sigh.. come on people.
This isn't an incubus, or an out of body experience..
It's sleep paralysis, it's scary, I've had it for years.
When you go to sleep your body goes into a semi paralytic state so you don't thrash around during your r.e.m. stage and hurt yourself. Sometimes you
wake up "in the wrong order" and your body is still paralyzed. Since you return to reality in such an order a lot of times there are lingering
remnants of your dreams that appear in "the real world." For me I always sense a malevolent presence just outside of my door, or just out of my
visual range.
A lot of people claim something is pressing on their chest, usually a "demon."
It usually only lasts for a few seconds (which seem like eternity) but it can happen for much longer, it's not permanent (unless say you have
meningitis in which case.. its not sleep paralysis, which what you are describing certainly is) Some people claim out of body experience with this
(i've had one when I was very young, and since my mind was functioning normally and awake and i was trying to assimilate the dreams, i automatically
assumed i was dead)i was like 8 then, i'm 24 now and still have it, but its fairly easy to control.
THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO.
Basically through "trail and error", actually just years of dealing with this, i figured out that I only get sleep paralysis from sleeping on my
back (supine) or sleeping on my right side (the right side thing is weird and not the norm) but you are sleeping on your back most likely right? If
you wake up, do exactly what you did focus on a small movement until you wake up.
No sense in being concerned over some harm that might come to you from the supernatural.. this has happened for as long as people have slept, people
who have had sudden adult death syndrome are probably the people who were terrified that this was the result of some demon and were scared into heart
attack or arrhythmia.
en.wikipedia.org...