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Personal Narrative: My Experience With Sleeping Paralysis

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From my experience with sleeping paralysis, it was a terrifying moment. I was tripping out. Although, it was a brief moment of experience, I was awake and felt like a nightmare. First thing I did to relieve the disorder was try to clear my mind. It didn’t work. I then tried to reach for my beer, but I was paralyzed and terrified. After 2 minutes, everything went back to normal. Sleeping paralysis is most likely to happen with the ͞coffins posture͟ when sleeping. However, the disorder is rare. If it ever happens to you, move your toes and reach for the beer!

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