If this is any consolation...

[NumberSix]

I don't know if this will mean anything to anyone here. But it sure means a lot to me. Just something that happened that I question.

It seems like it was 4 or 5 months ago. I was lying in bed, asleep. All of a sudden I woke up. But when I woke I could not open my eyes. I could not move, I could not make a noise. I had a cover over my head so if my eyes were open I could see nothing anyways. But the point is I couldn't move. I felt as though there was something just inches above my face, probably looking back down at me, suspending me from action. I wanted to scream like a little girl but I couldn't.

I started getting like tingly all over my body like you get when your foot goes to sleep. But when my foot goes to sleep I can move it, it just feels weird.

So finally after about 30 seconds the tingling went away and I could move again so I tossed the cover off of my head and sat up as soon as possible.

Nothing at all. Just darkness.

Ever since I am deathly afraid of the dark, haha.

[shay_angel78]

Hi Numbersix!!

I'm not an expert or anything, but this has happened to me on a few occassions. I was very scared the first time it had happened. I believe it is because our spirit leaves our body while we are sleeping and we just happen to wake up before it enters back. Which is why we cannot move. Have you ever had an experience where you have been somewhere before. I think that our spirit goes into the future or present.

It happens to me alot where I know I have seen places before and I knew that I have dreamt about these places. I've read a little about outer body experiences that is why I think this is what's going on with me. Now that I understand it I find it pretty cool. I hope this helps a little. As I said before I'm not an expert. But it does sound like my experiences I have had.

Your friend Shay!

[shay_angel78]

By the way I sleep with a night light and I'm Thirty years old!

[iclee]

Hi....this happened to me too. Scares me a lot. Strange thing is, it happens when I lie face up the bed but not when I lie sideways.

[Yochie]

I used to get this weird feeling too mostly when I was lying on my back and on one or so occasion when I was on my stomach. and i too was not able to move any part of my body. I use to meditate before I went to sleep because my mind is still very active. Any who, there it wouldn't take me 10 min. until I started feeling the tingly feeling all over my body. it was sort of like this energy that i was feeling and it had a pulsing rhythm to it too that i felt all though out my body. On some occasions I would feel that I was being lifted up starting with my legs. I was always afraid of that part because I didnt know what would happen. on other occasion I felt this negative energy trying to pull me. i felt it to be a bad energy and that is what made me get scared. this only seemed to happen in one specific room in m house. i never liked the room because of that and other things that happened to me in that room. Because of that experience i dont really meditate. i heard that it might of been sleep paralysis but i doubt it because it only happened before i even went to sleep and no where near the deep sleep stage (i believe).... it scared me so much