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Originally Posted by Daradon
As for the sleep paralysis, it still really sucks though... The first time it happened it scared the crap out of me. Not being able to move and having a scary dark figure standing over you. Almost like having your worst childhood night terrors come to life! After reading about it I've found I can calm myself when it happens kinda like controlling a dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis |
I started to get these after I got hit by a car. I've never been able to remember the 30 minutes leading up to the accident or the accident itself.. just waking up on the pavement. It put me in the hospital for quite a while and then once I got home I couldn't really make my way up and down stairs so I just slept and hung out in my basement. On about the fourth day back I woke up terrified with an unimaginable amount of adrenaline flowing through me. I tried to move and couldn't. All of the sudden I see a large, shadowy figure speed at me from across the room. I tried to scream for help, but I couldn't do that either. This happened about 6 or 7 more times over the next year. My theory is that I was remembering the accident in my dreams and my brain was trying to wake me up before the part where the car hits me so it could keep the memory repressed, but the car was kind of making its way through into my waking life some how in the form of the shadow ripping at me really quickly. I never remembered my dreams leading up to it though, so.. perhaps it was ghosts.