Comments on: Sleep paralysis - A personal account and analysis

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:31:22 +0000

I had a elderly relative that came to stay with us for a few months, however on his first night at around 10, we were awaken by his yelling, and as we walked in the room, he had one leg up in the air, stuggling and punching the air, and was yelling “the old lady is trying to kill me!” We shook at him, and when he sat up, he kept pointing towards the corner of the room and insisted that there was an old lady there that wanted to kill him. After he freaked us out, we tried to comfort him by leaving on the lights and playing a radio, and told him to sleep, and we even said a phrases from the bible for comfort. About 40 minutes later, the same comotion happened, but this time, he had “two” of his legs raised up in the air (did I mention that he was 70 years old), and he was fighting with the air and yelling. Well it happened two more times that night, we did not know what to think (our family has lived in that house for over 20 years, and none of us had ever experienced anything like that!) The next morning, he seemed alright and pleasant, but coincidently, an unfortunate long distant phone call came in for him from the Philippine, his granddaughter had called to check on him, and had informed us that his son had just been murdered!!!! (This is real…it happened in 2005, well we sent him home at the earliest convinience, its the freakiest thing thats ever happened in our home)

By: Michael Barton

Michael Barton — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:04:59 +0000

wow i just done some reasching on this just after haveing this happen man scary was dreaming i visted this haunted house to prove it was alode of rubish to only get a vist by the ghost of some girl called linda (gets chills) so any way the last things i rember is hearing “hello my name is linda and i died here” then i was trying to call my dad which by the way i dont even live with, also at this point i could not breath as if soemthing was on my chest then the next thing i know im half awake on my side trying to reach for my bed covers gasping for breath trying to hide my self under the covers with no avile as i could not move my arms or even legs soon after it started to wear off i started shakeing and think feel back to sleep really fraky hope i dont have it again.

By: DB Skeptic

DB Skeptic — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:29:02 +0000

>The correct past tense is “lying”.

…Corrected. Thanks!

By: Joey Foreman

Joey Foreman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:37:53 +0000

You weren’t “laying” in bed unless you were with a partner
The correct past tense is “lying”.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:06:28 +0000

I just found out that sleep paralysis exist, I have suffered from it twice that I know of, the first time I was about 15, I saw a light and thought I heard something about a house being auctioned, after telling my parents about it the phone rang and my grand fathers (who just past away) house had been auctioned, probably coinidence, I don’t believe in ghost, but weird. It just hapened again two nights ago, but it didn’t happen once, it happened five times in a row, I froze then was able to move, I thought that was wierd then it happened again and again, but it is good to read that I am not the only one this has happened to.

By: STA

STA — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:19:27 +0000

Wow, pretty freaky stuff, Andy. It’s good that you have the good sense enough to know that it’s a natural phenomenon and you didn’t turn it into anything more. We’d be a lot better off if more people with this and similar conditions could do that!