I’ve been getting SP since I was a teenager, and since my twenties the paralysis has gotten more handsy. I’ve learned to scream in my head for it to get the f off of me and it would immediately release me. But this morning that didn’t work, it continued caressing me. I don’t see or hear it thankfully, but I feel him. I have no one to talk to about this in my life who wont look at me like I’m crazy and it’s frustrating.

Hey guys, long time SP-sufferer here.

I was wondering how being touched or moved affects your guys’ episodes?

I sleep next to my partner and I have caught on to the fact that after an episode, depending on whether they try to touch or move me, I request they do the opposite next time. LOL. Basically, if they try to help me out of SP by, say, turning my on my side, it startles me really badly and the next morning I’ll ask that the next time they don’t do that. Then, next SP, they won’t touch me, and I’ll feel pretty awful, and ask they try to turn me next time.

Basically, both options suck because SP sucks. And I’ve realized I have absolutely no idea what my partner should do — they don’t know how to help either and they say it’s really tragic watching me have SP because I sound/look so scared 😭

Anyway, I guess I’m just wondering how my fellow SP comrades go about sleeping in bed with somebody. Any tricks of the trade? Anecdotes? All ears.

Every time SP happened before, my mild tinnitus grew into an ear-piercing torturous whine over a short period and stayes like this for about a minute. Imagine the loudest sound you can, and then imagine something even louder. Naturally, I want to avoid SP as much as I can if instead of fabled succubuses I get execution by audio.

And this night it was about to happen again, my usual ear ringing began gradually rising in volume. Having noticed it in time, I tried to move as vigorously as I could. What came out were "jagged" movements, a hand would jerk, pause, jerk again, pause, etc... Thankfully, this must've been "enough": the ringing fluctuated at louder than usual but didn't rise further, movements never truly froze, and after about half a minute it began to subside.

So, YAY, audio torture avoided! [Maybe I misremember something as this happened deep in the night before falling asleep again]

Has anyone ever used the method of not breathing to come out of paralysis?

I have had severe sleep paralysis at times in my life, all the good hallucinations, all the hits.

Eventually I become self aware during the episode, and in my mind I always say, "if I cant move, maybe I cant breathe either" and a sensation of panicked breathing begins.

I have found that by simply saying that I will just not breathe, and essentially slip into a type of drowning, and accepting whatever happens, I wake up.

Its equally horrifying and effective, has anyone else tried or experienced this? 🤣