I'm pretty sure I had sleep paralysis this morning, it was super weird.

So in the dream, my thumb nail lifted up, then I pulled something out from under, then replaced the nail down and it got this moving, swirling, black and white kind of effect. I thought it was super weird, so I went to take a picture of it. Then my phone started buzzing like crazy, and I look at the screen and these QR codes keep flashing and changing on the screen.

Then I awoke. I knew I was conscious cuz I had an audio book playing in the background and I could hear it. Suddenly I felt a hand on my crotch, moving from behind up toward my tummy (not at all in a sexy way).

Then I realized that I don't live with anybody, but it felt distinctly like a hand. Then I felt Pepper (specifically) jump up on the bed and sniff my face, but I know it wasn't him cuz he and his brother stay in their room over night.

I tried to move but I couldn't. My vision shifted between everything appearing as black silhouette and clear vision, but all I could do was breath rapidly and heavily through my nose.

Finally, my plushies were in such a way that it looked like a face lying beside me facing up.

Eventually I focused and snapped out of it, but it freaked me out.

#Dream #Dreams #SleepParalysis

What's the creepiest, most unexplainable thing that has ever happened to you in real life?
(Not childhood spooky stories, but real events that don't cause ordinary fear, but some deep, ancient, primordial "what the actual fuck is this?" feeling)

One of the strongest cases that still won't let me go (about 10–12 years ago):

Middle of the night in my grandma's old house in a very remote village.
I wake up suddenly — the overwhelming feeling that someone is staring straight at me, very intently.
I open my eyes — about a meter from the bed, right by the window, stands a tall, unnaturally thin, absolutely dark silhouette.
Not black. Not a shadow. It's a shape that literally devours light — no face, no details, just a deep dark void in human form.
I couldn't move at all. We just… stared at each other (well, I stared at the place where a face should be).

Then this thing suddenly, **inhumanly fast** (like skipped frames in a video), leans its whole upper body toward me.
And in my head (not in my ears — directly in my mind), very calmly, without any emotion:
"Not here."

I black out instantly.

In the morning I wake up like nothing happened. I tell myself it was just sleep paralysis, happens sometimes.
I go to the window — and on the windowsill lie **three perfectly dry maple leaves**, neatly arranged in a fan shape.
The window was locked from the inside.
The nearest maple trees are at least a kilometer away, and it hasn't been autumn for months.
The leaves are crisp, completely fresh, as if they were just picked.

Grandma saw them, silently collected them in a dustpan, took them to the stove, burned them, and for the whole next week she prayed almost nonstop.
She never explained anything to me directly. Only many years later, very reluctantly, she said:
"Sometimes… someone comes to mark their presence."

That phrase "comes to mark their presence" and those three dry leaves on the locked window — to this day, it's the strongest "this breaks the rules of reality" experience I've ever had.

So… what's the most mind-bending, "how the hell is this even possible?" thing that ever happened to you?
The one that still makes you feel like someone very briefly pulled the curtain between our world and… something else?

#CreepyExperience
#Unexplained
#Paranormal
#RealHorrorStory
#Supernatural
#GlitchInReality
#WeirdShit
#TrueCreepy
#HighStrange
#ShadowFigure
#SleepParalysis
#SomethingWatchedMe
#RussianCreepypasta
#WtfMoment
#RealityGlitch

The Witching Hour: Why Waking at 3 AM is a Warning

3AM: Knocks on the door. Sulfur smell. Raspy breathing in the dark corner. Elias froze as IT pinned him—pure demonic hate. Witching Hour truth: Spirits hunt then. Real story from Chicago. You waking at 3AM too? 😱 Click for the nightmare: https://www.loudscary.com/2025/12/the-witching-hour-why-waking-at-3-am-is.html

#WitchingHour #3AMWakeUp #SleepParalysis #HauntedHouse #DevilsHour #horror #scary #creepy #spooky #ghost #horrormovies #horrorstory #haunted #paranormal

The Hatman
- what if shadow people but this time it's an alien croc? Alfonso in his shadow form accidentally scaring a poor fish folk in the dark.  #spaceRARt #furryart #scalieart #shadowpeople #thehatman #sleepparalysis #digitalart

@nekoow7 yeah, sleep paralysis really sucks. I had it on an almost nightly basis for the better part of a decade starting in my early teens. With me, I suspect it’s related to #Non24 disorder and it has largely gone away ever since I stopped trying to follow a normal 24 hour day.

I still get it once in a while, but they stopped being scary after the first decade. After that they were just uncomfortable. These days, they rarely happen and they’re more annoying than anything else.

The monsters with hot feet standing on me are long gone. I even breathe just fine. There’s no pressure on my chest. I just can’t move.

In the rare times it happens, my only concern is being able to get back to sleep quickly.

#sleepparalysis
@_L1vY_

Footsteps on the Stairs - A poem
#amwriting #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #writerslife #SleepParalysis #creepy

http://georgelthomas.com/2019/06/01/footsteps-on-the-stairs/

what if the Hat Man just wants to chill? #SleepParalysis #GlitchArt

https://www.storyangles.com/post/what-s-lurking-in-the-dark

What’s Lurking in the Dark?
The Truth About Shadow People
They hover at the edge and watch from the dark.

#shadowpeople #dark #sleepparalysis #paranormal #hatman #timetravelers #interdimensionalbeings

Find out why sleep paralysis is so terrifying and what your brain is really doing. Only here at TigrePop.

#SleepParalysis #SpookyBrains #Spooky #Tigrepop @alxs._.mapl

https://tigrepop.tv/sleep-paralysis-the-scariest-thing-you-cant-escape/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

@gutenberg_org

Parallels the medieval equivalents of "#AlienAbductions"...

#Incubus (shown here) and #Succubus (for male victims)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Little demons that came in the night and had their way with you!

#Nightmares #SleepParalysis #Hypnopompic, and #Hypnagogic #Hallucinations #Sleep

Each night, I hoped I don’t get sleep paralysis when I go to bed.
#persona #pajamas #scared #sleepparalysis

Peak Level libera su nuevo single “Sleep Paralysis” | vía #iRock

https://www.irock.cl/peak-level-libera-su-nuevo-single-sleep-paralysis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peak-level-libera-su-nuevo-single-sleep-paralysis

#chile #irockwebzine #nuevosencillo #peaklevel #sleepparalysis

A #FieldGuide to #SleepParalysis

https://cavemancircus.com/2025/03/14/slee-paralysis/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/5lfvvm/lpt_if_youre_in_sleep_paralysis_hold_your_breath/ 🤔 🤷 #sleepparalysis

Nightmares are something we’ve all experienced at some point, but for some, they are more than just unsettling dreams—they are relentless, recurring, and deeply disruptive.

https://drljr.com/2025/03/02/review-of-how-to-heal-your-nightmares-by-meg-bartlett/

#Nightmares #DreamInterpretation #MeganBartlett #SleepParalysis #DreamHealing #LucidDreaming #MentalHealth #TraumaRecovery #PTSD #SelfDiscovery #HealingJourneys #SubconsciousMind #BookRecommendation #Dreamwork #SpiritualGrowth

I have a vivid memory from when I was about 7 or 8 years old of my mum finding me sat at the top of the stairs crying because my legs wouldn't move.

Thinking back on it now, I was almost certainly still asleep and it was sleep paralysis, I used to walk and talk in my sleep and apparently could have full conversations whilst asleep.

I still remember it clear as day, many years later. So weird!

#Sleep #SleepParalysis

Yup. Keep those feet under the covers!

#SleepParalysis

Talking about a dream where I met some nightmare creatures but they were DTF.

In one of the dreams I had this morning, I was visiting the opulent suite of a missing eccentric wealthy dude. I didn't know he was actually missing at first. I thought he was just on some extended sabbatical. His suite was open to his friends while he was out and I was friends with some of his friends. I think we'd been using one of his solid, massive tables for an overnight TTRPG session because it was morning and we were packing up backpacks and other types of bags, loading up binders and notebooks and related paraphernalia. No dice that I remember so I'm not sure what we'd been doing. It's not important.
There was a little TV near us and it was showing what looked like a documentary about the eccentric dude living in a wetland, trying to be one with the animals there.
His arms and legs were too long and he had these long oval/diamond shaped wounds where his elbows and knees were. He could also bend his arms and legs in any direction and seemed to have extra joints.
My friends told me that the eccentric dude routinely broke his own bones and reshaped his limbs so he could train his muscles to move them in new directions. He wanted to belong in the wetland, standing like an egret or something in the water. They told me that if the bones healed in a way he didn't like, he would just break them again.
I was like, "that's interesting". I wondered how he dealt with the pain.
My friends said we could go look at it. I wasn't sure what they meant but I followed them.
We went out into a hallway and down to a different room.
When the opened the doorway, I saw that the wetland was indoors. There was a narrow path along the right wall and that's where they led me.
In the back right corner were a series of observation couches. They went up to them and laid down.
I was down in the wetlands area, on some of the dry ground to get a better look.
I haven't mentioned the creatures. There were five creatures living in the wetlands that weren't evident in the video.
They were things of nightmare, but they were not hostile. They had been semi-domesticated.
I only remember what two of them looked like.
One was translucent, quadrupedal, sleep paralysis shadow demon with red eyes and a shifting number of legs. It was made of straight lines with no curves.
The other was a giant beetle that looked like the Gregor Samsa as Beetle from the R. Crumb illustrated version of Kafka's Metamorphosis, but two to three times the size. It had a dark blue carapace and a white underbelly.
There was another one, the only thing I remember was its color: a sickly yellow, like the yellow wallpaper. It reminded me of a flying cockroach that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid sitting on the toilet in the bathroom.
Anyway, to my amazement, after my friends laid down on the couches in the corner, three of the creatures went up there and started making out with them.
They were DTF (apparently).
As I was standing there in shock, the yellow creature came up and talked to me.
It told me that the eccentric dude was the only person who ever treated them with respect and not fear. The eccentric dude spent lots of time with them trying to learn from them and discover how to emulate their essence. He felt a kinship with them. The yellow creature was upset that the eccentric dude had run off and it blamed other humans for causing him to abandon them for other pursuits.
The yellow creature got so mad about it that he started attacking me and the other humans.
He wasn't trying to hurt us, just force us to GTFO.
The DTF creatures were passive, just letting it happen.
The fifth creature joined in with the yellow creature and started taunting us, too.
As we were at the door, I reminded the DTF creatures that, without humans being allowed to come into the room, they'd never get to bone one again.
That caused the giant beetle to fight back but it wasn't enough to keep us from being pushed out.
Anyway, it was kind of funny to see terrifying creatures ripped from night terrors and phobias turned into sex fiends.
Also, I realized that the eccentric dude seemed to be like Narcisse from Nightbreed: someone willing to mutilate themselves to be worthy of joining the monsters.

#WhenIDream #NightTerrors #SleepParalysis #ShadowDemon #GregorSamsa

My Hero Academia’s Hidden Horror! #shorts #anime #myheroacademia

My Hero Academia's Dark Secret! #anime #myheroacademia #horror #nomu #madscientist #secret #quirks #heroes #sleepparalysis #horrorstory #experiments #animefacts from Anime Meets Culture

https://animemeetsculture.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/my-hero-academias-hidden-horror-shorts-anime-myheroacademia/