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The Nightmare

Movie
2015
1h 30m
English
Horror, Documentary
User Score: 
5.5
Critic Score: 
68
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Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
The Nightmare Poster

The Nightmare

Movie
2015
1h 30m
English
Horror, Documentary
Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
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Johnny Depp
Self (archive footage)
Directed By: Rodney Ascher

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winged-deleted-1480048478 says...
9 years ago
as yet another sufferer of sleep paralysis, this movie did resonate with me. i have had situations similar to many of those in the movie. most vividly, one where i was abducted by aliens, similar to the 'zines' described by one man, although with a less cartoonish look than he explained. i have also had various sleep paralysis episodes where i was able to move around, lucidly and then suddenly i would be paralyzed and unable to move. please keep in mind that one of the symptoms of sleep paralysis is the very fact that there are hallucinations that come with it. MAYBE for you it wasn't scary, but don't invalidate the experiences of many others just because it didn't happen to you, wtf.
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WitWolfy says...
9 years ago
As a "sleep paralysis" sufferer myself all these allegations of shadow men, demons screaming in your ears or demons calling your cellphone are bullshit!!! I cant emphasize that enough. The only thing that was indeed true is that you feel like you're suffocating. And FYI, YOUR GOD DAMNED EYES AREN'T OPEN WITH "SLEEP PARALYSIS"!!!!!! THAT'S WHY ITS CALLED "SLEEP PARALYSIS", BECAUSE YOU'RE CONSCIOUS BUT CANT SEEM TO WAKE UP; AND BY WAKE UP I MEAN: MOVE A MUSCLE OR OPEN YOUR FREAKING EYES!!!! Hence the name "sleep paralysis". All these testimonies are so fake! I can assure you "sleep paralysis" has nothing to do with the supernatural! NOTHING WHAT SO EVER!!! If it was so "TRUE" why not record them in the act???? Oh, that's right ... BECAUSE THEY'RE LYING!!!!!!!!
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tjesp says...
5 years ago
I had a sleep paralysis only once in my life. The period when I had it I was “haunted” by poltergeist-like phenomena (which I experienced while fully awake over a period of several years), Due to my own experience I don’t think the science explanation with hallucinations makes sense. This is something else but why it happens and why particular people experience it I don’t know.
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drowninginfeels says...
9 years ago
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Most of these people's experiences were nothing like my own experiences with sleep paralysis. Mine, luckily, have usually not been scary in any regard other than "Why can't I wake up"? The woman talking about the dark figure sitting on top of her was the most familiar to me -- I once had a night terror very similar to that, which was absolutely terrifying -- but I had that particular type of experience only once, I'm glad to say. Usually for me it's like being at the bottom of a deep swimming pool and I am fighting my way upward but can never seem to break the surface until after I've *thought* I've woken up already several times over. It's more disturbing than outright scary. But it's interesting to hear about other people's experiences with it.
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