Sleep Paralysis General

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Alright, /x/.

I've had sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember, reaching back into my childhood. In fact, the earliest I remember having sleep paralysis was about 4 or 5 years old. I would wake up in the middle of the night, unable to move, scared to death. Every time I awoke I felt a looming presence in my room, as if something or someone was watching me, it felt more like a "thing" rather than a person though, something menacing. Often times I couldn't see what it was. My imagination ran wild and all I could think of was aliens, as if I was being abducted. I still have sleep paralysis to this day actually, it happens once or twice every other week usually.

Back to sleep paralysis occurrences though. I've always felt sort of unsafe going to bed at night, it's hard to explain. The most reoccurring sleep paralysis occurrence consists of me believing I'm being abducted by aliens, I usually wake up before I think "they" are about to take me away. It's sort of unnerving to type this to be honest. Anyway, it had gotten to the point when I was in high school that I believed I had actually been abducted by aliens, on multiple occasions. I believe this because ever since I was a small child, I have always had a PARALYZING fear of aliens, even seeing a picture from like a Google image search. It still shakes me to my core. I can't bear it. It makes me cringe with fear. I think this is because my brain is repressing memories of past abductions, and seeing related images triggers something and strikes instant fear in me. I digress though. Sleep paralysis? Perhaps. Alien abduction? I don't know. Regardless, it has all of the tell tale signs of sleep paralysis.

What are your guys' thoughts? Do any of you have sleep paralysis? What usually occurs in your experiences?