> I was freaking out, but before I could sit up and wake up my
> stepfather I felt myself being held down, I couldn't speak, I couldn't
> breathe, I couldn't even lift an arm. It was like I was "paralyzed with
> fear" ... I felt something sitting on my chest, breathing in my face ...
> this went on for what seemed like forever, but was probably on a few
> minutes. Then all of a sudden I was able to sit up and look around and I
> saw nothing. I took my blanket and pillow and went and slept in a
> closet.
I've had this happen many times in my life too. This thread actually
inspired me to do a quick google and I found this:
http://www.castleofspirits.com/sleep.html
Anyhow, the other night, before I went to sleep, I was reading from "The
Hot Zone," a non-fiction book about Ebola and other related hot agents.
Shortly after I fell asleep, I had this feeling that I was coming down
with some sort of horrible ailment, and then my teeth felt locked
together, as though they were very powerful magnets locked onto one
another. I couldn't move for several seconds or open my mouth. It was
pretty creepy. That, of course, was a variation on the theme, but
especially when I was a kid and my parents weren't getting along too
well, I had a lot of weird dreams, one of which was the heavy weight on
chest one. The other I had a lot back then and have never had since, was
this feeling of a very, very heavy weight being suspended in mid air by
nothing but a very, very thin thread of some sort. I can't describe the
feeling, but it was sort of like I was the heavy object looking up at
the thread -- a very anxious mood, not unlike the chest dream.
What's strange is that I don't have very vivid dreams anymore. Of
course, I only sleep about 6 hours a night, so maybe I'm not getting
into enough of a REM cycle to dream very many interesting things.
-Bret
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