You woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly you felt the chilling presence of someone, you felt like someone is sitting on your chest or crawling up on your feet. At first, you felt it but when you opened your eyes you saw a dark figure.
You are trying your best to call for help but you feel like your voice has been trapped somewhere, you are trying to get out of the bed and make a run but you feel like your body is unable to make moves. As if someone has consumed your body and taken all control of your body.
In mythology, they called it The night Hack monster. This monster attacks his victims at midnight and paralyses them, that's why it's also associated with sleep paralysis. It has so many names in different beliefs. They have explained this entity in many forms like they showed their victim's painful nightmares and fed on their fear or made their victims physically weak.
Many of us have gone through this situation or are still suffering from it.
I'm also one of them.
When I was in high school, I had a bus accident. After that, I have suffered from some mental illnesses like couldn't sleep all night and wherever I looked I saw blood or dead bodies. One night when I was trying to sleep and almost fell asleep I felt like something was touching my feet and the skin of that unknown thing is quite cold. As soon as I opened my eyes to see what was going on I saw two eyes staring at me. The room was too dark but that's not the usual environment of my room, even if I turn off every light in the house there will still be a little bit of brightness because of the road lights. Am I seeing things again? Is it my imagination? Or is it a dream? I was so confused and I also have a phobia in those kinds of darkness where I can't see a single thing, not even my hands or feet. Soon I realised that I'm unable to move my body. I was shouting so loud but there was no voice, there was no sound coming out of my throat. And I felt a fine pressure on my chest as if someone is sitting on my chest and those Two eyes are staring at me like they are saying "I'm here to take you with me".
I was begging God to help me, save me, someone! Anyone save me!
Usually, in that kind of situation, people lose their sense. But in my case, I felt like that entity was not allowing me to lose my sense.
Suddenly I discovered myself lying on a road, and my other self was sitting beside my feet looking at me. It was daylight so there is no chance I'm seeing wrong. On that road, there was also standing a minibus.
Once again, I was confused about what the hell am I seeing and where I am? Is it another dream? I got up and tried to think straight about what is happening and in front of me who is she? Is it me? Then who am I?
When I was busy thinking about that stuff that other-selves of me stand up and called my name when I look at her, she looked at me and gave a smile then turned back and started walking towards the bus. I stared at her sidewalk. When she got on the bus she called my name again and when I looked at her she smiled again, I can clearly understand what she meant by that smile, she want me to see the bus going and then she fell on the bus. The bus started moving and I was watching the bus leave. Going some distance, the bus exploded with a loud noise and I saw myself burning in there.
When I open my eyes I was in my room. Everything seems normal like nothing happened. So was that a dream?
I still can not move my body and I feel like I'm burning. I called my mother. I thought my voice will not come out but thankfully it came.
I told everything to my mother and she told me not to stress out like that. She thought maybe I'm having side effects of those heavy medicines that doctors gave me for my mental illness. So she asked doctors to change the medicine. But nothing has changed.
I have nightmares almost every night and sometimes I saw those eyes in my room up until now.