bro, imagine being a sleep paralysis demon, skinning someone, and then having them laugh at you for how ridiculous you look
id just kms right then and there
That’s why it’s the only time it happened.
I’ve had sleep paralysis and you can’t talk… Although I guess some people sleeptalk and for them that might be different?
I have a litany of different parasomniae. Sleep walking and talking. The occasional paralysis, regular night terrors, the very odd waking hallucination. And rarely remember my dreams. Here’s my experience:
Sleep talking: Never remember anything about the dream. I do respond incoherently apparently.
Sleep walking: Can remember the edges of the dream if woken up. Dream logic still holds for a good 10 seconds or so from waking up. I tend to hand my husband wads of clothes. He’s figured out if he just orders me back to sleep I’ll do it.
Night terrors: Never remember anything, and to my understanding occurs during nrem, so you shouldn’t be dreaming anyway. I startle my spouse often. My grandmother also had them all her life.
Hypnopompic (read: after waking up. Contrast hypnogogic) hallucination: Been a long time on this one. Kinda like a movie. You see and hear something then all the sudden it vanishes. Only ever happened a couple times ever.
Sleep paralysis: Terrifying. Keenly aware that I’m fully conscious and cannot compel anything to move. Not even my eyelids. Lasts for what feels like forever but is probably a few minutes. Worst one for me by far. Thankfully rare. Edit: It is my understanding that people hallucinate sometimes at the same time. Hence the origin of the sleep paralysis demon.
He said “The closest I’ve ever gotten to sleep paralysis”, so I guess it wasn’t quite sleep paralysis or something
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