Scientific explanation for this?

[Shoyru_Lover]

I hesitate to post this, mainly because it will make me sound crazy, but something happened to me last night, and it scared me.

I swear none of this is made up.

I was sleeping on my back last night, and I was having this dream. I was in this house, and then I heard my dog make this sound I've never heard it make before. It was halfway between a yelp and a sound of pain? All I remember is thinking in my sleep, "Stupid dog, shut up," (don't ask me why, I just thought that). I don't even know if the sound was from the dream or in reality.

All of a sudden, I hear this windy noise in my room. You know that flappy sound material makes when it is being hit by a strong wind? I heard that in my room everwhere around my bed, and my mind is starting to wake up thinking, "What the???".

Out of nowhere, I feel this heavy weight press down on me. My mind snaps awake and all I can feel is this sensation of something pressing down on my entire body, especially the top half. As soon as it happened, all I could think was, "Oh no."

It presses down and feels like it's sapping me or trying to invade me for about 5 seconds, and then I think aloud, "Go away." As quickly as the sensation came, I felt it lift itself away and then dissapear.

All this occured whilst I was laying in the same sleeping position with my head tuirned to the left side. Even though my mind woke up, my body was still asleep as I didn't move at all.

I lay there for a few seconds after it happened afraid to open my eyes. I think jumped out of my bed, turned on the lights in the living room, put on some clothes and went to my parents room. I woke up my mum and told her what happened and spent a sleepless night in her room.

I was terrified, but in the morning, it feels like a lot different, like it was surreal.

I dunno, I just needed to get off what happened.

I believe in God, but I usually don't believe in ghosts. What happened last night shook me up a bit. I don't make up stories, there's got to be a reasonable explanation, right?

[Kugetsu]

I've heard of this sort of thing quite a bit, but as for a scientific explanation, I I don't really know of anything it sounds like. It could possibly be sleep apnea (that's the closest thing I can think of), but considering everything that that you said, it sounds nothing like it at all. :\

Then again, I'm no doctor. =P

[Pudding]

Yep, there's a scientific explanation for this one. It's happened to me, and it freaked me out, so I headed to Google. It's a kind of night terror that people call sleep paralysis. It's incredibly scary, and usually brought on by stress.

http://www.nightterrors.org/paralysis.html

[Twinkle]

You know what's weird? My mom had the exact same experience as you a few years back. She said she couldn't breathe or move or make a sound at all and she saw an old woman sitting on a chair beckoning to her. Then it lifted.

She says she's never ever felt anything so weird. And she's like you, she doesn't believe in ghosts at all.

That's really strange.

[mogster500]

I had something like that happen to me, but I saw floating balls of light on my dresser. Eventually they flashed and I couldn't see for a while.

[Pudding]

I had something like that happen to me, but I saw floating balls of light on my dresser. Eventually they flashed and I couldn't see for a while.

That's probably just a different sort of night terror. The flashing lights are a semi-common symptom.

[Skynetmain]

As a UFO buff, it sounds to me exactly like an alien encounter but don't worry, it wasn't... probably. I have seen them recreate that exact eperience in a lab setting, but the only victim is the mind. I can not direct you to any links to what I am think, but I know the History Channel website have stuff under the show UFO Files. Don't be too scared. It is just a 'perfectly normal' happening with the mind... or an alien encounter. If it is the latter, you might want to check yourself for unexplained scars, metallic implants, or missing genetic material

[Christopher]

It's called sleep paralysis, I have it on occasion, very disturbing.

[Shifty]

Happened to me once, but I ignored it, since I tend to get freaked over everything that happens at night.

Reminds me of a scene from The Exorcism of Emily Rose... >__>

[Jim]

Wolf got into your room and sat on you, mate. The first noise was himwhining that you werent moving to say hello to him as you usually would, the second noise you heard was him panting. He then left when you told him to.

Or not. Youre probably about to tell me theres no way he could get in your room. Very creepy experience Im sure

[Zei]

Oh, no worries. I believe, like everyone else said, it's sleep paralysis. I get it all the time, and there's nothing wrong with you. It's just a scary little sensation that some people get every once in a while.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

I only read a tiny little bit of your post to know that what you were going through was Sleep Paralysis. I've not had it for about half a year now but I used to get it terrible. At one point it would affect me nearly every night and sometimes would hit me four or five times in one night. The first time it happened I hallucinated. It went white all around me and zoomed onto a funeral. My name was on the gravestone and everyone was crying. I also saw an obituary in a newspaper. My first thought? That I had predicted my own death. But I'm still here

The most worrying one however, was when I stopped breathing. Of course, I hadn't stopped breathing at all, but it felt like I had. I was gasping for air and making a lot of noise, gasping sounds and everything. But the weird thing was that my own sounds sounded a mile away!

It sounds like something out of a horror movie or book but it's just sleep. Your mind and body is a completely different thing when you sleep and of course, we won't notice this, unless of course, you wake up suddenly just as you're about to go into a deep sleep. It may not be true but it's the simplist and most normal answer I can come up with: that sleep paralysis is where you catch yourself falling asleep, thus, you get to experience what your mind and body is like when you're meant to be asleep. There are other explanations as to what it occurs on the internet but I don't think anybody really knows for sure.

Anyway, let me tell you one thing. It's completely harmless. When I get an 'episode' of Sleep Paralysis, I just try and relax and let it pass. As long as you know that it's harmless you'll be alright. It's really scary at first but I'm so used to it now and, if you get them as much as me, you'll get used to them too. Don't worry alright?

Oh, and if you ever want to talk to someone about it then just PM me.

[Asthaloth]

-Stuff-

UFO. Unidentified flying object.
Not necisarily Extra terrestrial (or as astronemers have come to call them, Eeties) just unidentified.

And yeah, sleep paralasis.
We shall speak no more of that one.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

-Stuff-

UFO. Unidentified flying object.
Not necisarily Extra terrestrial (or as astronemers have come to call them, Eeties) just unidentified.

And yeah, sleep paralasis.
We shall speak no more of that one.

Why? It's completely harmless. We shouldn't worry about it or be afraid although I can imagine it's hard NOT to be afraid when it's your first one. It usually happens to me when I'm going through a bad depression phase or if I'm really stressed or worried about something. Sometimes I get it just by talking about it too so you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if I got it tonight. Like I said though, it doesn't worry me anymore.

[Asthaloth]

UFO rant or sleep paralasis?
Well, paralasis because i have experienced the unfortunate cousin of it where i was stood at the top of a fleight of stairs at 2 in the morning, over the spot where i commonly see a Wraith.
It doesn't matter who you are, an experience like that shakes the faith.