Sleep Paralysis has anyone had it?, page 19

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When I was a kid, probably about 12 or 13 I had a whole week long episode of sleep paralysis. It started with a regular Monday night, early to bed at about 9:30 or 10:00, school the next day, had a bunk-bed back then and I would usually sleep on the top bed but this night I was really lazy so I slept on the bottom bed which felt kinda weird for a while because I never slept in a made up bed and the bottom one was all neat and made up. Anyway, I can't remember if i had a dream or not but all of a sudden I felt like the darkness around me was really really thick and my eyes felt almost forced closed by the darkness so I managed to open them eventually but the room looked unnaturally dark which was really strange because my bed was next to a window which I always kept the curtains open and the moonlight usually illuminated my room quite a bit but this night it was really really pitch black. At first I wasn't really sure if my eyes were open or not because it was so dark I couldn't even see the bottom of the top bed so I tried to move my hands towards my head to try and see if I'm dreaming or not but I couldn't move. I suddenly realized that I am completely paralyzed. I couldn't feel any part of my body except I felt really heavy as if the darkness around me actually weighed something and it was completely smothering me so I panicked. I panicked so much that I became a aware of my breathing and I actually had to focus just to get my lungs to suck in air because of the pressure on my chest and just as I was about to totally freak out I sprang loose and I leapt for the bedside lamp but it was a really crappy "power saver" fluorescent lamp which took a while to kinda warm-up or something so really panicked at this stage. I could move but was to scared to get out of bed to run for the light switch way on the other side of the room. So the light eventually went on and all was gone. All of the heavy darkness was gone and I felt like I could breath normally again. Up until that day I was never ever afraid of the dark. Even when I got up to pee I'd walk all the way to the toilet without any lights, sometimes I'd even go outside at night and sit a bit in the cool breeze without any light. Another thing, I did notice the time when it all stopped, it was around 3:15 and it seemed like forever but it the whole ordeal couldn't have lasted for more than 15 to 30 mins.

The same thing happened the next night and even though I was vigilante this time, I kept the crappy bedside light on the whole night, it was switched off when it happened and I struggled again like the night before to get the thing working again. I told my mom about this by Wednesday but she figured it happened once or twice with her around that same age so it's probably a childhood thing. This carried on for the whole week and every night I'd go to bed feeling calm and relaxed thinking it's probably only something lame and I should just try to get some sleep and think of really cool things to dream about before I fall asleep. Also, I can't remember if I had any dream before I'd wake up with the dark choking feeling.

As for religion, I was baptized as a child but we were are really crappy Christians to be honest, only went to church every now and again and even at a very young age I found Christianity to be lacking in answers to who God really is and the whole deal about heaven and hell so I was very reluctant to go to Sunday school.

This happened in my old house which wasn't a really old house, I mean we were the second family to ever live there so it was a fairly new part of town plus I live in South Africa which usually don't get so much UFO attention that I am aware of. I'm not going to tell you the exact town and everything because of healthy paranoia but it's basically quite north, almost the northern most town in South Africa before you cross the border to Zimbabwe.

Almost a week after this strange event I had a series of positive dreams, three nights in a row. I dreampt some dude who kinda reminded me of Morpheus - from The Matrix movies, I saw the first one when It came out and even though I was to young to really understand the movie at that time it really captivated me and as a kid I tried to move "faster" than my arms or hands would allow like Neo - anyway in my dream Morpheus was white and he had a long black jacket and he took me flying around town, the one night we even visited my one friends house and we looked at him through the window and Morpheus said something along the line: "Look at your friend, sleeping peacefully, unaware that each person you (Me) meet was born with a gift waiting to be unlocked" and so I asked him if everyone has a gift and he said no, in time I'd meet more people with "potential" and they'll have an impact on my life... But first I'm running out of chars but bare with me to the next post