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Sleep paralysis isn’t that scary when you know about it and how to deal with it.
Basicly the rule of thumb is to not flip out, when your in sleep paralysis it’s kind of like your breathing is on auto pilot so if you panic, you try and breath faster but you cant, so it feels like you’re sufficating. Panicing, I assume is also what cause those horrible hallucinations.
Personally, I have never seen any demons,old hags or shadow figures. I usually don’t see anything, though I have felt like there was a presence in the room . The thing that scares me the most is the suffocating feeling but I’ve learned how to stop it just by breathing slowly. If I do hallucinate, it’s either something left over from a dream or, my dad for some odd reason. I remember recently in a dream I thought my dad was calling me down for supper so I forced myself to wake up. I saw my Dad in the door. I tried to talk to him but all that came out was “fdalskablaa” After he went away I waited to able to move again and went down stairs only to find that he wasn’t even home. This has happened a few times before.
The advantages to sleep paralysis is lucid dreaming, and possibly astral projection. Vibrations, strange noises and sleep paralysis are assosiated with astral projection, which so far, has not happened to me and I lucid dream a lot without experiencing sleep paralysis.
I’ve started having something else strange that happens during sleep paralysis now. I get something like invisible arms. The first time it happened I was listening to some music while I was sleeping and I was in a dream. I didn’t like were the dream was going so I forced my self to wake up. At this point I didn’t know I had sleep paralysis so I tried to take my head phones off but to my suprise, they went right through! I couldn’t touch anything with my hands! then I flailed my arm in front of my face only to realise that nothing was there. I could feel my arms and hands moving like normal but in reality my real arms were paralyzed like the rest of my body. At that point when I realized I couldn’t move and I had ghost hands I paniced, thus causing the sufficating feeling I love so much and eventually I regained mobility. The next time this happened, I wasn’t having a freaky dream and it was in the afternoon, so I didn’t panic, and was messing around with these ghost hands (which btw can touch each other) This has happened now every time I have sleep paralysis. I have never heard of this happening before so I’ll just assume I’m a weirdo. I’ve come to the conclusion that my mind is just one giant acid trip.
I think that after you get past the ‘What the fuck is going on’ stage its kinda cool. But I can tell that that’s just me…..
