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Sleep paralysis is real, but so are paranormal encounters.
There are easy ways to tell them apart that shouldn't be disregarded.
Most sleep paralysis episodes disappear after a few seconds, and after you are fully awake.
In rare cases they will last several minutes, but during most of these rare cases it is more often than not that the victim of sleep paralysis cannot actually move.
The actual definition of sleep paralysis:
"A temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon waking."
Factors that contribute to an encounter not being sleep paralysis:
Being fully conscious and physically able during an encounter significantly reduces its viability of being sleep paralysis.
Most genuine sleep paralysis is extremely temporary, because it is affected by your bodies ability to fully leave REM sleep. Sleep paralysis occurs when the body enters REM sleep and then it wakes up and has a hard time transitioning out of REM sleep. Which means most true sleep paralysis episodes, a person will not be fully awake.
REM sleep is the state where the body reaches deep sleep and is essentially lucid dreaming. Sleep paralysis is like dreaming with your eyes open. Once the body is fully awake and conscious, enough to move, sleep paralysis can pretty much be ruled out as most sleep paralysis type apparitions will disappear after a few seconds if you're fully awake.
A good way to fully wake yourself during an episode, is to stare at the wall, away from what you might have seen, blink, move your head a bit, and think to yourself am I fully awake? What is it I'm seeing etc. If you're fully awake enough to turn around, and calculate your thoughts, any sleep paralysis apparition will likely be gone. If it is not gone. If you see the shadow of such figure on your wall, or you hear it interact with items in your room it is likely not sleep paralysis.
Two other major factors that rule out sleep paralysis.
Multiple witnesses.
Two people sleeping next to each other will not experience sleep paralysis at the same time, if two people wake up and see something abnormal, they both see it, it's probably there.
Pets are another factor that is able to rule out sleep paralysis.
How pets react is a huge one, they will not see your sleep paralysis based apparitions, however they will sense a paranormal presence, even before you. Dogs will likely bark like mad in fear, and some dogs will even piss themselves. As their sense of smell is so strong that they know when something they're seeing is not human or a common animal, and it will scare them probably even more than it scares you.
If this happens, if pets react, if someone next to you sees the same abnormal presence, there is a good chance it is not sleep paralysis.

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