Speaking of sleep paralysis, a female colleague I worked with a few years back, mentioned she'd been

suffering from it for about a month. She changed apartments with the new business year in April, and had

moved into a new apartment as well. It was May, so we joked that maybe she was just suffering

from the May blues, or maybe she'd moved into an apartment where a terrible crime had taken

place. That would be terrifying, right? She claimed that this sometimes happened to

her when she was exhausted, however, so she wasn't too worried about it. But then, in July,

she suddenly quit without even a farewell party. We asked our boss what was going on, and

apparently a man had been sneaking into her

apartment at night and standing next to her bed. Sometimes he even got in and laid down beside her.

Apparently she went to the police and matters were resolved, but it took such a heavy

toll on her mental state that she

quit. I don't know if she was a deep sleeper, or maybe had a habit of drinking before bed,

but it was amazing she didn't notice someone sneaking into her apartment for an entire month.

I wonder if maybe the sleep paralysis was her unconscious

mind trying to alert her of the danger, or maybe some sort of power that pervert possessed.

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