Today while I was having one of my usual naps during daytime, a scary shadowy being grabbed my neck and it was choking me. While that scary being was choking me I was completely breathless. I fought in my sleep (dream) and when I woke up I was completely breathless.
I was wondering. Did something similar happened to anybody else?
The scary being looked a lot like this.
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Yeah something similar used to happen to an old gf. She used to say a shadow would be next to the bed and she felt a massive pressure and couldnt move, then she would feel all energy and strength leave her body. Even though this happened while i was next to her i was oblivious to it. Not sure what it means… but ur not alone.
So these things happen to other people too. I wonder what are those beings? Are they just a figment of our imagination, or a real evil beings? Who knows…..
YES, I have had dream where I was being attached buy some animal….and in the dream the animal was biting the back of my neck…. and when I woke up the back of my neck was in real pain.
I have had other dreams where parts of my body were in pain or trembling after waking up from a dream where somebody was hitting me in that spot. Its freaky shiat
Your dreams sound even scarier than the one I had today 🙂
What you and Soco’s old gf experienced was good ol sleep paralysis. It’s a completely normal occurrence, which, surprisingly, a lot of people experience. It has something to do with your REM sleep being disturbed, or that’s at least one hypothesis.
The weird thing about my dream was the fact that I wasn’t paralyzed while dreaming it. I was completely able to move, but the shadowy’s creature hand was just to strong for me to remove it from my neck.
When I woke up that shadowy creature dissolved like a cloud of black dust.
You don’t have to be paralyzed to have experienced it. Other possible symptoms include difficulty to breathe and hallucinations.
I certainly can’t say for sure that this is what happened to you, but SadPotato is correct in that sleep paralysis (you wouldn’t feel paralyzed in the dream, but rather in your actual body), sleep apnea, etc. can trigger such experiences. I had sleep paralysis twice. Although there was no choking sensation, there was definitely the feeling of a presence and it was trippy.
I want to say it’s symbolism for your thoughts… It sounds stupid I know, but… don’t they hurt you? don’t they paralyze you as well, making you seem like your helpless and snuff you out? I just want to say, would you let your thoughts accompany you if they looked like that?
I don’t think you’re right. This is a first time in my life the shadowy thing appeared in my dreams, and I’ve been depressed since 2003. Also, when the shadowy thing was strangling me, I wasn’t completely paralyzed. I had my full strength but it wasn’t enough to remove the being’s hand from my neck.
Anyways, it was an interesting observation you did. Thank you for sharing your opinion with me 🙂
NO But one time I dreamed i eat a giant marshmallow ans when i woke up my pillow was gone!!!
yes it has! but that means you beat the fucker up and won!!!! 🙂
Hahaha your comment made me laugh. I rarely laugh BTW.
Thank you for bringing a smile to my sad face.
Probably sleep paralysis like sad potato said. You don’t always really feel awake during such experiences (even though often times you do) Often you either feel paralyzed or even sometimes can feel like you can move but unable to due to some external force (like something sitting on you for example) but generally that happens because your body is somewhat unable to move while you sleep…. Sleep paralysis is a really horrifying experience I have a lot of experience with it, at least once per month normally :/ and yes it is real at least to you…. Experiencing intruders and strangulation is very common, those are basically the two most common things people experience during an episode of sleep paralysis…. I normally experience strange amorphous creatures either making it hard for me to breath by either pushing down onto my chest or even abdomen, strangling me, or sometimes even forcing themselves down my throat -_- it’s never a pleasant thing…. Either way even if that’s not it (which more than likely it is, and I would certainly hope that it is and that some strange shadowy being that wants to kill you doesn’t actually exist) I do hope you never have this experience again. -_-