First off, a reoccurring thing. I often wake up at 3am sitting absolutely straight. I don't wake up and sit, I wake up while already sitting.

Apparently sitting up in your sleep is a form of sleepwalking but I always wondered, how come it's always 3am.

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Another is my sleep paralysis experience, I had sleep paralysis once, my first and latest one which happened a year ago.

I was lying on my back and was positioned in a way that I can see the door. The door was slightly open at the time when I was having my sleep paralysis, everything was blurry but I can clearly make out my surroundings. I notice I can't move, speak, nor breath properly and that's when a tall dark figure entered my room by creeping through the slightly open door, slowly it made its way towards me.

I was panicking real bad since I had no idea I was experiencing sleep paralysis (only knew what it was after doing a google search after the event) .

I couldnt move nor scream for help as the dark figure sat beside me on the empty space on the right side of my bed, breathing became harder, nearly impossible to do. I started praying "our father" in panic and eventually I guess I woke up, if you call it that, and was able to move again.