Sleep paralysis

Date: 1/7/2018

I make the mistake of going to sleep again. The second I close my eyes I hear what sounds like a shopping cart running through the halls of my friends apartment. Also what sounds like a toy train, laughter and clawing on the walls. I open my eyes, and the door bursts open. I don’t have a second to process what I’m seeing before something dark is running at me, pouncing up in the air like a cat and coming to grab me. Time seemed to slow, from the moment it went to pounce it seemed to slowly come at me. A broken toy train spins in the corner of the room, hollering. Someone’s running with a cart in the hallway still, laughing but I can’t see them even with the door open. I’m trying to fight, to bring my arms up or turn my head and close my eyes but I’m stuck looking at the entity falling towards me claws out ready to rip me apart. I try to scream but I can’t, I feel my heart pumping hard against my chest, the blood in my ears rushing, my breathing is heavy and just before it’s about to sink it’s claws into my chest I wake up. I make a point of going to sleep elsewhere with a light on.