To never want to go to sleep again

[Edenviolet]

Went to bed last night as usual, had a dream, nothing out of the ordinary.

At some point I was aware of waking and hearing someone walking around outside my room but when I opened my eyes it was just black, I couldn't move and tried to open them again, still nothing just blackness and a sense of absolute fear and falling backwards???

Tried to call out but couldn't make a sound, tried to reach out to grab dh but couldn't. Absolutely terrifying.

Suddenly I jolted awake in panic, could see again but felt awful. What on earth happened?
I never want to go to sleep again it was so terrifying

I've had sleep paralysis and it was absolutely terrifying. I used to wake up and think someone was sitting on me or pressing down on me trying to suffocate me. Id be fighting like a mad woman and eventually my body would move (well suddenly flail around as id put in so much effort to move a limb).

It happened to me a few times in a period of acute stress mini nervous breakdown bad bad times.

I have these occasionally but the worst was coming off Effexor (antidepresent) and I will never ever go on those again. It was the whole can't move, can't communicate with my husband next to me... thing. It went on for several days (alongside the other side effects)

I get really freaked out thinking about people who are trapped in their bodies in hospital and cant communicate....

I've had this and just last week woke with a sore neck where I'd gripped myself but in my dream it was someone else with their hands around my neck. I hate that trapped feeling

My DD had this last week. She says she was terrified. She's in the middle of GCSE's and already copes with Panic Attacks. So is obviously mega stressed. I made the mistake of watching this 'documentary'.

tube video of sleep paralysis scary

How can so many people have the same hallucination? How can I help her?