Sleep Paralysis

Wow...I didn't know this experience had a name .

I've always experienced sleep paralysis, but it's been happening a lot more often lately, right before I fall asleep (which apparently is hypnagogic sleep paralysis). And like you mentioned, GrimReaper, sometimes I feel like I'm being levitated or flying. It usually is when I'm laying on my back, come to think of it....so odd. I've never had fear or nightmares involved with my paralysis, though. I usually kind of enjoy the sensation. Then again, maybe I'm just weird...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wikipedia knows all!

Some people associate sleep paralysis with narcolepsy and lucid dreaming -- which I've never experienced, but I have a friend who always lucid dreams and doesn't understand how anyone else cannot lucid dream.

I used to think it was like my soul trying to pull away from my body... which apparently is not completely original, because it's also associated with out-of-body experiences.

There's nowhere I can't reach.