Have You Ever Had Sleep Paralysis?

The reason I ask is because I don’t really think it would be a common occurrence for many. Sleep paralysis can happen to people with mental conditions like anxiety or PTSD. But, what about people who don’t have some underlined disorder?

When I had experienced it was when things in life were going fairly well. However, my story of sleep paralysis is sort of strange. It happened to me only one time in my life and hasn’t happened since. When it happened, it was one of the creepiest things I have ever experienced in my life.

It was a normal day, leading to a normal night of rest. Where the stressors of life weren’t really even there. I slept fairly well. That is… until I woke up.

When I awoke, I found myself looking into the eyes of what appeared to be an grey alien. The alien was a slight green hue with a slender body and bulbus head. It’s eyes, black. They were the shape of ovals nearly the size of an avocado. This was terrifying! What made the scene even worse was I was unable to move while this occurred. I tried yelling for help but found that I couldn’t even make but a slight raspy sound with my voice. As if my throat was completely dried out.

All I could really do was close my eyes and hope that the thing went away. Luckily, after a couple of minutes with my eyes closed and repeating the phrase “go away” in my head, I opened my eyes to see that the alien had disappeared. What was left behind still shocked me.

I had a blanket that covered a door to the bathroom near my room. The shape of the alien pointing at me had made an imprint into the blanket. Once the alien had disappeared, I was able to move my body once again.

Needless to say, the experience terrified me. I later told my mom and she had suggested that maybe I had been abducted. I wouldn’t know. Either way, I didn’t like sleeping in that room after that. I slept on the couch of that house until the day I moved out.

To this day, I still often reflect about that experience. It was one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me and probably the closest I have ever been to seeing an alien other than on T.V. or in the movies.

This was a real experience. Reflecting back, I often get curious if others out in the world have experienced something similar to this type of sleep paralysis occurrence. Have you experienced something similar?

I couldn’t help but write about it. It has been festering on my mind for a little bit today after watching some paranormal YouTube videos. With a lack of people to talk to about it, I decided to post about it. It just seemed a bit weird. One occurrence over the many years where I was in a much more stressful, high anxiety, time in my life. That was weird to me and I still don’t even know how to fully process it. Was it a real alien? Or, was it just my mind playing tricks on me after being in a REM sleep phase? I would like to know your thoughts about this.