[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl

I had 2 of them within a span of about 10 minutes some 5 years ago. Only time it's ever happened and still not sure it was actual sleep paralysis. I was staying at my moms for the holidays in the guest bedroom. I was laying on my side, almost asleep, when my 17 yr old at the time nephew comes in ****ing around and sits on my torso. I couldn't see him, but he was the only one that would mess around like that, so I think to myself, "Get off me dammit!" Only I couldn't talk or turn my head. Finally I get enough strength to turn my head to look, and there's nobody there. I think to myself, "Damn that was weird!" So I try to go back asleep and within minutes it immediately happens AGAIN, someone sitting or pushing on my chest. This time I snap right out of it and got up and looked around. Nothing. Thing is, the first time it happened I was only partially asleep but the 2nd time it happened I wasn't even close to being asleep.

A couple of days later I'm at the kitchen table alone in the house messing around on the computer when I hear my nephew come in thru the garage door like he always did. He shuts the door and I hear him throw his bag down and walk up the stairs to his room. I never looked up from the computer. About 20 minutes after that I hear the door to the garage open again and in comes my nephew. I look right at him and say, "Didn't you come in like 20 minutes ago?" He says, "No I'm just getting here" I said, "Someone came in 20 minutes ago I distinctly heard the door shut and someone walking upstairs." We went up and looked and there was definitely nobody else in the house. Then he said, "This happens all the time in this house we always hear footsteps, ESPECIALLY in that guest bedroom." So the guest bedroom, the entire time I was there, was INCREDIBLY cold. I had to wear a jacket every night to sleep, even with the heater on. I started doing the math and putting 2+2 together, still not sure if I had sleep paralysis or if something was ****ing with me. It's the only time I've ever experienced anything like that.

I didn't have anything that bizarre happen lately - but I did have some seriously wicked almost asleep moments the night I'd watched Hereditary. I was in a weird state of consciousness just prior to sleeping and then I remember waking up from a dream in which some overlord was demanding I solve some sort of box of sorts, like a lock box - It was terrible and I woke up horrified - I felt like I almost died (mentally) - I'd wondered if I was holding my breath in the dream - it was super real - all of it - and come to find out Hereditary used real demons names in the movie. I won't **** w/ that movie ever again. And I love horror films.