09/17/26 - I beat up my sleep paralysis demon

This happened 5 days ago but the dream still feels fresh and surreal.

I woke up that day, did a couple of errands, and I didn't know how I ended up falling asleep ( for less than 30 minutes (I sent a couple of messages to some friends less than 30 minutes after I woke up from that dream).

I had a lot of dream then. It includes my old childhood house, the river nearby overflowing, and my house appears to be unaffected by all the chaos outside, then another dream of someone asking me out, then another guy came in and they had a fight, which is not something I personally wanted to happen irl.

I don't want people noticing me, seeing me, and I would be happier if I'm just going to be invisible kind of thing.

Then my last dream is me, falsely waking up, and then feeling someone playing with my hair (this happened a lot in real life as some of my schoolmates we're kind of weird, so they would randomly touch my hair when we were teens but that's almost 20 years ago).

I can feel whoever this is to be pressing their fingers on my scalp and it's what woke me.

I live alone and I know my sister is not around, so I pulled the hand of whoever that being is, and made sure that they wouldn't be able to get away (I had a really tight grip on their hand and they have a really long arm), but what I find weirder is how cold their hand is. It's icy cold.

I was trying to open my eyes but I could handly do so, but I noticed that they're invisible, but I can really feel their hand.

I then asked them who they are (because for some reason, I feel like I know them), but they're just grunting (maybe I should have asked them in their native language?)

I was crushing their hand with my weight and grip at this point (pulling their hand using my weight), and they were grunting so much, then I was able to feel their hair and pulled it too (they have a really short hair). I know I was able to get a few strands.

They really appear to be invisible but because of the sounds they're making I thought of atleast recording them (also because they sound really familiar).

I let go of their hair, but I couldn't find my phone anywhere, and its what woke me up.

When I was up, it was only around 27-28 minutes since my last message to one of my friends.

I discussed it to my younger sister, and she told me that it's sleep paralysis, but it's odd and kind of surprising that instead of freezing, I found whatever is haunting that dream lol.

It also kind of reminded me that I had a bit of martial arts training when I was a kid.

Idk if it's my brain reminding me of that, kind of playing a fight simulation or a it's my subconscious brain telling me to hone my skills (and that my older brother is just playing dirty that's why I keep losing in the sparring, because I'm good at counterattacks lol).