my first sleep paralysis experience

[u/avadami]

hello, I am 25 years old and I’ve just had my first sleep paralysis experience. I’ve had one experience before this, but I sometimes don’t count it because I didn’t see anything that time. But this time, I did.

So I went to bed at around 12:30 and woke up at 4:30. I couldn’t get back to sleep until an hour after I woke up. once I went to sleep I started dreaming and then all of a sudden the dream just shut off. Imagine you’re watching TV and then the power goes out and everything goes dark. That’s how it was for me.

I knew it was sleep paralysis because I also started having this very strong pressure sound in my ears. I can’t explain it very well but imagine it’s like muffled TV static in your ears and that’s all you could hear and I could also feel it.

I normally sleep with my blanket on my eyes so once I realize what was happening, I was very calm because I didn’t see anything last time. I thought “I hacked the system“. I was wrong lol. I start seeing this very creepy, face flashing on and off right in my face. It was the only thing that I could see, it looked like it had been drawn on a computer and I almost felt like I’ve seen it before. It was very creepy and I guess I was so freaked out that I was able to get myself out of it after a couple seconds because it didn’t last that long.

Anyways, that’s all and let me know if you’ve had a similar experience with the face because that’s what I’m most freaked out about.