Sleep paralysis is something different entirely.
You are completely aware, but unable to move. It's freaky, very very unpleasant and quite scary.
Not something you want to experience if you can avoid it.
The fact that it also happens when you're half asleep, half awake means it's "worse", if you know what I mean. You can literally be coming out of a dream or be mentally disorientated.
Once I stopped doing drugs though, the episodes almost vanished.
Coincidental, eh?
Mr Mephisto