How Ed Sheeran saved me from sleep paralysis today
I been waiting to write something here but never could decide on what, I had an idea but decided to hold it for a few months until it was thematically better.…
I been waiting to write something here but never could decide on what, I had an idea but decided to hold it for a few months until it was thematically better. But then I had this weird (not too much for me) experience that felt interesting enough to talk about, it was funny too now that I thought about it after it all passed. From starters, I been having regular sleep paralysis for years now, my "modus operandi" goes always the same: I fall asleep inside of a dream, a "new dream" starts, I fall asleep on that one too, repeat. When that happens for me it means that I have to wait for everyone else to wake up first for me to finally wake up, from the last to me, like going from the last floor to the first on an elevator. This didn't meant much for me for a long time as I wasn't particulary aware through much of it... except when I started to be. A few years ago I started to be "awake" in the middle of that process, unable to move forced to wait for all the "Krakorins" to wake up one by one, if I try to force myself to move the only thing I feel is me trying to sit on the bed only to fall back shortly after, the first time that I got it like this was the worst experience with this kind of stuff as I got nervous and the rest of "Krakorins" also got nervous too making everything worse, nowadays I know what it's happening so I try to relax wake myself faster. Luckly are pretty strong requirements for it to happen in my case: It only happens when I'm napping in the middle of the day, only when I'm sleeping on my back, only after falling asleep shortly after of waking up. This means that by just putting an alarm to 1 hour is enough to stop it from happening, the problem comes that I am an idiot and today I forgot to put one. I can't remember much of the dream but it was... weird, even if the whole experience is a bit weird to understand my dreams are pretty much normal I think, just going from place to place while doing random stuff that always ends somewhat well. This time I was in my house, but everything about it felt weird, not because of the things out of place but because I felt like something was about to happen. I didn't paid much attention to it, in fact I just went to sleep as I always do when all the 3 requirements are met (for some reason). I like to think that my brain knew what was about to happen and decided to make an angry man enter in my room ready to kill me. The man was there, standing on the door looking at me with an angry expression, and yes, it was Ed Sheeran, I remember thinking in the dream "Ed Sheeran?" before standing up ready to fight the intruder. I think I mannaged to hit him twice before he took a machete and simply hit me with on the head forcing me to wake up... in a dream. Apparently I already fell asleep in a dream before all this, something I did remembered after waking up. Thankfully at that point I already pick up I was in a dream, so I just decided to finally wake up. And that's it lol, if it wasn't for Ed Sheeran I would have probably fall asleep in that dream too and the one after until I realized what was happening. As you can see I'm pretty complicated when it comes to dreams (I been had a few episodes of lucid dreaming in my life), and while this time it ended in a pretty funny way, most of the time is a bit stressful and confusing to go through it as I just want to wake up only to still be in a dream. But I'm thankful that for once this whole thing mannaged to make me laugh about it afterwards. Thanks for reading!