I ' ve actually had sleep paralysis numerous times . Only one of those times I genuinely hallucinated . I fell asleep on my couch in my living room and I hallucinated that I was in my bedroom laying down just staring at a dark figure at the foot of my bed . But since I had had sleep paralysis before I knew it was a hallucination so I closed my eyes and fell back asleep . A theory states that sleep paralysis happens to stop a human from falling off of a steep incline such as the edge of a bed . Your body wakes you up mentally so you can be in the realization that you may fall . Sleep paralysis is actually very intriguing to me because still to this day there ' s no true reasoning as to why it happens . <| sep |> Thanks . Credited in 3 minutes like you said ! lol .