About a week ago, I experienced a horrible and nightmarish incedent while asleep. It was the middle of the night and all of the sudden I woke up. Well, my eyes opened up. I found that I could not move at all.

I could see everything around me but in a hazy way. I was frightened because I couldn't move. I tried lifting my head and I felt like I was being pushed back down and forced to shut my eyes. I didn't like the feeling at all, so I forced my self to open my eyes and forcing my head to shake.

I was still being pressured to fall back asleep. I believed that if I went back to sleep, that I would never wake up again. I tried yelling, but I couldn't produce a sound. I could hear a small breath leave my mouth, but that was it. I then lifted and shook my head as hard as I could and that's when everything cleared up and I began to move again.

Well, I didn't go back to sleep for the fear of being in that situation again. I went to the kitchen for a drink of water and listened to some oldies music on the radio to calm me down.

I some how drifted back to sleep and woke up refreshed. I logged on to the Internet and researched what had happened to me. It's something called Sleep Paralysis. It's common amongst sleepers. What happens is that when you fall asleep, your body shuts down so that when you have dreams, you won't reenact them. Some people sleepwalk and I think that's part of a sleep disorder much like sleep paralysis. So, when your body is shut down, your eyes open up first, just like a sleepwalk.

You wake up but you cannot move because your body is still in sleep mode, even though you want to wake up. So sometimes, when you are in that sleep paralysis state, you might see strange illusions like ghosts or people, etc. That's because you're still asleep.

Has anyone experienced this strange phenomenon? I am curious to know what strange things happened to you.

Sweet Dreams everyone!!