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For years, sleep paralysis meant I’d wake up unable to move or speak.
Despite my immobilized state, my mind would be fully aware that it was awake and not dreaming. As a kid, I’d imagined it must be like getting anesthesia for surgery but then still being fully aware of everything that was happening, while it happened.
Terrifying.
Most days I wake up in a fog of confusion, but not today… today I woke up before my alarm. I was alert but not anxious. I felt light and unbothered. There was no dread, no dark cloud, no background level of perpetual urgency or fear.
Weird… but also, cool?
Honestly, it was so foreign I wondered what was wrong.
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