Imagine waking up or falling suddenly to sleep and you cannot move. You can’t speak or cry for help and you feel a tightness or pressure on your chest. Even worse, you can see, hear and feel sensations so terrifying as the stuff right out of Nightmare on Elm Street and the apparitions are 100% absolutely real to you. Can science really explain this? Turns out, it can. It’s a classified sleep disorder called “parasomnia” and it can cause intense feelings of dread, anxiety and fear. Sure there’s a scientific explanation for sleep paralysis, but it doesn’t make the phenomenon any less terrifying for anyone who has experienced it. Just ask co-host, Krista. It’s no wonder why cultures across the world have noted this occurrence as several malevolent forces from demons and a death hag even to being linked to alien abductions.