#sleepparalysis
raspy breath leaking into my ears,
icy claws dragging across my back.
i don't dare open my eyes.
frozen in place,
my heart thuds in my ears.
this isn't real.
this isn't real.
this
isn't
real
Mar 11
Mar 11, 2026 at 1:24 AM UTC
Sweat attack
I'm Solo Dolo
On re-lax mode
Who's asking?
Lack of plastic evidence
Let that hot modern medicine
Do the rest
No where to go
No hope in tact
Blabbing til I couldn't
hardly move my mouth
If it was allowed
I'm sure
That this tongue could
Move mountains
Jun 22, 2024
Jun 22, 2024 at 1:08 PM UTC
I saw it
A figure the size of me
filled with the empty black
injecting a pricing screech
that pushed me further in my bed
I can't move
as it is looking at me, and through me
the sounds are getting louder
tickling my eardrum
I close my eyes
and open to see it climb the walls
I close my eyes again
and wake.
Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020 at 3:03 PM UTC
I finally returned home
After a lingering day
I looked into the mirror
my steaming tears snake down my face but I push down my sorrows long enough to forget
The smell of warm sheets right out of the dryer cuddled my body like a tight expecting hug
As I placed my hand upon my heated cheek
I could feel the dampness of my warm skin
I shouldn't worry about a thing right now but I do
Ready to sleep under the glow in the dark stars where my life centered beneath at this time of sorrow
I drift off
--- 6am ---
My eyes abruptly explode open
It's so dark
I can't make out anything
Trying to drift back asleep but my eyes won't close
I try to get up but a force stops me
Moving a muscle is impossible at this point
I opened my mouth to scream in terror but It takes my breath away
I can faintly make out its face
It's me
A perfect copy of my every feature
She doesnt think the same ways as me nevertheless
Taunting me
All my fears spit out her teeth
Just like that she's gone
Now It takes the shape of my loved ones
Surrounding me
They hold me down while I am sleeping and brag how they are perfect
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 3:13 PM UTC
๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
๐ธ๐๐๐ ๐๐พ๐น๐ ๐๐
๐๐,
๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐พ๐๐.
๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐๐๐ธ๐.
๐๐๐๐๐ฝ ๐๐พ๐น๐ ๐๐
๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ถ ๐๐ธ๐๐๐ถ๐,
๐ฐ๐๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐๐น.
๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ท๐๐๐น ๐ถ๐๐น ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐๐๐น.
๐ฏ๐๐พ๐๐น ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐๐๐ธ๐๐๐
๐๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ท๐,
๐น๐ถ๐พ๐๐๐น.
๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ถ๐,
๐๐๐๐
๐ ๐ถ ๐๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐.
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 1:52 PM UTC
Canโt move
Three, two, one, go!
Open your eyes. No. No.
Itโs not real. OPEN YOUR EYES NOW!
Eyes, not yours, watching; hands, not yours, reaching.
Whoโฆ what is that at the window?
A dream? But youโre awake,
paralysed, still
canโt move.
Apr 5, 2020
Apr 5, 2020 at 11:50 AM UTC
The candle that flickers in the distance
The night-light that illuminates the room
Still doesnโt protect me from the monster
That isnโt really there
He lives in the darkest corner of my room
And waits until I am asleep
To lurk into the faint light
And show his faceless face
As I awake from my slumber
He puts a trace on my soul
So that he can safely approach
My defenseless body
I lie their as still as a statue
I try hard to let out a scream
And when nothing comes out
He stands over top of me
He knows he is winning
When he stares into my petrified eyes
But when I look back at him
I wonder if he is trying to make me stronger
He takes his nonexistent hands
And places them onto my chest
And with increasing pressure
He squeezes the breath out of my body
I gather all the strength I have
Trying to force a movement
And just when Iโve given up
I feel my toes wiggle
Relief rushes through my body like a drug
And finally the movement transfers
From my toes to my legs
From my legs to my entire body
I break free from his despicable clutch
And I let out an ear piercing scream
I spring out from under the covers
In hopes that I catch my terrorist
I hear the stomps of my parents
Coming from the hallway
They enter my room
Before I can tell them โnoโ
And the hall light produces
Just enough light
To make my demon
Disappear
I hang my head in defeat
My parents make sure that I am okay
And after they tuck me in I lie in bed
And wait for him to visit again.
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019 at 9:48 PM UTC
On the night
At the very early morn
The moon had already risen
Just as a broken gaseous no more sleeps
Somehow, somewhere, a beast trapped, released
No longer is it trapped to the confines of its prison
Eyes that survey
Salivating, wanting,
A prompt to its hunger
Its nostrilโs pleasure: my scents
Under a crack of dim, creaming crescent
The uncensored scene of my slumber
The conditions, possibilities, a setting made right for the empty
A glimmer of hope or just the fangs bared for the bark or biting
Once started, the urge, its selfishness to one else, itโll never lend
The craving has begun; the questionable realism of this game of pretend
A shadowy figure, upon a pair of feet; yours, no, mine, it lurks in the dark
Countless moments to lose the count of, time is held still
Longer and longer, in continuous moments that shows no signs of breaking
Once I had the warming presence of the body of mine besides me, only to be replaced
โA storyโs not to be finished without the satisfaction it gives,โ is all I find
All we have seen, the sweet smell of lovely dreams still dancing feverously like visions of my mind
Darkness lies beside me, wanting you, cannot be unseen: the ****** features being without a face
Whatโs gotten is whatโs to be deserved: deliberations of the disease that festers the fabric of my thoughts, I pay no mind
At this point, my reality sinks in, run-on sentences roles across the virtual plane called your screen.
Unable to break away from the unrecognizable creature that lies before me, I lose contact with the senses, my nerves have no feeling
The beauty of it all is the art, the science, I love the way how it consumes me, growing over me, light glinting off its fangs still bared
I remember now, I know it, weโve talked about it before, it calls itself Sherman, our sleep paralysis demon, still I feel the need to be scared
My lovely dreams, he feeds off of, the hunger within, in him, is never satisfied, no matter how many times he tried, he didnโt stop, just enough to make me void, light blinds me, my soul is fleeing.
On the morn,
At the surpassed night
My heartbeat pends
Eternally I sleep, at peace
Those who know me weep
For my plotless reality never ends
Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 at 6:57 AM UTC
When the clock tick midnight its time to go,
Walking between my realm and the realm of the living
I sense the smell of a young soul,
The sweet salty taste of soul.
I'm the shadow you fear every night
Blending in the dark of night,
To haunt you here I go.
Voodoo chanting I do,
to unleash the fear in you.
Leaving chills down your spine.
So that I can add another soul to my collection.
Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 6:28 PM UTC
Ill go to sleep, close my eyes
Dream of broken fireflies
I cant see in this field of black
Ive gone too far now, I cant go back.
Watching where I stand
I cant be still
Or I sink into the sand
My shoes they start to fill.
My feet become heavy,
Its becoming harder to walk
Id shout and scream if I could even talk.
Long grass im grasping
Lifting up my knee
if only the fireflies werenโt broken
id be able to see
without their fire theyre just flies
they are my guidance and my eyes
without my heart im as useless
as Pinocchioโs nose without his lies
I feel the wind brush again my cheek
The whisper of the banshee feels quite weak
But when she screams
I hope to wake up from this dream
as dreams are more real as they seem.
Though I only see black
I picture in my head
The banshees mouth opening wide
Off my fears she fed.
Her scream was as loud
As a close truck horn
The cry from a baby, as soon as its born
My ear drums thumping
My skin feels torn
I was faced with her violence
There I stand, in the deafening silence.
Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 10:18 AM UTC
I remember my first sleep paralysis like it was yesterday
I would go to sleep and then I would fall asleep
In a matter of seconds I was floating over my bed
It was weird and scary back on the day
Since time past it kept getting worse and worse
At the point of becoming routine
I didnt nkow why I kept having those lucid dreams
So one day I decided to search on google
And i found that i had sleep paralysis
It didnt help much since I didn't nkow how to stop it
Today I still dont nkow why I have it
Is it normal? or maybe I have an evil spirit inside me
Who nkows?
Anyway
Since I have the gift
Why not use it to write a good poem.
Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 5:34 PM UTC
I lost faith, hope and sleep.
My soul has awakened my REM (RAPID EYE MOVEMENT),
Where everything becomes a lucid dream
This is where the terror begins.
Aware,
Inhuman visions begin,
The shadows come close to me
Whispering my name,
I see a figure,
He tries to steal my soul,
My body unable to move,
Panic begins to set in,
Unable to breathe,
I try focusing in my getaway.
"Wake up"
I try to wriggle my toes.
In last despair,
I try to use the trump to my only salvation.
The phrase that kills all evil presences.
"Jesus blood has power"
That's when he screamed like there was no tomorrow,
A scary loud shout,
I've never heard anything like it.
It seemed like it was falling apart.
I just woke up.
Since that day I began to believe in Jesus and his power.
Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 11:14 AM UTC
My dreams are alive
I am awake
Exhausted
Eyelids weighted
Body limp
It falls asleep
Aware
My mind is awake
screaming
choking
drowning
Panic
My heart sinks
My chest is tight
My breath is shallow
Paralyzed
Focus
"Wake up"
"Wake up"
"Please wake up"
Momentum
I launch my body forward
And force my eyelids open
I gasp for air
I am awake
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018 at 2:06 AM UTC
nights don't matter. when you're all alone. feels like you're stranded, on an island with no food. the water glistens as the waves crash. you think you hear your name but that's just the man in purple whispering.
you're stranded so he wants your soul. to eat it and drown you in a fire. you're stranded so you cry and sleep alone, and he laughs and licks your tears of blood and black.
he grabs you and rips you to shreds. but you're out in the sea and all you do is scream. you put the pillow on your face so all you see is black. no more purple is what you desire, then all you get is white.
you ask yourself "did i make it out alive?" but the answer is, no. you're dead. then you plummet. what felt like hope disintegrated into rubble... and now... the one blue that became purple, the black you yearned for that formed to white, the red that bled into your mind. it's all...
Feb 11, 2018
Feb 11, 2018 at 12:46 AM UTC
Staring into the darkness
I see my darkest fear
What if something were to re-appear
Right before my eyes
I lay paralyzed
Distorted from what is real
Night time
The shadows are so near
Creeping in the darkness
Faces can appear
Mental images flashing though my mind
Sending shivers up my spine.
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 15, 2017 at 3:07 AM UTC
*Behind the gauzy veil of dreams in early morning mist
I'm held by the shadows 'neath the moon, a dark somnambulist.
I strive to awaken and arise, yet it eludes my demands.
Like faith that leaves beleaguered souls adrift in shifting sands.
What do the shadows want with me in realms of weary dreams?
My brain draws near but my body is paralyzed, it seems.
Am I a treasure of a sweet caress? Or my light like a lover's kiss?
Is loneliness their punishment or is it more than this?
I relax and try to rise. The dream will not subside.
Specters hold me down inside spreading panic in my mind.
And so I go adrift again. In faith I hold on and on.
I'll find my way back into zen with the breaking of the dawn.*
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 12:25 AM UTC
I wake up to shadows
My body unable to move
Panic begins to set in
These visions inhuman
My eyes are barely open
I can see them moving
I'm awake it seems
Yet I'm still in a dream
The shadows move closer
They shift and whisper
I wonder what they say
As I panic where I lay
Here I realize something
How good it feels to choose
What happens around me
And how I shape my reality
May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 at 9:23 PM UTC
Hordes of metaphorical oracles awaken me from sleep
Dreams of paralysis, lost inside the deep
Rabbit hole analysis meets a descent so steep
While these Prodding thoughts got me tripping over my own feet
Interpretations or revelations what does it mean?
How long can one last existing inside of this scene?
Wide eyes lids closed coincide with winter snow
shallow breath heavy toll watching bodies decompose
presence felt, identity unknown, an experience to shake the bones.
Straining to take quick control, interpretations fromย the occipital lobe
lying semi lucid, fear from the cold
vocalizing panicked silence binded in time with mind stuck in molds
To even have witnissed this instance means it's time to grow.
the fire's flowing im slowly blowing my CO2
What do I want, what do I need?
This mission eye must see through
Take this steady ascension into the next lesson
clearing the mirror for a perspective of truth.ย ย
The more that is reflected, the more I see you
Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 at 7:27 PM UTC
Release the bowels and scrub the shame
Metal grit hand-towels
A curious novelty I would come to know as omen
Tacky pink tiles- well noted
Return to see my identity bereaved
Or maybe just my clothes
Strange how they blend in turmoil
No fear for the pistol at my gut, braved in its defense
No fear for thugs I make my company
Even as silent secrets are sent racing across fingertips
I am untouchable
A crowd grows, a debaucherous menagerie
Of Drug abuse and ****** bliss; the **** grows
Time and place erase
Two blue lakes of cotton; now green vines of vinyl
It makes no matter: the **** grows
It grows until memory is no more
Just a fear โ what has happened?
And her face is there, the soft skin
The sharp features. The sly smile.
Soft mahogany and Serpent eyes
A beauty you cannot surmise
โYou were mine, and I was you.
Taken as Iโll take againโ
Then our next meeting, not so far from then
As the scratching record is played again
In headphones meant to control
Resist!
She has my arms, too weak to move
She has my neck, strained to turn
They will take you, and then
YOU will be no more, just a thing
A servant to this beckoning
RESIST!
This battle in your mind, control
As the beat grows louder, that maddening din
So full of fear as you entertain itโs sin
What can you do, once itโs powers in?
HELP! I mean to cry
But nothing with my lips so dry
HELP! I try to choke
All that leaves is wisps of smoke
HELP! And there it is
A whisper, for what the battle did
~ โhelpโ I groan, and finally awake.
Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 2:27 AM UTC
2:30am, felt the hollows hands of death again.
Fingers wrapped like a noose around my neck.
Woke up distress in sweat.
With tongue tied knots made of fear and frustrating attempts.
I called out to mother but
I felt 1,000 pounds of pressure standing upon my chest.
Muting me into speech impediments and sinking me into the depths of what seem to feel like hell for a couple minutes.
Body felt like dancing sharp needles in the air.
As someone's eerie finger
Sailed across the maps of my skin.
Causing frantic earthquakes through out what seemed like my living corpse.
I felt like discords, statics, and lost signal tv channels.
Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 2:05 AM UTC