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I often have dreams of suffocating where upon the moment of my death I wake, but for the period of time I am suffocating I am trying to call for help but can't move from lack of oxygen. I know I tend to forget to breathe when I'm awake so I figure I must have sleep apnea.

However one time I had a very strange experience while reading a book called "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" about a mythical faerie called 'the raven king'. In this dream I dreamed that I woke up and was lying in bed, but I was paralyzed. Meanwhile my front door was wide open and a strange man in black was searching my house for something. The whole time I had this dream I was trying to call for help but I couldn't, and suddenly the man realized I was awake, and left the house (closing the door behind him). As soon as he left I was able to move and got up to check that the door was shut, the weird thing is I never really woke up which leads me to believe I was awake the whole time.
I was convinced that the man who came in was the mythical faerie in the book I was reading (there are real myths about The Raven King in england) and that he had put a paralysis spell on me that faded when he left.

The other dream I had that led to paralysis was this:
I dreamed I was walking down a street lined with houses. I became drawn toward one house in particular, but as I began to approach the house I had a bad feeling about it that I should not go in the house. No matter how much I didn't want to go in the house though, I couldn't stop myself from going forward. Upon entering the house I was forced to walk down the stairs into the basement, even though mentally I was fighting my legs every step of the way. As I reached the bottom of the stairs I felt myself stepping through a black cloud that I knew was some kind of spiritual entity. As I passed through the blackness I felt the creature attach itself to me. I fell to the floor and began suffocating as the entity began feeding off my energy. I tried to call for help but I couldn't speak. I saw the creature hovering over me, it was black tinged with purple and had tentacle like things sticking out all around it which it used to latch onto me. I had the feeling it would suck my energy until not only my physical body died, but my soul as well. At this point my partner actually woke me up because he said I was making gasping sounds in my sleep for some time and it didn't appear to be stopping. Boy am I glad he did.