If you have had sleep paralysis before, what happened and what was it like?

Friends and i were trying to get a lucid dream back in high school. We all failed, with the exception of me getting into a sleep paralysis, or i thought it was.

I didn't see nothing. I mean, i saw my bedroom, but it was all normal. I couldn't move, but it wasn't what freaked me out. It was this extremely creepy feeling, some kind of dread, very hard to explain. Like a feeling of being watched, but scarier.

That was pretty much it. I woke up a minute or so later.

On a totally different occasion years later, i had a similar paralysis only it wasn't planned and it freaked me out - i woke up one morning, but my body was still frozen and i felt i couldn't breathe. For good 10-20 seconds i was sure i was going to die, but then i ''fully'' woke up and everything was just normal.

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