sleep paralysis

About 6 or 7 years ago, I can't really put a date on it I experienced a rather surreal and yet frightening experience, an episode of what I now know as sleep paralysis, where you and the mind wakes up but yet the body does not and for those who have experienced this they will usually remember the 1st time. The feeling that sinks in that you are actually paralysed and cannot move. I remember the 1st time it happened and I was what felt like forever trying to move and wiggle with no success but ah lam eventually I opened my eyes and I moved

Years later I never experienced the problem again until recently that is but this time it's a whole lot different and this year alone has happened a handful of times

The most recent last night

It begins when I appear to have dropped to sleep I hear this really high pitched screeching noise, it's an awful noise that goes louder and really goes through me, the kind of noise you want to move away from. I don't seem to be able to move but appear to be able to partially open my eyes, the problem is if I do open my eyes I sometimes see Visions and there usually that frightening I appear to just suddenly move as if I've woken from a scary dream though I know it's not a dream. I've so far seen a head and no body lol, a hand, the duvet appear to move and recently last night a body standing over and looking down at me but it's always a fuzzy blur

One might say it's a dream but you know when your awake or not because when you wake up you know you have just woke up but once the noise goes and the visions (if any) go then I know that I'm already awake because I can move and the screeching noise disappears

It's so hard to explain but I feel like I'm more in control of it now, the first few episodes I didn't know what to do and like I pointed out the frightening aspect of any Visions usually brought me around but now I seem to be able to know when it's about to happen because the screeching noise always happens first, like a warning of some kind and at this point I can quickly pull myself out of what is going to happen and move and turn the light on or something or get out of bed and everything is ok

Last night though I decided to let it run it's course and I allowed the noise to go on until it finished, whilst I could not move I could partially open my eyes and there is when I saw the body standing above me so again a Vision, from this I have concluded if I do open my eyes I am bound to see something but last night I knew it was not real and I did not feel scared so instead I closed my eyes and waited for the awful screeching noise to vanish before opening my eyes and been able to move and of course there was no one standing above me and I went back to sleep after about 10 minutes of digesting it.

So all in all hard as it is to explain in writing I did some research via google and was surprised at how many people experience this but not only this but the noise that I hear other people hear too and can also control it before it happens usually by moving or turning the light on so I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this and for anyone who it happens to don't fear it and if you hear the noise quickly snap yourself out of it and turn over or turn the light on.