Thread: Something Choking Me..I cant breath!!!

I just remembered about this event that occurred to me a few month back.
I was sleeping and all of a sudden i can't breathed and i cant moved at all.

It felt like something was sitting on my chest and choking my neck!
I tried to scream but i just couldn't open my mouth and say something.
This has happened for nearly 7 times in my life.

In some religion, it is believe that a Genie is sitting on you and choking you! S**T!..I don't know how far is the truth.

I still couldn't find any scientific explanation that could clarify this matter thoroughly.
I hope anyone around might have gone through what i went and would share their experience.

Thanks.

Sometimes the pressing feeling on y our chest might include a non existent hag or genie in your case.

but rest assured that it is just sleep parlaysis.

I sometimes get sleep parlaysist once 3 times in the same day

Usually i have some control over me depsite being paralysiszed. Like i cant move except i can twitch my arm or leg or soemthing right. and oddly enough if i twitch alot i can wake up.

So once i was dismayed to find myself compeetely parlyzed excpet for my big toe!!

It took alot of big toe twitiching to wake up but i did....

felt like u couldn't breath, eh? I'd be freaked out if that happened to me.

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

Sometimes the pressing feeling on y our chest might include a non existent hag or genie in your case.

but rest assured that it is just sleep parlaysis.

I sometimes get sleep parlaysist once 3 times in the same day

Usually i have some control over me depsite being paralysiszed. Like i cant move except i can twitch my arm or leg or soemthing right. and oddly enough if i twitch alot i can wake up.

So once i was dismayed to find myself compeetely parlyzed excpet for my big toe!!

It took alot of big toe twitiching to wake up but i did....

I can fully assured you, i know how Sleeping Paralysis feel like.
Even if its really SP, why i cant breathe?
Sleeping paralysis occurred when you're body are shutting down without knowing that you're mind are wide awake.

What happened to me didn't take place when im about to sleep...no it happened during sleeping time itself.
I felt like my whole body are tied down and something heavy are sitting on me,making me unable to breathe.

When it happened last time, i was suffocating for more than a minute, and at last i think about god and ask him to help me. I gathered all my strength and lifted my right hand and thrust upward and i was free...finally.

They say, for every house...theres always a spirit or genie watching over you. Waiting when you began to stray off the path of righteousness and they will come to punish you!

Originally Posted by peppy

felt like u couldn't breath, eh? I'd be freaked out if that happened to me.

I pissed in my pant mate!

That is sleep paralysis and the Old hag syndrome. Some of it's symptoms are being unable to move, unable to breathe, seeing hallucinations matching the other symptoms (Alien abductions, witches sitting on the chest, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hag_Syndrome

Hi hypnopsyche, I have this pretty often. I know that its classed as sleep paralysis but sometimes it feels a lot more real than other times. I get the feeling of someone sitting on my chest and being unable to breathe, move or even blink. My brain goes into panic mode cos I think 'oh no not this again' A couple of times I have seen the thing that is 'sat' on me. All I can describe it as is a huge cats face (its a sort of large triangular face - bigger than a human face - with big cat shaped eyes. Its features are really indistinct as I seem to be seeing in grainy black, white and grey (this is why it feels so real as they are the only colours I can see in my room at night with the curtains shut) I have seen another of these 'things' in the corner of the room while one has been looking down at me and other times I dont see the other one but can feel that it is there.

Whatever it is...sleep paralysis or something else its a really horrible experience and I hope you don't get it again

HypnoPsyche. This phenomenon is known as "Old hag"
Your mind awakes, but your body is still asleep and you feel Paralysed and as if you can't breathe. Sometimes it feels as if there is a malevolent presence next to your bed holding you in it's grasp.

I've even saw my motionlessbody during one such experience and the "figure" next to my bed. I rose out of my body and charged headfirst into it to scare it away, or at least that's how I experienced it, only to feel it's grip tighten times 10 on my body.

The key to overcomming this is much simpler than you might imagine: Don't give way to fear. The key to do something about it, and even possibly end up in a dream lucidly, is to be fearless, knowing it can't harm you at all, relax and don't resist it. You will drift back asleep and it's grip will lessen on you.

Originally Posted by HypnoPsychE

I just remembered about this event that occurred to me a few month back.
I was sleeping and all of a sudden i can't breathed and i cant moved at all.

It felt like something was sitting on my chest and choking my neck!
I tried to scream but i just couldn't open my mouth and say something.
This has happened for nearly 7 times in my life.

In some religion, it is believe that a Genie is sitting on you and choking you! S**T!..I don't know how far is the truth.

I still couldn't find any scientific explanation that could clarify this matter thoroughly.
I hope anyone around might have gone through what i went and would share their experience.

Thanks.

i often have dreams where ssomthing like that is happening but i try to scream and shout but my mouth wont open. its a horrible feeling at the time, but when you awake its quite cool

Ended the paralysis to late...

Next time if it happens again, know your imiagination.
(Intent!)

Huh. I never knew what it was until just now, but I experienced that Old Hag thing a few times when I was younger. I'd wake up in the complete darkness, which my room always was at night (no windows), and I'd be paralyzed. Just then I'd feel an etherial had reaching into my heart and trying to take posession of my soul, like Satan or an evil spirit was trying to posess my body. Of course I'd panic, fight the sensation, until adrenaline freed me from the paralysis. Scary stuff.

asthma attack perhaps?