really quite normal

Have you ever woken up at night with the terrifying feeling that someone's in your room, or even worse, whispering in your ear, or crushing your chest? [I'm not talking about people you share with!]

I get that from time to time. I always assumed it was ... well, let's just say, leftover trauma, okay? But I fell over this site that talked about sleep paralysis (yeah, yeah, I know, gotta stop this random surfing, it really sucks up the hours), and there was all this stuff about it like it was this really common experience, maybe the origin of a lot of myths and legends -- evil spirits, ghosts, demons, witches, space aliens ... All because of this glitch our brain gets quite often, when it's dreaming. I found this recent article on it too.

Always nice to discover your weird experiences are really quite normal, eh?