Had an experience when I was young where I woke up in the morning or felt like I'd woken up but couldn't me and could only see a uniform screen of white, I felt trapped and tried to move feeling panicked then woke up fully after a few moments.
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my worst hynopompic hallucination was seeing a highly-detailed robot arm/gun pointed at my face from my computer chair. I don't get them often though, hypnagogic whispers of my name is more my thing.
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I've had sleep paralysis for years now. Mine ranges from extremely creepy, to almost peaceful.
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Ahh sucks man. I've surprisingly never had sleep paralysis, only hallucinations and night terrors/sweats. I was terrified of getting sleep paralysis when i was a kid - reading about people seeing a hag suffocating them.
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Some of them are almost intriguing afterwards, but yeah, most of the time when I'm in them I'm desperate to get out. Never had the "entity on your chest suffocating you" thing, but definitely the sense of a malign entity/presence in the room or "out there."
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I have some stories... Sometimes it's more like a lengthy hypnotic waking dream, hallucinations as I'm paralyzed in bed, sometimes go into a state of intense fear right away, accompanied by menacing entities at times, or intimations of them.
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I shared a couple, more dreamlike ones, on a forum a while back. http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=2067&page=2 …pic.twitter.com/d5lne9T98E
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What I neglected to mention in the first account was that after the closet vision, it turned into a fireplace in a brick house from centuries ago, and I briefly had a vision of being a priest kneeling before it and praying for forgiveness, before returning to my bed.
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Not religious, btw, but there definitely are themes of that nature at times. I can see how people back in the day took them for demonic visitations, or the result of a witch's curse.
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I have memories of similar experiences when I was young. Much less so now. I wonder if physical and psychological maturation tames the sensation
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