations? and if so what age were you when it first happened and do you ascribe it to attack by a supernatural entity, alien abduction or to physiological/psychological factors ? (I favour the latter explanation but have seen video footage of dark shapes manifesting in rooms so I am maintaining an open mind on what the explanation for these events is)


My first experience was perhaps 13 or 14, and my next at 15. At 18, I've stopped having them (or have stopped remembering them). But it is an absolutely terrifying experience! Both of my experiences were in the dark, so I couldn't see anything... but I could definitely tell there were people, or something, there. They were moving all around my bed, and being paralyzed made it so much worse.

Personally, I believe my head did it all. That was a particularly stressful period in my life, and they haven't happened since. If they were aliens, though... that'd kinda be cool. :D

One time I went into my little sister's room to grab something. As soon as I got in the door, she sat up in bed, "looked" right at me, and issued a low, menacing growl. I quickly left the room, haha.

[Hanfgeist]

My first experience was perhaps 13 or 14, and my next at 15.


I was around fifteen when I first experienced this phenomenon and still get it to this day . I agree with you that it is terrifying, particularly if you have no prior knowledge that this can happen to you, which I think is one possible origin of a lot of the alien abduction and supernatural stories. I think this happens to a lot of people but they may be reluctant to talk about it in case they are thought crazy.....

[FreeFall]

I've been attacked by woman in their sleep, bitten and kinda stabbed.

I myself have laughed uncontrollably in my sleep and for a while I was having day time nightmares which were really, really weird.

And many times after traveling through various time zones I've jumped out of bed, stood in the middle room with my fists clinched trying to figure out where I was.

[BlackMita]

Hanfgeist, that reminds me when I had a nightmare involving a dark figure, and even after springing awake, it was still moving about in my bedroom for ten seconds until my brain decided to fizzle it out.

On topic, I've been known to speak out clearly in my sleep. When I was younger I'd always be paranoid of announcing something from my Freudian file cabinet at a sleep over - but it's always been banal things judging from what family members tell me.

[JINT]

I woke up laughing.

[Jed3]

I had this crazy nightmare when I was a kid, it was like I was falling and everything around me was distorted.
And over the years since then (the dream occured about 10 years ago), I will sometimes go into some sort of strange stance, where everthing seems foreign to me and noises that occur around me seem much louder then usual.
It's become quite rare as I've gotten older though, but I feel that the dream and the unusual sensation are somehow related.

[Hanfgeist]

Hanfgeist, that reminds me when I had a nightmare involving a dark figure, and even after springing awake, it was still moving about in my bedroom for ten seconds until my brain decided to fizzle it out.




yeah I am mostly of the opinion that there are physiological and psychological causes for these experiences. I spoke to someone else who suffers from this and they said they'd left a video camera running by their bed while they were sleeping and during a particulary bad SP episode the camera did not record anything unusual. (does'nt explain the video footage where dark shapes have been captured manifesting in rooms though)

[RoadieRich]

According to a friend who's house I sometimes crash at (yes, friend, shock horror), I've ceased to exist while sleeping, but I'm not sure that's what this discussion is about.

I was in a nocturnal phase at the time, so went to bed shortly before he left for Uni. He came back for lunch, looked in on me, and I wasn't there. The bed was untouched, none of my stuff was in the room. He went back to uni for the afternoon, I left around 4-ish to have some food before the tech rehersal that evening.

I'm pretty sure he just mixed up times - as I made the bed before I left, but he's certain it was at lunch time, when I was definatly asleep.

[boldbidder]

Wow, weird runs deep in INTJ....lol.

I'm much the same, as I child I actually could control my dreams and wake up on demand. As a teen and later an adult I got into the habit of talking in my sleep, once again like others I was talking in full sentences and quite loudly. I remember one time that I really freaked out my wife back when we were dating, she came home I was napping on the couch talking about cars and I said, "Man! It went from 60 - 100 in like that!" At which point I snapped my fingers for emphasis which woke me up and scared the living shit out of her.....LMAO.

[ZzyzxRd]

I have lived with a lot of persons so far and many of them claim that they hear me talk while they passed my room. So apparently.... I talk REALLY LOUD in my sleep. I also dream about my fears and traumas in the past... And - Deja Vu, of course.

[wendytwtee]

I usually just get dreams where I'm interacting with someone or something that isn't what it seems and I'll wake right before an important moment to find out; nasty experiences.

Like when I touched a handsome stranger's face and pulled back immediately because I woke up at that very second to find myself touching my sis' face instead. Or grabbing a person's hand desperately to save myself from falling but instead waking to find my arm wrapped tightly around my bolster.

It's almost comical in the movie-depicted sense actually.

It's not as funny as my sister though, she does everthing from walking, talking, cursing, teeth-grinding and even singing (in tune!!) in her sleep.

That's all I experience aside from a lot of falling from cliffs and buildings which we all experience in states of light sleep and then we wake up in shock.

[Zombicide]

I did have such dreams for a time as a child but they've long since completely gone away and I can barely remember what they were like. The sleep paralysis use to scare me quite a bit.

[Maayan]

My INTJ friend also laughs in her sleep. Strange...

I scream. As in, a bloodcurling death scream. It's strange, because my dreams aren't usually that scary.

I've actually thought about renting a psychological thriller and watching it just before bedtime, with the intention of giving myself a properly terrifying nightmare. It would be exhilarating -- like riding a roller coaster -- and it would put those mundane nightmares into perspective. Who's worried about being prepared for a biology test when the Devil himself is out to slay you?

whether elephants were allowed to ride hobos

:laugh:

[Freedom Geek]

I when asleep have the ability to stay asleep. While sleeping I am able to reset any alarm clock, convince any person that I have contracted for the purpose of waking me that I am perfectly awake and lucid. It is quite annoying.

[Solaris]

I when asleep have the ability to stay asleep. While sleeping I am able to reset any alarm clock, convince any person that I have contracted for the purpose of waking me that I am perfectly awake and lucid. It is quite annoying.

I believe that condition is called somnambulism. People like that have been known to do all kinds of things we do in our day to day lives. It's a little scary in a way -- somebody really can be asleep at the wheel and not know it, nor does anyone around.

[rewhu]

This thread is great, some of the posts are really hilarious.

I experience sleep paralysis / night terrors, but thankfully only about once a year. Any more than that and I'd be afraid to go to sleep. The experiences are too disturbing.

I've talked, cried and screamed bloody murder in my sleep before but I've never laughed. I really wish I could have a dream in which I was flying, that sounds so cool.

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A friend told me that one night she and her husband were sitting on the couch watching TV in their creepy, old apartment building. They were on opposite ends of the sofa. Her husband had fallen asleep. Suddenly he sat up, leaned towards her, put his face so close to hers that their noses almost touched and then he whispered, "You're the devil's child. You're the devil's child." She started crying and he started laughing, which she described as a menacing laugh. Then she started punching him and he woke up and wanted to know what the heck she was doing.

[ushop]

When sleeping, I raise my arms and lightly scratch them or massage them. Sometimes I also wake myself up because my breathing sounds like the waves of my alarm clock.

[CaseBlue]

One time I apparently sat up in bed and gave a brief lecture on the life of George Washington to my girlfriend.

[Freedom Geek]

I believe that condition is called somnambulism. People like that have been known to do all kinds of things we do in our day to day lives. It's a little scary in a way -- somebody really can be asleep at the wheel and not know it, nor does anyone around.

Not really. All I do is stay asleep.

[erkaer]

Once, I woke up and sat up abruptly on a wrong side of bed, hitting the wall so hard with my head I almost passed out.
Another head-to-the wall experience happened when I was dreaming that I'm dreaming and decided to bang my head on the wall to wake up. Which was of course quite stupid, I could have probably had sex with Angelina Jolie or something...
This does not actually qualify as doing weird stuff, but it's the best dream I've ever had: I was in Romania building a cathedral, using strawberries instead of bricks. The thing looked amazing.

[Shikaze]

I talk in my sleep. My girlfriend broke up with me because of that.

We were on a Class Retreat and my girlfriend and I share a room together (nothing happened, we're conservatives... for now). The next morning she was pissed off, I asked her why and she said "Do you really have a crush on my best friend?". I couldn't believe what I just heard "how could she have known that???". Then it hit me, I had a dream about her best friend last night. A week later we broke up, she didn't say why, so I'm guessing it was because of that incident, I loved her even though I had a crush on her best friend.

T_T that week sucked.

[llBradll]

^ Thats really interesting and unlucky

and now i have to change my Avatar