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.
ive experienced it, a few times. i was a drug addict for years and the last time it happened it was terrifying ,everytime was like that, but the last time was worse. i did not feel safe and i started chanting “im washed in the blodd of the lamb ” over and over and over then my boyfriend woke up shaking me and yelling at me “stop! stop! stop!” he finally broke my paralysis , and he was terrified , he said that i was saying “im washed in the blood of the damned” and he said my voice was not my voice he said it was deep and demonic like. i stopped using and left my boyfriend i am 6 years sobor now and married my husband has seen me experience the paralysis once in my sleep i was trying to call out his name and he knew it . he held me and rocked me bacxk to sleep i had relapsed the day of the night it had happened and i never used again, but it still happens off and on but not like before . im not scared when it happens, and im only paralyzed from either the waist up , so im still able to kick , or im paralyzed from the waist down and in able to move my legs. ive met many people who dont use drugs who experience this as well.