MY SLEEP PARALYSIS EXPERIENCE

If you aren't familiar with sleep paralysis and it's components, it's basically you waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to move. If that isn't scary enough, some people begin to hallucinate. That is what exactly happened to me a few months ago.

A few days before I experiences sleep paralysis I was doing a lot of reading on that topic. I never imagined that it could happen to me... So here's the story.

Usually I fall asleep on my stomach, but that night because of my knee injury I fell asleep on my back. I wasn't comfortable sleeping that way but it's the only way I could it. Next thing I remember was me laying on my back. It took me a few moments to realize I couldn't move.

I was trying to scream for help, but I couldn't. Words were simply not coming out my mouth. All of that in a matter of seconds. Then I became aware I wasn't the only person in the room. If you can call that "thing" a person. It was a shadow figure of a tall man creeping in the corner of my room.

It didn't have a face but I knew it was staring right at me. Once again I tried to move and scream, but still nothing. The "shadow" was walking towards me. It came so close to me and in a way he was attacking me. I'm not sure how to explain but I felt I was being suffocated. It's a really weird thing I can't describe.

I was trying to move my body with every single muscle I could. Then it hit me. I remembered reading sleep paralysis experiences and how to fully wake when it's happening. Wiggling my toes helped me. I was slowly but surely getting control of my body and the "shadow" wasn't present anymore.

After I realized what just took place, I was terrified in one hand, but still relieved in the other hand because it wasn't real. It took me a few weeks to start falling asleep normally once again, and it never happened to me since. Definitely the scariest experience of my life.