Thanks Sifr, dream-scape,

The 'ethereal' voice(s), are...very hard to describe unfortunately. It was a deepish voice, mayble slightly layered with a similar voice. As in, two or more people saying the same thing at the same time, although one sounded more prominent than the other. That's if there was more than one voice, I can't be certain, but I'm fairly sure there were (around 75% sure).

As for the sleep paralysis side of things, I am quite used to experiencing paralysis on waking, the first few times it worried me a little, and then I became used to it and managed to find better ways of getting out of it as time progressed. It has never been something I've been so scared about that it has caused me to wake up with a horrified/scared gasp. It might be worth mention that I've 'played around' in sleep paralysis before, exploring what was happening when it didn't scare me anymore. I've probably laid in sleep paralysis for 10 or more minutes before, trying to put my brain back to sleep, or finding out which movements/thoughts are the best for waking myself up...so yeah, it isn't something I'm afraid of. Although it did scare me yesterday when I couldn't do anything about it while hearing the voices, yet the whole unpleasant experience only lasted for maybe 5 seconds (including the paralysis and 'ethereal' voice).

I went to bed at around 3:30am this morning, still in fear of falling asleep and experiencing the same thing again (which I presumed was going to happen if I was truly being haunted ). After about half an hour of listening to music while using the light of my mp3 player to make sure no monsters were in the room with me, I managed to get to sleep. Not before getting in and out of bed a number of times to get a drink or to turn on the light to scare the shadows away though, I felt like a 5 year old who had just watched the scariest move they had ever seen. Anyway, I woke up for after around 3 hours sleep, and didn't experience or recall anything disturbing, no sleep paralysis, just a huge desire to go back to sleep which is pretty normal for me. Yet if I were able to go back to sleep after waking up, maybe I may have had a similar experience due to the higher possibility of becoming lucid...I'm kind of happy that I didn't have the chance to find out.