I had the “sleep paralysis” experience when I was ~22 years old. I’d just laid down for the night and I could swear I was not yet asleep. As I lay on my back, suddenly I felt a dark presence above me. I couldn’t see anything, yell, or move a muscle. I just knew in an instant that I was being possessed or something. I felt instant doom and massive desperation for it to stop. My body felt very strange like it wasn’t my own, and somewhat jelly-like. My husband was asleep next to me and I wanted badly to wake him to save me, but I couldn’t get any sound out. So all I was left with was to pray silently, so I prayed my ass off and I was released from the grip of the experience. Recently, I’ve read of many others who describe the same experience online. I didn’t know this was a somewhat common experience. Science says they have an “explanation”, and they call it “sleep paralysis”. However, how does science know it can be explained as the body going to sleep without the brain, or something like that? What if people are really encountering a demon? Honestly, there’s NO way to prove it’s not. Science has a theory and that is all.
I still shiver when I recall the experience. It was the most terrifying thing that I ever went through… and I went through terrible stuff, believe me. But I’m forever haunted by that night. I don’t like to be alone in the dark because I always recall that night. It changed me.
