User blog comment:Holly Bailey/Is This Sleep Paralysis?/@comment-25052433-20180125004814

Sounds like the typical symptoms of sleep paralysis. I remember the first time I had it. I was 15 years old or so and I woke up but couldn't move. I felt this weird 'hum or energy' which is the best way I can describe it, running up and down my body. It was not fun, that's for sure.

There are a lot of scientific studies into it now, and it's pretty much been explained as somewhat of a chemical misfire during out slumber. While we believe we're awake during sleep paralysis, most of us are actually just having a very lucid wake/dream experience.

The worst part of it for me is that if it happens, I have to force myself to get up and walk around and fully wake up in order to prevent it from just happening again. If I snap out of it and just turn back over and go back to sleep, it tends to happen again.

It can be scary, but it's also harmless. Just really annoying.