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The trailer has a Paranormal Witness feel to it - dramatized interviews with sleep paralysis sufferers. It's on Netflix on DVD, but as far as I know it's not available for streaming anywhere (at least anywhere I looked).
I've seen it... definitely the creepiest "real" paranormal show I've seen in a long time! I'm not so sure everyone is telling the truth though so I wouldn't take it as gospel.
Sleep paralysis isn't all that uncommon, it is the bodies way of shutting down the muscles as to not act out our dreams. A person normally experiences this when they are becoming conscious during REM sleep. Although it may seem scary and your mind will excite many different things going on, it isn't demons, it's normal. I've experienced this a few times and to be honest it is very frightening, you can not move or speak, for me the only thing I could move was my eyes.
I have had two terrifying experiences of this (both in the same location, both during an afternoon nap, both within about ten days of each other - but never before or since in my entire 65 years of living). There is a strong sense of an evil presence, but I do not believe they are paranormal in nature. The classic study, well worth locating, is The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions by David J. Hufford. I have had other genuinely paranormal experiences and would not be opposed to a paranormal interpretation of these, but I believe a non-paranormal explanation fits the facts better. Another name is "hypnagogic hallucination" - the term hypnagogic referring to the twilight state between wakefulness and sleep.
The classic study, well worth locating, is The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions by David J. Hufford.
It's available on Amazon -- added to my wish list.
I've had this happen to me before as well. Very scary, and I would not like to happen ever again. I believed it was spiritual as well. I asked a guy at church and he said it was a demon. I don't know , but it was not pleasant. I pray each night for protection to Christ, and never had this happen again.
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