Sleep paralysis can be incredibly frightening, it happens to me quite often if I disrupt my normal sleep patterns (ie: by taking a nap during the day). I rarely get visual hullucinations, but I always get auditory ones. Because your mind is awake when this happens, the best thing you can do is relax, if you can relax, you'll go back to sleep or may even enter a lucid dream if you're lucky. See it as a gateway to your dreams, after all if your body wasn't paralysed then it would try to 'act out' your dreams - resulting in all sorts of trouble. If you can learn to conquer it, sleep paralysis could be viewed as a weird sort of gift, I'm convinced it is the key to initiating lucid dreams with greater ease.
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