7. The Murderer
Despite some of the finer points of sleep paralysis remaining a mystery to scientists, there have been a number of triggers that have been identified. One such trigger is alcohol abuse, and a 35-year-old man who remains anonymous was a severe alcoholic. It was documented that as a result, he began to experience nightly visions that were uncannily similar.
Like all sleep paralysis, each incident would start with him jolted awake late at night and unable to move. Staring blankly into the darkness, he would realize that a woman was there in the room with him, and it was always the same woman every time. At first, she was merely menacing but as the nights went on she would become more and more violent.
While he would lay unable to move, call out, or defend himself, his imaginary assailant would straddle him and begin choking the life out of him. Threating bloody murder and shaking his helpless body, she would assault him in episodes that lasted as long as five minutes or more. As a result, he wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, and his nightly ‘visits’ got so bad that he crawled back into the bottle to cope.
