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Three years later and I still have the same episodes, only the last one was the worst. There was a figure on top of me, grappling me tightly. I couldn’t sleep for days after that.

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“All of a sudden, a giant monstrous hand jumped out, grabbed the boy, and took him in to the lake.”

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“I was looking at photo albums with my dad, stepmom, and stepsister. I noticed the eyes of all the people were becoming burnt and black. I screamed and threw the photo album down out of fear.”

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“You try to scream. But your mouth will not move. Soon you discover that you cannot move your body, either. All of the straining and the willpower only lets you blink, or maybe move an index finger, if you’re lucky. There is no escape from this.”

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If sleep paralysis isn’t real then why has everyone seen the exact same things for all of recorded history?

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“Went out to the garage and found my husband. He had hanged himself.”

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I wasn’t just having bad dreams. These dreams felt too real.

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“I answered but there was no one there. I called it back and the number was disconnected.”

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I won’t blame you if you think this is fiction.

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“Sleep is as close to death as we get.”