[JonathanLGardner]

Originally posted by Raphy23

If you've never had sleep paralysis this is what it feels like, except it feels more real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om9L3RrAWAw

It feels like there is something sitting on your chest. If you open your eyes you can see something like a demon on you, breathing on you.

[BlooRiverAnimal]

I've never experienced lucid dreaming before. However, I have experienced sleep paralysis, and it is NOT the tea. It's like someone was holding my body down and my conscious was complete awake and I could hear everything that was happening around me. I was so scared. It was terrifying. It didn't help that I thought I heard voices either. I know it was just my mind playing tricks on me but still, the worst.

[Arcane_Sky]

Lucid dreaming is amazing if you tried it, endless possibilities of things you can imagine can happen, although the sleep paralysis part that comes beforehand is typically hellish since you experience it visually and aurally.

[Faruhs]

The most horrible feeling is when you are mentally awake, and you physically can't open your eyelids.

[IggyAzalea]

Originally posted by Raphy23

Then how do you get yourself to lucid dream?

You have to set a couple of alarms throughout the night, write all your dreams in a dream journal to see if there's any patterns that reoccur, pinch yourself or something similar throughout the day, I don't remember what else, it's tiresome

[Britney Spears]

I've experienced sleep paralysis a couple of times but felt nothing strange, just unable to move my body while being conscious about everything.

[MrDeeds]

Originally posted by BeyNavi

WTF this is getting really weird. Everyone (including myself) who has experienced sleep paralysis saw the dark figure?!

demons.

[iambradds]

I have this sleep paralysis syndrome called "exploding head syndrome" and it's the absolute worst

[conseeded]

Yeah, I lucid dream a lot. I have this recurring one where a man is swinging a giant hammer against my walls. I always wake up before I see him though, thankfully.

Then I also see a little boy sitting in the corner of my room screaming at me

[conseeded]

Originally posted by BeyNavi

WTF this is getting really weird. Everyone (including myself) who has experienced sleep paralysis saw the dark figure?!

But wait, this is weird

[Phoenixx]

Originally posted by IggyAzalea

You have to set a couple of alarms throughout the night, write all your dreams in a dream journal to see if there's any patterns that reoccur, pinch yourself or something similar throughout the day, I don't remember what else, it's tiresome

It really works. Pinching yourself throughout the day was my catalyst and remembering dreams too. Once you get really into it you can actually lucid dream on demand. Last summer I lucid dreamt so much Now I'm really rusty...

[Samuel]

Originally posted by Mani.

I experienced people floating around and circling my bed. They were dressed from the 40's. It was so vivid. I heard the sounds of children playing in the park and people talking. But when I opened my eyes, it was immediately silenced and they just stopped and looked at me... One lunged at me, and this gust of wind appeared keeping me from breathing. I closed my eyes in hope to wake up, but I just heard kids playing at a park again.

When i woke up I saw writing on the mirror. Although I was in a dark ass room, its like it was engraved in my eyes. The writing was faint, but it was in cursive. This has happened to me twice in the same place. I wish I could decipher what the writing meant.

What kinda American Horror Story teas?

[Doogle]

Lucid dreams are super fun, I've only had about 3 in my life though. The ability to do absolutely anything is the best feeling, I really wish I could train myself to have them more often. Being aware that you're awake in your mind but not actually being conscious is really cool.

[EnigmaPopstar]

I remember having two lucid dreams, one when i was really young i cant remember it well, but i "woke up" in a city i've never been to and i was searching for my parents the dream felt like it lasted a very long time that i started to question myself if that was reality or just a dream.

The other one happened last year. I was standing in the middle of a florest, i could run really fast and jump really high and it was really fun until it got dark and i saw a black figure far away in the distance and i started running and jumping but he managed to catch me but then i think that it turned into a sleeping paralysis because i "woke up" but i didn't open my eyes, i felt something trying to hold me up, i thought it was my mom or sister just playing around but then it started to choke me so i opened my eyes and I saw a shadow opening my closet and getting inside it. I couldnt move during all of this. Only after a while i managed to move.
There was nothing in my closet btw

[PurrKaty]

Omg this has happened to me once before. I was so scared

So I used to share a room with my older brother but he works over nights so I always slept in my room at night alone. Btw this was 2 years ago. I remember opening my eyes and everything was a little blurry. My eyes were locked onto my closest door and I couldn't breath. My closest started to open and my chest was being pressed on so hard i literally was struggling to breathe. It felt like someone's hands were wrapped around my neck and someone was kneeling on my chest. I couldn't stop staring at my now open closest and I was trying to scream for help and nothing came out. There was a figure standing in the back of my closest. I kept flashing him from my closest to strangling me. I can vividly remember the black arms that where chocking me. It lasted for about 3 minutes and when I was finally able to blink again, I gasped for air and my closest door was closed again. I thought it was just a nightmare but my friend told me about sleep paralysis and lucid sleeping when I told them about my dream. I literally stayed awake the rest of the night with my light on and I kept looking all around my room. I haven't had a problem since though.

[Javan]

Lol @ the OP. Insidious teas

[Marq]

I've never experienced sleep paralysis, probably because I never sleep on my back which often causes it.

[BBathHausOfGaga]

Just don't sleep on your back if you want to avoid sleep paralysis.

Also, you will feel a weight on your chest. sometimes there is nothing, but sometimes there's an old witch on top of you, laughing maliciously.

[EnigmaPopstar]

Originally posted by BTrisc

This bit was hot.

ddddd
inb4 this guy we all see is a hottie

[Satan]

i can never fly in my lucid dreams

sleep paralysis is so scary