My experience (Ill try to tell aparently related things):
I allways had some afraid of dark as long as I remember. And I remember at least after my 8 years old (21 now) to been having frequent SP experiences (I mean frequent it’s serious) not with hags. I never knew what it was, anyway till now…
There was some experience at that age when me and my sister used to sleep in the same bedroom, I “woke up” aparently, (I think the panic we feel is not any hag, it’s the feeling of being paralysed awaken and not controlling the thing or alucinations, of course it can be cheated). As I will say later it’s usual to have alucinations during that state because we are half dreaming but I never had one before. So I started the panic: couldn’t move, started trying to scream but nothing came out. So I screamed louder (some muscles have some control during the state) and started hearing my voice very low, and I got an answer like “shut up!” I couldn’t really recognize the voice so I suposed it was my sister. When I asked her that day, she didn’t remember anything and she wasn’t in bedroom that time. It came recorded in my head the moment but I misplaced the timings and thought it was a dream (as many people think).
I continued to have experiences and feeling very bad with it, very scary, and started to naturally “develop defenses against”, like never sleep in in supine position (when I do I allways get SP), and got a way to get out of it during the state, by trying to roll my body, reaching the lamp with the hand, allways works (muscle stimulation).
Casually I started telling about it to friends and they allways looked at me strange, they never had it. Recently (3 years ago) started to get more frequent. It was my bad sleeping habits, leaved my parents home and started sleeping irregularly (this is not good for SPs). Some day I had another sound alucination and started getting alarmed, and one day I had one falling asleep, never had it asleep but it’s documented also to happen, I was very tired.
I don’t know why it came to me “Sleep paralysis” keywords, “that’s something I’ve never searched about let’s try it”. I found this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis . “Wow!” I allways knew that painting but it never looked so familiar to me! “That’s it!” As I continued reading the article I first time knew the monster.
I recomend this search google.com/search?q=sleep+pa … S:official .
I think it’s not something to play about it’s not a desease but it seems to be a symthom for a lot of deseases, like narcolepsy or head tumors, so if you have it like me, search medical help imediately! seriously.
Ok, the last but not the least, the “common” experience:
-Waking up.
-Trying to get out of bed and the body completely shut down.
-The eyes move and some basic muscles.
-(never saw anything because I allways close the eyes afraid of seeing something
-Sometimes I have the tactile feelings, grabing my arm or something
-Weight in chest
-I think I can remember looking at bedroom and seeing strange things
-Then sometimes goes naturaly but sometimes it doesn’t stop.
-So I started to try to move if you keep trying that works.
From wikipedia:
Sleep paralysis: During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain, because otherwise the movements which occur in the dream would actually cause the body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens. This can lead to a state where a person is lying in his or her bed and he or she feels frozen. Hallucinations may occur in this state, especially auditory ones. People also generally report feeling a crushing sensation on their chest (possibly because they try to consciously control their breathing). People trying to lucid dream sometimes try to trigger this state, or accidentally trigger this state, while using a waking induction of lucid dreaming (WILD) technique to enter a lucid dream directly when falling asleep.
I think it’s the best explanation. I think alucination come from mixing the dream with reality (humm alien abductions…). Anyway after that came clear to me not afraid anymore. Now go get some sleep!