I’ve only experienced SP once that I can recall. It was earlier this year, but I’d written it off as some kind of freaky waking nightmare.
I’m not sure it’s even a SP because I had moved before it happened. I had been sleeping with sleep goggles on my eyes, and after I’d woken up from a dream I uncovered my eyes and was laying there still trying to fully wake up. That’s when it hit.
I don’t remember what the dream I’d woken up from was about… I’m fairly certain it included my immediate family, or atleast my dad, but aside from that I’ve not a clue.
Laying awake in my room, it was bright from the sunlight coming through the window. All of a sudden my vision just vanished and I was descending at a rapid speed down into a very dark, circular, dirt hole. I was falling so fast that the walls were just a blur, but I could make out that the sides were rough and rocky, a dark tan/brown. I couldn’t see any light, just blackness down deeper into the hole. I’d guess the diameter was around 4-5 feet.
I didn’t notice my body, I couldn’t move or anything. It just felt like every fiber of my being was being pulled deeper into the chasm by some kind of invisible force, but at the same time I felt no physical sensation that should have accompanied such a force. I’m not sure how to explain that properly.
I remember as soon as it started I came to the realization that whatever was happening was occuring to my consciousness, not my actual body. The best way to describe it would be that it felt like my mind had cracked open and my consciousness was spilling out, down into this pit, somehow leaving whatever was left of me behind. I was rapidly diminishing, and all I felt was fear.
As I fell deeper I honestly thought I was dying, and I was completely terrified. I absolutely believed that what I was experiencing was death, and that very soon there would be nothing of me left. I’d just slip into a black nothing.
Then just as suddenly as it all started, it ended, and I was back laying in my bed. The whole experience had only lasted a matter of seconds, maybe less, but it really freaked me out. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, unable to move or even blink. I don’t know if I was physically unable to or if I was just freaked out that much.
I hadn’t given it any thought recently but a post elsewhere triggered the memory, so I searched for sleep paralysis. I guess what I experienced was the hallucinatory effects that go along with it. Really weird, I wouldn’t want that again