Sleep Paralysis

I have experienced this several times. It's like waking up from a nightmare but it seems like you're still not fully awake, and you want to shout but you can't make a sound, you want to move but you couldn't move. You're sure you're awake but can't seem to get control of your body. And you realize that the sounds that you hear in your dream/nightmare is in the background while you're sleeping. I always end up waking up shouting (with my tongue paralyzed) and hair rising all over my body. Creepy.

omg i have before! and its so creepy! But then you get over it once you can move again. lol

Well never when I was drifting off to sleep. I've woken up a few times and found myself completely unable to move. The first time was terrifying because I felt like I couldn't breath and my heart was pounding out of my chest, but I couldn't move to do anything about it. The second time was comical, because I was hallucinating and I saw a little dwarf sitting at the foot of my bed taking notes. He even had a little red hat. I tried yelling at him and kicking at him, but of course I couldn't move!

well i have experienced it and its not normal. if its normal then we wouldnt have it anyway. some part of your brain got mistriggered when you are in a deep sleep. i couldnt sleep for a week because of the horrible things i have seen.

Sleep paralysis is a natural mechanism that your body does so that when you fall asleep your body don't suddenly become active and run around everywhere. As for what you experience, do not worry because your mind contains a lot of information and at the end of the day, sleeping allows the brain to dump those information into a pile and try to make meanings out of them. What you experience is probably resulted from entering stage 1 of sleeping, where you are between the border of wakefulness and sleep. This is the stage where you brain creates different sensory experience that cannot be explained logically. Look more on hypnagogia if you want to read about it.