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So I finally had my first case of sleep paralysis and it was freaking awesome. Sure… horrifying… but awesome.
I’ve only ever heard people talk about it and always thought that it was just a meme but no, the way people describe it is pretty much spot on. Demon crawling up to you, not being able to move, yadaya, all the good stuff.
I always thought I couldn’t experience sleep paralysis because I’m a side sleeper and this makes it even less likely.
To say “I don’t scare easily.” would be an understatement. Sure I get startled sometimes, but that’s just instict taking over. I don’t think I have experienced true irrational horror since I was a child. I’d say horror in general is just not part of our daily lives anymore. As someone who is into movie making, even horror movies don’t really cut it for me, because I’m always thinking about the behind the scenes of each shot instead of actually being scared.
That’s why I am so appreciative of a good nightmare. Its horror from the deepest darkest places of your mind, specifically tailored to you. It’s the best private horror show you’ll ever going to get. And for someone who’s never really scared, that is worth a lot.
I’m only kinda disapointed of how my paralysis demon looks. I was hoping it would be some cute ghost lady, but it’s more like a shadowy humanoid tentacle alien. Kinda like the mindflayer from Stranger Things but without any discernable features, just a shadow silouette.
Its kinda like finding out your Patronus is a crosseyed possum, I mean it gets the job done sure… but it’s kinda not what I was hoping for.
Also it made a weird tribal “galagalagala” sound while approaching, which gotta say, not exactly the spookiest thing.
All in all 7/10 experience. Wouldn’t recommend it every day, but every once in a while it shirley is fun.
My last actual nightmare was maybe a month ago. I don’t remember the full extent of the dream but what triggered the nightmare scenario for me was some character on a monitor from a TV or videogame (don’t remember exactly) turning their head unnaturaly and starting directly at me as if aware of my presence through the screen. Their natural human eyes instantly turned into big white circles with small black dots as pupils surrounded by growing darkness.
My blood pressure instantly went through the roof but I usually don’t wake up immediately.
It was around 6 am so when I did finaly wake up there was already some light coming trough the blinds.
The weird thing is, after I calmed down. I closed my eyes and in a half sleep state I tried “re-dreaming” the same scenario again and my body almost instantly reacted the same way. And then again, and again. But with each time the effect diminshed.
But I wasn’t dreaming in the half asleep state. I was literally just forcefully putting the same image of that character staring at me into my head. And still I got a fright response each time from fairly simple imagery.
Of course now it doesn’t work anymore, I guess because I “exhausted” that source of horror.
Brains are crazy.