Sleep paralysis. It's quite scary, even if you know that it's not anything supernatural. I always thought I was hearing ghosts when this has happened to me. I'm just lying down, trying to get some sleep for the next tiring day and I'm almost on the brink of sleep but all of a sudden, I find myself not being able to move. What's funny is I'm totally conscious and I can see my surroundings in the dark. Or at least I think I'm conscious, I guess I can't be sure since I was half-asleep just a moment ago.
Then I start to hear voices. Sometimes, I can pick out conversations and sometimes, I can only hear distant voices yelling at each other. The scariest time was when I heard a woman's voice yelling quite loudly to someone. I got this feeling like I was about to witness a murder and I even feared for my own safety, being so "near" to this violent-sounding quarel.
Sometimes I wonder if you could suffocate from sleep paralysis. I find that in addition to my movement being restricted, I usually can't breathe too. But I've found ways to get myself back into reality, although it's kind of hard. It kind of reminds me of in Kill Bill where after Uma Thurman's character gets from the coma and tries to get her toes to move again. She had to tell her toe to move. I have to tell myself "get up" about 5 times before I feel like I snapped out of a dream that looks exactly like reality.
Sleep paralysis: frightening, yet somehow oddly exhilarating.
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