10 Terrifying First-Hand Accounts of Sleep Paralysis

1. Red Room

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Again, a submission from Reddit gives us a glimpse into the hellish world that those with sleep paralysis experience. This user claimed that when he would ‘wake’ he instantly knew what was happening, and would try to jolt himself awake. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.

He sees the same apparition every time; a shadow creeps up the wall by his bed. The air crackles with static electricity and that chaos focus into the form of a tall and abnormally thin man with no face. This ‘man’ slowly approaches the subject’s bed, and grabs the waking dreamer’s head and screams into his paralyzed face. The room turns crimson red, and the ‘man’s hands turn into spikes which he draws across the waking dreamer’s face.

The experience ends with one of the spikes being plunged into our storyteller’s throat, and he wakes up.