Probably told this before (maybe in this thread, didn't check), but since you guys started talking about dreams in general, the two times I've had sleep paralysis have been the sickest things ever.
First time I got it was a month before Newquay, I remember this well since I got one there too. Anyway, this time I'm describing I woke up in the middle of the night and was able to open my eyes fully. What I see next to my bed is a 2,5 meter shadow figure staring down at me and I wasn't able to move a fucking muscle. Obviously this would be terrifying to anyone, so it resulted in me silent screaming for at least half a minute until it turned into me just letting out the hardest scream I could make and my mom was able to hear it and rush into my room. (Check wiki for
shadow people lol)
The second time I got it was in Newquay, and again I wake up in the middle of the night to something heavy laying on my chest. And I am able to see the whole room because it was already dawn, but when I look down at what's pushing me on my chest, I see some sort of a gray goblinish creature staring me in my eyes with vomit pouring out of its mouth. It took me about 10 seconds to snap out of it, and maybe an hour before I was able to fall asleep again. This all happened in a bunk bed beneath vode lol
Sleep paralysis (
wiki article) has since intrigued me, and I've actually read about it being called Old Hag syndrome as well, as so many have described to have seen an old lady in this state. Either laying or sitting on them or just staring at them in the room. The other popular alternative is seeing a goblin like I did. What's even more interesting, and probably just BS, is how this old hag syndrome has been reported to happen usually to a lot of people around the same times in the same area. Like a phenomena that has swept over the whole town. Sure this is not very credible, but I love everything that has to do with mysteries so I'm sure a sucker for stories like these as you prolly already know from all the ghost threads and what not haha. And I read about the goblin thing years after I hallucinated the goblin, so it's kind of funny that this character is so common. And the first time I heard about sleep paralysis was when Al (I think) mentioned it on here about a month and a half before Newquay haha