I used to think I was haunted

I've had sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember and regularly. I never knew what it was growing up, so naturally as a child with an overactive imagination I thought it was ghosts.

Eventually adults dismissed it as "night terrors" and so I thought when other people mentioned having nightmares they were experiencing the same thing, but they never mentioned the suffocating or the sensation of being trapped or the creatures and so neither did I. In my 20's I came across a random article describing sleep paralysis and suddenly I understood.

I'm now in my late 30's and no amount of sleep pattern adjustment, stress management or meditation has dampened the episodes. This is a log of my experiences both present and past.

Each one will have a crude attempt at a drawing done on Krita with an old Wacom tablet.

I can't promise this will be good.

UPDATES

March 2nd 2026 - Another entry and I made a button.

March 1st 2026 - It begins.

Disclaimer - This log may contain descriptions and art of disturbing situations and is not meant to be taken as medical advice or a representation of everyone's experience with SP. I'm not a professional or even a practiced writer/artist this is just an outlet so I stop scaring the people in my real life lol.

If you're unfamiliar with sleep paralysis or maybe some of these recountings sound familiar and you're looking for some information here are a few resources that look at it from various angles.

Thank you to Teppy's Layouts for the website template and my friend for making adjustments because I'm code dumb.