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Personal Narrative: My First Battle With Sleep Paralysis

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In late 2013, I experiences my very first battle with Sleep Paralysis. It was one very late night or one very early morning, my typical hours of going to bed. As usual, I will over think and create scenarios that will never happen in my head, then as I was slowly drifting off to the land of darkness, I suddenly felt that I could not move. My brain jerked awake and I fought hard against the dark shadows pulling me into unconsciousness. But the darkness was way too powerful and refuses to let me feel my body. It was almost as if my pathetic soul has creep out of its shell and floated away. Than with my last bit of energy, I gave my body one last push but still it remain unbothered and there I lost against Sleep Paralysis and let the darkness
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