User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/A Recent Experience With Sleep Paralysis/@comment-27012445-20161115020524

Now this is something I am very familiar with. The good news is that as time goes by, they become less frightening and frequent. My first episodes was definitely the worst. It was the first time being in that threshold of sleep and awareness. I had them quite frequently at first. At times, the episodes were so violent that they would violently impose themselves into my current dream with such force my body would physically jerk from the impact of being pinned down. It really shook my faith, or lack there of, since I was in the military, the first time on my own and accepting an agnostic outlook on existence and rejecting the myths of angels and demons my overtly religious family strongly believed. What helped me cope and eventually overcome this condition was to fight against the force restraining me. Eventually I overcame it, but it was a long battle. I can still remember having an episode; unable to move...and slowly being pulled to the edge of the bed. Only once did I ever physically fall out of bed. But that's a story for another time.