It happened to me a few years ago. I was in the first year of college. I was feeling tired that day so I slept early.
At night, I felt something was sitting on my chest and pressing me inside my bed. It was completely dark in the room. I couldn’t breathe properly. I tried to move but could not even lift my finger.
Everything was dark and silent. I wanted to shout for help but my voice was stuck inside my throat and the thing sitting on my chest was pressing me continuously.
I was shocked as I never believed in ghosts but then what was that thing sitting on me. Why couldn’t I breathe, why couldn’t I speak, what was happening to me?
So I tried to go back to sleep as I couldn’t see anything except darkness around me. I tried to shut down my brain so that this feeling of helplessness would go away. And then, I didn’t know when I went back to sleep again.
Next morning, I woke up and remembered the night perfectly. It was not a nightmare as I knew perfectly well that I was awake the whole time. But I also couldn’t believe it to be a ghost as I have stated earlier that I don’t believe in them. A few months passed.
One day I was scrolling Facebook and came across a post that said, “Have you ever experienced this?”
(Not exactly this picture but was like this, I don’t have it as I saw it 4 years back)
So I instantly opened the comment section, people had posted comments like these. “Same”, “Me too”, “Oh my God that night was terrible”. I scrolled further and saw a guy who had posted the reason for this. Let me rephrase it for you guys.
“This state is called ‘Sleep Paralysis’ and it happens sometimes when you are exhausted or have some kind of stress.
So, I got my answer after a few months. There was in fact no ghost as I assumed and the darkness was because my eyes were shut but my brain was working. But it is still scary for people who don’t know about this condition as they would assume it was some kind of paranormal activity.
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