Sleep Paralysis. :O
If you’ve never experienced sleep paralysis and have been skeptical about the stories…. THEY’RE TRUE.
I know this because it happened to me. Just one time, fortunately.
It was several years ago. At that point, I had no idea what sleep paralysis was. I guess I had to have heard the term, but I certainly had no idea that what I experienced was in any way something that other people had ever experienced in such a similar way.
I wasn’t “influenced” by anyone else’s stories because I’d plainly never heard them.
I guess I could best describe it as a waking nightmare. I’d fallen asleep on the couch in our living room, and when I “woke up,” I couldn’t move. AT ALL.
My eyes were open and I was able to process what I was seeing, which regrettably was a goddamned SHADOW DEMON as tall as the ceiling.
The implication was that this monster was coming for me, and I couldn’t do a thing about it. I tried to simply turn my head towards the monster, somehow believing that that was the way to “defeat” it.
I couldn’t do it. Trying to turn my head felt like I was trying to lift a car. Whenever I tried, I’d hear horrible synthy sound effects that sounded like electronic screams.
God knows how long the dream really lasted, but it sure felt like minutes, and only ended when I successfully managed to turn my head sideways — which finally snapped me back to reality.
I told this story online and several people immediately recognized it as sleep paralysis. Whatever skepticism I had vanished once I saw the countless stories about people having the exact same experience with the exact same sort of monster and the exact same nuances.
Our brains are so freakin’ weird, guys.
Anyway, I haven’t yet watched this video about sleep paralysis, but it has over 11k likes on YouTube, so it must be okay!
Free-For-All Friday Thread #8!
Time for this week’s Free-For-All Friday Thread!
Talk about whatever! Have fun!
If you need a little background noise, here’s a playlist stuffed with tons of 1980s TV show intros:
Happy Free-For-All Friday!
PS: If you missed it on the main page, we just dropped another Purple Stuff minisode.
Random He-Man Episode!
I only have a minute tonight, but I’m leaving you in good hands:
Here’s a random episode of Masters of the Universe. May it make your Thursday night feel like a Friday night. (More likely a Thursday afternoon, but don’t go blaming He-Man. He didn’t pick that time slot.)
Clue VCR Mystery Game!
I wanted a relaxing video for tonight, so naturally my brain jumped to the videocassette from the Clue VCR Mystery Game.
My parents received it as a Christmas present in 1985, from someone who evidently didn’t know them very well. They never touched the thing.
I inherited the game by default, though I never once played it, nor even had any idea how TO play it.
Years later, I purchased a VCR for my bedroom, and that weird tape became my preferred source for background noise. It didn’t play out like a “real” film, but between the macabre sets, random bouts of thunder and everyone getting murdered, it felt enough like a horror movie to pass as one.
I’m sure many of you have seen the Tim Curry film. Picture this as the super serious made-for-television version of it. I used to just let it play and go about my business, happy that I had some spooky ambiance to paint boring evenings with exhilarating coats of dread.
