deuteronomy - visions (all senses) [VOLUME WARNING] (Patreon)

WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREME CHANGES IN VOLUME

for as long as i can remember, i've dealt with sleep paralysis and the nightmarish sensory experiences they come with. being charged at full force by a bizarre, unknowable apparition; having a barely human intruder suffocate me; an impossibly tall shadow figure outside the window, willing open the blinds and staring, unmoving. they all start with the same feeling - i can't move - and end with the same feeling - trying to scream, unable to open my mouth, then jolting awake. for the first few moments after that, no matter how many times i experience this, it is completely real. nothing in the world can convince me it didn't just happen. but, of course, it didn't. that's sleep paralysis.

i hope this piece can bring some kind of catharsis to others that deal with sleep paralysis, as explicitly horrific as it may be. i understand what you're dealing with, and i hope that at some point we can fall asleep without this anxiety lurching over us.