The Rake and Sleep Paralysis Demons
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Many terrifying creatures dwell within the Uncanny Valley, but one of the best known is The Rake. Reports of the Rake began to hit the internet in 2006, but allegedly the sightings date back to the Medieval Period. But what is it? A sleep paralysis demon? A work of pure fiction? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...
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A rake saying its morbin time is scary
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The rake is old news, what about the shovel? Now that's truly terrifying
Especially if it's blue.
Fucked up lil Nicky's face
Or the trowel or Heaven forbid…… the hoe…..
@@AlexCorporations we call em 304's now
I prefer the spade
The closest I’ve ever gotten to sleep paralysis was a couple years ago, I woke up my (ex)wife saying “there is a man in the corner wearing my skin. It looks f**king ridiculous.”
I don’t remember waking her up, but I do vividly remember the dream. It was a shadowy man wearing my skin, but my skin was way too big for him so it just loosely hung off of him and he was holding a bloodied scalpel. I weirdest part was I thought the whole thing was hilarious. My (ex) wife had to wake me up to get me to stop laughing about it in my sleep. She couldn’t sleep the rest of the night.
That actually sounds hilarious
Lmao you definitely traumatized her
"Look man, im really sorry to bother you outside working hours but do u have this on a smaller size? The weddings tomorrow, help me out here"
lmao
them weird dreams they gon get ya i had one with a goddamn orc in my attic lmfao
I wasn’t really into creepypastas when I was little but now learning about the older monsters created by the internet is pretty fun. Didn’t know a lot of this stuff
Going to try to work some of them in to talk about their folklore counterparts! Probably gonna hit the Fleshgait soonish
@@TheLoreLodge
The flesh gait is fun, I’m excited to see what you think of it!
EverymanHybrid (complete), Marble hornets(complete), tribetwelve(ongoing) and Night Mind (RUclipsr).
Trust me, ya gonna like it.
Well, with the whole tulpa theory, maybe internet created monsters is a more apt description that we thought.
The rake is way older than the internet.
I would like to share my experience:
I was in my final years of high school and I was having a bad dream where I was being chased by a panther and that when it had finally gotten to me it started to claw at my testecles. As it was doing that it morphed into a demon. I awoke to the sun pouring in through my window, my dog on my bed ( my mom would put my dog on my bed to wake me up), and my mom in my room telling me to get up. I assumed that the nightmare was because my dog had stepped on my testecles while he was on my bed, but then I noticed that my dog was trying to warn me of something and that I couldn’t move. Judging by the noises from downstairs; my mom was making breakfast, while also starnding on my room. That’s when I realized that my dog was trying to warn that this thing that stood in my room was in fact a demon that had assumed the form of my mom in order to lure me to who knows where. I started to panic but then I remembered reading about sleep paralysis and that the best thing to do was to not panic. So I calmed down and focused all my will to move my fingers. When I eventually got them moving, I awoke to a dark room in the wee hours of the morning with my sleep shorts all twisted up and crushing my testes. You may laugh, but it was fucking terrifying.
That was likely a real demonic attack. It's common to be attacked during your dreams.
Maybe don't wear those shorts again. Get something a bit more 'loose'.
@@alfonzo254better yet, sleep naked lmao
Wait so you woke up only to realize you were still dreaming? And then after you woke up again that's when it ended? That just sounds like a nightmare if you were still asleep, if it was sleep paralysis you'd have to be conscious.
OMG! The first time I experienced sleep paralysis was exactly like that except for some differences in the first initial dream. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life and I don't scare easy.
Fun fact: the "vapors from poor digestion causing hallucinations" theory is where Scrooge's "there is more of gravy than the grave about you!" to the ghost of Marley comes from.
Follow-up fun fact: this is likely a form of sulfur intolerance! For various reasons some people's systems break food down (especially high-sulfur foods like gravy) into too much hydrogen sulfide gas which is toxic and can cause severe systemic inflammation. Brain inflammation and/or sleep disturbance can absolutely cause hallucinations and such.
Frankly, I think it's just nightmares from being uncomfortable.
Lol. I came to post the same thing saying gravy is always my explanation over the grave
A fragment of an underdone potato!
I don't understand what this means at all. Stop messing with me.
I remember the relief I felt when I learned what sleep paralysis was. Knowing I wasn't crazy, it was a thing that happened, and I could now explain it to my parents, who I would freak out.
My sister had apparently experienced it as a teen, unfortunately my mother was more inclined to brush it off and never bring it up. My sister and my brother and I have just realized, after all being in our 20's mom has covered up the fact that we all have several mental illnesses. So I'm glad you were able to find the help you need.
That's sad.
The scientific explanation is bullshit as far as I am concerned.
It’s so weird to me that hearing this phenomenon called by a name can make anyone feel better about it. Like that overpowers the strength of the experience and just shrug it off because someone tells you too. That’s way crazier to me than the experience itself.
@@animula6908 fear of the unknown.
I have experienced sleep paralysis. its horrible and yes, it feels like someone is in the room with you. The fact i couldn't move, was beyond terrifying.
I've never had it, nor is there any family history of it,, but have such an ICK😱about it I've always slept on my side, with my duvet covering my eyes, and I'm 38! The thought of waking to that is horrific.
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 its u leaving ur body at night. If u stay calm ull lift off & can go explore. Proof of the soul
@@harryverner6218 How exactly? Please do elaborate as lucid dreaming is a very interesting thing
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 I wouldn't worry about it too much, there's a much higher instance of people who sleep on their back suffering from it. Keep sleeping on your side and you'll probably never experience it.
@@JonW77 I've never slept on my back, luckily. As you say, sure I'm quite safe - but just IN CASE, ima keep my duvet up😄!
On the topic of the rake, if you haven't heard about it you should look into a being in american folklore called the 'Hidebehind" apparently it's a tall gangly creature that will watch you in the woods from a distance but only attack if you notice it and go over to investigate it. From what I heard, Alcohol was a repellant to the creature and it commonly attacked lumberjacks, so the lumberjacks used it as an excuse to drink on the job. I find it interesting cause it reminds me of stuff like the Pine Devil and also the fresno nightcrawler, of the latter there's not a whole lot of info but I've talked to people who personally claimed to have seen them.
The "Dover Demon" is another vaguely similar cryptid. So is the Wendigo.
**sees slenderman** **starts drinking**
I think the fresno nightcrawlers are such cutie patooties, they don't seem very malicious I reckon they're chill as
Bros talking about the gravity falls monster.
the hide behind is just schizophrenia
I took my dogs to the lake for an afternoon solo hike. I know, I know, but this is just outside a big city, we don't have any large predators here, it's a very well marked path, I have my phone and GPS and basic supplies, and people know where I am. I've never felt unsafe.
The trail was much muddier than expected and even with microspikes and trekking poles I fell several times, and it took much longer than usual, and the sun set while we still had about a mile to go. And it was the roughest mile of the trail.
That's when I remembered you saying, "If you hear something call your name in the woods, no you didn't."
So I spent the rest of that mile slogging through the mud trying very hard not to think about hearing my name, or just footsteps, or maybe some tree knocking, and how I wouldn't be able to run away.
Just wanted to say thanks for that. ;)
Cute lie, did your husband make it for you?
@@BlankEmporium they only said they THOUGHT about that happening. Give your balls a tug
@@BlankEmporium why would they lie ab a trail being fucked up and getting spooked by the woods at night? that isn't uncommon lmao
i woulld have SHAT myself lmfao the only time ive been in the woods at night semi-recently is because my fiance wanted to go night-hiking behind my house (she thought id chicken out in the uard but she wouldnt get off the porch). The singular reason i felt okay at All was because we were with my father who was armed. i am a g r o w n m a n :((
@@madsfiedler3884 bwahaha :) glad you understand! I love the spooky stories but they somehow become a lot spookier when the sun goes down. ;) Your fiancee is the smart one staying safe on the porch!
I'm a little surprised you didn't talk about The Hat Man when you mentioned the Shadow People. A TON of people have mentioned a shadow figure with a wide brimmed hat watching them from the corner of their rooms. The interesting thing is, unlike other shadow people, most folks say he's benevolent, or at least neutral.
Same thing, imo
The so-called "Hat Man" is nothing more than a common spirit. Probably a demon, but perhaps a manifestation of a guardian angel. Best to always assume the worst. I spotted it once as a child, having awoken one evening and gone to the restroom. Returning, I turned to look down a hallway which contained our washing machine, and saw this hat man. I was startled but rushed back to my room, quickly returning to sleep.
You are wrong. While the hat man is commonly seen as a shadow with a wide brimmed hat, I have personally seen his face before I ever knew what the hat man was. However he is by no means benevolent nor neutral. When I first awoke in sleep paralysis I was not on my back, I was on my side. He appeared in the corner of my room close to my door about 5 feet from my bed. He slowly hovers towards my bed and proceeds to float above me, and as quickly as a python striking a mouse it grabbed me and threw me onto my back. It never sat on my chest nor gave me the heavy chest feeling but rather after throwing me onto my back it reaches down while still floating above me and it wrapped its massive grey, cold, bony fingers around my neck and begins to strangle me. When I was terrified enough to finally wake up and snap myself out of it I thought it was just another typical sleep paralysis case because it's happened to me multiple times in my life but never with him, that is until I went to the bathroom the next morning to take my morning pee and realized there were deep purple bruises around my neck, and when I came out of the bathroom noticed bloody handprints along the hallway wall closely resembling the size of his hands. The hat man is as I said not benevolent nor neutral, he is pure evil, and he is very real. Since I said in the beginning I didn't see him as a shadow, here is what he looked like. He was approximately 8 feet tall and had to hunch his body over to avoid hitting the ceiling in my bedroom, he was grey like ash and his skin was like leather pulled tight to his bones, he was wearing a tattered and torn black hooded cloak that stopped just above the ankles revealing at least 18 inch feet with twisted decaying yellow toenails. On his head he wore a floppy black wide brimmed hat like those you see farmers in wild west movies wearing but the top was shaped rounded rather than indented more like the wide brimmed hats that Jewish rabbis wear. His eyes were sunken into his head and were that same dead yellow green look you see in corpses or those born blind. His lower jaw hung to his chest with rips in his cheeks that exposed the inside of his mouth which opened exposed razor sharp teeth as long as my fingers, and the size of his hands spread out could cover my entire chest with fingers longer than my head. I've seen him once and I never hope to see him again. My other "sleep paralysis incidents" were mild compared to his attack. I was 28 at the time and have been freaked out by prior incidents but none of them terrified me as much as that did. My first ever incident was at 11 years old if that says how scared I was at 28. My first incident at 11 was simply a being of light that walked through my bedroom door and sat on my chest. The incident prior to the hat man incident was a succubus incident. But the hat man is a whole new league of terrifying paranormal activity.
@ogkhaosmc that's a lot to unpack but we better throw the whole suitcase away
@@ogkhaosmcnice creepypasta buddy, surprised you didn't put "hyper realistic blood" anywhere in it.
I've had sleep paralysis episodes most of my life and I've never had the whole "demon" experience. When I was young and it happened, yeah, it was scary. Feels like you might die. Now it's just annoying. I used to be scared of it happening and now it's just like..god damnit. Never see anything besides a warpy version of the bedroom or just greyness. Guess the demons don't like me.
Next time try to lift out of ur body. Its the 1st stage of astral traveling
Glad you put your experience here, as mine was also like this and everyone goes on and on about how utterly scary it is and I am left there like "Are we talking about the same thing?"
Funnily enough, what took the fear out of it for me was using the "wiggle your big toe" thing from that scene in Kill Bill. It gives me something to concentrate on and wakes me up. When I was a kid I'd get terrified and almost panic, which just made it last longer
If at all possible, try not to sleep on your back, you're much more likely to experience it in that position. If you can then side sleeping is the way to go.
@JonW77 now it's usually just daytime naps.
As a kid I got sleep paralysis every other day. I would see detailed amalgamations of people and it scared me. After a while I realized that they couldn’t do anything to me. So instead of closing my eyes and waiting for it to end, I embraced it and stared at the faces/figures. After doing this my sleep paralysis mostly went away, and turned into lucid dreaming.
When I was trying to lucid dream I would get sleep paralysis more often
Death stare the paralysis demon 😂
Wow interesting to think about the link there! Thanks for sharing
"Fun" fact! There is a third thing that is related to sleep paralysis and night terrors called hypnagogic hallucinations, the reasons this is a "fun" fact is that I have it.
As opposed to night terrors, I remember what happened and as opposed to sleep paralysis I can move too, and scream.
If I sleep facing towards the door it starts like this: In a dream (I suppose it is) I hear my already open bedroom door open, something vaguely human shaped and totally black stands there and starts moving towards me. Now Im fully awake, often have gotten halfway up to a sitting position and just scream in terror.
The few times I've slept facing away from the door I've felt a hand on my back, just between my shoulder blades, pushing on me
I started recording myself while I was sleeping a while back to see if I snore (damned pollen season has started here already) and I have to tell you, no jump scare can ever compare to hearing yourself scream in senseless horror
I don't have hypnagogic hallucinations but the opposite, hypnopompic. I am extremely grateful that all I hallucinate are giant bugs and not people or faces, because I would definitely shid my pants if I did.
I still freak out and jump out of bed sometimes when I get them, though. It's interestingly just like you've described, where I dream of an insect(s) in my room right before I wake up, leading me to believe they are actually there. I've never had a physical sensation of being touched by anything, though (thank god.)
Do you find that you have similar hallucinations to what you experience at night bleeding into your everyday life? Ever since I began having hypnopompic hallucinations (it's been over a year now) I find myself seeing bugs out of the corner of my eye way more often than I did before I had them.
I have those every now and then, usually seeing my phobia. I've startled my husband in the middle of the night several times by yelling and jumping out of the bed in fear lmao.
@@pasteldreams5413 That sounds awful, I hope you manage to get rid of them somehow!
Never seen them in the day, thankfully! But I am ridiculously easily startled, so if someone comes up behind me and I did hear them it will scare the shit out of me
Does anyone that replied here actually have Narcolepsy? I was diagnosed with it 7 years ago, and all of these things are listed as things that go along with it, but thankfully, so far, I don't seem to experience any of them. They say many people that are diagnosed with Narcolepsy are in their 30's, which I was when my symptoms began, or worsened, whichever one it was, and then symptoms seem to plateau, and stay similar to that for the rest of the person's life. This is my experience with it till now, at least. In case anyone reads this, Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder. It causes people to no longer be able to experience REM sleep, which is the deep, restful sleep that our brains need. The reason people that have Narcolepsy fall asleep so easily, which only occurs if the person is relaxed, is that the person functions on a regular basis as if they haven't slept for 3 or 4 days. Essentially, people that have it are perpetually exhausted. There is no cure. I find the link from sleep paralysis to epilepsy fascinating, because I've gotten severe migraines with aura since I was 12, and epilepsy and migraines like the ones that I get are very similar in how they work within the brain. They run in my father's side of the family. He also had Narcolepsy, which is very unusual. They say it's not hereditary, but it's possible to have a gene that makes you more likely to develop it. Very strange stuff. There seems to be a link between some of this stuff, and I hope they figure it out during my lifetime. I'm 47 now. I was 40 when diagnosed, which was roughly 8 years from the onset of symptoms, or worsening ones. I've always had difficulty with waking up, so it's difficult to know exactly when Narcolepsy started for me.
@meowdy I got this a couple of times after starting a new bed while also being in a high stress situation. My fan whirring morphed into voices (was in between wakefulness and sleep.) I also got a super gnarly feeling of floating out of my body in a spiraling motion. Super unsettling, especially when it happens two times in the same night!
I'm Hmong, and I can confirm that sleeping paralysis happens pretty often in our culture. More than half of my friends have experienced sleeping paralysis and have always told me they've seen something sitting on top of them. I myself have experienced sleeping paralysis but at the time I slept in the basement and it was pitch black so I couldn't see anything. I can recall feeling a presence sitting on top of me and holding my arms down to my side. By far the creepiest thing to ever happened to me.
Do you think that sleep paralysis happens more to the Hmong or do you guys just talk about it more then other cultures? My grandma had sleep paralysis when she was a kid and she was told that it was a demon or monster? Can't remember but it was supposedly bad.
@@flimsyenthusiasm5769 There is something different amongst them in the sense that so many of them died from it after moving to the USA in the 1970s. There must be something about their history that gave the demon that power.
As someone who has epilepsy myself, that connection line actually makes a good bit of sense to me to be honest. There are some parts of epilepsy that can absolutely screw with your sleep so that line of inquiry makes so much so much sense.
Preach it, fellow epileptic
Figured since you mentioned the shadow men, I'd tell y'all a story from when I was a tiny tacker. I was probably more than four, but less than seven, based on the things I remember in my bedroom from the time. But for a handful of months I had reoccurring dreams, about once a week or so, of shadow people being outside of my bedroom. Watching them under the light from the hallway, and under the street light outside. It tormented me for a long while, and my Mum did corroborate this when I asked her about it years later, I didn't sleep well, insisted on sleeping with my parents etc.
This lead up to a three night stint of these dreams, with each one having more and more shadow people. The first one was normal with only a handful around, the second one was super scary, with them crowding all around my bedroom. I couldn't see the light under the door anymore, the shadows were that thick. And then, the final night. I remember begging my Mum to let me sleep with her, but she told me that I had to grow up. I didn't sleep at all that night, or at least I don't remember falling asleep. But the shadows came back, and entered under my door. I remember seeing a man with a large top hat, and bright yellow eyes. He sat down on my bed while I hid under my covers, and told me "It's okay, they won't bother you anymore, I promise" and lo' and behold, I've never seen one ever again.
What a homie, glad he was able to take care of 'em for ya.
Do you remember if he had an accent at all?
@@InternationalAwesomeFoundation Oh yeah, I wouldn't have called yellow eyes "good" but he definitely was not like the shadow people.
I won't pretend that I remember this dream/experience perfectly, I was pretty young at the time. But I do remember thinking that he sounded a lot like my great grandpa, and he had a pretty thick Irish accent. In saying that, it could just mean that he had a deep voice?
Came for stories about the Rake, stayed for the sleep paralysis history lesson.
i'm drunk and aiden's ears are so flat/uniform that i'm thinking we should maybe consider if he is indeed some kind of elf or goblin, sharing the veiled world's secrets with us
oh my god why did you point it out. now i keep staring at them. so smooth wow
Dude I'm honestly addicted to your videos rn. Just subbed on patreon. Your podcast about Leshny and cults carried me through my flight home yesterday!
By the way, if you need any assistance translating anything from Polish, you can hit me up - I speak Polish fluently (as a native speaker). Unfortunately, my Russian is only very very basic - I'm trying to learn it but the alphabet is killing me! Either way, if you're ever doing anything to do with western slavic/Polish folklore/whatever, maybe I can help with language-related stuff.
Anyhow, please keep doing what you're doing Aidans and I'm going back to binging on Lore Lodge content!!
I always wondered how many people have experienced this. I have twice and your description is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!!! Mine happened in the middle of the night but I wake up throughout the night anyway.
Once my wife was asleep b/s me. I tried so hard to get her attention. It felt like an evil spirit was holding me down and I had a hard time breathing, I could NOT move or speak at all and it was scary as hell. I prayed to God and commanded "them" out many times until I was able to barely make a noise. I was trying to yell harder than ever. It was crazy. CRAZY
I did not know this was a thing. Thanks Bro!!!
Have you been tested for Narcolepsy? If not, look into it. It is a neurological disorder, NOT a sleep disorder. You do not javelin to have many of the listed symptoms to have it. It causes problems with sleep overall, and you say you wake up throughout the night. Look into it. Seriously. You might have it. More people have it than actually know that they do.
It was awesome growing up in the 90s and the early 2000s, just the insane boom of horror stories was a joy to read and shows like MarbleHornets, EveryManHybrid, TribeTwelve, DarkHarvest and MLAndersen0 just blew me away.
Hell, I remember that there was a time I was absolutely terrified of Slenderman and The Rake! :)
I get sleep paralysis, but I don't get demons or even paranoia from it. I get demons and paranoia from sleeplessness. Sleep paralysis is weird.
I wake up in the night, and I can see my room around me, but I can still see my dream playing out in front of my eyes like a projection. I can see my conscious self in my bed in my usual first person perspective, while me in my dream realises I'm dreaming and tries to wake up. I can feel my mind willing my muscles to move but they don't, I equate it to someone trying to lift up my 22st ass with puppet strings from above while the puppeteer suffers from having iron deficiency.
My in-bedroom brain is screaming to wake up and sometimes trying to scream to alert someone to help me, or sometimes cos that's when my dreams become scary, and my in-dream self is telling everyone in the dream that I'm asleep, in a dream, trying to wake up and if he's not, it's cos he's being attacked.
Sometimes dreams that are surreal knock me into paralysis, sometimes paralysis causes my dreams to become scarily surreal, and I always wake up terrified, panting with a pounding heart even if nothing actually scary happened in the dream.
I used to think it was caused by my sleep apnoea, cos I woke up unable to breathe and had to wrench myself into an awake state and that's why I woke up breathless, but the doctors say sleep apnoea doesn't cause sleep paralysis? Strange how I get less paralytic episodes when I sleep in the position that the doctors told me eases my apnoea...
Also, one of my favourite Rake creepypastas is about a young boy who wakes up in the night and realises his window is open and something is in his room. He spends hours, awake but not moving, pretending to be asleep. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees the creature (The Rake) watching him "sleep" and wandering around the room.
He watches the creature leave his room and come back with the mutilated corpses of his parents, and watches it pose them in chairs watching him sleep like a loving family. It then uses their blood to write something on the wall that he can't read, cos it's too dark and he's only looking out of the corner of his eyes. Then the creature crawls under his bed and waits.
As the hours drag on, he pretends to be asleep still and the sun comes up, lighting the room up more and more and he chances a more definite glance at the wall. He finally sees what The Rake wrote, and his blood goes cold.
"I know you're not asleep..."
The last few paragraphs are the author debating how quickly he can run to the door or window, how much he can move without being detected and how fucked he actually is.
Answer: Very.
My understanding of Sleep Paralysis demons has always been a mind doing what it does- explaining the world around it- while also terrified. Most people are scared when they wake up to find they have almost no muscular control (something which happens when you're unconscious normally, the reason why throwing punches in your dreams feels so weird, and why someone abruptly woken up will be slow and uncoordinated at first), and almost all of the accounts of Sleep Paralysis Demons I've read follow the pattern of "wake up, realize you can't move, realize there's pressure on your chest, realize something terrifying is causing it." I'm still somewhat in debate as to whether this chest pressure is blankets weighing down an unmoving body or the monkey brain rationalizing "Why difficult to breathe? Ah, probably force holding chest, that explains."
So in short, you wake up but the body doesn't properly un-paralyze you at first, you freak out, and then while you're thinking of what it could be your mind jumps to "something terrifying is here" and it usually spirals from there.
But how do you explain everyone seeing the same shadow figure entity there even without having previous knowledge of sleep paralysis or shadow figures?
My grandmother lives in a village and they have folk tales of the same shadow entity we all talk about on the internet. Even I had the same experience when I first experienced sleep paralysis I felt dread, I didn’t care that I wasn’t able to move, thought it was a stupid dream and id just wake up, I just felt very very terrified for no reason whatsoever then i saw the fucking thing in my room looking at me until I woke up. The Rake or whatever is an internet story but the shadow entity/entities that i saw are very well documented and still unexplained
@@d3c1m82you can't really be more generic than "shadow monsters", they have no details, no identity, might be because it is the simpler monster to create, kind of like the first step in the recipe for a monsters, but ones that work as it is, also, EVERYONE is afraid of the dark.
There are also some cases of sleep paralysis of things other than shadow monsters, my sister one time saw what she believed to be her mother(who committed suicide a long time ago), I heard someone say a huge spider was on the roof, and in this comment section someone saw something as specific as a person wearing their skin with a bloody scalpel.
The last time I experienced sleep paralysis ....I was having a horrible time and was trying to move,well apparently I must have been slowly working my way to edge of bed. Fell off the and hit my face on the drawers of my night stand on the way to floor. No bracing of the fall. That was about 3 months ago. Haven't had any serious sleep issues lately. Great YT channel. Glad I found it.
Concussed yourself out of the paralysis
@@TheLoreLodge luckily I wasn't really hurt. I couldn't tell if I was actually moving. So when I fell it actually a relief to not be "stuck" anymore.
The weight some people feel on their chest during a sleep paralysis episode might be their brain trying to figure out why they are taking shallow breaths. You take shallower breaths during sleep, so if you can physically hear and feel it that would probably freak your half awake brain out a little and cause it to try and imagine something sitting on top of you.
Found this channel by accident and ive watched a lot of the vids. I appreciate the sheer amount of information and depth of research you and your team do. Great work!
i didn’t know what sleep paralysis was until two years after experiencing it. i would abruptly wake up around 3 am and see a shadow man in the corner of my room. this lasted for a few months and happened at least once a week. it got to the point where i was genuinely scared to go to sleep every night. my friend who also got sleep paralysis regularly said he would hear people breaking into his house and it would stop just as they reached his bedroom door.
saw your sponsored portion of the video and realized you grew up in good ol' eastern PA. Solidarity! I'm a NEPA native now living in Philly.
I can see that some other viewers have commented with their sleep paralysis experiences, so at the risk of boring people, I’ll share mine too.
For whatever it’s worth I have much creepier stories. My sleep paralysis was weird, but not really paranormal or anything.
For me, what happened was simply this, I was in the third trimester of my 6th pregnancy. This pregnancy was by far my worst in every way. I was simply in terrible misery during every waking minute, and throughout my “sleep” as well.
So on top of my nausea, vomiting, sciatica, migraines, and litany of unmentionable other complaints, I think I also was suffering with a certain degree of sleep deprivation.
Anyhoo… one late afternoon I had drifted off into sleep on the couch, flat on my back, which is not a comfortable position for me in general, and certainly not while I have a very large baby taking up a lot of my personal space pressed against my internal organs and crowding my lungs.
So, there I was, accidentally, miserably, sleeping during daylight.
In my “dream”(?) I was laying there, flat on my back asleep in the daylight, when I suddenly realized I wasn’t breathing. Nor *could* I breath. My first thought was “BREATH! The baby needs oxygen!” But when I couldn’t make myself breath, I thought I should try sitting up because there seemed to be something invisible covering my mouth and nose, and pushing weight down on my upper chest.
So I tried to sit up, and realized I was being held down by something invisible. I should mention that this entire experience was simultaneously being felt and experienced from within, and, I could see it happening 3rd person.
I specifically remember terror setting in when I realized I couldn’t move my arms and legs, and I couldn’t scream out or make any sounds outside my mind.
I was literally frozen stiff like being actually paralyzed.
I was screaming inside my mind “OPEN YOUR EYES! WAKE UP! YOU HAVE TO BREATH!”
It seemed to go on until the point of really feeling the life slipping out, when WHAM! I shot out of it with a sudden deep breath. I struggled to move and sit up, coughing, because it felt as if I had a very dry mouth, like a sock had been in my mouth.
When I was able to breath and sit up, I realized I was seeing stars and very dizzy. And yes, I vomited. I really think I wasn’t breathing at all.
It was terrifying.
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I regularly get sleep paralysis, and while I've never experienced any presences (so far), the experience still sucks. I wake up feeling like I'm suffocating, but even if I'm laying right next to my partner I can't move or make a sound.
The trick I've found to getting out of it is focusing all my might on wiggling my big toe. Eventually my brain realizes what I'm trying to do and unfreezes my body
Also, it's good to remember that you're not ACTUALLY suffocating. I still panick a bit when it happens, but the reality is that you're still automatically breathing, you just can't feel it or do it consciously. It still sucks, but when I remember that I usually stop panicking and just wiggle
If at all possible, try not to sleep on your back. The instances of sleep paralysis in this position are much higher, if you can then side sleeping is the way to go.
@JonW77 I'm a big time side sleeper, which unfortunately hasn't kept the paralysis away
Thankfully I only get episodes every few months, but they definitely suck lol
@@scribeslendy595 Interesting, does it happen sleeping on both sides? One of the studies I read, apparently sleeping on the left side in particular can improve sleep.
@JonW77 hmmm, you know, now that you say that, I think it happens more when I'm on my right. Cause I normally sleep left-sided quite comfortably w/o paralysis.
My "snap out of it" action is blinking extremely hard. I normally had visions of huge spiders on my chest and I was able to "blink" them away and also blink myself out of paralysis.
New sub. You're full of knowledge and all your topics fascinate me
I experienced sleep paralysis consistently from ages 8-15 (a few outlying random times since). It has only every happened in my childhood home/parents house, and never had anything on my chest, it was always a tall shadow with a hat, the documentary "the nightmare" was the first time I heard someone recount the same or similar experience.
The Rake is a CLASSIC. Probably one of my favorite creepypastas.
I personally have had sleep paralysis however it was during a time when the entirety of my family would sleep in the living room so to me I think that because of this I didn't get sleep paralysis demons. And I also never had the idea that's something was sitting on me either.
I just recently found your channel and I'm hooked I've been watching them none stop I get sleep paralysis 3 to 4 times a year. It's terrifying, you are completely aware but can not move the first few times I freaked out bad but now I can kinda calm myself down and know it will pass
If you ever find your way to Ohio, I'd be SO up for showing you around and talking about some of our local mystery spots, disappearances, and cryptids (the Grassman comes to mind)!
Don't worry, where I am the water's clean (except for the frogmen)
Goddamn Frogmen making the water dirty. Real nuisance they are
You're in my neck of the woods. Ohio is for sure one spooky state. We've pretty much got the market cornered on weird.
Bro live in elyria
what in the world is a grassman
You know I’ve gone through a lot of horror vids before on yt about many things including my favourite which is the rake but none have gone into detail like you have seriously your vids are soo well researched I’m surprised you don’t have more subs.
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I also think the film "The Descent" also contributed to the popularity of this creature.
Oh for sure
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First time I can remember experiencing sleep-paralysis was around 10 - 11 years old. Happens maybe once or twice each year; sometimes more, sometimes less. Always horrifying and you never really get completely used to it. Every time, I begin to wake up from sleep and before opening my eyes, I realize that my entire body is "dead" feeling. Essentially the same as when you have an arm or leg "go to sleep" or go numb from sitting on it, except it's your entire body. No matter how hard you strain, you can't move anything. The only part of my body I can ever move is my eyes. Your first instinct is "Oh god am I dying of carbon monoxide poisoning?!" or something along those lines, or at least that was what I thought the first few times. That causes you to pop your eyes open to see what the hell is going on and then the real fun begins.
The best advice I can give to anyone that has this happen to them is just try not to open your eyes. However, because of how much your mind freaks out, especially if it has never happened to you, you're almost guaranteed to do exactly that. I've only ever seen something in the room with me twice in my life, but I happened to get the above mentioned advice from someone in my family fairly early on. First experience I was lying on my back with my head turned towards the doorway of my room, which was about half-way open. Judging by the dull light coming through the window it was around early morning. At first I was just laying there a few moments not knowing what to think. Then I start to hear "click" "clack" "click" "clack". We always owned a couple dogs in our house, so I knew what the sound was immediately. Dog toenails clanking on the hard tile floor somewhere else in the house. The sound was coming closer down the back hallway, so at that point I'm staring at the doorway thinking one of our dogs was walking around. NOPE. In through the door walks a large Rottweiler. We owned Australian Shepherds. This dog strolls in as casual as can be and as it gets closer to my bed I realize it has pure milky white eyes. It walks right up to the edge of my bed facing me with its head maybe 1 - 2 feet from mine. Then it just "freezes" in place standing there staring right at me. No breathing or movement, just absolutely still like a statue. At that point I'm about to have a stroke or heart-attack. Felt like forever, but it stayed there for probably a couple minutes. Then just as casual as it came in it turns back around and starts walking back out. I hear the same "click" "clack" sound getting more distant as it walks back down the hallway, then sudden silence. Don't know where it went. At that point my heart was hurting from beating so much and I just felt absolutely drained. Not long after that I fell back asleep out of pure exhaustion. Popped back awake as if it never happened. The eyes of that dog are why that famous painting of sleep paralysis always freaks me out. The milky white eyes of the "entities" or whatever you want to describe them as.
Second time was a bit less horrifying but still horrible. Laying on my back again, this time it's dark, not light out yet. This is maybe 2 - 3 years after the first experience. Wake up paralyzed and happen to open my eyes without really thinking. Sometimes it's hard not to even if you're "used" to it. My head is straight up and down, not turned to either side. At first I don't see anything because it's so dark in the room. Then I see it. What I can only describe as a "grudge" woman or "hag" is curled up on the ceiling in the far corner of the room from the foot of my bed in a sort of fetal position. Almost as if gravity was reversed. Pale white skin, long dark hair flowing "down" or up in this case onto the ceiling blocking its face. For a few moments nothing happens. Then suddenly this thing starts crawling like a gremlin across the ceiling towards the other side of the room. I follow it with my eyes as far as I can but it goes outside my range of vision. I shut my eyes at that point and all I can think is "Please don't let me hear anything, please don't let me hear anything.". I was afraid I was going to hear "her" drop onto the floor or something or feel something touch my bed. I never did hear or feel anything after initially seeing the thing thankfully. Finally managed to slip back asleep again.
With all that being said, I don't really know what to say as to why or how sleep paralysis happens. I tell myself it's as people say and it's just your brain hallucinating while half-awake. The only thing that gets me though is that whenever it happens I'm always just in my normal bedroom or wherever it is I fell asleep. If it's a hallucination then why is nothing else different except sometimes there's a god damned "sleep-demon" or whatever the hell it is in the room with me? That's the main reason it still freaks me out so much. Otherwise I've gotten fairly good at just keeping my eyes closed until I fall back asleep. As to "shadow people", I've never seen any as far as I can remember. I've seen flashes of light out the corner of my eye from time to time. Almost like if someone took a picture of you from across the room or something with their camera's flash on. Sorry for the long-ass post, but I hardly ever talk about this kind of thing to people. Makes me feel crazy in the head. Hope it helps people understand a bit better or gives other people who experience it some consolation to know they aren't the only ones.
Literally just typed out my own experience and was scrolling through the comments and I've never heard of anyone else with the dead feeling just a weight pressing onto them (never had that) but I totally get what you mean, like a cold heavy stiffness locking your body in place right?
That was terribly interesting my dude
@@owentrimble6358 Exactly. Always that same "heavy" almost cold feeling like you describe. I've never felt like a weight was necessarily on my chest, whether that makes it better or worse I'm not sure. Interesting experiment would be if somehow more than one person could have it happen at the same time in the same location. Then compare the experiences to see exactly how similar they were.
Ive been getting sleep paralysis since I was a child.
And growing up, whenever I would move (for college or work or to a new city) it would stop for a few weeks to a month and would occur again, as if it had found me again.
Now as an adult, it doesn't scare me as much as it did, i have gotten used to it. But a few nights back it occurred again and as I waited for it to pass and maybe drift into sleep without having to wake up, I had the most vivid hallucination with my eyes wide open.
My mother who is currently a thousand miles away, sat next to me on my bed and she shoved a pencil down my throat with an expression so eerie i began to cry. I shook myself out of the paralysis and cried and prayed to God for the first time in years.
I have had bizarre experiences, like seeing multiple shadows, voices, those shadows interacting among themselves, weird animals and so on but this one really got to me.
Ive had sleep paralysis my whole life. You really do hallucinate but its not that bad. Sometimes you see or hear good stuff. The week my grandpa died, i saw him smiling at the foot of my bed as my wife was making dinner in the background. I was so excited to regain control, and as soon as i did, i jumped up and told my wife that grandpa was smiling at me just now. I knew it wasnt real but it was real enough that i regard it as the last time i saw him.
That's wild you just uploaded this video. I had a sleep paralysis demon experience two nights ago.
I've always favored The Rake. Theres a good RUclips video from years ago about a rake encounter. It's a group of high schoolers camping and you can see the rake in the background at certain spots. It's really good to be 3 high schoolers.
Marble Hornets was a really good series on RUclips about Slenderman and stuff
EverymanHYBRID has the rake in it too!
Watching this at 11pm and alone in my dorm room. During the initial reading/telling of the story, I was zoning out and all the sudden ice fell on the roof outside my when you talked about the daughter being attacked. The way I JUMPED out of my skin to try to attack the rake
My mom, sister, and I all have occasional sleep paralysis, I've heard that there's possibly some genetic component to it. Fortunately none of us have the sleep demon experience, though waking up paralyzed is terrifying enough on its own. I have the waking-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night version, which sucks because I'll occasionally experience multiple times in one night.
While it can be genetically inherited, as most things are, it can also be true that either someone was either extremely exhausted when they went to sleep and your body is stubbornly stuck in a wake/sleep state or our brains are too stimulated from the rise of technology that we surround ourselves with. Like sleeping with the TV on or playing on our phones before we go to sleep and therefore, your brain never fully rests and kind of gets stuck somewhere in between. There is also the foods and drinks in our diets now a days with the addition of high amounts of caffeine or sugars in our diets. It really depends on the person. If you can document how you feel when you fall asleep on those nights or mornings you experience sleep paralysis, you should be able to notice a pattern and adjust your routine accordingly, this may at the very least reduce the number of times you experience this, if not give you the chance to completely stop this from happening to you. Keeping a sleep journal can be beneficial for many many reasons, but especially when battling sleep paralysis. I hope this helps. And as a person who has experienced this, this is just the way I've found worked for me.
Try documenting your level of exhaustion vs how stimulated you felt when you went to bed, as well as any sleep routines or what you ate and drank the day/night before. This will help you better understand your body's sleep patterns and what effects you. Even if it genetically inherited, this could help you get more of a handle on it. Sleep paralysis sucks, I hate it. It's terrifying. Lol so I hope this advice helps you.
dude how are you not more popular... I've been watching wendigoon for a while, and found you from his vids, and I'm in so impressed my your research.
I've experienced sleep paralysis only once. Luckily I didn't get the demons part of it and I managed to stay calm because I already knew sleep paralysis was a thing. It was still really freaky though.
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I’ve never encountered a “demon” on my chest but I have struggled to fight off other entities that were in my room but didn’t actually sit on me. It’s a weird phenomenon
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It happened to me once, I was in the early stages of lucid dreaming and I woke up paralized, unable to move nor scream. Luckily, I was sleeping on my stomach that night so I didn't see anything. Although I felt what I can only describe as two hands pushing my back.
It was a pretty disturbing event, even if I knew what it was immediately... I stopped my experiments with lucid dream that night lol
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I really think it’s the mind trying to rationalize a physical sensation. The only time I’ve experienced sleep paralysis was when I was little and had gotten sick. I don’t remember what it was but basically my eyes were really gunky to the point where my mom would have to take a rag and clean them off for me to see. She came in one morning to wake me up, and one of my eyes would not open because it was covered in gunk. Basically as I was waking up I somehow started having a nightmare but only in that eye. I couldn’t move I couldn’t make noise I could only move my eyes around. The nightmare was not linked to anything that I could see with my open eye, it was basically like watching tv with only one eye. But stuff in the nightmare would change based on what I could hear my mom doing. The sound of her ringing out the washcloth became waves and rain. Her rolling me over to wake me up made the boat in the dream tip over, and there was a pressure on my chest that made me think I was drowning. I also often wake up from dreams where a sound or sensation that was in my dream is happening in real life. Construction outside my house, music, or the sound of my alarm are all really common for me to hear in my dreams
I just found this channel and I'm pleased to see it's not all silly ass conspiracy theory cryptid unfounded nonsense. (Even if some of the titles and thumbnails are a bit clickbaity lol. Gets the views.)
And as a former /b/tard from the golden age of these creepypastas and /x/ when SCP was created, I'm REALLY glad you're very clear and knowledgeable about how so much was created--whether intentionally or organically--online. There's no shortage of very confident people claiming stories are real and citing made up origins or historical context.
I always liked creepypastas, I can't wait to hear about Zalgo and see if he had any biblical inspirations
Wow this is another one of my fave The Lore Lodge videos. I’ve never experienced sleep paralysis, but I am fascinated by the topic. I can, however, have full conversations with people in my sleep, unfortunately 😆
Sleep paralysis sure as heck felt super natural to me. Doesn't help that it only ever happened to me in a house everyone says is haunted. Felt like something was pulling me out of the bed
Maybe you were already stressed about the potential haunting?
Maybe it was haunted bro
2:04 "I caught them" WHY WAS THAT SO CUTE?!?
The first time I ever had sleep paralysis was super terrifying. I was having this dream that I was walking alone in the woods and it was getting progressively darker the deeper I went into it. The forest was dead silent the entire time I was walking so I could only hear my own footsteps, but when I got to a little clearing in the trees (it was maybe about 20 ft across, not a big clearing, just a small break in the trees) I started hearing something following me. By that time it was almost pitch black, and so I couldn't see much of anything even if I squinted. It sounded like something was crawling on the ground all around me, and it sounded big. It just kept circling me, and it sounded like it kept getting closer and closer to where I was standing. Finally, like in a stage play, there was this random spotlight that came down right over me, and I heard the thing stop. I stood there for a minute wondering what would happen and then it just started scrambling into the spotlight with me and right whenever it was about to jump at me I woke up. But I didn't do like in the movies where the character jumps up in bed with their eyes wide open. I jolted awake, yeah, but I couldn't open my eyes. Like, I could move my hand on the pillow, I could shift my legs under the covers, but I couldn't force my eyes open! I was so scared, and honestly a little confused, but I slowly tried relaxing and counting to ten, twenty, thirty, until I could finally open my eyes. It was the only time I've ever had anything I would consider close to sleep paralysis. Technically no spooky demons sitting on my chest or shadow dudes looking at me from across the room, but it was so unexpected and frightening to segue immediately from a terrible nightmare into not being able to move my eyes.
The second thing I experienced not too long ago was actually pretty funny and I laugh every time I think about it. I woke up very abruptly one morning around 2, and I wasn't dreaming beforehand, nor was I in need of a drink or the bathroom. Almost the moment I open my eyes, I have an auditory hallucination. It said, "Just gonna stand there and hear me cry". Yes, like the Rihanna song. And it was kind of creepy at the time, in the way that it was out of nowhere and it made me freeze up, but then once I processed what was said, I just thought it was really funny and went back to sleep.
(Btw, sorry for the whole ass novel lol.)
The rake holds a special place in my heart being and OG creepy pasta kid and learning about it from EMH.
“if a doctor told me my condition would be fine as long as I don’t feel sadness, I’d probably stab them”
ahahahaha oh man as a disabled/mentally ill person, I’ve literally been told this by doctors before and my self control is Astounding
I actually saw a very similar looking creature during an episode of sleep paralysis once. it was down on all fours sprinting across my room.
Of my four experiences with sleep paralysis I've had, I've never felt or seen anything on my chest, but then again I dont sleep on my back.
I have experienced:
- pale four legged creature sprinting across my room. (I had no pets)
- heard a voice and sensed a presence at the foot of my bed. Then saw a face form in my bed sheets.
- sensed a presence behind me while laying on my side.
- heard movement from my closet.
I once mixed my sleep paralysis with lucid dreaming and turned my demon into a cow just chillin in my room. It was pretty comical
Bro got the secret ending
I have a buddy who has sleep paralysis, he said that it's more of a hag or witch sitting on his chest. His usually happens in the middle of the night and he will wake up to it.
On the subject of the Rake, your initial description in the video reminded me of something that happened when I was younger (your further description told me that it more than likely was not a Rake). The house I grew up in was pretty old (built around 1910) and my room was on the second story. I always had my door open because it was stuck open and at the time we didn't bother to fix it. I always felt a presence when I was in my room and from time to time at the edge of my vision I'd catch a shadowy figure standing in my doorway seeming to stare at me. The shadow was an adult height and pretty dark. At one point I had enough and ended up placing a black curtain over the doorway, which either made it go away or made it blend in so I couldn't see it anymore (still felt the presence). I'm not sure why I chose black for the curtain or why it may have worked but it somewhat did.
I don't live in that house anymore but, from time to time even to this day, I catch a shadowy figure darting across an open doorway, lately, it's the size of a child. I no longer have the staring one just the runner. To go along with this, my Wife and I from time to time have heard a child's voice coming from upstairs. We have three children and assumed it was one of them but, each time they have been downstairs.
Aidan's humor is wonderful, but requires a certain level of intelligence
Not really.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Lore Lodge. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Aidan's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Aidan Mattis's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Lore Lodge tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
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Just subscribed after catching you on 'Break The Cycle' with Josh Smith.
Just found your channel. Very good. Loved to see you know wendigoon. I get sleep paralysis all the time too
Al- Kaboos is particular type of jinns are believed to be the cause of sleep paralysis in middle east areas.
I came across some stuff along those lines but got a little confused about the jinn stuff, probably need to read some higher level academic stuff on tjem
@@TheLoreLodge Greatly enjoy your work, please keep it on.
Muslims and middle Eastern people attribute all paranormal phenomena to jinns ( and to its many variations ).
Might look into Ghoul jinns for Native American flesh pedestrians.
Appreciate your work and dedication, Thanks.
The Jinns are a very interesting folklore to look into. Some even think Jinns are also Shadow People - I'm not so sure. I've always prefer the Middle Eastern versions and stories.
@@Mark-nh2hs Yes I agree with you, Jinns are very interesting.
Basically all paranormal phenomena caused by one kind but different kinds of species with different types of abilities and nature.
@@ashfaquei.k.426 I've heard that too they are almost Elementals, each preferring a different location and conditions. For example a Dust Devil in the desert is seen by the local nomads as a Jinn. Jinns are so deeply embedded in Middle Eastern and Islamic culture and belief.
I remember once when I was young, probably around the ages of 6~8, I had sleep paralysis. I saw something truly bizarre.
It was Steve from Minecraft. I was actually pretty ecstatic. In fact, I was so ecstatic, that I actually forced myself into having an out of body experience just so I could be closer to Steve, as I couldn't move. It also lasted what felt like forever.
100% the sleep paralysis demons are spiritual entities from personal experiences I can confirm that as accurate.
15:48 I've had sleep paralysis a few times and honestly was THE most disturbing feeling. I don't believe in demons or anything, but it LITERALLY felt like an evil force was holding me down. I'd be able to barely move my eyes and weakly mumble out small noises while I was trying to yell for help. It was horrifying. It didn't feel like you couldn't just move, like there was an terribly evil force surrounded you and took you over. Why if the body has sleep paralyzing fluid in it, would you feel like evil demons are messing with you when you don't even believe or are scared of "demons"?
It's _ALL _*_REAL._*
Oi
I think your disclaimer to the Pocono Perk was hilarious! You're the only one besides MrBallen that I will watch plugs, because you're hysterical
Saw the hat man in my closet the other night wasn’t fun not a fan
"The naked man, or hairless dog"...
I had to LOL...😂
I always roll my eyes when people start taking creepy pastas are real - esp when you find out it was born out of 4Chan. 🤣. Yes there are some parts of Camden I would avoid 🤣
Now if I could just figure out what my parasomnia stems from, that would be awesome. This video was incredibly fascinating, thank you for the time and effort you put into this!
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Hey! It’s more like $1100
I ain't paying them.
@@TheLoreLodge now thats not what they told me... they said something about hidden assets and safe houses in wyoming
I remember seeing this thing super vividly when I was 8-9 in Sweden. Outside while awake. I will never forget it
When you were talking about the "zeitgeist" I was reminded of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome.
Sleep paralysis is something I have dealt with chronically. Every experience I've had has been the feeling of dread, something watching me, or auditory. Only once did I ever have it so bad that I've felt touched. I've found that if you can grasp the situation and know what's happening, you can kinda either try and clear your mind and imagine as if you are free falling into nothing or as a last resort, do whatever you can to shake your head until you wake.
its actually very common to wake up in the middle of he night. A sleep cycle is 4 hours, some people will wake up a little bit before they settle into the second 4 hour cycle, or they get up and struggle to get back to sleep, or you have no memory of the gap between cycles. So thats why sleep paralysis can happen in the middle of the night.
I had sleep paralysis for a few years after I retired from the Army, it was always when I had nightmares about combat. I could not wake up my body. It was terrifying to the point that I would sleep with my gun in my hand. This got better over time but during this period I thought I was being visited by the people I killed.
These ad reads are truly legendary
I had sleep paralysis almost every time I tried to go to sleep but found that playing audio of any kind in the background would help prevent it I assume by distracting my mind from the sleep. Another thing that helped was getting drunk
I never saw anything visually but the feelings are unbearable
it always watms my heart to see people talk about creepypastas with 100% sincerity. makes me hope some gullible preteens will stumble upon it and think its genuine, the same way i did with the scp wiki
that was the smoothest transition into an ad I have ever seen on youtube
Liking the video for the commitment to having a bag of coffee thrown at the face. What a champ. I'm sure the rest of the video is great.
As a person of having sleep paralysis multiple times, I do want to mention for me at least, instead of the feeling of something sitting on my chest keeping me down unable to move, for my it was more like giant pulses of energy, multiple times. The feeling that something is entering and exiting your body, probibly 8 or so times, a very dramatic sensation that is absolutely terrifying, and you wish you would wake up all the way to get the expirence to stop.
I remember having sleep paralysis as a kid way back in the 90s, in the time before the internet was barely a thing and I had never heard of the term sleep paralysis. At the time i assumed i was just having bad nightmares. It wasn't until many years later when I started seeing videos online about people having the same experience that I had and I was just like, "Oh so that's what that's called". So in my case, you really can't say it was power of suggestion.
I'm glad you brought up that something could possibly be spiritual and phisical at the same time.
I swear, sleeping on your back in a sunlit room will cause either a lucid dream or sleep paralysis.
Love the channel! You should look into the disappearance of Douglas Legg from the great camp Santanoni. Located in the Adirondack Mountains upstate NY.
Likely the best product placement in a YT video!
that transition to the coffee ad was heckin amazing
Once i had a paralysis, sort of fused with livid dream were a black leopard jumped on me after i flipped him off, he grabed me by the trhoat with his teeth and tried to ripp it off, was pretty cool to be honest i was not afraid at all just impressed
Dude you have got to work on warnings when you throw an image in my face, scared the piss out of my multiple times