Hey y'all, I'm Donna. And I'm carrying. And we are at Paranormal Chicks.

Sinister sightings 181. We don't have an intro. I wonder who hasn't done them.

Oh, the shade of it all. But if you're like, oh my god, they don't have an intro and I love them.

Well, join the Patreon, Pete's, and do one. How do you do that? Go to patreon.com forward slash the APC podcast.

Okay, well, since we have any fucking thing to talk about the beginning, let's jump right in.

This one is Lucid Dream's slash sleep paralysis. Hello, Donna and Carrie. I'm a 19 year old college student who is currently listening to your podcast

instead of doing my ever growing list of assignments, priorities, am I right? I absolutely love y'all show and listen to it all the time and have always wanted to write in. So here I am.

I've always been drawn to the occult and all scary things. One of my favorite shows as a kid was called A Haunting.

Yes, I love that. Is that a well known show or was it just me?

100% and you can watch it on Discovery Plus. But growing up in a religious household, I was never able to delve deep into the unknown

and was often shamed for asking questions or talking about things that went against the Bible.

I think in my mind, I knew it wasn't okay to talk about this stuff in the daytime so it waited until night.

I've always had crazy dreams and lucid dreams before I even knew the word for it. When I did, it was always cute and fun until I started to get older.

Pretty recently, for a short period of time, about two weeks straight, I would have dreams where people in them would beg, cry, and yell at me to wake up.

One particular instance that stayed with me was the time and older lady took me by the shoulders, looked me deep into my eyes while we both sobbed.

She leaned in close and whispered, please, you need to wake up. I'm going to wake you now. As she whispered to me, many others in my dream yelled and screamed at her not to wake me up.

But I'm glad she did because a bitch was scared. I took a final look around, closed my eyes, then shot right up, now suddenly awake.

I thought those dreams were scary, but soon after I began to experience sleep paralysis. I've never seen scary shadow or demons knock on wood, but usually just see my family members that aren't in the household at the time.

One time I would remember waking up to my whole family, standing over me in bed, when none of them had returned from work yet.

That used to happen a lot, but I was never scared. This is until one occurrence. I was taken a nap on the couch during the day because, hashtag unemployed, then shortly woke up.

Looking around, the furniture seemed to be rearranged. The room was a mess. I thought that it was strange until I woke up again.

This happened five more times. I'm honestly not exaggerating. I remember feeling a panic attack coming on until I falsely awoke for the last time.

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