• From getting a collect call from Satan himself to making love to your night time
intruders we look at 10 terrifying personal stories of sleep paralysis.
10 – The Black Cat,
• This is one feline you definitely don’t want cuddling up to you at night.
• This black shadow like cat has appeared to many sleep paralysis suffers in the night.
Those visited by the doom kitty will normally wake up to find the creature sitting on their
chest with pain and breathlessness soon following.
• Some also see the cat shift into different more unusual creatures and demons.
Being suffocated by cats is the stuff of urban legends but for victims it’s very real.
9 – Insect Swarms, • Well if cats stealing your breath doesn’t
freak you out maybe being covered in bugs will.
• One sufferer detailed on Reddit about seeing a giant scarab like beetle looming
over their body, suddenly the colossal insect speaks detailing the different ways it will
devour their flesh.
All before abruptly turning into thousands of beetles and swarming into the cracks of
the wall.
• I’d like to know what methods the beetle suggested, would it deep fry its victim or
prefer a demonic human BBQ.
Didn’t know insects could be so picky.
Then again maybe this one was just triggered from watching The Mummy too many times.
8 – The Devil’s Call, • Here’s one that featured in the recent
documentary, “The Nightmare”.
• Essentially instead of being paralysed thinks he has woken up from his dream to answer
his phone, he walks out to the lounge room talking to a mysterious voice that asks to
be “let in”.
When the victim says no the room starts to shake and the voice turns angry, the room
begins to shake and he can’t move.
• Scared out his mind he turns to Jesus for help and bam snaps right out of it and
I back in his bed.
Who ever said God wasn’t there when you need him.
7 – Rapid Aging, • Described as something like the guy drinking
from the wrong grail in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” but on acid.
• This story involved our victim going from a pleasant lucid dream to waking up paralysed
with an old woman in front of their face, rapidly aging before their eyes.
God the horrors of old people being shoved in your face like that.
• The account doesn’t say how they escaped but I bet it wasn’t without the old woman
complaining about the cold before rushing off the get a senior’s special at Denny’s.
6 – The Man in the Attic, • Why is there is always something terrible
lurking in attics?
• This unfortunate soul had the horrible vision of seeing something very sinister lurking
in the roof above them.
Waking up they see the roof hatch in their roof open up and a dark begin to crawl out,
attempting to reach the victim in their bed.
• Imagine being unable to move with a clawed shadow creature trying desperately to grab
you and pull you into the abyss of you dark attic.
Dear God, the horrors that lurk up there…like your dad’s record collection.
5 – Dead Cousin in your Bed, • Everyone wants to see their dead relatives
again right?
Maybe just not under such terrifying circumstances.
• This victim came into paralysis with a woman standing at his closet door, back turned
towards the bed.
On top of that they can sense another person in the bed with them but can’t turn to see
who.
• Suddenly the figure in the jacket turns revealing it was their cousin that died the
year before.
Panicking they scream trying to get the other person in the bed’s attention, the paralysis
breaks and the end up yelling “What the fuck is happening” to and empty room.
No one in the bed and just a jacket hanging from the closet door.
4 – Masturbation Shame, • Ever felt bad about jackin’ it?
Well now sleep demons will shame you as well.
• Another story told in the documentary “The Nightmare” is told by Forrest B.
about staying at his parents’ house and experiencing a paralysis episode.
He wakes to see an elderly man sitting at the end of his bed.
The old man opens his mouth and says “Forrest, you came all over your mothers sheets, you
pervert.”
• Forrest swears he didn’t even self-love that night so the old man demon was totally
wrong, at least get your shit straight demonic masturbation shame creature.
3 – The Red and Black Demon, • An almost universally seen creature that
terrorises sleep paralysis victims.
• These demons can take on many variations, some just having red glowing eyes and a shadowy
humanoid shape and others appearing as literal demonic looking creatures with red & black
skin and sharp teeth.
• One sufferer experienced the more demonic looking version sitting on her chest, trying
to suffocate her.
Breaking free and waking up her husband, he said he had felt something pushing down on
his chest too.
Jeez talk about an unlucky couple, well maybe they can fight sleep demons together at least.
2 – The Hat Man, • The terrifying man in a hat and no it’s
not the kind with a neckbeard and an anime obsession.
• This is one that comes from multiple sufferers telling that after being plagued by one or
two shadow men, the ring leader will show up.
Universally this is a man in a fedora standing behind all the other creatures, menacing the
victim with a blurred or shadowed face.
• For some sufferers The Hat Man only watched but for the unlucky few he will strangle or
hit them…Jeez give me the other fedora wearer any day.
1 – Sex with your Demons, • Well turns out this sleep demons may just
want a piece of ass.
• This person had been experiencing sleep paralysis since they were 7 years old but
didn’t try doing anything sexual with the dream intruders until their late 20’s.
Finding that if they could get their hand to move to their own crotch, this would initiate
sex with the creatures.
• The victim would then orgasm without any “real” world stimulus and quickly fall
back asleep.
Mystery solved, sleep demons just want to have some kind of Rosemary’s Baby encounter
with you...
Well that’s not gonna give me nightmares.