This horrifying circumstance is more common than you recall .
Thehorror movieDear Davidis out now in theaters andon digital, and as anyone who followed the original story already knows, it’s going to be the stuff of nightmares. Trailer:
Dear Davidis a BuzzFeed Studios moving-picture show .
For those who need a refresher, the movie is based on theviral storyofAdam Ellis, a comic artist who experienced episodes ofsleep paralysisand other terrors that involved the ghost of a malevolent child haunting his apartment in Brooklyn.
Anyway, sleep paralysis is a condition where your brain wakes up, but your body stays asleep, and for many people it comes with terrifying visions of shadowy figures at the end of the bed, or worse.
It was only after I started talking aboutDear Davidthat I learned just how many people I know have actuallyhadsleep paralysis. It’s common!
It’s beena whilesince we asked the community about their experiences with it, so I want to know: Haveyouever had sleep paralysis?
Some people say it feels like youwoke up dead, and that you often hallucinate some kind of demon standing over your bed when it happens. And, yeah…that’s a big nah for me.
If it has happened to you, or if it happens regularly, I’m sorry. It sounds terrifying. But I also still really need to know: What is it like for you?
Do you wake up unable to move? Do you feel trapped inside your own body? Can you really not breathe?
Does it feel like there is someone else in the room? Do you see a sleep paralysis demon, or hear voices?
Or worse, does your sleep paralysis demon look like a small unliving child sitting on a rocking chair in the corner of a room?
Do other spooky things happen as well? Like, do your cats freak out?
I am pretty scared.pic.twitter.com/Z6CZ8c20EA
We’ll look out for your responses as we wait forDear David, the sleep paralysis demon who has come to haunt theatersand digitalfrom Oct.13. Sounds like a perfectly terrifying way to end the night after we watch Taylor Swift’sThe Eras Tourmovie, which released the same day.
