Sleep is Terrifying

[@Cresendex]

Hmong is said without the H, I butchered the pronunciation, sorry about that.

[@Gerg589]

not even god knows why my dumbass was gonna watch one more video before bed and chose one called "Why Sleep is Terrifying"

[@Jordan27893]

The fact I'm watching this before sleeping😭

[@RealKloggier]

Best feeling

[@Somethingwittyandoriginal]

GL

[@CatinaboxReal]

I'm here right after waking up lol

[@sylis_3d]

Same bro. Was originally gonna watch this in the morning but decided "it's only 20ish minutes, it's fiiiine."

[@sean-fw7zi]

Dw I watched a doco about sleep paralysis and it had all my fears in it still slept 😂

[@spoobini]

The average sleeper: "Sleep is scary" The unconscious enthusiast: "haha look at me I'm a time traveler! ZOOM!"

[@aiso9232]

What a lovely material to watch at 5:30am after not sleeping all night

[@AmberCommentsThings]

The idea of losing consciousness is terrifying altogether, it's like time skips between you losing and regaining consciousness, and everything in between is just deleted.

[@smolmoru]

the far scarier part of this is where you lose consciousness. I'm lucky the one time it happened to me I only slid down a doorframe and only had a mild scratch on my back from it. the sink was close enough. with the wrong angle I could've fallen forward, head first onto that thing. that's way scarier in hindsight than coming back, not knowing where you are or how much time has passed.

[@friendlyreaper9012]

Another confirmation that time is relative, just like in Einstein's Theory. Someone on the other side of the world lives their life fully for 8 hours while you completely lose the concept of time and space during that period. Fascinating and terrifying.

[@OoLiiMiiT3D]

@@smolmorufalling head first usually isnt as dangerous as falling backwards. The back of the head is very soft and can be damaged very severly by a slight fall. The front of the head would be very uncomfortable, like losing teeth, breaking a jaw or an orbital bone, and even cuts happen etc., but otherwise the front of the head is more durable. Thats why Boxers arent allowed to punch the back of their opponents head.

[@Jakeomgwtfisevenhappening]

I had to have surgery and anesthesia is wild. It isn't like sleeping at all. One second you have a mask put in your face and you're counting down and then the next your throat hurts from the tube shoved down it, and you're really fucking confused and high as shit. 12 hours had passed and it felt like about 10 seconds to me.

[@OoLiiMiiT3D]

@@Jakeomgwtfisevenhappening Bro I loved it as a child. They doc told me to count to 10 and I was like 1...2... and then I woke up in my hospital room after surgery, and I was still so high, it felt so good even at 10 years old. Then the high goes away slowly. I also once dreamed in my last anethesia (like 16 years ago) that I'm flying through space with a nice cold drink in my hand. Felt awesome. 😂

[@Slimely]

I have a sleep condition called exploding head syndrome (it’s not as brutal as it sounds.) still pretty weird though. It basically causes me to hear auditory hallucinations whenever I’m just about to go unconscious. It doesn’t happen every night but still frequently. Sometimes I hear an abnormally loud bang almost like a gunshot or an explosion. I also sometimes see white flashes whenever it happens. There was one time where I heard my name being said and I woke up to nobody being there. Pretty strange stuff.

[@bung0144]

I thought head exploding syndrome only applied to when sounds get so loud they hurt and wake you up. I also hear sounds before entering into sleep, good to know that it is part of the syndrome too.

[@infinitedeath1384]

I remember when I first heard about this. Our bodies and brains can sure have some strange disorders.

[@Kazooples]

I have exploding head syndrome too, usually for me it’s the loudest thunder ever, so loud you can’t hear yourself over it, though a few times it’s been actual explosions during dreams, bombs that wake me up. It’s kinda whatever, they don’t usually scare me, I kinda find them fascinating, like how can I hear something so loud and vivid without it being real?

[@infinitedeath1384]

@@Kazooples Àllahu Àkbar!

[@StevenSantaCruz-ix9is]

Shit bro I've experienced that

[@TheLegend-wz7fl]

I used to drink heavily and sleep poorly, let me tell you all a secret: Don't open your eyes. When you keep your eyes closed: You still are aware of your paralyzed body, but you don't see the scary shit in your room. And you slip back into dreaming which usually turns into a lucid or semi-lucid dream where you have more awareness and power. Instead of just staring at your room and hallucinating. I have done this tens of times and it always worked. I calm myself down and slow my breathing and usually go back into a partially lucid dream or looping dream, where I repeatedly think I woke up but nah, still dreaming. Either way, the vivid dreams or looping are still way less scary than seeing that crap in your room. So take my advice, do whatever you can to calm down and keep your eyes closed.

[@alexander777-n3s]

Your talking about sleep paralysis mate.

[@TheLegend-wz7fl]

@@alexander777-n3s no shit Sherlock

[@DaroTheDragon]

This is strange for me. I’ve been talking melatonin to help me sleep and recently it’s been causing nightmares crazy vivid strange dreams and sleep paralysis dreams. It’s strange because my sleep probably demon is never a monster. Like I will have a dream with my dog in it and suddenly it acts strange then it’s stepping over me like a sleep paralysis demon would. Then I also have sleep paralysis where it seems real but I can’t move much and I’m very limited and never can make much sounds. Last night I had it twice. I woke up from a dream and I felt like I could hear my mom. Suddenly she was holding me down while kissing me and growling strangely. Later on when I managed to get back to sleep the same thing happened with my dad except he was poking me while laughing strangely. I could not see them at all either. I feel like I have something in my brain that’s causing this as it never used to affect me like this!

[@sullivanhouse4697]

​@@DaroTheDragon ...God....

[@somethingwithbungalows]

⁠@@TheLegend-wz7flit has been at least 5 billion years since I’ve heard that insult lol

[@Kyrgizion]

I suffered from this as a small kid (~4yo). Constant repeating nightmares made me terrified of going to sleep. I was saved by discovering video games. They somehow taught my mind that I was able to have agency/control, even in my dreams, and I haven't had any issues in the last 30+ years.

[@isaaczavala5238]

Super weird coincidence, last night I had some sort of nightmare lucid dream where I felt like something was grabbing my shoulders and holing me down to the bed, I remember "waking up" knowing I was sleeping but couldn't do anything about it. It scared me at first and my heartbeat felt fast, I even felt a sharp pain throughout my body but some how because I told my self I knew I was sleeping I was able to fall back asleep again, I then woke up a few hours later like normal and only rembered what happened when eating lunch. The myth of the entity sitting on you is weirdly similar to how i felt.

[@isaaczavala5238]

Well further into the video and can definitely say it was sleep paralysis. Glad I was able to controll it before it got bad because I've had a bad trip before and was not fun at all. Forgot to add I also woke up with my teeth hurting from grinding them during the whole thing.

[@scaredoclock3881]

​@@isaaczavala5238sleep paralysis is a real and terrifying thing that our brains do to us. I have narcolepsy and have learned to feel the signs of sleep paralysis as I'm falling asleep, and shift my body to avoid it.

[@Somethingwittyandoriginal]

This is why I'm genuinely scared of lucid dreaming. You could think of anything, and it would just appear, and feel much realer than if it were an ordinary dream.

[@Neucher]

Me when its 3am

[@tribalgamer7356]

Bro it is 3am for me lol

[@RSanchez111]

Literally me right now

[@BinkBloyd]

Literally.

[@Davidtheboy4870]

Survival tips: DO NOT CALL BENDY AT 3 AM!!!

[@deltas4247]

Fr

[@Fluxbyte141]

So glad I found a cool looking video to sleep to! I sure hope when I doze off nothing absolutely tragic happens.

[@kacidy]

When I first started learning to lucid dream I was a naive and curious teen. I had a kind of... benign, low-level long term trauma ongoing at the time and I was powerless to escape it. TLDR is I used lucid dreaming to escape my life circumstances and it became a bit of an "opiate". I was living to sleep, and my waking life was one of those uncanny near-nightmares. It became so routine that I would dream with lucidity as often as I would without. As an adult I mostly stumbled through most of my 20's the same way until I found myself in an abusive relationship; now the protracted trauma was far more acute. But the real horror is what happened next. As the relationship dragged on for years I began to develop CPTSD symptoms: severe anxiety, panic disorder, and depersonalization. As my waking life decayed into what I can only describe as a living hell of psychological, emotional, and (at the end) physical domestic abuse I lost control of my lucid dreaming due to the irresistibly intrusive nature of my fearful thoughts. But it is such an ingrained habit to lucid dream that I can't really control when I do and don't. The result that I live with now is: I have lucid nightmares that I cannot pull myself out of with such frequency that I've been diagnosed with "nightmare disorder" and chronic insomnia has developed from the fear I have of sleeping. Sleep deprivation psychosis pays me a visit every month or so, not surprising given I probably average 40 hours awake before falling asleep. 60 hour stretches are common. The only solace is that I couldn't handle both sides of my life being a vivid barely controllable nightmare and I broke, then started fixing my waking life. Still don't know how to fix the sleeping as medications only give me relief for a few months (at best) before they lose effectiveness. Going off them for a tolerance break usually means rebound insomnia worse than what I have when unmedicated.

[@Funtime32324]

Hope you can recover!

[@thegoon1353]

I was absolutely terrified of sleep as a kid. The fact that I wasn't "there" but it didn't feel instantaneous was horrific

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

The first time I ever sleepwalked, I associated it with possession and was terrified to go to sleep out of fear of being possessed again. I even became paranoid that everyday objects (even some of my favorite things) we're the source of the spirit that I called "the sleepwalker".ik the name is dumb but that's the best my 9 yo possessed brain could come up with lol.

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

​@VarietyChannel-t3g, 2 things. 1. sleep is just death with adds. And 2. Many people who died and were revived say that they felt themselves fade into nothingness and didn't even try to fight it because it was blissfully empty. Kinda reassuring that I might like dieing, kinda terrifying that I might let myself die

[@gabusdeux]

​@VarietyChannel-t3g you can very much do plenty of shit when sleeping to not forget, and even wake yourself up. Idk why you're spreading misinformation

[@Somethingwittyandoriginal]

​@ThePurpleOwlGod I sleepwalk occasionally, and one time I had my pillow under my head before I went to sleep right? Like everyone does. And I woke up with my damn feet on the pillow, I litterally flipped myself the other way while asleep for some fuckin reason. I've also went to sleep in my bed, and woke up on the couch, downstairs, and I had taken my hoodie off. While asleep.

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

@@Somethingwittyandoriginal, lol. I think I've done both of those things before minus the hoodie

[@Bigbounty1]

It's great to see someone understand that sleep is terrifying

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

Truely

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

Did you know that the average dream only lasts 1-2 seconds

[@Bigbounty1]

@@ThePurpleOwlGod does not feel like it

[@ThePurpleOwlGod]

@@Bigbounty1 fr bro, one time the Span of my dream was like a month for me

[@jangofett711]

@@ThePurpleOwlGodI swear I fell asleep at 3 am and I closed my eyes and after like 3 seconds I open them and it’s 1 pm

[@chrismonster]

Great video to watch right before sleep!

[@benjaminborbely3832]

Sleeping has always been a problem for me. Its just weird how u go uncontious and u dont even know when the moment will happen. KZbin always helps me fall asleep.

[@Rasmus230100]

It’s fun, I’ve learned when it sorta happens. I can feel in how my dreams are and my thoughts. They get more blurry. When it happens I know it’s soon

[@SamsarasArt]

I have to have background noise in order to fall asleep. My anxiety riddled mind won't let me sleep if it's silent.

[@matthewboire6843]

It’s odd isn’t it?

[@ishitatiwari6056]

*unconscious

[@benjaminborbely3832]

@@ishitatiwari6056 mb

[@nenep5695]

I'vr personaly developped a method to turn any nightmare back into a normal dream. It goes like this : I'm being hunted down/chased by someone/thing ? Simply attack that someone/thing. I'm fully submerged in water and there is no air ? Simply take a deap breath of water. I'm naked at school ? Simply show off my body. There is a terrifying monster attacking me ? Well actually he is just a chill dude who wants a friend. It has nowbeen around maybe 10 years since I had an actual nightmare.

[@sylis_3d]

I've always found dreams to be the most interesting thing almost every single human being on this planet can experience. Our brains just deciding to come up with a fake world within our minds to mess about in while the rest of our body gets some rest is just so fascinating. I wish I could record them or something, just to remember the finer details.

[@Dansker2009]

Use a Dream journal

[@SamuelBlack84]

It's almost like a separation of mind and body into two separate beings While the body sleeps, the mind is alone without the luxury of physical sensation and creates a virtual existence to entertain itself until the body reactivates It makes you wonder about death We know why the body dies and how it happens But what of the mind?

[@U_niquey]

⁠@@SamuelBlack84if the body dies everything is dead???? you should specify if you died by somebody like no oxygen.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@U_niquey The mind isn't subject to physical injury It can be affected due to the storage capacity of the brain, but why would a brain dying cause the mind to die?

[@6Haunted-Days]

I've only recalled maybe 10 dreams the last 22 yrs. I am Told I'm dreaming but not recalling them. Definitely related I'm sure to the extreme physical emotional verbal mental and all ways of abuse by my ex husband. Stalked my son and I ....he lost his rights . Ended in him attempting to kill me. Anyways he's in prison now but I've been healing 10yrs doing much better but a long way to go. Sigh. Most my life tho I had vivid nightmare type dreams, good ones not so much. Apparently I'm probably protecting myself by not recalling who knows!

[@matthewboire6843]

“Sleep is just death being shy”

[@_ChrisLeTherian_]

Yooo I've heard that before

[@Rasmus230100]

@@_ChrisLeTherian_ video

[@ishitatiwari6056]

Great, now I won't be able to sleep fot the rest of my life 👍

[@infinitedeath1384]

​@@ishitatiwari6056Well you better enjoy what little time you have left 😂.

[@trashaimgamer7822]

That's why I'm not affraid of death. Never have I woken up from a dreamless sleep and thought: "Well that was unpleasent!"

[@robotomo4249]

The idea of you not having any control over your own body while seeping is absolutely terrifying. Sometime last year, I slept on my back for the first time and coincidentally, that was also the very first time I got sleep paralysis. I'm exclusively a stomach/side sleeper, but that night I was so tired that I just fell asleep on my back without even realising. Thank god my sleep paralysis was not a scary one. I awoke and felt the sensation of me moving my limbs, but they didn't actually move. I felt my arm move up in front of my face, but I couldn't actually see it. Shortly after, I heard my mother talking very loudly to herself from downstairs. Following that, I heard a drill on the right side of my bed on the floor. The drill was going constantly at what I presumed was its full power. It was extremely realistic though, from the exact positioning of the sounds, do the reverberations that they would produce in the house.

[@spiral_thagoat]

Weird you mention a drill...dont exactly remember what i dreamt of but i was on the couch...sleeping...then i heard like a drill or ringing sound like right beside my ear but it sounded soo loud...then i just woke up and kinda sat there for a second being like..wtf

[@dj.j5099]

I've had a couple of sleep paralysis. They were so horrible 😫 but this was a long time ago, when I was extremely depressed. Now that I'm a bit better, I just have normal dreams

[@tramahticgaming719]

I’ve experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life. First time I was switching back and forth from thinking I died and thinking I was in a coma and the second time I floated off of my parents couch and started floating towards their kitchen. The first time I had it was the most terrified I’ve ever been in my life and the second time was super fun and I loved it. Crazy.

[@retr0-x9o]

Strange

[@deathroman13]

I experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice every week. I am fully used to it now and I can use it to easily enter a lucid dream.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I once had an oob experience as a child where I had a vision of floating above a nearby bridge in my local area, but it was abandoned and covered in vines An old man wearing a long black robe pointed at the bridge while looking at me with a serious expression

[@retr0-x9o]

@@SamuelBlack84 what's an oob?

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@retr0-x9o Out of body experience

[@Abyssalexplorer]

I remember having lucid nightmares as a really young kid My trick for waking up was to think of a big, for a kid, number and focus on it. Later on I became able to push myself into waking up because I was aware it was a dream, felt like doing some sorta mental deadlift

[@coreykelley9441]

Had trouble falling asleep. Came out and threw YT on the TV and this was the first suggested video. Lovely.🎉

[@randomrhino4371]

Cressendex finding more and more things to be scared of faster than me finding ways to be a burden on society

[@Shrewd_S]

Thank you for making me scared of sleeping and not sleeping.

[@SH-bm8yp]

Exploding Head Syndrome can also be painful. I had it one time. The popping noise inside my head sounded like a gunshot but when I woke, I felt a physical pain in the part of my head where I heard the loud popping noise. It was actually terrifying.

[@sunnyquinn3888]

My sleep paralysis demon has a romantic side. They like to climb into bed behind me and be the Big Spoon and cuddle for a while before they wrap their hands around my neck.

[@Peaceinthehead]

Ayo nah wtf 😂

[@sriddle3569]

Yes

[@ermtea]

I love how the youtube survery ad music is so happy go lucky and then it skips to "the nightmare death".

[@urphakeandgey6308]

I've had sleep problems growing up and sometimes, I catch myself in the act of "falling asleep" and it feels so weird. Like it kind of frightens me back into wakefulness. I don't think this is the root of my sleep issues, but an interesting thing I experience sometimes nonetheless.

[@vulcanfeline]

do you feel like you're actually falling? i get that sometimes and, i swear, i've given myself whiplash while jerking awake

[@caffncoke]

@@vulcanfelineI get this a lot! I’ll be so close to falling asleep and I’ll either hear a loud noise or almost like a dream is starting and it feels like I’m falling and I jolt awake. A lot of the time I’ll be out of breath or I’ll audibly gasp like “HUUUUU” and it freaks me the fuck out. Usually when it happens it happens again like 3-4 more times until I finally fuckin fall asleep.

[@getbogged]

saving this video so i can watch it after i sorta fix my panic disorder lmao sleep already scares me enough. love all your videos tho :)

[@TheyForgotMySalad]

Sleep deprivation is a form of torture for very good reasons. Also, the situation with Tripp should have been a case study on the effectz of methamphetamine, not sleep deprivation. The hallucinations, the violent paranoia, the feeling that you're being plotted against and watched, that's exactly what a methamphetamine bender will do to a person. And let's not even begin to talk about meth withdrawal psychosis!!

[@lukthelukiamluk]

My first, and so far only, lucid dream was also a lucid nightmare. It started as a normal dream with me being in some sort of resort with my dad. Then things got darker when I noticed this lady with a distorted face who would keep chasing me. When she got to me, I sort of respawned in another house. This continued several times until I was in my house in the same room I was sleeping in. I ran outside when I heard a door close in real life and realized I was dreaming. At this point I was too scared to think, though I remember flying onto the neighbor's house to escape the distorted lady. By now, I was now basically screaming for someone to wake me up, I woke up myself a few seconds later.

[@Keith-rd2uh]

distorted in what way

[@karmellu]

For a while now, sleep has been nothing short of a nightmare for me. Often, I wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and when I return to bed, things take a dark turn-sleep paralysis. It happens almost every time, sometimes looping two or three times in a row. Last night, after only four hours of sleep, I still had a few hours left to rest. But when I got back into bed after going to the bathroom, the sleep paralysis hit again. I would wake up, drift back into sleep, only for the paralysis to return. This cycle repeated around seven times before I finally gave up trying to sleep. The last episode, though, was different-longer and more intense, lasting what felt like five agonizing minutes. It wasn’t just the usual immobility; it was a blend of overwhelming emotions. At first, I felt calm, but then a thought crept in: “I wish I could wake up again.” That simple thought triggered a strange, spiraling panic. It was as if my mind slipped into some alien realm-I began to hear eerie sounds, almost like music from another dimension. Then, I felt my body vibrate as if I were expanding, growing impossibly large. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of hands seemed to touch me all at once. I tried to calm myself, and I succeeded-but what followed was worse. A profound sense of doom and emptiness washed over me. I was trapped, and questions began to flood my mind: “Will I ever move again?” “Will I ever wake up?” And then, the most terrifying thought of all: “Am I dead?”

[@Ben_R4mZ]

Most memorable lucid dream I had was several months ago where I very clearly remember getting up and driving to work, having something at work not be quite right so I got sent home, and then getting back into bed at which point I woke up for real. I could sort of tell that it was a dream, since I wasn't traveling as much as teleporting to various points along my commute. But it was a very interesting experience.

[@Yuu_Touko]

Brought a nostalgic smile to my face by talking about sleep paralysis. It's very familiar to me and I experienced it many, many times. At some moment I honestly basically stopped caring all that much, and even learned to enjoy the condition in some weird, very odd way. It's been... some time since I had my last sleep paralysis.

[@DaydreamsOfSleeplessNights]

Fr false awakenings are messed up. I can lucid dream with relative ease (around 70% of times) and there was one day that I forgot to reality check and lived my daily normal life for around a week and only after a full weak was that I woke up. But that was also a flase awakening and it went on and on. After I really woke up, I just felt so messed up and mentally exhausted. It really felt like I lived all those days just for them to be erased from existence. That's why now I ALWAYS make reality checks after waking up.

[@AggressiverZT]

basicly i had once sleep palarysis, and that was day that i found out that my brain is f4ed i saw an cube flying and standing on my chest changing into a chair with legs than it turned into a table

[@JustJayYay]

During sleep paralysis ur brain uses ur worst fears to scare you...

[@AggressiverZT]

@@JustJayYay ah yes AM scared of flying tables 💀💀

[@Ethwing]

O em g ITZA TABLEE AAAAAAAH /j

[@carlosdario9810]

“Basicly” is insane 💀💀💀

[@sociosanch3748]

I've had lucid dreamt a few times. What led to me having those was I saw some detail about my surroundings that wasnt right. This led to me questioning reality, then realized I was dreaming. Interesting thing is, the more self aware I became the more vivid and real everything felt. Trippy AF.

[@lilchipps999]

A woke up for a nap a couple of hours ago and I had extremely scary and layered sleep paralysis/false wake/night mare with bits of it being normal. I barely remember what happened but still feel the emotions. I have these dreams a couple times a month to a couple times a week when I’m more stressed. I have diagnosed borderline personality disorder and I suspect that I have insomnia but haven’t gotten it diagnosed. My first time I had sleep paralysis I remember thinking “I’m dying this is it, accept it accept it” as I heard noise from a hockey game I watched hours ago and then I was been pushed so hard into my bed and I couldn’t move. I’ve had these problems for years. Thank you for understanding the struggle

[@Verdun16]

Insomniacs cheering right now

[@CakeyClowny]

you didnt watch the vid huh

[@Verdun16]

@@CakeyClowny you didn’t read the comment huh

[@CakeyClowny]

HELPPPPPP HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@kreiskhaos8516]

Our cheering sounds an awful lot like screaming, though

[@Tarnished-bn5gq]

The reason sleep is performed by almost all life on earth is due to the consciousness having to enter a subconscious state in order for the mind, and by extension the body it is a vessel of, to function rather than to shut down. Without sleep, the mind deteriorates, and the body also does in turn. Our subconscious, and what it can manifest when we are within it, often is random, but also varies on our own experiences. Due to our consciousness being within this state, said REM/Dream states usually feel like the present reality the individual exists within, clarity only being gained after awakening in the real world. Rarely, however, this clarity can be gained while within a dream state, causing the consciousness to completely influence the subconscious experience, for better or worse.

[@thevastblack]

Hey man, I just wanted to drop by and say how proud I am of your channel and how much I've looked up to you and your work. We started roughly around the same time and cover similar topics, but you found a way to hit the ground running. I found your "Space is Terrifying" video while I was doing research for my first upload last year, and I've watched you ever since. Work and life keep me from grinding out content the way I'd like but I'm always inspired to write when I see a new video of yours pop up in my subscription feed. Your content is extremely well researched and very well written and edited. You deserve to be among the greats in this niche with millions of subs, and I hope to see you get there some day!

[@sarab3888]

2 stories 1. I had a sleep paralysis episode when i was laying on my side. It felt like someone was hitting my back while yelling "why are you ignoring me!? 2. Had a dream where i got up, went to do my morning routine then i woke up, got up went to do my morning routine then i woke up... it was very disorianting

[@RedMedsRedemption]

This’ll be a good one to fall asleep to.

[@f5tornado831]

Lucid dreams are insanely overrated. Whenever I have them, I just go "oh cool" and then forget that I'm in a dream a few minutes later. Being able to do anything you want isn't all that great when you have half the cognitive ability you usually have. Plus, lots of things people want to do in them will probably just wake them up anyway if they do them. You can even accidentally turn your dream into a nightmare by simply thinking of something scary for just a split second.

[@johnnygarcia5167]

my kind of sleep paralysis is horrifying. during mine, just like the most, i am frozen in my room and cannot move but i dont hallucinate or see shadow people. instead i am over come with fear because i am absolutely convinced something is in my room with me. i either feel 1 of 2 things, a sensation of me being pulled off my bed or like something from behind is getting closer and closer to me. it really sucks cause it happens to me frequently no matter what i do

[@deaddoomed2380]

I was without sleeping through 5 days in school, finally I had a black out in a lab. Painful tinnitus when I started to closing my eyes, everyday night hallucinations, I heard sounds coming from places where I knew they weren't coming from and paranoid thoughts... Extreme sleep deprivation is the worst

[@EvoSuFFr]

I was very into lucid dreaming at one point but didn’t know how I triggered it. It got to the point I would constantly would have sleep paralysis so much I’ll have it just taking power naps. I would have at least have one horrific dream but for years all of my dreams would be considered nightmares but there’s always a female in the that I would be so attracted to that I won’t realize I’m in one but it’s for a short time. You’ve explained why I go through this with this vid, so thank you. I enjoyed it.

[@TheGreatDreamer1937]

I love being asleep. Best part of my day

[@Sylvi_Sendero77]

I haven’t had sleep paralysis ever but what you described as a lucid nightmare is something that has happened to me, what you described exactly fit my experience. Everything I thought became real, it was the most terrified I’ve even been and it’s my most clear memory despite being while I was asleep.

[@Idkwhyuhere2_18-z6z]

Probably not a good idea watching this in bed, ready to sleep😅🥲

[@Cannablesh33p]

I've only experienced sleep paralyisis twice, both times while working 24 hour shifts in Northern Canada. The first I woke up hearing knocking on all of the doors in my apartment and scratching at the window behind my bed. I tried to get up thinking it was my coworkers trying to wake me up but found myself unable to move. It lasted maybe a minute at most but terrified me and kept me up for the rest of the night. The second started the same, but I recognized the feeling and was able to end it quickly by closing my eyes and focusing on slowing my breathing. Absolutely crazy and disorienting experiences, havent had them since.

[@OrangeBunt]

Love your channel dude, banger after banger video

[@josealeixo8299]

Your videos getting better and better,in the beginning your videos are good but now are better keep up buddy

[@Erythrium]

I THOUGHT I heard Perfect Vermin in there! Checked the description and, yep, there it is. My god, your taste in music. 💯

[@Space_kitty1234]

Hey cresendex ! I started watching your videos a couple weeks ago and i just wanted to thank for these amazing videos❤ they helped me sleep like never before so thank you

[@AdmiralOrca]

Only experienced sleep paralysis twice, both times happened when I stayed at my coworkers house in Florida separated by 2 years between visits. “Woke up” unable to move with my head facing one corner of the room and I could feel something watching me from the opposite corner which was only just in my periphery

[@johnwilliamspappas456]

Congratulation on 100,000k I find your work fascinating it is amongst the highest quality entertainment you can find Thank You for Your Excellence😊 northern Maine

[@AKPersonaHex]

Sleep is such an interesting topic. I'm someone who has had insomnia since I was 5. I think the longest I've actually gone without sleep is 3 days, though. I always hit a limit and sleep whether I want to or not. I've always had trouble staying asleep because my dreams have always been very vivid. I always have trouble falling asleep because... well, ADHD. I used to take medication to help me sleep. Eventually I stopped, but don't remember why. Eventually I learned a few ways to make myself fall asleep. As I got older, my vivid dreams became vivid nightmares. Yet I've only ever had one lucid dream. It ended abruptly because I got too excited. I've had sleep paralysis a few times, but I don't really understand the feeling of pressure on the chest. I've never hyperventilated from fear, so maybe that's why I never experienced it. Thankfully, I don't have nightmares nearly as often anymore. There have been far too many times that I had trouble separating dreams from other memories. It's easy with some dreams since they can take place in drastically different worlds, but that doesn't stop them from feeling real. I've even had a dream in which I was told about something in a different language. Looking it up the next day, I learned it was a real word that referred to something believed to be a "dream eater". One of my dreams has even resulted in a scar forming in a place where I only got hurt in the dream. Sleep is weird.

[@mufmager]

I been having lucid dreams for a year straight, there is not a single morning I wake up without remembering what I dreamt of just seconds ago. It's crazy but its awesome, I get to go through things that are beautiful.

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Sleep are terrifying live. Removed my headphones 15 minutes into their first song, just for a second, and now I got hearing damage for life.

[@xxyoboigxx]

Another banger video. Thank you for such an interesting vid

[@something4251]

i like this guy

[@RaineyDraws]

Thanks, how I’m never gonna sleep again 😀

[@cu_ri_o]

I'm 39yo, my involuntary sleep paralysis started when I was about 5yo or 6yo. I was never that scared in my entire life. I couldn't move or speak. When I finally "woke up" the first thing I did was saying "hello" over and over to make sure I still had a voice. I still have it at least once a month. I do have lucid dreams, but I suck at controlling what happens. Like punching or running takes a lot of strength. And of course, I am one of those lucky people who have dreams in dreams in dreams. Almost everyone from the side of my dad has some kind of sleeping disorder. Sleepwalking, Sleeptalking (you can have entire conversation with them. their eyes are open and all) or they have involuntary sleep paralysis. And one of my favorite Horrormovies is the original Nightmare on Elmstreet 😂

[@infinitedeath1384]

I had a feeling you'd talk about sleep paralysis, but i was surprised when you said it's a way to get into a lucid dream. Unfortunately i haven't been able to have any lucid dreams.

[@coralisIa]

i just finished the astrophobia and thalassophobia a couple mins ago and now im just starting to watch this and i wanna say that ur an extremely underrated channel and do a good job at making my fears worse lol it might sound like a bad thing but its really intriguing in a way so it isnt i love these videos tho and cant wait to see more u really do make all these topics terrifying and interesting

[@Freakoont]

back when I was much younger I had a terrible experience with sleep paralysis. I have always been into watching anything on horror, whether its fictional, documentations or videos like these. When I had finally gone to bed, it didn't take long until I heard my door open while being sleep. Now, I'm someone that sleep during anything, but very easily will wake up, or grow conscious of what's going on around me. I couldn't move or even open my eyes, then I realized I was upside down with my back to the door, so even if I did try to open my eyes slightly in fear, I wouldn't be facing the door. The blanket wasn't even covering me, so I didn't feel very protected. What was probably minutes, felt like hours that I couldn't move or do anything and I sat in my bedroom with the door open hearing something or someone walking in the hallways behind me. At first I believed it to be my dad since he often stayed up, but then I would've heard the TV.. I didn't hear anything. Afterwards, I finally stood up and then realized.. my door was shut all along.

[@ethanlang4361]

All my homies love new cresendex uploads Seriously though, these videos are awesome. Keep it up.

[@realomegamodern]

I was never so early on your channel❤

[@DatOneCat]

On the topic of Sleep Paralysis and the monsters spawned from it, the closest thing I've experienced similar to it was not even scary but silly. Having a character sit on my belly with a smug, playful smile on my bed in a bright early morning dream setting of my room. I woke up briefly before hand but fell asleep again to induce this. The character had left such an impression on me at that time that I ended up immortalizing them as an actual character of mine. Good times.

[@Skippy19812]

I once stayed awake for more than two days (approx 50 hours) due to the side effects of a medication I was taking. It was an unpleasant experience. I think the worst part (aside from the audible and visual hallucinations, which you kind of come to accept) was the discomfort. No matter which position you sit or lie in your body feels like it's in the wrong position, and it's *agonizing*. For years I suffered with long periods of insomnia followed by crashing and frequent bouts of sleep paralysis. Fortunately I don't get it so much these days (last episode of sleep paralysis was circa two years ago.)

[@SirDog]

I've experienced false awakenings multiple times before and it was terrifying. They were followed by sleep paralysis episodes, and sometimes, I go back to having false awakenings straight after a sleep paralysis episode. One of the most terrifying experience I had of a false awakening was when I literally just went to take a nap right beside my friend while we were on a couch. I told her that I was just gonna take a short nap. Every time I "woke" up in that dream, she would take a different form, sometimes it would be night, sometimes we would be somewhere else, and one time there were multiples of her. Then after all that nightmare, I had a sleep paralysis episode where I saw a dark figure in front of me.

[@bloodmancer4824]

Sorry for the double comment, as a kid I've actually had Lucid Dreams while in a nightmare without knowing what they were. I had one were I got stuck in an endless loop of waking up into nightmares only because I kept trying to force myself awake in one nightmare, but without having any clue how to control them I would just wake up into another. Pretty creepy stuff.

[@ChaosJedi]

I've had sleep paralysis only once, but it has stuck with me just because of the location. Sleep paralysis is scary enough, but when I experienced it, I was in the hospital while recovering from a heart surgery. I didn't have any hallucinations or anything, but it was creepy being stuck in my own body while in a hospital bed at night. I remember seeing some doctors/nurses passing my hospital room, and I could hear them but couldn't make out the words. Maybe it was a hallucination, I'm not sure. I just remember being alone and in the dark in a hospital, unable to move. The only comfort I gave myself, was listening to my heart monitor and trying to control my heartbeat just to hear it on the monitor. It's the only time it happened and it's been 5 years now, but i still think about it.

[@STVRHAVEN]

one of my favorite times i ever "lucid" dreamed was as i was dreaming a started to realize it was a dream, i don't really remember the dream i just remember it getting scary, and then i just went nope, this is a dream i don't want to do this anymore and changed the dream mid way

[@jamesstaggs4160]

I had my first lucid dream at age 7. I had night terrors as a child and I think it was a response to those. If I realized I was dreaming I would do something like run into a wall or jumo off a cliff.

[@bloodmancer4824]

Weirdly enough, just about all of my sleep paralysis has been experienced on my side after I've overslept for more than 12 hours in 1 day. I tend to sleep facing the wall then, so I would always hear something walking, digging, pacing, scratching, breathing, and growling either next to me or in the wall I was facing. Once I remember hearing a voice begging me to wake up by rapidly whispering "wakeupwakupwakewakeupwakeup" over and over again in my ear. After minutes of this it stopped for a few microseconds before screaming "Wake up or you're going to die!" and then I was able to move again. The weirdest nighttime experience I've had that may or may not have been sleep paralysis was during a thanksgiving party I was sleeping at my grandparents' house on a futon in a small room with no door. There was a loud grandfather clock ticking away right outside the door. After some time, I began to notice 3 shadows walking back and forth through the hallway outside my door. One time it seemed like one of them "saw" me and stopped for a few second before it began to enter my room, I hid under the blankets and shut my eyes, and for a second, I thought I saw lightening or electricity dancing across my eyelids. Didn't see the shadows anymore after that, but couldn't sleep the rest of the.

[@pup.piston]

I used to have a deep, deep fear of sleep paralysis as a kid because I'd already had some weird experiences I saw as paranormal which led to me becoming a stomach-sleeper who slept with a pillow on top of my head for years (Literally because I was afraid I would see something "I wasn't meant to see" if I woke in the middle of the night). The first time I had sleep paralysis I had thought I was having a seizure of some kind (Spoiler alert: It was not, but I do have intermittent tremors these days). No weird hallucinations though. I've experienced some downright spooky shit that I witnessed with others present, but funny enough... last time I had sleep paralysis, I hallucinated light and a seemingly protective dog(?) in my room between me and the door. It felt... amazing. The safest I ever had up to that point. When I woke up more fully I only realized it had been a dream/hallucination and not something else because there were blackout curtains in my room at the time, which would not have let sunlight in... Edit: Now that I think about it, I had a funnier experience that I would call more of a lucid dream, a couple years ago, that basically was along the lines of me staying in a motel room on what looked like the moon(?), being transmitted scary emergency messages from the US government via my fucking box fan (think glowing letters on the face of the fan), and some random dark figure standing in my doorway.......... just opening and closing the door like it had been trying to enter my dream and just got stuck. Later connected that to the fact I'd heard my now-ex opening/closing the door on a bathroom trip and then a kitchen trip while I was asleep. The whole thing was so pathetic and silly lmao

[@soyuzsovietsky]

I have narcolepsy and because of it, there are nights where I try to fall asleep, have painful sleep paralysis, and force myself to wake up because I can’t breathe…and this happens over and over again, sometimes 10 or 20 times in a single night. Thank goodness I’ve never experienced hallucinations during the process.

[@maxlilacx3705]

I am not Hmong myself, but I did grow up in Fresno, where many Hmong immigrants came to after the Vietnam war. “Hmong” is actually pronounced like “Mong,” the “H” is silent :)

[@Fiddq]

Lucid dreaming is fun, but having the control over the dream is way more fun. I used to own ocolus rift VR glasses, and I used to play a lot of video games, and everytime i want to exit, i always press back to menu button to exit the game. This technique got stuck in my head while i was dreaming a lot, I eventually started to get the hang of it of controlling dreams with opening a menu bar. For example, I had a nightmare of unknown creatures all over the town killing everybody, and I was inside a house, panicking not knowing what to do, until I then remember that I can always exit the game (the dream) and so I did. I imagined i opened the menu and somehow clicked on exit. The dream turned in to pitch black, then i started dreaming something else. I also learned to manage to freeze the dream whenever I go to the menu, mostly i was using it while somebody was chasing me somewhere, and thinking i wont escape, they will catch me, they will hurt me, I taught myself to freeze the whole dream, and only the bar will be showing up. This type of technique really helped me out to escape bad dreams and switch it to lucid dreaming. Does anybody else controls dreams like that?

[@WinterDominus]

I experienced multiple sleep paralysis episodes. While feeling freaked out by being trapped in an immobile body, I never had any hallucinations.

[@ecosan2655]

I have a few tips for sleep paralysis. To me it's always been a problem to fall asleep. I have done the wake up and back to sleep many times on accident. I've had lucid nightmares, and dreams and sleep paralysis, and it's an interesting thing. Usually when i feel scared/have a nightmare, I immediately think "it's a nightmare/it's a nightmare. Wake up" and I do as such. With dreams, as soon as I notice it being a dream I get wake. For sleep paralysis, as soon as I notice myself not being able to move, I think of having paralysis. What I do is to try to move something small, like a toe or finger (usually a toe). Then I go for all my toes/fingers, then to my whole foot, then my leg or arm, up until I can fully move

[@hunterthewarlock]

You should do a video on technophobia and ai anxiety! There is a lot of cool literature like “i have no mouth but i must scream” in feel like you would have some thought provoking and interesting insights!

[@fnaf1983-RWQFSFASXC]

I sure hope I don’t get insomnia from this terrifying video about the dangers of not sleeping

[@zgSH4DOW]

In middle school, I heard somewhere your brain does absolutely nothing for the split second before you fall asleep For a while, I had a complicated fear of sleeping while obviously being comforted by it/needing it

[@Gokuvegeta47]

If you accidently miss a night of sleep here or there would it have serious negative effects.

[@sordakthemobile1777]

Always an interesting day when you stumble upon the inspirations of SCP's you've read about

[@cyanspartan1757]

I think I once had a lucid dream that I was sleeping in a completely different bed in a different house. Once I woke up, I realized that I was not, in fact, at my mom's house sleeping on my futon, but at my dad's on his queen. Really weird. Still sticks with me today as one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

[@CollynsTV]

i haven't slept in 3 days. and youtube is enabling my mental illness

[@kohaku2306]

According to my experience with sleep paralisis i have a weird feeling before i actually become paralized and if i move it doesnt happen However if its happening my strat is breathing as strong as possible and after that use all you force to try to move it usually does, when it doesnt u try again

[@leviyoung4548]

Ive always been scared, somtimes terrified to sleep, this video helped me get an insight of maybe why im scared of sleep

[@S_N1ST3R]

You know, I don’t think I should take a nap after getting the notification for this vid… Anyways I’m going to bed.

[@venusianmorningstar]

i have had false awakenings multiple times while trying to wake up my muscles during sleep paralysis and i felt like i was stuck in there forever

[@PERTEKofficial]

I’ve been there with the false awakenings a few times. I’ve been an avid lucid dreamer for most of my life so I’m pretty familiar with the dream stuff, and most of the time I can force-wake myself if I don’t like the dream. But when I wake up and start my day, leave my apartment, and then wake up and start my day, and then leave my apartment, and then wake up and start my day and realize something isn’t right, then wake up and start my day, etc over and over again, that starts getting scary. Been a time or two where I thought I died in my sleep

[@loganberryyaps]

As someone who has struggled with insomnia for a few years now, that discussion of fatal insomnia kinda freaked me out ngl

[@vuduong173]

I'm not too sure why my sleep paralysis experience was different from everyone else. Fall 2019, I was a student at my university, commuting every 2 days from my house, by a 45-minute drive each way. We all know how college is. Sleep deprivation is common among students, and I'm no exception. I'd catch up on sleep often by going to the designated sleep room at my university. It was 9 a.m., after I finished my first class of the day. On this day, I was exceptionally tired for whatever reason. As I fell asleep on the bean bag, I suddenly got woken up, laying on my left side, facing the wall, opposite of the entrance of the room. I heard breathing right behind me, almost as if someone is breathing into the back of my neck. Then, I thought, "who the hell would go and sleep right behind me? I was here first." But then, I realized that the breathing matched my rhythm exactly, so I thought why is this the case? As I tried to turn around to investigate, I discovered that I could not move, so I tried my absolute best to move without success. I then noticed a shadow approaching me from the corner of my eyes. I freaked out, but could not moce. And so, I thought, "is it the shadow that everyone talks about when they mention sleep paralysis?" This thought alone helped me calm down and came to the conclusion in my own dream that "this must be the sleep paralysis that everyone was talking about." At this point, I was not scared of the shadow, and couldn't care any less. All I could think of was "I need to get out of this situation." Then, I tried my absolute best to move my arms. Next thing I know, I swung my right arm behind me so hard that if someone was actually sleeping behind me, I would've injured them. I do not know why or how I was able to recognize the sleep paralysis within my own dream, but this was the first time I experienced sleep paralysis, but I was able to escape it without much trouble!

[@zeljkobroz467]

17:20 I had sleep paralysis on all positions (flank, belly, back), you can't avoid it by simply sleeping on your flanks or belly, but don't be scared, if you aknowledge that you have sleep paralysis, you will be totally fine, sleep paralysis is totally mundane, just close your eyes if you can and remain calm till you can move again.