Sleep paralysis occurs when your conscious mind wakes up but your body is still asleep and unable to move. During sleep paralysis many report seeing spirits or ghosts, feeling something is holding them down, a presence in the room as if someone is watching them, shadow people, alien abductions, and much more. I will never forget the first time that I experienced sleep paralysis. It was one of the strangest experiences that I have ever had.
A few years ago I woke up fully conscious and aware but my entire body was completely paralyzed. I couldn't open my eyes to see anything, I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't say anything and I couldn't move anything at all no matter how hard I tried. An unearthly feeling that reminded me of what death might feel like. My body felt like it wasn't there and I was inside of a complete silent darkness. Nothing but my consciousness existing. Considering the circumstances I actually remained very calm.
I wasn't sure if it was morning yet or if I was still even in my bedroom for that matter. After a few seconds of laying there in complete darkness I used every ounce of energy I had to try and open my eyes. It was no easy task. I was finally able to get my eyes to slowly open for just a few seconds. Once my eyes were open I saw that I was still in my bedroom and that my head was turned towards the wall. I could see the morning sun rays shining through my window and they were extremely bright as if I hadn't seen any light for weeks. Before I got a chance to look around my room my eyes had shut and I couldn't get them back open.
I remembered reading about sleep paralysis before and I finally realized that I was experiencing it. I remained very calm and I just enjoyed the moment because I knew that it was rare. It was actually one of the most blissful and peaceful moments I had ever experienced. I thought about how people said it was one of the most terrifying experiences they have ever had and how they would never want to experience it again and I thought they were crazy. But then my wonderful experience started going in a bad direction and I realized what they were talking about.
After laying down for about a minute I started hearing this faint noise in my left ear. It didn't really bother me because it was so quiet but as the seconds went on it got louder and louder. Pretty soon it became excruciatingly loud and I couldn't block it out. Now the only way I could describe what it sounded like was some computerized beeping sound like a high tech space ship or something. I still couldn't open my eyes or feel my body so I started to panic. The only thing I could think of was that I was getting abducted by aliens and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
You want to talk about a terrifying feeling, imagine laying in your bed completely paralyzed and you think that some being is in your room about to abduct you. Even though it may sound dumb I thought at the time that I had to snap out of this and get out of my bed or I was going to be taken. I started using all the will power I had to try and move any part of my body. As I was struggling to get up I could feel that I was moving my astral body but my physical body remained completely still. I felt almost as if I was having some kind of seizure. After experiencing this for about 20 seconds I finally snapped out of it and was able to get up and move again.
After sitting up for a few seconds and catching my breath I thought about what had happen and became extremely excited. Most people would probably never want to go through that again but not me. It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had and I wouldn't take it back for anything. Since then I have had a couple minor sleep paralysis experiences that only lasted a few seconds and multiple self-induced sleep paralysis experiences through meditating and using binaural beats. Sleep paralysis seems to be a random experience that happens to many people unintentionally but if you have enough focus and concentration you can trigger the experience yourself.
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