Hi all,
I'm new too. I think we have a lot in common Fairytale; I've been having occasional SP for almost a decade now and mine always includes feelings of terror and hallucinations. Just the other night I found myself unconscious, but aware of my body in bed, aware that I was experiencing SP, and with a demon choking me that I knew wasn't real.
My goal with sleep paralysis is to simply bear through it to get past into real sleep. I get SP when I'm sleep deprived, so I usually need the sleep, but if I wake myself up and go back to sleep again I'll just enter SP again . . . So basically I have to experience SP if I want to sleep.
I'm not sure about Amaze's comments about how we can all learn not to be afraid during SP. SP is a neurological condition and the fear is part of whatever is going wrong in the brain when it tries to enter REM sleep, but doesn't quite . . . That's at least the case with me: I'm notoriously difficult to scare and I've never really had nightmares, but as soon as I enter SP, I feel fear. And the apparitions are a result of the fear state not the other way around; I always feel fear first and the things I see usually don't scare me because I know they're not real. Of course, I'm sure that different people have different degrees of fear during SP, so it may be possible to eliminate fear depending on what's going on with an individual's particular anatomy. I know that my dad's had SP, but never had any fear or hallucinations whatsoever.
I don't want to give the impression that SP is unbearable for me, or that I need advice in dealing with it. It's usually interesting more than anything, and temporarily inconvenient. And since it's difficult for me to be scared by things like movies, it's actually fun to be frightened every now and then.
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