I\u2019m a 22 year old female with what I believe is a very serious problem. It started strongly when I was about 16 \u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
It was New Year\u2019s Eve. I spent the night at a friend\u2019s house. When I laid down to sleep in the spare room it was like something grabbed me and was holding me down on the bed. All I could hear was sceaming or what sounded like screaming. It was the most terrifying thing I\u2019d ever been through. I couldn\u2019t move, speak, or open my eyes. It felt like there was a bar across my back and I was being pressed down hard. The harder I fought the worse it got.<\/p>\n
This still happens to me to this day. Once a person was sleeping in the same room with me and I had to fight so hard to make a little peep of sound. She woke up and it stopped. She said it looked like I was dying.<\/p>\n
It used to scare me really bad and I used to fight it. Now I\u2019ve gotten used to it and it doesn\u2019t happen as much as before. I don\u2019t fight it. I let it go further and further to the point where I have major out of body experiences. It\u2019s very hard to explain how it feels. Mind you, I\u2019m fully awake when this happens to me. It only happens when I lay on my back also. It\u2019s a major problem because it\u2019s very frightening \u20ac\u00a6.and really wears me out.<\/p>\n
My second problem is that on nights when I sleep I dream very strongly. I can remember my dreams and they are very real\u2014almost like watching a movie. They are in color and make sense and include lots of sex. My biggest problem is that I wake up so tired\u2014like I didn\u2019t even sleep! It\u2019s terrible!<\/p>\n
I would like to maybe be in a study or just get an opinon of what might be wrong.<\/p>\n
\u2014Tiffany, Age 22, Monrovia, CA, USA<\/p>\n
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