I’ve ocassionally experienced the weird “whishing” sound that often accompanies sleep paralysis but I’ve been able to kind of shake myself out of it. Last night however, it escalated a little more. I heard that sound and then fell into a paralysis, unable to move, and dreamt that a man was breaking into my old apartment and heading toward my room, and I was unable to move.

So for those of you who didn’t hear about this on the air, this actually happened in my previous apartment, where I awoke one night to a man IN my fridge, robbing my kitchen. Which was terrifying of course. He stole a number of liquor bottles but that was it and luckily he ran away before I actually had to confront him but clearly it had an effect on me as this was part of my paralysis nightmare.

But in my sleep paralysis stupor I could hear and see this man entering my apartment but couldn’t do anything about it. And he was slowly walking toward my bed. I eventually snapped out of it but when I tried to return to sleep kept going back to that scene. NOT FUN.

Although this was scary, I have a friend who deals with sleep paralysis fairly often and in his nightmares he sees a bloody Jesus coming toward him or hovering above him in bed. This seems MUCH worse.

Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?