Has this happened to you? What do you do about it?
This has happened to me in mild form before, but nothing like last night:
I'm sound asleep and I think my fi is home (he worked all night last night-got home around 5:30 a.m.) around 3 a.m. I hear and feel someone walking around upstairs but when I try to open my eyes, speak, or move at all, I am completely paralyzed. I'm struggling as hard as I can to just open my eyes, and I can't. Eventually I figure out that I'm in some sort of dream/wake state and calm down and go back to sleep, but it kept recurring, like 5 or 6 times between 3 and 4 a.m. I kept coming awake, feeling someone in the house and being completely paralyzed, unable to even open my eyes although I struggled to do so.
Fucking disturbing. I know there's a technical name for this (hypnogogic somethingorrather), and I know it's somewhat common, but it never happened like this before. Anyone else?