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If you’ve had sleep paralysis, what was the thing you saw in the room with you?

I had it when I was 10 and 11, and every time the thing I saw in the room with me was column of darkness roughly 9 feet tall and 3 feet wide…a bit like the smoke monster in Lost, but vertical. It felt evil, like it needed to feed on my soul to survive, but took pleasure it making it a terrifying process.
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Purple lights flying around the chandelier. It was cool, interesting and peaceful. Other than that, I don't see things. That was the one and only visual hallucination I ever had in sleep paralysis, other were rather dreams. I sometimes hear someone walking around thinking it's some family member and then when I wake up I realize I'm home alone. The very first time I had it, I was convinced my mom was in the bathroom and then she stood in the door saying something but when I woke up, she was fast asleep, everything was dark and it was after a storm so I heard water dripping from every side and couldn't shake off the feeling someone was actually standing in the door but it was someone who shouldn't be in the house.

My biggest worry while I'm having sleep paralysis is that it's not paralysis and I'm not dreaming but that I actually got stroke and will remain paralyzed for the rest of my life. I had a couple of dreams when I actually got out of my bed but I couldn't control half of my body and my mouth and when I tried talking it was just as like when people with brain damage talk.
@CrazyMusicLover absolutely terrifying I know . I just recall those moments of trying desperately to move, wake up and not the actual events anymore .
Do you gasp for air also ? 😟
Wonder if there a part of sleep apnea in some way 🤔
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Iknowyourouttheresomewhere No, I learned very fast to not try to wake up forcefully because it feels as if I was about to fry my brain. Every time I forced it I felt as if electricity was buzzing in my head and my neck was insanely stiff. But even when I did I didn't gasp for air. I felt more like a machine that needs to cool down fast because it's overheating.
@CrazyMusicLover Thanks for the advice . Wonder if I’ll remember to try and do that when and if it returns. I get a little apnea at times also 🤦‍♂️
Why couldn’t I haven just gotten Sexsomnia instead 💁‍♂️
Then again I wouldn’t remember it on awakening anyway 😒. lol
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Iknowyourouttheresomewhere Sexsomnia sounds like something that might bring cause troubles. 😆
@CrazyMusicLover I know and I never heard of it until I researched sleep disorders yesterday 🙆‍♂️. lol