I'm sure everyone has their own experience... for me, it means I rarely get a good night's sleep. A typical night for me is falling into sleep paralysis 4 times before finally dozing off. A typical morning for me is waking into sleep paralysis and being exhausted and stressed, ready to tackle a new day... I also have issues with my nose, I can't breathe through it... so sleep paralysis is a little extra suffocating for me. If I could breath properly it might not be so bad...
The hallucinations were only terrifying as a kid, worse as I didn't know what sleep paralysis was for the first 10 years of having it, and no one would believe it wasn't "just a dream". The hallucinations are terrifying again now that I have a kid of my own, only when they are part of it...
Worse than the hallucinations are when my ears start buzzing... it's so loud - it hurts.
I used to say, in jest, that it will kill me in my sleep (except I'll be awake and suffering) when I'm elderly. As I'm getting older, it seems like a likely outcome.
"Goodnight"