Sleep Paralysis, And A Trick To Get Out of It!

Sleep paralysis has struck again.

If you've experienced sleep paralysis then you'll understand my fear/confusion/pissed off-ness, as it's happened to me, yet again.

To give you a brief history, since I was very young I've had experiences of sleep paralysis - its basically something that occurs during REM (not the band) sleep. It can be quite frightening as you're kind of half in a dream, half awake, so you can hear/see things that lets be clear - AREN'T THERE, but it can seem extremely real to you, but it's just your mind playing tricks on you, I guess.
I read online that it can happen to everyone at least once in their life. But it must of happened to me over 10 times. The time I remember the most, was the most frightening, - because if you're like me and had never heard of it before, you freak out - I could hear some kind of creatures at the bottom of my bed speaking about me, as if I was an experiment or something - very weird - and the more I tried to wake up or move or scream out, I couldn't. I was paralysed. It feels like it goes on for a long time, and the truth of it is, you really have no sense of time, because you can't move or look at the clock, or do anything really. 
It happened again a few nights ago. This time it felt like there was someone right beside my face, it was as if I had opened my eyes and guess what was in front of my face...that little creepy puppet freak from the Saw movies. So that was nice. This time it actually felt like I had been levitated up out of my bed in some way too. But this time I was saying in my head 'no!' 'go away!' And I realised that if you grind or bite down on your teeth, you get out of it. I'll definitely be trying that technique out next time as it's not a fun experience to be in. 

The annoying thing is, why is sleep paralysis always so frightening. It's not fun and I'm not really sure why I seem to get it more than most, any ideas? 
 Some nights when I'm drifting off to sleep I feel a sudden jerk in the bed and I suddenly wake up. Other than this, my sleep is normal. Other than I don't really get enough of it.



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Sian x