Quote Originally Posted by MadMonkey View Post
Don't worry, you can't die from sleep paralysis there is nothing dangerous about it. In fact, there's no reason it has to be an unpleasant experience it just means your body is taking a bit longer to wake up, you have sleep paralysis every night and have never even noticed it.
What you experience every night is REM atonia, not sleep paralysis. You experience REM atonia every time you go into REM sleep, and it's what keeps you from physically acting out your dreams; sleep paralysis, on the other hand, is when REM atonia continues after you wake up.