I've recently discovered that this is what i'm experiencing and would like to hear about other peoples sleep paralysis. I thought it was just me !

This is what happens...

I'm awake lying in bed looking across the room when all of a sudden I get this strange sensation throughout my entire body, I can only describe it as a deep tingling feeling. Then I hear a noise, its sounds like what you would hear when you listen to a sea shell, however its often rhythmic.

This is when the panic sets in and I realise what's about to happen. At this stage i'm completely paralyzed, I cant even lift a finger. I try desperately to snap myself out of it but often its to late. I also try and scream out for help but I cant talk or even move my lips.

I get this overwhelming and terrifying felling of an evil presents in the room, I feel its getting closer and the noise gets louder. Although I only ever see what's actually in the room, and nothing else.

Often what feels like an evil power or spirit will drag me out of bed and across the floor, trying to drag me under the bed or into a small gap beside or behind a wardrobe. Its always a dark and confined space. Other times my bed has been shaken around furiously with me along for the ride. I've also been lifted up into the air and shaken around and once I was pushed down into my bedding, it felt like I was being squashed by the atmosphere.

The howl time this is happening I feel completely awake and terrified by this overwhelming and evil power, but have no control over whats happening to me, I feel completely helpless. The only way I manage to snap out of it is by repeatedly saying in my mind - "wake up, wake up". I say this very quickly and in a panicked state.

After the episode I find myself lying in exactly the same position and looking at exactly the same things as prior to it. Its almost like nothing happened at all.