What happens is that someone gets sleep paralyzed, which is when the mind wakes up before the body does after deep sleep. You cannot move and you often see things in your peripheral vision.
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This happened to me as a kid. Scared the crap out of me. We had just moved into our new house and my bed wasn't set up yet so I was sleeping on the floor. (I was 11)
I woke up in the night - I was laying on my stomach - and I could not get up. It felt as if someone was holding me down by pushing on my back. It went away after I relaxed a for a while, but it is freaky even if you know what you're experiencing.
For a while I was convinced my room was haunted.
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