For the past few years now, I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times a year. Every time until today, I've been horrified and just struggled all I could to wake up.

Lately, I've been seeing images and feeling someone crawl into bed with me after my wife has already left for work durring these occurences. Real as anything.

I seem to be only able to accomplish them intentionally after I've woken up, gone downstairs with the kids so the wife can go to work. Then not until 20 minutes later when the babysiter gets there, I go back upstairs for a 45 minute power nap before work.

Today, I decided to go ahead and try to deal with the fear and actually become "lucid" instead of paralyzed, and it worked. I was all of a sudden standing with a bunch of friends at a party in a park. Their faces all looked so real. I then tried to "spawn" a girl that I havn't seen in years and I couldn't. Just kept being random other women that I know. After that, I just walked around having random conversations with friends.

I woke up to the sound of the alarm clock and freaked out because it was supposed to be set for 8:00, but the clock said 3:55. I ran down stairs to grab my cell phone and then REALLY woke up at 7:56. Weird feeling......