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You heard it from me first - sleep paralysis is the most frightening experience anyone can go through. For those who don't know, it's when you wake up from a dream and are completely aware of your surroundings, but your mind hasn't quite finished dreaming yet so hallucinations are superimposed on real life objects. Most of the time when you experience this, you think you are fully awake and the hallucinations are real. I don't know what brings this on; it's only happened to me several times in my life.

The events from the proceeding dream are vague at best. Even if I knew it in detail, it probably wouldn't make much sense. All I remember was getting advice from my old english teacher in college (don't ask) about an important decision I had to make. Aliens (shut up, it's a dream alright?) were coming to earth to **** everyone's **** up. Yes, the same aliens you saw on the X-files - short, bleached skin and scary looking big black eyes. I could sit back and let someone else try to stop them, keeping myself out of harm's way or I could face the aliens myself. I chose the latter.

In a typical dream fashion, I randomly ended up in the middle of a grassy field at night to meet the spacelings. No one else came to help; I were to persuade the aliens to leave by myself, but nothing happened for what seemed like an eternity in dream-time. I waited in anticipation.

Then I woke up.

Or I should say, I "woke" up in my bed. I couldn't move, breath, or speak. I could only feel fear. They had come, and they were here to harm me. Four or Five of these black-eyed ****ers were surrounding my bed. They were muttering amongst themselves about what they should do to me. The closest alien reached out and his fluorescent-white hand was inching closer and closer towards my face. A bright light and sick gurgling sounds were coming through my window from what i thought was a saucer. Flashing red and green lights danced in my room. I felt a heavy weight on my chest.

I could, however, think. I mustered enough enough fake confidence to issue the aliens an empty threat - any pain they would inflict on me, i'd inflict back on them tenfold. I simply thought this and it seemed to work as one of the aliens said "Alright, i think we're done let's get out of here"

And then I woke up for real. the flashing lights were from a red bacardi's pin and a st. patty's day necklace I got from Bar Bleu. The light from my window was from the wooden staircase lamp outside. The gurgling sound was from my fan to muffle out my roommate's late night arguments over the phone with his girlfriend. The "heavy" weight on my chest were from my blankets. And the aliens themselves? Nothing more than white undershirts and socks I haven't put away from the laundry yet.

I woke up a little shaken over what just happened. I think most reported abductions or encounters with supernatural beings are nothing more than sleep paralysis at work.

Or maybe I was abducted. I don't think I was probed though

Did they do the anal probe? :laugh:

No seriously sounds like a scary experience! What a life!

prateek wrote:You heard it from me first - sleep paralysis is the most frightening experience anyone can go through.

I'm not so sure about that - have you heard any first-hand accounts from Darfur lately?

Sleep paralysis can be a very unpleasant experience though, although it's well documented that not everyone experience is as so frightening as you did. Some people just experience odd, weird things, but not really unpleasant.

It's happened to me once, as well. I fell asleep in a car, and though I can't remember what I dreamt, when I thought I woke up the car had come to a stop in front of a ferry, as we were crossing a river. The ferry was... decidedly un-ferry-looking. Rather hard to explain, but anyway, that wasn't what was scary. In this semi-dream, the car kept slowly rolling toward the river, and the ferry was coming towards shore, and I *knew* we'd fall into the river before the ferry could catch us, though I couldn't do a thing, even think. I tried to move, but couldn't. I woke up when we would've started falling into the river.

It wasn't actually so much scary as suspenseful, though.

I remember dreaming I died, the being woken up by a Raven. I don't think the raven at my window from sleep paralysis induced hallucinations. My curtains weren't drawn and I only saw the raven when I pulled them back.:speech: