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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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I cannot believe what I have read here.  I thought this only happened to my sister and me.  My sister told me about being paralyzed one night and trying to scream for help and felt something evil in her room.  I thought she had just had a horrible dream, as her husband had just passed away until it happened to me soon afterward.  I was in bed when I felt something dark and heavy in my face and on top of me.  Whatever it was...or the sensation I felt was from my nose to the tip of my toes.  It was soooo scary.  I tried to move and open my eyes and scream for help, but I couldn't do a thing - I was totally paralyzed.  Finally...after what seemed like an eternity, I called from my mind for God to help me.  It immediately left me. It was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.  I pray it will never happen again.  
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Started when I was a small boy, maybe around ten.  We had just moved into a new big house.  During the night, I would feel paralyzed by a tight embrace that I could not shake.  After a while, it would stop and I could turn around to see no one next to me.  This happened to me well into adulthood.  A few years back, I found the nerve to say to myself if it happens tonight, I will fight and turnaround to look.  One night it happened again.  This time I found the courage to fight and turnaround only to find nothing behind me or in the room.  It has not happened since.  I've always wondered what could that have been.
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my friend I read your comments. My name is Chezlin I am from South Africa, and am 25 years of age. This morning I got home at 03h15 from work and went to bed right after I got in. I heard something running on my roof like crazy. It immediately woke me as it scared me but it is not the fist time. This thing on my roof has been their since I was like about 7 years of age.I also once saw a very very huge bright light coming towards me while I was sleeping about a few years back. This light made an alarm sound and it just got loader and loader and scared the **** out of me. Getting back to this morning, after I fell asleep again this being held me down. I couldn't see him or smell him but I felt him holding me down and my brother I fist screamed for Jesus. It did not go away, my body was frozen and send electrical shocks to my testicals. I fought and fought until I awoke. This happens to me only when my light is turned off? I had done some research on astral projecting aswell, please advise of what you think for I have been getting this for a few years now
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I'm never asleep when this happens tonight I layed next to my girlfriend all of a sudden I felt like someone walked in my room my fan got really loud making a wired scary sound then I felt something just put a tremendous amount.of pressure on my body I could not move could not speak I prayed I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ three times finally I could move jus my hand to wake.my.girlfriend up and could barely get.the words out my mouth turn on the.light then it stopped in the past it was so violent my entire bed would shake one.tome my body was lifted off the bed electrocuted and.slamed back on the bed I feel like something is attached to me I need help somebody gel rid.me.of this.demon email me if you can help I can't take it.anymore more I always had a gift of feeling spirits and demons how can I control this my email is.thea.***@**** I'm sick my health is.bad.im afraid its.trying to kill me it has been going on all my life in never asleep when this happens please help
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This was a first for me last night at 49 years old - and the reason why I did some research and stumbled across this blog.  Had a terrible case of insomnia (not normal for me at all).  But after tossing and turning for 2-3 hours, around 3am, I FINALLY started to fall asleep.  I know because I just started to have a very vivid dream, and then I was abruptly awakened, lying flat on my back feeling like a huge weight was on my body.  Only lasted for probably 10 seconds, and then I started to recover from the feeling.  As weird as it sounds, I equated it to a feeling like "something just entered or went through my body" (just like another poster had commented).  I then got extreme goose bumps all over for 30 seconds or so as I '"normalized" and woke up completely.  Needless to say, it REALLY creeped me out.  Being a God fearing man, I started to imagine all kinds of not-so-good things, but was also kind of "cautiously curious" this morning as to what I experienced.  So I'm going with the medical explanation of sleep paralysis as it makes perfect sense (and each individual will interpret this type of event differently).  PS:  Reciting the Lords Prayer seems to always make any situation bearable.  It's all OK - we win in the end.  ;-)
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these stories cant believe other people have these experiences.  mine started lately.  i couldnt sleep so i moved my mattress into my garagethat was made into a bedroom for my grandson.  i kept having dreams that someone heavy was slowly moving on my bed toward me.  i cant scram for help or look.  he leans on me and it hurts so bad i cant breath seems like a long time.  the next morning my aunt said whatt is that on your arm.  she had a dark bruise on her upper arm.  also we found a bruise on the top of her left leg.  this really worried us.we got to wondering who had died in this home.  my mom but she was sweet she would not scare us or hurt us.  then i threw a cup in the sink turned around and it hit me in the back.  am i going crazy?
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