Sleep paralysis suffocation

[AmberButtermilk]

Does anyone else here suffocate during sleep paralysis?

It's been a little over a month since I first started having alien-related experiences. Before then, I'd have sleep paralysis about once a month, which I can trace back to when I was 16. Most of the time they were just auditory hallucinations...I can only recall two that scared me. Now that I have begun researching ETs, I have them about once a week, and I ALWAYS just lay there suffocating. I do actually wake up, I am sure of this; but my body won't move and my breathing is VERY shallow and slow, to the point I basically cannot breathe at all and begin to have a panic attack. I try to calm myself down so that I can concentrate on being able to move my body, but it always takes me a couple minutes, which can feel like forever when you're barely breathing. When I stop attempting to move my body, I feel it fall further and heavier into this coma-like trap, and it's terrifying. It's becoming too frequent now and it's really bothering me. Does anyone else have this problem?

[Jake]

Posted by AmberButtermilk (here)
Does anyone else here suffocate during sleep paralysis?

It's been a little over a month since I first started having alien-related experiences. Before then, I'd have sleep paralysis about once a month, which I can trace back to when I was 16. Most of the time they were just auditory hallucinations...I can only recall two that scared me. Now that I have begun researching ETs, I have them about once a week, and I ALWAYS just lay there suffocating. I do actually wake up, I am sure of this; but my body won't move and my breathing is VERY shallow and slow, to the point I basically cannot breathe at all and begin to have a panic attack. I try to calm myself down so that I can concentrate on being able to move my body, but it always takes me a couple minutes, which can feel like forever when you're barely breathing. When I stop attempting to move my body, I feel it fall further and heavier into this coma-like trap, and it's terrifying. It's becoming too frequent now and it's really bothering me. Does anyone else have this problem?

Hello, AmberButtermilk!! Being aware of physical paralysis while sleeping is only part of it. Many of these 'threshold consciousness' phenomenon are precursor to an out-of-body-experience.. Lot's of folks practice to have OBE's, and one of the aspects of consciously inducing these states is the steadying and slowing of breathing.. I have noticed the same thing.. Before I began having spontaneous OBEs, I would notice exactly the same thing, and get quite panicked... Your body will not allow you to suffocate yourself by way of altered state breathing.. Not unless you already have some sort of sleep apnea or other pre-existing condition.. When I was much younger, my asthma was really bad. I would be forced to sit still and slower my breathing, and calm my mind.. (The basic ingredients for simple meditation.) I was aware of lots of phenomenon. I would be aware that my heart was beating 4 times faster than it should. (Later learned that it had to do more with my Heart Center, or Chakra.) Though, at the time, i thought it was my heart, and that it could be dangerous..

Being aware of any of it shows that you have a bit of a natural ability to drop into 'trance', whilst keeping conscious. !!!

There is lot's to discover in these 'threshold conscious' states.. Try sitting still and looking through your closed eyelids... That is always fun....

Or,, Try OBE...

Cheers,
Jake.

[ZooLife]

This may be totally unrelated to your experience but are you sure you do not have an degree of sleep apnea?

[sheme]

Felt myself being manoeuvred through an 18" stone wall head first but quiet distress roused me and I refused to leave my body this happened twice in short time- I was calm and felt in control, the next day I rationalised the experience as a sleep apnoea episode -I guess I though I was having a kind of out of body experience due to lack of oxygen- does this resonate with you?

[AmberButtermilk]

Many of these 'threshold consciousness' phenomenon are precursor to an out-of-body-experience.. Lot's of folks practice to have OBE's, and one of the aspects of consciously inducing these states is the steadying and slowing of breathing.. I have noticed the same thing.. Before I began having spontaneous OBEs, I would notice exactly the same thing, and get quite panicked... Your body will not allow you to suffocate yourself by way of altered state breathing..

I've practiced OBE and have been successful at slowing my breath to the point needed. What I am talking about now is much scarier. It happened this morning, and while trying to calm down, I was able to remember this concept. I've been kicking myself over it because I always panic before I can try to have an OBE when this happens, but this morning was different. When I gained a sense of control in my head and tried to let go, I actually did stop breathing for a few seconds. This was very alarming, as I thought what you just said would be the case. I would never be able to have an OBE in this state because it is just WAY too shallow and infrequent. There is no rhythm or consistency...it feels like a terrible asthma attack, except while being entirely immobile.

[AmberButtermilk]

This may be totally unrelated to your experience but are you sure you do not have an degree of sleep apnea?

Lol no I'm not sure, but I have definitely wondered about that! It just seemed weird that it's never happened like this until the ET experience, and now it's all the time.

[Selmir1984]

Hi.in March 2014 i had my 30th Birthday and days later i lay nights in bed and then starts slowely like an energy or elektricy going trought my body untill the energy stays for long then i see how i am gone out of my body and i see my body under me and i am like flying trought my room but i will scream or say something but its not working and then its morning and what i am remember is only how i go out and this minit in the room like flying and then until i wake up nothing only how i come back in my body but the missing time i cant remember and it happens ewery few days.... and from then i began to meditate and i am another person i am not more the same and i had memories from childhood and later from a city on water and a ship in space like its happend not in dream but it was in dream and there is many other stuff its to long...but i contacded marry rodwell and spoke with her ,,its amazing....just write her ..she had her mail on an internet site called acern....just tipp marry rodwell.acern... and i remember a past life...but i will not write here a book its to long to write.....best wishes from..selmir....and sorry my bad english

[AmberButtermilk]

Felt myself being manoeuvred through an 18" stone wall head first but quiet distress roused me and I refused to leave my body this happened twice in short time- I was calm and felt in control, the next day I rationalised the experience as a sleep apnoea episode -I guess I though I was having a kind of out of body experience due to lack of oxygen- does this resonate with you?

I am trying to imagine this and I don't feel I can relate to any of it except that it does feel like a lack of oxygen

[Becky]

Amber, I have had this, and exactly as you describe there is a very strong pull into a deep coma-like sleep which is unavoidable. Then I wake up some time later, always having had no dream recollection at all between the 'scary incident' and awakening normally. I often hear noises in my room and feel creatures which 'appear' which give the impression as pets, either a dog or cat jumping on me on my bed, which I don't have irl, as I'm aware of the paralysis and something around my head end, then I fall into a deep sleep which i try to fight and always lose. Always had this ever since I was a young kid. My dad said it's because one half of my brain is awake and the other half asleep - that's what he described it as to me when I used to ask him as a kid what this was. All I know is that i feel wide awake and terrified before I'm plunged into a deep sleep I cannot fight.

[fractal being]

Posted by AmberButtermilk (here)
Does anyone else here suffocate during sleep paralysis?

It's been a little over a month since I first started having alien-related experiences. Before then, I'd have sleep paralysis about once a month, which I can trace back to when I was 16. Most of the time they were just auditory hallucinations...I can only recall two that scared me. Now that I have begun researching ETs, I have them about once a week, and I ALWAYS just lay there suffocating. I do actually wake up, I am sure of this; but my body won't move and my breathing is VERY shallow and slow, to the point I basically cannot breathe at all and begin to have a panic attack. I try to calm myself down so that I can concentrate on being able to move my body, but it always takes me a couple minutes, which can feel like forever when you're barely breathing. When I stop attempting to move my body, I feel it fall further and heavier into this coma-like trap, and it's terrifying. It's becoming too frequent now and it's really bothering me. Does anyone else have this problem?

Hi there ABM,

I've experienced sleep paralysis occasionally mainly during my younger years even though they weren't as frequent as yours. Coincidentally I also recall only two of them being scary. Really scary though. The last one about 3 years ago on a trip to Costa Rica I can remember it very vividly. I hadn't been in sleep for very long when it started but I "woke up" in some sort of shadow world. I had full awareness where I was and who I was, but I could also sense a wide spread threat all around, like ghosts were surrounding the place. I didn't see any of them though, but the feeling of their presence ran through my bones. Hopefully by that time I had educated myself around the phenomenon, so I was able to cope with the fact that I can't move and breath and managed to get out of it very fast.

Apparently when you go to sleep your brain has a way to disconnect all voluntary motor movements as a safety mechanism so you won't translate your dream-state perceptions into actual voluntary movements. Now for your brain to exit the sleeping state and restore voluntary movement control it takes some time. Obviously sleep paralysis occurs when your brain has completed the process of disconnecting all voluntary movement control, but your frontal cortex (the region in the brain where thought process is located) and your visual centers are at an awareness state. You can't breath as much as you want because your respiratory system is also under sleep-mode and you can't voluntarily control it. The panic mode you experience might also activate the stress axis, which in turn extend the time your brain needs to exit sleep mode.

So if you don't feel like for a nice ride as Jake suggested all you need to do is relax and know that within moments you'll be able to gain voluntary movement control. Switching a source of light on speeds up the recovery process by a lot, but that can be done only if somebody else is there to do it for you, since you cannot move . Last time I had the scary experience I was barely able to whisper to my companions to turn the lights on and luckily they heard me. Sleep paralysis is incorporated in the myths of many cultures in the world. If you read some of the stories it might help you appreciate the experience better and make it less stressful for you. For me it has been the start point of many wonderful lucid dreams.

Love and peace,
FB

[AmberButtermilk]

I have had this, and exactly as you describe there is a very strong pull into a deep coma-like sleep which is unavoidable. Then I wake up some time later, always having had no dream recollection at all between the 'scary incident' and awakening normally. I often hear noises in my room and feel creatures which 'appear' which give the impression as pets, either a dog or cat jumping on me on my bed, which I don't have irl, as I'm aware of the paralysis and something around my head end, then I fall into a deep sleep which i try to fight and always lose

My regular paralysis would include hallucinations like this (especially my at-the-time recently deceased cat jumping onto my bed), where I would wake up later and not remember what happened in between. Except one time I truly was wide awake and mobile, and still felt/heard this happen with my cat, so I didn't know what to think about the paralysis episodes with her. With the suffocation paralysis, I don't fall back asleep. I want to SO bad, but it just makes me breathe even less when I try to stop fighting so much. I have to use ALL my strength and energy to stay awake by "wiggling" my inner self until my physical body begins to repeat the same action I'm thinking about.

[AmberButtermilk]

The last one about 3 years ago on a trip to Costa Rica I can remember it very vividly. I hadn't been in sleep for very long when it started but I "woke up" in some sort of shadow world. I had full awareness where I was and who I was, but I could also sense a wide spread threat all around, like ghosts were surrounding the place. I didn't see any of them though, but the feeling of their presence ran through my bones.


Sleep paralysis is incorporated in the myths of many cultures in the world. If you read some of the stories it might help you appreciate the experience better and make it less stressful for you. For me it has been the start point of many wonderful lucid dreams.

I do somewhat enjoy paralysis when I'm not suffocating, simply because it's so interesting. It's either hallucinations and perfect breathing or no hallucinations and suffocation. I'm waiting for another BREATHING episode so that I can attempt to induce either a lucid dream or OBE, but I haven't been having these as of late. Although waking up in a shadow world does not sound very appealing!

[fractal being]

Posted by AmberButtermilk (here)
Although waking up in a shadow world does not sound very appealing!

LOL that was one out of the two scary experiences. The rest of the times I'd go wherever I'd feel like going at that moment in my lucid dreams .

Posted by AmberButtermilk (here)
I do somewhat enjoy paralysis when I'm not suffocating, simply because it's so interesting. It's either hallucinations and perfect breathing or no hallucinations and suffocation. I'm waiting for another BREATHING episode so that I can attempt to induce either a lucid dream or OBE, but I haven't been having these as of late.

By default sleep paralysis includes suffocation otherwise it's just a lucid dream or OBE. When I didn't knew that it's normal that I do not have control of my body and my breathing it felt really like I'm suffocating. After I knew it was normal, it didn't felt like that anymore. Hope it works for you as well.

[ghostrider]

be careful not to have the room you sleep in too warm ... I would try to elevate your head with more pillows ... sleep paralysis is the first stage of having an out of body experience , as to not act out your dreams ... it sounds like your astral travels to a higher level is trying , while the body is fighting against it ... if a shadow person is present , it can cause this action of terrifying or feeling of fear ... you must command the night , command the environment ... I fought one of these guys back in in 86-87 I never want to do that again , the bright side is once you pass by them (shadow people ) they can't cause you anymore trouble ... it kind of a bridge you must cross to get to the realm of spirit ... I think they are gatekeepers , that ensure only the strong cross the bridge ... as many other challenges await , you must be strong over there ...

[Claudia Eusebio]

I used to experience sleep paralysis when I was younger...the difference is that there was no suffocation (Thank God ) because the experience itself was terrible enough....I would scream for help and wait for hours until my mom would try to wake me up....and more than once I suffered attacks from negative beings around that would torture me with a burning alive sensation....my worst memories ever...it was then that I started studying spirituality and whatever else that came my way...I hope you can quickly stop experiencing that You have my best thoughts and energy .

[Bongo]

I used to get sleep apnea and sleep paralysis, I don't any more, both were caused by something messing with me, the ones that were messing with me got removed using holographic kinetics and all is good. If you try it, you will no longer be effected by either.

[vilcabamba]

If it's caused by sleep apnea this is an interference in the brains communications system caused by toxins attacking the nerves where message sending occurs. The brain messaging system is interfered with. If that is the case, starting to detox and taking egg lecithin to rebuild the nerves and protect them from being attacked, is what you may want to do. When the body has too many chemicals in them from chemtrails etc. the nerves get attacked and the body's message sending to the brain to breath, sleep, etc gets disturbed. This is why we feel depressed, suicidal sometimes, insomnia...why we have repetetive thoughts. It's because the chemicals are effecting our cholinesterace levels in the brain and when this is disturbed, we get breathing issues. Egg lecithin was recommended to me by a military scientist that is exposing the chemtrails and how they effect our brain. Lecithin, lecithin..non gmo is what people need to counteract the brain message sending interference.
If it's not sleep apnea..then i don't know.

[sandpainter]

Amberbuttermilk ~ thanks for mentioning and exploring this topic. I've had some 'threshold consciousness' experiences as well. A couple of other places online you might look for additional discussion are: http://curezone.com/forums/search.as...&action=Search
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...1%2C5&as_sdtp=
Best wishes!

[Mark]

Two excellent threads, where these topics are discussed in-depth.

Jake's thread, The Out-of-Body-Experience. A Place Where Science and Spirituality Meet.

and, Traineehuman's thread, OBEs: What are they, how to make them happen,and where does the Higher Self fit in?

I am also very familiar with sleep paralysis, having experienced it more times than I can count over many decades now. The suffocation aspect affected my sleeping habits, resulting in me only sleeping in certain positions, making sure to have an arm free to wiggle for the "great escape" from the terror induced by the onset of the vibrations.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Amberbuttermilk, and welcome to Avalon.

[conk]

My two daughters experience sleep paralysis and visitation by various entities. The older girl has learned to relax and even mock the entities. Her lack of fear has caused the incidents to abate greatly. The younger girl is still in fear mode and quite disturbed by the events. The lesson seems to be to learn to eradicate the fearful feelings. The older child also says a prayer to all four corners of the room before bedtime. She asks for guidance and protection from the Jesus Christ Consciousness. I'm quite sure that asking Buddha or any other avatar would help equally as well.