I enjoy and dread sleep paralysis at the same time in a very odd way. When my sleep schedule gets extremely messed up and/or I'm extremely stressed, sleep paralysis can resurface which makes it a sign that I'm not currently healthy. At the same time though I understand what you are saying. It's an extremely unique and harmless experence and gets the juices flowing so to say.
I gotta say though, the first time it happened (I must have been 12 years old), I thought that was it. I thought I'd never move again.
I hope the world can educate children and bring more awareness to what sleep paralysis is. It's an extremely stressful and unusual experience and one you would not be able to recognize unless you knew about it beforehand. God knows how many "I've been abducted by aliens" lunatics have actually just experienced that.
So if you have kids, take 10 minutes to tell them about it.
Good point; I was maybe 30 the first time it happened to me and didn't think I was paralyzed -- I thought I was dead, and it was kind of interesting in some way: "so that's how it's like to be dead; not what I had imagined!" but also frightening of course.
You're right it happens more often when I'm super tired.
About telling my kids, I don't know. Kids have a way of taking everything you say very seriously, and growing it in their head like it's an Important Thing (which is good and bad at the same time). Why bother them with something they may never experience?
It's so much more important to teach them how not ti be run over by a car!!! and something I have to repeat every. single. minute. (They don't generalize; they know they shouldn't cross the street without looking when we're walking to school; but during weekends if they drop something they'll run after it in the middle of the street like it's a totally different situation. But I digress).
I gotta say though, the first time it happened (I must have been 12 years old), I thought that was it. I thought I'd never move again. I hope the world can educate children and bring more awareness to what sleep paralysis is. It's an extremely stressful and unusual experience and one you would not be able to recognize unless you knew about it beforehand. God knows how many "I've been abducted by aliens" lunatics have actually just experienced that.
So if you have kids, take 10 minutes to tell them about it.