Sleep paralysis while falling asleep

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I thankfully haven't experienced any hallucinations yet. I also think that maybe the sleep paralysis is being caused by alcohol use, because after not drinking for awhile it's happening less and less. I hope that's what was causing it so it fully goes away.

That's good to hear.

My auditory hallucinations aren't scary. They're random conversations like I'd hear on TV shows, with all the different voices. For some reason I get a lot of them with the FRIENDS tv show characters talking. Sometimes I hear phones ringing or doorbells. One time it was my dad's voice saying "Marry him".

It's kind of fun actually.

The paralysis hallucination wasn't so fun. I remember posting about it on here and talking to someone (Diamond? Tough Diamond?) about it.

I don't get sleep paralysis falling asleep, I get it waking up. Waking in the middle of the night, or even an hour before my alarm. The first time it happened I thought I must have had a stroke, because I couldn't move. All I could do was move my eyes from side to side and blink.

It doesn't happen often, but it used to be scary. I don't hallucinate per se, but I do seem to dream (it sort of overlays reality). Its just a case of the brain waking or starting to wake before the body get the signal. Usually it just takes a little time to wake up OR sometimes I just close my eyes and go back to actually sleeping. I can do that as long as I don't freak out or try to breathe differently than the auto-pilot is already doing.