I've never had any unusual dreaming/sleeping experiences in my entire life until recently. It all started with one day I woke up to (what I hope to be a sleep paralysis hallucination) my blanket shifting and then turned onto my back because I believed someone was trying to wake me and one of my shoulders felt extremely warm. When I opened my eyes I was confronted by the silhouette of a man standing on the foot of my bed with a hand extended toward me. I was in full control of my body until fear set in and at that point all I could do was muster all of my strength to speak and after about 20-30 seconds the man disappeared and I could move.

The second episode I simply awoke in my bed next to my girlfriend and my arm was under her neck, I wanted to stretch so I tried to pull my arm back but simply could not move. I had full vision and could turn my head and felt my arm shaking rapidly but it wouldn't budge for about 10 seconds. There were no visions or hallucinations and I could breathe perfectly normal.

The final and most recent episode was about 24 hours ago when I woke up to see my girlfriend off to work and then fell back asleep. I had a dream where I woke up then after about ten seconds (or what seemed like 10 seconds within the dream) the dream reset and this time I woke up and looked at the alarm and the time didn't look like it was even a number, so I turned away and looked back at the time and it read 5:30 so I decided to go back to sleep in the dream. Again within the dream I woke up and thought I was going to experience sleep paralysis so I jumped out of bed and stepped in warm water, got angry when I looked down and noticed it was cat urine and proceeded to yell at my cat.

Finally the dream happened again, exactly the same with the getting out of bed and then I finally awoke for real. Or at least I thought I did. I heard the TV and opened my eyes to look at the alarm clock and then I realized it: I couldn't move at all. If I hadn't tried to move I would've just sat there and let the episode pass but I started fighting for my ability to move and I had ONE single vision that could probably be traced back to whatever was on the news. It was simply a person standing in a blue shirt and khaki pants and it seemed like they were praying.

There's nothing I can actually pinpoint to why the sleep paralysis triggers except for the fact that every time I experience it I wake up on my back although I always fall asleep on my side.

Anyways to the whole point of this: What should I do about my sleep paralysis? Why has it just randomly decided to start happening once or twice a month? How can I make it a more pleasant experience for myself? Is there any benefit to this? Because I can come up with a nice list of cons.