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Well that's the thing I would guess that almost certainly it was sleep paralysis. It's just that giving that phenomenon a name and explaining the mechanics that happen in the brain while it's happening in no way explains the phenomenon sufficiently.
I've talked about it on here before. I'm half autistic and take things very literally, which some of you know. I mask a lot better off Sherdog, but this is my dump. Anyway, back around 1998 for a few years or so, I had a long period of psychosis with sleep paralysis every night.
I was raised in a church where we talked about magic, witches, hell, demons and so on all the time. The church was haunted. People claimed demons flew through the windows on mission trips. I thought all that shit was real. That wasn't good for me because autistic people are highly prone to psychosis. When the SP kicked in, it got so bad I was seeing shit while I was awake.
It took a long time for me to figure out what was going on and deal with it. If I'm honest, there are elements of it that I still think are supernatural. One or two times where other people saw something when I did, because of course I filled my whole life up with true believers back then.
People do not know how profoundly fucked SP can get. I met tons of people going through it because once you get that aura, lots of people will want to talk about it.