I don't really know what to believe about sleep paralysis . I'm on the fence , between the belief that these weird experiences have purely physiological causes , and the belief that they paranormal in nature . Perhaps they can be both.
I have experienced four such episodes , throughout my life . Each one very different from the others , each one had such a strong impact on me that I will never forget them. Three of them were terrifying , one was not.
The first time I experienced a sleep paralysis event , I was in my mid 20's . I was staying with my father , at the time and the incident took place in his house.
I was asleep and having a nightmare. I was in some sort of long corridor and something or someone was coming after me . I didn't know who or what was scaring me so much , but I knew , somehow that something was going to come round the corner , at the bottom of the corridor and get me. I was beyond terrified and ran along the corridor , desperate to find an escape. Suddenly , I noticed a green door , to right of me and went through it. I found that I was back in bed , could see the familiar surroundings of my room , clearly ( although in reality , this could not have been possible , as the lights were off and it was dark, yet I could even make out the titles of my books , on the bookcase ) Even though I was aware that I was in bed , in my room , I was still consumed by the fear that something was after me. I tried to get up , to go to my dad , because I was so scared . I couldn't move an inch . I tried and tried , with no success , and then , through sheer force of will, motivated by the fear , i was feeling , I left my body . I was about halfway across the room , when (this part is difficult to explain) I didn't actually hear a voice with my physical ears , but I had some sort of awareness of someone putting the thought in my head , that I was ok and that there was nothing to be scared of. The fear left me and the instant it did , I snapped ,quickly back into my body . It felt like I was on a piece of elastic and being pulled back. Once I was back and fully awake , the room was dark , (as would be expected , if you awoke in the night) and I couldn't see my surroundings anymore. I knew something odd had happened and that i'd had an oobe , induced by the nightmare , but as I will explain , it was more than that .
I felt overwhelmed with tiredness and just wanted to sink back into sleep, but I knew , somehow , that if I didn't go over the details of my experience , in my mind , that I'd forget most of it by morning. So I went over it all , in my mind , several times , and then finally fell asleep. The next thing I knew , was my dad , opening the bedroom door and asking me if I had any intentions of getting up that day . He informed me that it was 3. pm . I was shocked , because I'd never normally sleep so late.
I remembered the whole previous night's experience , except I could not remember who or what had been chasing me and terrified me so much.
I often thought about what i'd experienced and one day , more than three years after the event , I spontaneously remembered what i'd been so scared of in that dream. ( this is odd , because normally , dream details are fresh in your mind upon waking , but then fade away from memory very quickly. But my memory fully returned years later) There were grey aliens after me.There were three of them , two walking side by side and one , slightly ahead of the other two . I saw them in that corridor and knew they were coming for me.
As a curious aside , I once read an account of a woman who had experienced an oobe. She told how she had been relaxing on her sofa , listening to classical music,when she suddenly saw a green door in her mind's eye. She went through it and found herself floating above the rooftop of her house. It's strange that I also went through a green door , which seemed to have something to do with my oobe .