Weird sleep experience!!?!

Weird sleep experience!!?

it happened to me twice so far.. i was like exhausted, i lied down on my bed, trying to get some sleep... i felt going deeper and deeper, then at some point, i started to hear people laughing... i was still conscious that im not totally asleep, i could feel the light in my room... so that voices seemed fun at the beginning, so i smiled... but later on, they began to get louder and louder like my head would blow out, and then i was STUCK!!! i tried to stand up as i knew i was still conscious, i tried to move my hands or my feet or call someone, but i couldnt!!!! i felt like if i didnt get out of this thing, i would die!!! i tried to open my eyes, gradually, then i succeeded, but for like a minute i couldnt move at all or say anything!!!
i searched yahoo answers and found out that this is "sleep paralysis".. what is it caused by??i saw a comment that says that those voices we hear are actually spirits... i really felt like those ppl were laughing at me, that they were demons... any help?

4 weeks ago
im religious enough to be a religious figure :D

why do i need to repent??

Dr. Bling. did ur grandpa tell u something that u didnt know, that turned out to be true??

i need to know if it's related to demons, coz there are chances it is...

4 weeks ago
i just found another girl who's having that problem:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

she says: "Once i seen a boy coming through my wall in a hotel. I found out next day a boy had died in that room."

that is certaily NOT a coincidence

4 weeks ago
thanx linda... i know im not the only one, but im still looking for the following answer: is it some sort of state where we can get in contact with the other world, i.e. spirits and demons?? maybe that voice u heard is ur friend's dad trying to tell u something... as i read through the internet, it seems that state only happens when ur lying on ur back...

See, just from the little bit of research you did, you know more than all these answerers here answering off the top of their head or wherever some of these weird answers came from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sleep_paral...

Yes, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations. They sometimes go together with cataplexy and sleep attacks to make the four symptoms of narcolepsy. People can also get any of these as isolated symptoms.

There is circuitry in all of us to paralyze your muscles during REM sleep, so you don't act out your dreams. When that circuitry fails, people sleep walk. When it kicks in before you're quite asleep you get sleep paralysis. It's not dangerous, just weird. It is not a food allergy. That Wikipedia article mentions pharmacotherapy if someone really wants it. For me it would be enough to know what it is. Then again I've never experienced it.

EDIT: You're still wondering if this is spiritual? Look, hypnagogic hallucinations are dream-like experiences that can happen with sleep paralysis or on their own. If dreams are messages from the spirit world, then hypnagogic hallucinations are, too. I find that dreams are simply a way our brains think while we're asleep, in terms of symbolic or imaginary images and our emotional responses to them, as opposed to the words or more realistic images that our brain thinks with when we're awake. One's no more spiritual than the other.

When I started praying regularly, God answered those prayers in many ways. My dreams were not one of those ways. Some people can see an angel in every light and a demon in every shadow, even one of each in eternal combat, as if God wills that. Yet there's no way any human being can understand anything about spirits directly, or the spirit world wouldn't be so opaque to us. If it's revelation you need, pray to God for that, not to people who don't even know what sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations are.