Thread: The old hag, (or something else)?

What exactly is an 'old hag' and is it common? I'm a little frightened now.

Hey guys i experienced the 'old hag' for the first time last night. I had a dream before and it faded as if a shadow was appearing in front of me i could kind of feel myself slowly open my eyes and i saw and old woman/witch sit in front of me and i was just beyond frightened i tried to move my body but i couldnt i tried so hard to get her off me then suddenly i reached out and punched it then woke up and at this moment i was like what the hell just happened i had never been so confused because i had never had this sort of experience in my life i was scared shitless i just curled up in the corner of my bed for at least 30mins trying to figure out what happened wether it was real or not because it felt so real.

And im quite a religious person so for me i thought at first it was a sort of demon that was trying to attack me so after 30mins of being absolutely terrified and sweating like hell in my bed i overcame my fear a little and tried to calm myself down, woke up went to the toilet and splashed some cold water on my face trying to see wether i was still dreaming.

Today i had asked my friend if he knew anything about this because hes a very religious muslim and i hoped he'd have some sort of insight into what was going on so i explained to him what happened "i dreamt of a demon woman sitting on top of me" then he started to explain to me about something called lucid dreaming and it started to intrigue me a little and he explained how people had many encounters with something called the "old hag" and i was just shocked at how he described her so similar to what i dreamt/felt i was still not sure at this point if what i saw last night was a dream or reality because it felt so real, so i came home today and started doing some research on what happened and i was just so shocked at how other people had dreams about this and researched on lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis i was so relieved you couldn't believe it, knowing it was only a dream.