Last night while I was sleeping over at my boyfriends, something very weird happened.
I was having trouble sleeping, kept waking up from horrible dreams. Then at about 4 am I woke up from another dream in a panic just to find out I couldn't move my arms or my chest. It felt like I was being pushed down into the bed. I started kicking my legs and trying to scream my boyfriend's name that was sleeping beside me, however I couldn't really talk it sounded like a whisper.
Suddenly my boyfriend turned over not yet really awake, at that moment it felt like what ever was holding me and pushing me into the bed released me. I was so terrified I laid there for about a minute just staring up at the ceiling. Suddenly I realized my face was ice cold, I touched my boyfriends face just too see if it was a draft from the window or something, but his face was hot even sweating a little bit.
By then my boyfriend had already fallen back asleep because he wasn't really fully awake in the first place. So I turned over to face the wall.
He has this flashing light in his room from his lap top that was running, and I was watching it flash against the curtain and there was a black shadow going back and forth I was to scared to turn over and see what it was. It could have just been because I was paranoid, I don't no. So I woke up my boyfriend and showed him and he assured me it was just the wind. I told him the whole story and he offered to switch sides with me so we did and nothing else happened that night.
Can someone contact me and tell me what happened that night?
And how I can prevent it from happening again?
Ccherwinsk@hotmail.com
This is Sleep Paralysis.
Your Mind is waking up while your body is still trapped in sleep.
It creates the feeling of being paralyzed. Your mind is stuck in the stage of lucid dreaming so you are still "seeing" the stuff of dreams (or nightmares).
I encourage my daughter to wiggle her toes or fingers or blink her eyes until movement comes back to her body. To breathe slowly and deeply. To repeat a prayer or mantra that is soothing to remind herself that what she is "seeing" is not real.
Struggling to cry out or talk will only panic you more as your vocal chords are usually paralyzed until your sleepy body catches up to your awake mind.
I hope this helps. I know it's terrifying, but there usually is a medical or scientific explanation for SOME supernatural occurrences.
Wishing you peaceful nights sleeps.