[kj] Lists......

The Stranger letranger789 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 8 15:15:40 EDT 2009


So interesting.  I've studied it as well.  I became interested in it when it happened to me in college.  I "woke up" in my bed, my body was paralyzed and then I........well, then I floated out of my body and up through the ceiling!  Strange Days. 

One common aspect of sleep paralysis is this big swirling rushing water sound in your head when you become conscious but paralyzed.  Some people describe it as a vibration.  I kind of think it's the sound of blood rushing past your inner ear....  Anyhow, I read an interview with Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine and he said that the album "Loveless" was his attempt to recreate this sound and the feeling you get when you're in the "hypnogogic state", i.e. sleep paralysis. 

Adam

p.s. Jaime, I think that beard picture is going to give me nightmares tonight!! haha!


 



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I've had lots of incidents of sleep paralysis myself & researched it quite a bit. 
Everything from being pinned down, bitten, scratched dragged across the room, burnt & also smells as well as visual hallucinations - not pleasant!
The freaky thing there though is she had the paralysis, but I saw something over her & she woke up the second it went.
I can't explain or rationalise that one!
Maybe we both experiencing different degrees of SP at the same time?
Maybe it was Bes getting his kicks - who knows :)

I find it fascinating & that painting on the Wiki page sums it up perfectly!

On a completely unrelated note, I just stumbled across this picture of this fine beard:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vLbMuPkqGIw/SHaNdKlvXLI/AAAAAAAADEM/THBMv6JC2SI/s400/CurlBeardMOS0109_468x387.jpg




On 8 Apr 2009, at 16:49, folk devil wrote:

It is referred to as 'Sleep Paralysis'. Not uncommon.
I have numerous friends that have experienced it, and have also myself..freaky sheet..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

 
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On 8 Apr 2009, at 15:27, Brendan Quinn wrote:
You’re making that up right?
nope on both counts.

I know I've posted this before but by far one of the spookiest happened not long after we met.
The fluorescent mrs fatpotanga crashed at my parents house one night.
My bed was only a single so I had a mattress on the floor, she the bed.
She woke me up trying to shout in her sleep I looked over & there was this really weird figure bent over her head, like body at perfect rightangles.
It slowly turned it's head towards me - had these mad shiny black eyes & what I can only describe as a weird spiky/twiggy beard - it locked eyes with me & slowly faded.
The second it had vanished, she sat bolt upright, gasping for breath & very distraught saying that something had her pinned down & was choking her.
I didn't tell her for years what I'd seen.



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