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Paralyzed while sleeping

Since I was a child, and until now (27years old) about once every three months or maybe more, I will have a frightening experience while sleeping.  Once I'm asleep, sometimes it feels like my head will get really heavy and there will be a deep low humming sound in my head or maybe a train sound that seems to paralyze my entire body, however once this feeling of heaviness occurs, I wake up internally, but my eyes are not open and I can hear everything going on around me.  At that point I seem to be conscious but unable to open my eyes or even move.  I then have to force myself fully awake by jerking my entire body.  And then, if I happen to fall right back to sleep, I will go into the exact same state again and jerk myself awake once again.  It is quite starling and frightning.  It kinda reminds me of what being in a coma might feel like.  Can anyone tell me what this is and is it possible not to be able to wake up from it, what ever "it" is?

Thanks,

Mandy4183
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From just reading several of the comments on this page I have to believe I've been experiencing a similar phenomenon. It will often start randomly when I sleep. It forces me awake but Not completely aware. It feels like My entire body is humming or vibrating with jolts of energy the entire room feels like its buzzing. I'm not entirely bothered by this in fact often I will relax and concentrate on my body or the sensation I'm feeling and it becomes more and more intense. But Ive only gotten so far when I do this because what usually follows is EXTREME paranoia in the form of sensing something standing above my bed behind me. I've never actually seen anything during this because I sleep on my stomach and when I do open my eyes during one of these events I only really see my pillow and the wall I sleep next to.
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Ok.. Im 22. This has been happening to me on occasion for years now. Usually when I lie on my back. Last night however it happened when I lay on my side. I am totally paralyzed but I can open my eyes. I always get the sense there is something dark moving in the room that I cant quite see or put my finger on, but i feel it there and its terrifying. I get shivers all through my body and feel constricted/ heavy. I usually try to wake myself up by moving or pinching myself or even yelling out. Sometimes I think I am doing these things only to discover that I've been dreaming the whole thing.

Last night I was so scared I started to yell out "you cant stay!" I repeated this in my head while in this paralysis and when I finally woke up the words kept turning in my head and I felt as if they had been said by someone else through me. I feel kind of stupid adding this part in.

I get that this sounds crazy.. I have never believed in ghosts or demons and I am not religious, but this is something I cant explain. Hopefully its just some kind of biological/psychological phenomenon.. it scared me enough to research it haha.
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I experience this but a little differently when i sometimes sleep i feel as if i cannot move nor breath its very terrifying and i feel that i am at deaths door step i dont know what to do its been happening my entire life and the older i get the worser it gets
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     I'm 29 and my experiences started about 2 years ago with feeling someone/thing grabbing me by the ankles and yanking my legs down onto the bed (sleeping on my back). Since then, my symptoms/experiences have included feeling as if someone has been in the room looming over me (multi-positional), feeling someone/thing walking on the bed with their feet on either side of my body (on my back), walking up one side of my body (I could feel their toes touching me, also sleeping on my back), shaking the bed (sleeping on my stomach), and this morning, while sleeping on my stomach/side,  I heard a deep guttural voice speaking a language I couldn't understand. He/it was breathing harshly, almost bull-like. I prayed the Lord's prayer and it didn't stop.
     On several occasions I have smelled what I thought was asphalt, but I have now come to the conclusion that it was probably sulfur. Nothing else can explain how strong it was, especially since there is no road construction going on anywhere near where I live.
    Besides, one occurrence of the sulfuric smell, none of this has ever happened with my husband in the bed. Neither of us is very spiritual or religious, but I am starting to feel as if I'm being warned....
    The next of the 5 senses to fall into place is sight. Then what? I'm not sure I want to find out.
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I have been having dreams about the devil. I feel that their is a devil that be want me for just intercoarse.Last night, I'm not sure if it was a dream, but anyways I was lying on my back, I woke up to someone feeling on my breast, I thought it was my man but he was sleeping on my right side and I didn't see his arm over my chest or anything, so I thought he was his arm must be under me but I looked over him, both of his arms were tucked under his pillow so I went back to sleep and few seconds later I fell asleep and I felt that someone is touching me on my right breast and when I reached to slap his hand away( thinking at that time it could be my man but it wasn't ), As I was reaching for that person's hand I felt the arm and then all of a sudden the arm disappeared. I was surprise to see there was no one there. I went back to sleep and I was awaken by someone was trying to look at me through his hands shaping as if he was looking through a telescope. And I looked and I look at this person and he was trying to get my attention by looking through that hole and look at him. All I can see that his pupil is not normal it was like looking at the cat's pupil. I saw he was trying to hug me and then he look in to that hole to for me to look at him and all I can see is him saying that he has to go  with tears drop on his left eye and he was drifting away and I felt like two demons were trying to bite my fingers. At first it was my nose, and I' can feel there sharp teeth trying to bite off  my fingers  and  so I was struggling with these 2 heads that were biting me and called out to Jesus to give his strength to fight these demons and kept repeating "Jesus runs through my blood" and then they disappeared.

My question is why do my dreams or what ever they are called feels so real?
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I'm 13 my birthday was 2 days ago and i have this happen quite often but it's like i can FEEL it coming but when i try to move it's to late. It's like i know it will happen that day like something tells me as i'm laying there "I know it's gonna happen" 10 minutes latter i can't move lol.
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