I used to get sleep paralysis regularly years ago if I slept in a certain position, and while I've never experienced demons or entities alongside it, the struggle of not being able to move no matter how much I try is terrifying enough. Congrats on 1 million subs!
Same! I get sleep paralysis when I nap midday. No monsters, just I cannot move, and I struggle to breath. It's like my body is in hibernation mode but my mind is awake but can't control it.
Yeah this, it was a temporary thing, lasted a few months for me. You can breathe and your eyes may be open but not much else. I find it especially gnarly when you're very hot under the blankets because you do feel that and it's horrible not being able to escape from it.
My friend said he used to get them exclusively when he slept on his back 🥲 freaked me out for a few weeks lol since experienced I only once before. Made sure to slept in my side for a while 😂
Yeah I got the exact same symptoms (when I do get it sometimes). But what's worse for me is that I have a permanently congested/inflamed nose, which means less airflow and the natural mild panic I have when conscious but unable to move drains O2 faster than normal.
Typically sleep paralysis is caused by interruption of REM sleep, but can be a result of being very tired, shift work, and even jet lag. When we enter that dream sleep our brains produce both GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) and glycine which are neurotransmitters that temporarily stops the brain cells that control skeletal muscle movement. So if REM is interrupted then sometimes we are still stuck in that state of paralysis temporarily as the neurotransmitters haven't stopped working yet. I work in a sleep lab running sleep studies and have had patients tell me stories of their experiences with it but I'm lucky to have not experienced it myself. One patient told me she thought someone was trying to break into her house and was panicking when she couldn't get up to try and defend herself. Also to add to that information, sleep paralysis can run in your family, be caused by certain ADHD medications, alcohol and substance use, PTSD and other panic disorders.
Way I feel it is, it's like everything in your body weights so much you can't lift it. I have to keep focusing really really hard and try and move a single limb, sometimes can take 2-3 mins before I can get a finger to move, sometimes I try shouting, but nothing. This game makes no sense to me, as you can't move your head around not even open your eyes. Smashing the E key to try and move your body does make a lot of sense as that is kinda what it feels like to try and move. I've had at least 8 experiences of it in my life. Sometimes it's semi bad, others have been very stressful experiences. Never seen anything though, as I can't even open my eyes when I have it.
@@remenyip950731 Okay now, until like today and had my first one in a long time, but I was on a really strong antibiotic which can give sleep issues. Had most of my SP moments in my 20s and 30s, so had a decade without them until last night which is so random. It was worse than anything I had before, I was having a weird dream but I kept waking up from it, couldn't move and managed to go back to sleep only to go back into the dream and it happened like 3 times and then I woke up, but I had a racing heart beat and couldn't open my eyes fully for like an hour.
prayer immediately drives away dark forces and no science can explain this, because only evil appears and nothing good and light, and this is proof of the existence of demons ... God controls everything and does not allow dark forces to kill us
I never realized you were even close to 1M, the fact that you haven't changed from about 50K which is when I started to watch your videos, I never watched your sub count, you're still yourself and that's amazing! Congratz
one of the reasons I really like his content, I have watched way too many RUclipsrs and influencers that changed after getting a tad bit more attention and subscribers they just started wasting resources like man did you forget where you come from? and still waste things. I love that he didn't change.
I was feeling so stressed for a prolonged period that I started experiencing sleep paralysis roughly three times a week for a couple of months. Mostly I would feel like I was awake, but couldn't move. I usually kept my eyes closed because I didn't want to watch what was going on, but I could hear sounds and feel things around me. Usually, I would try to scream and move, resulting in my body suddenly doing spasmic movement and my breathing going crazy when I woke up. My girlfriend would sometimes hear me whine quietly, and she would push me to try and wake my up. That stuff is scary af. It's not dangerous, it's just really scary. If you're starting to experience it, try to figure out if it's stress-related. Mine certainly was.
I had sleep paralysis once. Thankfully I had my eyes closed, so I didn't see any terrifying creatures, but I couldn't move, it felt like I was attached to the bed. I couldn't open my eyes, it felt like they were glued shut. My chest felt very heavy, like something sat on me. Everything lasted around 10 seconds, the longest 10 seconds ever. Then it was all gone, in a blink of an eye everything was back to normal.
Lucky i had sleep paralysis like 5 times it was scary for the first time but then you get used to it and just force yourself to wake up and wash my face with cold water cause if i don't then it repeats waking up and sleeping paralysis cycle
I experienced sleep paralysis before, every night for like weeks. Not that I see "something" but the feeling of not being able to move and not being heard when you think you've been shouting at the top of your lungs (in reality your voice is muffled) is SCARY. And on top of that, I heard a belief here (from old people) that if your bed is adjacent to a door, in your sleep, you will be dragged to a "coffin" (the door)/ to death because a door is like a link between this world and the underworld. After I heard that, I changed the position of my bed and after that, I didn't experience it again. Now that I'm a medical student, I learned that extreme tiredness can also cause sleep paralysis. I want to think this was what happened to me before ಥ‿ಥ and not some creepy ghost dragging me to death.
Yup, being aware but couldn't move your body makes me panic too 😂 But i knew I'm having sleep paralysis so I just try keep my eyes closed while still trying to wake my bodies up
prayer immediately drives away dark forces and no science can explain this, because only evil appears and nothing good and light, and this is proof of the existence of demons ... God controls everything and does not allow dark forces to kill us
Sleep Paralysis is far worse than any game could explain. Way I feel it is, it's like everything in your body weights so much you can't lift it. I have to keep focusing really really hard and try and move a single limb, sometimes can take 2-3 mins before I can get a finger to move, sometimes I try shouting, but nothing. This game makes no sense to me, as you can't move your head around not even open your eyes. Smashing the E key to try and move your body does make a lot of sense as that is kinda what it feels like to try and move.
That's how it's been for me as well, like I'm being held down in place. No game could properly portray this because it's not a game at that point. Player input wouldn't matter, it'd pretty much just be a video
I had it a few times, I learned to master it its easy, the thing I always do is when I wake up even without paralysis I just close my eyes and stay still, if I feel I have it I just ignore it if you try to move and keep forcing it to go away is WAY worse, just dont move for a bit and relax 😂 there is no point fighting it and nothing you hear or see is ever real panicking does nothing
I’m sooo happy I found insym’s channel! I LOVE watching horror games, because I can’t play them much myself without getting really messed up nightmares. But if I watch someone else play it’s fine, and I really like that we get as much of the story of the game as we can.
I will admit, I love to listen to Insym while going to bed. It's weird, because he has chaotic energy that should usually keep your attention, and his voice is just.. y'know. It's a voice. But for some reason, listening to him play Phasmophobia (of all games) helps me feel calm and go to bed. You do more for us than you know Insym, we're eternally grateful. Long live Sleepsym!
I had sleep paralysis and it was incredibly terrifying. I remember randomly waking up and no matter what I did I could not move. It felt like something was pressing its hand on my face I kid you not. And I just remember seeing these like abstract shapes in the dark. Not like silhouettes but kind of like static from a tv but it had actual shapes. I was so scared because all I could do was move my eyes around. I tried to move my mouth and call for help but I could not. I just layed there in the dark. Then my brother came out of his room and I tried calling for help again but still couldn’t. Still felt fingers pressing on my face. Then I just remember with every fiber of my being forcing my arm to move and a bit after that I remember I let out the most pathetic scream for help ever (literally Tina from bobs burgers). then I told my brother what happened when I could get up.
In my childhood I had sleep paralysis due to stress in school for a period of time. Until now I still vividly recalls the figures that I saw in the sleep paralysis. Occasionally, I woke up to being paralyzed on my bed. Looking out to the bedroom, I see dark figures standing beside the door (exactly like the game), approaching whenever you blinked, or crawl away into unseen corners. One time I saw a pale face staring at me through my window, before pulling the curtain on itself. Another time, I saw a grim reaper levitating just above me, pulling my body towards him. Worst of all, is the feeling of 'not able to breath' that weight on you, making you fight for air every second you spent in the paralysis. Being a naive child, I wasn't aware that these are sleep paralysis and thought that my room was haunted for quite sometime. It caused me distress just to sleep. Luckily, I eventually found a way to overcome or wake up from the paralysis. If I realized I was locked in a paralysis dream, what I had to do is to "close" my eyes really hard and then open them very fast. Repeat it a few times, then I might just open my eye in real world and so I could wake up from the paralysis...
I've been watching since 300- 400k. Your Phas videos brought some life into the time of the Covid lockdown!! The day has finally arrived! Congrats on the 1 Million Subs!!
When I experience sleep paralysis, i just close my eyes so I don't see anything creepy and try to move till i get out of it. But it gets more terrifying when I hear nonstop rapid whispers.
My wife had sleep paralysis and lucid dreams while she was pregnant with our first child. I get chills every time I think about it or tell others what she went through. Just absolutely terrifying. She would wake up at night and be completely stuck while only able to look around. Our doorway is to the right, and standing there was a short black figure of a person. No details, just complete black. It walked by the foot of the bed around to the left of my wife laying down where she couldn’t see it. It would then start breathing on her ear and neck. When she described the breath as ice cold and she felt it move her hair I got insane chills. Still do today. Then she would wake up Other times she would be laying on her side and feel this ice-cold breathing behind her on her neck. All while still on the bed. She’d also have night terrors where she’d be half asleep but be screaming in a cold sweat while spazzing out on the bed. Says she doesn’t remember what happened, but my guess is with that paralysis. So happy she doesn’t have that anymore 😅😂. Keep up the grind insym love your vids!!!
FIRST NEW HORROR VIDEO AFTER YOU REACHED 1MIL SUBS 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ LOVE YOU INSYM, YOU MAKE GREAT CONTENT ❤ Edit: Also the first vid since Insym got his new cats
@@Spooky_Platypus He posted a picture about them in community tab on his yt channel, they’re super cute! ❤️❤️ Def can’t wait for them to appear in some streams or stuff like that
There's about 3 sleep paralysis in my personal experience, 1. Eyes close but, you feel presence and pressure all over you limited movement, with the slight screeching noise. 2. You see it all, dark figures and unable to move they'll even interact with you. 3. Controversial, but paranormal experiences. I use to live in a home where we had occasional sight of a little girl in white, one time when I had sleep paralysis I woke up with a heavy pressure on my back since I was sleeping on my stomach, facing the wall... where there was a shadow of a lil girl sitting on my back and laughing at me as I tried to break free. When I eventually did I went to sleep with my brother.
I had sleep paralysis when i was a kid but just a few times per year maybe. The situation was very terrifying because i often had nightmares and just woke up from a nightmare, want to scream or jump out of my bed but i couldn't move or even open my mouth... it was just impossible and even more terrifying being alone in my room in the darkness right after a nightmare. I never talked about it with anyone, because i thought it was just part of a nightmare and didn't even know it was a disease.
It’s absolutely terrifying. I used to ‘see’ the demons when I was younger but now it’s just frozen still and I’m screaming for hours. I hope you never experience it
Congrats on 1 MILLION subs!! Most of the time, when I had sleep paralysis, I was super exhausted so I'm thinking my body fell asleep before my mind did. A couple of times I remember feeling and seeing someone staring at me. Super creepy. Most of the time, though, it's just feeling stuck in bed, feeling like I can't move or breathe properly, trying to yell for help and struggling to wake up.
I've heard stories of people experiencing sleep paralysis and it's a nightmare. Just imagining the things they go through and think they see but can't move to investigate, is quite the fear factor in itself. it's so scary and can be panic-inducing.
I had sleep paralysis once, very shortly and a humanoid shadow figure hovered above me and slowly faded away along with indiscernible whispers. What followed afterwards was me being haunted for 3 days straight. The air felt heavy and I felt a powerful draining presence that left the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Invisble eyes were on me... I slept with my lights on but every few hours the lightbulbs died out which had NEVER happened before, and scared shitless I asked my friend for guidance. He pulled some runes about the situation and told me it would pass, and lo and behold it did! It was insane! Ive only had a few paranormal instances back as a kid but I believe it was an accumulation of negative energy in my house, as I was in a very dark depression at that time.
Am absolutely so happy and proud for Insym! He puts in the work for his subs, and he deserves so many more!!! Love you Insym! Keep up the badass work!!!
I have suspected narcolepsy. I’ve had three episodes of sleep paralysis in my adult life. The first time I woke up from a nightmare thinking something was coming to get me. Second time I woke up knowing what was going on so it didn’t bother me. Third time I was in the sleep lab for a sleep study and woke up thinking the sleep tech was fixing something on my head since she was standing over me and I went back to sleep. Found out later that she never went into my room.
I had sleep paralysis like 2 times. The first time, it feels like i am in the middle of the road, like floating on the centre. i know i am on conscious, but i can't move my body or speak. I tried to speak that "someone wake me up, please" like that after 5 mins i able to move and the second time happens at noon i slept due to tried after some hours i woke up but i can't move anything or speak. I can hear my mom and dad speaking, but i can't move my body that was hella scary dude.
First congrats on the 1 Mill subs, I used to get sleep paralysis regularly years ago, i read that it's normal that a person suffer from sleep paralysis at least once in your life, but most of the people don't remember it, cause it happens early in life. Sometimes is very regular and there are different levels, most of the time you just can´t move or speak, but there are other when you see, hear and feel other things. I've got some where i really felt like something wanted to hurt me. The problem is that sometimes it so scary is that people don't want to fall sleep anymore. 😟
Well I have sleep paralasys very often nowadays. Every single time It's the same pattern but different things going on. I am laying on my bed and I can see everything in front of me but I cannot move my body, standard thing. It's always some creepy things like shadows or something like that and whenever they get close I start to hear frequencys louder and louder. When I wake up my heart is bumping like crazy and obviously I cannot fall asleep again in some time, besides that my head hurts like hell too. One time I was laying, couldn't move myself and saw my brother sharpening a knife and till this day It's still in my head the sound of knife sharpening. Alright so I wanna take a look at the video and see how did they remake sleep paralasys into a game. Congratulations on 1 million brother, remember back then when you used to play old phasmophobia, you made me and my friend buy the game and we had so much fun especially when we were scared to play old asylum and we saw your ways and followed through every single trick u had especially the word "show us". I am really glad you never changed and keep being that way, sending positive thoughts brother. :)
I get sleep paralysis regularly, I don’t usually have visual hallucinations, but I have had audible hallucinations. The only times I get visual hallucinations are when I’m almost asleep. I know what’s happening now since I experience it often so I typically keep calm, but one thing I can say is when you have sleep paralysis you feel like you’re in danger, like if you don’t move something bad will happen to you. (Or the feeling someone or something is in your room with you.)
One time during a spell of sleep paralysis, I saw a grey cloaked man standing in my closet with his back turned toward me with a knife in his hands. I heard him saying some broken phrases in German. A few days later after further investigation, my parents said that a previous owner of the house might have been German (this detail I’m unsure of as it has been years.)
You scared the heck out of me! First, I had this video on the background while I did stuff and the knocking made me jump and then your Hey Google activated the helper behind me when I didn’t even know I had it on. It’s past midnight, dude. Jesus!
Had sleep paralysis twice. First time I heard scratching on the walls, my door was slightly opened like this game and I saw a shadow entity skid across the hallway. I will never forget
I've had like 5 or 6 different sleep paralysis, when I was living in a war zone in Donetsk. All sort of strange and horrible creatures, even a creepy «grandma» from «Insidious» right at my face. That was a loud scream right then by me, woke my parents up, they thought we were under fire Remember, when I was laying with my back turned to a wardrobe and something opened it and started sucking my life outta my ears from behind with a cold breath. That's a fun one. But when I moved to Moscow, got married and never had a nightmare since
From my own experience, just as Insym said, it feels a lot like a dream, thats why it's usually shadows, because you don't see them, your brain is just aware of someone being there. Similarly I've never heard anything concrete, it just feels like somebody talking while you are not paying attention or not understanding the language. I can usually move my fingertips and with that I try to crawl my hand and drop it from the edge of the bed, which wakes me up completely.
I have had sleep paralysis for over 10 years now and in the beginning wiggling my toes or like you said dropping my arm or leg from the bed worked. However from my experiences the more I used a certain technique to wake myself up the more it became less effective and harder to do, It has definitely been an everlasting battle.
I had sleep demons for a few weeks once. It was due to some things going on in life but it was more terrfying then anything this game showed. You wake up and they are just sitting right next to you in bed.. or standing right next to you, staring at you. You can't move. Saying they look like nightmares doesn't even cut it. It feels like you are fully awake because you partially are. Your eyes are wide open just that your brain is tripping hard =P
The old phasmo singing brought back some good memories, I remember hearing that singing for the first time from down the hallway of asylum. I still prefer this singing, feels more haunting, creepy, sad even.
I had sleep paralysis a few times. It’s terrifying. You can’t move. It’s like you’re awake but your body doesn’t move. You have no control over yourself. Your body feels tense and uncomfortable and you can move your eyes but your body is stiff.
Hi Insym! Congrats on reaching 1M subs! Wow, what a milestone! I did some digging about the game. This game was done by SolitaryStudios, a Filipino Indie Game developer. Oddly enough, I kinda had the suspicion that the developer was a Filipino when I read the dialogue and the mention of traffic and the 'toxic working environment'. My Filipino senses are tingling and I am in tears hearing the Rick Roll music LOL. I mean, does it matter? For some, maybe no, but as a Filipino myself, I am quite surprised that a Filipino-made game is this enjoyable and quite good! I really glad you enjoyed the game. I haven't experienced any signs of sleep paralysis, only nightmares. I hope the developer would continue to produce more games like this
I have had sleep paralysis twice. The first time I saw my bedroom door slowly open and a shadow in the hallway outside. I eanted to scream or move my body so badly but couldn't. The second time I didn't see anything bad, but heard it. I had my back facing the wall, from which I then heard scratching, like fingernail scratching. And I couldn't move. Both paralysis lasted for like 3 minutes.
I used to get sleep paralysis so often that it no longer scared me. It was just frustrating, especially if it happened while on a long car trip. You could hear everything being said, you could see the scenery passing by, but you couldn't even get into a more comfortable position and go back to sleep. I get how people could think they were being suffocated, though, because your breathing can stay in sleep mode while your brain screams "INHALE!!!!"
I have episodes of sleep paralysis a few times a year. Never stops being absolutely horrifying. Longest I've gone without an episode was about 4 months.
Congratulations Insym on the 1 million! I remember i started watching you in 2020 😄🙏🏻❤️ happy for you! I am also really excited that you are getting kittens! They are a bundles of joy! I just got a kitten 2 months ago. Hopefully they l will be litter box trained when you get them. Get them plenty of little toys for them to play with. Are they going to be inside or outside cats? If you are planning them to be outside I would get the chipped just incase they take off for a few days. My partner has sleep paralysis.. and it sometimes scares me. He has woken up a few times while whispering help me in a very scary low voice. That is when I know I have to wake him up. Most of the time he says it’s fine but when the “shadows” touch him he doesn’t like it.
I had sleep paralysis for a while when I was taking an SSRI at night. Ever since I changed to taking it in the morning, it has completely stopped. Thank god, because it was terrifying. I eventually realized if I could focus on moving just my toes, eventually it would work and it would help break me out of the episodes.
Sleep paralysis happens to me several times in a year as I am often tired and sometimes stressed from everyday activities. The most terrible experience is when I slept in the afternoon for too long, and when I was about to wake up, I felt someone very heavy was sitting on my chest - I was out of breath and I cried for help but nobody could hear me. And rarely I see a shadow figure. I also have sleep paralysis in some mornings when I don't get enough sleep at night.
As a longtime sleep paralysis sufferer, this is pretty spot on. It's terrifying. You do feel like you're awake, it always feels so real while it's happening. I have curtains around my bed to limit my view for this reason but the sleep paralysis demons have gotten creative & have reached/peaked through them. I hate it :')
I have experienced sleep paralysis when I was a little kid, around 8/9 but I still remember it vividly (currently 22), basically I slept with a night light on the floor and my bed faced the door to the hallway, when I went to sleep I kept seeing two white eyes staring at me from the end of the hallway, I remember how I wanted to get up and turn on the lights but I never did, although I'm pretty sure I never got up because I was scared the eyes would attack me if I moved, I never actually realized I couldn't move, I just kind of refused to because I was scared. I don't remember how long I've had that for but it should be less than 1.5 years. and I never knew that what I experienced was sleep paralysis until I read a post on Facebook about it with my mother and I told her "uh, this sounds just like what I had when I was little" around 3 or 4 years ago. Edit: grammar
I used to regularly get sleep paralysis, and I always got the whole package: monsters, sounds, and--on extremely rare occasions--tactile sensations. I learned to just keep calm and keep my eyes shut so I don't have to see anything, but when my eyes are closed, the voices are louder. At some point, people who get sleep paralysis just get used to it, i think. If it happens to you, don't go right back to sleep after you wake up--walk around or drink water first. Use a blue light filter on your phone an hour before bed. Also it can happen if you're too tired, so please take care of yourselves.
I once had an experience where I was lying down staring at my door just chilling and my dog looked throw my open door once i said it was okay to come in he ran in a transformed into like a demon and jumped at me which that point my body shakes and I wake up. For some reason i can make these experiences happen by choice so ive only done them to try and see what i could do and see and a lot of weird stuff happened like hearing a demon talking in my ear in demonic language etc. Its always very different and seems to only get worse so i haven't done it in a long time.
27 years old. Had it 3 times in my lifetime. 3 of the worst experiences I have ever had. Would not recommend trying to induce it to yourself to try, would not even wish upon my worst enemy. Still remember every experience clearly.
I have it 2-4 times a year. It only happened when I slept on my back so now I do everything I can to prevent it. It’s terrifying. You’re 100% awake like you are during the day but cannot move , talk or anything. Basically what I have learned is your body paralyzes itself while you sleep so you don’t get hurt, sleep paralysis is when you wake up mentally but your body is on the same page, usually happens if something jolts you awake. I’ve only had auditory hallucinations and only one visual… I hate it
I had sleep paralysis a few times, but most of the time it was just hearing stuff, not seeing it. The game brought the feeling across really well, though. It's absolutely terrifying if you hear a voice from the corner of your room and you can't move or even scream. Once I really started thinking that someone broke in and somehow poisened me in my sleep so I couldn't move anymore.
Sleep paralysis atleast for me is a very disgusting feeling. I used to have it when I was sleeping on roadtrips. It’s like as if you wake up, your brain fully sends the signals of „you are awake“ but in reality you aren’t so no matter how hard you want to your muscles won’t listen to you. I guess you just feel pure helplessness. For me it was always bad because I would have it happen when I was face first into the pillow so I’d have to contain myself to not panic because it seemed like I wouldn’t get enough oxygen. Luckily I haven’t had any demon experiences or anything actually bad but it genuinely feels like forever. I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.
I've had sleep paralysis before, but the experiences were few and far between. There's two big parts of how it was for me. The first is the heavy resistance to any movement. Nothing wants to move, it takes an immense effort as if I'm being held down by something. The second is the distorted perception. It's like how I've heard people describe tripping, where what you sense resembles the real world but is clearly wrong in places. Colors might be off, sounds can be exaggerated. I remember one time the printer in a nearby room was doing its cleaning cycle while I had sleep paralysis and the loud noises it makes during that sounded like war was going on outside.
Had it happen to me a couple of times in life, heard someone talking to me through the sleep first, was actually terrifying. And second time had horses stampede through me, never forget the sensation... you have to be SUPER tired for that and deprivated for some time for a healthy person to experience it :/
I've had sleep paralysis one time so far in my life, it was 11 years ago. For me the hallucinations (I saw something like a creepy dark green alien thing at the side of my bed, just standing there) wasn't the worst or most terrifying part, it was the fact that I was trying to move, trying to scream, trying to breath or do anything and was unable to do so. Immediately after, a thought came to me that this might be permanent and it got me so fucked up that I actually "woke up" and I started moving my arms, finger, legs, breathing deeply just to make sure. I got up and went to the living room while my mother was sleeping on the couch and she had forgotten to close the tv, so I just watched some kind of detective serial called CSI: Miami and eventually I got tired and went to sleep again.
I haven't had sleep paralysis in years, but when I did I woke up not being able to move my body and then the fear and panic sets in because you have no idea whats going on so you try to scream for help but nothing comes out but little puffs of air...there's also usually a shadow figure somewhere in the room usually standing over you. Wouldn't wish it on anyone. Takes about 3-5 minutes of fighting your body to come out of it.
I experienced sleep paralysis when I was around 12 years old. I was sleeping next to my grandmother when I woke from a dead sleep while I could move my eyes and look around but I couldn’t move. Laying there on my back while this dark figure would tickle me nonstop , I would look over at my grandmother trying to scream but couldn’t. I remember it perfectly.
I had two sleep paralyses that I remember so vividly. First one when I was in my teens, I saw a guy in a leather jacket and jeans standing facing the mirror on the wall across my bed, and he was looking at me through that mirror. It wasn't terrifying though because he didn't look evil, I didn't feel threatened. Second one was mortifying though, it was a shadowy presence that was circling my bed and creeping closer, with red eyes. the silhouette looked like someone wearing a cape that was smoking, entirely black. Couldn't move my body in both cases.
I get sleep paralysis like once or twice a year and I've learned 3 things. One: I don't open my eyes it's only going to get worse. Every time I did open my eyes I was seeing scary things so I try to stay calm and keep my eyes closed. Second: Yes, I CAN'T MOVE A MUSCLE, not even a flinch, I can't even breathe so it's extra scary, BUT!! The only part of my body I can move and helps me break free relatively quickly (like within 10-15 minutes, cause usually it takes a long time for me to wake up completely although for some people it's for like 5 minutes, for me it's much longer) so, that body part is my big toe or both sometimes! And apparently many people can!! It was a hack I learned online and it works almost for everyone (but if you try it you should be gentle because you can get a cramp and it's gonna be painful and terrifying at the same time 😅). Third: I can't speak but I can groan of some sort if I try too hard, so if someone is awake I have a chance to alert them to help me. Although the game is not accurate, for me at least! I've never seen myself (or heard of anyone seeing) the lights go off and on. Usually I'm seeing something stationary like something at the end of the bed looking at me smiling very wide or beside me or in front of me and it feels like I have a boulder on my chest, unfortunately it hurts too. I do get a very foggy vision though with black around "the frame" and sometimes I hear weird things like someone whispering or I'm feeling someone touching my hands and legs. It's very freaky to be honest. It's like something is close to me and messing with me but it's not actually there so when I gain control over my body I just go back to sleep if I can.
1m, absolutely wild. Its been years and years now since Phasmos initial rise to fame, I dont have the time to full-watch everything you put out but you still seem to be the same. Good. Staying true and doing what you have fun with SHOULD be what streaming and youtubing is about and its refreshing amidst all the drama elsewhere. Congrats on 1mill.
Insym has been pumping out consistently good content for the past couple years and I love it. I don't really watch the phasmo content, I enjoy his gameplay on smaller horror games.
i had one sleep paralysis. thank god i have not seen anything but hear my mom and sister was casually talking and knocking my door rly hard, enough to make my heartrate go insane tho. and for me it was like i was awake but couldnt move and was able only to see and hear
When I moved to a different house I started having Sleep Paralysis a lot and it was terrifying, I've moved out ever since it got extremely worse to the point I couldn't sleep properly anymore or during the night, i'd wait until sunrise or just a little bit of sun again before I could sleep. Sleeping with my lights on, a lamp or a nightlight doesn't help because this game literally shows what happens when it does. This is just from my personal experience!
I had auditory holuzinations with mine. It started with a lucid dream, then as I started to wake up I could hear the person from my dream calling for help that he was chained up. I could hear his voice and the chains so clearly and I rember trying to get up to go and help him but I couldn't and then when I started to fully come around the voice and the chains stopped. I'll never forget it and it was terrifying once I processed what had happened as I remember seeing my room and feeling my blankets and the feeling when your coming out of sleep but no matter how hard I tried I could move and I couldn't get it up until I came around fully.
I think I got extremely lucky, I had it one time and I only had audio hallucinations. I heard footsteps run up to my door a few times, and a bunch of whispering and scratching but I didn’t see any figures
Yes, I have had sleep paralysis. It has always been more common for me when I would take day naps. I can move my feet and "open" my eyes. I can see my surroundings in a dream like state. I had it once during the night, and my chest felt heavy, and it felt like someone was breathing in my ear. Typically, it's just really annoying and uncomfortable for me, and I try so hard to get out of it by moving my feet around (which is a lot more difficult than you think) 🙃 I'm grateful that it hasn't happened to me in a long time, though.
you cn turn a sleep paralysis into a lucid dream.... i had these several times, but i never seen any demons. i only heard footsteps and ambient backgroundn oise.
I experience sleep paralysis few times times a year. The thing is you are both aware as when you are awake, but also asleep at the same time. It's your consciousness getting awake when it's not supposed to and your brain shuts off your ability to control your body. It doesn't matter how much you try to move it just doesn't work and it takes a minute until I'm actuality able to move, but that minute feels like eternity. You are conscious and know what's going on but it's like your whole body is under anesthesia and can't do anything besides moving your eyes. I always know I'm having a night paralysis episode, but it doesn't make it any less terrifying, it's like your mind is glitching and trying to get high on fear on purpose. Sometimes it's visual, sometimes is hearing things or feeling things. I've seen shadow figures standing next to me, entities with glowing red eyes, "feeling" things on me or touching my face, hearing things, sometimes like something is talking to me, sometimes a creepy laugh. The 1st time I had sleep paralysis was when I was 25 or 26 and I was so irrationally terrified that I didn't turn off the lights at night for like a week because that shit felt so real. Now almost 10 years later it's still super terrifying even tho I know it's in my head when happening.
I've been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was a child, recently , it traumatized me not to sleep again. - Earliest I can remember is I can see a shadow running whenever i have sick, I don't know if it is a dream since I was very young. - Next, I am able to explore our house in different filter ( very insidious -like) but very empty inside, not until you go out and there are shadows with red eyes looking back at you. - By the age of 20, I am starting to experience being awake in my sleep and able to see my surrounding but cant move at all , It is terrifying; you can't speak, tried to shout but nothing came out. This is also the stage where a shadow is always standing in the edge of my peripheral and one day it held my hand, it felt so heavy, dragging you with the feelings of misery and despair. - Recently in my 26, still having sleep paralysis, no shadows just cant move and shout... but my last one , made me dead inside, since I cant wake up that time; I am stuck in multiple hundreds of loop that I am trying to wake up but can't to the point I accepted that I am gonna die there in that stupid dreamstate; I cried and shouted multiple times. I was heard once by my sister, and it is the loudest scream I made during sleep that made them rush to wake me.
I've had it twice that I remember. First time i was in the army. In my bed. i remember staring at the ceiling couldn't move or talk. Just able to move my eyes around. Didn't get freaked out just went back to sleep. The second time was 3 years ago. I fell asleep on my recliner couch. I remember opening my eyes. Can't move or speak. Kept thinking I could here something move in the room behind me. I remember trying to move to see what it was and being a little freaked out.
I used to get sleep paralysis years ago but today not much, i remember the feeling that you cant move a muscle and can only move your eyes. In my experience during my sleep paralysis i saw a small shadowy figure in my left and constantly poking my left part of my neck while watching me, it was creepy and scary until my brother wake me up during that time, i still remember to this day
Okay this game is absolutely terrifying! It deffinitely triggered some memories of personal experience :D But I wouldn't say, that paralysis takes THAT long to go away, it's somewhat a minute, like with any other nightmare, before your brain finally throws you out from the dream. Though with stuff unfolding slowly, or just being there and present - very accurate. I personally tend to have two types of sleep paralysis. First one is the classical "You can't move and there is some type of shadow/demon in your vicinity". You can't turn around, yet have 360 degrees vision (you are still sleeping, btw, eyes not open, yet you imagine your surroundings clearly, it also can be a different place, not only the room you are in), can't scream, can't move an inch of your body, all you can do is just watching a scenario playing out in front of you. It can be a shadow, staying in front of your window, a slowly opening door with a hand, sticking out of it, auditory presence in the room, physical presence and shifting weight in your bed, or even a goofy demon being as close as sitting on the head of your bedframe. At one point brain seems to have enough and that's when you can finally scream. I find swearing at monsters being the most effective in terms of driving them away, lol. The image can linger for few frames after waking up, like a light being ingraved in you eyes after looking at a bright lightsource. Sometimes these shadows try to scooch themselves under furniture instead. But that's just afterimage of our dream. The second type of sleep paralysis is absolutely exhausting and tend to happen multiple times in a row under the night. Basically the same gig, you can't move, but there is nobody, no threat, just an unexplainable URGE to wake up from this catatonic state, like an itch you can't ignore. But you can't move. What happens, that it takes painfully long time to start moving your body, be it just rocking back and forth, or moving a single digit, inch by inch, then the whole arm, half of the body, whole body, until you finally wake up. When it stacks multiple paralysis of this type in a row, the result of the night is such an exhausting mess, you waste so much energy on trying to wake yourself up. I assume, both states happen due to the same reason - brain phases out from its usual sleeping cycle and becomes extremely active, whilst the body is still in deep sleeping state, when all the movement is shut down. The only difference is the terror - either you see stuff, that scares you, which allows to wake up quickly, or there is no terror and you kinda have to force yourself out of this situation manually. I actually prefer seeing some creepy stuff instead of being left alone and catatonic XD
I want to see more mental (or physical) health conditions captured in horror games. Imagine someone making paranoid schizophrenia (for example) into a horror game.
I have narcolepsy so I suffer from sleep paralysis often, but it’s more annoying than scary. I’ve never had any hallucinations or anything, I just have nights where I fall asleep, get sleep paralysis (which for me feels like I can’t breathe and my chest hurts, in addition to the paralysis), then have to focus intently on getting unparalyzed to wake up, try to go back to sleep, and get sleep paralysis again. This happens sometimes 20-30 times a night and it’s so frustrating when I have to work the next day.
I get sleep paralysis very rarely. maybe three times in my life. Woke up and couldn't move my eyes were shut. I used it as a moment to think, eventually you like phase in and out on consciousness and then you're in control again
i had it for years i always saw spiders or giant bees (i hated spiders and when i was little there was a giant beehive under my floorboard amd i could hear them in the day ) so ig my brain stuck to that i actually got over my spider fear from seeing them and forcing myself to calm down
I used to have sleep paralysis quite frequently a few years ago. Probably twice a week. While i never had any hallucinations of like seeing demons or something. I have however seen distortions of my room and senses. Like my ceiling was the consistency of water and was wavey and my bed felt like it was on water floating and my body felt like it was rocky to the waves. (TIPS FOR SLEEP PARALYSIS) the easier way to snap out of it is try to move your pinkys first. Its much easier to move your pinky than the rest of your body during sleep paralysis. No idea why but ever since my doctor told me that it helped tremendously!
I had sleep paralysis twice in my life, one involved a shadow entity standing right beside my bed, looking down on me but without any eyes/face visible. Another it was a huge boulder pressing with some kind of demon sitting on it pressing on my stomach. The time i couldn't move felt like HOURS
One time when I was having sleep paralysis I tried to get out of my body, but it was like there was some kind of "force field" that when I tried to get out of it made my entire body vibrate
I've had sleep paralysis multiple times over the years. It is DEFAULT SCARY. There is always a loud humming noise when it happens and it feels like people are around me. 0/10 would not recommend.
It's very creepy to experience sleep paralysis. For me, it is as if your half-asleep brain is trying its best to explain why you can't move, but it just makes something up on the fly. I once convinced myself that I needed to stay perfectly still because there was something/someone at the foot of the bed, but then my foot twitched and suddenly someone was holding me down, even pressing my head into the pillow. Not fun :( I also once experienced a weird, tingly sensation as I was sleeping on my side that something reached through my back and, gripping my spine, just kinda pulled the plug on me and everything went black... I decided that was enough sleep for the night.
Used to have sleep paralysis for each night everyday for like a month. Lot of times i just cant move, other times i feel like im hallucinating and all my senses are amplified, the smallest noise would make my eardrums feels like bursting.
I have sleep paralysis and it’s quite often, here the reality is- 1. You are conscious, you can think 2. Your whole body is freezer and paralysed for some time 3. Your mouth is stuck 4. You feel something heavy on your body 5. Feels like someone is pulling your clothes 6. You hear voices Tbh it really freaks the fuck out man
I used to get sleep paralysis regularly years ago if I slept in a certain position, and while I've never experienced demons or entities alongside it, the struggle of not being able to move no matter how much I try is terrifying enough.
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Same! I get sleep paralysis when I nap midday. No monsters, just I cannot move, and I struggle to breath. It's like my body is in hibernation mode but my mind is awake but can't control it.
Yeah this, it was a temporary thing, lasted a few months for me. You can breathe and your eyes may be open but not much else. I find it especially gnarly when you're very hot under the blankets because you do feel that and it's horrible not being able to escape from it.
My friend said he used to get them exclusively when he slept on his back 🥲 freaked me out for a few weeks lol since experienced I only once before. Made sure to slept in my side for a while 😂
Yeah I got the exact same symptoms (when I do get it sometimes). But what's worse for me is that I have a permanently congested/inflamed nose, which means less airflow and the natural mild panic I have when conscious but unable to move drains O2 faster than normal.
I've never seen demons, but instead I get the feeling something is constantly watching me, and that makes me hella anxious.
Typically sleep paralysis is caused by interruption of REM sleep, but can be a result of being very tired, shift work, and even jet lag. When we enter that dream sleep our brains produce both GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) and glycine which are neurotransmitters that temporarily stops the brain cells that control skeletal muscle movement. So if REM is interrupted then sometimes we are still stuck in that state of paralysis temporarily as the neurotransmitters haven't stopped working yet. I work in a sleep lab running sleep studies and have had patients tell me stories of their experiences with it but I'm lucky to have not experienced it myself. One patient told me she thought someone was trying to break into her house and was panicking when she couldn't get up to try and defend herself. Also to add to that information, sleep paralysis can run in your family, be caused by certain ADHD medications, alcohol and substance use, PTSD and other panic disorders.
Way I feel it is, it's like everything in your body weights so much you can't lift it. I have to keep focusing really really hard and try and move a single limb, sometimes can take 2-3 mins before I can get a finger to move, sometimes I try shouting, but nothing.
This game makes no sense to me, as you can't move your head around not even open your eyes.
Smashing the E key to try and move your body does make a lot of sense as that is kinda what it feels like to try and move.
I've had at least 8 experiences of it in my life. Sometimes it's semi bad, others have been very stressful experiences. Never seen anything though, as I can't even open my eyes when I have it.
Saved me so much time typing. I'm a neuroscientist, I agree with everything you just said. :)
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@@remenyip950731 Okay now, until like today and had my first one in a long time, but I was on a really strong antibiotic which can give sleep issues.
Had most of my SP moments in my 20s and 30s, so had a decade without them until last night which is so random.
It was worse than anything I had before, I was having a weird dream but I kept waking up from it, couldn't move and managed to go back to sleep only to go back into the dream and it happened like 3 times and then I woke up, but I had a racing heart beat and couldn't open my eyes fully for like an hour.
prayer immediately drives away dark forces and no science can explain this, because only evil appears and nothing good and light, and this is proof of the existence of demons ... God controls everything and does not allow dark forces to kill us
I never realized you were even close to 1M, the fact that you haven't changed from about 50K which is when I started to watch your videos, I never watched your sub count, you're still yourself and that's amazing! Congratz
Very much agree, but it's a shame the weekly movie night ended.
Been here since 10K!
one of the reasons I really like his content, I have watched way too many RUclipsrs and influencers that changed after getting a tad bit more attention and subscribers they just started wasting resources like man did you forget where you come from? and still waste things. I love that he didn't change.
I was feeling so stressed for a prolonged period that I started experiencing sleep paralysis roughly three times a week for a couple of months. Mostly I would feel like I was awake, but couldn't move. I usually kept my eyes closed because I didn't want to watch what was going on, but I could hear sounds and feel things around me. Usually, I would try to scream and move, resulting in my body suddenly doing spasmic movement and my breathing going crazy when I woke up. My girlfriend would sometimes hear me whine quietly, and she would push me to try and wake my up. That stuff is scary af. It's not dangerous, it's just really scary.
If you're starting to experience it, try to figure out if it's stress-related. Mine certainly was.
I had sleep paralysis once. Thankfully I had my eyes closed, so I didn't see any terrifying creatures, but I couldn't move, it felt like I was attached to the bed. I couldn't open my eyes, it felt like they were glued shut. My chest felt very heavy, like something sat on me. Everything lasted around 10 seconds, the longest 10 seconds ever. Then it was all gone, in a blink of an eye everything was back to normal.
i've seen demons before
Lucky i had sleep paralysis like 5 times it was scary for the first time but then you get used to it and just force yourself to wake up and wash my face with cold water cause if i don't then it repeats waking up and sleeping paralysis cycle
@@adrix5521 If your eyes are glued shut, you could have experienced sleep paralysis but inside of a dream.
@@grandvoid6940 I knew I was awake, just couldn't move and open my eyes
@@adrix5521 Usually that type of sleep paralysis can happen in a lucid nightmare.
I experienced sleep paralysis before, every night for like weeks. Not that I see "something" but the feeling of not being able to move and not being heard when you think you've been shouting at the top of your lungs (in reality your voice is muffled) is SCARY. And on top of that, I heard a belief here (from old people) that if your bed is adjacent to a door, in your sleep, you will be dragged to a "coffin" (the door)/ to death because a door is like a link between this world and the underworld. After I heard that, I changed the position of my bed and after that, I didn't experience it again.
Now that I'm a medical student, I learned that extreme tiredness can also cause sleep paralysis. I want to think this was what happened to me before ಥ‿ಥ and not some creepy ghost dragging me to death.
You never know, my Asian family always has things to say like that. Like not putting mirrors opposite your bed. :)
Best to stay safe.
Yup, being aware but couldn't move your body makes me panic too 😂
But i knew I'm having sleep paralysis so I just try keep my eyes closed while still trying to wake my bodies up
prayer immediately drives away dark forces and no science can explain this, because only evil appears and nothing good and light, and this is proof of the existence of demons ... God controls everything and does not allow dark forces to kill us
Sleep Paralysis is far worse than any game could explain.
Way I feel it is, it's like everything in your body weights so much you can't lift it. I have to keep focusing really really hard and try and move a single limb, sometimes can take 2-3 mins before I can get a finger to move, sometimes I try shouting, but nothing.
This game makes no sense to me, as you can't move your head around not even open your eyes.
Smashing the E key to try and move your body does make a lot of sense as that is kinda what it feels like to try and move.
That's how it's been for me as well, like I'm being held down in place.
No game could properly portray this because it's not a game at that point. Player input wouldn't matter, it'd pretty much just be a video
Yes, I usually float in and out of the sleep. Fortunately I don’t see horrible things.
I had it a few times, I learned to master it its easy, the thing I always do is when I wake up even without paralysis I just close my eyes and stay still, if I feel I have it I just ignore it if you try to move and keep forcing it to go away is WAY worse, just dont move for a bit and relax 😂 there is no point fighting it and nothing you hear or see is ever real panicking does nothing
I’m sooo happy I found insym’s channel! I LOVE watching horror games, because I can’t play them much myself without getting really messed up nightmares. But if I watch someone else play it’s fine, and I really like that we get as much of the story of the game as we can.
I will admit, I love to listen to Insym while going to bed. It's weird, because he has chaotic energy that should usually keep your attention, and his voice is just.. y'know. It's a voice. But for some reason, listening to him play Phasmophobia (of all games) helps me feel calm and go to bed. You do more for us than you know Insym, we're eternally grateful. Long live Sleepsym!
I had sleep paralysis and it was incredibly terrifying. I remember randomly waking up and no matter what I did I could not move. It felt like something was pressing its hand on my face I kid you not. And I just remember seeing these like abstract shapes in the dark. Not like silhouettes but kind of like static from a tv but it had actual shapes. I was so scared because all I could do was move my eyes around. I tried to move my mouth and call for help but I could not. I just layed there in the dark. Then my brother came out of his room and I tried calling for help again but still couldn’t. Still felt fingers pressing on my face. Then I just remember with every fiber of my being forcing my arm to move and a bit after that I remember I let out the most pathetic scream for help ever (literally Tina from bobs burgers). then I told my brother what happened when I could get up.
In my childhood I had sleep paralysis due to stress in school for a period of time. Until now I still vividly recalls the figures that I saw in the sleep paralysis. Occasionally, I woke up to being paralyzed on my bed. Looking out to the bedroom, I see dark figures standing beside the door (exactly like the game), approaching whenever you blinked, or crawl away into unseen corners. One time I saw a pale face staring at me through my window, before pulling the curtain on itself. Another time, I saw a grim reaper levitating just above me, pulling my body towards him. Worst of all, is the feeling of 'not able to breath' that weight on you, making you fight for air every second you spent in the paralysis. Being a naive child, I wasn't aware that these are sleep paralysis and thought that my room was haunted for quite sometime. It caused me distress just to sleep.
Luckily, I eventually found a way to overcome or wake up from the paralysis. If I realized I was locked in a paralysis dream, what I had to do is to "close" my eyes really hard and then open them very fast. Repeat it a few times, then I might just open my eye in real world and so I could wake up from the paralysis...
Gosh, that sounds terrible. Definitely as a kid
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I've had it a few times in my life but I didnt know it had a diagnosis and that a lot of people experienced it until this game.
When I experience sleep paralysis, i just close my eyes so I don't see anything creepy and try to move till i get out of it. But it gets more terrifying when I hear nonstop rapid whispers.
My wife had sleep paralysis and lucid dreams while she was pregnant with our first child. I get chills every time I think about it or tell others what she went through. Just absolutely terrifying.
She would wake up at night and be completely stuck while only able to look around. Our doorway is to the right, and standing there was a short black figure of a person. No details, just complete black. It walked by the foot of the bed around to the left of my wife laying down where she couldn’t see it. It would then start breathing on her ear and neck. When she described the breath as ice cold and she felt it move her hair I got insane chills. Still do today. Then she would wake up
Other times she would be laying on her side and feel this ice-cold breathing behind her on her neck. All while still on the bed.
She’d also have night terrors where she’d be half asleep but be screaming in a cold sweat while spazzing out on the bed. Says she doesn’t remember what happened, but my guess is with that paralysis.
So happy she doesn’t have that anymore 😅😂. Keep up the grind insym love your vids!!!
I would feel scared to fall asleep.
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I’m having a stupid busy week. Can you catch me up on the cats? I haven’t seen that yet. ❤
@@Spooky_Platypus He posted a picture about them in community tab on his yt channel, they’re super cute! ❤️❤️ Def can’t wait for them to appear in some streams or stuff like that
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Didnt he say he's getting the cats next month?
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There's about 3 sleep paralysis in my personal experience,
1. Eyes close but, you feel presence and pressure all over you limited movement, with the slight screeching noise.
2. You see it all, dark figures and unable to move they'll even interact with you.
3. Controversial, but paranormal experiences. I use to live in a home where we had occasional sight of a little girl in white, one time when I had sleep paralysis I woke up with a heavy pressure on my back since I was sleeping on my stomach, facing the wall... where there was a shadow of a lil girl sitting on my back and laughing at me as I tried to break free. When I eventually did I went to sleep with my brother.
I had sleep paralysis when i was a kid but just a few times per year maybe. The situation was very terrifying because i often had nightmares and just woke up from a nightmare, want to scream or jump out of my bed but i couldn't move or even open my mouth... it was just impossible and even more terrifying being alone in my room in the darkness right after a nightmare. I never talked about it with anyone, because i thought it was just part of a nightmare and didn't even know it was a disease.
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It’s absolutely terrifying. I used to ‘see’ the demons when I was younger but now it’s just frozen still and I’m screaming for hours. I hope you never experience it
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Most of the time, when I had sleep paralysis, I was super exhausted so I'm thinking my body fell asleep before my mind did. A couple of times I remember feeling and seeing someone staring at me. Super creepy. Most of the time, though, it's just feeling stuck in bed, feeling like I can't move or breathe properly, trying to yell for help and struggling to wake up.
I've heard stories of people experiencing sleep paralysis and it's a nightmare. Just imagining the things they go through and think they see but can't move to investigate, is quite the fear factor in itself. it's so scary and can be panic-inducing.
I had sleep paralysis once, very shortly and a humanoid shadow figure hovered above me and slowly faded away along with indiscernible whispers. What followed afterwards was me being haunted for 3 days straight. The air felt heavy and I felt a powerful draining presence that left the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Invisble eyes were on me...
I slept with my lights on but every few hours the lightbulbs died out which had NEVER happened before, and scared shitless I asked my friend for guidance. He pulled some runes about the situation and told me it would pass, and lo and behold it did! It was insane! Ive only had a few paranormal instances back as a kid but I believe it was an accumulation of negative energy in my house, as I was in a very dark depression at that time.
Am absolutely so happy and proud for Insym! He puts in the work for his subs, and he deserves so many more!!! Love you Insym! Keep up the badass work!!!
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I have suspected narcolepsy. I’ve had three episodes of sleep paralysis in my adult life. The first time I woke up from a nightmare thinking something was coming to get me. Second time I woke up knowing what was going on so it didn’t bother me. Third time I was in the sleep lab for a sleep study and woke up thinking the sleep tech was fixing something on my head since she was standing over me and I went back to sleep. Found out later that she never went into my room.
I had sleep paralysis like 2 times. The first time, it feels like i am in the middle of the road, like floating on the centre. i know i am on conscious, but i can't move my body or speak. I tried to speak that "someone wake me up, please" like that after 5 mins i able to move and the second time happens at noon i slept due to tried after some hours i woke up but i can't move anything or speak. I can hear my mom and dad speaking, but i can't move my body that was hella scary dude.
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First congrats on the 1 Mill subs, I used to get sleep paralysis regularly years ago, i read that it's normal that a person suffer from sleep paralysis at least once in your life, but most of the people don't remember it, cause it happens early in life. Sometimes is very regular and there are different levels, most of the time you just can´t move or speak, but there are other when you see, hear and feel other things. I've got some where i really felt like something wanted to hurt me. The problem is that sometimes it so scary is that people don't want to fall sleep anymore. 😟
Well I have sleep paralasys very often nowadays. Every single time It's the same pattern but different things going on. I am laying on my bed and I can see everything in front of me but I cannot move my body, standard thing. It's always some creepy things like shadows or something like that and whenever they get close I start to hear frequencys louder and louder. When I wake up my heart is bumping like crazy and obviously I cannot fall asleep again in some time, besides that my head hurts like hell too. One time I was laying, couldn't move myself and saw my brother sharpening a knife and till this day It's still in my head the sound of knife sharpening.
Alright so I wanna take a look at the video and see how did they remake sleep paralasys into a game.
Congratulations on 1 million brother, remember back then when you used to play old phasmophobia, you made me and my friend buy the game and we had so much fun especially when we were scared to play old asylum and we saw your ways and followed through every single trick u had especially the word "show us". I am really glad you never changed and keep being that way, sending positive thoughts brother. :)
A Insym video right as I come home from exams, loving it.
I get sleep paralysis regularly, I don’t usually have visual hallucinations, but I have had audible hallucinations. The only times I get visual hallucinations are when I’m almost asleep.
I know what’s happening now since I experience it often so I typically keep calm, but one thing I can say is when you have sleep paralysis you feel like you’re in danger, like if you don’t move something bad will happen to you. (Or the feeling someone or something is in your room with you.)
One time during a spell of sleep paralysis, I saw a grey cloaked man standing in my closet with his back turned toward me with a knife in his hands. I heard him saying some broken phrases in German. A few days later after further investigation, my parents said that a previous owner of the house might have been German (this detail I’m unsure of as it has been years.)
You scared the heck out of me! First, I had this video on the background while I did stuff and the knocking made me jump and then your Hey Google activated the helper behind me when I didn’t even know I had it on. It’s past midnight, dude. Jesus!
Dude, thats a GREAT concept for a game! I hope they expand furthur on this sort of idea. Gave me chills!
Had sleep paralysis twice. First time I heard scratching on the walls, my door was slightly opened like this game and I saw a shadow entity skid across the hallway. I will never forget
I've had like 5 or 6 different sleep paralysis, when I was living in a war zone in Donetsk. All sort of strange and horrible creatures, even a creepy «grandma» from «Insidious» right at my face. That was a loud scream right then by me, woke my parents up, they thought we were under fire
Remember, when I was laying with my back turned to a wardrobe and something opened it and started sucking my life outta my ears from behind with a cold breath. That's a fun one.
But when I moved to Moscow, got married and never had a nightmare since
From my own experience, just as Insym said, it feels a lot like a dream, thats why it's usually shadows, because you don't see them, your brain is just aware of someone being there. Similarly I've never heard anything concrete, it just feels like somebody talking while you are not paying attention or not understanding the language. I can usually move my fingertips and with that I try to crawl my hand and drop it from the edge of the bed, which wakes me up completely.
I have had sleep paralysis for over 10 years now and in the beginning wiggling my toes or like you said dropping my arm or leg from the bed worked. However from my experiences the more I used a certain technique to wake myself up the more it became less effective and harder to do, It has definitely been an everlasting battle.
I had sleep demons for a few weeks once. It was due to some things going on in life but it was more terrfying then anything this game showed. You wake up and they are just sitting right next to you in bed.. or standing right next to you, staring at you. You can't move. Saying they look like nightmares doesn't even cut it. It feels like you are fully awake because you partially are. Your eyes are wide open just that your brain is tripping hard =P
The old phasmo singing brought back some good memories, I remember hearing that singing for the first time from down the hallway of asylum. I still prefer this singing, feels more haunting, creepy, sad even.
Congratulations for reaching 1 million subscribers!!! You deserve it man, all of it 👍🤘
I had sleep paralysis a few times. It’s terrifying. You can’t move. It’s like you’re awake but your body doesn’t move. You have no control over yourself. Your body feels tense and uncomfortable and you can move your eyes but your body is stiff.
Hi Insym! Congrats on reaching 1M subs! Wow, what a milestone!
I did some digging about the game. This game was done by SolitaryStudios, a Filipino Indie Game developer. Oddly enough, I kinda had the suspicion that the developer was a Filipino when I read the dialogue and the mention of traffic and the 'toxic working environment'. My Filipino senses are tingling and I am in tears hearing the Rick Roll music LOL. I mean, does it matter? For some, maybe no, but as a Filipino myself, I am quite surprised that a Filipino-made game is this enjoyable and quite good! I really glad you enjoyed the game.
I haven't experienced any signs of sleep paralysis, only nightmares. I hope the developer would continue to produce more games like this
I have had sleep paralysis twice.
The first time I saw my bedroom door slowly open and a shadow in the hallway outside. I eanted to scream or move my body so badly but couldn't.
The second time I didn't see anything bad, but heard it. I had my back facing the wall, from which I then heard scratching, like fingernail scratching. And I couldn't move. Both paralysis lasted for like 3 minutes.
34:11 Nice music Cori! Really cool ngl 10/10 would listen again!
I used to get sleep paralysis so often that it no longer scared me. It was just frustrating, especially if it happened while on a long car trip. You could hear everything being said, you could see the scenery passing by, but you couldn't even get into a more comfortable position and go back to sleep. I get how people could think they were being suffocated, though, because your breathing can stay in sleep mode while your brain screams "INHALE!!!!"
I have episodes of sleep paralysis a few times a year. Never stops being absolutely horrifying. Longest I've gone without an episode was about 4 months.
Congratulations Insym on the 1 million! I remember i started watching you in 2020 😄🙏🏻❤️ happy for you!
I am also really excited that you are getting kittens! They are a bundles of joy!
I just got a kitten 2 months ago. Hopefully they l will be litter box trained when you get them.
Get them plenty of little toys for them to play with. Are they going to be inside or outside cats? If you are planning them to be outside I would get the chipped just incase they take off for a few days.
My partner has sleep paralysis.. and it sometimes scares me. He has woken up a few times while whispering help me in a very scary low voice. That is when I know I have to wake him up.
Most of the time he says it’s fine but when the “shadows” touch him he doesn’t like it.
I used to get sleep paralysis, I never saw my sleep paralysis demon, but I could always feel it watching me. Very terrifying
I had sleep paralysis for a while when I was taking an SSRI at night. Ever since I changed to taking it in the morning, it has completely stopped. Thank god, because it was terrifying. I eventually realized if I could focus on moving just my toes, eventually it would work and it would help break me out of the episodes.
Sleep paralysis happens to me several times in a year as I am often tired and sometimes stressed from everyday activities. The most terrible experience is when I slept in the afternoon for too long, and when I was about to wake up, I felt someone very heavy was sitting on my chest - I was out of breath and I cried for help but nobody could hear me. And rarely I see a shadow figure. I also have sleep paralysis in some mornings when I don't get enough sleep at night.
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As a longtime sleep paralysis sufferer, this is pretty spot on. It's terrifying. You do feel like you're awake, it always feels so real while it's happening. I have curtains around my bed to limit my view for this reason but the sleep paralysis demons have gotten creative & have reached/peaked through them. I hate it :')
I have experienced sleep paralysis when I was a little kid, around 8/9 but I still remember it vividly (currently 22), basically I slept with a night light on the floor and my bed faced the door to the hallway, when I went to sleep I kept seeing two white eyes staring at me from the end of the hallway, I remember how I wanted to get up and turn on the lights but I never did, although I'm pretty sure I never got up because I was scared the eyes would attack me if I moved, I never actually realized I couldn't move, I just kind of refused to because I was scared. I don't remember how long I've had that for but it should be less than 1.5 years. and I never knew that what I experienced was sleep paralysis until I read a post on Facebook about it with my mother and I told her "uh, this sounds just like what I had when I was little" around 3 or 4 years ago.
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Congrats on 1m man! Love your videos🎉
It's so refreshing to be genuinely scared. That feeling of wanting to peek from behind my fingers. 😌
I used to regularly get sleep paralysis, and I always got the whole package: monsters, sounds, and--on extremely rare occasions--tactile sensations. I learned to just keep calm and keep my eyes shut so I don't have to see anything, but when my eyes are closed, the voices are louder. At some point, people who get sleep paralysis just get used to it, i think. If it happens to you, don't go right back to sleep after you wake up--walk around or drink water first. Use a blue light filter on your phone an hour before bed. Also it can happen if you're too tired, so please take care of yourselves.
I once had an experience where I was lying down staring at my door just chilling and my dog looked throw my open door once i said it was okay to come in he ran in a transformed into like a demon and jumped at me which that point my body shakes and I wake up. For some reason i can make these experiences happen by choice so ive only done them to try and see what i could do and see and a lot of weird stuff happened like hearing a demon talking in my ear in demonic language etc. Its always very different and seems to only get worse so i haven't done it in a long time.
If you would like to hear my experiences i have plenty i could share
27 years old. Had it 3 times in my lifetime. 3 of the worst experiences I have ever had. Would not recommend trying to induce it to yourself to try, would not even wish upon my worst enemy. Still remember every experience clearly.
As someone who’s been watching your channel for a few years now congrats on 1mill subs! Enjoy that play button you earned it.
I have it 2-4 times a year. It only happened when I slept on my back so now I do everything I can to prevent it. It’s terrifying. You’re 100% awake like you are during the day but cannot move , talk or anything. Basically what I have learned is your body paralyzes itself while you sleep so you don’t get hurt, sleep paralysis is when you wake up mentally but your body is on the same page, usually happens if something jolts you awake. I’ve only had auditory hallucinations and only one visual… I hate it
I had sleep paralysis a few times, but most of the time it was just hearing stuff, not seeing it. The game brought the feeling across really well, though. It's absolutely terrifying if you hear a voice from the corner of your room and you can't move or even scream. Once I really started thinking that someone broke in and somehow poisened me in my sleep so I couldn't move anymore.
Sleep paralysis atleast for me is a very disgusting feeling. I used to have it when I was sleeping on roadtrips. It’s like as if you wake up, your brain fully sends the signals of „you are awake“ but in reality you aren’t so no matter how hard you want to your muscles won’t listen to you. I guess you just feel pure helplessness. For me it was always bad because I would have it happen when I was face first into the pillow so I’d have to contain myself to not panic because it seemed like I wouldn’t get enough oxygen. Luckily I haven’t had any demon experiences or anything actually bad but it genuinely feels like forever. I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.
I've had sleep paralysis before, but the experiences were few and far between. There's two big parts of how it was for me. The first is the heavy resistance to any movement. Nothing wants to move, it takes an immense effort as if I'm being held down by something. The second is the distorted perception. It's like how I've heard people describe tripping, where what you sense resembles the real world but is clearly wrong in places. Colors might be off, sounds can be exaggerated. I remember one time the printer in a nearby room was doing its cleaning cycle while I had sleep paralysis and the loud noises it makes during that sounded like war was going on outside.
Had it happen to me a couple of times in life, heard someone talking to me through the sleep first, was actually terrifying. And second time had horses stampede through me, never forget the sensation... you have to be SUPER tired for that and deprivated for some time for a healthy person to experience it :/
I've had sleep paralysis one time so far in my life, it was 11 years ago.
For me the hallucinations (I saw something like a creepy dark green alien thing at the side of my bed, just standing there) wasn't the worst or most terrifying part, it was the fact that I was trying to move, trying to scream, trying to breath or do anything and was unable to do so.
Immediately after, a thought came to me that this might be permanent and it got me so fucked up that I actually "woke up" and I started moving my arms, finger, legs, breathing deeply just to make sure.
I got up and went to the living room while my mother was sleeping on the couch and she had forgotten to close the tv, so I just watched some kind of detective serial called CSI: Miami and eventually I got tired and went to sleep again.
I haven't had sleep paralysis in years, but when I did I woke up not being able to move my body and then the fear and panic sets in because you have no idea whats going on so you try to scream for help but nothing comes out but little puffs of air...there's also usually a shadow figure somewhere in the room usually standing over you. Wouldn't wish it on anyone. Takes about 3-5 minutes of fighting your body to come out of it.
I experienced sleep paralysis when I was around 12 years old. I was sleeping next to my grandmother when I woke from a dead sleep while I could move my eyes and look around but I couldn’t move. Laying there on my back while this dark figure would tickle me nonstop , I would look over at my grandmother trying to scream but couldn’t. I remember it perfectly.
I had two sleep paralyses that I remember so vividly. First one when I was in my teens, I saw a guy in a leather jacket and jeans standing facing the mirror on the wall across my bed, and he was looking at me through that mirror. It wasn't terrifying though because he didn't look evil, I didn't feel threatened. Second one was mortifying though, it was a shadowy presence that was circling my bed and creeping closer, with red eyes. the silhouette looked like someone wearing a cape that was smoking, entirely black. Couldn't move my body in both cases.
I get sleep paralysis like once or twice a year and I've learned 3 things. One: I don't open my eyes it's only going to get worse. Every time I did open my eyes I was seeing scary things so I try to stay calm and keep my eyes closed. Second: Yes, I CAN'T MOVE A MUSCLE, not even a flinch, I can't even breathe so it's extra scary, BUT!! The only part of my body I can move and helps me break free relatively quickly (like within 10-15 minutes, cause usually it takes a long time for me to wake up completely although for some people it's for like 5 minutes, for me it's much longer) so, that body part is my big toe or both sometimes! And apparently many people can!! It was a hack I learned online and it works almost for everyone (but if you try it you should be gentle because you can get a cramp and it's gonna be painful and terrifying at the same time 😅). Third: I can't speak but I can groan of some sort if I try too hard, so if someone is awake I have a chance to alert them to help me. Although the game is not accurate, for me at least! I've never seen myself (or heard of anyone seeing) the lights go off and on. Usually I'm seeing something stationary like something at the end of the bed looking at me smiling very wide or beside me or in front of me and it feels like I have a boulder on my chest, unfortunately it hurts too. I do get a very foggy vision though with black around "the frame" and sometimes I hear weird things like someone whispering or I'm feeling someone touching my hands and legs. It's very freaky to be honest. It's like something is close to me and messing with me but it's not actually there so when I gain control over my body I just go back to sleep if I can.
1m, absolutely wild. Its been years and years now since Phasmos initial rise to fame, I dont have the time to full-watch everything you put out but you still seem to be the same. Good. Staying true and doing what you have fun with SHOULD be what streaming and youtubing is about and its refreshing amidst all the drama elsewhere. Congrats on 1mill.
Insym has been pumping out consistently good content for the past couple years and I love it. I don't really watch the phasmo content, I enjoy his gameplay on smaller horror games.
i had one sleep paralysis. thank god i have not seen anything but hear my mom and sister was casually talking and knocking my door rly hard, enough to make my heartrate go insane tho.
and for me it was like i was awake but couldnt move and was able only to see and hear
When I moved to a different house I started having Sleep Paralysis a lot and it was terrifying, I've moved out ever since it got extremely worse to the point I couldn't sleep properly anymore or during the night, i'd wait until sunrise or just a little bit of sun again before I could sleep. Sleeping with my lights on, a lamp or a nightlight doesn't help because this game literally shows what happens when it does. This is just from my personal experience!
I had auditory holuzinations with mine.
It started with a lucid dream, then as I started to wake up I could hear the person from my dream calling for help that he was chained up. I could hear his voice and the chains so clearly and I rember trying to get up to go and help him but I couldn't and then when I started to fully come around the voice and the chains stopped. I'll never forget it and it was terrifying once I processed what had happened as I remember seeing my room and feeling my blankets and the feeling when your coming out of sleep but no matter how hard I tried I could move and I couldn't get it up until I came around fully.
I have got sleep paralysis only once and it was like that Rings clip (the clip that got you killed in 7 days) utterly terrifying.
I think I got extremely lucky, I had it one time and I only had audio hallucinations. I heard footsteps run up to my door a few times, and a bunch of whispering and scratching but I didn’t see any figures
Yes, I have had sleep paralysis.
It has always been more common for me when I would take day naps. I can move my feet and "open" my eyes. I can see my surroundings in a dream like state.
I had it once during the night, and my chest felt heavy, and it felt like someone was breathing in my ear.
Typically, it's just really annoying and uncomfortable for me, and I try so hard to get out of it by moving my feet around (which is a lot more difficult than you think) 🙃
I'm grateful that it hasn't happened to me in a long time, though.
you cn turn a sleep paralysis into a lucid dream.... i had these several times, but i never seen any demons. i only heard footsteps and ambient backgroundn oise.
"so traffic, so stinks" is something im going to use from now on
I experience sleep paralysis few times times a year. The thing is you are both aware as when you are awake, but also asleep at the same time. It's your consciousness getting awake when it's not supposed to and your brain shuts off your ability to control your body. It doesn't matter how much you try to move it just doesn't work and it takes a minute until I'm actuality able to move, but that minute feels like eternity. You are conscious and know what's going on but it's like your whole body is under anesthesia and can't do anything besides moving your eyes.
I always know I'm having a night paralysis episode, but it doesn't make it any less terrifying, it's like your mind is glitching and trying to get high on fear on purpose. Sometimes it's visual, sometimes is hearing things or feeling things. I've seen shadow figures standing next to me, entities with glowing red eyes, "feeling" things on me or touching my face, hearing things, sometimes like something is talking to me, sometimes a creepy laugh. The 1st time I had sleep paralysis was when I was 25 or 26 and I was so irrationally terrified that I didn't turn off the lights at night for like a week because that shit felt so real. Now almost 10 years later it's still super terrifying even tho I know it's in my head when happening.
I've been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was a child, recently , it traumatized me not to sleep again.
- Earliest I can remember is I can see a shadow running whenever i have sick, I don't know if it is a dream since I was very young.
- Next, I am able to explore our house in different filter ( very insidious -like) but very empty inside, not until you go out and there are shadows with red eyes looking back at you.
- By the age of 20, I am starting to experience being awake in my sleep and able to see my surrounding but cant move at all , It is terrifying; you can't speak, tried to shout but nothing came out. This is also the stage where a shadow is always standing in the edge of my peripheral and one day it held my hand, it felt so heavy, dragging you with the feelings of misery and despair.
- Recently in my 26, still having sleep paralysis, no shadows just cant move and shout...
but my last one , made me dead inside, since I cant wake up that time; I am stuck in multiple hundreds of loop that I am trying to wake up but can't
to the point I accepted that I am gonna die there in that stupid dreamstate; I cried and shouted multiple times.
I was heard once by my sister, and it is the loudest scream I made during sleep that made them rush to wake me.
I get terrifying nightmares and sleep paralysis if I sleep on my back. As much as its comfortable, i feel so vulnerable sleeping like that.
I've had it twice that I remember. First time i was in the army. In my bed. i remember staring at the ceiling couldn't move or talk. Just able to move my eyes around. Didn't get freaked out just went back to sleep. The second time was 3 years ago. I fell asleep on my recliner couch. I remember opening my eyes. Can't move or speak. Kept thinking I could here something move in the room behind me. I remember trying to move to see what it was and being a little freaked out.
I used to get sleep paralysis years ago but today not much, i remember the feeling that you cant move a muscle and can only move your eyes. In my experience during my sleep paralysis i saw a small shadowy figure in my left and constantly poking my left part of my neck while watching me, it was creepy and scary until my brother wake me up during that time, i still remember to this day
Okay this game is absolutely terrifying! It deffinitely triggered some memories of personal experience :D
But I wouldn't say, that paralysis takes THAT long to go away, it's somewhat a minute, like with any other nightmare, before your brain finally throws you out from the dream. Though with stuff unfolding slowly, or just being there and present - very accurate.
I personally tend to have two types of sleep paralysis.
First one is the classical "You can't move and there is some type of shadow/demon in your vicinity". You can't turn around, yet have 360 degrees vision (you are still sleeping, btw, eyes not open, yet you imagine your surroundings clearly, it also can be a different place, not only the room you are in), can't scream, can't move an inch of your body, all you can do is just watching a scenario playing out in front of you. It can be a shadow, staying in front of your window, a slowly opening door with a hand, sticking out of it, auditory presence in the room, physical presence and shifting weight in your bed, or even a goofy demon being as close as sitting on the head of your bedframe. At one point brain seems to have enough and that's when you can finally scream. I find swearing at monsters being the most effective in terms of driving them away, lol. The image can linger for few frames after waking up, like a light being ingraved in you eyes after looking at a bright lightsource. Sometimes these shadows try to scooch themselves under furniture instead. But that's just afterimage of our dream.
The second type of sleep paralysis is absolutely exhausting and tend to happen multiple times in a row under the night. Basically the same gig, you can't move, but there is nobody, no threat, just an unexplainable URGE to wake up from this catatonic state, like an itch you can't ignore. But you can't move. What happens, that it takes painfully long time to start moving your body, be it just rocking back and forth, or moving a single digit, inch by inch, then the whole arm, half of the body, whole body, until you finally wake up. When it stacks multiple paralysis of this type in a row, the result of the night is such an exhausting mess, you waste so much energy on trying to wake yourself up.
I assume, both states happen due to the same reason - brain phases out from its usual sleeping cycle and becomes extremely active, whilst the body is still in deep sleeping state, when all the movement is shut down. The only difference is the terror - either you see stuff, that scares you, which allows to wake up quickly, or there is no terror and you kinda have to force yourself out of this situation manually. I actually prefer seeing some creepy stuff instead of being left alone and catatonic XD
Seven minutes in and I am STRESSED. I watch horror games all the time and maybe 1% of them truly freak me out, this one is definitely on that list.
Okay it was hard to take seriously after he went to the office.
I want to see more mental (or physical) health conditions captured in horror games. Imagine someone making paranoid schizophrenia (for example) into a horror game.
I have narcolepsy so I suffer from sleep paralysis often, but it’s more annoying than scary. I’ve never had any hallucinations or anything, I just have nights where I fall asleep, get sleep paralysis (which for me feels like I can’t breathe and my chest hurts, in addition to the paralysis), then have to focus intently on getting unparalyzed to wake up, try to go back to sleep, and get sleep paralysis again. This happens sometimes 20-30 times a night and it’s so frustrating when I have to work the next day.
I get sleep paralysis very rarely. maybe three times in my life. Woke up and couldn't move my eyes were shut. I used it as a moment to think, eventually you like phase in and out on consciousness and then you're in control again
i had it for years i always saw spiders or giant bees (i hated spiders and when i was little there was a giant beehive under my floorboard amd i could hear them in the day ) so ig my brain stuck to that i actually got over my spider fear from seeing them and forcing myself to calm down
I used to have sleep paralysis quite frequently a few years ago. Probably twice a week. While i never had any hallucinations of like seeing demons or something. I have however seen distortions of my room and senses. Like my ceiling was the consistency of water and was wavey and my bed felt like it was on water floating and my body felt like it was rocky to the waves.
(TIPS FOR SLEEP PARALYSIS)
the easier way to snap out of it is try to move your pinkys first. Its much easier to move your pinky than the rest of your body during sleep paralysis. No idea why but ever since my doctor told me that it helped tremendously!
I had sleep paralysis twice in my life, one involved a shadow entity standing right beside my bed, looking down on me but without any eyes/face visible. Another it was a huge boulder pressing with some kind of demon sitting on it pressing on my stomach. The time i couldn't move felt like HOURS
One time when I was having sleep paralysis I tried to get out of my body, but it was like there was some kind of "force field" that when I tried to get out of it made my entire body vibrate
I've had sleep paralysis multiple times over the years. It is DEFAULT SCARY. There is always a loud humming noise when it happens and it feels like people are around me. 0/10 would not recommend.
Congrats on one milion Insym absolutely deserved!! Its been so incredible to see your growth and i couldnt be happier to have been here for it!
It's very creepy to experience sleep paralysis. For me, it is as if your half-asleep brain is trying its best to explain why you can't move, but it just makes something up on the fly. I once convinced myself that I needed to stay perfectly still because there was something/someone at the foot of the bed, but then my foot twitched and suddenly someone was holding me down, even pressing my head into the pillow. Not fun :(
I also once experienced a weird, tingly sensation as I was sleeping on my side that something reached through my back and, gripping my spine, just kinda pulled the plug on me and everything went black... I decided that was enough sleep for the night.
Used to have sleep paralysis for each night everyday for like a month. Lot of times i just cant move, other times i feel like im hallucinating and all my senses are amplified, the smallest noise would make my eardrums feels like bursting.
I have sleep paralysis and it’s quite often, here the reality is-
1. You are conscious, you can think
2. Your whole body is freezer and paralysed for some time
3. Your mouth is stuck
4. You feel something heavy on your body
5. Feels like someone is pulling your clothes
6. You hear voices
Tbh it really freaks the fuck out man