I'm posted about sleep paralysis before but never in detail about the dream that has always given it to me. For about 15 years that I can remember I have had sleep paralysis on occasion. The feeling is never short of terrifying for those who haven't experienced.
I can only describe it as having a terrible doom coming closer and closer to you that seems as real as anything you've ever experienced but at the same time sensing you're sleep and can end the threat but you can't wake up.
Being that I'm married to a light sleeper, she's seen this happen to me and says I look like I'm having a seizure when this happens. (she's in the medical field) I breathe shallow and fast and my whole body tenses up. She always tries to wake me to varying (time) levels of success never taking more that 10 minutes to do so.
That I always felt was because in the recurring nightmare I have there is a demon in the corner of the room with red or white eyes depending on the occurrence slowly coming closer and closer to me while opening it's arms with daggers for fingernails and widening it's mouth with T-Rex like teeth as if to consume me. The demon has never touched me in this dream I have had over and over again.
Tonight was different. I have never had a dream like I had tonight, never have I had one that was so vivid and scary. It started off in NYC as me trying to get somewhere to make an important call I made and it was exciting because I got news a large deal I was working on was about to get the green light so I was looking for a phone.
As I searched for a place to make the call I asked random people where to find a phone and a couple told me where to go. As I went to the street corner they described I got confused and asked a few other people and each response got more and more angry and aggressive to the point where two men stabbed me....after that shit got insane.
Day immediately changed to night and the humans I saw before me started to turn into something else....different animal/humanoid type forms with large T-Rex type teeth, blood about the mouth, some of them with tails akin to a picture of a demon. As the attacks continued I noticed this black figure swaying closer and closer, almost dancing toward me with it's back facing me.
As the figure came close I saw one of it's claws and knew immediately that it was MY demon. It was drawing closer and closer but it was much different than ever before. It was moving much faster than ever before and this time the dream had noise. Every time I'd seen the demon before the dream was silent.
Finally, with it was only feet from me and turned quickly grabbing my arms looking me directly in the (his were white cat-like eyes with glowing white corneas and pitch black pupils) and screaming while spitting blood on my face "You're going to die here" in the most realistic, demonic, gutteral voice I've ever heard. As he began to bite into my jaw I finally woke.
This was the most intense and terrifying episode I've ever had. I could hear my Wife calling my name to wake up and was trying to do so myself. She says that when I do this I call out in my sleep to wake up but don't. This goes along with the typical crazy dreaming, verbal diarrhea, and full body flex that goes with it.
I find this so interesting because we really don't understand dreams from everything I've read....scientists seem to guess at it at best. I have dreamed about this demon for almost 2 decades in the exact same situation over and over until and hour ago.
I'm sure I'll get plenty of TLDRs here but I find it interesting and I'm curious if any of you have experienced anything similar because I'm sure as Hell not going back to bed this morning.
I can only describe it as having a terrible doom coming closer and closer to you that seems as real as anything you've ever experienced but at the same time sensing you're sleep and can end the threat but you can't wake up.
Being that I'm married to a light sleeper, she's seen this happen to me and says I look like I'm having a seizure when this happens. (she's in the medical field) I breathe shallow and fast and my whole body tenses up. She always tries to wake me to varying (time) levels of success never taking more that 10 minutes to do so.
That I always felt was because in the recurring nightmare I have there is a demon in the corner of the room with red or white eyes depending on the occurrence slowly coming closer and closer to me while opening it's arms with daggers for fingernails and widening it's mouth with T-Rex like teeth as if to consume me. The demon has never touched me in this dream I have had over and over again.
Tonight was different. I have never had a dream like I had tonight, never have I had one that was so vivid and scary. It started off in NYC as me trying to get somewhere to make an important call I made and it was exciting because I got news a large deal I was working on was about to get the green light so I was looking for a phone.
As I searched for a place to make the call I asked random people where to find a phone and a couple told me where to go. As I went to the street corner they described I got confused and asked a few other people and each response got more and more angry and aggressive to the point where two men stabbed me....after that shit got insane.
Day immediately changed to night and the humans I saw before me started to turn into something else....different animal/humanoid type forms with large T-Rex type teeth, blood about the mouth, some of them with tails akin to a picture of a demon. As the attacks continued I noticed this black figure swaying closer and closer, almost dancing toward me with it's back facing me.
As the figure came close I saw one of it's claws and knew immediately that it was MY demon. It was drawing closer and closer but it was much different than ever before. It was moving much faster than ever before and this time the dream had noise. Every time I'd seen the demon before the dream was silent.
Finally, with it was only feet from me and turned quickly grabbing my arms looking me directly in the (his were white cat-like eyes with glowing white corneas and pitch black pupils) and screaming while spitting blood on my face "You're going to die here" in the most realistic, demonic, gutteral voice I've ever heard. As he began to bite into my jaw I finally woke.
This was the most intense and terrifying episode I've ever had. I could hear my Wife calling my name to wake up and was trying to do so myself. She says that when I do this I call out in my sleep to wake up but don't. This goes along with the typical crazy dreaming, verbal diarrhea, and full body flex that goes with it.
I find this so interesting because we really don't understand dreams from everything I've read....scientists seem to guess at it at best. I have dreamed about this demon for almost 2 decades in the exact same situation over and over until and hour ago.
I'm sure I'll get plenty of TLDRs here but I find it interesting and I'm curious if any of you have experienced anything similar because I'm sure as Hell not going back to bed this morning.