I have a few unrelated experiences to recount. I would appreciate if someone could tell me what exactly I might have experienced. Granted though, I had to omit one because I suspect it is somewhat inappropriate.
This is the first: The most recent of my unusual experiences occurred when I was 13, about some six years ago. I was taking my usual after-school nap upstairs in my room. Before getting into bed, I had locked my room door for privacy just in case, because I live in a house with two younger brothers. I got home from school around 3:30, and went right to sleep.
While in bed, I woke up after a while. My eyes opened, and looking at my clock, the time was 5:00. However, I soon discovered that my eyes were almost the only part of my body that could move. I tried to sit up, but couldn't. At first I could feel my body, but seconds later I lost feeling in the entire left half of my body. It felt as if something was entering me through the top left part of my head, and creeping downward. As this was happening, I started losing sight in my left eye, and saw disgusting colors blending together in green, purple and orange, and it looked like colored TV static. I tried to scream, but couldn't. Instead, a low, guttural roar came out of my throat. It was so low-pitched that it couldn't have been my own voice, as I am a soprano. It sounded completely otherworldly.
While this was happening, I could still see out of my right eye. Everything in the room looked calm except for what was happening inside me. I tried to writhe and kick, but to no avail. Now this is the strange part. My body was freaking out, but my inner voice was completely calm and serene. At this time, I was very religious, and so my calm inner voice spoke to the entity or whatever it was that was happening. I said to it, "My soul belongs to Jesus Christ; you have no place here..." And it left! It was like it got sucked out, and it felt like I was being jarred as it left.
As soon as this happened, I started screaming like I was going to die. The first person I thought of to call for help was my brother, and I kept screaming his name. After calling several times, he came running upstairs and burst in the door asking if I was alright. Finally I was able to move completely when he came in, and I shot up in my bed. It was the first time in my life I had ever experienced a cold sweat.
Another weird part: I mentioned that the door was locked. When he came in and I recovered a little, I asked him if the door had been locked when he tried to get in. He said it wasn't locked. It only unlocks from the inside, so I don't know how the door came unlocked.
Since then, I had experienced this on several other occasions, but they were MUCH less intense, and nothing like the first time. I heard no voices, only felt the paralysis and saw ugly colors, and only for a few seconds instead of minutes long.
Eventually, this stopped happening altogether, though I can't remember how recent the last one was. It may have only been 2 years ago, but I'm not sure now. I don't know how the thing, whatever it was, left me, but I think it had something to do more with the fact that I was calm in telling it to leave rather than the content of what I said to it.
The whole thing is just a mess though... Does anyone know what this experience was?
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I know from my own experiences with it that it can be rather bizarre and terrifying. I've 'seen' very odd things (though when I think back on it, I'm not really completely certain my eyes were open though I definitely thought they were at the time) from my son--without his face--to strange, demonic looking cats flying over my bed. Once I even saw spiders all over the walls. I've heard a variety of odd things from clicks to the sound of a helicopter directly behind me on the bed to breathing.
Often I feel not only as if I can't move but also as though there's actually something holding me down. Sometimes I feel very intense fear as if there's something evil in the room with me.
It's such a weird and frightening experience that it's rather easy to assume it's some sort of psychic experience or demonic attack but I strongly feel that in most cases, experiences like these have a very logical explanation.
Incidentally, I usually have an episode when I take a nap during the day outside my normal sleep routine, have disrupted my sleep routine by not getting enough sleep or when I sleep on my back. And they've decreased in intensity over the years as well. Despite all this and despite knowing what's happening as it's happening, it doesn't take away from the feeling of fear or helplessness one bit.