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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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WE are put on this earth as way to test us, maybe your being warned your heading the wrong way. See if ISLAM helps...believing in the one true God can relieve you from these things. I swear to you. Good luck.
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i just now had this happen to me, it happen before a couple of times but i just shrug it off and forget about it. but today was weird....i was sitting on a couch about 10 feet from a window in front of me. i knew something was out there but i couldn't tell what...it was to dark. next thing i know something asked me did i see them in a voice i didn't recognize. i tried to move but couldn't. so usually when i have a scary dream like that i can wake myself up.. well this time i only opened my eyes and could see i was laying in my bed then i heard the voice again asking me if i see them and it was like a giggle in there voice now. well knowing i wasn't wake i closed my eyes again and could see the window and the voice asked if i could see him. well i started to follow the voice to the right of the room and there was a door. the sound was right beside it but didn't come in yet. so i opened my eyes once again and started to try and move at first i could only lift up my arm but it would always drop back down. then the voice said u seem me now as if it was standing right beside me. i was curious to see so i closed my eyes again but i couldn't go back to the room to see what it was. i could just see the inside of my eye lids. so i opened my eyes up freaking out and used every thing i had and began to set up while the voice kept asking me do i see him now. it was like i had weights evenly over my body holding me down. i was so close to setting up i was looking around my room. then my phone ring and the feeling in my body fully came back to me. it was like the voice new i was trying to wake up but didn't wanna let me do it. i have never been so freaked out in my life. and the feeling of being in a dream went away.
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My stories almost match these except, I'll be in a dream..for example i was takin a **** in a stall and my friend was in the one next to me.. then we were talking and i became conscious in my dream and started to think. I was like. wait a minute, how did i get here? Oh im asleep right now in my dream. as i started to realize it was a dream, everything around me went black and my perception was no longer in my head but at my eyes, with my eyelids closed, i am unable to move, i feel a vibrating sensation that is fallowed with a humming noise. I can feel the presence of someone or something and on different accounts that someone or something has done different things. the first time this happened to me i was about 14 and i can still picture the evil demons face. it was an outline of his face in white, it was like i could see him through my closed eyelids in the white lines that you can see when ur eyes are closed, he had horns and he was just in my face and it was warm. then he started laughing and his mouth morphed into the mouth of a dog with alot of sharp and pointy teeth, and his jaw was bouncing up an and down and he said "were guna have fun tonight" with a deep voice. I try and try to move nd i can only explain the effort needed to move by giving the example of trying to do a push up after you've done about 50, your trying and trying but ur muscles wont work. humming noise, and demon in ur face. prettty damn scary. I was so scared i ran to my moms room and slept next to her on the floor. One time i was paralysed and i felt it walking on my bed, another time i fell asleep in a chair and i just stared at me looking down at me from behind me. another time i felt it pulling at my heart and the sensation of my chest rising and being tugged at. It happens at random, it hasn't happened for a while, but its unexpected and scary as ****, i don't know...if its a sleeping disorder, maybe im having seizures in my sleep?  I don't know, but I've tried to not get scared and talk to it. but the longer i stay in that staight of paralysis, the humming gets louder, my fear increases each second and i feel as though my soul is being removed from my body through my eyes, like something is sucking me out. so i can't help but try to move, i never had allowed it to happen for more than 20 seconds
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so far all my episodes have happened in the U.S. right now i am in thailand, i checked in this hotel room 318(whats odd you might ask) and my first night there i started to fall asleep when suddenly i felt it starting to happen to me.......you know, first with the weird sound in your ear going to your brain; anyway, before it got any further i tried to wake up myself before it got out of hand like you all know it can get and as i was making a motion to lift my body out of bed i felt paralyzed midway up and for that split second i fought it with all my strenght, i felt the tingling feeling all over my body and i  started to see the room get darker, i also started to see an very dark presence in the ceiling falling over me and wanted to take control, but some how i was able to get out of it and i think it was due to the fact that i was able to recognize that it started with that strange sound in my ear, which is not always the case, but as soon as i knew it was going to happen i tried to get up, and maybe that can help you stop it if you recognize it soon enough. i stay there 2 more night, and i left to Cambodia for 2weeks only to return to the same hotel and to my surprise; which actually i wasn't because i knew this had to be more than just a dream; when i ask for a room, the person gave me the same room!!!!!!!!! what are the odds? and when i mentioned to him that i had a feeling that the room was waiting for me, he just smirked. what i really wanted to ask him was if someone had died in the room. my feelings in this whole thing is having a stronger connection with the other world(?) the spirit world. today i am going back to the same hotel, since i left to another city for a few days, but i can bet i will get the same room, but this time i will ask if someone died there...will they tell me? i don't know yet but i will let you know!!!!!
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I have the same thing happen to me but the weird thing is that i can leave my body and see my self sleeping or if someone else is sleeping next to me i can see both of us sleeping or i see evil things one time i saw a women standing in my room and i tried to move to run but i couldn't and the other two times i saw the devil head. Every night i pray to see if it would help sometimes i yell for help but no one can hear me but last night it happen to me and i keep trying to wake up and i woke up for a sec and then i ended up still out of my body i got so tired of trying i laid on the floor and started crying for about 5 minutes and then i woke up this is the third time getting out of my body..this really scares me sometimes i wounder what if i leave my body for good and cant come back.
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ive been having these kind of dreams since i was like 9 years old.but i have never known what it was till today that i searched it up.every time that i feel like this its not the same.like a month ago i went to sleep and when i woke up i just couldnt move,then when i opened my eyes i can see a guy on top of me grabing my arms and holding me down,he kept telling me to calm down,what i do when i have these dreams is,i try to fight it off and i cus at it as if it was a person then i act like i give up but really quickly i use my force against it and thats when i wake up.the first time this happened to me i was sleeping with my mom and i was trying to wake her up but offcourse i couldnt and i was scared.but after that i now understand how to make it stop when it happens and i really done care!but hopefully this will stop forever some day!good luck to all you
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