First Sleep Paralysis Experience

The first sleep paralysis experience that I recall occured about 9 years ago, when I was 16 or 17 years old. I still lived at home then, and I had a bedroom with a twin bed in the corner, arranged so one side of the bed was flush with the wall. I don't recall taking any drugs the night before, with the exclusion that I smoked a lot of weed every day and night during this period. This experience happened in the early morning hours, right before I woke up. I note this fact because most of the time sleep paralysis occurs very shortly after I fall asleep.

My memory of this event begins as my point of conscious seemed to be out of my body, near the opposite corner of the room from where I was sleeping in my bed. It seemed as if I had been communicating with others, because the first thing I remember is "someone" (some other conscious?) exclaiming "who the fuck is that?!"

Almost instantly, I was back in my body in a state of sleep paraylisis. To my left, where I was facing, was the doorway to my room - about 10 feet away. And standing in the doorway was another human being. I was frightened beyond words, and could not look at the being for long. For the couple of seconds which I did look, the figure was a tall man dressed in clean,long- draping white cloth (kind of what I imagine someone may have dressed like from the times of ancient Greece). The man had very long hair, in a sort of thick dreadlocks hairstyle; some were colored reddish-brown and some were colored blonde-white.

I was in such a disturbed panic that I quickly turned my head to the right, where I was facing the wall. I was trying to wake up, but realized the only thing I could do was move my head side-to-side. I was trying to yell for someone, trying to scream as loud as I could, but couldn't make any sound. During this panic, I did observe my room. It was exactly the same room, except a sort of glow coming from everything. The walls of my room are painted white, but I had drawn grafitti type designs all over them in with faint, neon-colored blacklight sensitive crayon. It were these designs on the wall that seemed to glow the most noticablly. One design in particular was on the wall very close to my face, and it seemed to glow mystically with a slow-swirling light.

Although I wish I had found the courage to look back at the figure standing in the doorway, I continued to avoid looking in that direction. I struggled and panicked for several minutes until I finally was able to wake up. I sat up promptly, and was feeling disturbed as if I had just escaped from a huge struggle. Except for the glowing, everything was still as it had been in the sleep state, even the amount of light coming into the room from the morning slightly-overcast sky.

Since this experience, I have gone on to have countless numbers of intriguing experiences including many lucid dreams, some out of body experiences, sleepwalking and awakening in a panicked state, and several more episodes of sleep paralysis. None of myother sleep paralysis experiences, however, have had such a distinct figure present.