Sleep Paralysis: My Body Might Kill Me

Prologue

Hey ppl :) This new story is super personal!

 When i was a senior in high school, i started to have sleep paralysis attacks. They started out small...but then began to get more frequent. Currently, i have at least one every other night.

Doctors say that "i'll grow out of it" and that "my body is just trying to tell me that i'm not going through the sleeping stages smoothly" and that it "isn't a hazardous sleeping disorder," but i beg to differ when a handful of ppl with an extreme version of it have DIED!

 For me, it's the closest thing to being kidnapped, drugged and in the process of having someone force themselves upon you. You have no control, sometimes you feel like ppl are moving you, talking to you, shining lights at you, and even taunting you.

This story is fiction...meaning that the plot is made up...but all of the nightmares and attacks described within the entirety of the story are 100% real. I just wanted to air that out so you 1. know a lil more about me and 2. can appreciate the story more.

Thankyou for your time :) and i hope you'll still keep reading :)

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SLEEP PARALYSIS--Prologue  

There are five stages of sleep. The deepest level, which is called REM (rapid eye movement), assists in bodily repairs during this deep sleep. During this stage, a certain chemical is released, sending the body into total paralysis. During REM, muscles are essentially resting.  

However, some people awaken before the REM cycle is complete, leaving them unable to move, speak...or even scream for help. They're paralyzed and some even feel evil near them, see strange figures or lights...or even feel choking sensations.

There have been a few extreme cases in which the victim has died due to this overwhelming amount of stress.

They have a sleeping disorder called "Sleep Paralysis."

I am one of its many victims, and no one can help me forget about the images I've seen when paralyzed.

No one understood, or even tried to understand, what caused me to be so jittery in class, or why I was always freaked out and paranoid by the smallest things. That's not until I met him: Ashton Reese, the biggest douchebag at William Rivers High School, and also the love of my existence, the one which helped me with each terrifying episode...the same man who tried, and failed, to keep the nightmares away.