Can't get up...not asleep

[Bukator]

This has happened to me twice in my life. It is the worst thing that I have ever experienced. I feel like I'm awake but I can't move or even open my eyes. I'll try to become aware of my arm and raise it from the bed but just can't do it.

First time - about 10 long minutes (feels like infinity)

I am completly paralyzed. I can't move anything not my mouth to call for help...not my eyelids to see what's going on...nothing.

The worst part about it isn't the paralization that is going on but when I disrgard it and try to sleep, I feel an intense pressure that is crushing me all around as if I'm 1000m under water.

I then feel my body being lifted up from the bed and carried across the room. I struggle to get free but to no avail. I am then dropped, and this is where I wake up; exactly to where it felt like I was carried, to my doorway.

Second time - about 10 long minutes

Again, paralyzed and under severe pressure.

If I let this happen for more than 5 seconds I feel I am sure to be killed by the pressure. So what I am forced to do is stay 'awake' and continue fighting through it until it goes away.

Again, I feel awake, I can't see anything but the insides of my eyelids. It's terrifying because to me, there is absolutley no question that if I succumb to this force, I will die. 100%. Period.

In the back of my head I find it hard to believe that I would die from a dream or whatever this is, but the pain is incredible if I don't fight it and for some reason I think that perception is everything, and if my brain percieves death, it might just shut 'er down for real.

On a scale of 1 - SCARY this is a 9.4 (I haven't died yet)