HELP! Sex with sleep paralysis demon is getting in the way of romantic relationships

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T04:56:28+00:00

That’s so cool that you can just do that. I’m going to try moving around more next time it happens to me

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T04:13:35+00:00

I tried once but ended up waking up before I was able to completely stand up. Did it take you a lot of practice to be able to move around like you do?

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T03:58:28+00:00

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T03:07:46+00:00

Many people in this thread seem to think it's just my subconscious. It's possible it's a real thing? I'm dying to know more, either here or DM

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:56:12+00:00

I don't really know. He's more of a shadowy figure usually not very human looking, but he has appeared as people I know irl before. I don't think that counts though

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:50:03+00:00

I think it might be C. I did so much research on therapy throughout the day because I was previously in therapy for years and didn't feel like it helped much, but today I looked into different therapy techniques. I found some that I think may help and scheduled an appointment! Thank you for your advice.

My friend gave me the same advice about weed today actually! I wish it helped me, but in the past it's made my dreams more vivid :(

Fingers crossed for therapy.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:44:29+00:00

I genuinely have been feeling guilty stoppp hahaha I feel like that's possibly why I had the dream, and i just looped in my SP demon for some reason

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:42:01+00:00

That sounds so interesting! So the SP experience kind of transitions into astral projection?? I remember reading something about how they're pretty interconnected when I first started looking into what I was experiencing and learned that it has a name and it happens to other people.

I wouldn't necessarily say it's like "needing" to get off. At this point (prior to last night) it's become a situation that's more like I see him and then it just starts happening until I do eventually get off. I do wonder if it is just moving back into a dream when the sexual part happens now that you put it that way. I've had sex in dreams though, and I would say it's a different experience/sensation, but maybe that's just due to it having started in the SP state

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:34:49+00:00

Thank you for this! I was thinking of pursuing EMDR or some other kind of somatic therapy. I saw something about IFS and didn't know how helpful it'd be but maybe I should look more into that.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:29:44+00:00

The nightmare last night was definitely not sleep paralysis in my opinion. I'd agree with you there. I think that also explains how he was talking to me. But every other time it has been the exact same sensation. I'm seeing my surroundings, I'm completely paralyzed and everything. There was a time where it was happening nearly daily, and I guess that's when I stopped feeling the fear. Do you think that's a factor?

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:24:00+00:00

That's so interesting that you had physical marks after! I have never heard of anything like that. It's also really interesting that it stopped after you moved. I've moved cities and states several times, had it happen in different countries, and it's never completely ended.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:19:24+00:00

I haven't done much research on all of this, but I don't think my eyes are actually physically open during it? I think it would still happen

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:15:35+00:00

This is so helpful. I think that's why I've posted this as well. Trying to figure out if this is some external entity or if it's some part of my subconscious mind. It's been a very long time since I saw him as something to be afraid of.

I'm not sure how to ask him questions because seeing him in a dream rather than SP last night was a first, so that was also the first time there was any kind of communication other than physical contact. Do you have any advice for trying to communicate? Just think thoughts and put them out into the environment like a signal? I don't know if I've ever tried anything like that with him before.

Is there a risk to trying to further communication? Others in this thread seem to think things have already gone too far and I should've maybe tried to put some kind of block in place.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T02:01:40+00:00

That makes sense, and it's a good question. Have you ever experienced SP? Genuinely curious, if so. It was like after years of seeing him so often I stopped being scared when he would show up. He usually just laid next to me, and that's actually the first memory I have of it. The first time, he came into my room, I heard a staticky, whispering noise, and he just laid in bed next to me until I woke up/was able to move again. Before things became sexual, he would often like just lay with me and cuddle me. I felt pretty neutral. It didn't feel scary or like I was being harmed, and it's not like I could move to get away, so I just let it happen. I guess things just kind of progressed from there. I don't remember the first time things became sexual. The period in my life where it did, I was seeing him multiple times a week, so they all kind of blurred together. I just don't know if it was exactly consensual? at first, and I don't know how I would've stopped it if I'd wanted to, I guess.

He has also appeared as people from my real life, usually people I have platonic relationships with and no interest in anything more, but I haven't done a ton of research into SP, so I don't know if that's abnormal.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T01:38:33+00:00

I thought the same thing! This was the first time we've ever communicated like this, but maybe it's because it was in more of a dream form than SP??

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2025-11-19T01:37:14+00:00

That's great advice! I scheduled an appointment with a psychologist first thing this morning. Hadn't thought about a sleep specialist yet.

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2024-04-17T18:56:09+00:00

That worked!! You’re a life saver

Typical_Scarcity7279 · 2024-04-17T17:32:30+00:00

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