Horror Fiction

Sleep Paralysis

Have you ever had a sleep paralysis? If you had, feel free to tell me in the comment!

For you who doesn't know,
Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which an individual, either during falling asleep or awakening, temporarily experiences an inability to move, speak, or react. ( Source: Wikipedia )

Sometime during the occurence, you might have hallucinations to which one is unable to react due to paralysis. These hallucinations often involve a person or supernatural creature suffocating the individual, accompanied by a feeling of pressure on the chest and difficulty breathing. Or you felt like someone is staring at you.

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Okay, so this is one of my true story. My first experience of sleep paralysis. I was sleeping in my room with my sister. But, it was past midnight and we were still wide awake.

On the evening, I watched Insidious 3 with my sister. We were a bit scared cause we set the volume to the max, and the lights were off.

After we watch it, I still felt a bit scared to be honest. Like, it's stuck in my mind so I kept thinking about it.

Like at midnight, I read comic. Horror comic, to be exact. The author told that she had a sleep paralysis once and she explained about her experience and all about it.

So, The feeling of horror was doubled. And, I suddenly remembered about insidious and the sleep paralysis thing at the same time.

You know, I believed that If you thought about something too often before bed, you might possibly got the chance of dreaming the same thing.

So, I slept. And, In my dream, I was sleeping and facing to te side. I can't move my body even an inch, I tried to move my hand but It won't budge.

My body felt heavy like something was holding me from moving. I couldn't open my eyes ( Lucky me, or else I'll be scared to death if I actually can see what's on top of me ).

I struggled a bit by trying to move my hand and finally I woke up abruptly. My sister was calling me and she pat my shoulder. I was sweating like crazy.

" What's happening? " She asked. " You were sleep talking. "

" I got sleep paralysis. " I said.

And, I was too scared to continue my sleep so I stayed up late til 2 in the morning. I convinced myself that It's okay and went back to sleep.

It was like maybe the scariest sleep paralysis experience I ever had. Lol, I was exaggerating. But, It is true.

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I uploaded 2 stories as a bonus for not uploading for a long time👌
I don't know if I should call it sleep paralysis or lucid dream or not.