Sleep Paralysis is scary.

[NotoriousSMALL 1,984]

All the times I had it, it was never scary. Only twice did something ever happen to me, and it was in the same morning, the first one I heard a voice and I answered back, but when I talked it wasn't my voice. The second time I felt a cold hand touch my back (I was on my side) but even then I wasn't scared of what was touching me. It just didn't feel threatening. Probably because I knew it wasn't real.

[KokuraiNoSenshi 3,463]

Sleep Paralysis wouldn't be that bad... If it wasn't for the fact when it does happen my body seems to be screaming I am not taking deep enough breathes which causes my mind & heart to panic & thereby use more oxygen & therefore need more breathing and... Yeah you can see where this is going. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for that, more just annoying that I can't move. However once I get myself to calm down, I can always fall asleep immediately after. The hard part is just getting your body to relax when it thinks it is dying

[Invincible 2,091]

I actually got paralyzed once when my body didn't seem to properly wake up. I stood up, walked a couple of steps and then "felt" as if i lost control over my body and my senses. I collapsed to the ground - the jolt must have released the hold it had over me.

[Moonlit_Night 223]

I haven't had it yet however i do often try to lucid dream which i hear can be a cause of sleep paralysis

[Celtore 2,770]

I experienced it once. I remember feeling really tired and being completely unable to move. It was almost like experiencing one of those hypnosis tracks to help you relax. I was too comfortable and tired to move. Then it kind of felt like I was entering a vortex and I entered a lucid dream. So yeah, good thing I didn't panic. Seeing King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog in my room would have terrified me for months...

[deadprofile 1,122]

I don't think I've ever had sleep paralysis. But what I do get...is being killed in my sleep, and not being able to wake up....Sometimes when I wake up after being killed I feel intense cold where I was shot/stabbed/insert other methods here. 

 

It's darkness....I feel nothing, see nothing, am doing nothing after I am killed. But apparently my body is flipping out, trying to wake up. My husband and sleep therapists have confirmed this. I will cry out incoherently (mainly screaming), and my body thrashes about. My husband wakes me up now when that starts happening. Before being married, it usually just came to me physically hurting myself (by either hitting the wall or falling off the bed).

 

That is scary...really scary...

[Fawkes The Phoenix 737]

I've had it once, that was by far one of the scariest experiences in my life

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

Sleep paralysis is scary? No shit.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,986]

I experience this on occasion but it annoys me instead of scaring me because there are things I would much do than wasting my time laying still. I cannot recall ever having hallucinations.

Edit: And I have very recently had hallucinations while under sleep paralysis though it was still something that annoyed me rather than scared me. What appeared to have happened is that someone has entered my room who seemed to need me urgently. I tried to attend them, but due to the paralysis, communication was difficult; trying to break the paralysis, I attempted to reach out my arms and yell out something like "Wait a moment! I am coming there!"

Edited December 16, 2018 by Luna the Great of all the Russias

[Lucky Bolt 35,064]

I’ve never experienced it, but I’ve heard it can be quite the scary experience. 

Edited April 20, 2019 by Lucky Bolt

[TBD 17,254]

I would occasionally experiences sleep paralysis that it’s become regular for me. But I will never get used to the feel.

[Castle Bleck 19,376]

Tell me about it.

In fact -- the last time I had one, it involved a dream about the World Of Nothing from Super Paper Mario (talk about Nightmare Fuel).

[Dreambiscuit 9,890]

I've never had it and I hope I never do. I've had plenty of scary dreams where I'm being chased by someone/something and my legs won't move (in the dream) in order to run, but I don't think that's the same thing. 

[DubWolf 17,265]

Thankfully I’ve been able to “escape” from falling into an episode of one; you need to try to sit up as hard as possible.

Sometimes I experience that “sinking” feeling pretty often at one night. I think even while lying on my side of bed  (it’s mostly prominent if you lie on your back).

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

Let me just say.. I have had it happen to me multiple times. Every time it happens, it's terrifying. When I was a child, bed time was the most frightening thing ever, because I had to deal with waking up at 3AM, unable to move, while having strange shadow figures move around my room. I remember seeing things that shouldn't have existed, and things moving in ways they couldn't physically. I've also dealt with recurring nightmares involving these same shadow figures following me around.

This image may be a bit unnerving for anyone who knows what it's like, but this is about how I feel every time it happens. It was actually based on a close friend's dream that he described to me.

Spoiler

You can't move, you can't tell if you're breathing sometimes. And in some rare cases, you have the sensation that things are touching you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Clawdeen 14,625]

Yeah it’s definitely a scary thing. I get it pretty frequently. Have since I was a kid.