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I've had these for one summer a few years back when we lived with some roommates.
We adopted kittens and were keeping them in our bedroom, but since they were kittens they would wake us up with play on the regular (or atleast that's what I think triggered it).
I started having the same feeling of waking up totally frozen, can't speak, can't move, can't even whisper but I can open my eyes. I would see a shadowy figure at the end of the bed just chilling and menacingly staring at me. Id eventually be free and then be uncertain whether I had been truly awake. It felt like I was.. but was my nightmare just that elaborate?
That was also a period of time where my dreams just got weird in general. I started to be able to lucid dream. Id realize I was dreaming, and either try to wake up, or change the course of the dream. That went away after I started getting more regular sleep.
Comment by revcor at 05/02/2025 at 03:36 UTC
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I wanna say the classic manifestation of night terrors is an evil figure or demon or whatever sitting on one’s chest, but I don’t know if that is “seen” or just how someone made sense of the evil presence combined with the paralysis .
Does your foot of the bed figure feel evil? If by shadowy you just meant indistinct and dark I’d wonder if it was maybe just a dark colored cat by your feet haha