What was that?

Yea, it happened to my sister before, a couple of times. I think it's just a nightmare that you are having. So, don't worry to much. Sometimes prayers do help, so pray first before you go to bed.

I also experienced that many times when I was a kid,it seened a dream,but really not.And I had ever asked my grandma,she just told me not to put my hand on the precordia,but I used to forget her word so that the same thing happened later now and then.After I grew up,I didn't undergo it any more.

That happened to me a long time ago when I was young and it was so scary I mean the same thing and I asked my mother if she heard me call her and she said she didn't hear anything and when I woke up the refrigdearator door was open and no one had been in the kitchen at all!! I think it is some kind of a ghost, I couldn't move either and it was like something was holding me down and I could not move at all it has happened to me twice it is very strange it happened to me when I was younger, but not since then.

that sounds super freaky but oddly enough your not the first person I heard complain about that.I dont wanna say its a spirit or anything but I cant help but wonder..Time to take out the ol bible ^___^" and hopefully its nothing medical. seriously tho may want to talk to your doctor about that.

Aren't you dreaming? I mean a nightmare maybe?? Gosh, that was really scary. I was just watching that on movies and never thought would happen in real life. Well, my Mom told me a story before that she can't move her body and some big monster was holding her and keeping her from moving. I think that was a nightmare. Maybe you should free your mind of bad things or don't think too much while you're in bed so that when you sleep, only good things remain. Hope you'll be okay with your sleep soon.

There is a medical term for this Its called Sleep Paralysis and it can be absolutely terrifying I had it happen to me 3 times, You cant move, You cant yell for help and you feel as something else is in the room with you. I pray its the only thing to do and it eventually lets me go. Doctors will brush this off as sleep paralysis, But I think its much more. If it happens to you pray to Jesus and Padre Pio

That sounds quite terrifying and i hope it never happens to me. Actually, I've never heard of that experience and I think i would be asking my doctor for advice. All the best.

hi thatgirl wow that does sound scary.i do hope it never happens to me.I have read about it.its called sleepparalysis. I never have experienced this but sounds like I am lucky. I did wake one night to find I had been walking in my sleep and woke hanging on to the bookcase I had dreamed I was sorting out books and putting them in alphabetical order., Of course all I was doing was just sleep walkig. my theory on your scare is that your body was still not out of the dream state and was totally relaxed. I can understand how frightening it was.

I was in that situation before. In my province we call that incident “nabatibat” The Batibat or Bangungot is a vengeful demon found in Ilocano folklore. These demons were blamed as the cause of the fatal nocturnal disease called bangungot or night mares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batibat It happened to me twice. And I can still remember it. There were small black shadowed people each holding my arms and legs and they were holding me back from my bed when I was fighting to get myself up. I was trying to shout but no words came from my mouth. I was really wide awake, my brain was telling me to get up but my body would not follow. It took me awhile before I finally get myself up to bed. And when I woke up I was breathing heavily. I was thinking, if I haven’t wakened, would I still be here now sharing this experience?

I had a dream years ago that was just like that, I could not move, I could not talk and I could not open my eyes. I decided in my dream to just go with it and stop fighting. I eventually woke up, sweating and I was okay.

Hi thatgirl13, that is indeed a very spooky experience. I once had an experience similar to it, but it happened while I was walking!! I was a trainer back then and we used to go out of our company capus to a small tea stall in the evenings. One night around 8 pm I was walking back towards our office with a couple of my trainees. All of a sudden I stood on one spot and was unable to move or walk or even lift my hand. It was as if someone had stuffed a huge foam inside my mouth and ears, and when that feeling lifted after a few seconds my trainees were also looking at one another and were real scared. So we three had the same experience and what was worse, there were so many other people walking around us at the same time but none had experienced it. What explanation was given to us by many people was that tehre are indeed lot of spirits walking around everywhere. They don't really care about us or out to harm or contact us. Its just that by chance we happened to cross each others' paths and that is what we experienced. I think what yopu experienced was something of that sort! There are just so many wierd things that are beyond the realms of scientific explanations.

Well, it happened to me always before and somehow i am used to it, but i do not want to have experienced it becuase you know the feeling don't you?.. well, in our dialect it is called "urom" i forgot the english term of it.. I will post it if ever i will find it or remember's the word.

It happens when you are too tired and immediately lie down to sleep. Your physical body is too tired to move during sleep. It has been my experience as if having a nightmare, once you are in it do not panic since your mind is awake and only your body is numb, try to slowly move one finger of yours,then follow next until you can move your hand and immediately have a deep breath to force yourself to stand. Usually when you do not rest yourself in thinking and trying to look for a help, it will also lead to heart failure and so be careful if you have heart trouble.

Yes, I experienced that too. It's like there's someone who hold me in my back and I can't move and I can't open my even though I want to. I really don't know what's that too and it's still mystery to me right now. I'm sorry I can't give you the information that you want but we had the same experience. :)

I have read everyone comment and while Doctors 'think" they have a medical term for what has happened to you, as they do everything, somethings are just too weird to even calssify for the term "sleep paralysis". How can so many people, myself included, be fully awake, see around us, see literal presence, feel the 'thing' holding us down, feel the weight of whoever is on top of us and even feel what they may be doing to us and yet if it was a dream, why do we get marks and bruises in unreachable places at times we won't or can't even reach or think to harm ourself like that? It's scary to say the least, but in this world that we live in there is so much unknown. I would say, just say a prayter if you are spiritual before going to bed, cleaning out your room helps too. My Grandmother say, if your bedroom is dirty, it is more attracting to those kind of presence because of the dirt.

Id go to a doctor and ask him. Tell him about everything you feel and ask him to explain what it is. Sounds like whatever it is your mother has the same condition. Dont worry about what your friend is saying there is a reasonable explaintion im sure.

I have had drinks like that! Not in a along time but it has happen! It scares the crap out of me,too! I have no idea why it happens! I also have had a similiar dream were someone is on me and I dream I am yelling to get this person off of me! Then I wake up scared out of my wits and it takes me awhile to try and get back to sleep! Scarey dreams are not fun at all!

Wow, that sounds really strange. The only thing I can think of is the fact that when people are dreaming, there is something in our brains that disable our muscles. This "safety mechanism" prevents people from actually physically acting out there dreams and possibly causing themselves physical harm. They can't move or even speak, which is exactly what you describe. Maybe in your case, or others that this happens to, there is a delay in the "waking up" of the part of the brain that does this. You physically wake up but the safety mechanism in your brain hasn't released your muscles yet. That's what it sounds like anyway. Maybe talk to your doctor and see if there is any record of it in the medical journals.

It is noting it may be effect a dream which was you see when you sleeping. Don't take so serious. Forget it.

it could be a ghost or entity or something like that. if it happened to me i would go and see someone that has some experience with things like this.