Sleep Paralysis, Polina Kirillova, Digital, 2018

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VioletMercurius on May 1st, 2019 at 18:02 UTC »

This perfectly captures that moment when I wake up and know my life is over.

Cerulean-Ineijune on May 1st, 2019 at 18:42 UTC »

I saw a figure like that but it was standing still straight and wavy and no matter how much you tried to look, you couldn’t see any of it’s features or face or anything. Just this inky black silhouette of fear incarnate.

Fullskee707 on May 1st, 2019 at 20:00 UTC »

For me i can tell when sleep paralysis is coming on. As im drifting off to sleep i will get a high pitch ringing in my ears and i "wake up" but can not move at all. I can only look around the room with my eyes but can not turn my head. I will try to call out or move with all my might but nothing happens. On a few occasions ive seen a silhouette in the room looming over me completely black. It does not move or speak and i have no clue what its about. Other times i will here gibberish coming from an open window or under my bed. Other times i see something under the sheets moving around. Then just like that its over and i wake up fully. As if nothing ever happened. I've had my dog with me and it never reacts to anything, or act like i was doing anything other than sleeping. No clue, sleep paralysis is fucked though

Edit: guess i should mention that it no longer frightens me after years. Its basically entering REM sleep while your brain is still conscious. Only thing that remains a mystery to me is why a large number of people report seeing the same figure.