Sleep paralysis anyone??? Other than me???

I suffer from occaisional sleep paralysis. They can be terrifying!! I've asked many people over the years if they had ever experienced this. No one has. So just wondering if any of you have ever experienced what is called sleep paralysis and can you decribe them?
After reading a book on dreams...I now know how they occur and why, but I'd like to know if anyone else suffers from this curse!!!

If it is the feeling while you are sleeping that there is no way on God's green earth that you can move no matter how hard you try...yes I have experienced this. It is scary and it has caused me to wake up out of a dead sleep but once I am awake I can move freely.

I have, only once, and I never want to go through that again. That was the most scared I have ever been, and I've been scared pretty badly.

I was dreaming what some call a lucid dream, where you kind of know that you're dreaming and you can sort of guide the dream, but not really. More than anything it just makes the dream so realistic that it's like a regular dream on steriods, you could swear that you were there.

But anyway in my lucid dream I was being chased by my family, only they were very angry and they wanted to kill me, and I couldn't get in the house, and I sort of woke up and found myself in my own bed, which was confusing since I thought that I was still in danger, and I couldn't move. I was SO scared... hyperventilating, and I would've screamed if I could but I couldn't, which just made it all the more scary.

Worse than a nightmare! I've heard of folks suffering from this sometimes as often as three times a week... they often end up dying of exhaustion because the frights are just so bad.

Most hospitals have sleep labs or access to them...seek them out as they can help with many sleep disorders, and you'll be happy to know that you're not alone

I have them too, i heard there are different types, some is just paralysis and some is a combination of paralysis with fear. I have that one, i get paralysis and fear, along with sounds and hallucinations. It happens after i have a dream where i wake up, then i really wake up but feel weird, like dissoriented and with a weird metalic taste in my mouth and nose, then i feel an icy sensation running from my back to the back of my head, when it reaches my head, i get paralyzed and my vision starts to vibrate, then i hear a woman screaming in my ear and feel like the room is filled with thing that want to harm me or kill me, i feel fear like ive never felt before, then after it happens and i regain control over my body the only thing i can do is scream. They said to me that it was going to go away when i got older, but it still happens, the only difference is that if I act quick and ground myself with tv or radio, to make me really awake, sometimes i can prevent it.