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Not sure why, but reading both your description in your posts triggered/awakened a dormant memory of mine. I'm not saying it is the same thing, but it sounds very similar to a situation I remember as a child.
I remember waking up abruptly from a nightmare, only it continued. While in this strange half awake half asleep state, I was PUMPED with overwhelming fear.
With my bedroom door open, if you lay in my bed you could see down the landing to the bathroom.
From in front of the closed bathroom door these blurry humanoid *things* would come out of the ground, walk toward my door before fading out and revealing the one behind it.
Needless to say as a child I screamed, panicked, closed my bedroom door and hid under the covers till I guess I went back to sleep.
Your description of your hallucinations and the feeling of fear as the come upon you really rang familiar to that one time in my life that have must have experience an hallucination
Comment by goodytwotoes at 04/02/2025 at 23:32 UTC
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Sounds like sleep paralysis. I have frequent nightmares and these assholes visit me all the time. Essentially you’re half awake, half asleep, and the shadowy demon people (for me anyway) imprint themselves on the real portion of your perception, while they exist in the nightmare portion.
It sucks, and I only experience it a few times per month. I really, really feel for anyone with schizophrenia.
Edit: forgot to mention they’re always accompanied by a feeling of horrible evil which leads to sheer terror. I’ve really only felt what real evil feels like in these nightmares. Then I try to scream and I’m stuck there, immobile, I.e. the paralysis.
Thanks brain
Comment by Head-Place1798 at 05/02/2025 at 07:05 UTC
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Night terror! Not a dream because it's not during REM sleep. It's pure lower brain function because the thinking part is at rest.
Comment by Gabriel_NDG at 06/02/2025 at 02:57 UTC
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This is sleep paralysis. Read on it, you’ll learn to understand and fight it.