User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/A Recent Experience With Sleep Paralysis/@comment-27012445-20161115020524/@comment-26112985-20161115021556

I am quite sure that next time this happens, paranoia won't get the better of me and I'll be able to overcome. I hope. As Wes Craven once said "Nightmares are the epitome of inevitable fear. We all have to face them, and when we do, we must face them alone." (That's more of a bad paraphrase, but you get the point.)

Your episodes sound much more severe than my own, and I'm glad to hear you've overcome them. I've luckily never been bothered by the "Demon" hallucinations that seems so ever present in sleep paralysis victims, since, much like you, I have quite a lacking of religious faith.

Jesus made his appearance at the end, I think, more because of childhood fears. When I was a kid, me and my family visited South America, where there was religious imagery everywhere. Naturally, me being a five-year-old child, the sight of a dead guy strung out on a cross was pretty terrifying, especially because it was everywhere. To this day looking at too gruesome of a crucifix makes me shudder.

Go ahead and tell us about falling out of bed! You might not get another chance.