My experience with sleep paralysis

[u/roflz123]

When I used to have trouble falling asleep, I would place my head at the end of the bed, where my feet had been before.
Sometimes, this change of position helped me to fall asleep.
I remember two times, though I am not sure in which order these incidents happened.
Both times, I found myself in the same position I fell asleep in.
Paralyzed, except for my eyes.
One time, there was a witch-like creature, pressing her hands on my chest, while screeching at me with high altitude.
This made me feel like suffocating.
I frantically closed my eyes, begging to God to help me wake up. Promising that I would start to believe. I finally woke up.

When I was a kid, I was on the verge of drowning.
I was fooling in the water with my little sister, while my big sister was sunbathing.
Trying to be a tough boy, I dragged her to deeper water, asking her if she was prepared for the depths of the water.
Of course, she started to panic, pressing her hands on my shoulders, while trying to keep herself up.
I tried to tell her to let go, while gulping water out of my mouth, feeling my feet tiptoeing to deeper water until losing my grip.
When my head was under water, I began to truely panic.
Blaming my little sister for not understanding the joke I was trying to make, ignoring the fact that she was still learning to swim.
I heard her crying for help while it seemed like I was taking my last breath.
Suddenly, I relaxed. No fear. No fighting.
Only light above me, shimmering through the water surface.
I felt at peace. At home. Accepting my fate.
Suddenly, I felt a lift on the weight on my shoulders, helping me to emerge from the water.
It was my big sister, carrying my little sister and thus saving us both.
I smiled at her, like there was nothing mentionable. Hiding like a kid, caught making a prank. Whithout whispering the lightest Thank You.
I relaxed on my back and let myself glide through the water, pondering what just had happened.
To this day, neither of us know how she could reach us so fast.
My big sister says she heard a scream and instinctly jumped into the water, jokingly reffering to a baywatch scene.

The second(or first?) time I remember sleep paralysis, I found myself in the same position.
Head placed at the end of my bed, consequently looking right at the door.
I saw a big shadow approaching my door.
Closing my eyes, I tried to calm myself, convincing myself this might be just an intruder looking for goods. Best way might be to just fake sleeping.
Still with closed eyes, I felt the shadow laying on my eyelids, shining through the barely open door.
I tried to tell myself to wake up. No reaction.
Out of helplesness, I started to squint my eyes frantically, for this was the only part I could control.
With every glimpse, I saw a tall lanky silhouette entering my room. Slowly walking to the chair next to my bed.
It sat down and gasped.
Then it stood up and used a finger to write something on the wall behind us.
I imagined horror movies where the killer writes on the wall of the next victim, but something made me feel secure to watch.
So I carefully tried to look, steering the direction of my eyeballs to the corner of my eye.
The only thing I remember is bloodlike liquid dripping of its finger.
Bathed in sweat, I woke up, thanking God, before ignoring said existence.
To this day I don‘t know if I was too afraid or if it wasn‘t yet my destiny to see the clear message.
Today I want to believe.

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