If it stopped you from breathing, you would have passed out within those 2 minutes. Regardless of you knowing, you still would have freaked out.

Happens to me sometimes. And no i don't belive people have died because of sleep paralysis. Amirite?

Nah, i've never had it too luckly. I don't know, probably it's because of the way i sleep.

he means that sleep paralysis is a mechanism your body activates to keep you from sleep walking and such, everyone experiences it when they fall asleep.

the "sleep paralysis" people are referring to in this thread is the hallucinations one might experience during that period if he is awake, but his body is still enforcing the paralysis mechanism.

TIL, makes sense now that you've pointed it out.

I've only 'experienced' (or however you want to put it) it once, I had pulled an all-nighter attempting to finish an assignment and so was reasonably tired, was laying on my bed listening to a podcast, trying not to fall asleep, next thing I know I couldn't move. Could look around, but that was all.
I could still hear the podcast, so I knew I was awake, and it was the middle of the day so nothing spooky got me. Only lasted a couple of minutes.
Pretty surreal nonetheless, I can see why people would freak out.

I actually experienced this quite frequently last year.

It usually happened about 2 hours into a good sleep where I would suddenly awake but would not be able to move for a good 4 minutes. I would constantly hallucinate to the point where I would always see something in the corner of my eyes but I couldnt truly look at these figures as I could move my eyes but thats about it.

After a little while at many times it was hard to figure out if I was dreaming or not, and my wild imagination didnt really help as I kept seeing the wildest things but still couldnt move so it was pretty terrifying. At first at least.

I found out later on that I could use the sleep paralysis as a bridge to do some lucid dreaming, which is basically being conscious in your dreams so you could literally do anything you wanted, physics didn't apply here sonny. So I made the most out of my sleep paralysis by doing cool shit in my dreams, which was pretty great.

It came to the point where I would hope that I would have sleep paralysis some nights so I could do more cool stuff.

I stopped getting sleep paralysis "attacks" somewhere in June, but I guess its for the best. Being fixated on a fictitious reality would probably lead to problems, and doing anything you wanted kinda gets boring. Surprises in life are what really sets our reality away from ones fabricated to suit our needs. Which is probably why I don't want to experience these again.



tl;dr: I had a lot of sleep paralysis sessions, and they can be pretty terrifying. On the other hand though they can lead to lucid dreaming where you can become the God of your own dream, but honestly I'd stay away from that. Shit's trippy yo.

It's happened to me a couple of times.

First time ever, I was about 16. Woke up late at night/early morning, there was a huge yellowish luminous spider on my chest and a couple more climbing around my room. I managed to move after a couple of seconds and stood straight up, didn't know about sleep paralysis before. Scared the fuck out of me.

Other iterations of it have included a giant white luminous skull staring at me from where my door is located, and the most recent one which was a couple weeks ago was floating luminous faces(not exactly faces, shit like aku-aku from crash bandicoot). They're always luminous, very light coloring. Either white or yellow.

Nothing terrifying other than the giant spider, but it's still very disconcerting

Well, i remember i had a sleep paralysis once like two years ago. I was on my bed in a weird pose, looking at the door and trying to call someone, but i couldn't talk. Thanks god i didn't saw any ghost shit or something like that.

I've had these through out most of my life, the earliest was when I was 9, scared the shit out of me, just when I thought I coul sleep agin after watching Nightmare in Elm street, this shit happens. I was paralyzed. I tried to look around but my eyes were twitching and blinking and heart racing under seize of this half awake/sleep state, then I heard that laughing that actualy still kind of mock me to this day, those laughs were just utterly disgusting in a way that was humiliating, like they were literally lauhing at me and wasn't because of they were hysterical. Scared the fuck out of me I cried when I broke out if it.

That was the first time.

The second time was a lot later like when I was 11 I heard these murmurs and and a wierd raspy exhale every 2 or 3 seconds, then in the distance I heard whimpering, my heart was racing again and when I broke free I almost cried again.

This shit and my dreams feel to real and leave me feeling emotional in a way I can't explain, so with this I was curious. Like Mrjingles said It's a bridge, you're here and not, I may not be a dream master I can control my dreams quite well and with this it's a lot easier, but my mind always throws elements of surprise like not being to spawn light when you need it or a gun. My thoughts are like " nah bro, this scenario is real, no cheating"

It took training breaking free from it if you have weird fucked up rampant thoughts especially when you're plighted by depression and anxiety and such. I foun that focusing ona limb whatever it may be for me was curling my toes. Just concentrate there and eventually you'll fully wake.

This is also good for a sound sleep if you remain calm and keep composure.

This normally it happens as I'm trying to go to sleep. I would dose off slightly and wake a little. So ever my night for awhile I tried to enter this state, I got good at it now.

Most of the time, when I go into REM and that half-sleep/half-awake process, I'm normally trying to force this feeling of euphoria that's released from your brain sometimes(possibly DMT, I've experienced it on shrooms too), it's more of a shockwave/pulsating feeling. The first time I really used that, I got to the point where it just started releasing over and over, quickly too so I was in a state of euphoria.

However, the first time I had sleep paralysis, a goblin climbed up on me, and started fucking around and freaking me out. The weird thing is though, even when I couldn't move my arms, breath, or do anything: I apparently had enough mental strength to actually grab this goblin's arm and put him in a keylock(BJJ), broke it and immediately went to sleep. But, it was all seen through my third eye, while I was just staring at at the ceiling in reality.