This is kind of on the vein of dreams. More specifically it's during the time of waking up from a dream.
Has anyone had the experience of seeing a shadow person?
Some background first. When sleeping, people have these things called dreams. During these dreams many things can occur, and those things can involve us running or doing physical activity within our dreams. To prevent us from hurting ourselves, our subconscious places us in a state of sleep paralysis. This keeps us from moving while in the R.E.M. cycle, in other words, the stage of sleeping where dreams occur. Occasionally a circumstance can happen where we wake up in the R.E.M. cycle, but our subconscious has not yet taken the steps to take us out of the state of sleep paralysis. Therefore, we may still be paralyzed while we are awake. (Lucid dreaming increases the chances of this happening)
Now onto shadow people. In that state of sleep paralysis, there is an even rarer occurrence when our minds are in that state of hypnagogia. It's the same basic reason for why people feel like they're falling even though they have already woken up. Basically a person can experience a hallucination wherein a person of shadowy origin is within their field of sight. From my experience that person does not do anything, but only stares at the person in question. This most often occurs during sleep paralysis, and can induce quite the feeling of fear.
To my original question. Has any had a similar experience? Of waking up unable to move anything but your eyes, with a shadowy person hovering over them? Or am I simply crazy?