Over the years, I've gotten more accustomed to my sleep paralysis episodes. (Partially because I've trained my husband to wake me when I hum in bed. I can't scream, but I can do a dull, monotone hum.) The result has been my brain making my sleep paralysis demons move towards me faster. in fact, they've recently started full-on sprinting at me and jumping towards me in bed. I can even hear their feet pounding as they run down the hallway.

Anyway, I do kinda miss it when they just hovered over my bed instead. So, I feel this comic.

My husband didn't know I had these episodes back when he first started sleeping over at my place. The first time I had one, I awoke him as I lunged at the air above me, seemingly trying to choke thin air. (For me, the paralysis always seems to lift "all at once." And, at the time, I frequently felt the "demons" were sucking my energy. I wanted to stop them. I think this was my brain's way of rationalizing feeling lethargic the day after an episode.)

Anyway, my husband asked me "what was that!?" I groggily responded "she just wants our money I bet, hah!" and just fell right back asleep.

He was confused and terrified. He kept talking to me until I woke up enough to explain what happened.