Sleep paralysis - my experience
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Nah, you nit! "Monklands District" as was, prior to the last local government rejig, when the Fabled Lost Kingdom of Strathclyde Region sank beneath the waves.
Actually I love those photo books you get of Old Monklands, Old Motherwell and the like. Makes me feel young.
Actually I love those photo books you get of Old Monklands, Old Motherwell and the like. Makes me feel young.
There's a series of books- Menzies or Smiths have them- "Old Monklands", "Old Carfin" (Old Torremolinos??) Photos from the 1880s and onward. Quite interesting actually.
I just meant the now defunct "Monklands District", the old administrative area as was. I'd forgotten about Old Monkland cemetery. That's the one just north of the A8? And Kirkwood was the area on the west of it? Seems to be nothing but "little boxes" over there these days. I remember when it was periglacial tundra with wooly mammoths wandering all over the place...
Senile dementia.
I just meant the now defunct "Monklands District", the old administrative area as was. I'd forgotten about Old Monkland cemetery. That's the one just north of the A8? And Kirkwood was the area on the west of it? Seems to be nothing but "little boxes" over there these days. I remember when it was periglacial tundra with wooly mammoths wandering all over the place...
Senile dementia.
Since everyone else seems to be delurking in order to contribute to this topic, I thought I might as well follow the herd and add my experience of sleep paralysis.
It was quite a few years ago now, at the point when I'd gone from my youthful believing (In particular I was big on UFO conspiracy theories, as well as being a Christian) through a period in which I'd lost all interest in the paranormal and into a period where I had recovered interest and was moving toward my current state of highly skeptical.
Anyhow, at the time I'd been reading some book on the UFO phenomenon, which was mostly from a believers standpoint, but also included some entries on things such as sleep paralysis. It was the first time I'd ever heard of this and it (along with some of the more nightmarish "Type 3 encounters") was in my mind as I went to bed one night.
I'd been sleeping quite normally through most of that night but after waking to visit the toilet I had a somewhat strange prelude experience on the verge of going back to sleep - I could actually feel myself dropping asleep whilst still being aware of my surroundings. I felt my head rolling to the side on my pillow, began to dream (or at least experience dream like images) and generally felt like I was losing control of my body. It was not an entirely pleasant experience and after it happened led to the thought of "If this keeps happening I'm going to suffer sleep paralysis and think I'm being abducted by aliens". This was annoyingly accurate.
Now the experience itself. I'm fairly sure that both the above thought, and my knowledge of the classical abduction story led to it being as textbook "Alien Encounter" as it is:
I woke up and felt myself unable to move in the dark. This discovery gave me feelings of panic and terror. I noticed a blue light shining through the curtains. It periodically brightened and dimmed and this was accompanied by a mechanical humming noise that got louder in time with the light brightening and got quieter as it dimmed (for the noise think of a lightsaber humming). Looking around the room I could make out a shadowy figure in the corner, right on the edge of my vision. The figure seemed hostile to me, despite not taking any action at all during the experience. Now I knew exactly what was happening from the moment I woke up as the experience was so exactly like the explanation of sleep paralysis in my book, but this did nothing to stop the feelings of rising terror as the source of the blue light (presumably a spaceship. And since it's my ordeal, when I say it's a spaceship, it's a spaceship.) got closer and closer, causing both the blue light and humming to intensify. The experience then abruptly stopped, leaving my sitting there and blaming that bloody book for introducing me to the whole concept.
I didn't read that damn thing again for months.
It was quite a few years ago now, at the point when I'd gone from my youthful believing (In particular I was big on UFO conspiracy theories, as well as being a Christian) through a period in which I'd lost all interest in the paranormal and into a period where I had recovered interest and was moving toward my current state of highly skeptical.
Anyhow, at the time I'd been reading some book on the UFO phenomenon, which was mostly from a believers standpoint, but also included some entries on things such as sleep paralysis. It was the first time I'd ever heard of this and it (along with some of the more nightmarish "Type 3 encounters") was in my mind as I went to bed one night.
I'd been sleeping quite normally through most of that night but after waking to visit the toilet I had a somewhat strange prelude experience on the verge of going back to sleep - I could actually feel myself dropping asleep whilst still being aware of my surroundings. I felt my head rolling to the side on my pillow, began to dream (or at least experience dream like images) and generally felt like I was losing control of my body. It was not an entirely pleasant experience and after it happened led to the thought of "If this keeps happening I'm going to suffer sleep paralysis and think I'm being abducted by aliens". This was annoyingly accurate.
Now the experience itself. I'm fairly sure that both the above thought, and my knowledge of the classical abduction story led to it being as textbook "Alien Encounter" as it is:
I woke up and felt myself unable to move in the dark. This discovery gave me feelings of panic and terror. I noticed a blue light shining through the curtains. It periodically brightened and dimmed and this was accompanied by a mechanical humming noise that got louder in time with the light brightening and got quieter as it dimmed (for the noise think of a lightsaber humming). Looking around the room I could make out a shadowy figure in the corner, right on the edge of my vision. The figure seemed hostile to me, despite not taking any action at all during the experience. Now I knew exactly what was happening from the moment I woke up as the experience was so exactly like the explanation of sleep paralysis in my book, but this did nothing to stop the feelings of rising terror as the source of the blue light (presumably a spaceship. And since it's my ordeal, when I say it's a spaceship, it's a spaceship.) got closer and closer, causing both the blue light and humming to intensify. The experience then abruptly stopped, leaving my sitting there and blaming that bloody book for introducing me to the whole concept.
I didn't read that damn thing again for months.
Interesting. My experiences have been non visual- I had an "awareness" of a "presence" (in one case an awareness that the presence had gone, which is pretty wierd when I think on it).
There was a streetlight right outside my room. Yet it never "featured". My first experience was in daytime though. (working an early shift- I came home around noon and napped for an hour).
I think this was before I heard of alien abduction. 1970s.
Welcome aboard PaulB. Ignore the last few posts- Jambo and I live only a few miles apart- just discussing local features.
There was a streetlight right outside my room. Yet it never "featured". My first experience was in daytime though. (working an early shift- I came home around noon and napped for an hour).
I think this was before I heard of alien abduction. 1970s.
Welcome aboard PaulB. Ignore the last few posts- Jambo and I live only a few miles apart- just discussing local features.
The connection to abduction reports made me think of this.
One of my guilty pleasures is to read new age books over coffee in my local coffeehouse/bookstore. I've scanned a number of "how-to books" along the lines of "how to become psychic", "how to develop PK", "how to contact ghosts", "how to do out of body experiences".
In this latter category I've read descriptions of a buzzing noise and light much like PaulB described. More significantly to me, the author (possibly more than one author) has described that the ideal state of consciousness seems to lie between sleep and waking. Basically you do relaxation exercises but try not to let yourself fall all the way asleep.
In other words: "Out of Body Experience" = "Self-induced sleep paralysis".
One of my guilty pleasures is to read new age books over coffee in my local coffeehouse/bookstore. I've scanned a number of "how-to books" along the lines of "how to become psychic", "how to develop PK", "how to contact ghosts", "how to do out of body experiences".
In this latter category I've read descriptions of a buzzing noise and light much like PaulB described. More significantly to me, the author (possibly more than one author) has described that the ideal state of consciousness seems to lie between sleep and waking. Basically you do relaxation exercises but try not to let yourself fall all the way asleep.
In other words: "Out of Body Experience" = "Self-induced sleep paralysis".
One of my guilty pleasures is to read new age books over coffee in my local coffeehouse/bookstore.
Get thee behind me, satan! Do you get crumbs and coffee rings on them, then put them back on the shelf? A Daniel! A Daniel come unto judgement!
The hypothesis sounds feasible too.
Get thee behind me, satan! Do you get crumbs and coffee rings on them, then put them back on the shelf? A Daniel! A Daniel come unto judgement!
The hypothesis sounds feasible too.
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Once, a few years ago, I got up at night to open the window in the bedroom because it was too warm in the room. My wife woke up as I went to the window and watched me as I struggled to open it. When I got back, she was terrified and told me she had seen a tall man in a long, black, old fashined, wool coat standing over me, holding a large knife in his hand, ready to stick it in my back. She had tried to yell and warn me, but was unable to say anything, or move in any way. When I got back to bed she came out of it and was really scared. She could describe everything I was doing correctly, as I was having some trouble with the window. No more sleep that night.