Ughhh
I'm scared of sleep paralysis. I've never had it and i DON'T WANT IT AT ALL!

I'm scared of spiders too. I suppose most people are but yeah.

Ghosts. Although, i don't know if they exist... but i've had some OO-ER EERIE experiences. Either that or i am crazy.

Oh and stairs. I cannot walk down stairs or walk up them whilst people are talking to me. I actually dread walking near them. Hopefully there won't be litter on the steps but if there is, i have to stop still and move diagonally, very slowly.

I also have a fear of slipping. Yes, sounds odd. Maybe i'm just a bit weird... no, but i hate icy pavements as i might slip. As well as wet pavements as i might slip.

I'm also scared of the future. Are ETs already on our planet? Is there a god? Are we the only ones alive? Is the solar system a fake idea made up by our world leaders? Yes, I KNOW. SAVE ME!

But these questions plague my mind every second of the day.

Tell me, do i have any mental problems? :[
(I've got the clap has some cool sentence here, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 22:41, 7 replies)

This probably wont help then
but I've suffered from sleep paralysis on three separate occassions, and they have been the worst experiences of my life. Absolutely horrendous. It's like being dead, but worse. I imagine anyway...
(Stevie Ruggling, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 22:54, closed)

LEEEEEEROOOY JENKINS!
Actually, it didn't help.




Thanks.
(I've got the clap has some cool sentence here, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 23:04, closed)

I think
you need to get it all out there, it might even be cathartic.

Ive had the sleep paralasis a few times and it is scary as hell. There was one time round an ex girlfriends house and she thought her bedroom had poltergeists (as she had two coming of age daughters) i have never seen one but i woke up fully paralized with a weird swirly colour in front of me.

*Does twilight zone music*

May have been the beer though.
( Trollman, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 23:20, closed)

I've had sleep paralysis too, quite a few times
It really is the scariest thing ever. I hear people moving around in the house, but I can't move my head to see who it is. Then I see people standing over me and looking down. Eep!

The main common factor of all my experiences has been that I was sleeping on the sofa during the day. There may be some message here...

On a related note, I was once woken up during an operation because I was having a bad reaction to the anaesthetic, but I was still under the effect of the paralysing drug. That was pretty scary too, but I felt a lot more scared during the sleep paralysis, mainly because I was a bit more lucid and aware of what was going on.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 10 Apr 2008, 23:25, closed)

No, no mental problems
And sleep paralysis isn't as common as your phobia makes you think it is.

It is really horrible though. Had a milder one where I didn't feel any presence in the room etc, I was just awake but my dream was still going on without me (like hearing a film on telly in the next room, was bizzaire). Just couldn't move a thing.
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 0:16, closed)

The slipping thing
I get that too, really badly. Snow, ice, mud and wet leaves are all anightmare, especially on a slope. Also my local shopping mall has a very shiny floor which isn't slippy, but my brain thinks it is and makes me walk like a spazz.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 10:54, closed)

I had sleep paralysis once
and it's bloody awful. And the thing is: I used to work as a neuroscientist: I knew that I was only feeling fear because the part of my brain that feels fear was active as a symptom of the condition. AND IT DIDN'T MAKE IT ANY BETTER. You're right to be scared of it. But it's almost certain it won't happen to you, and even if it does you won't come to any harm.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 17:34, closed)