Sleep Paralysis Doc - THE NIGHTMARE

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone on here ever experienced Sleep Paralysis? I did a few times in my old home and it was so freaky.

There's a great new documentary coming out soon, that's well worth watching;

The Nightmare

"One of the Scariest Documentaries Ever. THE NIGHTMARE will freak you out" - Indiewire

Welcome to the most terrifying place on Earth…

A documentary-horror film exploring the phenomenon of 'Sleep Paralysis' through the eyes of eight very different people. These people (and a shockingly large number of others) often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and waking worlds, helpless, totally unable to move but aware of their surroundings while being subject to frequently disturbing sights and sounds.

A strange element to these visions is that despite the fact that they know nothing of one another, (and had never heard of sleep paralysis before it happened to them), many see similar ghostly 'shadow men.' This is one of many reasons many people insist this is more than just a sleep disorder.

THE NIGHTMARE digs deep into not only the particulars of these eight people's uncanny experiences (through elaborate, sometimes surreal dramatisations), but it also explores their search to understand what they've gone through and how it's changed their lives.

"I’ll say this right now, this film is genuinely terrifying."
Bloody Disgusting

‘THE NIGHTMARE shows truth more frightening than fiction. Knowing that this happens to real people is almost too gruesome to bear, especially because it could very well start happening to you..."
★★★★, The Guardian

“One of the Scariest Documentaries Ever. THE NIGHTMARE will freak you out."
Indiewire

"Terrifying! THE NIGHTMARE is one of the most frightening films I've ever seen."
Vice

THE NIGHTMARE comes to selected UK cinemas from Friday 9th Oct. 2015. On DVD from Monday 26th Oct. 2015. Click here for more info.

[Gold6082]

I had sleep paralysis nearly daily for months when I was around 15. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I never "saw" anything supernatural I would just hear my mum's voice or my nan's calling my name and my head would feel heavy with constant blackness in my vision. I would eventually with all my will be able to force my arm to hit out in order to wake me up normally.

It was blamed on my numerous mental health issues by my then specialist but as we despised each other he would of said that. Thankfully (touch wood) I haven't experienced it for many years and hope never to again.

[Susan Foreman]

It's thought that Edgar Allan Poe suffered with it

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Sleep paralysis in the works of Edgar Allan Poe

[Frankie Teardrop]

I used to get it a lot in my early twenties - sleep paralysis, the night hag. I still have pretty intense hypnagogia these days, though not as frequently or as vividly as before.
The hallucinations can be very disturbing. I remember how it always used to start. A vibration coursing through my body would build to a malevolent ommmmmm somewhere between a sensation and a sound. I felt as though I were being forced out of my body, as if some 'thing' out there in the corner of my room was pushing me outside of myself. A kind of force field, waves of the blackest hatred, seemed to envelop me, sent pulsing through the dark by an entity which I never saw but which somehow appeared in my mind in the form of a terrifying image, that of a huge levitating fist wrapped in the Turin Shroud.