Has anyone ever woke up in bed?

Question

and thought there was someone in the room or sitting on the bed breathing into your ear .then you try to move to get up but you cant.then after a few long seconds it goes away and no ones there. its realy scary and it realy feals like your about to be murdered or something.its happened to me loads of times.what is it?id like to know if anyone else has experienced this and what did you do.

Answer 1

It can be hypnagogic hallucinations.

low levels of melatonin may stop the depolarization current in the nerves, which prevents the stimulation of the muscles, to prevent the body from enacting the dreamt activity

Clonazepam is highly effective in the treatment of sleep paralysis

The initial dose is 0.5 mg

Answer 2

Nope never

Answer 3

Breath!

Answer 4

that sounds a bit like sleep paralysis

my sister had something similar

Answer 5

Ghostbusters ..... thats who you need to call.  

No no,  to be honest I think it is just the human mind playing tricks on you,  if you believe in the afterlife etc etc,  then I always think that you are more open to things happening to you.  The mind is more powerful then any computer so I believe it has the power to make you believe in something that isn't really there.

Oh if there is someone there, put the house up for sale and let someone else deal with the problem.

Answer 6

yeah it happened to me a lot growing up.

Its called sleep paralysis.

read this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paral...

now you dont have to be afraid anymore.

Answer 7

Hi..

Yes, it happened to me....just a bit different.

It was like a deep silence in the room and I was like you, unable to move.

Once every few nights...for a few weeks I had this thing....only late at night....it scared me for the rest of my life to be honest.

I don't know but it always stopped if I started to pray...maybe it was just a coincidence....but after that I started going more often to the church.....and in a few weeks it stopped.

It might be just a superstition but it is said that between midnight and 4am the bad spirits find their way on the earth....and in people's houses.....

Now, after 4-5 years I can't sleep alone or without a light on.

My mum had a similar experience...one night she couldn't move and she said she felt like something was crawling on her from the feet up to her neck....

Many people think is the mind playing tricks on you....if so...why it never happened again in the last few years??

Answer 8

i have had this before, with me though something was sitting on me and i couldn't move.. Its very scary when it happens, but I think Jay your first answer is right.... It happens when you are half awake and half asleep.....

Answer 9

sleep can do weird things. apparently i was heard running around upstairs then grabbed hold of my sister and asked her where is my sister. she said well i am here ,and i said ok then i went back to bed. she told me the next day and i cannot remember anything about it.

Answer 10

that happens to me quite often.  it really is quite scary.  I've always just put it down to recurring nightmares

Answer 11

I think what it is your describing is sleep paralysis. Ive suffered from it since I was seven. I usually get it after ive woken from a nightmare. I dont think theres a medical diagnosis for it, Ive not told alot of people what I have, alot of people dont understand. I know its scary and I dont have an explanation for it but its happened to me hundreds of times and i've never been physically hurt, I'd say dont worry but its easier said then done. Also, do you always get it when you are sleeping in a certain position? I always get it when I'm sleeping on my back so I tend not to intentionally lay on my back. I hope this has helped.

Answer 12

I have-

I get a feeling of pressure on my chest-

I can't move a muscle or even speak-

It's like being fully paralyzed,

Total loss of control over your own body-

It's terrifying-

I don't know what it is, and I can't explain it.

Some say it's being on the edge of asleep, and awake

What I never understood, is why I can't move at all

and why it feels like someone is sitting on me.

It's only happened to me three times- the first time when I was about nine years old, and twice since.

It has only happened while I was in prayer-

I don't know that it will happen again-

then again I don't know that it won't.

I won't permit myself to live in fear of what I don't understand.

Scientists will always have a rational explanation for that which is not so rational. (Night Terrors)

What do you think it is?

Teej.

Answer 13

I have heard of this a lot and had a boyfriend that did it almost nightly. I "HEAR" it is Astro Projection. The person you feel is really your own self. The reason you can't move is because your spirit has not fully gotten back in your body. After a year with doing this my ex-boyfriend looked into this. This is one answer we got. The other answer we got was Sleep Paralysis. This to will cause you to see, feel, and hear somthing else in the room. He takes medication now for Sleep Paralysis and it helps him. Although he still has it from time to time. Look them up. I hope this helps.

Answer 14

It is not paranormal. Anyone who has lived any time at all has experienced this or something similar at times. It could be sleep paralysis like another answerer said but more then likely it is your mind playing tricks on you. Don't be too quick to call it a ghost. Most apparitions seen right after waking up is normal and not ghostly. Often we aren't actually awake and still in dream mode.

Now if you wake up and see someone and they stay until you are fully awake and even talk to you then vanish, I would then say you possibly saw a ghost.

Answer 15

This is sleep paralysis.

Answer 16

It sounds like a phenomena called "night terrors". An ex of mine experienced this one time and was absolutely horrified by it and was actually paranoid about it happening again for some time afterward. Google it and good luck

Answer 17

There is a medical term and theory. But I think that its when your mind wakes up before your body and possibly before your soul as got back into your body completely so its perhaps the fact that are own soul is behind or over us that is so scary as we wouldn't know what that feels like, the sense of impending danger could be the danger of our soul not been able to return to our body but more likely just the fact that we don't usually experience our empty shell before we die and are not used to being so inanimate with no choice in the matter. I count myself lucky that it as only ever happened to me three times I sort of just manage to force myself to move to jump start myself even I think thats when body mind and soul are one again.

Answer 18

This is a common occurence. A similar phenonmenon has been documented hundreds of years ago showing illustrations where a little horned demon is shown sitting on the chest and keeping you pinned down. In reality it could just be that even though you think you are awake, you are in fact still asleep. This is called lucid dreaming.

Answer 19

I leaned over and kissed my girlfriend on the cheek, and thanked her for not killing me...

Answer 20

Well i had it a lot of times. My cure was to think of something so scary, and so sad that i would wake up immidiantly.

-Hope this helps-

Answer 21

Ive had a few similar experiences, it is called sleep paralysis, i felt like someone was leaning on me and i couldnt get up, all i could hear was my heart pounding very hard. Its really frightening. You can get hypnogogic dreams also where your eyes are open your still in dreaming mode so you can see strange things but cant move, again very scary.

Answer 22

used to get that a lot, in different houses and flats. read about it, it's a sleep disorder called a hypnogogic image. it can be a strong feeling, a sound, or a vision. all very alarming at the time. don't know how to stop it, with me it just stopped of it's own accord. it is just an illusion, however scary it can seem.

Answer 23

Yes this happened to me when I lived in my street side apartment alone. I went to bed early ,and what woke me up was a man sitting on my bed ,undoing my halter nightgown. He had his hands around my neck. When I opened my eyes, (I was dreaming about work) I saw the silhouette of a black man.I asked him if he was Floyd(a guy at work) and he said slowly---Yes. I then pushed him aside ,telling him I needed to get a drink of water. Half way to the kitchen,I really woke up! I then called the police.

Answer 24

yeah i've woke up once in my life and i was paralyzed but could scream in head but not out loud and could move my eyes looking around i thought there was someone in the room standing there with their back to me but all i could do was scream in my head and it was so scary just lying there with somebody not helping me. i eventually after calming down closed my eyes went back to sleep then awoke again got up  and remembered everything that awful feeling not being able to move. but this has not happened again. and hope it wont.

Answer 25

sounds like sleep paralysis. i used to get it but not any more. the 1st time was SO scary, even the next times were pretty scary too, even though i knew what it was. you are in a kind of inbetween state, not quite awake, not quite asleep, so youre aware of yourself but cant move. why the terror i dont know. im sure you can look it up and find out some more, but rest assured its nothing to worry about and youll probably grow out of it at some point.

Answer 26

your third eye is open!!

that must be a gohst!!!

>>or maybe you're just imagining things.

>>mind is powerful,you know...

>>try to meditate and free your mind