I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. As I tried to get out of bed, I realized I couldn’t move. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t move a finger. I heard my parents talking downstairs so to get their attention I tried to scream but I couldn’t. I was completely paralyzed, and I did not understand how it had happened.
Then I saw three beings coming out of the walls, like the Cenobites in Clive Barkers Hellbound Heart. I should say I had not read the Hellbound Heart book or seen the movie at the time. It was just how it looked like. As they came closer, they looked down at me, and I realized that they were the Beagle Boys from Duck Tales. They promptly started to torture me by sticking long needles into my back, and it really hurt. I knew it was some sort of hallucination, but I didn’t know how to stop it.
When you dream you don’t know that you are dreaming, and logic and common sense does not work. This was different. I was fully aware, and I understood that what I felt and what I saw couldn’t be real. I guessed that I had some sort of condition causing a hallucination. I would later find out that it was sleep paralysis, a sort of mixed state between being awake and asleep. It happened to me several times during my teenage years and later on it happened to me once as an adult.
Have you ever had sleep paralysis?
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