My first experience with sleep paralysis came when I first moved away from home and was living in a college dorm room.
When I awoke one morning, I was surprised to find I could not move. Every muscle in my body was frozen in place. I was clearly awake, but I could not even open my eyes. Struggle as I might, I could not will my muscles to move.
I began to concentrate on moving my toes. After what seemed like an eternity I was suddenly able to move them. That one movement freed the entire body and I was able to open my eyes and get up.
It happened frequently for a while.
One morning, it happened again, but something was different this time. Something had changed and I wasn’t sure what to make of it.
Read my experience, and the co-occurring experience of a fellow student.
I had something like that happen to me once. Emphasis on ONCE. I looked up noticing a pressure on my chest and the inability to move. A figure above me, floating, and blacker than black was peering down at me with terrifying eyes. I called a guardian of mine and was even more scared at the ferocity of how it fought it off. ^__^ Never happened again.
I have had that happened to me and it has felt like I was in a dream that I could not wake from. Eventually I found how to wake from that kind of state which was to wiggle my ties.