I went to bed at about 11pm last night and decided to try a WILD, after about 30 minutes I gave up, rolled onto my side and went to sleep. I seemed to be in the middle of a dream (cant recall the dream) when I felt someone lying on my back trying to strangle me. This took me by surprise as it was totally unexpected until I realised what was happening and just relaxed and decided to go with it. After a couple of seconds the sensation had gone and I was awake. I checked the clock and it was 1 am so I had only been asleep just over an hour before this happened. Was this part of sleep paralysis??? I did not try to move although I didn't feel as if I was paralysed.

It is a good thing I have read about the old hag and know about this kind of experience as at the time is a very realistic and scary sensation. I can easily see how people can be terrified by this experience. I personally now find it more fascinating than scary. What is really interesting though is the vast amount of people who basically have the identical experience. If this is a hallucination\dream of one's subconcious why do so many different people have virtually the same experience???