BDSCJul 8, 201710 minWhat It’s Like to Have Severe Sleep Paralysisfrom NY Mag What It’s Like to Have Severe Sleep Paralysis It didn’t happen every night, but every now and then, Blake Smith, a 45-year-old writer and programmer from Kennesaw, Georgia, would jolt awake, believing he was under attack. Just what exactly was attacking him was something of a mystery, as it was invisible — a ghost, maybe. Whatever it was, he could feel that it meant him harm. What was really happening, he now knows, was that he was experiencing sleep paralysis, a
