That's cool - your experiences are fascinating. I did experience sleep paralysis a couple of times when I was a kid, or I believe that's what it was, but in my case nothing scary happened. They may actually have just been false awakenings or WILDS with some elements of SP. Your 2 girls reminded me of the twins in The Shining, even down to saying "come with us" (very similar to "Come play with us forever and ever… "). But of course they weren't gray.
I'm curious about this - when you experience SP, are you actually awake and seeing your real surroundings with some dream elements overlaid, or is everything you're seeing a simulation, like in a normal dream? You said in the one dream you floated up out of your body, so in that case obviously you weren't seeing that through your physical eyes. It's so strange to think about, because your eyes are open and can move, but the visual center of your brain is partially or maybe entirely under the control of your dreaming circuitry. It's similar to the way sounds can get into your dreams and get woven into them - you can't close your ears, hearing is passive, so there's no way to really block sounds during sleep. How would you say it works with visuals? Can you tell when what you're seeing is 'real' and when it's purely dream? Or do they mix so thoroughly that they become indistinguishable?
Mine were so long ago, its hard to remember very well, but they did occur in my bedroom and physical reality was mixed in to some extend. In fact in one I heard what was actually the sound of my dog scratching herself and her foot hitting the floor repeatedly as a series of very fast thumps, and I was looking into my closet which had the door open. I saw my robe hanging on the hook and under it a pair of boots - that was real, but it turned into a dwarf wearing a big floppy trench coat and huge clownish shoes who walked out into the center of my room (thump thump thump!) and told me in a sort of weird voice the secret of flying in dreams (which he said was to activate a certain muscle inside the abdominal area). That was it for that one, he faded and again became my robe and boots. I woke and went down the hall and talked to my mom about it, and she said that a couple minutes ago the dog had been scratching herself.
My other experience, I was trying to sleep but it was one of those impossibly perfect summer nights and the window was open and the air smelled and felt so good I couldn't sleep (or so I thought) so I got out of bed and crouched in front of the window with my chin on the sill and stared out at the stars for a while just soaking it all in, when one of the stars moved. It had been sitting there perfectly still just like all the other ones, but suddenly it slid a little distance across the sky in a perfectly straight line, an inch or so, and then stopped again to become just one of the stars - I couldn't even tell anymore which one it had been, but I was super excited now. I went down the hall and got my mom and asked her to come look at something very interesting, without telling her what it was. We kept looking, and in a while a couple of the stars did the same thing, then more and more, and they kept moving around in precise geometric patterns something like a spirograph design if you know what that is. I asked her if she was seeing the same thing I was, and with great wonder in her voice she said she was. I even corroborated that it was what appeared to be stars moving in geometric patterns across the sky, and she agreed. It was like a crazy dance of the stars, and I was sure we were seeing UFOs at the time, but it reached a crescendo and then stopped again, becoming just an ordinary summer night sky. All those stars parked themselves and became stationary again, none left or disappeared.
For may years I believed this had actually happened, until one day several years ago (many years after it had happened) I brought it up (I had learned about SP and was beginning to wonder if that's what it actually had been). She acted like I was crazy, said nothing of the sort had ever happened. What a shock!!
Incidentally, a couple of years after THAT, I had a revelation of sorts concerning the event. I had got a blu-ray player and picked up the special edition of Close Encounters (which had come out right around the same time as 'the incident' actually) and lo and behold!! I was going through all the special features and there was a TV spot that had aired way back when that showed exactly what I had witnessed - stars suddenly moving in precise geometric patterns, reaching a crescendo, and then becoming just stars again. I know that was the source of it - I had seen the spot and was so entranced by it that I dreamed about it but forgot about the commercial. It's actually much less likely that this one was SP at all, probably just a false awakening.
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