Quote: "Basically, when you dream, your brain releases chemicals that paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams. Very very rarely, although more commonly in some than others, these chemicals will be released too early or too late and will paralyze the person while they are still awake. It is an incredibly scary sensation. Your eyes are quite literally all you can control. Often times, the natural psychological reaction is to believe that some person or thing is in the room watching you, and because you can't look to see, a spiral of fear will often occur. Sometimes the spiral of fear gets to a point where you begin to hallucinate out of pure fear. I personally have never gotten that far, but I plan not to! Sleeping on your back is a good way to get it to happen especially if you are more prone to it. A good majority of people will statistically never experience it, so you haven't reason to worry. I have experienced it probably ten times or so. "
I've had the full deal Hynogogia experience, it is something you never really get over.
it started with a buzzing in my ears as i was dropping off to sleep, then the buzzing wriggled into my brain, then simultaneous hallucination and paralysis, followed by out of body experience. eventually the buzzing fades and you regain control of your body. A truly strange experience. I still get it to a minor degree, but now it is more just things from my dreams remaining for a short period after dreaming. sometimes tied into the world in very strange ways. I have lost a lot of bedside appliances through mistaking them for monsters. (clocks,fans,radios etc).
for example, this morning I awoke to find a little vortex/portal looking thing swirling around on my wall next to my bed. It had something to do with my dream and alarm clock noise reacting in a very strange way indeed. Its a bit fun and funny so long as it isn't monsters.
I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
