I too have experienced sleep paralysis when I was younger, and every experience has always been terrifying for me as well... that is, constant whirring noises, dizziness, creepy voices, things touching me, etc. basically the whole nine yards. I find it quite interesting to hear that sleep paraylsis can be a way of inducing an AP but at the same time, there's just too much fear to actually do it. At least, that's the way it is for me.
According to a theory that I've read a while ago, sleep paralysis is caused by sudden consciousness, or waking up before your astral body has time to re-align itself with its other bodies, including the phsyical. What I believe the reason for the sudden awakening is just that something goes wrong in the process of that OBE. Why it happens? I have no idea considering we're not consciously aware when it happens, nor do I have any idea why it causes so much fear and evil presence. Maybe the fact that you lose ability to control your physical body scares the person, and that fear triggers even deeper fears and possible delusions, but I think there's more too that. If anyone has a good logical explanation I would love to hear it.
According to a theory that I've read a while ago, sleep paralysis is caused by sudden consciousness, or waking up before your astral body has time to re-align itself with its other bodies, including the phsyical. What I believe the reason for the sudden awakening is just that something goes wrong in the process of that OBE. Why it happens? I have no idea considering we're not consciously aware when it happens, nor do I have any idea why it causes so much fear and evil presence. Maybe the fact that you lose ability to control your physical body scares the person, and that fear triggers even deeper fears and possible delusions, but I think there's more too that. If anyone has a good logical explanation I would love to hear it.