User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/A Recent Experience With Sleep Paralysis/@comment-26475800-20161115032532

I've never gone through sleep paralysis, but I used to have night-terrors all the time. It's pretty much the same, but you can move around with them. I also have a tendency of sleepwalking, talking and basically everything else you can think of. Even now, at 28, I still do all of those things, and the most recent night-terror I've had was a few years ago. Sometimes it's funny when my wife tells me some of the things I've done in the night, other times she says it really scares her. But regardless of how she felt about it, I never remember any of it and sometimes it really freaks he out to the point that she's mad at me in the morning.

Anyway, when the night-terrors come, I feel like I cannot breath and am lost. I hear things that are left over from the dreams I was having and on rare occasions I've kept dreaming, seeing some of the things that had been playing in my mind just before waking up enough to be moving around. It's horrible and I never want to have them again, but I'm sure I will before I die. When I was younger it would trigger asthma attacks, and that would just intensify the terror of the whole ordeal.

Anyway, that's the closest I've ever come to what you described. I never wanted to go back to sleep after a night-terror, and at a young age I developed a fear of sleeping. It's so bad, even now, that when the sun goes down I get a huge boost of energy and never find my way to bed before two in the morning. Most of the time I can sleep easier in the day, but because my job is a day job I can't really do that.