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Hello GLPer's! I am finally drawing to a close on my amateur study of sleep paralysis and it's connection to abduction. After well over a year of conducting tests, sleep surveillance, interviews, online polls and online interviews of which many of you were so helpful in describing your experiences and symptoms. I first wish to say thankyou to all who took part and Sickscent for his helpful input also.

I have left Europe and am currently residing in Australia after spending time in Japan and South Korea. For those of you who are new or do not know what sleep paralysis is, I am going to begin to explain this phenomena in this thread. I will post the threads over the span of a week as the information is too long for one thread and I'm afraid many of you will lose interest after a few paragraphs..... haha.

Sleep Paralysis
Function: n
: a complete temporary paralysis occurring in connection with sleep and especially upon waking

Many of you will have most likely experienced this at least one stage in your life. Statistics show that sleep paralysis is experienced at least once in up to 76% of Western civilization. In Asia up to 87% of people between the ages of 12 and 35 have experienced sleep paralysis, with a whopping percentage belonging to Japan and Korea. It is also extremely prevelant in South east Asia and is defined in local Cambodian, Laos and Thai culture. In the U.S. alone over 70 million Americans suffer from disorders of sleep and wakefulness. Of those, 60% have a chronic disorder.

Four Major Experiences during Sleep Paralysis:

1. Old Hag Syndrome

Coined in the 1800's in New England. Subject becomes terrified, claiming to see an elderly woman. Of my polls and interviews 12% of Sleep Paralysis sufferers experienced the 'Old Hag'. Usually wearing a hat, mascara running down the face and almost always malevolent, mocking and or laughing. Also note alot of times accompanied by smaller, non human apparitions and/or sitting on the chest of the experiencer. (about 70% of cases i have studied experienced SP whilst sleeping on their back.) I have spent many many a sleepless night to find the connection and/or place where the old hag fits into the Sleep Paralysis phenomena. Many cases from Japan have reported the old hag with spine-tingling similarities to those experiences in western culture.

2. Greys and/or Abduction

17% of cases where reported encounters of the third or fourth kind. Almost always occurs soon after the sighting of flashing lights outside and/or UFO activity. Experiencers claim to be paralyzed and other symptoms consistent with common SP cases. Almost all experiencers describe the common 'grey' popular to modern pop culture.

3. Demon(s), Poltergeist Activity and Possession.

Demonic, religious and supernatural phenomena experienced by a whopping 39% of subjects!! Of that 39%........ all claimed to sense a malevolent evil presence in their direct vicinity. 2% of that 39% experienced possession or attempted possession where the subject claimed they where able to fight off the entity and regain control of their physical body. Most possession accounts are consistent with epilepsy symptoms coupled with SP and/or narcolepsy. Of those who claimed to experience poltergeist activity, 62% lived with a female between the ages of 12 to 18.

4. Shadow Man

Perhaps the most frightening experience. 6% of subjects reporting witnessing a male silhouette usually at the foot of the bed. In all cases this 'shadow man' is extremely malevolent and usually violent. Reports of attempted strangulation, rape, whispering in the ear, breathing down the neck and sexual assualt are frequent in all cases.

The remaining 26% report mixed random experiences usually the paralysis without hallucinations and fear.

Scientifically, SP is experienced most commonly during REM sleep. The brain releases a chemical into the blood stream, effectively disabling the network of messages from the brain to the body to stop the sleeper from acting their dreams. Resulting in a temporary paralysis, where the sleeper awakens during natural SP triggering a 'flight or fight' response.

I have studied the connection between all four major scenarios and their relation to modern culture. In other words I wanted to know if society is manifesting the experiences. ie. 92% of those who experience demonic, poltergeist and possession scenarios are either religious in nature or have been exposed to judeo-christian theology in some stage of their life.

In the next thread i will write about spatial time dilation, dimensional interchanges, dimensions and the connection to SP. This is a breakdown part of my hypothesis and is not scientifically sound or proven in any way. It will always remain merely a theory.

Jet Wylie.
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Did you also collect 'time of paralysis' in your investigation?
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Did you also collect 'time of paralysis' in your investigation?
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Time of paralysis is usually 2-7 minutes. Narcolepsy sufferers can experience SP up 12 hours and more!
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bump
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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so many times..

what happens I think it's related to what your belief system is.

I can control it now, dismiss the feeling of it coming on, or fall into it. you can, at a certain level of control, summon the feeling.
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kool thanks dude.

i used to have SP episodes.
havent had one in over a year.
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
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but it's really not what people think, there really are forces out there waiting for a chance to take over your body should they get one. people freak out because of the pulling sensation, tugging your astral body loose so it can wander while your body sleeps,
usually were deeply sleeping when this occurs.
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so many times..

what happens I think it's related to what your belief system is.

I can control it now, dismiss the feeling of it coming on, or fall into it. you can, at a certain level of control, summon the feeling.
 Quoting: Korzen


It is very possible to sense the onset of SP, it is also usually preceded by loud noises... (ringing etc.)
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


probably astral travel
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kool thanks dude.

i used to have SP episodes.
havent had one in over a year.
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You are welcome.
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


probably astral travel
 Quoting: Korzen


I have experimented on myself many times. I find alcohol and lack of sleep trigger episodes. Also for me when i sleep on my back. The last time i experienced it i took the advice of a friend and let it happen. I floated to the ceiling and could see myself sleeping. Very creepy. I cannot distinguish it from a dream or hallucination however....
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

Trent Reznor

“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


Well Guano, if a kid did that during SP, he wouldn't be paralysed therefor he wouldn't be experienced SP.

Define 'motor function'
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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Astral travel?

I experienced 'night terrors' when I was younger, I could always feel the onset before falling asleep, it would be a 'shrinking' feeling and I would hallucinate that the room was getting larger (or I was getting smaller) until items which you could see in the dark (like a clock) seemed miles away (and huge)...

The 'dream' itself was not like any other nightmare and it was always the same or similar... Regular nightmares that would freak anyone else out don't even bother me and I've found ways to become lucid and change the dream if i need to... Anyways, the 'night-terrors' consisted of a dream about a solid stainless steel or silver sphere, it would pulse and gyrate and grow into what appeared to be a nasty tumor and then back again... Sometimes I saw a skinny puddy-looking figure (like Gumby) that actually looked kind of like Elvis, it would also grow into a large nasty tumor-looking figure... All the while I was hearing voices that I couldn't understand but they were malevolent and would feel like I was falling, I would open my eyes and could even move around but the hallucination persisted. The phenomena slowed down around 11 and died off around 12-13... The worst experienced happened after a friend I stumbled across some type of occult site in the desert, pentegram formed by rocks and a bunch of other crap, well we destroyed it and laughed about it... I guess the coven found out that night and attacked or there were spirits associated with the action... either way, that night a similar 'attack' was experienced by myself and that 'friend'...

The last time was new years eve 2002, that was a 6 hour experience in front of 2 witnesses, totally random... It was insane...
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


Well Guano, if a kid did that during SP, he wouldn't be paralysed therefor he wouldn't be experienced SP.

Define 'motor function'
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


having the ability to get out of bed, walking into a parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces'... that kind of motor function...
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


probably astral travel
 Quoting: Korzen


I have experimented on myself many times. I find alcohol and lack of sleep trigger episodes. Also for me when i sleep on my back. The last time i experienced it i took the advice of a friend and let it happen. I floated to the ceiling and could see myself sleeping. Very creepy. I cannot distinguish it from a dream or hallucination however....
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


Been there... If I gave it some experimentation I could probably trigger it by simply laying on my back and placing my hands on my chest... I find it very hard to sleep on my back though, it may be due to a link I figured out when I was younger, turned into habit, and then forgot...

If I try to sleep on my back, and I have not consumed alcohol or any kind of drug for several days, i'll see closed-eye visuals and then some crazy ass 'dreams', that occur before going into REM, I'm often literally jolted out of them LOL..
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


Well Guano, if a kid did that during SP, he wouldn't be paralysed therefor he wouldn't be experienced SP.

Define 'motor function'
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


having the ability to get out of bed, walking into a parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces'... that kind of motor function...
 Quoting: GUANO


That kind of experience as described by you above is more than likely a 'night terror'. Night terrors and sleep walking fall into the same sub category of sleep disorders. SP is total and complete paralysis accompanied usually by hallucinations and fear.
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

Trent Reznor

“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Any reports of strange things like, say, a kid getting out of bed, walking into the parents bedroom, and just standing there making 'evil faces' at them during the 'episode'...

... What about experiences where basic motor function is not inhibited?
 Quoting: GUANO


probably astral travel
 Quoting: Korzen


I have experimented on myself many times. I find alcohol and lack of sleep trigger episodes. Also for me when i sleep on my back. The last time i experienced it i took the advice of a friend and let it happen. I floated to the ceiling and could see myself sleeping. Very creepy. I cannot distinguish it from a dream or hallucination however....
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


Been there... If I gave it some experimentation I could probably trigger it by simply laying on my back and placing my hands on my chest... I find it very hard to sleep on my back though, it may be due to a link I figured out when I was younger, turned into habit, and then forgot...

If I try to sleep on my back, and I have not consumed alcohol or any kind of drug for several days, i'll see closed-eye visuals and then some crazy ass 'dreams', that occur before going into REM, I'm often literally jolted out of them LOL..
 Quoting: GUANO


Haha, i cannot sleep on my back because my mother used to lay me on my belly when i was a baby during an era where people beleived that by doing this, it prevented cot death and sudden infant death syndrome. Completely ridiculous nowadays however....
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Hello GLPer's! I am finally drawing to a close on my amateur study of sleep paralysis and it's connection to abduction. After well over a year of conducting tests, sleep surveillance, interviews, online polls and online interviews of which many of you were so helpful in describing your experiences and symptoms. I first wish to say thankyou to all who took part and Sickscent for his helpful input also.

I have left Europe and am currently residing in Australia after spending time in Japan and South Korea. For those of you who are new or do not know what sleep paralysis is, I am going to begin to explain this phenomena in this thread. I will post the threads over the span of a week as the information is too long for one thread and I'm afraid many of you will lose interest after a few paragraphs..... haha.

Sleep Paralysis
Function: n
: a complete temporary paralysis occurring in connection with sleep and especially upon waking

Many of you will have most likely experienced this at least one stage in your life. Statistics show that sleep paralysis is experienced at least once in up to 76% of Western civilization. In Asia up to 87% of people between the ages of 12 and 35 have experienced sleep paralysis, with a whopping percentage belonging to Japan and Korea. It is also extremely prevelant in South east Asia and is defined in local Cambodian, Laos and Thai culture. In the U.S. alone over 70 million Americans suffer from disorders of sleep and wakefulness. Of those, 60% have a chronic disorder.

Four Major Experiences during Sleep Paralysis:

1. Old Hag Syndrome

Coined in the 1800's in New England. Subject becomes terrified, claiming to see an elderly woman. Of my polls and interviews 12% of Sleep Paralysis sufferers experienced the 'Old Hag'. Usually wearing a hat, mascara running down the face and almost always malevolent, mocking and or laughing. Also note alot of times accompanied by smaller, non human apparitions and/or sitting on the chest of the experiencer. (about 70% of cases i have studied experienced SP whilst sleeping on their back.) I have spent many many a sleepless night to find the connection and/or place where the old hag fits into the Sleep Paralysis phenomena. Many cases from Japan have reported the old hag with spine-tingling similarities to those experiences in western culture.

2. Greys and/or Abduction

17% of cases where reported encounters of the third or fourth kind. Almost always occurs soon after the sighting of flashing lights outside and/or UFO activity. Experiencers claim to be paralyzed and other symptoms consistent with common SP cases. Almost all experiencers describe the common 'grey' popular to modern pop culture.

3. Demon(s), Poltergeist Activity and Possession.

Demonic, religious and supernatural phenomena experienced by a whopping 39% of subjects!! Of that 39%........ all claimed to sense a malevolent evil presence in their direct vicinity. 2% of that 39% experienced possession or attempted possession where the subject claimed they where able to fight off the entity and regain control of their physical body. Most possession accounts are consistent with epilepsy symptoms coupled with SP and/or narcolepsy. Of those who claimed to experience poltergeist activity, 62% lived with a female between the ages of 12 to 18.

4. Shadow Man

Perhaps the most frightening experience. 6% of subjects reporting witnessing a male silhouette usually at the foot of the bed. In all cases this 'shadow man' is extremely malevolent and usually violent. Reports of attempted strangulation, rape, whispering in the ear, breathing down the neck and sexual assualt are frequent in all cases.

The remaining 26% report mixed random experiences usually the paralysis without hallucinations and fear.

Scientifically, SP is experienced most commonly during REM sleep. The brain releases a chemical into the blood stream, effectively disabling the network of messages from the brain to the body to stop the sleeper from acting their dreams. Resulting in a temporary paralysis, where the sleeper awakens during natural SP triggering a 'flight or fight' response.

I have studied the connection between all four major scenarios and their relation to modern culture. In other words I wanted to know if society is manifesting the experiences. ie. 92% of those who experience demonic, poltergeist and possession scenarios are either religious in nature or have been exposed to judeo-christian theology in some stage of their life.

In the next thread i will write about spatial time dilation, dimensional interchanges, dimensions and the connection to SP. This is a breakdown part of my hypothesis and is not scientifically sound or proven in any way. It will always remain merely a theory.

Jet Wylie.
 Quoting: Jet Wylie

You should look into my detailed experiences I've posted before, I've experienced almost everything u mentioned, and could describe it to the T. HERE IT IS....


Ive had out of body experiences and I could controll them at will and have one if I wanted to. Let me tell you what came first.

It all started out with sleep paralysis, this was happening to me daily a couple of years ago. I was getting freaked the hell out, feeling as if im awake could see everything around me but couldnt get up couldnt yell for help for someone to wake me up felt as if my mind was disconnected from my body, i would have to struggle and struggle to get up, what made all this worse is that I was encountering the old hag and shadow man someone on this forum just posted about it kinda shocked me when i saw the thread as i never thought anyone else could experience the same thing.

I started paying attention to what where the reasons this was happening to me and was wondering wether I really was awake or asleep when i felt as if I couldnt get up. I found out that when I would eat a heavy meal before I went to sleep I would get SP, I found out that if I would try and force myself to sleep without being that sleepy I would get SP, think this happens when you have your eyelids half way closed too, and all this would happen only when I was facing up.

After encountering the shadow man a few times I learned that he was being caused by any shadow that was created in the room, I discovered this after encountering the shadow man while having sleep paralysis and have finally really woken up... where the shadowman was there was a small shadow that was being created by the green on light of an electronic device i had, after this day I had to make sure there where no shadows in my room as all this was causing me extreme insomnia.

The old hag, think she was more terrofying then the shadow man/demon/dark tall figure ect, if I remember correctly I would encounter her when I would fall asleep facing up with my hands on my chest having SP as well... its hard to describe the feeling, felt as if i was being rapped by something and sinking into my bed by her.

Moving to to the Out of Body Experience, Sleep paralysis was constantly happening to me it was terrofying trying to get up and not able to and then seeing shit aswell. Well one of these days during a sleep paralysis episode I just decided to let it go, i just didnt try to force myself to get up I just remained calm in my mind and motionless body....

This is when I all of a sudden arose from my body, I could see myself my body on the bed, its like if my soul had just gotten out of my body. I remember kinda like floating upwards out of my body and slowy spinning around and seeing myself. I felt as if I didnt know how to control my soul becuase then i floated downwards and would softly hit the floor then float upwards hit the ceiling and spin back floating, this is the hardest to describe. floating around in my room i was amazed as to how i could see everything that was in my room, i dont remember this being quick as I was just in aw, but when I woke up I was calm I was shocked of what great expereince it was. I did this a few more times paying attention to the things i saw in my room as i floated to see if they where actually there when i woke up. I did this a few more times until the day I floated out of my room, I floated threw the door down the hall, saw my family sleeping in there rooms this feeling started to feel awkward, it was until I floated out side that I quickly returned to my body. The feeling was as if I was to faraway from my body and felt as if I was never going to return to it this feeling freaked me out. after all this I started think what if i was dying what if I was dead when I would get out of my body, what if im slowy leaving, what if this is a step you go threw to actual death.

After that last obe i didnt want to experience it no more, all this happened to me a few years ago when I was 22 or 23. Since I learned to control the sleep paralyis i didnt have any more for long time. Once in a while I have sleep paralysis but try and fight to wake up, if i dont try and wake up and allow myself to have another obe i feel as if im never coming back... maybe one of these days ill have the guts to do it again, as at that first moment it felt good to explore but the last obe just felt ugly.
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That kind of experience as described by you above is more than likely a 'night terror'. Night terrors and sleep walking fall into the same sub category of sleep disorders. SP is total and complete paralysis accompanied usually by hallucinations and fear.
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


so where does it all fit in to your 'model'? Do you have a conclusion as to what these things are caused by? Purely hallucination caused by your own thoughts under physical and emotional stimuli?
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Hello GLPer's! I am finally drawing to a close on my amateur study of sleep paralysis and it's connection to abduction. After well over a year of conducting tests, sleep surveillance, interviews, online polls and online interviews of which many of you were so helpful in describing your experiences and symptoms. I first wish to say thankyou to all who took part and Sickscent for his helpful input also.

I have left Europe and am currently residing in Australia after spending time in Japan and South Korea. For those of you who are new or do not know what sleep paralysis is, I am going to begin to explain this phenomena in this thread. I will post the threads over the span of a week as the information is too long for one thread and I'm afraid many of you will lose interest after a few paragraphs..... haha.

Sleep Paralysis
Function: n
: a complete temporary paralysis occurring in connection with sleep and especially upon waking

Many of you will have most likely experienced this at least one stage in your life. Statistics show that sleep paralysis is experienced at least once in up to 76% of Western civilization. In Asia up to 87% of people between the ages of 12 and 35 have experienced sleep paralysis, with a whopping percentage belonging to Japan and Korea. It is also extremely prevelant in South east Asia and is defined in local Cambodian, Laos and Thai culture. In the U.S. alone over 70 million Americans suffer from disorders of sleep and wakefulness. Of those, 60% have a chronic disorder.

Four Major Experiences during Sleep Paralysis:

1. Old Hag Syndrome

Coined in the 1800's in New England. Subject becomes terrified, claiming to see an elderly woman. Of my polls and interviews 12% of Sleep Paralysis sufferers experienced the 'Old Hag'. Usually wearing a hat, mascara running down the face and almost always malevolent, mocking and or laughing. Also note alot of times accompanied by smaller, non human apparitions and/or sitting on the chest of the experiencer. (about 70% of cases i have studied experienced SP whilst sleeping on their back.) I have spent many many a sleepless night to find the connection and/or place where the old hag fits into the Sleep Paralysis phenomena. Many cases from Japan have reported the old hag with spine-tingling similarities to those experiences in western culture.

2. Greys and/or Abduction

17% of cases where reported encounters of the third or fourth kind. Almost always occurs soon after the sighting of flashing lights outside and/or UFO activity. Experiencers claim to be paralyzed and other symptoms consistent with common SP cases. Almost all experiencers describe the common 'grey' popular to modern pop culture.

3. Demon(s), Poltergeist Activity and Possession.

Demonic, religious and supernatural phenomena experienced by a whopping 39% of subjects!! Of that 39%........ all claimed to sense a malevolent evil presence in their direct vicinity. 2% of that 39% experienced possession or attempted possession where the subject claimed they where able to fight off the entity and regain control of their physical body. Most possession accounts are consistent with epilepsy symptoms coupled with SP and/or narcolepsy. Of those who claimed to experience poltergeist activity, 62% lived with a female between the ages of 12 to 18.

4. Shadow Man

Perhaps the most frightening experience. 6% of subjects reporting witnessing a male silhouette usually at the foot of the bed. In all cases this 'shadow man' is extremely malevolent and usually violent. Reports of attempted strangulation, rape, whispering in the ear, breathing down the neck and sexual assualt are frequent in all cases.

The remaining 26% report mixed random experiences usually the paralysis without hallucinations and fear.

Scientifically, SP is experienced most commonly during REM sleep. The brain releases a chemical into the blood stream, effectively disabling the network of messages from the brain to the body to stop the sleeper from acting their dreams. Resulting in a temporary paralysis, where the sleeper awakens during natural SP triggering a 'flight or fight' response.

I have studied the connection between all four major scenarios and their relation to modern culture. In other words I wanted to know if society is manifesting the experiences. ie. 92% of those who experience demonic, poltergeist and possession scenarios are either religious in nature or have been exposed to judeo-christian theology in some stage of their life.

In the next thread i will write about spatial time dilation, dimensional interchanges, dimensions and the connection to SP. This is a breakdown part of my hypothesis and is not scientifically sound or proven in any way. It will always remain merely a theory.

Jet Wylie.
 Quoting: Jet Wylie

You should look into my detailed experiences I've posted before, I've experienced almost everything u mentioned, and could describe it to the T. HERE IT IS....


Ive had out of body experiences and I could controll them at will and have one if I wanted to. Let me tell you what came first.

It all started out with sleep paralysis, this was happening to me daily a couple of years ago. I was getting freaked the hell out, feeling as if im awake could see everything around me but couldnt get up couldnt yell for help for someone to wake me up felt as if my mind was disconnected from my body, i would have to struggle and struggle to get up, what made all this worse is that I was encountering the old hag and shadow man someone on this forum just posted about it kinda shocked me when i saw the thread as i never thought anyone else could experience the same thing.

I started paying attention to what where the reasons this was happening to me and was wondering wether I really was awake or asleep when i felt as if I couldnt get up. I found out that when I would eat a heavy meal before I went to sleep I would get SP, I found out that if I would try and force myself to sleep without being that sleepy I would get SP, think this happens when you have your eyelids half way closed too, and all this would happen only when I was facing up.

After encountering the shadow man a few times I learned that he was being caused by any shadow that was created in the room, I discovered this after encountering the shadow man while having sleep paralysis and have finally really woken up... where the shadowman was there was a small shadow that was being created by the green on light of an electronic device i had, after this day I had to make sure there where no shadows in my room as all this was causing me extreme insomnia.

The old hag, think she was more terrofying then the shadow man/demon/dark tall figure ect, if I remember correctly I would encounter her when I would fall asleep facing up with my hands on my chest having SP as well... its hard to describe the feeling, felt as if i was being rapped by something and sinking into my bed by her.

Moving to to the Out of Body Experience, Sleep paralysis was constantly happening to me it was terrofying trying to get up and not able to and then seeing shit aswell. Well one of these days during a sleep paralysis episode I just decided to let it go, i just didnt try to force myself to get up I just remained calm in my mind and motionless body....

This is when I all of a sudden arose from my body, I could see myself my body on the bed, its like if my soul had just gotten out of my body. I remember kinda like floating upwards out of my body and slowy spinning around and seeing myself. I felt as if I didnt know how to control my soul becuase then i floated downwards and would softly hit the floor then float upwards hit the ceiling and spin back floating, this is the hardest to describe. floating around in my room i was amazed as to how i could see everything that was in my room, i dont remember this being quick as I was just in aw, but when I woke up I was calm I was shocked of what great expereince it was. I did this a few more times paying attention to the things i saw in my room as i floated to see if they where actually there when i woke up. I did this a few more times until the day I floated out of my room, I floated threw the door down the hall, saw my family sleeping in there rooms this feeling started to feel awkward, it was until I floated out side that I quickly returned to my body. The feeling was as if I was to faraway from my body and felt as if I was never going to return to it this feeling freaked me out. after all this I started think what if i was dying what if I was dead when I would get out of my body, what if im slowy leaving, what if this is a step you go threw to actual death.

After that last obe i didnt want to experience it no more, all this happened to me a few years ago when I was 22 or 23. Since I learned to control the sleep paralyis i didnt have any more for long time. Once in a while I have sleep paralysis but try and fight to wake up, if i dont try and wake up and allow myself to have another obe i feel as if im never coming back... maybe one of these days ill have the guts to do it again, as at that first moment it felt good to explore but the last obe just felt ugly.
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Haha, i cannot sleep on my back because my mother used to lay me on my belly when i was a baby during an era where people beleived that by doing this, it prevented cot death and sudden infant death syndrome. Completely ridiculous nowadays however....
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Perhaps that's a better explanation for my habit as well... I don't know where it came from... All I know is that it does cause some back pain from time to time LOL.
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speaking of the old hag... I had a dream when I was probably about 8 years old that comes to mind, it's pretty disturbing haha...


Imagine a 9 foot tall old nasty woman, 600 lbs... I had sex with this woman in my dream, and her 'orfice' was located between her old hag nasty 80lb breasts...

This was not a pleasurable experience I promise.
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That kind of experience as described by you above is more than likely a 'night terror'. Night terrors and sleep walking fall into the same sub category of sleep disorders. SP is total and complete paralysis accompanied usually by hallucinations and fear.
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so where does it all fit in to your 'model'? Do you have a conclusion as to what these things are caused by? Purely hallucination caused by your own thoughts under physical and emotional stimuli?
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I know what sp is, and its just one of the things I've experienced, the old hag demons Wutever u Cud say are night terrors, and I've also experienced obe
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You should look into my detailed experiences I've posted before, I've experienced almost everything u mentioned, and could describe it to the T. HERE IT IS....


Ive had out of body experiences and I could controll them at will and have one if I wanted to. Let me tell you what came first.

It all started out with sleep paralysis, this was happening to me daily a couple of years ago. I was getting freaked the hell out, feeling as if im awake could see everything around me but couldnt get up couldnt yell for help for someone to wake me up felt as if my mind was disconnected from my body, i would have to struggle and struggle to get up, what made all this worse is that I was encountering the old hag and shadow man someone on this forum just posted about it kinda shocked me when i saw the thread as i never thought anyone else could experience the same thing.

I started paying attention to what where the reasons this was happening to me and was wondering wether I really was awake or asleep when i felt as if I couldnt get up. I found out that when I would eat a heavy meal before I went to sleep I would get SP, I found out that if I would try and force myself to sleep without being that sleepy I would get SP, think this happens when you have your eyelids half way closed too, and all this would happen only when I was facing up.

After encountering the shadow man a few times I learned that he was being caused by any shadow that was created in the room, I discovered this after encountering the shadow man while having sleep paralysis and have finally really woken up... where the shadowman was there was a small shadow that was being created by the green on light of an electronic device i had, after this day I had to make sure there where no shadows in my room as all this was causing me extreme insomnia.

The old hag, think she was more terrofying then the shadow man/demon/dark tall figure ect, if I remember correctly I would encounter her when I would fall asleep facing up with my hands on my chest having SP as well... its hard to describe the feeling, felt as if i was being rapped by something and sinking into my bed by her.

Moving to to the Out of Body Experience, Sleep paralysis was constantly happening to me it was terrofying trying to get up and not able to and then seeing shit aswell. Well one of these days during a sleep paralysis episode I just decided to let it go, i just didnt try to force myself to get up I just remained calm in my mind and motionless body....

This is when I all of a sudden arose from my body, I could see myself my body on the bed, its like if my soul had just gotten out of my body. I remember kinda like floating upwards out of my body and slowy spinning around and seeing myself. I felt as if I didnt know how to control my soul becuase then i floated downwards and would softly hit the floor then float upwards hit the ceiling and spin back floating, this is the hardest to describe. floating around in my room i was amazed as to how i could see everything that was in my room, i dont remember this being quick as I was just in aw, but when I woke up I was calm I was shocked of what great expereince it was. I did this a few more times paying attention to the things i saw in my room as i floated to see if they where actually there when i woke up. I did this a few more times until the day I floated out of my room, I floated threw the door down the hall, saw my family sleeping in there rooms this feeling started to feel awkward, it was until I floated out side that I quickly returned to my body. The feeling was as if I was to faraway from my body and felt as if I was never going to return to it this feeling freaked me out. after all this I started think what if i was dying what if I was dead when I would get out of my body, what if im slowy leaving, what if this is a step you go threw to actual death.

After that last obe i didnt want to experience it no more, all this happened to me a few years ago when I was 22 or 23. Since I learned to control the sleep paralyis i didnt have any more for long time. Once in a while I have sleep paralysis but try and fight to wake up, if i dont try and wake up and allow myself to have another obe i feel as if im never coming back... maybe one of these days ill have the guts to do it again, as at that first moment it felt good to explore but the last obe just felt ugly.
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I am quite sure i have your posts, either that or your story is an another eerily familiar experience. Please give me a link if you can to your thread/posts. thanks.
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“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Haha, i cannot sleep on my back because my mother used to lay me on my belly when i was a baby during an era where people beleived that by doing this, it prevented cot death and sudden infant death syndrome. Completely ridiculous nowadays however....
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


Perhaps that's a better explanation for my habit as well... I don't know where it came from... All I know is that it does cause some back pain from time to time LOL.
 Quoting: GUANO


and the occasional dead arm(s) in the middle of the night lol
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

Trent Reznor

“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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speaking of the old hag... I had a dream when I was probably about 8 years old that comes to mind, it's pretty disturbing haha...


Imagine a 9 foot tall old nasty woman, 600 lbs... I had sex with this woman in my dream, and her 'orfice' was located between her old hag nasty 80lb breasts...

This was not a pleasurable experience I promise.
 Quoting: GUANO


That's quite disgusting yes haha
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This is when I all of a sudden arose from my body, I could see myself my body on the bed, its like if my soul had just gotten out of my body. I remember kinda like floating upwards out of my body and slowy spinning around and seeing myself.
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I've had similar from time to time except I seem to have 360 degree vision, I see everything around me at once... I've also experienced this on 'datura stramonium' (moonflower) and diphenhydrinate.
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That kind of experience as described by you above is more than likely a 'night terror'. Night terrors and sleep walking fall into the same sub category of sleep disorders. SP is total and complete paralysis accompanied usually by hallucinations and fear.
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


so where does it all fit in to your 'model'? Do you have a conclusion as to what these things are caused by? Purely hallucination caused by your own thoughts under physical and emotional stimuli?
 Quoting: GUANO


I know what sp is, and its just one of the things I've experienced, the old hag demons Wutever u Cud say are night terrors, and I've also experienced obe
 Quoting: anony 1469335


Old hag is SP buddy, not night terror....
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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Haha, i cannot sleep on my back because my mother used to lay me on my belly when i was a baby during an era where people beleived that by doing this, it prevented cot death and sudden infant death syndrome. Completely ridiculous nowadays however....
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


Perhaps that's a better explanation for my habit as well... I don't know where it came from... All I know is that it does cause some back pain from time to time LOL.
 Quoting: GUANO


and the occasional dead arm(s) in the middle of the night lol
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


oh my! I never truly had one of those until some time in puberty... First time was freaky.. still have it happen from time to time but it's rare... still is really annoying, especially when the blood comes back and all you feel is tingling...
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Haha, i cannot sleep on my back because my mother used to lay me on my belly when i was a baby during an era where people beleived that by doing this, it prevented cot death and sudden infant death syndrome. Completely ridiculous nowadays however....
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


Perhaps that's a better explanation for my habit as well... I don't know where it came from... All I know is that it does cause some back pain from time to time LOL.
 Quoting: GUANO


and the occasional dead arm(s) in the middle of the night lol
 Quoting: Jet Wylie


oh my! I never truly had one of those until some time in puberty... First time was freaky.. still have it happen from time to time but it's rare... still is really annoying, especially when the blood comes back and all you feel is tingling...
 Quoting: GUANO


haha sometimes i'm half asleep and scared i destroyed my limb....
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

Trent Reznor

“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”





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