Most of my paralysis episodes involve satanic imagery and me climbing up the stairs trying to get away from it. I scream Bible verses hoping it will end. Then I wake up after a cold sweat. Too much time in front of moving picture box. :'3
There's this process in the brain that essentially paralyses you while you sleep, when that doesn't work people sleepwalk. But when it happens and you're awake, your mind starts panicking because you can't move. Some people only hear things, others see or even feel things that aren't real. I've seen shadowy figures, one time even had some eldritch abomination jump on top of me and make this horrible sound. Turns out that was just my dog, snorting.
Yeah I panicked enough that I tried to forcibly move my legs, ended up shaking as if it was a seizure, but where if I didn’t try moving I just lay calm, I couldn’t see or hear anything, but definitely had the feeling of something behind me, just staring at me from the doorway of a small walk-in closet I had, nobody was awake and my room door was still closed, that was the worst feeling I’ve ever had in my whole 28 years of life so far
It's our brain that needs sleep, not our body. And even then, the brain isn't exactly...sleeping. It just goes into MSDOS and does "stuff" which you then interpret as sleeping as a whole. Some people don't have the right programs installed or the operator isn't skilled enough and well, this happens. The brain is the most powerful computer ever observed...and we have nearly no clue into its deeper working past really basic stuff.
My sleep paralysis demon once gave me a kissy on the neck and told me everything was ok. Kinda chill guy if you ask me. There was this other time I thought I was having a heart attack.
I remember I had a sleep paralysis episode and accidentally regained enough consciousness to trigger lucid dreaming. Gave myself a stand and beat the living shit out of those shadows. Unfortunately I ended up getting up and punching a wall, never again.
#RIP Hand Something similar happened to me, but as soon as the lucid dream started, the monkey-like demon on my bed just fled the room. As I didn't want to follow it I jumped through the wall to explore the dream. Good thing it was indeed still a dream, or my nose would be quite flat right nose.
Cool that others are doing this. In mine, someone in armor had mounted me and pierced a spear through my chest. And I felt it. It was painful. And I willed my arms to move and fought against their strength to back the spear out of my chest and then I threw all my will at them and they blew up into embers, while laughing. I woke up and my chest still hurt the rest of the next day.
my sleep paralysis has always been me trying to wake up and not being able to, and sometimes it's me trying to wake up, believing I woke up, then "waking up again", and eventually actually waking up after the cycle stops.
I once was woken up by my mom and i heard her telling me to get up for school in my dream so then i "woke up" but was still in my dream and went through a entire school day then woke up
My episodes are usually more visual. My worst one was when I woke up on my side and I heard a sound coming from my door, which was behind me at the time. It sounded like a mix of horrendous screams, grunts and loud wind like a tornado. I was fully awake but the fear had me frozen. I then seen a bright light start enveloping my room as my door was opening and the screams and stuff got louder. After a few mins it stopped and my door was shut. I could move and I knew what it was even in the middle because I've had them so much but it really sucks. Even if you know it's fake and a hallucination you just cant NOT shit yourself in the moment lol. I'm not sure If mine are sleep paralysis because I can slightly move during them I'm just so scared that I dont want to.
Mine is also visual, but less using the environment, and more actual hallucinations. I was once on my bunk, sleeping to some videos, when it hit. Could turn my head or anything as I heard clicking and saw a giant spider crawl down in front of my face. It then crawled off the side of my bed, and a white hand slowly grasped my guard rails. At this point I realized what was going on and closed my eyes to completely let sleep take me.
My experience was extremely weird and scary. I was 7 at the time and was sleeping in my room. I woke up but I didn't. I can see but at the same time my eyes are closed. My whole body is frozen and I can't move. So I look around with my half opened eyes and suddenly I spotted a red man. He's just entirely red. I stared at him for awhile and then he duplicates. He keeps on multiplying until the room is nothing but faceless red mens. And the same as gura, I tried screaming but I couldn't. Luckily my mom wakes me up and it was all over. Shits crazy.
My first experience on sleep paralysis was just empty I couldn't move but I can't hear I can see but I couldn't find anything scary and I can't breath that's it I experienced it 11 times
I can't stress enough how important it is for folks experiencing similar episodes to discuss with your doctor about potential sleep apnea. Not getting oxygen is an extremely bad thing. It helps if you have someone else in the house that can observe your sleep for things like severe snoring, choking, and the like too. At the very least you can do an overnight recording. It can be very telling.
People have sleep apnea often snore a lot in their sleep, and they have no idea they stop breathing in their sleep. They just know they wake up midnight a lot. Different from sleep paralysis I think.
@@namvo3013 Maybe this was both combined, who knows... or it was simply an illusion and she only thought she can't breath while breathing totaly normal outside the dream... which would be unusual though, in my dreams i can always breath in every situation
I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night gasping for air because I can’t breathe I remember one time I was asleep in my bed it was like 2am and all of a sudden I woke up real quick gasping for air I made some weird noises like I was really gasping for air because I couldn’t breathe and I remmeber my dad coming in my room asking if I was ok because he heard me gasping for air and coughing. This doesn’t usually happen often. The last time this happened to me was 4 months ago
Fun fact, Sleep Paralysis (and the associated 'demons') are a side effect of unintentional consciousness while dreaming. See, when you're in a deep sleep your brainstem is affected by a chemical release that blocks bioelectrical signals. This normally wears off when returning to consciousness, but sometimes it's accidentally bypassed, leading to the temporary paralysis. As for the...things...you see, well most of your brain is in a dream state, and since that's controlled by your feelings, feeling scared brings out the scary monsters. If you 'go with it ' you can be calmer leading to not so scary hallucinations. Basically your dreaming up scary shit on accident because you're panicking over being paralysed. Personally, I've never experienced it. Sounds fun.
Storytime: I'm not sure if this is actually sleep paralysis mainly cuz it was my first time expiriencing this kinda thing.. Anyways, this happened like 2-ish years ago and I was sleepong on the sofa bed at my grandma's place (we live like next door to eachother) and I remember waking up one morning and everything was dim and I tried to move but I couldn't, I was lying on my belly with my head faceing toward the kitchen sink, then I saw what I could only describe was a Hellhound looking shadow thing just walking around the room, I paniced, tried to scream for help but nothing was coming out, the thing always walked near me but never did anything to me, like it was trying to check me if I was alive or something, then after what felt like a day, I fell asleep again and woke up soon after. I told my younger brothers this and they were creeped out about it, dont think I ever told anyone else tho.... I dont know what caused this but I think it was cus we had lost a lot of our dogs at the time as well as some newborn pups that didnt make it and I was still depressed about that. then being a believer of the supernatural, I thought to myself "what if that Hellhound was one of our dogs' spirit that came by and checked to see if I was okay". I never had an experience like that afterwards, 'cept for some dreams that came close.
Sleep paralysis often causes hallucinations (often dark, shadowy figures), as your still waking mind is reaching into every corner of your knowledge to think of a reason why you'd be unable to move/breathe. Of course, since you can't think of anything normal that could be restraining you (which, since you're partially awake, you would have been able to see and hear anyway), people's mind often jump to the supernatural of religion
One time I had weird sleep paralysis in the middle of the day when I decided to take a nap. The dream just got more and more vivid as time passed until I was terrified. It was so bad I couldn’t even open my eyes.
I am awake.. at least a portion of my mind is..i am in my bed so it's cool... then ... the shadow starts to condense in the ceiling...i know that it is watching me because i cant look away, i cant move, my chest is heavy... i hear a creepy sound like gurgling.. it cames from my throat, my sleeping body is trying to scream ... but wait.. i cant breath..oh shit .. i cant fucking breath ... total panic mode ativaded ... massive freakout ...then something SNAPS ... it's over ... my body jolts, i am hyperventilating and trully awake. When happens to me normally is something along this lines, after i make jokes about it "I dont need to pay to see horror movies" or some stupid shit like that. But when is happening is fucking terryfing. ps: sorry for the broken english..
I almost always wake up facing down, so when I get paralysis it feels like I’m suffocating (which I was), so I made something up while my face is in a pillow. First I try to move my finger, until I actually can. Then I start to try to move my arm. After that I can pretty much move my entire body. But sleep paralysis happens when you’re alstroemerias, but your consciousness is awake. So your body stops itself from moving to prevent danger(like falling off the bed). So if you stop moving because you think you “fixed” it, don’t stop moving, because your body will go back to sleep. No matter how early I wake up I wake up because I hate that feeling of suffocating in memory foam
Yo, bro I can relate to this 99%... the only difference is that shadow started to condense next to my head not in the ceiling. I could see it by corner of my eyes and goddamn it was scary. I've experienced this only once in my life but I don't wanna went through it ever again. Shit is terrifying af
Btw I was asleep I was in a dream and I thought that was real I couldn't move and wake up and I couldn't breath I thought I wasn't sleeping and when I knew I was sleeping I couldn't wake up.
Man I remember when I lived at uni and woke up frozen but knew and heard something pacing in my room next to my bed and I just knew it was angry, was making some low guttural noises. went on for about an hour, was awful. Another one i felt a hand crawling up from my hand to my shoulder and again, it was no gentle or happy. Thanks for bringing back those memories
That is absolutely sleep paralysis. I've done some research on it for one of my classes in medical school. Usually, the sleeper is mostly awake but still partially dreaming, and hallucinates a shadow, demon, etc, pinning them to the bed. Some doctors think one thing that can trigger it is not sleeping much at nights. I think I remember Gura saying before that she usually sleeps about 4 hours a night, so that could definitely be part of what's going on.
Gotta love the ones that happens when your face is sinking into the pillow and you can't move at all... basically almost killing you out of nowhere.. Lifes Great.
My experiences with sleep paralysis are rather different from most. For one they never happened after waking up - I would just lay down and my body and brain would disagree on whether I was asleep or not - so no hallucinations or strange sensations, just extreme difficulty moving or speaking. Still terrifying, especially the last episode I had in which my mother nearly killed me - she didn't believe me when with all my might I squeaked out "can't move" and in a fit of rage flipped me face down into my pillow, nearly suffocating me. I will never forgive her for that.
When you have a sleep paralysis and cant breath cuz something is choking you... but then the only part of you that is not paralyzed starts rising, yes your #RickIsDising
@@Nomorechannel-t6e No. Simplest answer is when your brain's asleep but your body is awake. Also your eyes sees vague shadows, and brain substitutes random images in, which is why you hallucinate.
@@Nomorechannel-t6e except it’s not really dreaming, your brain is just unplugged from your body and you’re trapped, feeling like something you can’t see is pinning you down and you’re unsure of what is going on. It’s not cool.
3 times this year alone I've woken up in the early morning to my entire right arm completely numb and it freak's me out each time.I then think to myself is this the morning I lose it.And a month or 2 ago a bug of sort's tried entering my right ear, talk about abruptly waking up.
I actually experienced two similar events to hers. When I moved into the place I’m in now, I was waiting for one of the housemates to move out and then I would have a room to live in, but for the meantime I slept on the couch. One night, I sort of just laid down to sleep earlier than usual because I was exhausted that day, and fell asleep in a way that I literally felt myself gradually fall transition into the state of being asleep. After this, I was basically sleeping like normal, unaware and all, when maybe thirty minutes later I woke up and quite simply could not move for maybe 30 seconds to a minute. I was not panicked and actually thought it was a move experience, but if I had seen a spooky boi I would prbably have felt different about the experience. The other one was basically the same as Gura’s second story. I woke up and couldn’t breathe for maybe a few seconds until I made the same ugly ass loud noise in an effort to wake my self up all the way. I feel like... maybe I am gura.
Sleep paralysis is terrifying. I can relate to this immensely. Not being able to speak, move, and feeling like something has you pinned and/or choking you. It really sucks when this is something you experience somewhat frequently...
Everyone talking about demons and shadows, and I just remember how I once woke up early in the morning when I was around 26 years old, and I just couldn't even open my eyelids. That strange feeling when it's only strangling darkness around, you feel terrified and can't do anything for about 20-30 seconds, and then you regain your motor functions and doze off again.
It's just being in a state of half asleep. Your breathing is shallower than when you're awake and anyone that has slept on their arm terribly knows what its like to have it so asleep you can't use it at all, that's the pinning feeling. The "people" or shadows are the things/thoughts that were going through your head while you were asleep. I had this happen to me before, that's all it is. Just go back to sleep if it happens. It'll come a lot easier than you might think but if you don't freak out it's easy.
if you started to see figures in your episodes you probably watched alot of horror movies, cuz when you're in that state with half closed eyes the brain takes over filling the empty space projecting scary/weird things that are saved or engraved in your mind.
So, when she first started talking about it, I was like, "Being asleep and awake at the same time? That sounds awesome!". But then, she mentioned not being able to breathe and panicking. Then I was like, "Nevermind, it sounds terrible.".
I always thought sleep paralysis was super interresting, so i tried purposefully inducing it. When you are prepared for it, it isn't scary at all. It wasn't as strong as a regular episode though, and i didn't see any hallucinations, because my brain wasn't in a REM phase. I know it's kinda weird, but i hope that i can experience a real episode soon.
I had some sleep paralysis episodes and they all did the same thing. I would wake up, not be able to move and for like half an hour, I'd periodically hear ear piercing screaming. The screaming was weird because I could hear it, but it sounded like it was coming from inside my head, if that makes sense.
2:26 kinda like when I had sleep paralysis as a child. I saw that flat shadow, not a shadowy figure more like a silhouette with red eyes. the way it looked and moved around was just like the move shadow sneak from pokemon, the resemblance is kinda scary.
You know, all these stories of shadows and red eyes reminds me of the dark hour from Persona 3. A hidden hour after midnight where time technically stops but you are able to witness things move while you can either move or feel like ur stuck
The weirdest thing that happened to me during sleep paralysis was an army of tiny nutcracker soldiers were walking across my chest playing marching band music, it was kinda cute so I smiled and then they all turned and stared at me and stopped playing, it freaked me out so bad
wtf, mine was just shadowy hands on the wall and someone whispering nonsense gibberish into my ear, thought you were lucky at first but NOPE I will take my experience over yours 😂
I know how smol shark felt on that, I experienced it about 7-8 years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, breathing was normal, but I had that sense that someone was behind me near my closet door, not coming closer but just stood there watching, I tried to turn to see who it was, I didn’t make a noise but found out I couldn’t move my head, so I tried moving my legs and arms, but any movement attempt ended with me just trying to shake my muscles enough to move, it was like a seizure but I could stop by just not trying to move, then stayed still but that feeling on the back of my neck felt eerie while that ‘something’ stared at me from behind, after maybe 5 minutes or more of trying to move, and enduring that eerie feeling, I finally was able to get up and turn to see absolutely nothing, safe to say I was just scared to hell, it never happened again after that, but I remember that early morning just before daybreak very well
Everything she said.. i can relate to that Suffocating, Can't get up, And there was a time i couldn't stop blinking my eyes. And the shadowy thing i saw that too, at first i thought it was my jacket, but when i woke there's no jacket
Everybody with their sleep paralysis demons, and just here lying in bed, starting to have a panic attack because I can't move and struggle to breath until I remembered hearing about sleep paralysis and managing to calm myself enough until my body decided to reconect my brain. The breathing part had nothing to do with sleep paralysis, I just suck at breathing while sleeping.
The odd thing with my first and only episode was I just couldn’t move and couldn’t open my eyes but I maintained control of my breathing through my consciousness quickly realizing what was going on and was lucky enough to be awoken by my mom a few minutes after the realization because she noticed i was still in bed and not at school i think around my sophomore year I guess my body had a motor malfunction but maintained the vital ones and needed a jumpstart which was weird because I was only 15 at the time and had insomnia since I was a freshman and I rarely sleep I rest for 7-8 hours but never actually fall asleep my brain runs too much
This is the combination of lucid dream and sleep paralysis, I occasionally get them and they are adventures on their own! My scariest one is me watching myself in front of the mirror sleeping.
I have sleep paralysis some times. It happens i know what it is. I can't open my eyes and it is very hard to move. Its just mostly annoying. But there is something fun about it.
"Too much time in front of that moving picture box." XD. I hope they told Gura that those were both sleep paralysis mixed with lucid dreaming... which is some scary shit sometimes.
ive had sleep paralysis handfuls of times and the first was the most intense but thats also when i found out i like sleep paralysis because of the thrill
Had a few episodes myself. Usually I see dark shadows and/or hear sounds. The other time, I felt my body was rolling to the other side of the bed but unable to control it. It was creepy af at first, but after a few times I got used to it. Now, whenever I woke up and can't move my body, I simply close my eyes again and get back to sleep lmao
For anyone looking to experience the "I was awake but asleep" thing, wake up early next weekend, around 6-7 am, drink a cup of coffee and go back to bed a hour after you finished the cup. That's almost a quaranteed way for me to get it.
I had a recent strange form of sleep paralysis I haven't experienced before. I have sleep paralysis maybe once every 6 months or so nowadays so not that bad, and usually not too scary besides a few incidents. The one I had recently was that I woke up and saw the left side of my bed, not too bad, but I only saw that still image. I guess maybe not sleep paralysis in fairness since I could move, or so I thought, but my eyes only saw the still image I saw when first waking up. I was worried I went blind for a bit since I only saw that, even after turning my head and trying to push up from my bed, still same image. Figured I'd share in case anyone was interested, I am alright now and was fine after what felt like 30 seconds when I actually woke up. May have just been a layered dream but it felt a little real comparatively.
Brain cuts off its own control over body during parts of sleep. Presumably so you don't roll too much and too far and off wherever you're sleeping. With some sleeping disorders you can actually wake up during these times. It's disturbing, but ultimately harmless.
I thinks it's so if you dream you don't act out your dreams. Running around while unconscious would probably lower your survivability if it was a regular thing to happen
I’ve had a very similar experience, except for me the shadow person wasn’t holding me down, they were just watching me and I couldn’t move. Also, they weren’t purely shadow, but shimmering like they were made of static, and they made a chittering sound like a swarm of insects. At the end of the dream they reached out and touched my chest, and for an instant there was an electric buzzing sensation in my head and flash of light, and then I woke up.
In my country, where you can still say that it is closely related to spiritual things. The case experienced by Gura where she saw a shadow in her room that was holding her and couldnt do anything even to breathe was not sleep paralysis, it was a ghost trying to prey on someone while sleeping. If you are lucky then you will survive, but if not ... something really bad will happen to you. I also understand about this because my friend has experienced it once.
Sleep paralysis is when you wake up to soon so that your body isn't ready yet to so it sems that you are pinned down( I personaly have experienced it a lot and its just scary when your young)
I’ve had my fair share on sleep paralysis, they never Latsed long but they were the worst thing to have to me, I even had a slight one earlier this morning, to anyone else who’s had sleep paralysis I get how you feel and you don’t have to worry, these things usually don’t last that long and even though it “seems” scary, you’ll feel better when it’s over, trust me
I once was woken up by my mom and i heard her telling me to get up for school in my dream so then i "woke up" but was still in my dream and went through a entire school day then woke up
i may not have never experienced it myself but i do hear and see things that are from the future to a shocking degree of accuracy and i have random auditory hallucinations as a side effect of one of my medication
“I love talking about it because I feel like everybody experiences something similar.” And this is why I like Gura: she tries to relate to the viewers.
it’s maybe not a good idea to learn most things from memes because what people seem to say is that you’re in your bed, you can’t move, and a demon in a sweater does a fortnite dance
Sleep paralysis, you could feel something trying to make you tense but when you relax and realise that this is the best that shadow can do, it leaves. Unless the shadow's Calli, then it's to see who she'll be collaborating with in the future
I'm pretty sure that was just Calli coming over to introduce herself and say hi.
That's explain a lot
That makes sense alot
And When you believe in superstition its baisically is calli
"HEY KID YA WANNA JOIN HOLOLIVE?"
the likes are at 666, that must be her confirming it
“Too much time in front of moving picture shark” - parents logic in a nutshell
Your username makes me very happy.
@@Josef_1186 his profile pic also makes me happy
“Okay Boomer. Whatever you say, Boomer.”
@@クロノシル Clever but subtle reference.
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Gura: **IS LITERALLY SUFFOCATING**
Also Gura: this isn't great
“I seem to not be in the ideal situation”
@@Auirl Not ideal
Oh I'm suffocating. That's not pretty poggers.
@@nophotograph Unpoggers
@@user-rd6ds7fl6s Pogless
sleep paralysis is fun when there isn't satanic symbols on the wall and a demon in my closet
True.
demon gf
Lol true.
Cuz our house is small and it's surrounded by windows, satanic symbols can't fit on walls.
Most of my paralysis episodes involve satanic imagery and me climbing up the stairs trying to get away from it. I scream Bible verses hoping it will end. Then I wake up after a cold sweat.
Too much time in front of moving picture box. :'3
“I still see your shadows in my room”
I was there and when she said that the apparition was holding her legs down, the chat degenerates just spammed “lewd” .....
I expected no better of them, yet somehow am still disappointed
Amazing.
Lmao what else would you expect?
@Lemur Monkey horrible perversions of nature... that’s a new one
I only like when chat spams Lewd on things that actually are lewd otherwise it’s just annoying
There's this process in the brain that essentially paralyses you while you sleep, when that doesn't work people sleepwalk. But when it happens and you're awake, your mind starts panicking because you can't move. Some people only hear things, others see or even feel things that aren't real. I've seen shadowy figures, one time even had some eldritch abomination jump on top of me and make this horrible sound. Turns out that was just my dog, snorting.
Your dog probably was like,”tf is with this dude” 🤨
Could've been ao-chan
Yeah I panicked enough that I tried to forcibly move my legs, ended up shaking as if it was a seizure, but where if I didn’t try moving I just lay calm, I couldn’t see or hear anything, but definitely had the feeling of something behind me, just staring at me from the doorway of a small walk-in closet I had, nobody was awake and my room door was still closed, that was the worst feeling I’ve ever had in my whole 28 years of life so far
That wasn’t your dog. That was Ina
It's our brain that needs sleep, not our body. And even then, the brain isn't exactly...sleeping. It just goes into MSDOS and does "stuff" which you then interpret as sleeping as a whole. Some people don't have the right programs installed or the operator isn't skilled enough and well, this happens.
The brain is the most powerful computer ever observed...and we have nearly no clue into its deeper working past really basic stuff.
"It was the most horrifying noise I've ever made" -> a
@@ReptilianLepton A
My sleep paralysis demon once gave me a kissy on the neck and told me everything was ok. Kinda chill guy if you ask me.
There was this other time I thought I was having a heart attack.
HelloAnon mines stepped on my neck
Mine stood in the corner and did the fortnite default dance.
It was the most fear I've ever felt
@@captainbirch9835 lmfao
@@captainbirch9835 I cANT STOP LAUGHING HAAHHAHA IM JUST- NnoOooo you’re paying for the medical bill this is your fault HAHAHHA
I never had a sleep paralysis in my life. Am I the only one?
Pee holding while having a sleep paralysis was the worst.
Peeing while dreaming is worse than holding it
@@user-on8vk5gb6x shitting while dreaming is a weird thing
@@user-on8vk5gb6x lmao
Trippy asf, dark too, but super interesting
I think those experiences are always dark... not nice to think you might have one again at some point :/
@@ThBlueSalamander they. Really. Suck.
I should point out that she pronounced narcolepsy as “necrolepsy”. Necro means death.
Makes sense. Sharks can't breathe if they stop moving, so narcolepsy probably would be deadly to them.
@@shadowslayer205 Nothing can breathe when they stop moving lmao
@@Ollybollyk I can stop breathing when I do move 😎
Everything and everyone moves
earth go phast
@@shadowslayer205 ah yes just like how lungs are vital to hamon users.
I remember I had a sleep paralysis episode and accidentally regained enough consciousness to trigger lucid dreaming. Gave myself a stand and beat the living shit out of those shadows. Unfortunately I ended up getting up and punching a wall, never again.
#RIP Hand
Something similar happened to me, but as soon as the lucid dream started, the monkey-like demon on my bed just fled the room. As I didn't want to follow it I jumped through the wall to explore the dream. Good thing it was indeed still a dream, or my nose would be quite flat right nose.
make my day lol
ZA HANDOH FUCK
Cool that others are doing this. In mine, someone in armor had mounted me and pierced a spear through my chest. And I felt it. It was painful. And I willed my arms to move and fought against their strength to back the spear out of my chest and then I threw all my will at them and they blew up into embers, while laughing. I woke up and my chest still hurt the rest of the next day.
Sooooo what was ur stands name????
my sleep paralysis has always been me trying to wake up and not being able to, and sometimes it's me trying to wake up, believing I woke up, then "waking up again", and eventually actually waking up after the cycle stops.
Plot twist: You're actually just waking up in alternate timelines until you wake up in your original timeline.
Have done that many times
I have had that happen so many times
I once was woken up by my mom and i heard her telling me to get up for school in my dream so then i "woke up" but was still in my dream and went through a entire school day then woke up
that second one isnt really sleep paralasys but more a self aware dream ive had it too
My episodes are usually more visual. My worst one was when I woke up on my side and I heard a sound coming from my door, which was behind me at the time. It sounded like a mix of horrendous screams, grunts and loud wind like a tornado. I was fully awake but the fear had me frozen. I then seen a bright light start enveloping my room as my door was opening and the screams and stuff got louder. After a few mins it stopped and my door was shut. I could move and I knew what it was even in the middle because I've had them so much but it really sucks. Even if you know it's fake and a hallucination you just cant NOT shit yourself in the moment lol. I'm not sure If mine are sleep paralysis because I can slightly move during them I'm just so scared that I dont want to.
I've had something pretty similar to this actually, even the sounds and stuff, but I couldn't really move all that much
Mine is also visual, but less using the environment, and more actual hallucinations. I was once on my bunk, sleeping to some videos, when it hit. Could turn my head or anything as I heard clicking and saw a giant spider crawl down in front of my face. It then crawled off the side of my bed, and a white hand slowly grasped my guard rails. At this point I realized what was going on and closed my eyes to completely let sleep take me.
My experience was extremely weird and scary.
I was 7 at the time and was sleeping in my room. I woke up but I didn't. I can see but at the same time my eyes are closed. My whole body is frozen and I can't move. So I look around with my half opened eyes and suddenly I spotted a red man. He's just entirely red. I stared at him for awhile and then he duplicates. He keeps on multiplying until the room is nothing but faceless red mens. And the same as gura, I tried screaming but I couldn't. Luckily my mom wakes me up and it was all over.
Shits crazy.
My first experience on sleep paralysis was just empty
I couldn't move but I can't hear
I can see but I couldn't find anything scary and I can't breath that's it I experienced it 11 times
@@BigPeePee14 oh I hate this type of sleep paralysis, it's the one that has happened more frequently to me
"Holding my legs down"
You have legs?!
Hardly they're very short
I can't stress enough how important it is for folks experiencing similar episodes to discuss with your doctor about potential sleep apnea. Not getting oxygen is an extremely bad thing. It helps if you have someone else in the house that can observe your sleep for things like severe snoring, choking, and the like too. At the very least you can do an overnight recording. It can be very telling.
People have sleep apnea often snore a lot in their sleep, and they have no idea they stop breathing in their sleep. They just know they wake up midnight a lot. Different from sleep paralysis I think.
Thats explains all the people saying that it feels like they're getting choked or something.
Bro, hell no. I refuse to record things while I sleep. That shit is scary as hell, imagine hearing someone's voice. Or footsteps, no. Im cool
@@namvo3013 Maybe this was both combined, who knows... or it was simply an illusion and she only thought she can't breath while breathing totaly normal outside the dream... which would be unusual though, in my dreams i can always breath in every situation
I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night gasping for air because I can’t breathe I remember one time I was asleep in my bed it was like 2am and all of a sudden I woke up real quick gasping for air I made some weird noises like I was really gasping for air because I couldn’t breathe and I remmeber my dad coming in my room asking if I was ok because he heard me gasping for air and coughing. This doesn’t usually happen often. The last time this happened to me was 4 months ago
0:29-036 absolute gold
Sleep paralysis is basically Springtrap simulator
Fun fact, Sleep Paralysis (and the associated 'demons') are a side effect of unintentional consciousness while dreaming.
See, when you're in a deep sleep your brainstem is affected by a chemical release that blocks bioelectrical signals. This normally wears off when returning to consciousness, but sometimes it's accidentally bypassed, leading to the temporary paralysis.
As for the...things...you see, well most of your brain is in a dream state, and since that's controlled by your feelings, feeling scared brings out the scary monsters. If you 'go with it ' you can be calmer leading to not so scary hallucinations.
Basically your dreaming up scary shit on accident because you're panicking over being paralysed.
Personally, I've never experienced it. Sounds fun.
Fun fact: mine doesn't even take shapes. Literally feel like falling down a bottomless void and can't even flail.
Its the opposite of fun bruh. Luckily last few times i managed to scream and break off the dreams
You guys do understand the concept of sarcasm, right? See, I said an unfun situation was fun, because it's not fun and I was being sarcastic.
Try to sleep late in the morning like sleep on 3-4 am and skip some meals and ur good to go
I've had sleep paralysis so much that when it happens I'm just like "ah shit here we go again" but I'm chill and not scared about it lol
Storytime:
I'm not sure if this is actually sleep paralysis mainly cuz it was my first time expiriencing this kinda thing..
Anyways, this happened like 2-ish years ago and I was sleepong on the sofa bed at my grandma's place (we live like next door to eachother) and I remember waking up one morning and everything was dim and I tried to move but I couldn't, I was lying on my belly with my head faceing toward the kitchen sink, then I saw what I could only describe was a Hellhound looking shadow thing just walking around the room, I paniced, tried to scream for help but nothing was coming out, the thing always walked near me but never did anything to me, like it was trying to check me if I was alive or something, then after what felt like a day, I fell asleep again and woke up soon after.
I told my younger brothers this and they were creeped out about it, dont think I ever told anyone else tho....
I dont know what caused this but I think it was cus we had lost a lot of our dogs at the time as well as some newborn pups that didnt make it and I was still depressed about that. then being a believer of the supernatural, I thought to myself "what if that Hellhound was one of our dogs' spirit that came by and checked to see if I was okay". I never had an experience like that afterwards, 'cept for some dreams that came close.
Sleep paralysis often causes hallucinations (often dark, shadowy figures), as your still waking mind is reaching into every corner of your knowledge to think of a reason why you'd be unable to move/breathe.
Of course, since you can't think of anything normal that could be restraining you (which, since you're partially awake, you would have been able to see and hear anyway), people's mind often jump to the supernatural of religion
@@wessltov I've had a lot of episodes of sleep paralysis but in just one of them I saw a weird shadow. I'm lucky
if youre lucid like that and cant move, its sleep paralysis.
@@GuitarBassC yeah but like I said I wasn't sure if it was actually sleep paralysis or if I was just dreaming about it
@@kairou_mikael everything you said leads to sleep paralysis. a regular dream does not affect as many many senses that you’re describing.
One time I had weird sleep paralysis in the middle of the day when I decided to take a nap. The dream just got more and more vivid as time passed until I was terrified. It was so bad I couldn’t even open my eyes.
poor gura I love her so much
I am awake.. at least a portion of my mind is..i am in my bed so it's cool... then ... the shadow starts to condense in the ceiling...i know that it is watching me because i cant look away, i cant move, my chest is heavy... i hear a creepy sound like gurgling.. it cames from my throat, my sleeping body is trying to scream ... but wait.. i cant breath..oh shit .. i cant fucking breath ... total panic mode ativaded ... massive freakout ...then something SNAPS ... it's over ... my body jolts, i am hyperventilating and trully awake.
When happens to me normally is something along this lines, after i make jokes about it "I dont need to pay to see horror movies" or some stupid shit like that. But when is happening is fucking terryfing.
ps: sorry for the broken english..
I almost always wake up facing down, so when I get paralysis it feels like I’m suffocating (which I was), so I made something up while my face is in a pillow. First I try to move my finger, until I actually can. Then I start to try to move my arm. After that I can pretty much move my entire body. But sleep paralysis happens when you’re alstroemerias, but your consciousness is awake. So your body stops itself from moving to prevent danger(like falling off the bed). So if you stop moving because you think you “fixed” it, don’t stop moving, because your body will go back to sleep. No matter how early I wake up I wake up because I hate that feeling of suffocating in memory foam
Yo, bro I can relate to this 99%... the only difference is that shadow started to condense next to my head not in the ceiling. I could see it by corner of my eyes and goddamn it was scary. I've experienced this only once in my life but I don't wanna went through it ever again. Shit is terrifying af
Btw I was asleep I was in a dream and I thought that was real I couldn't move and wake up and I couldn't breath I thought I wasn't sleeping and when I knew I was sleeping I couldn't wake up.
WOW YOUR CONTENT IS SO COOL AND ORIGINAL I LOVE YOU SMYLES
Absolutely relatable. I couldn’t breathe, speak, or even move. Although I hadn’t seen any shadows or anything of the sorts.
These videos just make me feel like I’m talking to a good friend who loves to tell stories
WOW YOUR CONTENT IS SO COOL AND REALLY ORIGINAL I REALLY LOVE YOU SMYLES
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I read this thing where if you focus on moving one body part during an episode it helps and it actually worked for me.
Man I remember when I lived at uni and woke up frozen but knew and heard something pacing in my room next to my bed and I just knew it was angry, was making some low guttural noises. went on for about an hour, was awful. Another one i felt a hand crawling up from my hand to my shoulder and again, it was no gentle or happy.
Thanks for bringing back those memories
That is absolutely sleep paralysis. I've done some research on it for one of my classes in medical school. Usually, the sleeper is mostly awake but still partially dreaming, and hallucinates a shadow, demon, etc, pinning them to the bed. Some doctors think one thing that can trigger it is not sleeping much at nights. I think I remember Gura saying before that she usually sleeps about 4 hours a night, so that could definitely be part of what's going on.
Minecraft always brings out the best stories
YOU GOT THE DEVIL IN YOU GOUDA!
Gotta love the ones that happens when your face is sinking into the pillow and you can't move at all... basically almost killing you out of nowhere.. Lifes Great.
my fear is that and having an episode so bad it causes me to have a heart attack
My experiences with sleep paralysis are rather different from most. For one they never happened after waking up - I would just lay down and my body and brain would disagree on whether I was asleep or not - so no hallucinations or strange sensations, just extreme difficulty moving or speaking. Still terrifying, especially the last episode I had in which my mother nearly killed me - she didn't believe me when with all my might I squeaked out "can't move" and in a fit of rage flipped me face down into my pillow, nearly suffocating me. I will never forgive her for that.
When you have a sleep paralysis and cant breath cuz something is choking you...
but then the only part of you that is not paralyzed starts rising, yes your #RickIsDising
And then it starts flying....
POWER OF RICK
@@LocalHolehead oh god
MY RICK IS DISING
That piece of stair that wasn't put down correctly will haunt me worse than Gura's sleep paralysis demons.
Basically PTSD we inherited from our ancestors who got killed by animals in the dark lmao
Is that actually true
@@Nomorechannel-t6e No. Simplest answer is when your brain's asleep but your body is awake. Also your eyes sees vague shadows, and brain substitutes random images in, which is why you hallucinate.
@@accelmemory so it’s like dreaming but awake. And natural not with drugs, that’s pretty cool
@@Nomorechannel-t6e except it’s not really dreaming, your brain is just unplugged from your body and you’re trapped, feeling like something you can’t see is pinning you down and you’re unsure of what is going on. It’s not cool.
her last sleep paralysis story is exactly what happens to me every time. it's spoopy
Gura saying "Mama Shark" just makes me melt
3 times this year alone I've woken up in the early morning to my entire right arm completely numb and it freak's me out each time.I then think to myself is this the morning I lose it.And a month or 2 ago a bug of sort's tried entering my right ear, talk about abruptly waking up.
I actually experienced two similar events to hers. When I moved into the place I’m in now, I was waiting for one of the housemates to move out and then I would have a room to live in, but for the meantime I slept on the couch. One night, I sort of just laid down to sleep earlier than usual because I was exhausted that day, and fell asleep in a way that I literally felt myself gradually fall transition into the state of being asleep. After this, I was basically sleeping like normal, unaware and all, when maybe thirty minutes later I woke up and quite simply could not move for maybe 30 seconds to a minute. I was not panicked and actually thought it was a move experience, but if I had seen a spooky boi I would prbably have felt different about the experience.
The other one was basically the same as Gura’s second story. I woke up and couldn’t breathe for maybe a few seconds until I made the same ugly ass loud noise in an effort to wake my self up all the way.
I feel like... maybe I am gura.
I'm no expert on sleep paralysis but that sounds like sleep paralysis.
Honestly this kinda stuff happened alot in my past, so it's good hearing Gura had similar experiences.
Sleep paralysis is terrifying. I can relate to this immensely.
Not being able to speak, move, and feeling like something has you pinned and/or choking you.
It really sucks when this is something you experience somewhat frequently...
Everyone talking about demons and shadows, and I just remember how I once woke up early in the morning when I was around 26 years old, and I just couldn't even open my eyelids.
That strange feeling when it's only strangling darkness around, you feel terrified and can't do anything for about 20-30 seconds, and then you regain your motor functions and doze off again.
It's just being in a state of half asleep. Your breathing is shallower than when you're awake and anyone that has slept on their arm terribly knows what its like to have it so asleep you can't use it at all, that's the pinning feeling. The "people" or shadows are the things/thoughts that were going through your head while you were asleep. I had this happen to me before, that's all it is. Just go back to sleep if it happens. It'll come a lot easier than you might think but if you don't freak out it's easy.
Guras sleep paralysis demon is just Amelia constantly saying “Gura is sus”
I really like the edit u did at the start where it looked like you used Ms paint or something.
if you started to see figures in your episodes you probably watched alot of horror movies, cuz when you're in that state with half closed eyes the brain takes over filling the empty space projecting scary/weird things that are saved or engraved in your mind.
So, when she first started talking about it, I was like, "Being asleep and awake at the same time? That sounds awesome!". But then, she mentioned not being able to breathe and panicking. Then I was like, "Nevermind, it sounds terrible.".
I feel bad for her mother. Imagine your child sleeping while you are driving and then she makes a horrific noise and then starts gasping. Geez
I always thought sleep paralysis was super interresting, so i tried purposefully inducing it. When you are prepared for it, it isn't scary at all. It wasn't as strong as a regular episode though, and i didn't see any hallucinations, because my brain wasn't in a REM phase.
I know it's kinda weird, but i hope that i can experience a real episode soon.
I only hope its a good experience otherwise DEAR JESUS is it terrifying
I had some sleep paralysis episodes and they all did the same thing. I would wake up, not be able to move and for like half an hour, I'd periodically hear ear piercing screaming. The screaming was weird because I could hear it, but it sounded like it was coming from inside my head, if that makes sense.
2:26 kinda like when I had sleep paralysis as a child. I saw that flat shadow, not a shadowy figure more like a silhouette with red eyes. the way it looked and moved around was just like the move shadow sneak from pokemon, the resemblance is kinda scary.
You know, all these stories of shadows and red eyes reminds me of the dark hour from Persona 3. A hidden hour after midnight where time technically stops but you are able to witness things move while you can either move or feel like ur stuck
The weirdest thing that happened to me during sleep paralysis was an army of tiny nutcracker soldiers were walking across my chest playing marching band music, it was kinda cute so I smiled and then they all turned and stared at me and stopped playing, it freaked me out so bad
wtf, mine was just shadowy hands on the wall and someone whispering nonsense gibberish into my ear, thought you were lucky at first but NOPE I will take my experience over yours 😂
If I get a sleep paralysis demon I’m gonna convince him to be my stand
dude to much jojo
After 12 sleep paralysis episodes it becomes a sleep paralysis season
14 hours ago i started watching every vtuber now im able to sleep in peace
Basically your brain been awakening already but it forgot to wakes your body ( your muscle system) so all you call do it waiting... Until you 100% up
Sleep paralysis is why I don't sleep on my back
I also experienced the same thing, but I saw 2 shadows it only happened once.
I know how smol shark felt on that, I experienced it about 7-8 years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, breathing was normal, but I had that sense that someone was behind me near my closet door, not coming closer but just stood there watching, I tried to turn to see who it was, I didn’t make a noise but found out I couldn’t move my head, so I tried moving my legs and arms, but any movement attempt ended with me just trying to shake my muscles enough to move, it was like a seizure but I could stop by just not trying to move, then stayed still but that feeling on the back of my neck felt eerie while that ‘something’ stared at me from behind, after maybe 5 minutes or more of trying to move, and enduring that eerie feeling, I finally was able to get up and turn to see absolutely nothing, safe to say I was just scared to hell, it never happened again after that, but I remember that early morning just before daybreak very well
i don't know why, but i can feel real pain, in my dreams, and my dreams can get real creative in the ways of torture it puts me through
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i wish Gura was my sleep paralysis demon instead of the shadow people.
I wonder if you can combine lucid dreams with sleep paralysis? be kinda cool
It's GOOD bro!
I experienced the exact same thing. Pinned down, shadow figure, paralysed, couldn't breathe and waking up gasping.
Everything she said.. i can relate to that
Suffocating, Can't get up, And there was a time i couldn't stop blinking my eyes. And the shadowy thing i saw that too, at first i thought it was my jacket, but when i woke there's no jacket
I've only experienced sleep paralysis face down and it's just fucking scary. Can't breathe, move, or speak but your fully aware your awake.
2:03 are you sure she’s not just describing an assault case?
Gura: Does anybody else have similar experiences?
Me:.... n-NO! God no! That sounds freakin' horifying. Geez.
Sleep paralysis the worst. I've experienced it way too much.
Everybody with their sleep paralysis demons, and just here lying in bed, starting to have a panic attack because I can't move and struggle to breath until I remembered hearing about sleep paralysis and managing to calm myself enough until my body decided to reconect my brain.
The breathing part had nothing to do with sleep paralysis, I just suck at breathing while sleeping.
n16r4 relate
I can relate
The odd thing with my first and only episode was I just couldn’t move and couldn’t open my eyes but I maintained control of my breathing through my consciousness quickly realizing what was going on and was lucky enough to be awoken by my mom a few minutes after the realization because she noticed i was still in bed and not at school i think around my sophomore year I guess my body had a motor malfunction but maintained the vital ones and needed a jumpstart which was weird because I was only 15 at the time and had insomnia since I was a freshman and I rarely sleep I rest for 7-8 hours but never actually fall asleep my brain runs too much
This is the combination of lucid dream and sleep paralysis, I occasionally get them and they are adventures on their own! My scariest one is me watching myself in front of the mirror sleeping.
I have sleep paralysis some times. It happens i know what it is. I can't open my eyes and it is very hard to move. Its just mostly annoying. But there is something fun about it.
"Too much time in front of that moving picture box." XD. I hope they told Gura that those were both sleep paralysis mixed with lucid dreaming... which is some scary shit sometimes.
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ive had sleep paralysis handfuls of times and the first was the most intense but thats also when i found out i like sleep paralysis because of the thrill
Had the same exact experience as her a couple of times lol
So you became shark for couple of time huh
@@mukaonline3 PERHAPS
Had a few episodes myself. Usually I see dark shadows and/or hear sounds. The other time, I felt my body was rolling to the other side of the bed but unable to control it. It was creepy af at first, but after a few times I got used to it. Now, whenever I woke up and can't move my body, I simply close my eyes again and get back to sleep lmao
Imagine having sleep paralysis of Gura standing over you and saying “a”
For anyone looking to experience the "I was awake but asleep" thing, wake up early next weekend, around 6-7 am, drink a cup of coffee and go back to bed a hour after you finished the cup. That's almost a quaranteed way for me to get it.
Being awake and being sleep sounds like astral projection
I had a recent strange form of sleep paralysis I haven't experienced before. I have sleep paralysis maybe once every 6 months or so nowadays so not that bad, and usually not too scary besides a few incidents. The one I had recently was that I woke up and saw the left side of my bed, not too bad, but I only saw that still image. I guess maybe not sleep paralysis in fairness since I could move, or so I thought, but my eyes only saw the still image I saw when first waking up. I was worried I went blind for a bit since I only saw that, even after turning my head and trying to push up from my bed, still same image. Figured I'd share in case anyone was interested, I am alright now and was fine after what felt like 30 seconds when I actually woke up. May have just been a layered dream but it felt a little real comparatively.
So cuuuuuuute
Brain cuts off its own control over body during parts of sleep. Presumably so you don't roll too much and too far and off wherever you're sleeping.
With some sleeping disorders you can actually wake up during these times. It's disturbing, but ultimately harmless.
I thinks it's so if you dream you don't act out your dreams. Running around while unconscious would probably lower your survivability if it was a regular thing to happen
I’ve had a very similar experience, except for me the shadow person wasn’t holding me down, they were just watching me and I couldn’t move. Also, they weren’t purely shadow, but shimmering like they were made of static, and they made a chittering sound like a swarm of insects. At the end of the dream they reached out and touched my chest, and for an instant there was an electric buzzing sensation in my head and flash of light, and then I woke up.
I experienced this dude 2x now
In my country, where you can still say that it is closely related to spiritual things. The case experienced by Gura where she saw a shadow in her room that was holding her and couldnt do anything even to breathe was not sleep paralysis, it was a ghost trying to prey on someone while sleeping. If you are lucky then you will survive, but if not ... something really bad will happen to you. I also understand about this because my friend has experienced it once.
Sleep paralysis is when you wake up to soon so that your body isn't ready yet to so it sems that you are pinned down( I personaly have experienced it a lot and its just scary when your young)
I’ve had my fair share on sleep paralysis, they never Latsed long but they were the worst thing to have to me, I even had a slight one earlier this morning, to anyone else who’s had sleep paralysis I get how you feel and you don’t have to worry, these things usually don’t last that long and even though it “seems” scary, you’ll feel better when it’s over, trust me
Have you ever had waking paralysis where your awake enough to see what’s going on but your body is still paralyzed from rem sleep.
This is why I sleep with a lamp on
I once was woken up by my mom and i heard her telling me to get up for
school in my dream so then i "woke up" but was still in my dream and
went through a entire school day then woke up
i may not have never experienced it myself but i do hear and see things that are from the future to a shocking degree of accuracy and i have random auditory hallucinations as a side effect of one of my medication
“I love talking about it because I feel like everybody experiences something similar.”
And this is why I like Gura: she tries to relate to the viewers.
i had something like a sleep paralysis demon the weird part that i could move
my bedroom rly be fnaf4 bruh
it’s maybe not a good idea to learn most things from memes because what people seem to say is that you’re in your bed, you can’t move, and a demon in a sweater does a fortnite dance
Sleep paralysis, you could feel something trying to make you tense but when you relax and realise that this is the best that shadow can do, it leaves. Unless the shadow's Calli, then it's to see who she'll be collaborating with in the future