Sleep paralysis

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Not sure if this is general or not, but has anyone here ever experienced a fit of sleep paralysis? It's that moment when you're sleeping and for a brief few moments you're awake and yet, you're not awake and you can't move.

Accompanied by a buzzing, deafening noise.
Yes, it's "funny"!

I actually successfully triggered it on purpose a few times to get into a lucid dream (WILD method).

Once I found out what it was it didn't freak me out anymore. It's actually a quite interesting sensation.

It happened to me one time, it was weird but I wasn't scared for some reason. I didn't know what was going on at all, all I could think about was trying to move.

It happens to me, A LOT, often accompanied with cluster headaches and death anxiety.

Don't think I'd enjoy triggering a sensation which left me feeling like I had died.

My problem is more of an dying sensation, as if it is going to happen at that very moment.

That's exactly how I feel everytime it happens. It's like the body just shuts off, there's darkness and I can't move or scream. And yet I can see every bit of it. It only lasts like 4 or 5 seconds but it's very unpleasant.

I get it a lot.

Sometimes I can ignore it, but often while I'm trying to ignore it, the terrified/nightmare feeling finally catches up and I am desperately trying to get out of it. I blink my eyes if I can and rock my body if I can. If I can get somebody to touch me then I snap out of it.

Yes I have had that happen a few times. This longest I was paralyzed that I know of was for a couple of hours. Mine usually last between a half hour to a couple of hours. I am pretty aware of what is happening around me but I am completely paralyzed. I have tried to scream for help but no sound comes out. I don't have the buzzing noise though.

Yes, I've experienced it twice. The first time I dreamt that someone wanted to kill me and I had to run away but I couldn't and then I "woke up" and couldn't move. I wanted to scream but I couldn't open my mouth. It felt like the person who wanted to kill me was still in the room so I panicked. The second time I couldn't move either but what I remember the most about it was that I experienced auditory hallucinations. Not auditory hallucinations as in voices but a horrible sound that I can't really describe. It was a crashing/screeching sound that was so loud I thought my eardrums were going to rupture. I wanted to cover my ears but I couldn't since I couldn't move (the sound was coming from inside my head so I guess it wouldn't have worked anyway).

I've experienced it a few times, and it really scared me. Ive have problems with "night terrors" my entire life. Its hard to calm my brain so I don't normally sleep more than 4 hours a night. I remember the last time it happened, I struggled to snap myself out of it, I wanted to move my body and get up, but I couldn't. The night terrors are basically panic attacks that happen when you're asleep, you wake up sweating, confused, scared, and sure you're going to die. I will sometimes get so scared I'll snap awake gasping for breath and run out of the bedroom. It really scares my wife.

I've actually been under the impression that someone was breaking into my house during one of these bouts. Come to find out it's nothing.

Holy crap, you guys have some pretty scary ones haha. I've had half a dozen or so. They only last from seconds to minutes. The worst is waking up into one and taking some time to remember that it's just sleep paralysis. You just have to wait for the acetylcholine to wear off. That's the chemical released when we sleep to make us move around less.

You can always un-paralyse yourself by moving you fingers first, then your hands, wrists, lower arms etc.

For some reason, fingers don't paralyse in the same way when we sleep. Maybe it's an evolutionary left over from when we were apes sleeping in trees, where we'd need to be able to hang on or quickly grab something to stop us falling.

That's what I do Pete. Concentrate on moving the fingers first then eventually a whole arm then I roll over and by then I should be fully mobile again.

Happened once during my mid-twenties, not sure what triggered it. Thankful it hasn't happened again.

At the time it occured I was actually reasonably knowledgeable about sleep paralysis, yet I failed to realise it was happening to me.

LOL at people who believe they've been abducted and molested by little green men / incubi / succubi / faeries / angels / demons [delete as appropriate]
That might be a bit harsh actually, my experience was frightening enough without hallucinations. I had the weight on my chest, and almost total paralysis... and the panic. Oh! The panic!