Scary Experiences in your Life?

[matrix_ghost]

As a kid Seeing my mom suffer a violent stomach inflamation and screaming in pain as my relatives brought her to the doctor

And as a teen seeing my mother blood pressure rising sky high , everything starting to move around her , falling on the ground and finally losing consciousness.

In both cases i thought this was the end , i'm going to witness my mother dying in front of me.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

My heart beating 300 bpm. Then a defibrillator being used on me while I was awake.

 

[OrangeCloud]

When I was younger, I fell off a rope swing that was stupidly place beside a chain-linked fence, and impaled the back of my head on those sharp deals sticking from the top of those fences. I was hanging there, bleeding with a cracked skull for quite some time.

 

[JaD]

I've been experiencing sleep paralysis for a few years now. I remember the first time that it happened to me. My brother and his wife went for a vacation overseas and had asked me to house sit for them while they were away. I show up to their place in the late afternoon and unpack all my stuff. The night before I was having trouble sleeping and feeling just really ill for some reason. I had a small snack and decided to take a nap in the guest room.

It didn't take very long for me to doze off after my head hit the pillow, that's when it began. I opened my eyes and I could see the ceiling, everything was orange from the setting sun beaming through the window. That's when I felt an immense pressure on my chest, my neck and my face as if something were crushing me. I felt the most horrible terror I had ever felt in my life, I could hear my heart pounding. I tried to move but was unable to, I tried to scream but I just wasn't able to. That's when I had the distinct impression that I wasn't alone. I felt as if someone was standing in the partially open closet next to the bed. I knew I wasn't able to move my head. But I was able to glance at the closet and that's when the shadows in the closet got darker. That's when I thought that I was going to die.

Then I snapped out of it. I instantly sat up with cold sweat dripping from my forehead. I frantically searched the room, and the rest of the house. I was totally alone. I was not able to go to sleep again that night because I was too afraid. It's happened nearly a dozen times since the first experience. Each "event" stranger then the previous one. Sometimes I hear radio static and distorted voices, sometimes I see shadows shifting and other oddities. I've read up quite extensively on sleep paralysis so it eases my fear a bit.

This is pretty amazing reading this now,

I always thought that "dream" was a nightmare that I was stuck in or something. I had no idea it was sleep paralysis or what that even was until now.

And I definitely agree with those saying it's a scary experience. It's like being tied to your bed by invisible chains when in your brain you're saying "Get up! Come on! Roll over! Anything!" I've had it a few times I remember and I remember being terrified even after I've finally gotten up.

 

[Golgo-13]

Anyone have sleep paralysis?

Is that when you wake up in the middle of the night and your arm or leg are completely numb because the circulations been cut off..?

 

[Godsfireworks]

I've missed being hit by a passenger train at full speed by a couple seconds.

I've also found myself hanging onto a crumbling cliff face, staring down into a 200-300 foot gully. I didn't think I was going to make it out of there. I still have vertigo from the experience.

 

[JaD]

Is that when you wake up in the middle of the night and your arm or leg are completely numb because the circulations been cut off..?

Try your entire body. It's when your body is shut down from sleep but your brain isn't and your completely aware of your surroundings and you can't move.

 

[Tanin]

Try your entire body. It's when your body is shut down from sleep but your brain isn't and your completely aware of your surroundings and you can't move.

That's how I feel right before I pass out from a seizure. I wake up with sleep paralysis every now and then and god I think I'm going to seize. Horrid horrid.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I have sleep paralysis too, but I never see anything scary. It's usually just me waking up & not being able to move; though it feels hard to breathe sometimes. Sometimes when I'm in it, I feel like I'm trying to move my legs to get off my bed to fully wake myself up... yet nothing happens. I usually fall asleep shortly after. It's more annoying than scary for me.

But besides that, nothing scary has really happened in my life. I ALMOST got caught in some type of current/rip tide/thing at the beach once, but I got myself out before anything bad happened.

 

[spidermanJLA!~]

Wow. So many people, so many different situations. Well, I apologize for any terrible thing that has happened to anyone. Too young to have a horrifying situation, but once I had to kill a giant bee(probably one of those killer ones). I have a phobia of bees. Something so small can strike you anywhere. Anyone have any real paranormal experiences?

 

[Shemtov]

I was once mistaken for an armed robber and tackled by policemen t 4 am.Really scary , but not his fault. Sort of my fault, sort of the fault of a gas station attendee. Whatever.

 

[Soapy]

Would you mind talking about this?
The fear of being kidnapped was something I had in me for many years when I was younger.

Sure.

I was six or seven and went over to a neighbor's house to see if their daughter could come out and play. No one was home, but I walked around the outside of their house a bit just to make sure. While I was doing this a strange, beat up car pulled over from the main road. A man got out and started walking in my direction.

This guy looked like a mid-point between Bob from Twin Peaks and Otis from The Devil's Rejects. Sorry if you don't get the references, point being this was a pretty haggard-looking dude at the best of times, and very frighting to a young child. Anyway, I was pretty scared so I ran inside my neighbor's screened-in porch. From there I tried to go inside their house, but of course the door was locked, so now I was trapped in this porch area.

My only course of action at this point was to lock their rickety-ass screen door and hide under a nearby table. I was still in plain sight from the door, but that crappy plastic table was all I had. I was hoping he would just go away, but the next time I looked up he was standing behind the screen door. He began talking to me, well...more talking at me since I was too scared to respond.

The whole time he was talking he was trying to get the door open. He grew more angry and forceful, slamming the door back and forth. With the poor craftsmanship of the walls and door on this porch thing he easily broke in. He came over to me and grabbed me by the arm, pulling me out from under the table. He held my arm for just a couple of seconds, if that, before I heard shouting coming from outside. It was my mom and another neighbor. They ran him off and called the cops.

The guy was arrested a week or two later, give or take a few days. I can't remember what for, but it must have been pretty serious because I remember all the local news programs reported on it.

I was very shaken up by the whole thing for a while afterwards. I had recurring nightmares about getting kidnapped for years. After that I had pretty terrifying recurring nightmares about getting abducted by aliens, which I figure is more or less a continuation of my previous dreams just with a different theme.

So there you have it. It wasn't a ghost or a UFO or anything like that, but it was pretty scary to me and messed me up for a while.

 

[Octoberist]

I have sleep paralysis too, but I never see anything scary. It's usually just me waking up & not being able to move; though it feels hard to breathe sometimes. Sometimes when I'm in it, I feel like I'm trying to move my legs to get off my bed to fully wake myself up... yet nothing happens. I usually fall asleep shortly after. It's more annoying than scary for me.

But besides that, nothing scary has really happened in my life. I ALMOST got caught in some type of current/rip tide/thing at the beach once, but I got myself out before anything bad happened.

With me, consciously I know I'm in sleep paralysis, so I'll try to yell, or coax myself to get out of it. But it's kinda scary because it feels like you're a ghost trying to float out of your body.

 

[Brain Damage]

Sure.

I was six or seven and went over to a neighbor's house to see if their daughter could come out and play. No one was home, but I walked around the outside of their house a bit just to make sure. While I was doing this a strange, beat up car pulled over from the main road. A man got out and started walking in my direction.

This guy looked like a mid-point between Bob from Twin Peaks and Otis from The Devil's Rejects. Sorry if you don't get the references, point being this was a pretty haggard-looking dude at the best of times, and very frighting to a young child. Anyway, I was pretty scared so I ran inside my neighbor's screened-in porch. From there I tried to go inside their house, but of course the door was locked, so now I was trapped in this porch area.

My only course of action at this point was to lock their rickety-ass screen door and hide under a nearby table. I was still in plain sight from the door, but that crappy plastic table was all I had. I was hoping he would just go away, but the next time I looked up he was standing behind the screen door. He began talking to me, well...more talking at me since I was too scared to respond.

The whole time he was talking he was trying to get the door open. He grew more angry and forceful, slamming the door back and forth. With the poor craftsmanship of the walls and door on this porch thing he easily broke in. He came over to me and grabbed me by the arm, pulling me out from under the table. He held my arm for just a couple of seconds, if that, before I heard shouting coming from outside. It was my mom and another neighbor. They ran him off and called the cops.

The guy was arrested a week or two later, give or take a few days. I can't remember what for, but it must have been pretty serious because I remember all the local news programs reported on it.

I was very shaken up by the whole thing for a while afterwards. I had recurring nightmares about getting kidnapped for years. After that I had pretty terrifying recurring nightmares about getting abducted by aliens, which I figure is more or less a continuation of my previous dreams just with a different theme.

So there you have it. It wasn't a ghost or a UFO or anything like that, but it was pretty scary to me and messed me up for a while.

Goddamn. That's horrifying. I'm sorry that you had to go through that, there's some real ****ed up psychos in this world. But I'm glad you managed to come out of it okay in the end.

 

[Nave 'Torment']

Try your entire body. It's when your body is shut down from sleep but your brain isn't and your completely aware of your surroundings and you can't move.

Happens to me when I'm too stressed or have skipped sleep once or twice. My mom once said I moaned like that but what I remember was screaming from inside my brain telling my body to wake the hell up. I haven't had it for a few weeks now but that's coz I've cut down on caffeine and actually bother to get at least 4 hours of nap-time everyday.

I say it's Sandman.

It's definitely Sandman out to get you and refusing to let you leave his realm.


On another note -- my Hype account got banned last night out of nowhere for no reason whatsoever, I had to send that "what the hell happened?!" message to the admins and now it's working fine. I want to know if it was a glitch but really have no clue whom to ask? Never got a warning.

 

[Nave 'Torment']

I have sleep paralysis too, but I never see anything scary. It's usually just me waking up & not being able to move; though it feels hard to breathe sometimes. Sometimes when I'm in it, I feel like I'm trying to move my legs to get off my bed to fully wake myself up... yet nothing happens. I usually fall asleep shortly after. It's more annoying

When I try to wake myself up my head starts to pound and hurt bad. And yeah breathing gets a bit difficult but I think it gets worse if you panic -- kinda like getting a cerebral Charlie Horse

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

Not sure if my house is haunted or something, but during one of the sleep paralysis' I was trying to wake up, their was a shadowy figure not human looking at all and it was right at the end of my bed but could float and it seemed like it was pushing me down,and with a distorted voice told me "you're trapped" this never happened again but I was creeped out for the rest of my life. After fighting the paraylsis I was able to get up but I couldn't go to sleep after the incident.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Nope, Bullet.

You were shot in the leg? Really? You mind if I ask how that happened?

 

[Nave 'Torment']

Not sure if my house is haunted or something, but during one of the sleep paralysis' I was trying to wake up, their was a shadowy figure not human looking at all and it was right at the end of my bed but could float and it seemed like it was pushing me down,and with a distorted voice told me "you're trapped" this never happened again but I was creeped out for the rest of my life. After fighting the paraylsis I was able to get up but I couldn't go to sleep after the incident.

Well my brother's place has always been creepy as hell -- he lives in our old summer house which is next to a graveyard and has always did things to my imagination. I swear everytime we tried to play Silent Hill 4 something weird happened (doorbell rings, no one's there at 4AM, power goes out, weird noise in the other room no one's there that sorta jazz). I swore I once saw an old woman with a candle walking up the stairs (which later turned out to be the maid but didn't help with my imagination for years on end!) I was always convinced there was a spirit in that place. Benevolent or otherwise I didn't care.

Last time I went there to visit I kept the odd sleeping hours, fell asleep in the room which has this really ghost-like picture of my brother from when he was 4 years old (it's black and white and hangs on the wall -- dude's about 30 now). So anyway, I fall asleep and I keep hearing this female voice pushing my elbows down with her knees and at the same time my stomach starts burning like I hadn't eaten anything for days on end and it felt like this succubus or whatever kept telling me that i'll never wake up. I ... wasn't aroused.

This was one of those momentary sleep-paralyses, woke up afterwards and felt tired as hell. This happened a few months back, I'd went there to clear my head and get some writing done.

Like I said it's definitely nothing but felt like a really corny dream from a bad movie script.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Wow, reading this thread has been really harrowing!

Not much all that scary has happened to me.

Only things I can think of that are ACTUALLY scary are 1. The time my boss thought he could cut across the harbour at night when we were out drinking and got stuck in sinking mud. By the time my friend spotted him he was up to his waste and we had to throw a ring out to him. 2. I've seen way to many people in scary states cause of drugs - overdoses, passing out in the middle of a pub, slitting wrists in public or attempting to run into the sea, eyes rolling back in head and foaming at the mouth etc etc. It's all pretty unpleasant.

Tbh, i used to be a very scared kind of person, but after getting an anxiety disorder and having to learn how to deal with fear so it doesn't take you over, i don't get scared by the silly things i used to anymore (like the dark).

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Oh, can't believe i forgot this one.

Mum dropped me off to book a hair appointment and was waiting for two mins on a double yellow. A garbage truck came round the corner while i was going inside, and all i heard was this crunching metal sound and my mum screaming. They guy had swung the back of the truck right into her side of the car, and was STILL trying to keep going with her now stuck inside. I came flying out of there with my arms waving screaming at the top of my lungs and he finally stopped. My mum just about squeezed out of the now squished car with luckily no injuries

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Ive never been sure if this was an accident or attempted kidnapping but none the less it has frightened me since I was little. I don't remember my exact age, but it was around 6 or 7, and I was shopping with my grandma. The store is out of business now but it used to have those high up carts, sort of like Best Buy does.
Anyway I would always ride on the bottom while she shopped. One day she turned around to get cheese, and a passing man with a cart filled with bean cans walked up and looked at her shopping than turned and walked off with her cart instead. I was so scared I couldn't yell so after a couple moments of the guy (as it seemed to me) almost running down the aisles, I threw myself off and ran back. From there my memory isn't great, I never told anyone about it and I believe she had her purse so he wasn't stealing it that could tell. Still, it's stuck with me a long time.

 

[TheWatcher]

I was once mistaken for an armed robber and tackled by policemen t 4 am.Really scary , but not his fault. Sort of my fault, sort of the fault of a gas station attendee. Whatever.

Is it bad if I laughed at this?


For me, I threw up out of my nose for a couple of hours straight.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well there was that time I was abducted by a UFO... But the aliens turned out to be pretty friendly.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Well there was that time I was abducted by a UFO... But the aliens turned out to be pretty friendly.

Did they try to fuse you to things with duct tape?