The only way to defeat the sleep paralysis is to learn about it, face it, and fight it.
You are afraid of it because you have no background knowledge of why you are having it. You need to take control of your well-being (physically, mentally, and spiritually). Look deeper into your daily routine, lifestyle, food consumption, and family/friend relationships. Detach yourself from toxic relationships, toxic food, or control your finances so its not deteriorating your conditions. Learn to love yourself and treat yourself with care...real love.
For example:
Stress can cause you to have hormone imbalance (men and women). It will trigger your body to store fat and possibility of extreme tiredness. Just even things like that will make your physically body weaken and worsen your mental health. Overall, it can cause your body to function differently than what it should be doing such as triggering you to lose sleep at night. Your stress will challenge you in your dream-state (mentally) and may simply flip your dream into a sleep paralysis. Your fear of sleep paralysis will cause you to lose control of your waken-life. As we know, lack of sleep will cause you to lose focus, body fatigue, and if careless...dep ression.
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I've suffered from sleep paralysis since I was a young child and I always thought I was the only one feeling, hearing, and seeing things differently. As a child, spiritually... I was afraid of these sleep paralysis simply because I didn't know why it kept on happening to me. When I was fourteen, I was up late playing games online and I heard my brother making noises in his sleep. I went to wake him up and he started punching me. My other two brothers got up to hold him back. A couple seconds in restraining him, he calmed down and explained to us that he was already woken but he saw this entity trying to imitate as my figure why he was persistent in trying to hit "it." It was only then, that I realize I wasn't alone in this state of weridness.
The next day, in a dream...I had a visitor and it was sitting at the end of my mother's sewing machine. It was completely a white figure wrapped up with its long sharped arms. It didn't speak nor stare but it made its presence known. I paid no attention to its reasons but instead demand it to leave immediately or I would lightening strike its head off. Right then and there, I woke up right after.
Since that day to the present, I've gone through series of revelations and have equipped my heart as a warrior. I've always known that spiritually I'm pretty strong-willed and should I fall into a sleep paralysis, I'm equipped to fight. However, there is an inbalance in my waken-life...because physically I'm weak to the environment I'm born into and mentally still trying to educate myself of "the way of life."
It is very complex and complicated to explain. Life will happen and when it does, it reveals insights of the philosophical world-view of the reality you live in. The reality that is you.
/thinkpositive
/dontgiveup
/love
/fight