Sleep paralysis

Date: 7/17/2019

This seems to be a recurring thing for me and by recurring I mean at least 4 nights a week. I’m not even sure if it’s sleep paralysis but all I know is that it scares the absolute hell out me. I’ll be laying with my eyes closed and then all of a sudden I’m asleep and I am so tight and restricted. My heart rate raises so high I think I’m about to have a heart attack. I try my hardest to open my eyes but no matter what I do they won’t budge. Sometimes I try and pinch myself, hold my breath and scream but nothing seems to wake me up. After what feels like 3 minutes, I’ll finally force my eyes open and sometimes I’ll actually wake up, or sometimes I think I just wake up from it in my dream, but then I go right back into it. Went to sleep at 2:45am and it’s now 3:50am and it’s been happening non stop. I try to move positions and drink more water and do anything really that could possibly make it stop but it doesn’t and it’s getting so difficult to sleep and I’m not sure how to make it stop.