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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/yellowvv on 2023-09-15 05:20:16.
Been getting sleep paralysis my whole life since a young age. Happens few times per week on average. I sometimes try to study stuff about it cause it happens so often and there’s something I notice universally through everyone.
Sleep paralysis hallucinations are all scary and people always tend to describe seeing the same exact things as other people or have very similar experiences. People describe stuff like shadow people, figures standing in their room watching them, an old hag or old man, demonic-type entities, stuff happening around them that’s unexplainable, etc. Some people including me even feel physical hallucinations where it feels like someone is touching or grabbing us or something sitting on our chests and during these times I’m unable to open my eyes to see what’s there or what’s happening.
Seeing as the hallucinations aren’t exactly considered real hallucinations but more like ‘dreams’, why do we never see random stuff like we do in our dreams? We have all kinds of random dreams with random stuff happening all the time and some are happy dreams or funny ones where we see and do random things and of course we have bad dreams sometimes, but why with sleep paralysis do we only see stuff that would appear in nightmares?
Since this happens all over the world and to me personally and probably has happened to many people reading this as well I wanna know what your experience is with sleep paralysis and what you saw or felt and your stance on why we only see scary things and all seem to see the exact same thing or type of hallucinations?