It happened to me last night. I was sleeping when I felt somebody was pinning and suffocating me with a pillow.
I tried to fight back but I can’t move my body, almost as if the intruder has crippled me with its elephantine
weight. It was ghastly scary I thought that was my end.
If my experience was terrifyingly familiar to you, a "sleep paralysis demon" just paid me an unannounced visit.
The unwelcomed gatecrasher was nothing more than just sleep phantasmagoria, but the temporary paralysis is
authentic and for real. It was as though the experience was borrowed from a flat-out ghoulish movie ... but the
sleep paralysis and the evil entity that comes as a part of the horror package is a reality wrestled by about 30%
of the world population.
Most of the people I talked to who have a similar experience of sleep paralysis said they were paralyzed and unable
to move as if they were being prevented from standing up. They were crying out for help but they were unable to
speak. They are aware of their surroundings and some described it as they were gasping for breath like someone
is strangling them. The experience is harrowing and frightening ... even after sleep paralysis and the demonic
attack had quietened and cool off.
Why am I writing this? Well I just to reach out to a peer group in Misso to share and discuss sleep paralysis. It
can happen to anybody, and for a first-timer it can be horrifying. In my lifetime it happened twice already and
with that two attack somehow I have develop some skill to come out of it alive and less petrified.
Although they feel real, sleep monsters are just a cruel trick of the brain. Sleep paralysis demons are understand-
ably scary. But you’re not being haunted or attacked. And you’re not losing your grip on reality, either. The key
to making this experience less scary is to take a deep breath, meditate and remember it’s a glitch in your sleep
cycle.