Dreams/Nightmares that feel real and I can't wake myself up

[samantha21]

Okay, So every now and then I will have a dream or dreams that really scare me. Pretty much its a dream I'm having and I'm myself... in my bed. In my dream I will open my eyes and see human figures but usually I can't tell who it is. If I can't its dark like a shadow. Sometimes its one, or sometimes it a few figures. These dreams/visions always happen just as I'm falling asleep (ya know when your mind starts to wonder right before you doze off, eyes are closed and everythign but you are still conscious).... that stage is when I realize that I'm about to have one of these scary dreams. so I'll either opt to stay awake or turn the lights on for a minute then try to sleep again. The most recent one I had, I was asleep in my bed with my boyfriend...in the dream I opened my eyes and I saw out of the corner of my room a strange figure of a man walking towards my bed.... I cant do anything, I cant move and I can't talk... at this point I'm scared and I know I am ony dreaming. Well I try to wake my self up I try so hard to be able to speak and call my boyfriends name... and this is all while i'm asleep... that right as I wake up I blurt out a noise( the kidna noise you would make if you were trying really hard at something but not saying anything and then all of a sudden noise comes out) It's so frustrating. And in the dream I feel paralyzed like I can't even get up and run. All I can do is lay there... and If I don't wake up before the person gets to me... I can feel the "person" on top of me... literally..I feel their breathe... I feel it all... and what gets me is I KNOW I'm dreaming... and i try to wake up but I cant. and even though I'm aware that I'm dreaming I still know that I'm feeling whoever is on my bed or whatever)
The first time I had one of these very realistic dreams was a couple years ago the night after I drank mooshine for the first time.... ha yeah. (Basically I had a really bad case of the spins alll day the next day and I felt completely out of whack) Well that night as I just went to sleep I was dreaming that I was driving a car and the wheel starting to slowly turn to the left and right as I was about to hit a car my body jerked and I woke up. I stayed awake for a min or 2 then went back to sleep... thats when it all went down hill. The next dream I had... I was in my bed (by the way all these dreams are from my point of view...1st person) and I woke up to see a frightening girl with long black stringy hair and a horrible face, on her hands and knees on top of me just looking at me and breathing heavily.... I swear to god it felt so real.... The only thing I could think to do was hide under the blanket... but right before i drew the balnket over my eyes she slowly, very slowy moved her face inwards towards me. I knew I was dreaming but I could not wake up... Well once I did wake up... well I thought I did... I looked to the left of my bed and there was a about 3 people just sitting in my room... it didnt scare me at first cuz I thought I was awake and I figured maybe it is some freiends surprsiing me... but just as I tried to get a closer look a person who was laying on the floor next to my bed sat up right in my face! It scared the livivng **** outta me. that's when I really for real woke up. Anways I couldnt go back to sleep for a few hours I was a little frightened... I felt as though I would get stuck in a dream like that... And I wanted to avoid haveing another one like that again... I did go to sleep that night however all of the lights in my room were on....
I know this is really long. But I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced the same thing or something similar. I'eve had more but I don't want to write a whole novel here but if someone can relate then please let me know!

[iritaw]

I have been having these dreams my entire life.  I can remember being in my crib and having one and I had one last night...I am now 35 years old. I have had countless dreams like these.  I found that sleeping on my stomach did prevent them for a while but now they happen no matter which way I am sleeping, even when my husband has his arms around me.  Lately, I had discovered they were worse when I am really tired but like all the other discoveries I thought I had found that helped prevent the dreams or whatever they are changed too.  I am very spiritual and pray a lot...which always stops the dream in its tracks when I fight back with prayer.  However, it seems like the more i pray the worse they get.  I have them almost every night and some nights I cant sleep at all.  The last one had a message for my husband basically taunting him and trying to infuriate him by telling him through this message that I belonged to him..this being in my nightmares...but we know better. My husband had to wake me...he said I was actually moving in this one...which is almost always impossible...he said I was punching and kicking and screaming "get off of me..dont touch me".  Even woke my kids up..they thought someone had gotten in the house.  Sounds crazy but tired of holding all this in.  I have searched and searched for answers and will not talk to a doctor about it because of the fear of being labled insane.  I do not want to be zombified by a bunch of medications that only mask a problem...again I had these as a baby.  Other things also happen but that is another story.  My word of advice is to just keep fighting it.

[terrified33]

I seem to have sleep paralsys also...I've had it for abour ten years. It all started when I moved in with a friend in her third floor attic that used to be a working apartment years ago. I tagged the walls with artwork and was compelled to draw a big eye on the wall. Im scared that I drew the evil eye and its been following me ever since. I thought it was innocent at the time but I don't think so anymore.I would take a nap during the day up there cuz I wud go out at nite and party and I started to become paralyzed and cudnt move or speak but I was clearly awake. My eyes were slightly open and I cud see a dark figure slowly walking across the room far away and I cudnt open my eyes all the way or scream or anything.finally i was able to fall off th bed to get myself out of it and the figure was gone. This happened every time I slept up there so I started sleeping downstairs on thw couch and had no problems there. But about two years later I met someone who decided to tell me about this same thing happening to him.and it came back to me but in another place I was living. We read up on it and learned about out of body experiences.so when I became paralyzed I was able to start to have an out of body experience.except everytime it happened I got scared and wud be able to mutter somerhing and it wud wake him up and he wud shake me out of it. This went on for months and then it stopped and didn't happen again for years.so recently I've been watching a lot of horror movies and none of them have been scaring me its all in fun and not real. But I sleep on the couch and my kids sleep upstairs in my room. I take medicine that is in a weekly pill container and have a juice glass of water just enough to take the pills I need to take at nite andthe water is gone. For three weeks straight in the beginning of the week my saturday medicine has been gone missing when I wake up in the morning.my kids r  22 months and 4 and don't get up at nite ever. There is no water ro drink for me to take any more medicine and I cudnt take all those pills wirhout water. I started setting up my phone camera at nite but it only records for 45 minutes. I had one morw recent instance of sleep paralysys and my mom was talking to me and I cud hear her and she thought I was awake but I was stuck and I started convusing like I was having a seizure and was muttering things trying to get her to get me out of it.she was terrified. I came out of it and I told her what happened and she told me to get these movies out of the house. Last nite I watched the Conjuring....I woke up and there was something crawling on my tv. I closed my eyes and opened them and it was gone.....is there something following me around and the movies are bringing it back or what??!!! I know this must sound crazy but I need to get rid if whatever is going on!!

[terrified33]

I seem to have sleep paralsys also...I've had it for abour ten years. It all started when I moved in with a friend in her third floor attic that used to be a working apartment years ago. I tagged the walls with artwork and was compelled to draw a big eye on the wall. Im scared that I drew the evil eye and its been following me ever since. I thought it was innocent at the time but I don't think so anymore.I would take a nap during the day up there cuz I wud go out at nite and party and I started to become paralyzed and cudnt move or speak but I was clearly awake. My eyes were slightly open and I cud see a dark figure slowly walking across the room far away and I cudnt open my eyes all the way or scream or anything.finally i was able to fall off th bed to get myself out of it and the figure was gone. This happened every time I slept up there so I started sleeping downstairs on thw couch and had no problems there. But about two years later I met someone who decided to tell me about this same thing happening to him.and it came back to me but in another place I was living. We read up on it and learned about out of body experiences.so when I became paralyzed I was able to start to have an out of body experience.except everytime it happened I got scared and wud be able to mutter somerhing and it wud wake him up and he wud shake me out of it. This went on for months and then it stopped and didn't happen again for years.so recently I've been watching a lot of horror movies and none of them have been scaring me its all in fun and not real. But I sleep on the couch and my kids sleep upstairs in my room. I take medicine that is in a weekly pill container and have a juice glass of water just enough to take the pills I need to take at nite andthe water is gone. For three weeks straight in the beginning of the week my saturday medicine has been gone missing when I wake up in the morning.my kids r  22 months and 4 and don't get up at nite ever. There is no water ro drink for me to take any more medicine and I cudnt take all those pills wirhout water. I started setting up my phone camera at nite but it only records for 45 minutes. I had one morw recent instance of sleep paralysys and my mom was talking to me and I cud hear her and she thought I was awake but I was stuck and I started convusing like I was having a seizure and was muttering things trying to get her to get me out of it.she was terrified. I came out of it and I told her what happened and she told me to get these movies out of the house. Last nite I watched the Conjuring....I woke up and there was something crawling on my tv. I closed my eyes and opened them and it was gone.....is there something following me around and the movies are bringing it back or what??!!! I know this must sound crazy but I need to get rid if whatever is going on!!

[jbeck34]

I'll start with my most recent, i had just gotten home from work played a few games of CoD with my son.I lay on the couch for a quick nap. Now i know im completely aware of everything around me i heard my daughter come in i could still hear my son on the X box. In my vision and i call it that cause i felt fear and a presents i knew was real.i too paralyzed but i saw no shapes just darkness then 2 red eyes appear and start towards me i cannot move or scream in my vision (dream) finally I'm awaken to my son shaking me with a frightened look in his eyes. He proceeded to tell my at first i was whimpering then i started rocking back and forth. Then he says right before i woke which is when the red eyes were so close i felt the thing not on me just near and still darkness. He says i said no please don't imy children need me. Now remember i could hear the xbox playing my daughter on the phone but i did not hear myself say this.can you explain that i don't suffer from sleep apnea oh and never told anyone and one day i walked into a friends house whos wife little did i know was into the strange and unusual any way son as i walked in she looked at me with big eyes and said come with me takes me in the other room and asks me if i been seeing or feeling things lately i tell her and i literally watched the hair on her arms stand up.

[Emylee]

I actually just awoke from a very similar experience. The main difference is I never caught on that I was dreaming.  I did feel as if I woke up a couple times but still felt a very strong and bad presence in my house. However, before I get into the dream I'll explain the events leading  to this moment. All week I have been giving myself a variation of four to six... Maybe seven hours of sleep. Then the weekend hits.  I can't quite remember how late or early I stayed up Friday night.  However,  on Saturday I slept on the couch.  I fell asleep fairly early and woke throughout the night.  Probably because I had markilplier running in the background the entire time.  I slept clear til about one pm. Boy friend came home and I fixed him food.  He wanted to nap so we chill on the couch with creepy pasta playing. He eventually fell asleep,  but it wasn't long Before the knocks on our neighbors door woke him.  I was awake the entire time.  After that we moved into the bedroom.  Put some creepy pasta on,  and before I knew it I past out....  After all that sleep...  Next thing I knew I am trying to wake my boyfriend up next to me.  I couldn't tell ya why,  maybe I was scared.  Upon trying to wake him up,  every time I tried to speak I could only get out the beginning of the first letter.  Sometimes I tried speaking with the end of the word first to see if I get anything out at all.  Then I woke up(I didn't really wake) and it all started again. It looped and looped,  everytime I began to become more and more frightened and was breathing harder and could feel a presence becoming stronger and stronger.  Repeatedly I tried to wake my boyfriend,  since I could speak I tried smaking him on the forehead only being able to barely touch his forehead.  Finally it looped again and red lights were flashing outside and children were screaming and laughing.  My boyfriend awoke and he was leaning over me very tired and trying  to ask me what was wrong and what I was saying.  I kept trying to ask him if the children noises were good or bad only able to muster out gig  or add,  something along those lines.  Finally I tried to look out the window, and my boyfriend and I noticed blood.  We couldn't see out the window,  but we knew something was wrong. somehow we ended up on the floor next to the bed.  All thee while I feel this presence of some kind of an intruder. Somehow I am able to get up and say don't turn any lights on,  or we are dead.  Because I this point I think there is some kind of serial killer out in the neighborhood preying those who seemed awake and lights on.  Our house was completely dark, pitch black almost,  with no lights on whatsoever.  I make my wake to the living room and noticed an emergency hospital bed taking up a lot of space with a living body in it.  There is a window a couple feet behind it.  As had trouble with any movement I was still able to make it to the bed to try and figure out who the hell was in that bed and how did it get there.  Just as i was about to see the face the window....  The blinds..  It was like something or someone...  Maybe just the wind (but it having been opened I  the first placed scared me) made the blinds gust inwards,  and it scared me so bad I finally woke up for real.  I woke with the same frightened feeling,  heart pounding breathing very hard, and called out my boyfriends name.  He immediately asked what was wrong. I explain to him that I was trying to wake him up for at least an hour...  The dream felt so long,  but when I explained it to him he said we'd only been asleep for twenty thirty minutes tops. Then I began to look up the rem sleep cycle and dreams.  now I have had dreams I  the past where I felt I couldn't speak or move,  but I was aware it was a dream.  With the one I just experienced,  I wasn't aware at all. Also when I have scary dream I have the ability to '' change the channel'' to a different dream.  Anyways,  I still feel scared.  The funny thing is,  I can't even recall what creepy pasta story we were listening to.  

[Cody91]

I have been having weird dreams lately where i have been dreaming about other people like I'm watching a a show its been recurring for a few nights now where I would sleep for like a hour and dream then wake up persistent for like 7 hours a night. I never thought nothing of it until tonight when I had this dream that I was awake but could not move and the room the room was shaking I heard my phone fall to the floor while some kind of power was trying to enter through my  right arm it made my arm feel extremely heavy and like it was being shocked thousands of times a minute the room was very dullily lit and there was some kind of black cloud starting to come in through my bathroom as it got closer i started calling for Jesus but nothing would come out my mouth my body was paralysed my arm was being shocked still then I found a little strength to reach up and turn the light switch on but nothing happens then I felt my body being thrown back to the bed and the shocking persisted and the black cloud kept coming it kind of felt as if it was trying to give me something that I didn't want I looked down and my dog was all black with black eyes just laying in my arms looking at me I continued to call for Jesus and eventually the words came out of my mouth and I woke up with my dog laying at the end of my bed, my arms was hurting really bad like I just did a thousand push ups and I look at my phone and I had only been asleep for a hour my dog is a all white poodle by the way. This was a extremely scary experience I have suffered sleep paralization before but never to this extent