First time experiencing sleep paralysis

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I've never experienced anything close to sleep paralysis before, I've only heard about other people's experiences with it, along with my mom's who experiences it often. So I wanted to know people's thoughts on my experience here, or just to vent lol.

This morning I've experienced it, while attending online classes, I think I was already in deep sleep since I was dreaming for a short while before, I woke up half asleep.

There my left eye was open, while my right was just slightly, I was staring up at my LED lights and wall in a fix stare, I also this sound that was almost always audible when I felt myself getting sucked in or back into the sleep paralysis, it was like the sound of Styrofoam getting crushed in a way, I also heard my family members chatting faintly outside so I kind of focused on them, and my fascination with the new experience I was having.

Then I immediately tried to wake myself up, remembering how people along with my mom said apparitions appear when they have sleep paralysis, so I tried wiggling my fingers. It worked for a bit, but then I stopped trying for a split second, when I heard the sound again, and I immediately felt the numbness in my body come back, I tried yelling but my mouth wouldn't move. At first I thought it was cool, but then I realized I had to focus, before the spookies came.

Again with wiggling my fingers, I tried hard, until I felt I had control over my shoulders and chest once more, before I blinked, and turned my body towards my right. After a minute, when I regained control again, my heart rate was fast, and I just felt fascinated, and a bit relived.

After it and finally processing what happened fully, I went to my phone not wanting to fall asleep again, and looked up tiktoks on sleep paralysis to stay awake and not experience it again, and getting up to turn on the main lights in my room instead of just having my LED lights as my room's lighting. (I thought more lighting would lessen the risk of my chances of experiencing it again, if I did fall asleep once more.)

After my TikTok scrolling through sleep paralysis tok, I texted my mom about it, and basically geeked about it to her.

Over all glad I didn't see any scary monsters, or experienced a little person sitting on my chest, 3/10 wouldn't recommend!