Wow.....I haven't hit, or slapped anyone....yet....:o But I have hurt myself on rare occasions.

Anyone else here ever experience sleep paralysis? Happened to me once, and I didn't know anything about it at the time. Scared the hell out of me. Really terrifying.

That happened to me once, when I was around 18. Hasn't happened since then. But, yes, it was terrifying!

I don't normally have nightmares and I have no fear of sleeping. I have strange dreams that cause me to say WTF when I wake up. :D

Once.

Couldnt breathe, couldnt move my hands, couldnt roll over, couldnt yell out...nothing. It was as if an invisible power was holding me dead still.
Felt absolutely terrified.
Then slowly (and thankfully), all sensations returned.

Back in my early twenties I had a dream that I had to pee really bad....and finally found a urinal to relieve myself. Luckily I wasn't sleeping with anybody that night. :o


the perils of beer drinking

I actually had one last night. I don't very often, but it's so exciting to have a nightmare, even though the sweaty wake up call is kinda gross. Last night I dreamed the Freddy Krueger came to kill me every night (which is odd that it was a nightmare, because I was never really creeped out by him, even as a kid). The part that scared me though, was the last 'night' of the dream, I was waiting for him to show up so I could try and fight him off again, and Novakru was there (cool huh). She was really scared that he was going to kill her, and I was trying to calm her down a little, when I thought "Nova wouldn't be scared of something like this!?". I looked at her and called her out, and her eyes glazed over red and she turned into Krueger. And ran at me. Whether I lived or died wasn't really relevant. In retrospect, the part that probably made it a nightmare was the deception. It reminded me a lot of the climax of Dog Soldiers, if you remember that infamous scene.

Ah, I am the woman of your nightmares.
Very Cool:cool:

I know a couple of people that have done that exact same thing :D

Thankfully I haven't done that myself.

Agree! I have experienced this 'sleep paralysis' thing several times and yeah...it's truly frightening, every time it scared the hell out of me! The most terrible thing about it is at first you may not realize that you're sleeping/dreaming...but as soon as you get that, the thing started to get worse as exactly V described...it'll make you feel 'paralyzed' and you can't do anything but pray & hope to get wake soon. A total nightmarish experience.:(

Sleep paralysis is the sensation that was once attributed to a succubus and in contemporary mythology is often attributed to alien visitation or alien abduction.

The feeling of consciosness coupled with fear, paralysis and a sense that a weight is bearing down on your chest as if something or someone is sitting atop your chest. I've experienced this a couple of times and it is quite upsetting.

What causes it? Are you semi concious but still asleep or something?