Is Sleep Paralysis Giving You Night Terrors? | Because Science

[ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/8/2015]
Remember when Kyle experimented with neckbeardedness? No? Check this out! And simultaneously learn how the paralyzing fear of seeing ghosts, spirits, or alien abductions - documented by many - may have a common explanation. Kyle explains the science of sleep paralysis on this episode of Because Science. Never before seen on the Because Science Channel!

[@ChemoshKamos]

"When I learned about sleep paralysis, the demons stopped bothering me." is the most Kyle thing Kyle has ever Kyled.

[@wallahhabibiiii]

Kyle-ception

[@jannikschmidt8511]

@@wallahhabibiiii No. Kyle-ception is when Kyle explains Kyle with Kyle and Kyle.

[@obscureideaz3953]

That’s pretty kyle

[@theoverthinker1978]

Must be nice not to have to experience it every night regardless of what you know. 😆 Being terrified at night (because your sleep computer is out of wack) and having you fight or flight switch turned on at the beginning of a sleep cycle are different disorders. Btw im being light hearted here. Thanks for taking interest in our struggle. 😄👍

[@ChemoshKamos]

@@theoverthinker1978 I couldn't even imagine what having sleep paralysis or nightmares is even like. My dreams are always lucid. I described it to my friend, and he said "It sounds like your daydreaming with your eyes closed." XD I don't know what else it would be like.

[@Milkybarkid-ot7oi]

imagine if you could move and and just beat the crap out of your demon.

[@gan7245]

My demon will beat the crap out of me

[@BrianFoxyBoyCrowden]

It happened to me one time really bad but I somehow managed to break out of it and my first instinct and movement was to throw a punch as hard as possible 😂😂 I beat tf out of that air. Also, yeah I was seeing the dark shadow figure too is why I started punching, this was back when I didn't really know what it was. Now I just wait til it ends or move the 1% of my body continuously until my neurons fire off and I gain control my nerves again. Just gotta find the 1%, usually a toe or finger.

[@chrishansen1842]

I would fucking love this. I am fully convinced that my brain would either make it an epic anime style victory or at least a Not so humiliating defeat Painful yes but I'd still have my pride

[@MrMarcJackson]

Look into lucid dreaming. You'll get to beat up the demon then.

[@jordisaura6748]

That's called nightwalkin and believe me. It hurts. Most when the demon is a wall

[@MisterRorschach90]

Around the time I became an adult I started having sleep paralysis frequently. At first it terrified me and made me think it was demons because of supernatural shows on tv. One time I heard a dog growling and turned my eyes to see my dog sleeping on the side opposite to where the growling was coming. My dog was silent and there was growling coming from the other side, it was terrifying. Now that I live alone without roommates i have it even more often than before. I’ve learned the fastest way out of the terror is to use all your strength to move a part of your body and slam it against something, or to try and fall off the bed. The shock wakes you up instantly. I also find sleeping on your back basically guarantees sleep paralysis.

[@Spiderfreak.]

depends on the person it's occurring to but I have the same trigger as well. If I sleep directly flat on my back it occurs. How I manage to get out of sleep paralysis is to gently move your fingers and toes, even if they feel like they are stuck just a tiny bit of movement will make the brain realize you are still awake and should kick you back into reality and wake up properly. But do keep trying to wiggle them even if you are awake, do so until you have full control again.

[@davia.sampaio8633]

Sleep on the back is a trigger for sure. To get out of it I just use all my strength to try to punch whatever is appearing to me. Mindset is a good shield/sword against it too.

[@gan7245]

Why am i watching this? _I don't even sleep._

[@Ataurion]

Me neither

[@mjre748]

I feel you dude. I'd take sleep paralysis than no sleep at all. Beggars can't be choosers, right?

[@gan7245]

@@mjre748 yupp this sucks. I wanna sleep

[@ryangrant6249]

Me too, I've been going to sleep like at 11:40 to 12:20 and wake up in the middle of the night for no reason.

[@AndrewAce.]

! ! !

[@johannaverplank4858]

I used to experience sleep paralysis in college. Luckily, I majored in psychology and I knew exactly what was going on. It was still extremely terrifying.

[@JanTuts]

"What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me" _- "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath_ Inspired by Geezer experiencing sleep paralysis.

[@crisscrossam]

From album "black sabbath"

[@musicat100]

I messed up my sleep schedule so badly i've already made friends with the night terror. 😂

[@jaysons8050]

I get sleep paralysis all the time. I've never seen anything like a shadow figure, ghost, aliens, etc. When I'm in this state I just remind myself to breathe and I'm always able to move my feet/ankles. What I'll do to break the paralysis is to shake my feet side to side until I finally break the paralysis and wake up

[@lasarith2]

Ditto , just oh can’t move .... wait a bit okay can move again .

[@jonathonwatson5562]

Dude, this helped me so much. Thank you for posting this

[@MonkeBrain07]

I had this twice. Once in the middle of an exam where I had my eyes planted on my arms so instead of hallucinating demons in front of me, it was a torture chamber that looks like it comes from a crossover between Portal and Assassin's Creed. The second one was on my bed when I almost fell asleep but my mind was suddenly remembering something which kept me conscious even though my body was already paralyzed. I got out of it by trying so hard to move my mouth in order to bite my arm so my body can experience enough shock to actually wake up. And since I was about to enter REM sleep instead of already being in one, I had no hallucination.

[@Corbald]

So, getting a bit personal here, but since I managed to _cure_ my Night Terrors, I think it's my moral imperative to share. (YMMV) Backstory: As a kid, I had both the more common symptom of Sleep Paralysis, as well as the less common symptoms of _No_ paralysis, so I'd flail around during especially vivid dreams, injuring myself, as well as commonly sleep-walking. The Doctor wanted to medicate me, but I'm a Nerd to the core, so once we had a handle on exactly what was happening, physiologically, I started reading. My research lead me to the Occult section, perhaps unsurprisingly, and to books on Lucid Dreaming and Dream Walking. Being a through-and-through Skeptic, I didn't expect to find anything there, but after reading the instructions and keeping a Dream Journal for around a month, I found that it had become relatively easy for me to control my dreams. No Demons, Ghosts, Aliens or anything like that, but just simple practice at the _skill_ of Dreaming. The Control was cool, and definitely helped during the paralysis type, but more surprisingly, it helped with the flailing, too! So much so that I have been symptom free ever since! I think focusing on _learning_ to dream helped my brain to properly regulate the hormones. I hope this helps someone!

[@anovosedlik]

I don't doubt you. I have wonderful lucid dreams. Better than real life. But if you cannot control certain stressors in your life (major stress; like death, or recovering from a tbi) it's not as easy to keep things under control. Maybe that just goes without saying, though. Also if you sleep on your side with a pillow preventing you from flipping to your back, I personally find that helps. But I will certainly try the journal! 🙂

[@Corbald]

@@anovosedlik I agree that it's not going to be easy. My stressors were the death of my dad and the total upheaval of my life, at around 7 years old. It took me until I was nearly 12, and tons of therapy. At that point, we also lost my step-dad. My dreams because the only place I felt like I had control. Real life was MUCH harder to fix. I hope your journey is easier!

[@DSIncubus]

Been dealing with this since I was a kid, makes for quite the interesting childhood, to put it lightly. Found for me excessive stress can trigger it more often than not, but not always. Actually decided to write out an experience a couple years ago, it was actually pretty cathartic, and reads like a neat short horror story.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I used to have sleep paralysis often in my previous apartment, it made me wonder if it was haunted or something.

[@gobblefunkfrothbungler8948]

If I had a dollar for every time I saw you in the comments section of random videos....I'd be a millionaire...

[@rickyly3654]

gobblefunkfrothbungler same lol

[@DrSnegg]

Have you ever posted a comment without anyone replying that they've seen you before

[@gobblefunkfrothbungler8948]

@@DrSnegg yep...totally

[@Reydriel]

Are you sure that apartment wasn't haunted by a demon ghost loli

[@liamcolotti6824]

I’ve had many encounters with sleep paralysis but interestingly enough I’ve never actually been scared nor seen a demon. My eyes have never been open for a single episode therefore I haven’t seen anything lol. But I wake up, I’m laying however I woke up, and I attempt to move like normal, and nothing happens. Once this happens I literally just say, “okay, I guess I’ll be here for a while.” And just wait lol. Sometimes I’ll fall asleep again and forget about it or sometimes I’ll try successfully to move again. It’s quite a strange phenomenon. For a while I’ve had sleep issues with inability to get a schedule, never having dreams, and having hypersomnia 100%of the time. I had always suspected narcolepsy but for the longest time it was, “no Liam you’re too young to be tired” “just wake up Liam” “maybe you should go to bed earlier and get off your videogames”, and it hurts how ignorant some people are. I finally convinced my parents to take me to get a multi sleep latency test (only due to other doctors strongly recommending it after the hypersomnia and chronic fatigue became so impeding that I couldn’t live my life). The sleep study came up as idiopathic hypersomnia. I was falling asleep way too fast during the nap tests after what they saw as a full proper nights rest and even fell asleep in between the naps, but they didn’t label it narcolepsy due to the fact that I never hit REM. Not once. It seems I skip REM a lot although during the night they said I hit it normally. My neurologist was puzzled by this especially due to the fact that I have, not one, but BOTH genes for narcolepsy which is extremely uncommon. And he diagnosed it as a narcoleptic disorder. My theory although even my doctors have no true way to tell is that my other diseases/disorders are impeding on the narcolepsy with conflicting issues resulting in so much stress on my body and systems within that I have incredible insomnia and hypersomnia all at the same time. I’m chronically fatigued and exhausted mentally and physically constantly but I can’t fall asleep too easily when I want to, but once I’m asleep, I’m out may as well be dead with how inattentive I am. Even as a baby I had major roof work done right over my head which would cause most babies to throw a tantrum to last a fortnight. I slept like a rock. The whole time. I go to school and come home and literally and figuratively collapse into sleep until 8 that night or just the next morning. It sucks. Maybe that’s why sleep paralysis doesn’t scare me. I’m glad to be in situations where I’m unable to do anything at all. It’s just relieving to say there’s nothing I can do about it. Whereas if I’m struggling through a sleep attack, I know I can do the task but I’m fighting myself to do it. Which helped form my likeness to nature and living off the grid eventually. If I get fatally wounded or infected. Oh well. Guess it’s over. Much better than the stress and fear of having people trying really hard to prevent it and having the uncertainty surrounding it. Just me? 🤷‍♂️ thanks for coming to my TED Talk

[@leafpratt]

And what a talk. When I had sleep paralysis I "saw" a Onryō girl but in reality (they don't exist) I just knew she was there juuuust out of my cone of vision but never actually got a glimpse of her scariest shit that's happened to me

[@ChoiiXMasters]

This happened to me at the age of about 11 years (i'm 24 now). I saw a face that rushed at me in a nightmare, after waking up. It was drifting through my room, grinning from ear to ear. I couldn move nor scream but after about 10 minutes i regained control over my body. This haunts my dreams till this day.

[@sunlocked5838]

One of the interesting theories I've heard of how alien abduction night terrors/sleep paralysis started is that they are half remembered surgeries. While uncommon, accidental awareness does happen. The first famous one in America was Barney and Betty Hill in 1961, which is where the classic grey alien, beaming up with light, experimental probings, and similar tropes. The idea is that their story is fairly similar to accidental awareness if you think about it, you're paralyzed and numb, figures in white that may seem to have disproportionately sized heads are crowded around you and possibly messing with your insides, there is a bright light shining on you, and is obviously incredibly terrifying. If this were to happen and you only subconscious remember it or actively repress it, the similar experience of waking up while paralyzed could trigger those memories. Notably, Barney Hill had a colonoscopy a few years before his claimed abduction. Surgeries arent uncommon, so it is possible most people who claim to have been abducted have had a recent surgery or, as you said, the mass hysteria shapes their experience to fit it.

[@sunlocked5838]

@Mr. Morningstar Yikes, that sounds like a nightmare. Hope you at least didnt feel any of the pain

[@lisatrappedmeinygsbasement848]

@Mr. Morningstar SO YOU WOKE UP DURING SURGERY AND DIDN'T FEEL ANY PAIN???? WTFFFFFF CONSIDER YOURSELF EXTREMELY LUCKY

[@lisatrappedmeinygsbasement848]

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[@DarkLordofTheRizz]

I'm actually a very lucid sleeper, when I get sleep paralysis there is always at least that 1% of my body still functioning, usually a toe or a finger. Im fully aware when I'm in sleep paralysis, so as long as I can get that one motion going and get my neurons to fire, i wake up.

[@3l_Raro]

Same

[@killie2847]

Exactly, I just keep moving the tips of my finger slowly until I wake up

[@Demon-zk4jr]

I do to and then I hear a different deep voice like the voice from the darkness screaming at me WAKE UP!!!!!! YOU CANT DIE YET JACKIE!!!!!!

[@ashtros]

I had this happen to me several times while I was working overnights. It felt like I was being held down. Then a shadow figure would move in and out of my line of sight. Sometimes reaching out towards me. This would often happen two to three times at a time while trying to sleep when it would occur. Thankfully it would happen once every couple of weeks. It only actually stopped after I switched back to working the day shift. This was back in 2008ish. I did some basic research and found out about sleep paralysis. Even though I knew what it was it was still completely terrifying.

[@lassanafofana6610]

So this is wat it feels like to be early

[@presumptuouspenguin9749]

I guess so...

[@21700r]

I have woken up unable to move, but I didn't experience the chest pressure or hallucinations. It was likely caused by something else, I have some long standing health issues, but that alone was terrifying. My heart goes out to those who have experienced this, especially those with repeated cases

[@ginatruiolo]

Awesome video Kyle!!!🦖

[@anggisuwandi2404]

As Indonesian, these called "Ketindihan" In nutshell, your brain think that a ghost stepping on your body.

[@rickyly3654]

As a otaku, I respect your profile pic

[@Apersonl0l]

So you just get wooded up in the middle of the night

[@allthecoolfolks3350]

They probably sound like mumpble rap

[@furrball]

stepping on? if barefooted, it can be pleasurable... erm...

[@stuckinthesarcasm9894]

@@furrball I do not like where this is going XD

[@gadgetratchet3616]

100% as soon as I found an explanation for my sleep paralysis, it’s been a lot easier to handle.

[@_.useless._.human._625]

My parents have always told me that for most of my early childhood I would scream about Santa clause and stare at the corner during my sleep many nights.

[@Soulless_MTG]

My sleep paralysis demon is Cardi B at the foot of my bed saying coronavirus over and over again

[@gan7245]

Omg! Mine too!

[@XxdextriousxX]

Mine is some random country kid asking to pet my dog

[@mattiviljanen8109]

I experienced sleep paralysis (Finnish: unihalvaus, literally sleep paralysis) once as a kid. I was awake but couldn't move a muscle. I was SO bored, but couldn't do a thing. I knew about sleep paralysis even back then, so I recognized it and didn't panic. Eventually I must have gone back to sleep (out of boredom).

[@zackeryorion5274]

Maaan, I got all excited when I saw a new upload on this channel... I could tell something was off by his hair...

[@wizrad2099]

He's got his own channel now. Literally just called Kyle Hill. Still in the growing pains era of development, but there are a handful of videos there. Go check him out.

[@WeableSplash]

I have chronic sleep paralysis probably caused by sleep apnea. I’m an atheist and have denied the existence of ghosts for a long time. However, when I was younger I witnessed some crazy stuff. I didn’t know what was happening back then. Not being able to activate fight or flight gives you a feeling of dread so strong that it’s hard to describe. When I get it nowadays it’s not as bad. I still see things, but I quickly realize what’s going on and wait it out, then go back to sleep Too bad this video wasn’t available to me 22 years ago. I hope another young person with sleep paralysis sees this, and gets enlightened about what they’re experiencing. You’re doing great work Kyle, keep it up!

[@apollohateshisdayjob9606]

Had that through from Jr high to second year of college couple times a week to even multiple times per night... it sucked... In my case it seemed to be triggered by a combination of a couple factors. 1 I seem to hit REM almost as soon as I fall asleep (I have what feel like hour long dreams in the span of a 10 minute nap) And 2 I also seem to have some level of hyper alertness to sound. And I grew up in a noisy area, so I would be woken up by something at Least every 2 hours, often less than an hour apart.. It was in college that I started wearing ear plugs while I sleep, and that was finally enough for me to actually sleep through the night, and I haven't had sleep paralysis more than once or twice a year since

[@mizzyforeverg6452]

As a dude who experienced both, sleep paralysis and night terrors are two different things. Night terrors are when you are awake and able to move, however, you are still dreaming. The demon hallusinations are very real. Also, i have found a way to predict when sleep paralysis will happen. (Atleast to me). After i FULLY wake up in the morning, eat/drink something i might still feel a little tired, so i take a small nap. When i wake up from the nap, i have sleep paralysis. Its like that *every time.* therefore, i believe that i have found a noticable pattern when it comes to sleep paralysis.

[@Spiderfreak.]

After my many encounters of sleep paralysis I've discovered my way to predict it occurring is whenever I start to hear a high pitched sound, kind of like tinnitus start happening I can either choose to get out of it by wiggling my extremities or just let it happen. If I keep it going I will constantly hear that high pitched sound until I'm no longer in it

[@Joseph-br1fk]

@@Spiderfreak. woah that’s literally my experience too. I have tinnitus anyway but I remember it used to get louder when sleep paralysis was starting

[@vertigo1372]

That moment when you have sleep paralysis the day after watching this

[@wildkaya643]

I never looked into sleep paralysis, but I understood it. Then one night, I dreamt of seeing a shadow standing on the roof outside my window, next to my bed. He was wearing a trench coat, and a hat. In his left hand, he was holding a syringe. He slowly opened my window. I started trying to scream for help, but I couldn't get it out. He started reaching for my arm with the syringe. I then realized I wasn't moving my head like I felt like I was, then I realized I could feel my pillow on my face while trying to scream. I noticed I was still dreaming. I forced myself awake through my own screams. Most terrifying thing I ever experienced. I've never felt such an innate need to just scream HELP. I then passed it off as just a sleep paralysis episode from my sleep deprivation. It happened a 2nd time with banging on my door and walking in, but ended faster. I then just now looked up the description of the sleep paralysis demon, expecting some posts of people just talking about what they saw for funsies. Nope, what popped up was the Hat Man. An urban legend of a shadow man, in a coat, wearing a hat, and something people often see during sleep paralysis. Like a staggering amount of people. Also on the Wiki for it, under origin, is "Benadryl overdose". Not sure what that means, but he was holding a syringe for me, which makes it a little extra weird. It's just bizarre. I can't imagine what would have prompted me to see that specific thing twice, let alone years later find out it's an urban legend. Kinda horrifying, ngl. Only thing I can think of is that NOIR stuff often depicts a mysterious man in a trench coat and fedora in the shadows. Weird he had a syringe though. Brains are a wacky thing.

[@bianvapezone8417]

i had sleep paralysis for a long time. I am fully aware of my surroundings but i dont see ghosts and such. ones that you are awake still paralyzed, its hard to breath cuz your body is still relaxed and sleeping while your mind is already awake and screaming. But i actually learned how to wake my self up through time. I concentrate on one of my feet and try to move them. ones you succeed your body will wake you up automatically. And also my sleep paralysis totally went down to zero when I stopped smoking. For the ones who made it this far reading, the secrete is don't freak out when its happening. Have a good slumber tonight 😊

[@grabs_you5954]

I used to have such bad sleep paralysis as a kid that I would ask my mom to stay on my room and when she saw only my eyes move to wake me up. And my room was filled with gnomes that wouldn't move but laugh whenever they were around and every time I blinked a few of them changed position.

[@fakessmile]

This happens to me a lot before I even have a chance to fall asleep, and most often when I'm trying to sleep. Learning about sleep paralysis helped me a lot, because I spent most of my life believing that ghosts and demons were out to get me. Since I lost my fear of it, I find it doesn't happen as often. However, my brain knows how to scare me one way or another, so if I try to close my eyes to avoid seeing the eyeless pumpkinhead looking thing in the corner of my room, it will start making noises of someone breaking into my house or children laughing, playing music, calling my name or talking in my ear. If I ignore the sounds, I start feeling hands touching my face or stroking my hair. If I can manage to ignore that, it starts squeezing my hands, feet and groin till it becomes painful, and if that isn't enough, it'll give me the feeling of being pulled off my bed and floating towards the window. Other times I've had it try to seduce me with a beautiful lady and then start shape shifting into a spiny monster. The most common things that happen so I know it's about to start is if I feel a cat brush its fur against my arm (because I don't have a cat) or if I look at an alarm clock with green numbers, I'll see the numbers turn red. Another is my perception of time slows down drastically and shadows turn into horned fingers with glowing eyes and start moving around, sometimes with a white cloud of smoke billowing into the room and green lazer lights behind it.

[@MsCameroonski]

i experienced sleep paralysis several years ago while i was living with my dad. i distinctly remember seeing a dark figure in the bathroom across from my bed while my dad was trying to wake me up. i FULLY REMEMBER seeing my dad trying to wake me up all while seeing the dark figure in the bathroom. obviously should talk about that in therapy when i go, but for now...i'm still baffled by the whole thing. i was paralyzed. i remember trying to talk to my dad but he wasn't registering that i was talking to him, which meant i wasn't actually saying it. it's all really creepy, but i would love to know why i experienced such a greatly horrifying thing.

[@joshua7551]

I suffer from a very strange form of partial sleep paralysis in which I am only locked up from the neck down. The oddities are thought to be due to some nerve damage that I sustained at a young age. The strangest part is that during my sleep studies (which were 3 to 4 days at a time) I was consistently able to pull myself out of the paralyzed state with conscious effort. My Neurologist says that my EEG looked incredibly strange when I forced myself out and requested that I submit to more tests. They never did figure out why I was able to force my way out but its a pretty neat way to showcase that we have barely even scratched the surface of neurology.

[@glormoparch5154]

How long ago was the study?

[@joshua7551]

@@glormoparch5154 I submitted to seven different sleep studies. The first one was early 2014 and the last one was late 2015. Over the course of those sleep studies, I ended up seeing four separate neurologists and a handful of other different specialists

[@glormoparch5154]

@@joshua7551 interesting thanks those are pretty recent so it is a mystery. can you lucid dream too?

[@SilconOne]

Hi, Great Channel. Was wounding if you can do a video on Doc Oct Plasma ball he made in Spiderman 2, if that is possible? What would be the dangers and benefits?

[@09Jason11]

I suffered years, day in day out of sleep paralysis. I a true horror fan had then vivid demons sitting upon my chest and felt every touch of all kinds of demons teasing me with terror. The day I plunged myself into science and psychology to help me with past traumas, I relieved myself from the supernatural belief. Slowly my night terrors decreased in numbers and every experience became more of a horror movie which I could enjoy. Mind you before this relief I ended every night with screams and tears. Now I am free, because science.

[@gabrielmesa5893]

I've always wondered what caused sleep paralysis , but I also very much do believe in paranormal & the super natural.

[@carsonbrown5912]

I had a bad one induced by "Drugs" I say this with quotes because there were no contraband substances involved. I had consumed about 600mg of Caffeine (I unusually take note of these things because I'm a nerd for the pharmaceutical Industry) along with 15mg of mirtazapine (an anti-depressant with sedating effects which I had a prescription for at the time) and 2,000mg of acetaminophen (an over the counter pain-killer that like most pain-killers exhibits sedating effects). I tell you this as essentially I theorize that the mixing of a simulant alongside a sedative (especially in such high doses) would have caused such a negative outcome as without the use of sedatives there is no way I would have fallen asleep with the amount of caffeine I had consumed, however because I was able to fall asleep with the caffeine still present within my bloodstream it was most certainly the cause for such a terrible case of sleep induced psychosis.

[@matthewstefan7663]

Hello Kyle, love the show. One intresting thig about this paralysis is that if you understand what is happening, you can control what you dream. For instance, you can re-shape the demon, move them around, make them non-scary like in the Harry Potter world with the Boggart. Once you get the hang of it, you can control your breathing while in it, to let someone know you need to be woken up. At least this is one method I found useful.

[@imchase7796]

I’ve always wondered. How tf is this guy drawing on air?🤣

[@kinmaravee2955]

I experience it once... i woke up in the middle of the night... my eyes are wide open and my arms and legs are stretched like something is holding it still... i can't move my head... i can't speak... and the darkness beside my bed moves... it feels like something is gazing upon me... and that thing will grab anytime at that moment... it is trully a spine chilling experience... something that makes me don't want to sleep anymore... and i am still scared till this days...

[@nirbhayraut2710]

When i got sleep paralysis for first time I was scared and continuously trying to move or scream But when I came to know about sleep paralysis I got it many times and I am fully aware of this And I even enjoy that movements to see ghosts in real and to feel like I am dead This awareness helped me to do lucid dreaming also It happens once in a month to me

[@samueldittasarmiento5184]

Someone give this person a goddamn beer! That's exactly how I felt like when it happened to me for the first time, because I was totally aware of the reason why this happened. I felt a little nervous because it was my first time, but the fact that I knew that the things I was sensing wasn't real made me enjoy that first time experience.

[@Danilego]

Lucid dreaming is awesome, but I've never had sleep paralysis

[@devonleavitt1771]

Nirbhay Raut same but you got to be careful lucid dreaming & astral projecting go hand in hand and the latter is super dangerous.

[@tashaynelaing6666]

I'm not so sure about seeing ghost

[@cdenisewilkerson]

It’s true for me that once I learned more about the dark figure, the threat faded. Today, it is occasionally there but doesn’t frighten me.

[@renator.bandarlipejr.2249]

I have had different sleep paralysis monster last year and this year This is what i name them: There is the yellow man he has no facial features has a knife ( not sure if this is sleep paralysis, i think its a nightmare) -happened only one time (I have been stabbed by him) White face jumpscare - often happens a lot and sometimes it happens while i can see my room and my sight become glitchy or bugy like an old tv screen Black face not realy jumpscare but he kinda moves arround my head and sometimes touches me - hapened only one time The mimic he only appeared one time he has a knife and trys to fool me with his voice.he can copy the voice of the person i know i havent seen him. ( I have been stabbed by him) The most recent sleep paralysis dream is the one with the nun she looks like the nun from the conjuring movie so i named her that she just stares from the ceiling then immediately jumpscares me. Only happened 1 time but I was so surprised/scared that i woke up. Lastly there is glitch I can barely see my sorrounding even if im asleep but my sight is glitchy and blurry like an old tv screen there isnt really someone like a person who jumpscare me when this happen sometimes though while having the glitchy sight i can also notice the sorrounding items/things moving only happened 1 time though.

[@user-ks5qp6fv8h]

You shouldn't have been able to scream if that was sleep paralysis, let alone move.

[@ryanjohnson5288]

I had a few of these when I was younger, but I never understood it, and pushed it to the side to the point where I barely remember those moments even ever occuring.

[@garthako]

You don't always hallucinate when having a sleep paralysis. I, most of the time, can't breate for any reason. Then I am awake, lying there, unable to neither breathe or move.

[@shoezomaku]

That's the type of sleep paralysis I get. Thankfully it only happens a couple times a year. I met someone who said it happens to him a few times a month.

[@ethanpine5669]

This happens to me often as a child. I would usually woke up and i couldn't breath nor move. It was terrifying but it got to the point that i stop giving a fuck so i just relaxed every time it happens.

[@shoezomaku]

@@ethanpine5669 It used to happen to me a lot more when I was a child. It always freaked me out. I distinctly remember the feeling of wanting to scream for help but being unable to and that scared me the most. Back then the internet and computers weren't as wide spread and google wasn't as prolific so I didn't really have a way to just look up what was happening. Eventually I just did what you did. I told myself it would pass as it always did and that helped calm me down.

[@StewartFletcher]

I've had chronic sleep paralysis for decades now. For the majority of the time, I've known what it is but that hasn't stopped it from being terrifying. I've never been able to just face it and be calm enough to get out of paralysis

[@viniciusjoroski]

HI Kyle, love the show and this is really interesting for me. I have sleep paralysis since I was a kid and I have been at least twice a month since than. Since I discovered that this is just a sleep disorder, I stopped believing that I could be a demon or an alien, however, even though I know it's not dangerous, I wake up with fear, feeling fear. Would this be the release of any hormones?

[@sweetrumman6496]

He doesnt do this show anymore and cant see your comment. He has his own channel now

[@justdemon.251]

When I was a kid I remember having reaccureing dreams/nightmares usually being about water closing in on me then sharks killing me, and getting bullied and then aliens taking over the world and abducting me, and what seemed to be in a out of body sleep paralysis state while people stood at my door but my mother was disabled and couldn't even get out of bed and it was just us two in the house at night as well as I used to see blurry things in my vision and stuff dancing around my room such as tiny dots or fish or objects in blurs, I used to think when it turned dark it was time to legitly fight for my life until morning from things like fictional monsters, aliens and just things I was scared of in the dreams in general, I wish I had more info or insight as to what went on.

[@Paveway-chan]

Alright, chemical inhibitors that prevent us (mostly) from going berserk in our sleep. But I'm curious abut a thing: how does this work with being suddenly woken up? If you're in the middle of REM and, presumably, swimming in these inhibitors, and someone suddenly starts shaking you and making a concerted effort to wake you: wouldn't something like that also be experienced like sleep paralysis? Wouldn't the person wake up but be unable to move for at least a few seconds or something?

[@allieiacobelli]

I experience sleep paralysis at least once a week, it's terrifying, but I've never seen these shadowy or disturbing figures people talk about. The way I experience it, I'm fully awake and conscious, not dreaming at all, and I'm fully aware that I'm awake and not able to move any part of my body. I realize I have two choices: fight fight fight, to move something -- eyelids are hard, but if I can get a finger to twitch, or push my tongue out a little bit, the rest usually snaps back; or, try to fall back asleep, which is hard, since I've just woke up and I'm rested, not tired. I feel myself begin to breathe rapidly, I've experimented on a few occassions having someone sleep in bed with me, and when I get the paralysis, hyperventilating to try to alert them to wake me up, but it must not be noticeable enough. Anyway, if this happens to be seen by others who experience sleep paralysis in the same way, please let me know, I'd love to hear from others on how they break out of it and what they experience (without the figures/terrors)

[@jeremiahklepatzki2191]

what is Link's sword made of it takes a lot of beating and does not break or code all so what material would it be made of

[@DrSnegg]

I think what's scarier than sleep paralysis is the fact that you can PARALYZE yourself on command as soon as you lose consciousness imagine doing all that in the middle of the day while you're doing something

[@ruinaderoma]

People with nacrolepsy get paralysed while standing and start hallucinating So imagine sleep paralysis but it's your life (no demons tho)

[@Zendail]

Oh you're back. Cool

[@danielpeter8351]

Helló! Great content! I am from Hungary. I would like to share with you all, that sleep paralysis symtomps called generally "lidércnyomás" not "boszorkánnyomás". That is rarely used, at least where i live.

[@believegg6441]

I have a question one night i woke up at 3 am and i saw 3 figures smiling with red eyes and just saying something i didnt understand but the unexpected thing was that i could move i got up but they didnt leave then one of them walked towards me but i wasnt scared so the two other went away but the 3rd one stayed until i slept someone explain please... And i somehow felt like i knew them cuz i promise u i saw them everyday of my life from when i remember i bet sometimes they somehow did rituals on me i tried praying but they didnt go away and last night while i was on my phone i somehow felt like i fell and saw myself going up but then i fell in my bad what was happening was i dead for 2 seconds 😐???

[@pickles2049]

i have it so frequently my repetitive ones include: a dude in a suit standing in the corner of my room, stairs falling out from under me, and being crushed by something extremely large. i got so used to it but a few years ago when it started i thought i was dying😂 just gotta sit through it just like a cramp or spasm there’s nothing you can do except wait it out don’t be afraid!

[@yajy4501]

I my experience wiggling your fingers and toes can help you to snap out of it faster. It’s weird but it works. I also get it all the time. Though most of the time I don’t have hallucinations. Those account for maybe 30% of my experiences.

[@BlueSkies30]

I had sleep paralysis last year for the 1st time. I think several days of lack of sleep due to some restless nights over stress in my life played a role. I was dreaming of a witch chasing me, and woke up unable to move thinking the witch was still out there. I was so confused as to why my head and arms felt heavy and refused to move that I wasn't scared. It took me at least 10 minutes before I could even lift a finger.

[@lasarith2]

I get sleep paralysis all the time, used to it now.

[@dpellek74]

lasarith2 me too

[@meediamongergamemodder2302]

hugs u

[@RatedMforMeenie]

I have aphantasia, and I was severly sleep deprived about a few months ago. I had sleep paralysis because I woke up and couldn't move or talk, but I didn't see any demon or ghost or anything like everyone says.

[@thefallenpaiine3626]

I have a question. If hon solo said his ship could go a certain amount of parces how much of his ship would have to be fuel? I ask because the rocket paradox would make his fuel cost infinite for his speed.

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

I suffer from this sparingly since my childhood, and by now it has become a mere annoyance.

[@synshenron798]

I had sleep paralysis a couple times but only one scares me more than anything else. I woke up and couldn't move. I looked around and I could see a figure coming towards me. I tried to move and as soon as I could it stopped and I got up to approach it and I asked it, what are you and it looked at me and said, "we, are you, we are the darkness that you hide inside" and then it backed away into my closet and it was sleepin with the lights on time, my favorite time

[@koritorrid290]

I had my first 2 sleep paralysis this year. The first I sow and heard the wings of a giant beetle coming twords me. The second I just heard some big thing steps coming twords me through the stairs. Both I knew while happening that it was sleep paralysis, and this made me more anxious to move.

[@prophetroll4086]

I've had night paralysis a couple times, but when i did it had been because of the dream i was having before waking up, the one time i remember i was swinging on a giant swing, and as i fear falling and i get weak in situations like that, when i woke up i could only think if the horror i was just experiencing and that i couldn't move or speak

[@Bansheexero]

I have hypersomnia, but never had sleep paralysis. Instead, I get hypnopomic and hypnogogic hallucinations. Essentially, I witness the sort of "visitor" you mentioned, but can move and have even wound up punching my wall once or twice as a result.

[@cl114c0777498d]

the paralysis part makes sense, but i'm not convinced about the cultural part of the explanation. if it's just a matter of expectations, why do people who have no expectation or awareness of the phenomena see the same kind of things when they experience it -- demons and other kinds of nightmarish presences/entities? not just paralysis + regular random dream stuff?

[@user-xp5lu6jy7d]

It's because the panic you feel so your brain makes a up a reason why you cannot move

[@kiljadaen]

Had sleep paralysis once. Couldn't move nor speak but I was able to open my eyes and look around. the thing that freaked me out tho, was it was still nighttime when I opened my eyes but as I laid there my window got brighter and brighter rapidly and after what only felt like a few seconds it was 9am in the morning. It was if time accelerated and I am not sure if I was just crazy or what.

[@MaskedGEEK]

Can't say I've ever had sleep paralysis. But in my teens I had a recurring nightmare. Imagine a limbo like world were nothing exists except for a white background. However there was me and a large wrecking ball, but myself and the ball were just black silhouettes and in a hexagonal pixel form. I would imaging the wrecking ball swinging straight for me (it's anchor point was far above beyond what I could see). Because it was just a white background with pixelatted silhouettes, there was no depth perception and so I'd never know when the wrecking ball would hit me, but it was always fast. If I ever had that dream, I never got a peaceful night's sleep.

[@ObservableObserver]

I had sleep paralysis once and i hope i will never have it again.

[@roshansingh-gy4xy]

I have an unrelated question: what will happen if you put a nuclear/atomic bomb in reasonably high tempetature fire? Like fire from other explosives. Will it explode or will the combustion of other elements pollute the fission/fusion process?

[@YashamaruSensei]

what you said in the end is completely true, once you realize what it is, it's not so scary, i'd even say it can be entertaining. The more you panic, the more your brain starts creating hallucinations. one time i had sleep paralysis and the hag visited me. very old wrinkly, black eyes, sharp teeth, long claws, the classic. She slowly crawled from the corner of my room till she was right next to my face and started licking my face. BOY i was soooo scared :)) After that when i found out what that was, a few weeks later i had sleep paralysis again, started to see a shadow person materializing in the corner, heard growling, and i said "shut up mate i wanna sleep, have to go to work tomorrow" closed my eyes, the growling stopped and i could fall asleep again

[@mrshadyassassin]

I have reoccurring sleep paralysis, it wont happen for a few years and then I'll have it happen multiple nights in a row, sometimes multiple times in the same night, and then it'll go away for a few years. I almost always only have the paralysis part and only have one memory of a hallucination where the room I was in lit up green and I heard a rumbling in the distance.

[@yagitoshinori9272]

Wait didn't Kyle leave this channel? Edit: Ah. This is a re-upload from 2015. I thought they made up for a sec.

[@rockbullet3699]

I'm so glad that I've never experienced this, seems like it would be bad... not being able to move

[@PetrKavan]

If you have paralysis connected with feeling that you cannot breathe (which I sometimes have and it is particulary nasty), possible reason is that you have eaten just before going to bed, and you slept on your back. In that position full stomach presses the lungs, and in half-sleep you can't overpower the pressure. Just don't eat later then something like two hours before sleeping, and it will go away. Tested on people, and it worked :-)

[@98DemonZ28]

Even learning about them I still have sleep paralysis episodes once in a great while or very memorable nightmares. I find them fascinating and try to not let them scare or freak me out. But sometimes its like you have no control over your brain in response to fear.

[@bbyingji]

Back when I get sleep paralysis often, I'm used to it enough that I can feel it setting in so I always quickly moved my body before it can fully set in.

[@malcolmmilstead2011]

Dude thank you so very much for creating this video on sleep paralysis I've been trying to explain this s*** to my girlfriend for like a year-and-a-half dude... And she didn't believe me about and now she does.... I followed video to this could be why people act out in their sleep and do things like hitting or running in their sleep

[@HickaruFire]

I used to get sleep paralysis a lot when i was in college. Stress and sleep deprivation made it. It was happening so much that after a while i would wake up, see stuff and realize they were not real then go back to sleep.

[@Gandromil]

I used to suffer from this pretty often in my early to mid 20’s. Now it happens rarely. It’s something I would never wish on my worst enemy. Why can’t good things be seen when this happens?!

[@freakymoejoe2]

I have something this semi regularly, but (thankfully?) I only experience auditory hallucinations. Footsteps in my apartment, or heavy breathing. The worst i ever had was a young womans voice screaming itself hoarse into my ear. When i fully awoke and regained motion my ear was actually ringing

[@NerdyAngel1989]

I have never experienced this even if I am woken up in the middle of REM, say my alarm goes off and I have to get up. Instead of being paralyzed my entire body jerks hard like I was frightened or given an electric shock. I also even dreaming been known to speak and even do small movements such as “picking up” a cup and “drinking” from it. Not full blown sleep walking but almost as if those chemicals aren’t as strong as they should be. On the other hand if I fall asleep knowing I can’t move because I am in the hospital or otherwise need to sleep a certain way I don’t move at all.

[@thepilotman5378]

I don't know how to describe mine, but in my sleep paralysis I was the demon. But I couldn't control my movements, and I was standing, but my crush was screaming bloody murder and I was trying to help but when I finally saw her, she was scared because of me. And that scared me more than any nightmare before.

[@desnuts6702]

It's all fun and games until you wake up with marks and scars from the dreams that have no explanation

[@The_Warden]

I used to see shadow people standing or sitting infront of me. Hasn't happened in a long time. I think it was linked to when I'd sleep on my stomach. I also get sleep paralysis without the people when I'm all cramped up, like in a car, or my recliner.

[@internetexplorer7204]

Can you do a because science on stopping time

[@noahfisher6388]

Only ever had it happen once. I was able to move my arms (very slowly I might add) but no matter how hard I yelled it was no more than a muffled whisper. My family was right there too and couldn't here me and didn't see my arms move. I got my arms about 45 degrees up and all of a sudden. I could move everything like normal. Strange thing it is.

[@GatialRaseta]

In Indonesia, specifically in Center Java it called "ketindihan" which roughly translate into "crushed". Well not in a gore way. More like crushed by someone or something medium weight

[@artemis0ender223]

Glycine and GABA sometimes doesn't work for me when I sleep....I've cursed someone out in my sleep and I kick or punch a wall. It's weird because I don't feel anything at all, normally if I hit something in my sleep I wake up immediately. But when this happens I don't feel it.

[@coolorochi]

I experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life. It's the most scary experience in my life. Due to the can't move part. What you think became ture, since you are scared, nothing you think in that moment is good.

[@shaider1982]

Reminds me of an old song: "the monster under the bed (or in this case on top of you), the voices in the hall.....is all in your head.."

[@theeightbithero]

This happened to me once as a kid, but I wasn’t paralyzed at all. I stat up in my bed and my room was just as I left it when I went to sleep. I still actually remember the layout of the bedroom and where I kept my toys. I looked out my bedroom window with a sense not that something was there, but as if I knew something was coming. Suddenly a bright orb of white light flew through my window across my room over my head and disappeared through the wall parallel to the window. Then in my peripheral vision I saw a shadow walk through the wall under my window. It walked around my bed and as soon as there was room a second one fallowed. Then a third one. They walked around my bed until there were seven of these…. Demon things surrounding me on all sides. I was a little Christian so I looked them all in the dark void of their face, and with the mighty squeak only prepubescent boy could muster, I shouted out “Get the hell out of my room in the name of Jesus.” They instantly vanished. I felt like nothing had happened and I looked around to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, I laid back down and went back to sleep. That was the first time I ever cussed. I can see why there might be a scientific explanation for this sort of thing, but what really bugs me about this naturalist prospective, even if it is totally true, is not just why on earth is our DNA coding us to have these sleep glitches, but why are we predisposed to interpret sleep glitches as if they were individually designed to reinforce our own spiritual delusions/religions? It’s like we evolved specifically to be religious creature. It’s one thing to consciously tell yourself a story and believe it, it’s another thing for the unconscious inner workings of the self to believe the stories we consciously tell ourselves. It’s another thing entirely for the unconscious self to tell the conscious self to believe it.

[@komrookmetmy465]

One time I remember an emaciated dog with some kind of leprosy-type disease and a scabbed-over pentagram carved into its forehead laying on my chest. I still remember it's golden cat-like eyes turning toward me before it growled and lunged for my throat and I woke up. Very spooky.

[@SeanLKearns]

Swimming thru rising bread dough sounds pretty dope.

[@jamesdf007]

Can you please do a show or shows about Mr wizard ( he was a guy who had a science show on nic. In the 90s) and see if what he did on he's show steel Hods up or not

[@yajy4501]

I’ve been having it every night for a while now. Evil demons aren’t the only things you can see in it. I’ve seen everything from past pets and my own wife when she wasn’t even home, to weird aliens. The less freaked out you get the more random they get. Once I even felt like I floated out of my body to the ceiling and was promptly sucked back in when I looked down on it and freaked out. That was also a kind of hallucination. In my experience the vast majority of the time it doesn’t come with any hallucinations at all, you just can’t move.