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Can't Scream For Help

by Riley
(Ohio)

I had a seizure a few years back, so when I first started telling my mother about these episodes, she thought I might be having them in my sleep.


The first time, and call me crazy I don't care, I thought it was a ghost. My brothers had been seeing the same weird figure lately in their room, and my grandmother later described the little girl i thought I had seen.

But regardless, I remember being woken up (sleeping on my side) and felt as if I was being turned onto my back. Then, as if something was choking me, I could not speak or breath, and I saw a little girl coming out of the corner of my room, reaching for me and screaming/squealing. I did not remember waking up, just snapping out of it and running to my mom's room (I was probably 14 at the time, haha).

The next few times, however, I haven't seen anything, but I always make myself think "It's happening again" while I have these episodes, though I never see the girl, which is why we are beginning to think I may have Sleep paralysis.

I've changed my sleeping patterns in the past year, due to my brother needing to shower in the morning and nervous there won't be enough hot water for him, my mom, and me. So I get up around 5:45 AM, take a ten minute shower, and then go back to bed until about 6:40, so that's about 45 minute nap, give or take. Recently, I've been getting these episodes after going back to sleep. I'll "wake up" and tell myself not to open my eyes because I'm scared when I know I can't move anything. My breathing increases and it feels like I'm drunk, honestly: my head is spinning or as if my head isn't connected to my body. I just kind of wait for it to pass. Sometimes it goes away almost instantly, sometimes it feels like hours.

The worst I've had, and the last one I've had, was on a weekend, so I hadn't woken up at 5:45 or gone back to sleep. I woke up, on my back which was weird because I never sleep on my back, and I could see my room clearly. I couldn't breathe again, and it felt like I was shaking, I kept trying to scream for my mom, but I could barely whisper it once, the other attempts I was struggling and my throat felt choked. I snapped out of it and had a headache and when I told my mom she basically told me she doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about and that I'm crazy.

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Jul 08, 2011
 Sane. Very Sane.
by: Kevin

You're definitely not crazy Riley. Thanks for sharing your story and all the best :)
Sep 21, 2011
 you have deleted my comment.
by: Anonymous

Riley, i understand that you have deleted my comment
now i tell you the problem is yours! and with a Doctor you can never solve it NEVER.

Peerlessmight@hotamil.com

just keep my Email with you incase you found the truth!

and those jenies are true man!!
Nov 08, 2011
 Ah...
by: Anonymous

To the Arab above, I'm a Muslim (non-Arab) too. And I thought the same thing too. I mean, there are unseen creatures like Jinn and Angels. There are good Jinns and bad Jinns (known as devil or Satan). And yes, they can get into our bodies and control us. Dreams are not just subconscious thing; it can be controlled by either God or Jinns.

I've read other personal articles, and they all sound like the conclusion I came up with (especially the levitating one article). But heyy, only God knows! It could be really SP or that creature. I've never experienced such things (or at least as far as I can remember in my whole 21 years). I mean, sure, I had dreams of rape where I can't stop or I've had nights when I woke up to a ghostly figure of someone I know or doesn't know waking me up for something or just for the heck of it. I've felt something poking me with sharp end. I had a dream which was just sooo intense that I woke up literally pulled upward into a sitting position.

I believe that perhaps by controlling your personal fears, you will have less episodes of SP. What can I say, really! Just wanna add in my thoughts :) so please, don't think I'm being overly-religious or something. I think many religions have the same basic thing.

Maybe someone who researches about SP should add in religions!
Nov 10, 2012
 me to NEW
by: Anonymous

I belive the same thing happened to me I had been hearing a little girl talking to me one night I was laying in bed on my left side and in my right ear I heard look over my friend had been hearing the same girl he lives about fifteen houses down. One night I had a dream she was chocking me and I woke up able to move but unable to breathe or talk i tried to scream for my grandma but I couldnt the only thing I couldnt move was my head or neck. That same night she told my friend " (my name) is dead.) To get rid of evil spirits like her buy some white sage and burn it then walk around your house saying prayers from the bible my grandma did this and she left
Nov 10, 2012
 me to NEW
by: Anonymous

I belive the same thing happened to me I had been hearing a little girl talking to me one night I was laying in bed on my left side and in my right ear I heard look over my friend had been hearing the same girl he lives about fifteen houses down. One night I had a dream she was chocking me and I woke up able to move but unable to breathe or talk i tried to scream for my grandma but I couldnt the only thing I couldnt move was my head or neck. That same night she told my friend " (my name) is dead.) To get rid of evil spirits like her buy some white sage and burn it then walk around your house saying prayers from the bible my grandma did this and she left
Nov 10, 2012
 me to NEW
by: Anonymous

I belive the same thing happened to me I had been hearing a little girl talking to me one night I was laying in bed on my left side and in my right ear I heard look over my friend had been hearing the same girl he lives about fifteen houses down. One night I had a dream she was chocking me and I woke up able to move but unable to breathe or talk i tried to scream for my grandma but I couldnt the only thing I couldnt move was my head or neck. That same night she told my friend " (my name) is dead.) To get rid of evil spirits like her buy some white sage and burn it then walk around your house saying prayers from the bible my grandma did this and she left

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