Waking up and temporarily not being able to move your body is already scary. But a tweet challenging social media users to draw their “sleep paralysis demons” highlights another scary element of a sleep paralysis episode.
Twitter user Rachel challenged followers to draw their sleep paralysis demons. Her own drawing depicts four characters in black and white — an insect-looking creature who, Rachel writes, “crawls on the ceiling,” a tall figure she labels as “loud and scary but harmless,” a smaller figure who just looks at her surrounded by flies and what she said seems to be the number seven.
draw ur sleep paralysis demons challenge pic.twitter.com/iC6H7XkgH0
— rachel ⎊ (@rhymewithrachel) February 6, 2019
i get drug(medicine) induced sleep horrors. i can only sometimes interact with/during them. pic.twitter.com/YbzLDR80br
— rsl meat raffle (@dogtreat_) February 6, 2019
made a qquick animation for mine pic.twitter.com/151Olskvk6
— Ihasnotomato (@Ihasnotomato) February 6, 2019
Drew this guy a few months ago pic.twitter.com/ZapNCeVInJ
— Miranda misses Elliot (@freddiesascot) February 6, 2019
I’ve thankfully only gotten sleep paralysis a couple times but here’s my dude pic.twitter.com/HUMVOaRsTi
— Zerggiee Stardust ? ? AX~ (@Zerggiee) February 6, 2019
Challenge accepted pic.twitter.com/AJ8PS86D67
— Ewan Does A Thing (@EwanDoesAThing) February 6, 2019
Mine is the dude in the back, he likes to mimic the voices of my loved ones and say really mean things to me. I call him Shadowman. He just needs some love.
The other ones are just personifications of my narcolepsy and cataplexy haha pic.twitter.com/F1djtFQzJr
— ?Cryptid Colleen? (@Slothakiin) February 6, 2019
— SCP-096s lost relative (@FortuneLowTier) February 6, 2019
I rarely ever get sleep paralysis but whenever i do the demons are usually very weird pic.twitter.com/962sZEBw5e
— calcie (@calcarbonate) February 6, 2019
oh man I illustrated mine maybe 1-2 years ago but it still feels the same – pic.twitter.com/kKOxcedEpl
— Kim Herbst ⭐ (@kiwifruitbird) February 6, 2019
heres mine. i drew this on my phone pls no judge pic.twitter.com/w47bH4C8My
— Laværis (@lavaeris_lavvy) February 6, 2019
Ah, he’s an OK guy really! ?
(I grew up with sleep paralysis- I coped by making these things my imaginary friends. That is largely why I am the way I am now… ?) pic.twitter.com/lSAWhzS94w— S. R. Jones (@AegisImmemorial) February 6, 2019
I had one of mine made into a doll: pic.twitter.com/sg1uwqO8Wy
— S. R. Jones (@AegisImmemorial) February 6, 2019
i havent had sleep paralysis since i was very small but i remember this one demon very clearly. his special place was the one corner of my ceiling. pic.twitter.com/jWmDuc6hEl
— Erien (@gelatogalaxy) February 6, 2019
I get sleep paralysis frequently. This is only a small collection. pic.twitter.com/1XsUAUY614
— Meg Evans ??? (@grumperpants) February 6, 2019
— Mark (@ShinySimkin) February 6, 2019
mine looks like a dumb pirate pic.twitter.com/jwC23jJF0z
— Levon S. Jihanian (@ForkFrenzy) February 6, 2019
I have a lot ?? pic.twitter.com/gyWUP77N9s
— ??????? (@doublemaximus) February 7, 2019
