O_O

[Shiuze]

Ok..

So this morning, I wake up. I couldn't move at all.

I see this person standing there.

It looked like my sister who passed away since I recognize the PJs but..

I couldn't look up at her face, I was trying to move my head up..(since I can only see the bottom half of her body)

o_o Freaky, I couldn't move at all..

I knew it was her since I wasn't scared but I was frustrated I couldn't move.

Then she disappeared and I could move. It was like I woke up very tired. I turned the other way and slept immediately.

I dunno if it were a dream or not since I was laying the same direction where I saw her. :x

[antiaircraft]

Interesting... it seems like your sister decided to say hello. :)

[*princess*]

Maybe she's trying to tell you something. From a psychological point of view, why do you think she was wearing THOSE particular pajamas?

[neon_halo]

I thought I'd say something because I too have experienced temporary paraylsis upon waking up. It happens when you wake up in the REM part of the sleep process, but, for what ever reason, the body does not move out of the natural paralysis that occurs during REM. It is often occompanied by hallucinations, the same kind you can get just before you fall asleep. My hallucination, unfortunatly, was not the most pleasant,

seeing as I halluncinated, undoubtably in recation to the paralysis, that someone was putting heavy weight on me, and strangling me. The paralysis seemed to have resulted in my tongue being in a position where it could choke me, and I'm pretty certain that if the paralysis had not stopped sooner, I'd of died

.

 

However, I do not want to take from the importance of what you saw. Just because it was probably an hallucination, doesn't take away from the meaning of the content. There is a reason you saw your sister/your sister appeared before you. Whether it is simply because of the time of year, or whether she had a message of some form. It's all interpretation.

[Shiuze]

Maybe she's trying to tell you something. From a psychological point of view, why do you think she was wearing THOSE particular pajamas?

I always wear those PJs.. o_O

I thought I'd say something because I too have experienced temporary paraylsis upon waking up. It happens when you wake up in the REM part of the sleep process, but, for what ever reason, the body does not move out of the natural paralysis that occurs during REM. It is often occompanied by hallucinations, the same kind you can get just before you fall asleep. My hallucination, unfortunatly, was not the most pleasant,

seeing as I halluncinated, undoubtably in recation to the paralysis, that someone was putting heavy weight on me, and strangling me. The paralysis seemed to have resulted in my tongue being in a position where it could choke me, and I'm pretty certain that if the paralysis had not stopped sooner, I'd of died

.

 

However, I do not want to take from the importance of what you saw. Just because it was probably an hallucination, doesn't take away from the meaning of the content. There is a reason you saw your sister/your sister appeared before you. Whether it is simply because of the time of year, or whether she had a message of some form. It's all interpretation.

Oh my.. But I've seen her 2 times before without paraylsis.. x_x

[neon_halo]

Maybe you're magic :)

 

(more words? more words!)

[Ruto]

I had paralysis when first waking up, although I've had no hallucinations. I remember it really irritated me when I couldn't move. :P

[Guest Levy]

Neon_halo, I have heard of this before. Many psychologists claim that it is an explaination for people believing they are abducted by aliens. It happens when the eyes wake up and you see, but your mind is still in dream world. Its all halucinations. Sometimes its alien abductions, other times the walls are melting. >.< If I could remember the name of the show I saw I'd post it. It was on the discovery channel.

[Ruto]

xD Alien abduction. Pretty funny. Not likely.

 

...Or is it? :shiftyeyes_anim:

 

EDIT: Found this article on stanford.edu.

 

In some cases, when hypnogogic hallucinations are present, people feel that someone is in the room with them, some experience the feeling that someone or something is sitting on their chest and they feel impending death and suffocation. That has been called the “Hag Phenomena” and has been happening to people over the centuries. These things cause people much anxiety and terror, but there is no physical harm.

 

So neon_halo, that sounds like what happened to you, although I don't know if your tongue was an actual threat.

 

That sounded somewhat humorous. xD Threatening tongue.

[Guest Levy]

Ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I found the term! It's called Hypnagogia.

 

Wikipedia quote

The hypnagogic state is sometimes proposed as an explanation of experiences such as alien abduction, apparitions, or visions.

 

EDIT: Oh, Morgan caught it first. Poo. <_<

[antiaircraft]

I believe the show you are referring to Levy is called 'Ten Ways'... quite a good show actually.

[Guest Levy]

No, it was something about alien abductions. I forget, but I know it was a show on alien abductions.

[antiaircraft]

Hmm... I might have gotten mixed up, but wasn't there a Ten Ways episode on alien abductions or something?

[Loc]

I've wake up parylyzed all the time, but nothing happens, I just stare up to the ceiling and try to wake up because I know that I am just asleep.

[Fable]

Interesting... it seems like your sister decided to say hello. :)

LoL Yea, maybe she just decided to say Hi. :laughingsmiley:

[Guest Levy]

Hmm... I might have gotten mixed up, but wasn't there a Ten Ways episode on alien abductions or something?

As I said, I forgot. I was listening to my stereo and I was working online and I just had the TV set to the Discovery Channel. All I know is that it was something about alien abduction. Oh, they did have one lady on the show that said she could act as a proxy for an alien. I guess all you have to do is pretend you're a lunatic to get on TV now-a-days.

[Loc]

No Levy, you just have to be able to read from a script.

[antiaircraft]

Oh yeah, I remember now - it was a Ten Ways episode on contacting aliens (I watched a rerun earlier) but it's not the one that talks about paralysis. Odd...

[Shiuze]

Maybe you're magic :)

 

(more words? more words!)

Maybe I am magical.. xD

 

Wait..What?! Aliens? That's a lie. o_____O Nothing happened to me.

[xXMoonlightXx]

must be great able to see your sister again =)

[antiaircraft]

Wait..What?! Aliens? That's a lie. o_____O Nothing happened to me.

We weren't saying that you were abducted by aliens or anything. :P We were just quoting that paralysis, etc. when waking up is often associated with hypnagogia, which is used to explain stories of alien abductions.

[*princess*]

Yea, one time I woke up and I couldn't move. Then the walls started melting, and when my brother walked in he melted too. (Not good) :P When I could move, I started laughing!

[antiaircraft]

Well that must have made your day. :P

 

If I've had any hypnagogia incidents, I don't remember them...

[Shiuze]

We weren't saying that you were abducted by aliens or anything. :P We were just quoting that paralysis, etc. when waking up is often associated with hypnagogia, which is used to explain stories of alien abductions.

Oh ok. XD Phew. You all scared me there! Now I can sleep safetly.. ^^;

[ckayser]

temporary paraylsis, dream paraylsis... psychic paraylsis.. its called many things.... when REM is involved it is to keep you from sleep waking and such....

 

However I have experianced it before quite often. I will share, mind you this is deeply personal and freaky to say the least.

 

When I was with my ex-husband we lived in a haunted house. I say this with all certainy. I had ghost busters out and a psychic out, she ran out the door screaming in fear and refused to come back in and get her stuff. My husband owned the house prior to my moving in. He was not a man of... openmindedness. I was seeing things, hearing things... feeling things, missing things. I have some great video.

 

One night I was in bed alone. My husband worked 2pm to 10pm and often would not arrive home until after 1am. This night was not the first night it happened but it was life changing because this night is the night I started to belive.....

 

The old house was built in the early 1900's sometime between 1903 and 1910. The floor plan had changed many times over the years and at the time you could literally stand at the front door and look down the length of the house to the back bedroom if the doors were all open. So when I was in bed I could see the front door. This was planned since I had some previous experiances and lived in constant fear of what was attacking me. There I was in bed alone.... I woke on my side, I could hear my husband in the living room and see the flashing of the TV, he was playing video games. I could hear him eating chips. I coud not move. I could only move my eyes. I felt a great weight pressing me in to the bed not a uniformed weight mind you just at my head, shoulders, hips, knees and feet. The greatest weight was at my shoulder. As I was laying there coming to my senses I realised 2 things. First I could not breath. Second.. I could hear a whispering in my ear. It was saying the most vile things I have ever heard. Nicely put it was telling me I was worthless, fat, ugly, and needed to die for my sins as a woman. Add a bunch of @#$%^&*&^%$. I could feel the breath at my cheek, my hair was tickling me as "IT" spoke. My marriage was not so good and at first I thought it was my husband. But I couldnt figure out how he could hold me down and my not see him as I was facing the edge of the bed... also I could HEAR him in the living room.

I started to fight against the weight as I was not breathing and that was more of a priority then knowing WHO was doing the holding and talking.

I was pushing as hard as I could up against the weight. When I decided to scream for help from my husband in the living room. I couldnt open my mouth I had no control. I was fighting harder and could feel my jaw start to move in slow motion, I could see my husband walking towards me, pass by me and go into the bathroom. I saw the light come on, I heard him do his thing.... my eyes were buldging my head was pounding I needed air and soon I knew I was dying. I WAS DYING of this I am sure. My husband came out from the bathroom and stood next to the bed, he was looking at me funny... I was moving my mouth trying to scream.

 

He blew his nose....

It was gone.

 

He told me my entire body came up off the bed an inch or two. I was screaming and sucking in air as fast as I could. He was not reacting at all just looking at me. When I could finally speak I sat up and asked him what had happened and he said I see you finally met the ghost. I said I thought you dont belive in that. He said I belive, they just leave me alone.

I asked him what he saw. He said I was pressed into the bed, he could see the shape of a hand on my shoulder. He was fasinated at watching it press me in to the bed. I did have a hand shaped bruise, fingers and a palm on my shoulder the next morning. I have picture of it.

 

From that day until the day I moved out I had a video camera on me everytime I went to bed. I have "it" on camera. It was not a waking dream. It was not from waking from REM. I have seen and experianced things in that house I can hardly talk about.

 

Later I learned that my house had been moved to the foundation it sat on in the 40's. Prior to that there was a house that had been built in the early 1800 and had burnt down. A woman killed her husband and burnt the house down around him. She was hung for her crime. My house sat on its basement and foundation. My house had been divided into a duplex. Upstairs and downstairs we were downstairs. In 1963, a tenent of my husbands grandparents hung himself in the upstiars apartment. in 1982 his grandmother hung herself in our bathroom. In 1996 his mother killed herself with sleeping pills in our bedroom. My ex husband still lives there today. He sleeps in the room over the garage not attached to the house that he built shortly before we were married. How do I know this. Because during our entire marriage from day 1 that is where he slept. They dont bother him there.

 

This happened approx. 11 times in that house.. never before and never since. When we divorced a short time later I moved out and was never bothered by it again. However I did go back about 1 month later to get mail. When he answered the door he invited me in. As I started to cross the threshold I felt a surge of wind my hair moved with it and felt more than heard "Get out" I backed away and let him bring me my mail on the stoop... I have never been back since. I avoid the area entirely.

 

 

 

I truely belive in hauntings.. I think your sister came to check up on you.