Your comment kind of freaked me out. When I was 17, I started getting near-daily fits of sleep paralysis upon waking up. I had never experienced it before that and had no idea what it was, so I remember positioning my bed in all types of different ways to try to get rid of it and being generally terrified to go to sleep at night.

A couple months after it started, my dad died in a car accident. The sleep paralysis never happened to me again, and it’s been 8 years. I’m 25 years old now. Your comment is the first time I’ve ever heard about sleep paralysis being associated with the death of loved ones and now I’m really not sure what to make of my experience.