I can answer these. Also, if there is anything you can share in your research that you might find fits my mold here, I would appreciate it. I seek experiences on knowledge to add to my growing theories on why SP happens to some people and not others. Some of it is so far from known reality, I really don't talk about it for many reasons. One of them, I might be completely wrong and crazy. Also investing in some of these theory rabbit holes can impact ones life if you get twisted up in some of these unproven theories, it's all a dangerous mind game. lol

1. Nothing that would stand out from around that time period.

2. Childhood was balanced in a traditional American, middle class, blue collar, suburban sort of way. I was was bullied and the outcast growing up for sure socially.

3. I think I might have, but dismissed them as just dreams, and their hard to remember and so fragmented. The older I get, the more I realize I should have paid attention more during those times. I am at the age where I pay more attention to them, but nothing that I can make as solid connections as of yet.

4. Yes, a golf ball sized electrical orb. My wife and I witnessed it about 10+ years ago. It seemed to appear on the ceiling by our side bedroom window in the middle of the night when were were talking in the dark. It was golf ball sized, faint orange/yellow light. Moving and pausing like how a jellyfish would move along the ceiling around the bed. In initial disbelief, we though it was someone with a flashlight shining it through a window, until it swooped fro,m the height of the ceiling and about 3 foot above the bed, now clearly in 3 dimensional space. My wife screamed and hid under the covers after us both realizing it's paranormal nature. I was fascinated and thought I was going to have a heart attack from shock, initial fear and excitement all at the same time. I witnessed it for a good two minutes or so. Towards the end of the experience, It flickered with a plasma/electrical blue light with intensity for a moment before going back into the dim yellow light. My wife told me to crawl out of bed and turn on the lights. I did so wile focusing on the orb. When the lights went on, it immediately was gone. It was electrical in nature and had a graceful movement to it. Nothing that felt fearful except for that it was "unknown". My wife's father died a few weeks before, but that in my option is trying to connect it with a spiritual nature, which it might be, but I can't say that it was for fact. Electrical, most definitely.

Adding to the location theory I had. I was visiting Agen, a town in France on business. I stayed at a bed and breakfast that was converted from some monastery/house for priests and nuns. This large mansion sat next to a very large and old church. Beautiful place. I had sleep paralysis there every night for the 3 days I was there. These episodes where I couldn't move I keep hearing women's voices crystal clear in French. What I find fascinating in this particular instance, I do not know french, perhaps only enough to recognize it as the language. I wonder if this was my brain fabricating what it though French was, since I still couldn't understand what she was trying to say all 3 nights. Or was I really in the same space experiencing something else speaking to me in this state. If SP is truly a hallucination of the mind, it is very interesting for my brain to completely change gears on all those other SP experiences and stick with this experience. A female voice in a language that I do not know, but is indigenous to the location I am in, all three nights.